POOR EFFORT AT COMEDY

Williamsburg:  Journal-Tribune:  Monticello is a thrifty city of the second class in Iowa; its bank deposits are more than liberal, and its school system is rated as highly efficient.  But, in spite of all those aids to better citizenship, Monticello had fifty men who voted at the last city election for Al Capone, the infamous gangster of Chicago.  Good reputable citizens of Monticello were candidates for mayor, yet there were half a hundred men (we cannot believe that women could be so criminally foolish) cast their votes for the blackest ace of all the cutthroats – and for the chief office of the city.  Monticello’s fifty citizens may have thought that voting for Al Capone was a fine display of humor, but thoughtful citizens will continue to believe that the 50 men who stultified their judgment belong to the class of morons that appears to be increasing throughout the state. 

From The Cedar Rapids Tribune, May 23, 1930

This article was submitted by Sharon Oltmanns