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By DIANA BIRD Hippiiwodt News S^edal Writer In horse country, full of horse lovers and persons interested in performing horses, one finds strange an expressed need for parimutuel betting to make horse displays successful. From what I have heard about the point-to-point races and what I read of a recent local polo match, official betting on the winners hasn’t been necessary to draw crowds,
I heard a radio commentator on sports discussing, in connection 'with prize fighting, the role money plays in all professional sports (and in unprofessional ones as well?) in our society. Is it true that the enthusiasm of U.S. citizens for sports is so jaded that joy in watching contests, and in participating in them is so questionable that without heavy profits weighing in the balance, sports would fail?
The most compelling reason to protest parimutuel betting is that gamblers and gambling instincts are not individuals or character traits to encourage. Governments should not be in the business of sponsoring them. While it is one thing for the government to try to regulate private "victimless” immorality, it is quite another for government to actively promote pursuits that at best can be tolerated and at worst can result in personal or family or other disaster. Witness the demise of Governor Marvin Mandel in Maryland.
A gambler essentially wants something for nothing, or for very little. A gambler hopes that through chance, the world can be made beautiful and strange. A study of the attitudes of poor people in the book Low Income Life Styles reveals
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