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ARE GAMBLING AND SOUND ECONOMICS EVERYMAN'S PSYCHOLOGY

INCOMPATIBLE?”

LIVELY DEBATE AT SAILORS & SOLDIERS' HOME

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GAMBLING: A WASTE OF MONEY?

"Are Gambling and Sound Economics Incompatible" formed the subject of a lively and interesting debate at the Sailors and Soldiers' Home last evening.

Dr. E. L. Allen and the Rev. J. Courtenay proposed the mo- tion, and Mr. G. Merriman and Mr. J. H. Gelling were for the apposition. Mr. E. Rice was in the Chair.

In the course of the debate, horse racing, speculation, and In- surance, etc. wero discussed, after which the motion was put for ward to the "floor," and was, defeated by 13 votes to 25.

MOTION DEFEATED

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1.THE PROPER STUDY OF MANKIND

IS MAN'

(BY FATHER G. BYRNE S. J.)

expression.”

Perhaps the reader knows the Lisping Numbers of F. W. Har-

vey:

I met a little fairy

In a dairy, by a pan: And wasn't he the teeniest

Yet inan seen very plusive when able to still more secure and facile the study-detectives get on his ttack: they call themselves. Pay- chologists. When they have run Ein to earth, many of them try to imprison him and his activities in his own brain cells He becoraes baffing. He must be forced to give an account of himself. Experts are stimmoned. Memory tests, intelli. gence tests, neural mechanism of his sensory impulses... never prisoner in the dock so harassed and questioned, still no jury could be found to agree on the verdict. What

was

THE LATEST against gambling in general, but mic soundness. A country is not could the judge do with this rebel

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Dr. Allen, in putting forward the motion said that he was not going speculation, which, he considered, was most serious and harmful as it was mainly responsible for the "present world depression.

During the Great War, he said, many people speculated on the Ger- man currency, and the money, they lost was so much that it was al- most equivalent to the amount that Gormany was later called upon to for pay her réparations.

Dr. Allen then went on to my that gambling was also a waste of money. Any person who won money through gambling always spent it recklessly. He then quoted an in- stance during the Great War in which a corporal after winning 125 france from his friends, could not find a way to spond all the money. Though not a drinker, he bought a bottle of champagne and poured the contents on the ground, and Inter bought all the eggs in the

farm and threw them away..

In replying to Dr. Allen, Mr. G. Merriman, for the opposition said:"I think you will agree with me that nothing of what the Hon. proposer of the motion has told us, has shown any connection between Gambling and sound

Economics.

Mr. Merriman said in part:- Gambling must be considered in its broadest sense. Gambling is de fined as risking to chance anything which we have in order to gain something in the future.

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The weeniest little man! And when I dipped my fingers

In the cream he couldn't view, O he stamped and screamed and

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Wouldn't you Wouldn't you 1" Let us look for a moment into the things which conduce to econo.

The lines express not too badly economically sound unless she is of waking hours if not catch him the mind of a would-be reader of productive. Sha is not economical-in his sleeping, hours, so the orthopsychology who wants to know what dox psychologists were asked to re- happened to the cat, or rather in ly sound if her average people are not properly cared for, fed and tire that the Psychoanalysts might the cat, and who, for only answer, clothed, or, what is also very im- deal with him in dreamland. These sees the psychologist dip his fingers help to explain into a creamy pail of engrama 1-ortant if they are poorly educat- facts

why everybody has heard of which he suitably extraets from the ed and of low spirit.

the "New Psychology," and why, complex which the reader's teeny in the very way of putting sugar stature will not let him view. Now into our tea, we betray superiority must it be ao? Surely not. How or inferiority complexes! It is only ever much a special jargon may help the jargonists, it ought to be natural to ask what it all means And people are asking. There are possible to use plain English about no end of answers to the questions the ordinary workings of the mind asked: never were so many books of man, of his memory, of his will. written on the mind and how to If the "proper study of mankind use it; on the memory and how to be man" it ought not to be neces lose it; on the will and how to sary to hunt for man in a forest abuse it. But many of the books of phrases. And it is not. It will are disconcerting. Even though the be the object of the present writer writers may start familiarly in to try to oxamine in a simple way your own garden-plot, they seem to many of the wonderful things which love the jungle where readers get go to make up man's wonderful lost in a perfect undergrowth of life. We are accustomed now to the gramaphone but when Edison first strange words.

stumbled on his sound-repeating. disk everyone was amazed. One! disk, one tane Surely man's me- mory disk with its endless tunes is more wonderful still. Hava we stopped to think of it!

