1920's

Evolution of Organized Crime

The Melting Pot?

The “Times” Are changing in the 1920’s Teapot Dome

Exclusive Interview with Al Capone!

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Table of Contents 1. Table Of Contents 2. Letter from the Editor 3. Letter to the Editor 4. Briefing 5. Politics 6. World 7. Society 8. Economy 9. Crime and Prohibition 10. Entertainment 11. Sports 12. 10 Questions with Al 13. Bibliography

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Letter from the Editor by Kaleb Binns Dear audience we thank you for reading our article it is a certainly a good time to be an american right now, unless you like to drink which brings us to our next point, all these speakeasies are making it really easy for people to get drunk and have a good time so if you’re reading this make sure that you are careful so you don’t get caught.

Today we have gained new about the massacre that happened between two gangs people are calling it the valentine’s day massacre and this was the result of gang’s in america. It happened from the moran gang making alcohol ilegally and then al capone hired some people to dress up as cops and go in there and shoot everybody up.

also another problem that america is dealing with right now is prohibition people are making their own like there is no tomorrow. there is a new alcohol that people are raving about and it’s called bathtub gin and I can tell you that it’s sure isn’t something that would taste good people have told me some of their recipes and they are not pretty. along with all the homemade liquor there is so much liquor being imported from canada.

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Letter to the Editor Dear Editor, I strongly believe science shouldn’t be shamed into being false and disrespectful.

We all have our faith but we must not turn a blind eye to the fact that evolution holds truth.

The theory is only to learn how we are created and more about earth. Along with many old books, the Bible holds information that isn’t true to our time. Like the founding father probably didn’t make the right to bear arms to mean to own bombs and rifles is allowed to all citizen. Back then people need weapons to hunt animals and protect themselves from all the raids. Furthermore, the law prohibiting teaching of evolution is unlawful. Freedom of speech is protected by the first amendment and it it one’s opinion. If we must not speak of the things we believe even if it’s unpopular when will our society grow? In the Scopes trial, many great points were made. Should the beliefs of any church dominate public education? Other religions exist too and wouldn’t we have to respect all their beliefs and teaching something against that religion be illegal too? Another point is if fundamentalist Christians believes God created us then one believes that earth is created in six days too. All I’m saying is it is unfair for one side to freely express what they think and it’s illegal for the other.

Helen Bleeke (Pattarin Oonmettaree)

Dear Editor, I agree with your article about Urban life, there are many struggles regarding rural life such as having children work at farms, lacking an education and having the struggle to go to school, walking for 3-4 miles at most even longer. I would also agree upon on how the Ku Klux Klan originated from prejudices since it promoted traditional values and how many Rural Americans supported restrictions on immigration. The urban life has many plentiful oppourtunities such as a fixed wage rather than worry about how much money you’re going to make. There are less working hours for children so that they can go to school and having an education rather than having children work at a young age.

Also adding a burden by walking to and from school for 3-4 miles a time. and they also give compensation if suppose you have an injury opposed to being injured but still have to tend issues around the house and at work. As a proud Urban resider, I can say everything is perfect like the other night where I was hoofing away to the sounds of Jazz while watching a ossified person enjoying the last of his drink.

An enjoyable moment was last week where I watched the ball game at Yankee Stadium and having an opportunity to meet Babe Ruth right after the game. I went to Illinois to meet my relatives and went to the Rialto which added a snazzy outlook into watching a movie, these things you can never get for the rural life.

I appreciate this article that was nicely written.

Sincerely, Gokul Thangavel

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Letter to the editor Dear editor I read your article on city life and how it's said it's going to be the downfall of humanity and i completely agree with you. For example how you said that women in the cities are showing too much of their human figure I would agree with that what happened to women covering up I mean it's not a competition to see who can show off the most.

