CENTRE HALL, PA. eso 4 5S Ap actually hypnotize people into a mechanical pickpocket, if someone had taken pencil wow 80 cents But the girl in the playing a hunch. She horse called ‘Rainy Weather,’ having placed the bet middle of a thundershower. Women will gamble, it seems, and if you think daddy is the only one who spends his pay- check at a bookie, take a look at the record! Gambling, standing, has grown into institution of the first water, filching millions of dollars a year from the pockets of those can ill afford it. Some favo ized lott ple will gan way. They ¢ it offers the poor a ct! rich, thereby satisfac the law notwith- eries on the theory t ible any laim ance making for less dis tion. What they forget that ‘small money is sucker mon- ey” in the gambler’s parlance. Big winners in the betting racket are those who start with big stakes and can afford to lose. Big Business in Bookies. A two-minute tour around the horse races is thriving despite its illegal status. Chicago's city coun- cil set a precedent last winter by legalizing bookies to operate out- side the race tracks provided they pay an annual license fee. But the state of Illinois clamped down on this scheme to fill Chicago's cof- fers, just as Ohio, Maryland, Cali- fornia and Michigan have rejected similar proposals in the past. Several southern California cities recently decided to license bookies at fees ranging from $2.500 to $5.000 Then the appellate court stepped in and ruled the ordinances violated California’s rac ing act. New Orleans is a bookmaker’s paradise even though they operate illegally. In Louisville between 250 and 500 book- makers work openly and in Miami, Fla., they operate at ease despite threats by the state. But this is a story about gamblin in general and women in Ls The story is more interesting be- cause a few years ago there were social and moral taboos against gambling, while today this situation isn't throughout the country. fined mostly to large cities and for laboratory purposes let's put New York under our microscope. stenographers in Queens contribute daily share to a business that grosses $100,000,000 a year. A conservative estimate is that women sible for h ment, Next most popular game-— New York isn't alone in t sport known as Bingo. F land, Ore., to Portland, and women alike gather en at rch gamble for small stakes at the Bi ngo board You buy a be ard, pro ably fo 25 cents, on } Moi, men Rightly, oft- S0( ials, to each carr ng a So e As the announcer calls mt look for them on your be an unbroken line down, across, board, 3 ody else ard. If you or diag- 3 u win. That is, provided not in the game calls "Bir you. is probably a $2.00 blanket and the total “‘take’ for the game may be It's pretty fair profit. 120!" before “Free” Bathroom Scales. It becomes a fiendish and throw the dice. Housework Is a Bore. In this metropolis, where Friend Husband spends his days at the office it's often easy for the wife to become bored with housework, knit- ting and reading. To satisfy her desire for something new a huge gambling business has arisen, ca- tering exclusively to women and making good money at it. A con- servative estimate is that New York women invest half a billion dollars a year in gambling. The “policy racket” or “numbers” game, a polite form of larceny re- sponsible for the rise and downfall of many a big-time racketeer, is the New York woman's favorite form of gambling. This is true be- cause you can invest any amount from one cent to a hundred dollars. Wash women down in Harlem and - ES, wa rn EE a AN Xi. This situation has produced a queer type of woman customer. One wizened old lady ar- rives promptly each morning at a brokerage house and sits in silence until closing time, seldom trading. Women are suckers for horse races. They play hunches, placing their money on a horse because they like his name or because he hasn't won a race for two years. There's no way of estimating how much money they gt or what percent- age of the total annual investment comes from them. But half the 300,- 000 daily calls coming into telephone rooms of dope sheets in New York are from women. If women are al- lowed only 10 per cent of the an- nual $350,000,000 total bet at New York tracks and bookies, it still amounts to $35,000,000, which isn't chicken feed. Sometimes They Win. Sweepstakes take millions out of the country every year and half of to be paid by women, The New York stand at $40,- per year. A fa- vorite plan is for several women em- yed in the ry to buy shares’ in a sweep stakes ticket. Bridge, the ge nteel h as be usines Son same {a gam e of club } powered w York and nes the stakes women, » entire aft- r XO rk i8 In ies,"’ pri make their in they sit in as (always poor bri who want to partne rs ige play- make an to men they say) impression. From bridge it's only a short jump to poker, a traditionally mas- culine game that is winning women followers in New York. “Poker urge, something like dope, and they go back night after night, satisfied if their $3.00 investment nets them a $2.00 bathroom scale. Stock market speculation isn't ex- clusively a man’s game in New York and there are those who claim it isn’t speculation at all. But wom- en are heavy customers along Wall Street—call it speculation or just plain “investment'’-—~and many of them spend five hours a day in brok- erage houses watching the ticker tape and the exchange boards. The stock market is a big money game and most women gamblers are small players, being content merely to sit and watch the lines flats’’ are commercial institutions where the girls may gather of an afternoon. Then there's dice, mah jong and backgammon, besides such illl-mannered pastimes as rummy, pinochle, hearts and euchre. Maybe the men taught them to gamble and after all it’s probably no more sinful for women than men. But lady gamblers merely add to an already large population that spends its money recklessly and eventually gets into trouble. Maybe legalized lotteries are the answer because mankind has been gam- bling since Biblical days. It seems to be human nature. © Western Newspaper Union, By C. A'y West. crowding it out of their emo- tions—was indignant ANGER. of buildings in the city. On every side, the cry of indig- nation arose. had gone into the construction of those schools which were supposed to house children in security. 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