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"SOME WOULD BET ON ANYTHING."
Betting and gambling among school children are more common In the big cities of the North than In London.
A number of delegates at the
conference
annual
of
SATURDAY, JULY
16,
1927.
THE LEIPZIG FAIR.
M.P'S PLEA FOR WAR
.COMRADE."
The
BECAME CONFIDENCE
TRICKSTER.
| INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS.
Nearly nine years have passed since the end of the World War., In spite of this, internatinal economic
A plen for leniency for a con- relations are by no means complete-fidence trickster who served with ly renewed. The difficulties on the him during the war was made by international market are generally Commander Locker-Lampson at known. America has got enorm- Marlborough-street recently.
The commander said the man head ously rich while Europe has grown was with him for three and a half teachers at Liverpool gave this Im-poorer. The buying power of pression to a Press Association re-Russia la Atill feeble. The huge presentative, who sought their Chinese market is to a great extent marooned on the coast of Lapland
4 knew him when we opinions upon a statement unavailable owing to the inner dis- while making for Russia. We got turbances in that country. Ex-caught in the ice and had to spend aggerated protection tariffs separ- the winter there under cold and ate the different countries from one extremely dark conditions, another und increase the difficulty of trade. Various countries have not attained a gold currency so that there is a continued instability in this connexion.
by Mr. T. Freet, EL head teacher from Hull, that "the boys and girls in my own school put money on horses regularly as part of the day's programme.
Miss J. W. Gibb, the first woman president of the Association, said ta-day that she had never had ex- perience of betting among school children in Liverpool. But I have heard all sort of rumours, she said, and there is little doubt that such things go on.
years.
were
James was then as good a com- rade as anyone else. After eight months the ice gave. We got away and fought in Turkey. We also fought in Persia, and subse- quently Tames came back with me to Galicia, and we were in the Business men throughout the en- tire world are confronted by farentest of retreats, I believe, in the history of the war, when the greater risks than, in pre-war Russians laid down their arms. times. It is in the mutual inter-That was in 1917. I know of cases where children ests of business people all over the have turned up late for school. world that stable conditions should and few men in the unit behaved "James helped me as an orderly, Their exeuse has been that they be restored in international have been, on an errand for mother economic life and, above all, that more pluckily or more honourably Indeed, he did so or father. That errand has asual- the world-market should be free to well that he was awarded two
than he did. ly meant the taking of a betting all. There are any number of slip to a bookmaker.
theories on this subject. The busi-Russian medals and was singled uss man however is not interested out by the Admiralty for the "I think he and another man in theories but in practice. What conferences and negotiations can
Miss L. Swann, a head mistress in the Bethnal Green district of London, was emphatic that very little gambling
D.C.M.
only bring about slowly and with were the first to get this medal went on among difficulty the business man manages / for service 'ashore
the children of her school. In my
Commander Locker-Lampaon
27 years experience of Bethnal far quicker by practical co-opera-said he entrusted him with money Green, I have never seen any evid- tion with his own kind.
and also with confidential work. ence of gambling, among children, An interesting example of this He would be ready to look after she said. In the North, of course, is the world-famed Leipzig Fair. him and give him a job for a the children grow up in un atmos-For more than 700 years it has been reasonable time if it were thought- phere of betting, but in London an international meeting-place for advisable.
The man, Frederick James, 43, conditions are much butter."
supply and demand of all kinds of Miss A. M. Collins, of Padding-goods and has maintained its post- of King's Cross, was sent to prison ton, said-1 have Been children on tion throughout the fiercest, wars for three months' hard labour fer their way to school handing het of the middle ages and of modern being, concerned in stealing and Ling slips to bookmakers, and other London teachers spoke of the bad effect on the children of the open betting of their parents.
Gambling Machines.
times.
In the midst of the com- receiving £185 from an Australian mereint-political limits of the pre-visitor. sent day the Leipzig Fair is the immovable centre of the interna- tional exchange of goods. This Organisation, of the greatest Years Leipzig Spring Fair was Advertising Exhibition and Con- visited by 150,000 business people,vention over held, to take place at Some of the children, said Mr. of whom nearly 25,000 were for-Olympia this month, is proceeding. T. II. Gunn, of-full, would bet on eigners. There were 9,258 exhibi-apace. In a letter to The Daily anything, and the thing that tors, G55 of whom were for Mirror, Sir Rowland Blades, Lord teachers have to do is to keep eigners. Nearly 80 different coun-Mayor of London, points out that away from them the things that tries had sent their business re-newspaper advertising is proving encourage that spirit. That is presentatives to the Leipzig Fair. its essential value to trade almost why we object to the gambling The Leipzig Autumn Fair begins daily. "Only recently the Fruit machines that are placed in shops on the 28th August. Participation Trades Federation announced that all over the place. We find that in this Fair is indeed as a large an expenditure of 210,000 on the these machines are being used in London paper wrote wrote lately: many centres in the North and the "the open door to better business." slogan. Eat More Fruit had in- creased the value of the consump- attention of the police has already
tion of fruit last year by the amaz- been drawn to the evil.
ing sum of £2,000,000-facts which prove its value up to the "One of the worst phases of this
touts fookmakers in hilt," he writes. "National pros- gambling fever is that very often in as
poor districts. perity, is the sum of personal pros- the children use money belonging dark alleys in our
that if to other people in the gambling When they see me they scamper perity, and it follows
away. I often ask boys how they traders and manufacturers take get so much money, and they tell such lessons as this and the lea- Mr. D. J. Benjamin, head me they play with dice on Sunsons of Olympia to heart, and do teacher of the Amberley Road days. They play on the doorsteps more, and still more advertising, Schools, North Paddington, touch of the miserable dwellings in our they will not only swell the rising ed on another aspect of the evil. district, and I am convinced they tide of their own prosperity, but of I have found some of my boys Ret-are led away by, hobbledehoys. Empire trade as well."-
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