I also feel strongly about how you said that city dwellers have it easy. I believe that the city dwellers have it easy because they have job's most likely with a steady income and us rural farmers have no idea how our crops will fair. Also as you said the people in the cities have an immense amount of luxuries. We farmers don't have the luxury to go and drink at a bar and meet new people or gamble when we are done with our work day we have to prepare dinner for our 7 kids and then go to bed only to wake up the next morning and work again.

Dear Editor, I feel like the article you published is erroneous. If anyone is believing you they are a sap, and should pipe down. That's not even worth of coming out of your kisser. All the dolls and bimbos in this fine city here would all agree we are just having fun . What makes you think you can tell us how we are ? You're not the big cheese “ya hear. “ They judge us and pretend that they never wanted to do what we do. Live young and have way more freedom. We drank, and throw crazy parties. They are just jealous.

They just want to be like us. But they can't.

They don't understand us.

Artie Henderson

Kaleb binns

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Briefing Pattarin Oonmettaree

In order to be irreplaceable , one must be different -Coco ChanelEvery strike brings me closer to the next home run -Babe Ruth-

Percentage of American homes with electricity in 1920: 35% ... in 1929: 68% Between 1913-1927, Ford produced more than 15 million Model T.

Robert and John are the most popular boys name.

Mary and Dorothy are the most popular girl name.

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

-Al Capone-

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Teapot Dome Harding promised to return the u.s to normalcy. He made the people think that the us was in a bad state so he used the word normalcy to invoke the voters.

The teapot dome was about a guy who had made an agreement with two oil companies to make money but the government found out and then prosecuted him Warren G. Harding showed that any person could rise to the top.

Calvin coolidge had succeeded warren but he had little impact on the nation. People had prospered until 1929 when the market crashed so people blamed herbert hoover. Herbert hoover was a humanitarian so he helped by creating meatless mondays and other days like that.

The KKK had an influence on politics because there had been a maximum of 8,000,000 klansmen. A klansmen could have an influence if they were elected or they could kill someone who they didn’t want to be elected.

By Kaleb

Binns

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The Melting Pot... Not So Much Pattarin Oonmettaree

This is the time of change, our society is changing rapidly. Immigrants makes pretty much the whole population of the United States. Although, new immigrants faces hardships and are treated as second by the very people who their grandparents are also immigrants. New immigrants experience hardship with finding jobs and fitting in. Since the 1980’s immigrants from south and east Europe, Asia, and Mexico increased drastically. Especially in Europe.

Many laws were created for immigrants to prevent them from doing many things. In 1917 Congress passed an immigration law. The quota system was created. It is a law to limit immigration from all over the world. Congress stated that the immigrants should be scientifically matched to the U.S. racial blood. A research was done tracing back 140 years ago and all it did was creating debate.

The quota also limits to 3% of each country’s population. This decrease 50% rate of immigrants to the United States in 1921.

Furthermore, 32 state legislature limits rights of alien residents.

West coast Japanese couldn’t attend public school instead they attend segregated schools. From 1910-1930 Mexicans escape economic political turbulence and 1/10 of the population immigrated.

Many were refused housing. They go to migrant work camp and could only get low paying jobs.

Immigrants also have little protection under law.

Bolsheviks They are members of Lenin’s party and support communism. Americans worry that the same could happen to them. Stories and rumors of spies, international intrigue in the United States are around. People starts to get scared. Late 1919 bombs were distributed to postal to important people such as Judge Lanais of Chicago. It wasn’t delivered because of lack of postage but it spooked people out.

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Today's News in sports George Ruth better known as Babe Ruth just broke the record for homeruns in a season.

60 homeruns in one season in 1927. Pitched

by Tom Zachary of the St. Louis Browns.

Let's go Babe! I wonder how many more records could the babe break.

Babe Ruth

Ladies and Gentlemen, come one come all. Be the first to see the first game of brand new sport of football.

With 10 teams you have to see go head to head, in a entertaining brawl you can not miss.

