7th period 1920s Magazine

jULY 19TH,1935

Entertainment in the 1920s/1920s politics/ Sports are the face of America/

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Prohibition and Crime The issue of the TIME’s

Prohibition and Crime It’s the issue of the Time’s

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Entertainment in the 1920s/1920s Politics/Sports are the face of america/World/Religion vs. Society/ Economy in the 1920s

The Table of Contents

Letter from the editor……………….. page 3 Letters to the editor ………………….pages 5-7 Briefing……………………………….page 8 Politics ……………………………….page 10 World ………………………………...page 11 Society ……………………………….page 13 Economy……………………………...page 15 Feature Article………………………....pages 16-19 Entertainment…………………………..page 21 Sports………………………………….pages 22-23 10 Questions…………………………...page 25 Bibliography……………………………pages 26-31

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Letter From The Editor Dear readers,

The issue this month is about crime and the Prohibition. We, the editors, felt

like this was an important issue so we decided to write about it. We will look at it

from both sides and examine positive and negative effects of it. We will also talk

about what was happening during that time and the effect of it now. We hope you

enjoy this month's edition.

Yours truly,

Liam Terry and Conner Hopkins

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Letters to the Editor Dear Editor: I think when John T. Scopes taught creationism in school, he was doing a great thing but I don’t think he should have been arrested.

He was just trying to do his job which was to teach how humans were made.

I don’t think teaching religions belief can harm someone reading the bible is good because science is not always the answer for everything. I think the Monkey trail is nonsense I don't think it should have went to court in the first place.

Sincerely, Fernando

Dear editors, I strongly agree with your article on Urban life and very much enjoyed it. In this darn age many youngsters feel that industrialization is mainly in the cities at this time. Urbanization is mainly considered to be the movement of population from agricultural to urban. Also the growth of cities is considered a type of urbanization. I learned in your quite great article that the Bureau of the Census considers towns of 2,500 inhabitants or more to be urban. It is amazing to me that the expansion of cities have increased this year by 51.2%. I have always been curious with the difference between the urban and rural lifestyle. I really enjoy city life, there so much more to do in a urban city, which you could do all sorts of activities including: going to movies, walking around town, and many other activities that go around in urban areas.

I think that the difference between the two urbanization and rural life is classified as rural or urban depending on the density of the cities or towns. Many people have decided now that they would want to move to cities to find new jobs and seek opportunities, this was exactly why I came to love the urban lifestyle. You could be anything you wanted to be if you put your mind to it in the cities. It would be silly for me to move to the rural lifestyle where there's barely enough to jobs already but, also many of those inhabitants can't express their ideas in rural cities. I'm the type of person who is a bird sometimes and always a bronx cheer. From reading your wonderful article my case stands clear that urban life is better fit for people this dang age than rural life. I strongly encourage yall to take time to read my letter.

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Sincerely, Zachary Peterson

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, I believe that the new youth way of living after the war is better because before the war kids were always watched by their parents, because of this kids didn’ t have enough freedom to do what they wanted to. Before the war when men wanted to be in a relationship with a women, he had to court her and then go to her house to meet the parents.

After the war, women dressed however they wanted to and they did things in public back then that were considered unladylike, like smoking, drinking, and flirting. After the war men would go on a date with the women and did not have to meet her parents.

Sincerely, Mohammad Sharairi

Dear Editor, I think that Rural life is better than Urban life because Rural life is a more nice and quiet place. Even though Rural families have to work to survive but I think that it just made them stronger and smarter than the Urban families. Rural families also get to have fun in town there are plays, concerts and get to go to gatherings in town. Most farmers get paid fairly well so the can buy the essential needs for around the house. In the rural life everyone has a job to do unlike in the urban life there are many poor and unlabored people.

One bad thing that needs to be improved is the communications. I think that more rural families need to have a phone or a radio in each household. So that they can contact people in the city and their families. In conclusion I think that rural life is better because the families always have something to do and they have an substantial life. The only thing they need to improve is communication.

