Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1912 — Purely a Matter of Taste. [ARTICLE]

Purely a Matter of Taste.

Fowler is having a carnival this week. The Review says that the shows of the Hoosier Amusement Co. are far above the average and that there is not a show to which any person can take exception. The Republican publishes this for the benefit of The Jasper County Democrat, whose self-professed puritanical morals are easily shocked at the suggestion of the w r ord “carnival. —Republican. Yes. When the first carnival was held in Rensselaer, the Republican stated that it compared* very favorably with the district Methodist conference held here only a few weeks before. ,„And yet at that carnival, as everyone knows, everything was wide open. Gambling of all kinds was going on publicly at a dozen or more places; the hootchechoochie and the “in the altogether” shows were run unmolested, while the demi-monde flocked here from other towns by the score and did a land-office business. A reputable physician informed the writer that nearly half the boys in the senior class in the high school were suffering thereafter from a loathsome disease, an-d that he was treating several of them himself. Carnivals are good only as one views them. To the dwarfed intellect of the gamblers, the sports and the denizens of the underworld in general, however, they are pure and holy and a joy forever.