GAMBLING IN CROSS-WORDS
. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sia,—I am glad to see you ventilate this matter of charges made on coupons for literary and other competitions. Just before the War; there was some talk of a Parliamentary committee being- appointed to inquire into them. A very great deal of money, as your correspondent shows, is made by them, and for the hundreds of thousands of competitors who are beguiled into entering: they are little -better than a gamble. Legislation is required to protect people from themselves, and no competition should be legal where any money whatever has to be sent with the coupon cut from the paper, provided the price of the paper has not been purposely enhanced with such in view. It calls for legislation.—I am, Sir, &c., FORTY YEARS READER.
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