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ADISTINCTION should be drawn between friendly wagers on a game or contest and the point at which the professional racketeer crashes in for his cut. It is the latter with which this discussion is concerned, rather than the former. Gangsters and racketeers have seized and organized gambling in the United States, with stakes running into an estimated fifteen billion dollars annually, and have made it such a menace to good government and society that a concerted drive is being made to halt the debauchery and corruption that are disconcertingly evident. We are here concerned with the phenomenon by which that corruption has been facilitated. The extent to which this debauchery has spread over the United States is almost unbelievable to the average person. Investigations reveal appalling conditions caused by the gambler, racketeer, and gangster who is enabled to carry on his crime with the money he takes from innocent bettors.
Paul S. Deland (Mon,) studied this question.