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The above cartoon by the famous cartoonist McCutcheon was published in the Chicago Tribune
(circulation over 500,000) a month ago. It depicts a condition which should arouse every
citizen of Miami Beach. We leave it to your own good judgment, what reaction this type of
publicity will have if we continue to let it go on.
Help JOHN C. FRAZURE Today at the 1
Polls to Checkmate These Racketeers •
(TURN OVER)
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Westbrook Story-- ea
(159 Newspapers in U. S. carry his Syndicated Column every day)
Bad Publicity Like This Does
Not Help Miami
Beach
Appeared May 28, 1936, When Miami Beach Was a Wide-Open Town
FAIR ENOUGH
By WESTBROOK PEGLER
The crookedest town in the United States today is
Miami Beach, Fla., a beautiful winter resort which has
simply been handed over to the underworld of New York,
Chicago, Detroit and St. Louis in the last 10 years. It
started well with fine intenions. Millions were spent on
good hotels and beautiful homes, but the local politicians
were grafters and some of the local business men
thought it would be a good idea to let in just a few
criminals from the North to run gambling rooms as a
diversion for the visitors. But in very little time Miami
Beach was over-run with the most notorious racketeers
and thieves in the United Stae§ and became the winter
quarters of Lucky Luciano, Johnny Torio and Al Capone
among a thousand others. The poople who own the
homes will never get their town back now and if they do
it will not be the same, for it has become notorious as the
hibernating place of gunmen, slot machine magnates
and prostitutes and its beauty has degenerated into a
gaudy imitation of Broadway.
In the northerly latitudes in summer the dives have
a tendency to move out into the leafy rural country
where sheriffs and small town policemen are cheap and
the prosecutors are able to stall and fumble through the
short season without going into serious action. But the
owners of homes make a mistake if they let them light,
for they soon dig in and it takes a political convulsion
to drive them out.
Gambling, as such, is not necessarily bad. But
gambling houses in American communities where the
laws forbid are criminal institutions run by racketeers
with the consent of criminals in public office and nobody
can get around that.
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO TO CORRECT THIS SITUATION?
This story appeared May 28th, 1936, when Miami Beach was a wide open town.
Do you want to return to this condition of wide open gambling? Property
owners are appalled at what is happening in our community. They know with
this sort of publicity, property values will decrease instead of increase.
PROPERTY OWNERS, WAKE UP!