"Most restaurants, retail food stores, and drug stores have gambling devices of some kind. Outside of mining, gambling may be the largest paying industry for the whole state and its population. The federal government, the state, county, and city governments of Nevada derive, directly and indirectly, large taxes and license revenues from these games of chance in every one of its cities and villages. If you Earth people must indulge in that pastime, we here feel that it's very commendable for these authorities to tax them. "The gambling system in Nevada is praiseworthy, because it's in the open and legal, whereas in all your other states, gambling is operated clandestinely and on much larger scale, where they are thriving on their pay-offs. They either buy protection from, or are in cahoots with, politicians, officials, or police helping to greatly corrupt government. Large numbers of visitors pour into Reno from adjoining and distant states for divorces and gambling purposes." Washington, April 22, (UP)--Sen. Estes Kefauver, D., Tenn., said today that the annual gambling "take" in the United States is reliably estimated at $20,000,000,000. Kefauver, in his weekly radio address to Tennessee, did not give the source of his figure. But he said it amounts to nearly one-half this country's budget. Crime and gambling have grown to such proportions that a congressional investigation has become a "matter of urgent necessity," he said. Kefauver is the author of a resolution to hold such an inquiry--a resolution now pending before the Senate. "We ought to cut out the cancer when gambling and crime reach the point of endangering our system of government," he said.[27] "These gambling losses do not include the billions lost on the stock exchanges, and boards of trade. "Your Octopus derives his blood soaked profits, from your poison habits, as follows: "The saloon and liquor lounge is your poor man's heaviest burden. It not only takes away and robs him and his family of his meager earnings, but it wrecks his health and turns him into either a criminal or a drunkard. Every dime or dollar they extract from you means one nursing bottle less for your babies, less food and medicine for your families. "Thus come need and destitution. The saloon is one of the chief causes of poverty and degeneracy, crime, insanity, and suicides. It is both directly and indirectly the cause of the killing and injury of many people. "You may know from your own experience that after drinking a very small quantity of an alcoholic beverage, you have an obnoxious breath. Nature biologically did not intend alcohol for human consumption. It is an unhealthy digestive irritant, stimulant, and narcotic.