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Show uo- VHERE GAMBLING IS ON AN EXTENSIVE SCALE. I A former Ogdenite. now a resident! j of Los Angeles, wbo has been studying study-ing the methods of real estate deal-j deal-j ers in California has reached the; j conclusion that the very worst form of gambling s not Taro, or rouiett, or oven poker, .is prohibited by law in Utah, but ir. the game of "catch-the-sucker" as played in southern California and other coast cities. "Do you know," he said lo a representative repre-sentative of the Standard, "the finished fin-ished art of extracting dollars from 1 the unwary waH not acquired until the professional real estate dealers in southern California opened office. Vou talk of the demoralizing effect of the gambling games which were operated in Ogden up to the time of the paseage of the felony law by the state legislature! Why, those diversions diver-sions were but innocent pastime compared com-pared with the tremendous -ambl. that is on iu lots and houses where F 1 have been living the past year. H. Clerks, brokers, business men. bank- J i ers, lodge men. ministers, men and l women, are some of the principals in 1 t0n this wild scramble of trying to work Mis' the other fellow.'' " j. TV,,., t X I . , Angeies man went on to describe some of the tricks that are daily played on the unsuspecting Churches lend their aid, lodges are j used, bankers are called In, lies are I told, and every crafty Bcheme for entrapping en-trapping the prospective purchaser is employed While there Is a gradual upward tendency to the real estate market in southern California, those who are victimized today are enabled to unload un-load on the fresh crop of deluded which is constantly appearing, but i when the reaction comes, which may be any day. the number of wrecked fortunes will be many times larger than Monte Carlo has created. The point our former resident makes la this: Why look upon faro, poker and roulette rou-lette as games of chance while this greatest lottery of nil, and the most demoralizing in its all-embracing sweep, is allowed to operate in southern south-ern California? The answer to the question propounded pro-pounded should come from southern j California itself. We await the response re-sponse i |