GAMBLING.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18408, 15 June 1925, Page 13

GAMBLING.

,70 THE EDITOR OP "THE IRE3S.".-'■•■ • Sir,—-I think .your correspondents are a, hit rough on the four clerics, Who felt it their'duty to sign that protest' on. behalf of .tho C-.C.C. Some churches are beginning to recognise that if ,they wish to ninke their voice heard,, it must be through the medium of the Press (sb many demonstrations 'require mediums for their manifesta-. tions). I was told the story of a tote clerk. For 20 years ho had never left. his desk, to ieo a. race. One day tho feeling came over him that he must see this race. He had not gone far- when he picked up a£s note. Evidently it was that, and not tho race, his "familiar" wanted him to see, and he felt no temptation, to gamble with it. Yes; wo were invited to try our luck on Friday, and the C.O.C. had a, perfect right to make its protest. I hear that about 4000 odd, venial sins of a legal nature were committed in ...tho that day with the sanction of the City Fathers. . Tho spirit of gambling, like all other, spirit*,' tends to become an obsession and a curse when allowed to get 0ut,,,0f. control.—Yours, etc., PETER TROLOVE.