Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1916 — FOUND HE COULD DO BETTER [ARTICLE]

FOUND HE COULD DO BETTER

Story of Man Who Turned From Hla Wickedness Ended in Somewhat Unexpected Manner. The late John Philip Quinn, the reformed gambler, who for 20 years traveled all over America exposing the electric roulette wheel and other cheating devices had a reform story that he would tell while exhibiting his queer paraphernalia in his private car. “Don’t be afraid of reform,” he said. “Help every poor devil who wants to reform. The way most people act, you’d think they all believed religiously In the reform story. “ ‘You stopped smoking because she asked you to?’ was the question put to a solemn-looking chap. “ ‘Yep.’ “ ‘And you stopped drinking because she asked you to?’ -r “ ‘Yep.’ “ ‘And you gave up your poker parties and went Into refined, serious society for the same reason?’ “ ‘Yep, yep, yep.’ “‘And then, I suppose, you married her.’ “ ‘Well, you see, after I’d reformed like that, I found I could do better.’ ”