Sincerely, Conner Hopkins

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Letters to the editor

Dear editor, I feel that the KKK and is members should be prosecuted for arson,assault,and finally the worst of all murder but that is only my opinion. but based on the rumors i heard anyone who speak out against them gets in big trouble so please remain anonymous for beware they could be your neighbor and the have a strong political power plus if they don't like you you’ll know it because they will burn a cro From Michael

Dear Editor, The prohibition has been a complete disaster.

The law was passed to keep people from drinking alcohol because it was connected with all kinds of social problems. The drys said that life would be better and that crime would decrease with the prohibition. Well the exact opposite has happened.

Since the prohibition became law more and more people have been wanting to drink alcohol. Not to mention the fact that crime, murder, and corruption has skyrocketed. And this is all due to the fact that the prohibition is now a law. That is why we should repeal the prohibition and get new laws. sincerely, Liam Terry

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Briefing There are 106,491,000 in the USA most of the lives 70% in the cities and the 30% lives in the farm. there are so many people who are unemployed interment is became big in the 1920’s many people many people go the movies 33 million people per week and 9.3 million go to baseball games a year there have only being 11 car accidents. the consumer price went up eggs are .68 $milk is .17 $ bread is .12$ per leaf butter is .

70$ steak is .42$.

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1920’s Politics By: Conner Hopkins Period 7 After World War 1 U.S. politicians focused on the social and major issues of the day. People wanted to end racial conflict, labor problems, and less immigration and less government interference in United States citizens lives. By the 1920s, many Americans had grown tired of war. Many people wished for a easier way of life. People had returned to Harding’s policy of a “return to normalcy” which meant that they wanted to have life back to how it was before World War 1.

In the Election of 1920 there was an overwhelming victory for the Republican nominee, Warren G. Harding. This was the first time that women throughout the nation could vote on the presidential election, following the 19th amendment. Before Harding was a president he was a Ohio newspaper editor and a United States Senator. Hardings Legacy.

According to historians Harding is considered one of the worst presidents. Harding is credited for his broadminded views on race and civil rights, and his role in the Progressive Era and years of prosperity in the 1920s.

This picture is of one of Warren Harding's campaign posters.

The Election of 1924 was a landslide. The winner of the 1924 presidential election was Calvin Coolidge. The republicans won again.

Coolidge tried to pass the foreign policy but it collapsed. When it became clear that his signature achievements, the Dawes Plan and the Kellogg Briand Pact did very little to prevent the rise of Nazism in Germany the peace of the 1920s faded. Coolidge led the nation into the modern era.

This is a picture of Herbert Hoover giving a speech on October 22, 1998 in New York City shortly before the election that he won.

The winner of the 1928 election was Herbert Hoover against Alfred Smith. The Republicans were identified with the booming economy of the 1920s. Iowa born Hoover served as the head of the U.S Food Administration during WW1.

Citizens blamed Hoover for the Great Depression. Hoover did instruct the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service to pursue gangster for tax evasion. Hoover also advocated strong labor regulation laws. Hoover sort of won the people back after he got the accomplishments done. Herbert Hoover played a big part in building the Hoover Dam. He was the boss of the project. Because he was the president and the head of the project Hoover 10 got the Dam named after him.

World

The Roots of isolation started when the us settlers avoid to became a part of europe because of religious persecution or poverty.George Washington declared that true polcy to controll clear of perment alliances.Tohomas Jefferson entangle the alliances with Europe.tn 1822 Monroe Doctrime formuled the USA.

Oil is a big deal in the 1920’s oil was a major reserve during world war I. The oil reserves are in the Middle East. mineral land leasing act was made in 1920. the mineral land leasing act Deny Them access to USA reserves.

James Monroe set out terms of policy in 1923. The west hemisphere was banned to future European colonization. The Doctrine promised that they not interterra in the internal affairs of Europe.The Monroe couldn't engage any European countries to be in war bewteen each other.

The Monroe Doctrine documentary

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Society By: Michael Gaffy

During the year of 1925 at Dayton,Tennessee a teacher tested a law that made teaching how man came about was illegal except through divinity. However this violated an amendment so american civil liberties said that they would support anyone who would test it. So someone testing it and the clash of traditionalist vs realists has begun and here is a list of people involved

Charles Darwin John Washington Butler George Rapphyea John Scopes William jennings bryan Clarence Darrow Maynard Metcalf h.l. Menken Ben g. Mckenzie Thomas Stewart Arthur Garfield Hays Dudley Field Malone John Randolph Neal Judge John t. Raulston

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Economy of the 1920’s

By Liam Terry During the war the economy boomed.

