Recently, we have seen an increase of the Negro culture in

our great Nation. Due to the Harlem renaissance, (the spread of jazz and the increase in the negro ways) the Negro culture has spread into homes of our finer citizens.

With this spread of the Negro culture, we only have one thing

that we can set our eyes on and blame -- our government. With the Harlem Renaissance in action, the spread of jazz, and our government failing to notice or stop the growth in the two subjects above, America is bound to be riding itself into a hard boiled, all wet, ossified mess.

Because of the

increase of Negro culture in white homes, our average middle class citizens will slowly start to become violent and reckless. Most of the middle class in our great nation is actually in Labor Unions. When angry, these labor unions will be more likely to strike, causing a decrease in our economic growth that has been going so swell lately. With the decrease in consumerism and production of new products (the things driving our economy for awhile now) America could be thrown into some lousy economic times.

Slowly but raspberried, the Negros of our nation will bump off

our white civilization and market. If I were the government, I would take a good look at what I am letting happen. I would reinforce the segregation laws. I would even go to the extremes of restricting the white population for their own safety.    

 

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Prohibition: A Real McCoy Prohibition is now in effect, by law of the government, that all alcohol is to be banned. There will be no selling, manufacturing, or moving of alcohol of any kind. Many opted for this decision to be taken in action, woman particularly. Many men caught up in drinking would drink non-stop till the end and women are getting affected because their husbands used to come home drunk and start beating on them. It’s time that prohibition takes action in community and society of banning all sorts of importing and exporting of alcohol. The outlawing of alcohol sales and consumption had its roots in the temperance movements that arose in the mid 1800s. Social groups who opted for this decision to be taken in action were composed mostly of white, middle class women. Alcohol said to be tearing families apart, caused men to be violent/abusive to their wives, and men losing jobs causing economic downturns in society morally being bankrupted. Many citizens who wished to drink became criminals, lawbreakers and many began to enjoy the thrill of defying the law, and many became part of gangs and criminals by their drinking habits. Government set up prohibition agents to pursue every lawbreaker. Prohibition agents are often ridicule-agents mashing in speakeasies have access of bursting into peoples houses with guns and raiding restaurants for alcohol really infuriated the public, mostly the men. Finally now in the 1920’s prohibition agents averaged about 75,000 arrests every year and killed over 160 victims because they set up speakeasies, made their own alcohol illegally or other sorts of finding their way to get alcohol, some were innocent victims killed by the prohibition agents. By late 1916 over 21 states had banned saloons selling illegal alcohol and many-supported prohibition in 1919, congress passed the 18th Amendment which states all outlawing of all sorts of liquor including manufacturing, sales, transportation and exportation all to be banned. Government officials have now added prohibition as the 18th Amendment and the prohibition agents will arrest any bootleggers breaking this law.

Entertainment Weekly Article The film industries are growing at a phenomenal rate of this century revolutionizing the American Entertainment. Critics warned that films have a negative effect on society; filmgoers flocked to the theaters as an escape from reality. Small production companies combined to form giant studios. Movie actors such as Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Clara Bow, Lillian Gish, and the most famous comedian Charlie Chaplin and the famous movie actor Rudolph Valentino are part of the major of the entertainment business. Recently on October 6th (1927), the first movie with sound The Jazz Singer released bringing our major hype that changed the film industry once again. Like radio broadcasting, motion pictures were more profitable, “The Birth of A Nation” film made about $18 million, producers limited their success by keeping anonymous and modestly paid critics also warned that films would decrease church attends and increase of materialism, morality and mental tensions. However American moviegoers were eager to escape in post war recession flopped to theaters in the recent early 20’s to drink in the explicit melodramatic, love and fight sense offered by romance and western films. Soon the face of increasing small demands a production company soon combined and formed giant industries produced 100s of films making movies, rival sports, music and reading as the top dressing form of American Entertainment. New York is now currently holding a Movie Palace boasting with opulent interiors, including red carpet, crystal chandeliers, and renaissance statues to welcome up to 5 thousand movie goers amongst the wealthier ones. Recently a former actor who did many movies, Rudolph Valantino, and Italian actor had passed away while on the set of the movie playing an Arab Sheik who stole women into his tent that was emulated with male men. Many people were distressed by this news and more than 2 million people had attended his funeral. Many women upon hearing about his death committed suicide or had a mental breakdown. Rudolph Valantino died at the age of 31.

