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PICKETT i Raliet Q DONALD {. KIEFFER - |: Managing Editor W. GC, TRACMR + - - tlelUel U Mertlentitore RB & HODGES - = + + «© *# «© & Agricaltare * iL, BH. ATOUGAARD - = - « + + = Livestock ' PROF. GEO, F, WRLDON - «+ - Beuthern Fralla JAMES DRYDEN «5 505 7s + 8 +) + Poultey - ] ~~ MABRL WORTH - - + > «+ Meme “SE a” DR. BERT J. MORKIO *- - “caer ont Commanity Lite , * MELTOM D, SAPINO 5 «+ + . Legal : + DM, CECIL MOULTON - - + «= «+ « Veterinary & « MARGARET P. DEAN - - - - « Mik Gente eee ee, «- Chicage Racketeering _ California . FHS fellow Al Capone, neemn to give the Chiengo folk a lot of trouble,” remarks the Californian. “Yea, tho poor boobs, he's got ‘em buffaloed,” _" chimes tn his neighbor. -_, “Ho hem, Poor old Chicago.” ' And Cailfornia turns back to Introspection of ‘local affairs. , And yet, it appenra that racketeering In Chi- . cago te a Focal affair for California, Becnuse ihe rackotesra exatt a toll of $60 of every car of grapes sold in the second largest merket in the country. Bocause grapes are used fer wine making, the _tacketecrn probably Neure that Callfornia wilt J co fia growling in private. And muayvhap they dont care Wo California door L _ And likely the draysge tolls also include some ' racketeering charges. And doubtless there are many tolln other thin thenae, Seems to nomi an ttle ationtion, down it mot? * . * Hi Chicago Bally News of September 220 has hovery inieresting: Klory sebout Al Capone and hia racketeering goserinnent of Chicago, The article uses many nauis, beth of racket- ecrs amd of thelr Juwyerk and coblateral wssist- ants, Et dntimates that peticemen drink wlth) racket- cera for whom the polices oro looking, and ap. parently the buorze te such an the policemen cannot ace the rackeleera well enough ta identl- fr them. Men scour the city with looking for racketcers, while evidently the newspaper men meet them op the strect ond tiik to thei. Here ty on ittle of the News articte. had apace to repeaduce oft of St: The main source of revenue Ie the heer and house business, Juke Gusick, aupplying the loop diatrict, ia the Putin beer besa duke Zot hin start as a watelt bay Inca bawdy house and heeome allied with Ca- pone tn the daya when they both took orderna from Jebony Terrlo, Now he dwelts in atnte at & downtown hotel, bas nteblitions of entering so- tlety and forgetting the sordid details whith have given him bia wealth. Guatck how his miniature berowerles and bin up-an-alley diatiiieries where his beer and whis- key are nade, Pio han brewers and diatifiers, He has his roughneck crews Who deliver the whisky Wish wo And heer. And he has Harry (“Greasy Thumb") Gusick, his brother, and Iiymie (“Loud Mouth") Leavin, ne his personal reprosentativer for the loop. Harry abd Hytmle, accompunicd by their gorillas, minke the rounds of the loop regularly. Even when they buy a drink for a policeman, he can't see them with xufcient diatinctinean to ar- vest them, They move about with the caution at a five-ton track, with efforts at concealment acarecly surpaneed ty a braas band marching down a busy atreet. They do auch soitcliiIng as In necessary and they do all the collecting, Monday finda them reguinrly in the loop. Monday finds them—but the police don’t. | eo 2 @ queer ROWELL Aas nald many times that facketecting wil! be atopped in Chicago when the “good” citizens want peace more thas they | want booze, of a drink they will have the “license” of the Tacket, Perhaps most of ua have thought of ft as « locn problem. Hot it ia more than that, Sf the rackcterrs «tact toll on grapes how long wih Ht be before they demand it on other fruits otabls Ro long as they demand the Hberty canned goods. f Good luck to the endeavor. Henry Hobson, formerly of the Stale Market OMece, ones made Inquiry aloog this tine and found a lot o€ response among cooperatives of the Mid- dip West. “Ie you do tt sou will make the middieman FOTO,” BODIE On NYA, Possibly, Hut whom aré we trying to please, the Higdon Of OUrseclres ? Perhaps we could give the middleman his tex - war cnt and do it with Bla cooperation. ; Hua anybody tried? Light Needed on Fish P Game Policies + A COMMITTEE of the legislature bas ‘been ia- vestizeting the Fish and Game -Comtotssion. « The murmuring te that sportsinanaship ts not ae high oa it mickt be. . Meanwhile the Parm Bureau han been causing” the Fish and Game Cofumisaion anacyance by de- , minding to know when they propose to do some- thing about dere damage, The inet legisiature” kave then authority to pretect tarmerd who hare *- heaty crop dumugy froma deer, but the game tom. intanion has produc aothing taore wubetaatinig than Citar ett A subecriber a tpn Driviite. (Me wants wes have a bird retuge hé_charges ‘thet he fete, bo help from the; ebwerlssion = Lad fron: thes. aportamen. Wi do not prota 2% how a0 aoyihieg stout” ston th merits of his cave, but he desctibes womethids - which seeme to. indinate oe a need ag ear a Which stira the heart. Othetve paints it, Quail and doves tei look out of the broaliast, windew. aha } Minna. posted oft bis - ter; kewy peak but hunters not heepihn out. fF : “If the minions of the. sommmbuslon ty: to seeps. wild life, the qubstion) artere se. (6 whether, Pusnid- vet. onse puch an thin teat: described an active and Htective bpport ot thé . Protection shonkd bv’ a. two-way: idee. tare must be tong by wld jt... “have effective ‘rietit - _ Droducers want to saat for auch creatnurés, |... It bas been charmed’ nilssion polictes als anrthing, ‘ If thie in true, the. pit Ir Ht In not true, thef finve the facta knows The insttor ought deh