Countries had to buy weapons and supplies to supply their armies. But after the war many people started to worry that our economy was going to collapse due to the lose of revenue from the war.

During this time there was also many new inventions. It was at this time that the radio was invented and almost every house had one. It was a huge industry.

Quite opposite thing has happened.

Companies have found a new way to have people pay. They can now pay with credit which means that they don’t need to pay all at once. They can buy it and pay later.

Another new way to pay is to pay in increments. Now you can put some money down for something and pay the rest of it in increments. This allows people who do not have a lot of money to get nice stuff and not have to pay for it all at once.

There are also many new things going on with the economy. Until recently only very wealthy people could afford to be in the stock market. NOw everyone can be in the stock market.

The stock market was going well until 1929 when it crashed in one day. Everyone started selling shares and everyone was losing money. It was a huge crash. Now the question is can we ever recover.

During this time there was also many new inov

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Prohibition and crime, The issue of the decade Prior to the introduction of the prohibition, there was many problems involving alcohol in this country. Drinking was running rampant and it was affecting everyone. The need for the prohibition was becoming very apparent. People were ruining their lives and spending all of the money they had on drinks.

The problem was becoming more and more apparent to the point that if they did not do something quickly the whole country could start to fall apart. That is why to congress decided to pass the 18th amendment which banned the sale, transportation, and making of alcohol. The thought was that this would discourage people from drinking and selling alcohol.

Federal agents dumping kegs of beer into the river.

History of Prohibition and the volstead act Prohibition was defined during the 1920s as a nationwide ban of a sale, production, importation. But this wasn’t used a whole lot until they prohibited the use of alcoholic beverages in the 1920s. But therefore people could still get alcohol from speakeasies which rose to hundred of thousands over a 10 year period. Many of these speakeasies though had some sort of other illegal activity in the bar or saloon such as: gambling, prostitution and many other illegal activities Although the government could create the 18th amendment they couldn’t enforce the law because the police really couldn’t arrest you of drinking of alcohol at this time. But it wasn’t until the Volstead Act that it really struck the public in which police could arrest people being under the use of alcohol. Many people had loop holes where they could cheat the system, this really made the government mad. So in order to cut down on this they had to create this Act. Many groups/ people wanted to make alcohol illegal these groups include: Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie Protestant churches, and then the temperance movement had a variety of people support to end the use of alcohol.

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Prohibition and crime, The issue of the decade Negative effects of prohibition Prohibition was a big deal in the 1920’s but i’m gone to tell the negative effects of prohibition.

Their a lot of negative effects about prohibition. their are people call wets that oppose the 18th amendment which is prohibition of alcohol.

During the prohibition several bars were closed or became speakeasies (speakeasies were illegal bars sometimes they operated in secret). the benefit of this is for the people who liked alcohol. also it introduced some temporary new sales methods and items such as grape bricks commonly use to make wine while the advertising said “not to” let ferment because it would turn into wine

Their are people that are name drys that they agree with the 18th amendment that is prohibition of alcohol.

But where do wets get alcohol. There are people that are call speakeasies.

Speakeasies also do other illegal activities like gambling But all of these cause more Violence and grew the growth of gangsters and illegal activities and crimes.

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Prohibition and crime, The issue of the decade Gangsters during the 1920s In the 1920s gangsters ran the police force.

People like Al Capone and Bugsy Moran bribed and paid the police to run secret and illegal operations. A major example for this was in February 14, 1929 in Chicago Illinois there was a gang interference between Al Capone's gang against Bugsy Moran’s gang. There was a bootleg shipment coming in and Moran’s men was waiting on it to get there so they could get the shipment. But when Al Capone’s men found out about Moran’s plan Capone had some of his henchmen go and disguise themselves as police officers and they went to where Moran's men were getting the shipment and they raided the shipment and killed all of Moran’s men getting the shipment. Capone's men never got caught from the police because they bribed them the real police went on the opposite of town.

