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SHERIFF OLDS AND PROSECUTOR KINDER ‘ DESERVE CREDITSheriff Hut Olds and Prosecutor Dwight Kinder are to be congratulated upon their ultimatum that Cedar Lake muet be kept free of vice and gaming. Until Quite recently Lake county's beautiful inland lake has been despoiled by pug-uglies and women of the demt- ! monde. The fish and chicken restaurants have been j etnbarraaed by undesirable patronage. The crimson oi summer sunsets has been eacrlliged by the flaming I red of vice.For eeversl years Cedar Lake has been in process of reform and the last two summers have seen the lovely body of water in its setting of vistas of growing fields, spreading trees and sloping campus, return to normalcy.. Desirable people have built cottages anti now that they are assured of the vigilance of the county officials they* will encourage their friends. Lake county Is to have its own summer eolomy, made pleasant and wholesome for the law-abiding people.The sporting gentry will find no attraction in a peaceful, respectable summer resort such as Cedar Lake has come to be. Joy riders go where they are certain of boot-leg whiskey, uncensorari dancing and a free reign in thetr dissipation. They must seek other havens.County Recorder William Rose has»set an example by taking his family to Cedar Lake and declaring that he will see that there is nothing amiss at the resort thsi year. Mr. Rose does not propose to have his family molested by vicious influences.The day when houses of ill-repute desecrated the road sides and corn fields behind them. are past. Xo more will women in scanty garb, painted as though for the foot-lights, stand at the bar drinking and joining in the ribald laughter of silly drunken youths. Never again will decent people passing in automobiles be forced to turn their heads to avoid shocking sights made risible by the open dcors of the “Joints” whose proprietors had not even the sense of decency to screen their inmates and patrons from the public.Murders and drowning* will be lessened. The number of men and women who have been drowned ing-JL —
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East Chicago Times
East Chicago, Indiana, US
Mon, May 23, 1921
Page 4
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