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The Stock Exchange. The Stock Exchange, the greatest gambling in the world. Here we find men-good men too they are though few of us realise it who spend their working time gambling with stocks and shares. Has it never occurred to you that if the Government liked to impose gambling tax on the stock exchange operatives that the state could raise quite a large revenue from it! Why then do they not impose it

The answer is because the gov. ernment knows quite well that these men and their gambling are neces aary if the country is to be econo mically sound. High price fluctua- tions in the cominon market bring in their waka lack of trade--and lack of trade is a bad thing for the average people of a country- The Stock Exchange Gamblers in their unceasing efforts to anticipate a change in prices have the effect of steadying prices in the common market and in promoting steadiness in trade.

I think, the most important fea ture of gambling and its effect on the social aspect of business-Is The Gambling Spirit.

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I said in the beginning that the Proposer of the motion was 蹑 gabler1 So, I'm afraid, are you and I. We may not gamble with actual money, but we often gamble with our health, our happiness, and sometimes with our lives.

What man is worth his salt who is afraid to gamble with something or other? Men jumping into rivers to save drowning people make a glorious gamble and when they

I may illustrate by a simple ex periment of a modern psychologist his name fits in with our imagery, Mr. Thorndiko! Animals remember and we remember, but the animal it locked simple to explore the ani- has a much smaller meme-book; so mal's little book and see if any leaf from it would fit into man's, Mr. Thorndike shut up some poor break- fastless, tiffinless cats in. a cage. Outside the cage was an appetising dinner: between pussy and the din- ner there was only one stopa string to be pulled, or a button to be turned and the door flew open. In many cases by happy accident

experiments

The Proposer of the motion is not only a gambler, but be teaches gambling to his friends. He teaches as that out of the many excellent creeds, and religions in the world to-day, we should invest our faith in his creed and thus gai sorae- thing in the future. If we are go- ing to gain by re doing he is not entirely sure, he is just anticipat ing speculating and having faith,

And now Economics, what exact-succeed as they speculated servation developed, as a dog con- ly is it! Well, it has been defined they would - we call them for us by Mr. Henry Clay, Man- chester Professor of Economics, who says that it is The Study of Busi- ness in its Social Aspect.

One cannot talk of an indivual lost.

good fellows. And if they fail-Do we call them fools! No, we just say we are sorry because he or she was a good gambler, hut

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Further sesame." proved that the happy accident was helpful for future forts and that gradually the trick was learnt. Now most readers would not worry about pursuing the question fur- ther. They would be satisfied with a general idea of a sense of ob- nects the sense of pain with the appearance of the whip But the psychologist does not stop there. He wants to know what takes place in animal's brain to establish this connection. If he belongs to the

the results of his conclu- sions thus: (I quote from Sir Percy Nunn's little book on the Data of Education)"We must suppose that the animal's success tended to consolidate the mnemic basis of its movements into a definite complex from which the engrama connected

being of a sound economic condi- How can we have economic sound-Madern School" he gives you tion, for economica as a study isness if we are afraid to speculate applied to society and one, person upon the worlds 'markets and cannot be society. To illustrate afraid to lose the little money we what I mean let us take any busi-bave? How can we have economic ness transaction. The individual soundness if our manhood is afraid who is concerned in it is interested to gamble 1

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in ita private aspect. Economics is, I say, most emphatically, ladies Concerned with its Social Aspect and gentlemen, that gambling and which may be Something Entirely, sound economies are compatible with irrelevant actions were exclud ..that further without ed This is to sny, success Sound Economics has nothing to; gambling and its splendid spirit ful self-assertion, in animals do with pots of money, but only ! .. economic soundness would be

as in men, tends to modify it's with the social effect of business, absolutely impossible.

mnemic basis in a direction favour and if I were asked to define sound economics I should say that it was a prosperous social state brought about by successful and highminded business.

SWATOW NOTES

The Rev. Jacobs and Mr. Gelling then spoke support of their lead- ers, after which the motion was put forward to the "door," and, .GR stated, was defeated.

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