Opinions+and+Letters+to+the+Editor+0910

=Opinions and Letters to the Editor =

__**Prohibition: Pros and Cons** __ Last night a little after midnight, the prominent speakeasy, “El Fey Club,” was broken into by police and shut down on the grounds of illegal manufacturing and selling of alcohol. The vastly popular nightclub owned and organized by the beautiful Mary Louise Guinan, (known more commonly as “Texas Guinan,”) and the Night Mayor of New York, Jimmy Walker, was bombarded by black uniforms and guns at 1:35 in the morning, Saturday. The club was ransacked and cleared out in a matter of minutes, and nearly ninety-seven ounces of alcohol was confiscated from the Club. Police suspect that there was more alcohol hidden in the Club. Texas and Walker were arrested, making this the forty-fifth time Walker has been arrested on the grounds of selling alcohol. Read more opinions on Prohibition here (Sarah)

__**A Wanton Influence**__ Louise Brooks is the quintessential flapper: the epitome of this new idea of a woman that this decade has produced. She emerged first as a dancer from her small town in Kansas.Her parents, a lawyer and an artist, paid little attention to Brooks, which might have been what led to her sexual abuse as an adolescent that affected her later in life. Read more about Louise Brooks here (Blair)

Read more about Alice Paul at Seneca Falls here.
 * __[[image:alice.jpg width="127" height="93"]]Alice Paul at Seneca Falls: Is the ERA good for women?__**

__**War Declared on Chicago Mobster Al Capone**__ Now-a-days, it seems like more and more people got it out for Chicago big shot Al Capone. Investigator Elliot Ness says that he will stop at nothing to take down the infamous mobster. Some say Capone’s responsible for the death of Ness’s friend Oscar Wallace, others say it’s a bunch of baloney, a real crock. Earlier this week an anonymous source sent the newspaper a note written by Elliot Ness in which he speaks about Al Capone and the death of his comrade Wallace.  Read more about the War on Capone here.

Read more of this letter here (Caitlin)
 * [[image:armstrong.jpg width="107" height="135"]]Parents Against Jazz Music: Get Over It!**