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Economy Most Americans saw their standard of living increase during the 1920’s. Their wages increased giving the average worker more money to spend. They were also able to use credit to buy things. Credit is where you buy things now, then you pay it off later on, like a loan. There was also more products for people to buy, like pop-up toaster, electric refrigerator and electric vacuum. The degree of wealth and material goods increases.

Advertisement was used to get more stuff sold. The growing advertisements on the radio allowed more people to hear about the products and buy them. The advertisements let people know that their lives would be better and easier if that had their product. People would feel more wealth and important if they had the lastest product.

Not everyone’s lives were getting better.

African Americans still lives in poverty on the South. They had lower standards of living meaning they had poorer jobs, couldn’t buy the latest things and fewer opportunities. The prices of cotton were falling so it was difficult to make a living on farming. They had less choices on jobs.

The 20’s had ushered in the modern age for millions of Americans.The roaring twenties had run out, ending in disaster. During the 1920’s everyone seemed to be interested in playing the stock market. They put most of their money into it. When the Stock Market crash caused everyone’s money to be gone.

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Evolution of Organized Crime Positive Side of Prohibition

Introduction So what do you think would happen if the U.S. Banned alcohol ? Do you feel like things would change for the better or for the worse? Would the crime rights per city increase or start to slow down dramatically?

Would families be more connected and happier to be together, or would more families be fill with rage and hatefulness towards each other? And how about the crime rights? Would the death rates drop or actually skyrocket?

Well this is actually going to happen soon and it's called prohibition.

Even though there were plenty of things that were bad about prohibition there was also some things that were good that came out of it. Prohibition aloud there to be more wheat to feed the soldiers because it wasn’t all being used to make liquor. Prohibition made it so that people weren’t spending all of their money on alcohol and spending it on their families who need it instead. The dry’s believed that prohibition aloud the “pure stream of country sentiment and township morals to flush out the cesspools of cities.”

The biggest decline in drinking happened within the population that had despised prohibition.

Negative Side of Prohibition

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Gangsters

Pattarin Oonmettaree

Gangs existed long before the 1920’s but now it has become a big organization. Organized crime has been born in the United States Al Capone- He was born in New York 1899. He is one of the most famous gangster in American history. He owns a multi-million dollar Chicago operation. His career starts with working in a gang with leader Johnny Torrio. After he got wounded Al Capone became the leader. He is very well known and feared after that. Bugsy Moran who is in the same gang and Al Capone doesn’t get along well. After Torrie died things escalated.

Moran tried to kill Al Capone many times but he failed. To end the rivalry Al Capone have men dressed up as police and fake a police raid.Then killed Moran’s men. Luckily Moran

came late and left the scene. This was

called St. Valentine’s Day massacre.

Izzy and Moe are prohibition cops, a new needed job after the 18th amendment. They station in New York.

They made 1492 arrest and gain a lot of publicity.

Elliot Ness is an Prohibition in Chicago and nicknamed the untouchable.

He raid Al Capone’s brewery and after a long fight he put Al Capone in jail. He also did traffic control in Cleveland. He faces many critics fromt the public after his brutal way of trying to find criminals and the way he treats innocent people.

In summary To sum this all up, prohibition had many adverse effects such as the 18th Amendment which prohibited the use of alcohol but ironically, organized crime has increased immensely during the years due to bootlegging and being unable to enforce the 18th Amendment. Which caused many deaths among the nation. Speakeasies also caused a lot of unrest since In most cases, it would be a bootlegged drink and you would pay “protection money”. Speakeasies also created a lot of social changes as well with mixing fruit cocktail and alcohol together.

Moonshine was an easy cheap drink with was very lethal, usually made with whiskey and wood alcohol, but it kills many many people. Many crimes and gangs arised and profited from these sales of alcohol and creating rivalries and dangers on the streets, also killing many people in the process. Finally the conviction rate of Prohibition cases were very low due to the fact that there was very insufficient evidence, prohibition was difficult to enforce at these years I predict that since prohibition is hard to enforce, that it will soon be repealed or edited. (Gokul)

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Movies and Music Galore!