Police force during the 1920s The police force during the 1920s was very corrupt. Gangsters would pay them so they could run their operations without getting sentenced to prison. The National Guard was paid off by gangsters so they would help smuggle alcohol over the border.

ELIOT NESS

The Untouchables was a special task force that took down many of Al Capone’s operations and its members did not accept bribes.

The leader of the task force was Eliot Ness and he was born on April 19, 1903, in Chicago, Illinois. Elliot Ness was offered a bribe of two thousand dollars so he would not shut down an operation by Al Capone, instead of accepting the bribe Eliot called the press into his office and told them what happened.

This is a picture of the newspaper headline of the wreckage that Capone’s gang did to Moran’s gang on valentine's day in 1929.

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Prohibition and crime, The issue of the decade Since the prohibition has started it has done the opposite of what it was meant to do. Crime has risen since the passage and more people are trying to drink. The moment that it passed, people want alcohol even more.

The prohibition has been almost impossible to enforce. The governor of New York said that it would take 250,000 police to enforce the prohibition and another 200,000 police to watch to police.

That turned out to be very true. Police and public officials routinely take bribes to turn a blind eye at illegal activities.

Many experts are saying that the prohibition has been doing more harm than good. They look at what has happened and look at what could be happening if this was to continue. They believe that the prohibition will be overturned if this continues to happen.

Federal Agent Capturing a Distillery

Destroying kegs of beer

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Entertainment in the 1920s By: Mohammad Sharairi Pastimes in the 1920s

The Radio

The 1920s were called the Roaring Twenties and the Jazz age. During freetime, people in the 1920s went on road trips,drank illegally, watched movies and danced.

The Radio was one of the most important entertainment devices in the 1920s. The first broadcast was made in the year 1920 and by the end of the decade more than 12 million families had a radio in their home.

The first model of Ford’s car started the growth of the car industry. The car allowed people to pursue their dreams from to privacy of their own vehicles. Car were owned by more than twenty three million Americans by the end of the 20s. Most of these cars were owned by upper-class families.

The prohibition of alcohol actually caused more people to drink and produce alcohol. People from all social classes began mixing and all socializing with each other.

The suffrage amendment which allowed women to vote, completely changed how women behaved in public. Women felt a sense of pride and dependence, they began changing what they wore, and what they did in their free time. The term Flapper was used to describe a daring woman, they also wore provocative clothing.

Young women began to dance a lot, they attended night clubs, and danced with partners in public events that were sponsored.

Election results, sports, and music were all played on the radio. The radio was important because it united Americans together because they all talked about the same thing Exploiting the public’s love for sports was common during this time.Promoters, chambers of commerce, newspaper owners, press agents, and radio broadcasters all found profit in exploiting the public love for sports. Eight members of the Chicago White Sox accepted bribes. jazz was first sung by slaves as they were being transported to America. Slaves turned jazz into a secret language, and they used it to tell each other secret escape routes.

The first movie to have sound was played in the public in the year 1922. The quality of movies increased as the new studio camera was patented. About 50 million Americans were watching movies each week.

A radio in the 1920s

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Sports are the face of America By: Zach Peterson Sports in the 1920s filled people’s attention since the end of the war. These major sporting events gave the public something to cheer about after the war. These main sporting events that attracted the most people is boxing, football, and baseball. The athletes who played these sports stood as inspiration towards young boys and girls around the united states. One of the most enjoyed sports is Baseball because of the excitement that you felt at a baseball stadium. Another of the most highly praised sports is Football but, this sport didn’t emerge until the end of 1920 when the NFl was created. At this time there was only 3 small towns that the NFL played at. Then the most intense sport was Boxing, which many of these boxers make tons of money from each fight.

In the 1920s many of the athletes stood as motivation for people to do something good in this world. These athletes include from the major sports of this time is: Dempsey a famous boxer, Babe Ruth a baseball legend, and “Red” Grange who is considered the greatest football player. As being a major impact in their profession in sports they made a huge margin of money during their career. Babe Ruth a person who is considered to be one of the greatest baseball players of the time. He attracted many people to the game of baseball because of how he hit so many homeruns in his career. In one year he made $80,000 which right now that’s a huge amount of money. But in 1913 world series in five games the gate receipts totaled to $326,000.

