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Fight Against Lotteries Is Launched In New York City Society for tin' Prevention of (.'rime Setting in .Motion De termined Drive Again*! All forms of Gambling, In cluding Oral Betting at the Kaee Trucks tty ItOltKIlT T. S.MAI,I, . ?CoP??iflht. IUJ. By Th? Atfnnci) New York, Sept. 21.?Thoroughly aroused by the extent to which small lotteries are being operated in New York City, the! Society for the Prevention of Crime has just launched a deter mined drive against all forms of gambling, including the so-called I oral betting at the race tracks. There is plenty of evidence, that the lottery schemes are not peculiar to New York City. They are springing up all over the country. In Boston recently when the operators of a lottery were arrested by the Federal and state officials the patrons of the plan, with a chance of less than one to one thousand to win j a prize, protested vigorously to the authorities and claimed that the scheme was entirely open' and above board and honestly operated. The same condition of psychology I obtains here In New York. There1 are no ?'squealers" umong the buy ers of lottery tickets. Unsuccessful i at one drawing, they buy tickets tor 1 the next with hope springing eternal! In their chunce taking-breasts. Re cently a type-setter on one of the local daily papers after investing more than $Go in tickets, landed u prize of 12,600. Now he is a patron ?for life and would lead a mob against the police for any Interfer ence with the "honest lottery" which he loves so well. Most of the lottery schemcs seem to have grown out of the baseball pools which sprang up years ago, with the aggregate high and low ?cores of the major league teams during a week constituting the olli clal "drawings" for those who had bought tickets In the pool. Generally tlio lotteries are con ducted by crafts. One is organixed for the pflnters, another for-tho pressmen, n third for tho bar ten ders, a fourth for truckmen, and so on. Thus far, if there is one de signed especially for policemen it has not been discovered. The tickets, red, white, blue, or green altairs, are sold mostly In the corner saloons, with which New York is almost as! heavily sprinkled as In in pre-Vol stead days. The saloons are called cafes now and all of tliem have din ing tables drawn close to the bar. The old bar, with its brass rail, I* however, the center of attraction and over it daily passes much that is de nied by the law of the la ml. No one seems to know Just how the lottery laws are conducted, but the ticket buyers ask tio questions and are entirely Satisfied if someone they happen to know occasionally wins a prize. For the operators of the pools there Is no chance, to lose. The prize money is dependent upon ! the amount paid In. The usual split i is fifty-fifty and where a pool sells $5,000 worth of tickets a month, the two or three promoters get $2,600 find the ticket holders the rest. Where the | pools are conducted within a craft by selected members af the craft, however, the pjollts to the promoters are smaller but none the less sure. "The most characteristic crime wave at the present time Is that of gambling" said Rev. S. Kdward Young, president of the Society for r , the Prevention of Crime, today. It Is Infecting multitudes In eveiy walk ofollfe. From every quarter comes word of the subtle and pernicious ef fects of this vice. Any young man or woman who goes the gambling pace fast enough Is soon bereft of B every vestige of honesty and cannot be trusted anywhere. "Our campaign against the book mftker* of the race tracks will be long and difficult and will require many sacrifices on the part of those who lead and support It, The Issue Is perfectly clear cut as to whether fresh, up to date laws,, revoted by the people within the last few years ?not old blue laws?are to be vio lated In broad daylight by thousands of people under the eyes of those who are charged with the enforce ment of the laws. If law breakers can get away with this they can get ? way with anything and law becomes a farce, and we might as well admit we are headed toward anarchy." iimnssBaaassBa Announcement <?/ T. W: WILLIAMS & SON We have opened a Branch Store at 502 Matthews Street, between I'oln dextcr and Water Streets, carrying a full line of Men's, Women's and Children's Shoes, Hats, Caps and Clothing of all kinds at the lowest prices. We Invite all our friends and cus tomers to come and Inspect our stock and be convinced that ours la the borne of better bargains, T. W. WILLIAMS & SON ? K POIXDKXTKR ST. SOS MATTHEWS ST. Bright Outlook for Ancient Egypt Di?iiitere?te<l Ob*er\er* Note n Much Clearer Political Atmos phere. Cairo, Egypt. Sept. 22.?Egypt was never so tranquil or so full of promise for itae future as it is today, in the opinion of disinterested ob servers in this city. Great Britain's decision to "stand cle*r" and give the Egyptians a fair chance to run the country themselves has proved a wise measure, it is averred. It has al layed anti-foreign feeling, put an end to the subversive activities of revolutionary organizations, and created generally a much clearer po litical atmosphere. Meantime General Allenby. the liritish High Commissioner, is keep ints a vigilant ey?? on th?* course of ? vent*, if Egypt tiud* the eask of administering the countiy and- pro moting its progress and prosperity too great a task. England will again step in and guido the lorces of the nation. Tho most ardent Egyptians. ev?.n Zagloul Pasha himself, who is now returning to Cairo after an absence in France, never envisaged England giving way as she has. It wan Zag loul'* ambition to constitute himself ;k Kreat h? loic figure in Egypt's his tory. The BrttUh Governnunt cut ? lite ground from under him by re-? leasing him from his bondage in Mil-' ta and virtually placiug the future of Kgypt iu his hands. The sudden i capitulation of England would ap pear to have coufoundtd him. He is now asked to array all of Egypt"* force#, to construct and not to de stroy, It Is admitted by all that he ha? a great tusk before him. Mr. and Mr?." Uaac M-igK* and little dauRhter. Virginia, ol Camden, were in the city Friday. DON'T CUSS! - CALL US! ?FOR? HOOD TIRES The New Hood '"White Arrow" Cord is the quality tire of America, That's why we sell and recommend them to our friends. They cost no more than ordinary Cord Tires. Put On A Hood Today ? Forget It For A Year E. J. 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