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.
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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. All ages of people crowded the
dimly lighted place. Downstairs there
were two large i-ooms, one an old
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fashioned bar room where all kinds of
intoxicating drinks were sold, the
other a large gambling room filled
with people many of whom were
prominent business and professional
people from Chicago.
Nine-tenths of the world doesn’t
know it is that kind of a series.
The question is whether there will
be armies enough to go around among
Mexico’s candidate Generals.
The minute Magruder suggested
economizing on pork a lot of politici
ans knew he had the wrong sow by
the ear.
Marriage is a woman’s business far
more than a man’s.—Edith Johnson
in Oklahoman. Still, the silent part
ner is needed.
General Dawes is being touted as
1928’s best bet. But it is premature
to have the White House done over
in asbestos now.
When a girl begins weighing 176
pounds she hates for the younger
children to call her Big Sis.
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