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month is two years old. In that time the state has
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grossed ten and a half million dollars from the sweeps
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of $3 a ticket. After paying off winners and covering
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operating expenses, it has distributed $5,255,000 among
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local school districts. The lottery has enabled New
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Hampshire to increase state a4d to public education
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by more than 50 per cent."
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Nobody has even questioned the fact that
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this lottery has been operated on a high scale without
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any hint of skulduggery or dishonesty. It has been
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operated efficiently and properly and it has been
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proven in New Hampshire that this can be done. For anyone
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to say it was a dud, as has been said by the editorials,
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or a failure, as has been stated by the press locally,
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just because they didn't bring in as much money in the
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second year as they did the first year, I think is not
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a good foundation for such comment.
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I feel that we ought to take this source of
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revenue away from the gangsters and the racketeers,
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channel it away from organized crime and to use it for
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the benefit of the public. Just as the public is bcnefitin
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