The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-03-20
THROUGH
HAZEL
EYES
by Hozel Brunnon

by Hozel Brdnnon
We want to welcome to Holmes
county this week Patrolman Ray of
the Mississippi State Highway Pa
troll who will be stationed here full
time.
Patrolman Ray is calling on all
Holmes county motorists to cooper
ate with him in making Holmes CO.
unity the best county in the state
from a safety standpoint.
He especially asks that all auto
mobile and truck owners have all
their equipment put in safe driving
condition with special attention to
brakes, proper lighting, ETC. He asks
all drivers of vehicles to check their
licenses and get them up-to-date; to
observe speed limits and stop signs;
and never to drive while drinking.
We are sure the majority of Hol-
mes county people will cooperate
with Patrolman Ray in friendly
and courteous manner.
After all it is our lives and prop
erty he is protecting in trying TO
make all vehicles on the highway
safe for driving.
Our mail this week included a
copy of a cartoon entitled Its Hard
To Believe which showed a saloon
with the following placards tackled
on it. "Get Drunk Here, Sales TO
Minors" "Strip Tease Tonight" "All
Leading Brands" Anything Goes,
and "Obscenity and Prostitution"
Beneath the picture of the saloon
with the signs all over it are these
words of Charles J. Fleck, chairman
of the Illinois Liquor Control Comm
ission on October 9th, 1916, accusing
distillers, brewers and wholesalers
thus: an saloons you will find sales
to minors, obscenity, prostitution
and other evils"
Mr.. Fleck accused the liquor IN
dustry of Tanning the breeze
in the claim of high ideals"
He was referring to the liquor indus
try's adopted policy of self-policlng'
We would like to point out to our
readers that they do not have TO
visit saloon in Illinois or any
other state to find the evils mention
ed sale of whiskey to minors, op-
scenity, prostitution and other evlis,
including open gambling. All they
have to do is visit some OF the num-
erous joints that line the highways
of Holmes county.
Practically every man, woman.
boy and girl in Holmes county
knows of the widespread and open
sale of whiskey which is in easy
reach of every small community,
however small, in the county Most
Of these Joints are on the outskirts
of our leading towns and up ana
down our main highways.
Most every citizen of Holmes CO.
unity is well aware of the fact that
slot machines, which are recognized
as gambling devices in Mississippi,
are openly displayed in numerous
roadside joints and in many other
wise law-abiding places OF business
The majority of the people OF Hol-
mes county know, through hearsay,
that open gambling is conducted,
bineo games held regularly at sever
al places in the county.
Any man or woman who goes INTO
one of these places knows that ne
or she is Just as likely to be insult
ed as not, or actually attacked pc
fore they leave. A few members OF
some of our prominent families IN
tbe county have become involved IN
fights in some of these joints. These
neople learned the hard way
that these places are dangerous
and that you take your life hteraliy
in YOUR own hands when you go INTO
one of them.
But perhaps the majority OF peo-
ple in Holmes county do not realize
inst how much harm these JOINTS are
doing in Turing young girls OF hlgh
school age away from their MONIES
For some time few OF tnese
nlaces have had women "hostesses
and girls to dance with the custom
ers. -. ho,,a
been cases of young girls, under-age'
remaining away from their homes
ovarnieht when their parents dlo
not know where they were. :.
There are some things that just
can't be written in a family news
paper. 80. raa,;ze
80 how sordid conditions in Hol-
mes county are. If they did they
would rise up in righteous anger
49,, Ill every lawless dump in the CO.
unty was forced to close us ooofS
forever. .oaroent