Show Of Ot course courS the tho confirmed desperate gambler s Is like the hopeless drunkard Not enl every man mall who hiO bets I Is 15 an evil-doer evil au un any more than is he who tak a a. glass of liquor It Is IN the wretch who seems eom be staked on the tho die or the drink Men len tithe take risks in lii buying und amid selling galling back t JT y back up opinion b by a bet anti and this IS lf done dohY tr nj special evil e results but It Is Iii reliance for th the upon Ulon any sort ort o of speculation or chief business of or life lIe that is perilous In the extreme An n English writer wilter quoted In a recent magazine tl states slates that an unofficial record which is 18 Incomplete and therefore un understated el shows that In Great Britain alone in tin five an and one half years cals no less les than SU so cases of or suicide 31 embezzlements embezzlement and amid l J bankruptcies had appealed on the time records of or the time courts owing to professional butting betting an and It must be pointed out that probably 1 not nearly all of or the embezzlements resulted in prosecution t I to Ion mm The Ilas passion lon then is seen to have ha a force CorCe comparable able to the delusions delusion or fixed Ideas of or the insane Insano and to entail entail en en- tail a similar disorganization of the mind The person on under the control of or the gambling g mania loses the time ability abil abil- from the facts It ity to reason leaSon correctly the thc interpretation of or which is tinged j 11 by his dominant desire This intellectual Intellectual intel Intel- breakdown Is shown by br the common belief in luck among amonS' gamblers gamb gamb- leIS hers and in the len tendency ency to lo form systems systems with which to break elO machine ma ma- chine The decay deca of f the time moral nature Is even more inure terrible Made Mado o cold lOan to lO all an feelings of generosity the thc gambler In whom hom the habit has taken deep root is given up to the selfish in indulgence In- In of hi his private ate desires the time gratification of or which II Is based on the time ruin of his fellow Worse yet et the effect Is not limited to lo the Individual 1 ual but causes the neglect of wives wl and children disregard for fur parents and carelessness nc s un und and In Indifference In their occupations This Timis Is but a natural natural na na- tural result of the thc fact that thal gambling is 18 a wholly selfish process and arid so unfits units un un- fits its a man for tor his duties as n a member of society or om of or the state |