NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS & VIEWS Wrapping Up Casinos The outcome of the New Jersey referendum on casino gambling [Commonweal, 11/1/74] is being assessed as a classic example of how citizen organization and...
...What have we as a nation done for the cause of peace...
...But, by the Times' estimate and most others', none of these factors, singly or in concert, would have tipped the scales without a citizens' organization known as the Bi-state Committee Against Casino Gambling in New York and New Jersey...
...Its new name: The National Commission on Gambling Information, Inc...
...We have armed ourselves to the point where we can destroy the world 17 times over...
...It was the President (Theodore Roosevelt...
...and the feeling that casinos would be a magnet for "undesirables," such as "pimps, loan-sharks and prostitutes...
...How can we as people face our God on these two days, or any other days, if we allow weapons to take precedence over people...
...We must stop the war and get about the process of feeding the hungry...
...Mostly theirs was an educational campaign through radio interviews, spot announcements and news articles...
...Mechling is the chief officer...
...Should we not share our goods with those who are in need...
...Midway through the fast, Murphy had dropped 22 pounds, and gained little media attention...
...Let all of us fast one day a week and give what we would spend on food to the hungry...
...Buoyed by its success, the Bistate Committee Against Casino Gambling is staying together, for the most part, as a continuing non-profit corporate entity on gambling information...
...I was almost to the White House (residence) itself when I came to a small stairway leading up from the basement...
...We could be a blessing to the world, for those we call our brothers and sisters...
...1,542,-619 against...
...The vote was 1,013,849 for casino gambling...
...On through the Cabinet room and the President's office...
...Acting on their own, and not as the Board of Trade, they contacted Thomas B. Mechling, a Manhattan public relations consultant, and he organized the citizens' group that made the difference...
...Writing in the Post, Lincoln recalled dropping around to the White House one 1907 day to get some information from a Presidential secretary on some local news story...
...The committee came into being as a result of concern on the part of individuals of the New York Board of Trade over possible economic effects of casinos in New Jersey...
...This is an insidious evil which must be stopped...
...Opponents spent less than $25,000...
...Odds and Ends - Among textbooks involved in the West Virginia school controversy is one in the Language of Man series containing a statement that the Hopi Indian language is "superior to English...
...This is a long-lived evil which must be stopped...
...But they also got a big boost via premature attacks by labor leaders and some legislators favoring the bill...
...By overeating...
...Instead we are a curse...
...The rest is history...
...and proponents of casino gambling had upwards of $500,000 to spend...
...On Christmas we recall the birth of Jesus...
...You don't throw rocks at a mango tree until it bears fruit," commented Mechling...
...How do we celebrate his birth...
...His diet: nothing but water...
...His impact was by word of mouth, a few lectures in places like Philadelphia and New York, and a statement of purpose...
...1 at age 94, reminds again how changed is the world in one man's lifetime...
...Lincoln wrote...
...As he reached the top of the stairs, he grinned and asked: 'What do you want?'" As he was to do throughout his career, Mr...
...Yet a measure that pollsters at one time thought would pass by a 20-point margin, lost by a 3-to-2 margin, or some 500,000 votes...
...a majority of the state's politicians favored the measure, including the governor and 81 of 120 legislators...
...The address is 545 Madison Ave., 17th Floor, New York City 10022...
...editorial opposition by newspapers...
...We must consume less and give more...
...NEWS & VIEWS Wrapping Up Casinos The outcome of the New Jersey referendum on casino gambling [Commonweal, 11/1/74] is being assessed as a classic example of how citizen organization and participation can affect a major public issue...
...A Jesuit Fast* In an effort to dramatize the connection between the issues of world hunger and world weaponry-and convinced that one person can make a difference - Jesuit Father Edward J. Murphy of the New York Province went on a Thanksgiving-to-Christ-mas fast at Jonah House in Baltimore...
...The Prince of Peace...
...Peering up at me was a sweater-clad, barrel-chested man, bespectacled, with a tennis racket in his hand...
...Our world faces massive hunger and many deaths due to starvation this year, a year in which our country will spend $100 billion on 'defense.' What are we defending if it is not the right of people to eat...
...JOHN DEEDY...
...Let us all resist the claims of the warmongers that guns are more important than food...
...Lincoln explained what information he was seeking, and went back to the office with his story...
...We must change...
...No guard was at the door," Mr...
...The obit reprinted reflections of Lincoln upon his formal retirement in 1964...
...Try to Do It Now The Washington Post obituary of G. Gould Lincoln, dean of Washington political reporters who died Dec...
...No receptionist was at the desk inside...
...After all, New Jersey had not turned down a gambling referendum since the 1930s (the lottery passed by a 5-to-1 margin...
...In late summer state officials, from Governor Byrne down, were anticipating overwhelming approval of the proposal to introduce Las Vegas-style gambling to New Jersey, and not even opponents of casinos were challenging that anticipation...
...The New York Times probed the 'why' of the 'no' vote, and came up with a number of factors: the vagueness of the referendum...
...How do we show our thanks...
...I walked into the secretary's office and it was empty...
...We have spent $1 trillion (1,000 billion) on arms since 1945...
...Following are excerpts: "Thanksgiving day is meant as a time to recall the blessings we have received as a nation...
...We foster war around the world as an answer to people's needs...
...Dissident members of the textbook review committee issued the following evaluation: "Un-American writings...
...We, 6 percent of the world's population, consume over 30 percent of the world's food...
...The attacks heightened the committee's visibility, and helped rally the support of churches on the side of the committee...
...the lack of a "champion" of casinos...
...I had no card of identification, nor was one required...
Vol. 101 • January 1975 • No. 11
