Show no lotteries wanted the average roosevelt loosevelt Hoo sevelt citizen may not know it but there is a movement under way in this country which seeks to bring about the formation of a national lottery similar to the one operated by the cubans and not unlike the irish sweepstakes which annually takes millions of hard earned american dollars across the sea the sponsors of the scheme to have the government enter the gambling business and a lottery is a gamble if there ever was one are not the cheap tinhorn tin horn type of sports as one would suppose on the other hand some of them are highly respected citizens what they the expect to gain is not plain though it is safe to bet that they have a personal axe of some kind to be ground their argument is that people are going to gamble anyhow and that it would be better for uncle sam to take their money and use it to advantage than to have foreigners grabbing it off and carrying it away where w it will benefit it them alone its a poor argument because two wrongs never made a right if a certain element insists on squandering its money through games of chance then setting up still another one would only encourage more people to do so then too if the government placed its stamp of approval on gambling it would wipe all gambling laws off the statute books and bring about conditions no decent american could tolerate it is no time to corrupt the people of this country as a whole and especially its young people simply because a few pe people ople prefer to make ma P tools fools of themselves |