But this year it was calculated that in one game for the 1928 World Series the total gate receipts was $224,000. The serious cash though now is boxing.

In one match in 1927 Dempsey boxed Gene Tunney in which Dempsey made $717,000 for one fight.

Then the previous year Tunney made $900,000 in the rematch.

A famous baseball stadium in the 1920s

Babe Ruth at dinner

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Sports are the face of America

As many athletes of these main sports acted as heroes, I believe that the most famous was Jack Dempsey. He was known as a powerful boxer and a slugger which stood correctly as he won 49 of his 60 matches from knockout. The most attracted fight was against Gene Tunney which more than 100,000 people attended this fight. And supposedly many of the public believed that the match was cheated.

People called his the "lone count DempseyTunney fight." This happened when the opponent Tunney stood over the opponent while the referee was counting.

The public during this time felt that Babe Ruth is one of the greatest Americans. He stood as a motivation for young adults and children around the U.S. But he was considered the best baseball player of this decade. He played many positions in his major league career. In being a Boston Red Sox pitcher he won 87 games and lost 45. Also he won three World Series games and lost none. But then the next year they put him the outfield so that he could hit better. That year he hit 11 home runs in 1918, in 1919 he hit 29, and then 54 in his first year as a Yankee. But with how good he was he never talked smack to other players, he let his bat do the talking. He has the record for consecutive scoreless innings innings in the World Series of 29 2/3. But Babe had a rough childhood; his father gave Babe up for adoption when he was a young boy at a catholic orphanage. But this was the place he learned how to play baseball. It just gets to show you that in the worse circumstances all you have to do is be focused and determined and you will pull through.

It just gets to show you that in the 1920s sports are a vital part in our society today. Also many of these athletes inspire many regular people to become something really special. This shows people that maybe sports really did control the 1920s during this time period. It just makes you think if sports have too much power over the public.

Jack Dempsey on the left fighting against on the right Gene Tunney one of the most famous fights of the decade

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The master of swinging the bat!

Babe Ruth interview

Reporter: “What do you think is your biggest accomplishment?”

Babe: “That’s a great question. I think that it’s when I hit 54 home runs my first year as a Yankee.”

Reporter: “I know you’ve been a busy man over these past years but, what’s one of your favored hobbies?”

Babe: “Since I retired from the major leagues I have been trying to help out my country anyway possible by either, going to the orphanage, giving money to help fund charities, or just talking to kids and adults.”

Reporter: “You have a heck of a swing, where did you learn to hit the ball like that?”

Babe: “To be honest when I started playing baseball at the orphanage I was always a good hitter when we played Baseball outside, so I guess I learned it there.”

Reporter: “That brings me to my next question, how was your time at the orphanage?”

Reporter: “Over your career you’ve had many teammates but, who has been your favorite teammate/friend?”

Babe:“Oh, the people who helped at the orphanage were always nice and acted as mothers to us Orphans at the time. It kind of made you feel good, that someone actually cared about you.”

Babe: “Definitely Lou Gehrig he was one of my best friends.”

Reporter: “Did your father ever show up and see you after you made it to the minor leagues?

Reporter: “As a Yankee was there a player you hardly liked?”

Babe: “Sometimes I would see him but, other times I never actually saw for a year or months on end, this was a dark time for me.”

Babe: “No, me and my teammates had a special bond that couldn’t be broken.”

Reporter: “It’s been said that you eat a lot of food and drinks, Why is that?”

Babe: “When I eat I’m usually stressed about either Baseball or my family and taking care of their well beings.”

Reporter: “Ok, how about when you got traded from Boston to New York how was it different?”

Babe: “New York city is just the father of urban cities, it’s huge with big lights that shine so brightly, while Boston was just a smaller version of New York city.”

Reporter: “Last question, do you think that if you were playing in the majors now that teams would pay you millions of dollars just to have you on the team?”

Babe: “Yes, I definitely would think I would be paid more in this decade.”

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Zach Peterson Bibliography

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Mohammad Sharairi’s Bibliography

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Michael Gaffey Bibliography Hart, Diane, and Bert Bower. History Alive!: Pursuing American Ideals. Rancho Cordova, CA: Teachers' Curriculum Institute, 2013. Print.

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