South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-09-08
INTERSTATE FAIR WILL REMAIN
CLEAN AND UNCLE SAM WILL BE
NEXT IF WE GET MOTOR SCHOOL

-HAT the II. Joseph County Fair association man.
agcmcnt will in NO sense brook any vice acuvi-
4 ties that the city administration may b. willing
TO countcnancc. during fair week, 20 far a. concerns
their jurisdiction over ~pringbrook park, holds that i'm
sutuuon up to it, Old and well deserved reputation.
The fair will bc Kept clean. That record maintained
rom the start ha- added TO the brnltancy Of its career;
proving contrary 10 many local contentious. that a fair
can De- made a success without vice attachments.
We rrmcmbcr well thc old days when Abe Frank,
thcn president Of the association. insisted that there
should H. $50 monkey work" ON the fair grounds dur
ing the week. and tie INSTANCE of the vice gang that
q fair could not be "a success without it, The manage
mcnt. however. stood bN the president, as IL has
through succeeding years. and a. IL il standing this
year with Prcst Bordncr, and the proof has been kept
good. Tho-c who would have violated that good repu-
atOn this year are much the same men as were the
critics Of Prest Prank. Their idea Of a successful fair,
now a. then, il not a successful fair at all, hut a
successful week i'm the plying OF their nefariOus trades.
Much credit Is due 10 eN-NiayOr Keller and his police
department for their aid TO the fair management i'm
former years, and now that the cat has been let out
OF the bag. W are conndcht ulat Mayor Carson's de-
partmcnt VIII do much better than IL otherwise might
have done. although il the fair management Il wise,
which we are assured that il Is, the police will ny no
means b. exclusively depended upon. The fair man
agement represents the better element i'm South Bend
and the South Bend city administration bows to the
lower elements. That Is the main difference.
With the fair management alert. no one need fear
disorderImcss. or contact with carousas. by attendance.
Race track gambling. too. will be tabOOcd as i'm for
mer years. The bookings, If any, will have to be made
outside the grounds. and that is the city's more than
the fair associations affair. II is for the moral caIibrc
OF the city to look into and correct. The fair manage
ment is not the citys guardian. Mayor Carson was
elected for that purpose. The city ought TO be a better
guardian for the fair than the fair is 10 the city. but
then. things arc frequently sometimes" reversed.
But beyond the fair lies the motor training school
for which south Bend has made its bid to the federal
governments, rs "A war activity. Here is another thing
that Will call for an advance house cleaning i'm south
Bend If its hopes In this respect are 20 be realized. With
the consent Of our adviser. the city administration may
well take notice that Uncle sam is already ON the job,
inspecting our public morals. and has been on the job
for several days He Is indisposed to bring young men
here for motor training, and subject them to the wiles
Of wholesale prostitution. bookkeeping, or gambling
sharks. any more than he has consented to such sub
lection OF his troops at Battle Creek, indianapolis.
Terre Haute. Louisville and other war camps.
Since tbe mayor and chief Of police plead that the
police force has done its best. and it has done 80
poorly. since in their efforts to dodge responsibility,
they would shoulder IL upon the city court. If they
are sincere they stii have a remedy. The bawdy house
injunction law invoked would soon render the inmates
homeless. and likewise there are injunction provisions
in the prohibition law. available to effect the home
Iessness Of blind-tlgers. GO after the property owners
WIZ rap a phohl DN way oi uSSc VICES
that Il the next solution. With a proper determination.
and less cooperation. shown them about the city hall.
these vice agencies could be rooted out and that with
comparative ease.
You can fool some OT the people all OF the time,
and all of the people some Of the time, but you can't
fool all the people all the time" Mr.. Mayor. and you
are coming mighty close 10 the end of your rope II
YOU think otherwise. Uncle sam was already some
what interested. long before we spoke. Clean up. not
alone for the fair, but for the government motor train
ing school, and not alone for the fair and the training
school. but for the people of south Bend themselves.
STRENGTHENING HUMPS.