SHOULD POOR MAN BET?
-If. gambling, -were utterly suppressed people would-.possibly take' to other,;- aiiU more; criminal; forms of "excitement ■ • Is;.p,pne who has lived: with;.a hard-worked! small^earning family, and shared? "the thrill and ;fun\ of ' the; weekly ' draw,' in> some sweepstakes^, -or" backing a-; horse, could condemn .gambling, as a wholly:. injurious pastime. In this,.. ?as in ,many ,other' things the real question was between temperance and excess."
The foregoing is an extract from evidence given' recently in London by Mr. John Martin, a- well-known social worker, before the English Royal Commission on Lotteries and Betting,, For a period often years Mr. Martin lived in a poor district of South London, and during that time his occupation -was the management of men's and boys' clubs.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 124, 22 November 1932, Page 4
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