Show men ever susceptible ato lure lare of lotteries it II is curious that proposals for a strict curb on stock exchange gambling should coexist with a rising de illand for the release of similar curbs on gambling elsewhere in some congressional circles margin bradl trailing is considered wicked in itself the professional fess ional speculator fleeing front from the stock exchange is now to be driven out of tile the commodity exchange likewise and an yet at almost the same saine moment states are legalizing racetrack gambling for years under tinder tile the ban cities are arc considering za means of capitalizing on oil tile the gambling ambling propensities of their citizens all and even the federal government itself is being ur urged ed to adopt adap t a national lottery many profess to see no inconsistency in this they hold that while speculation ought to be sharply restricted ed on the exchanges for the protection tec tion of tile the investor and the whole industrial system the gambling instinct is too deep seated to ile he repressed altogether taking as their text IT sirs irs Roosevel ts recent remark it seems impossible to say to people you shall not lot gamble they propose first to giro ire them snell s ich national outlets for their speculative impulses as horse racin racing and second to turn at least part of the proceeds into channels hard times have been as potent in an influence in it this effort as chan changing ing moral standards indeed lotteries are regarded 1 b by y their sponsors like representative kenney if new jersey author of the billion dollar veterans lottery bill prim primarily arlly as a moans means of raising raisin money to fill depleted government treasuries the lottery is an ancient institution the promised land jand was divided among nation the twelve tribes of 0 israel by lot queen elizabeth introduced the lottery into england in 1509 and for more than two centuries it was a reat regular source of public revenue in th that country soon spreading to france germany spain and austria en england raised money for the british museum by means of a lottery kino kings s college colleg e now columbia university was founded on the proceeds of a lottery we are told that the first french lottery held in 1081 1681 was wa s won by the king an all outcome which for a time dampened the ardor of ills his subjects after having been under tinder the ban for a hundred years tile the french lottery was established reestablished re and met with instant popular enthusiasm the best known and most widely patronized lotteries in the world today are the irish free state sweepstakes and the calcutta sweepstakes opponents of lotteries point to the long on record of corruption and crookedness associated with them during their early use diore and abroad they condemn them on social its as well as moral grounds pointing to the fact that the desire on the part of hung deeds of thousands of americans to set et rich quid quick in ili this fashion was one of the cause of our financial crash it is also argued that lotteries with cheap tickets have their greatest reat appeal to persons with small incomes and therefore operate as an antisocial anti social tax on the poor in ili considering si the attitude of government toward gambling it is possible to draw a line between those which recognize rnea F h chants 11 in standards wide inter interest est moral ot in racing the difficulty giorl of e afo e hibi tory sta statutes atutes itna and eve even ill flie of obtaining 1 SO some turn front from puy e various re 6 sp sport ortin ln ev I 1 and those measures which ch 1 put tile tiie government overn ment whether ther sent seek to fed state I 1 local or directly 11 I 1 into naf tile the h of aliel ness promoting a an outright bling institution like a lottery i A british royal c pointed to an investigate I 1 the ile brought in a report 1 last ast year subject in ing the re estabill establishment ailment olt of lotter lotte in england on tile the I 1 ground that vate lotteries lat teries invited fraud cr thatty that ali government should not engage 13 i practices offensive to many 0 of ji citizens that the feet ot of a national lottery e would te t bad and that the income only trifling tri new york times would be I 1 |