By Gokul Thangavel

“Welcome to the Movies!”

There is a huge roar for entertainment for this era! Beautiful movie theaters such as the Rialto in Illinois have brought such a fantastic display of proving that this 1 million dollar theater is worth through the buck. Painted ceilings, crystal chandeliers spread throughout the theater as well as seating as many as 5,000. Over a 100 million people per year visit the movies bringing the young to the old, rural to the urban to a new world of their own! This past year movie production companies creates about 52 movies a year and around 400 to 500 films are produced annually as well. Movies brought in themes from the past as huge firms formed a monopoly on movie theaters and a fight for domination ending as “Vertical Control” this past year.

“One of the great movie theaters in America.”

Louie Armstrong playing some Jazz “Jazzin’ out some slang!”

Many jazz musicians defined the spirit of coming age, a bland syncopation rhythm and improvisation that attracts the young. Many of the underground jazz clubs that supply alcohol specifically liquor create a lot of slang such as John and Baloney, meaning restroom and “false” respectively. Jazz also had some negative impacts by the older folks.

Jazz makes them picture parties, drinking, and nightclubs in which many disliked. The older folks deemed jazz as aggressive, and foreign while the younger population revered it on the intent 18 of shocking their parents.

10 Questions with Al Capone Artie Henderson

My interview with the infamous Mr. Al Capone So I, Joseph Mckinley pulled up to 7244 South Prairie Avenue on March 17, 1924. It was a amazing house, really a sight to see, One of the best on the block. So many cars were parked out front, all stunning condition like they were just bought yesterday. When I got out my taxi, there was a guard at the gate to greet me . He looked very intimidating. He lead me into the house and sat me in the huge living room. Then he left the room. When he came back , Mr. Capone was walking right behind him. I stood up and greeted him, we shook hands and we sat down. Then we got to the interview.

Question: When you were a kid, how were you in school?

Answer: “I was great, up until the 6th grade when i had to repeat it.”

Question: How many brothers and sisters do you have and where did you live?

Answer: “ My real name is Alphonse Capone, I have 6 brothers and one sister. We grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Our family was not rich, actually we were almost poor. My father was a barber, and my mother was a seamstress. So not that rich.”

Question: Where did you meet your wife mae?

Answer: “The outskirts of Park Slope Neighborhood, Our family had to move away from the inner city.”

Question: How did you get the nickname scarface?

Answer: “Oh boy, this is a good one. So one night at at the bars, I saw this pretty little lady and had to walk up and start talking to her. I said some things that she did not like and her brother came up and punched me right in the kisser. Then I took a blade right to the face that left this scar. (points to face)” Question: What happened when you had your first kid?

Answer: “When i had my first kid Albert, I decide that me and my wife should move to Baltimore. I started to make a honest living by being a bookkeeper.”

Question: What happened when your father passed away?

Answer: “I was still in Baltimore with my kid and ol ball and chain. Then we got the news that he had a heart attack. Then Torrio Invited me to Chicago. So i moved back to chicago.”

Question: Why did you move out of chicago?

Answer: “Well when the 18 amendment came intact, it was a great market to start selling booze under the table. So I did. And i started drinking a lot more. Then I got my first drunk driving and hit a parked taxi. I was lucky enough to get out of it but ended up moving right after back to Brooklyn.”

Question: When did you become the CEO. Number one in the business.

Answer: “Right when Torrio decided to move back to Italy. Gave me full power.”

Question: Do you know anything about the St. Valentine's Massacre?

Answer: “No, I do not.”

Question: About how much did you make last year?

Answer: Well the paper estimated about 100 million annually. They said about 60 million alone on liquor.

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Editor - Kaleb Kayah Layout Director - Artie Advertisement/Marketing - Gokol Graphic Designer - Pattarin

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