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Show THE POOL ROOM PROBLEM ATTRACTS PROF. YOUNG THAT there is something after all in a good game of pool is the state of mind with which Prof. Levi Edgar Young is attacking the problem of the pool room. He has been at work for several months in Salt Lake, Ogden, Logan Lo-gan and Provo, making a careful study of pool room conditions and gathering-statistics gathering-statistics and opinions on the game. Professor Young believes that the game can be rid of its undesirable features, fea-tures, and still have its attractiveness preserved. It is for the purpose of utilizing util-izing the attractiveness of the game and the interest displayed in the game that Professor Young is working. He believes that, shorn of the evil elements, ele-ments, the game would prove a valuable medium of entertainment for men and boys. With this end in view he intends to publish his findings and at the same time make some suggestions which he has been able to gather and test from his wide investigation. The Professor's observation, that, "shorn of its evil elements," the game of pool is all right is also true of any game or any practice. It's to shear or cut off these evil elements that has worried wor-ried parents and officers of communities communi-ties where they exist. Gambling tables in pool rooms have wrecked many young men and "ruined many business men by waste of time and money. The Professor has a real job in some communities com-munities in this proposed "shearing" process. ' A |