1924 October (9.315Mb)

X3~ NO~SnOH XUV~9I1 0t1Snd NO~SflOH Sit-at Z£ZX.t O~£ ' H TATE $1.00 Per Year Volume 25, No. 10 WESTERVILLE, OHIO, OCTOBER, 1924 yet the general impression is that he is one for whom prohibitionists can safely vote. ARE YOU AGOOD CI1IZEN ? More than this, he is an able man-one of the real big men of our state. Many of those who entered the second primary are considering seriously their u ~ Xou are a citizen of the United States as well as of your state. Your obligation to keep their primary pledge versu.s their obligation to vote for the welfare ~ ~)J.tizenship is dual; your responsibilities are two-fold. of their state. This is a question tl~at Home and State is not calied upon to decide. Do you know whether your police department is honestly enforcing It is a question that must be answered by eac;h individual voter's conscience, there- . ..-)_our dry la \VS? fore we leave it there. How the editor of ttie Home and State himself will cast his ballot is his own per- Do you know whether your state police, your sheriff, your county and sonal atiair, and is nobody else's business. He will follo,.;· his usual course of not district attorneys, and your district courts are doing their share to enforce announcing beforehand how he will vote. the dry law? An article given to the press some time ago stated that if Mrs. Ferguson should' Do you know who your federal prohibition agents are? be elected at the general election, the editor of Home and State would render all th<l When you hear a violation of the prohibition law do you follow it up cooi)eration possible to assist the administration in any purpose she had in enforcing the prohibition laws and in every way to keep her promises made during the cam to see \vhether the evidence you submitted is used? paign. W ~find some of the readers misunderstood this statement and interpreted it as. Are you willing to testify as a citizen to facts that may be witl.cin your a statement of how the editor would vote in this general election. Vv e wish here to knowledge to prove the existence of a blind pig or other rendezvous of correct that impression. lawlessness? Do you do your jury duty-even if it means inconvenience? Do you vote at every election? THE TEXAS STATE FAIR manent improvements. The ground is Do you honestly study the character and fitness of the men who seek From Saturday, Oct. 11, to Sunday, Oct. 26, inclusive, the dates for the 1924 owned by the city of Dallas, and is main public office? exposition, the State Fair of Texas ex tained for eleven months in the yc.otr as Do you study the legislative and administrative measures that are pects to entertain more than a million ' an amusement park. For one month in before Congress and your state Legislature? visitors. the fall, the park is turned over to the State Fair, within which to hold the an Do you protest against clubs to which you belong serving liquor sur- This will be the thirty-eighth annual nual exposition. In addition to the fair state fair. Twice before within the last reptitiously? equipment, added to each year from decade, more than a mill.on visitors have Do you allow to be served in your home liquor that you did not acquire earned profits, there is a permanent passed within the great 156-acre enclo amu·sement park establishment, equipp~d prior to January, 1920? sure which houses $2,500,000,000 state with the most mode.:-n "rides" and other Do you indulge in the popular pastime of talking about "my bootleg- fair plant, made up of more than fifteen amusement devices. Plans are under ger" and by such chatter increase his illicit patronage? big permanent, substantial, modern build way for a mammoth S\ttmming pool ings, devoted to every phase of commer ARE YOU A GOOD CITIZEN? In the way of entertainn,ent and cial endeavor within the Lone Star State, amusement there is nn:ch to offer. ''The the exploitation of which is the primary Passing Parade of 1924," a musical com object of the fair. edy production of the f1rst magnitude, by ARKANSAS DEMOCRACY VERSUS TEXAS DEMOCRACY Prirparily an agricultural' common Ernie Young, of Chicago, with a com The Democratic convention of Arkansas in its recent session at Little Rock rec wealth, the State Fair of Texas is prop pany of seventy-five and at least six big ommended "the enactment of laws increasing the maximum punishment for bootleg erly significant of the state's chief activ specialty numbers, will be presented in a ging to fi-..e years in the state penitentiary." That is gc,.od for Arkansas Democracy. ity, in that it is an agricultural exposi specially constructed temporary theater. Those who are in the saddle under the Democratic rule in Texas are quietly but tion, and this year