The Cartoons of Evansville's Karl Kae Knecht by James Lachlan MacLeod

Author:James Lachlan MacLeod
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2017-10-18T04:00:00+00:00

The history of printing presses, 1921. UE/EVPL.

Prohibition refers to the thirteen-year period between 1920 and 1933 when, under the Eighteenth Amendment, “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors” was prohibited.171 Its effects were, of course, to drive these activities underground and create a gigantic black market and a vast network of smuggling that made massive fortunes for many people and led to the violent death of countless others. “For all its outrageously intolerant overtones, its hypocrisy and double standards,” said Edward Behr, “Prohibition represented a genuine attempt to better the lives of people. That it did them instead untold harm—that America has never fully recovered from the legacy of these thirteen years—should come as no surprise. As history keeps telling us—but do we ever listen?—the road to hell is paved with good intentions.”172

Knecht’s cartoon from 1929 is a very amusing depiction of alcohol smuggling in Florida around the infamous Belle Isle. (He spells it incorrectly.) The island held the mansion of the department store magnate J.C. Penney, at which President Herbert Hoover vacationed in early 1929. Hoover is shown out on a fishing trip, catching a crate of illicit booze. It was also close to mobster Al Capone’s villa on Palm Island, which might help explain its central role in illicit alcohol transportation.173 In this picture, the island is surrounded by grim-faced law enforcement, and one smuggler warns the other to “stay as far away from Bell[e] Isle as you can.” In the bottom right, Kay, too, gets involved, swimming along with an open bottle of alcohol in her trunk.

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