August 13, 2026

Letter: Billboards invite gaming opposition

One of the most effective visual tools of Prohibitionists was a cartoon of two ragged, ill-fed children standing in front of the swinging doors of a saloon on payday.

A public relations person hired by anti-gambling forces to give their crusade a boost would surely lose little time in posing two such children in front of that billboard.

JOHN D. WEAVER

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