will see a magnificent Twenty Hippodromes Ot:" circus acts will earnestly carrying on a propaganda to reduce the penalty for bootlegging in Texas. agricultural building, 150x250 feet in be the attraction before the grand stand Home and State is informed that bills are being prepared, providin·g a minimum pen size, advantageously located directly at afternoon and evening, and the night fea alty for boodegging in Texas of $25. To pass such a law is equivalent to tearing out the entrance to the grounds, used for the ture will be "Tokyo,'' declared to be the of our statutes our state prohibition law completely. Texas Democracy will have to first time for agricultural exhibits. most stupendous pyrotechnic effort of the have another dry cleaning. The main exhibit building, 350 feet age, based on the catastrophic seismic de Can we depend on those noisy prohibitionists who were so eager to put the Fer- square, will also present a brand new and struction of the Japanese ctty · in 1923. gusons back in . charge of our state affairs to stand with us to save our state prohibi- uniquely attractive appearance. The More than 500 human actors take part, whole interior has been made over in the tion law? and the effect is carried out bef~re a Vvill someone page Judge J. E. Cockrell, Dwight Llewelling, M. M. Crane? replica of a quaint Spanish village, the Gargantuan back drv;) 600 feet _long. Six Moorish design in architecture having major football games are scheduled for been carried out in fullest detail. the great athletic stad1um, v.·hich has a HOW A CHICAGO FEDERAL ATTORNEY DOES IT The annual live stock show, for which seating capacity of 20,000, and another premiums totaling mot-e than $60,000 are unique feature therefor will be the "All "vVe have closed eighteen breweries in a year; emptied millions of dollars worth of offered, will be conducted in the great ' Collegiate Circus" and coronation of the bee into the sewers, and we are destroying brewery equipment wherever possible. live stock department, made up of over All-College Queen on the night of Sat- We have convicted over 2,000 illegal purveyors of poison. · 100 barns and a magnificent show arena urday, October the 18. This will be a "Ninety-nine out of every one hundred are convicted. That's our record. We of brick and steel. college event and wi!l draw college and arc enforcing the law as' it is written, against everybody alike, from beggar to million And Texas goes in for art, too, as at university peopl~ from all over the couu aire. Crime against the government has decre~sed fully one-third during the last year tested by the popularity of the art and try. and they will go down another one-third when our dockets are cleared, which we hope ttxtile department. In its own building The State Fair was established in 1885 to accomplish in another six .months. the handiwork of Te:xas women is dis by a group of pioneer business me.n and "The crying need of the hour is the enforcement of law. It must be either that played and paintings by foremost Texas the nucleus of the present site, consist-· or anarchy."-Edwin A. Olsen, U. S. Attorney, Chicago. artists are hung, along with those of ing of seventy-odd 2.cres of black waxy Compare the above with the records of the federal attorneys in Texas, and every prominent eastern painters, in the annual ' prairie land, purchased. Improvements citizen of Texas must hang his head in shame. Yet the moral support given by the art· salon. th@reon within the thirty-eight years public sentiment of Texas is infinitely stronger than in Chicago. The Republican The State Fair of Texas is a unique in have elapsed, have transformed it into national administration is carrying a tremendous load in the way it has handled the stitution, as compared with similar ex one of the most magnificent park prop enforcement of the Volstead act in Texas. positions, in that it st~nds four-square to erties .anywhere in the rountry. So there the world as self-supporting and self will he a diversity of amusement and en . '/1 J. sustaining. It receive<> not a cent of mu tertai;lment for th~ Texas merchants, the THE GOVERNORS RACE IN THE GENERAL ELECTION nicipal, state or natbnal financial aid. It Texas college and university students, t_"'-lc Those prohibitionists who are not satisfied with prohibition in name only, but want is controlled by a board of directors com farmer and in fact all our citizenry will prohibition in fact, are not very well satisfied with the nominee on the Democratic posed of the most prominent business find entertainment at our State Fair, the ticket for governor, and many of them are looking to the Republican nominee, Dr.

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