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Show GAMBLING IN THIRTEEN PLACES IN OGDEN AND A PROTEST HAS SEEN MADE TO AUTHORITIES A prominent Japanese of the city whose work carries him Into the most intimato "relationships with the Japanese Japa-nese and Chinese residents of the city of Ogden, has acquainted Chief of Police Po-lice T. E. Browning with the following facts relating to gambling places frequented fre-quented by the people of those 'two nationalities and which are operated within the city limits of Ogden. "Owing to the fnct that white men are, as a rule, excluded from oriental gambling places, thore are very few of tho American people who realize the extent to which gambling among orientals Is carried on, or the injury done those who participate. "There Is a tendenc'. even on the, part ot local officials," to regard the , whole matter as an oriental problem,1 and pay very little attention to it. Ow-1 Ing to the loss in labor as well as Jnj money, this is, however, far from being be-ing an oriental problem alone. "While the oriental is in town gambling, gamb-ling, the fields are unattended and much needed labor Is lost in other1 lines of effort. j "A recent lnvpef"-)Hrn dinu-oH i"? gambling places in Ogden, located as follows: I 24G2 Lincoln Ave.; 2163 Grant avenue; ave-nue; 244-1 Lincoln avenue; 2421 Grant avenue; 165 Twenty -fifth street; 2464 Lincoln avenue; 2465 Grant avenue; 2473 Grant avenue; 267 Twenty-fourth street; 2468 Lincoln avenue; 2459 Grant avenue; 2469 Grant avenue; 2457 Grant avenue; 259 Twenty-fourth St. "Eight of these places arc run by Chinese and five by Japanese. "Many of the Chinese places advertise adver-tise gambling by means of notices, written in the Chinese language, and posted near the entrances. "Japanese laborers alone lose about ?70.000 annually in these places in Ogden Og-den and the loss in timo amounts to thousands of days of labor. Gambling in tho Japanese camps near Ogden causes a loss of approximately $10,000 per year. Add to these totals" the loss occasioned by this evil to other orientals orien-tals and to the American public in time, health, money and morals, and the sum reaches proportions entirely too great to be ignored In these days of food scarcity and labor shortage." Dr. Murphy'c Opinion. Dr. Murphy, a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, who has worked for many years inc Japan and who is working among the) Japanese people of the Pacific coast and intermountain region, speaks eloquently elo-quently of tho work that is being.done' among these people who, while they i are not, and can not be, American citizens, citi-zens, are .yet resident here and whoso labors are a source of revenue to the country. A part entirely from the moral argument ar-gument that may be used in this matter, mat-ter, Dr. Murphy is Impressed with tho fact that the economic argument is a strong and powerful one, as the statement state-ment mado with regard to tho loss of money and days of labor by Japanese and Chinese laborers fully shows. An attempt is being made by the Inter-Mountain Japanese association to get the States Council of Defense, tho county councils of defense, tho religious reli-gious societies and the police and county coun-ty legal officers lined up In a' serious effort Id combat this evil. A meeting meet-ing of Protestant ministers interested in the matter was held Saturday afternoon, after-noon, and leaders of the Mormon church have been appealed to for help and willingly oxpressed themselves as rnnflv lr mnyn f ...1 t. ,1 ( t ; '-""J -vj iiiu 1 IUI Ul 11 111 liiv; III! ftllUU I of stamping out the pest. On Grant and Lincoln avenues are notices written in Chinese which the greater number of Americans did NOT study In their high school and college course, which read like this: "Come, gentlemen, come. Here we play sheko. Come and patronize us." Then follows the proprietor's name, and "Day and night,. Shcko, Togyu, Bakappel, Come, Japanese gentlemen, come." Proprietor's Name.) Togyu is a kind of fan-tan. Bakap-pei Bakap-pei is a lottery. At another place: "Day and night sheko." Chief's Statement. According to Chiof of Police Brown-1 ing, the city ordinance with regard to gambling is weak, but the nmtter is al- j ready having the close attention of police po-lice officers. It Is the feeling of the Japanese, who arc interested in the good citizenship citi-zenship of their people, that if there Is a weak ordinance it ought to be imended at once. |