A CURB ON BETTING
SIR,—Though only a very occasional and modest gambler myself, I feel that both Janus and your correspondent, L. E. Ball, take rather a super-' ficial and one-sidec: view of the matter. They both appear to mistake a symptom for the disease, and both wish to advise the Government on the treatment. Should the Government tyke the advice offered, it would. resemble an ignorant State doctor trying to cure scurvy from the outside. If the present increase in spending capacity caused by high wages and short hours were miraculously and 'paradoxically matched by an array of consumers' goods, etc., there would be a curb on betting. Further, if the population felt any sense of security or hope for the future for themselves 0: their children the wastage on betting and in other ways would be checked. Let Mr. Dalton lower the rate of Income Tax and Surtax and raise the rate of interest offered on Government stocks, and he will surely curb betting by offering the nation an alternative to gambling as the only way of making money and keeping it.—Yours faithfully,
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