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...Losing regularly does not cure your gambler, nor will taxation, curtailment or prohibition. . . . He gambles because it provides an emotional tension which his mind demands. He is suffering from a deficiency disease, and the only antidote he knows is betting...
Edwin Packer knew no cure for the disease: a man just had to break himself of it. He concluded: "Our industrial civilization has produced, in spite of progress and the emancipation promised by science, a sense of boredom and frustration in the common man. ... A restriction on gambling in any form may merely serve to direct the emotional drive into other and perhaps less socially acceptable channels...
...Iona Community is not afraid to experiment with its logical conclusions. Last summer it held a week-long conference on divine healing (addressed by blind Godfrey Mowatt, the Archbishop of Canterbury's representative on the Council of Healing, and said to be gifted with the power to cure by laying on of hands). And recently lona has organized a Christian Workers League, whose members seek to work on the corporate bodies of trade unions, capturing control of them with the same infiltration tactics used by the Communists...
Only explanations offered by the thief are that he "enjoyed a good time" adding later that his robberies were done to aid a girl-friend to cure her of the drug habit. Only visitors to see him since his arrest have been his father and lawyer, and no further details have been available...
...whose principal recreation is before-breakfast golf, Admiral Holloway has lately developed another: reading books on education and teaching methods. Critics of the Academy hope that from his reading he will find some cure for Annapolis' antiquated system of rote recitation and continuous crams...