Sports Mania Baseball became the most popular sport, known as the American favorite pastime. Babe Ruth the all time famous baseball hits yet another homerun of the century sending thousands of fans rising and cheering for him! “Ruth bettered his home run record from 1920 to the recent 1921 game hitting 60 homeruns.” A record that seem to be unbeatable! Ruth joined the Big Leagues on July 11, 1914 with the Boston Red Sox at the age of 19, and hit the major homeruns since then. Stars of the Negro Leagues such as Satchel Paige, James Bell, and Josh Gibson were just as talented but were less well known due to Jim Crow laws and nationwide segregation that extended to baseball. Football also became popular during this time period but not the level as the baseball. Harold Grange became one of the most popular players of the time. He was the first athlete to make the cover of the Time Magazine. Other sports of the time were boxing, swimming, golf and Tennis. Boxing was once outlawed but became respectable and popular in the 1920s. Two prizefights captured national attention – the Jack Dempsey/Gene Tunney fight in Philadelphia during 1926 ad the rematch in Chicago in 1927. Swimming gained national attention during 1926 when Olympic gold medalist, Gertrude Edende, became the first woman to swim across the English Channel in record-breaking time. Golf also gained attention with the flawless play of Bobby Jones. Finally, Tennis became popular due to William Tilden becoming the first American man to win the singles tournament at Wimbledon and Helen Wills winning every match she played from 1927 to the end of the decade.

The gun was fired four times; two bullets went through two different workers. Violence had just begun and was crawling in the air around them. This was the just beginning to the rising intolerance and nationwide racial discrimination.

The robbery on April 15th 1920 that took place caused the death of two, a paymaster and a guard. The robbers made it out with over $15,000. Eyewitnesses claimed that the robbers looked Italian. Police first thought was to go to the anarchist newspaper and find two men that fit the description witnesses’ described as the men seen on at the crime.

Shoe worker, Nicola Sacco and Fish Peddler Vanzetti were the men that were accused of the crime. Both men were Italian immigrants, protested the Palmer Raids and anarchists. Neither man had a criminal record, but it was believed that they stole money to fund anarchist political campaigns.

Trial began on May 21st 1921. The main evidence at the table was that when the two were arrested they were carrying guns. One man, who will remain nameless, described the courtroom as a tension building space. Accusations were made with no real evidence. Some people did identify Vanzetti and Sacco as the robbers but others disagreed. Both men seemed to have good alibis. Vanzetti was selling fish in Plymouth and Sacco was in Boston with his wife.

By the summer of 1927 it was clear that Sacco and Vanzetti would be executed. Six years of protest failed. In August of 1927 both men were charged with death by electric chair.

Walter Ripley, the foreman of jury, stated, “…even if they are not guilty, hang anyways.” Many people saw the trial as not fair. The conviction developed from prejudice against them as Italian immigrants because they held radical political beliefs.

Albert Fall took the oil that Former President Wilson set aside to protect the country and to sell to public businesses. He leased the US Navy for private interest with a bribe. Harding, who was the president at the time, assisted Fall which turned the public against them.

Albert Fall was exposed for secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior. After President Harding assigned guidance of the naval oil reserve lands from the navy to the Department of the Interior in 1921, Fall secretly granted to Sinclair exclusive rights to the Teapot Dome reserve in 1922. In return for the leases, Fall received large cash gifts and no-interest “loans.”

The affair soon became known, Congress directed President Harding to cancel the leases and ruled Harding’s illegal transfer of authority to Fall. The president himself was not involved in the transactions that had followed the transfer. The exposures of his associates’ actions took a toll on his health. He became exhausted and he died before the full extent of the misconduct had been determined. Fall was convicted of accepting a bribe and imprisoned.

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May 5th 1925 police officers arrested a twenty five year old man just as he was about to check out at the local grocery market. Madness filled the scene in Dayton, Tennessee. Tennessee had just passed a new law forbidding teachings of evolution in classrooms. John T. Scopes, a science teacher and football couch, taught his class about evolution. Scopes was arrested. His arrest was expected for violating the Butler Law. The ACLU had approached Scopes and tested the law. He was charged with breaking the law. The trial fumed on for days. William Jennings Bryan was the primary witness for the prosecution. He sought to treat the case as a constitutional problem and question the validity of evolution. Lawyer Clarence Darrow took up the defense. The judge did not allow any

of Darrow's scientists to testify and Bryan portrayed Darrow as an agnostic and atheist. In hopelessness Darrow put Bryan on the stand and was able to get him to admit that the word of the bible is not literal, it was interpreted. Darrow questioned Bryan about the miracles that happened in the Bible and “caught” Bryan in a contradiction. This demolished the case.

Darrow had lost the case. The judge made the fine to $100 against Scopes. Later that year the Scopes conviction was overturned on a technicality problem. All science was against religion on the topic of evolution. The court still established Scopes guilty and the media began to focus on Darrow vs.. Bryan. ACLU lawyers found the case became a two-sided argument of Science vs. Religion, rather than on focusing on individual rights.

Dear Editor,

In your last issue, there was an article about women’s rights and how they are changing their place in society. As I was reading that article, I decided that I want to fight for my rights. I have been to many protests and marches since reading the article. I think now is the time for women to be independent, and free of men. We need to learn to live on our own instead of having our husbands control us. I don’t think it is right that men get to control us and I want to change that. I don’t want my children growing up this way, I want them to grow up as free women who make their own decisions and get to do what they are passionate about.

I would like to invite all activists to a convention that will be held on March 30. We will make plans to give women their rights.

Thank you, Gertrude