The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-22
on the values placed by the owners
or builders"
THE KALEIDOSCOPE
BY l. C. McCUMBER

Attorney General Crabbe, of Ohio,
states that Ohio investors have lost
or been swindled out of more than
five hundred millions of dollars in the
last few years. The proof of the
pudding is in the eating. Ohio has
"blue sky" law to protect the people.
Half lf-heartedly it is kept upon the
statute books, and occasionally en-
forced. OF course $5O0,O0O,0OO is
nothing when it comes to business,
and hence the state government lends
itself to robbing the people. But
when it comes to man having a
drink of liquor, which does no one
any harm, all the constables, police,
dry agents, mayors, sheriffs, prohi-
bition directors, ad nauseum, jump
upon the wooden hobby horse and gal
lop for that lonely drink of liquor.
They can, some of them, smell liquor,
but when it comes to robbing the
people of millions-oh, what's the
use? Some people would not be
happy unless they were practlclng
and preaching hyprocicy.
The United States has the greatest
armada-no, not an armada-Watch-
ing the rum runners off the shores
on the eastern coast. The officials
are really getting their dander up
They are afraid that too much money
is getting away from the business
| thieves, and hence airships and many
ships on the water are equipped tt
keep the money where the purveyor:
of bogus bonds and stocks can readil!
get hold of it. No, Maud, all thu
iackasses have not passed into th'
donkey contingent.
i Leprosy is disease more frightfu
in it's workings than dying by SLOW
starvation. And yet many big AM
powerful prohibition salary purloin
ers prefer leprosy to slow starvation
"Jim" White, who resigned a sinecur
on the prohibition staff to make tr
for the Ohio governorship, now aver
that he must have good governmen
: lob or he will die of slow starvation
He has a severe case of that fats
i disease known as "donothingitis,
which savors of soiling your Ill
white fingers. If necessary, jim wi
"prorogue" his hypocritical friends
5 congress to the end that they wi
y order President Coolidge to place hin
on the voucher signing list. Won
y, somebody please pass the smellin
salts?
S If the several states desire TO d
: away with roadside bandits they Wi
: cause their highway commissions
o erect signs informing the travelin
public where state roads begin ar
q where the village highwaymen ha,
n the habitat. If few AUTOMOBILES
would send few of those roadsit
n bandits to hell, including the mayo
/ travel would be safe.
l. o.
e The better to enable those WI
y carry the morals of the world in the
powder and puff cases, we are goir
q to have the u. S. subsidize the U.
e Purifiers Home Circle. It's ma
e object will be to take babies VIII,
e they are born, raise" them, n
e "rear" them, and turn them back
y the club mothers and society make
II after they have passed through Il
hands of jailors and penitentia
le wardens. This uplift movement mu
% start early, otherwise some of Il
/ myriad social uplifters will find
y job awaiting them when they ha
r received diplomas from the seats
le learning that teach anything al
st everything but "horse sense"
e Sometimes we wonder why t
/ scare of the bolshevist. If one loo
q, over the conglomeration travelil
'e under the guise of educated socie
y today, he is bound to ponder over t
fact that grandmother never wore
l. one-piece bathing suit and called
"a dress Such, however, is the w;
\. of showing your modesty today.
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