Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-10-18 | Page 11 | Underworld Nights

d W I I N ZA A SEINI SERVICE WETTER WETTER- NO 6 LOYALTY 6 AMONG THIEVES S c 1 I I J I 5 a L LETS DO THE NEXT CRAWL S Not ot only is there honor among thieves thie but there is Is' Is Isa a loyalty among the members lI of the underworld underworld under under- I world orld that rivals that of the society so society so- so clely above if it it does not excel It While a a. gangster himself may j neglect his mother wife and l family lam fam I fam-I ily fly the mob Is always ready to I help them when in ne nerd need d. d r I Funds for su such h relief are raised j usually from slap downs and journals These affairs are directed by jy the leaders of the mob The They decide to stage a dance a at tone one of ot the large east cast side dance halls Then they go around to their friends friend small business men shopkeepers shopkeepers shop shop- keepers who seek to curry favor or 01 ortry try to hold it through fear and j i make them put the journal j the the dance order program Several thousand dollars are quickly realized i in 1 this way This is augmented b by a f few w shakedowns shakedowns shakedowns shake shake- downs and the sale of admission tickets The amount of the shake-down shake depends upon the victim Usually it l- l is lall all he can bear The Tha price of admission varies Usually It Is 1 1 l flat But it Is beneath the dignity of or the timers times to attend these af af- af I fairs Yet Tet their loyalty must remain re remain remain re- re main unquestioned So they come cometo cometo to the hall hail go to the ticket office I slap down their dollars and leave immediately Aristocracy i Ii j recognized even inthe in inthe I the underworld the most democratic democratic democratic demo- demo cratic of our social organizations j these dances are shot t l up tip p by rival gangsters rs But that rarely larely spoils the parties it merely m makes kes them more livel lively And lively they ar are F For r th the men men and omen gf f. f the underworld 1 surely like to step out Come on lousy sa says s 's the time man I to the the woman L Lets ts t's do the next cra crawl wI S And away aVay ay they g go S as as their sisters and brothers uptown n. n G GANG A N G Gr r I 0 N A R y To do the next ext c crawl w To To have the n next dan dance e. e Lousy A familiar wa way of ad addressing addressing ad- ad dressing ones one's dancing partner Journals D Dance nce hall programs printed to raise funds funds- for tor some benefit Shake-down Shake Blackmail S Slap down Benefit dance at which whit timers big come COlne to pay py their theil admissions and and then leave Soup Nitroglycerin Swag wag Boot Booty c co CHI Time The China goes right along Some of General Lus Lu's soldiers broke Into Inlo a Standard Oil establishment at Shanghai but States marines ma ma- rines inca chased them out without fight The legations i in Peking a warned earned General Chang Chung his airmen must be more morl careful with bombs bombs- I they're heyre endangering foreigners Which goes Koes to show other countries may be mixed into the war time ay aly