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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1927)
THE BATTALION 7 The New Prosperity THE POLITICAL CRIME SITUA TION IN CHICAGO Established 1842 Farm Tractors 3 sizes Skid Engines Steel Threshers 5 sizes Combines Prairie Hillside Silo Fillers 4 sizes Baling Presses 2 sizes Steam Engines Road Machinery Grand Detour Plows Harrows Cultivators TT^ARMING methods that only a few years ago seemed as permanent as the everlasting hills, are passing out of the modern picture with bewildering speed. They are being replaced by methods that make use of more efficient equipment. The modern farmer is rapidly becoming a director of power and machinery. It is significant that the most prosperous farmers today are those who accommodate their methods and their equipment to the new conditions. This new prosperity is based on the increased earning capacity of the man; determined, very largely, by the use he makes of power and machinery. Case tractors, threshers, combines and other power farming machinery have long been known, everywhere, as profitable equipment for farmers to own and use. Under these new conditions their high efficiency, great economy and extreme durability give them special value to farmers who wish to increase their earning capacity to the utmost. J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company Incorporated Kstablashed 1842 Dept. X-75 Racine Wisconsin NOTICE—Our plows and harrows are NOT the Case plows and harrows made by the 1. I. Case Plow Works Co. EL~ CHAS. MITCH Welcomes The old men and fish and reminds you that for 27 years we have been the Campus Tailors. Our shop is now located on Bryan Street, in rear of First State Bank. Give us your Tailoring-, boys, and let it speak for itself. It is well to acquire a habit of analyzing every problem that con fronts you: the single stick may be readily broken, but taken in a bunch it resists your strongest efforts. The application of this principle is almost without end. By it you may grasp the fundamentals or details of a com plicated business, improve your mer chandise, work out inventions, solve perplexing business problems, devel op opportunities, beget foresight, overcome faults—-in short, you may progress rapidly and surely along any desired line.—Thoughts on Business. I love the man who can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflec tion. It is the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. My own line of reasoning- is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light.—Paine. General Motors hints there is room enough for all. Yes, but the no-park ing signs always get there first. Tobacco requires more work than any other crop. Chewing gum must be a close second. For five years I have been interest ed in a study of commercialized amusement and crime in Chicago as a research project at the University of Chicago. During this time I have worked as an investigator for various civic and law enforcing agencies in Chicago. This summer I worked as the staff investigator for the Juvenile Protective Association, a private or ganization in Chicago interested in studying and improving community conditions that make for vice, crime, delinquency and family disorganiza tion. No sooner had I gotten on my old rumpled suit and slouch cap and got ten down into the old crime areas, than I saw that I had gotten into a different Chicago to the Chicago of the last four years. Mayor “Big Bill” Thompson, with his new regime has just about taken the lid off of every thing. One of “Big Bill’s” first acts, after he came back into office, was to re store the license of about four thous and “soft drink parlors,” that had been revoked by former Mayor Dever. These are nothing more than wide open saloons licensed by the city gov ernment. The old fashioned bar with its rail, tall broad tops and big fat bar tender have been brought back into existence. In many of these saloons there is a large framed picture of the mayor hanging over the bar with these inscriptions underneath: “America’s Greatest Citizen,” “Chi cago’s Bid for the Presidency.” Wm. Hale Thompson through his selfish interest in promoting the Mississippi levee project, and the great lakes to the Gulf waterway, has endeavored to start a boom for his nomination for president on the Republican ticket. Pie hopes by these methods to stir ug sufficient support in the South and the middle-west. Vice, organized and unorganized, is particularly rampant throughout the black belt. The more intelligent negroes although they voted solidly for Thompson, are beginning to hold meetings to protect the conditions in the communities in which they have to live and raise their children. Gambling houses are found in al most every community in the city. Even in a little district near the University of Chicago there are a dozen gambling houses some of which you have to pass through double locked doors and submit to being searched, before you are allowed to enter. Next to Big Bill, “Scarface” A1 Capone, is the most interesting figure in Chicago’s crime world. His places on the West side, in Cicero, Lyons, Stickney, and La Grange, 111., are immense and interesting. His sub way in Cicero is perhaps the largest gambling house outside of Monte Carlo. All kinds of machines, tables, and gambling devices are to be found there. His Harlem Inn, and Stickney Inn in Stickney are also quite famous places. One of the most interesting road houses where large numbers of young people go, that I investigated, was The Light House in Morton Grove, 111. The lobby room was filled with gambling slot machines played by young girls and boys. The upstairs room was a cabaret room and dance balls. 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