WHEN IT WILL CEASE.

Publicity and education are, of course, the chief instruments for

converting illegitimate into legitimate speculation, for changing

commercial gambling into commercial foresight. This intelligent

movement toward a restoration of discernible order and rationality

in business processes, by eliminating "chances" and placing the

transfer of property and the earning of industrial gains on a more

rational foundation, must, of course, go with other movements of

social and industrial reforms which aim simultaneously at the basis of

reformation of the economic environment. Every step which places the

attainment of property upon a sane rational basis, associating it with

proportionate personal productive effort, every step which enables men

and women to find orderly interests in work and leisure by gaining

opportunities to express themselves in art or play under conditions

which stimulate new human wants and supply means of satisfying them,

will make for the destruction of gambling.

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