Odd Coincidence

Last night after work, I went to help out my girlfriend and a gaggle of her friends at a haunted house that they were assembling for a charity. That was cool enough all by itself, but in the process of renovation, the owner found a cluster of newspapers and a few copies of the Saturday Evening Post from late 1930 to early 1931 in one of the walls.

I found one front-page article from the Chicago Herald & Tribune from October of 1930 most interesting. The article unabashedly fixed the blame for the depression on Prohibitionists, giving the stock market crash a complete pass and even calling it a necessary event to keep people employed. After all, if people make too much money, they'll stop working!

And it also said, and I quote, that the practice of prohibition "has vastly increased insanity", when it was supposed to reduce it.

Perspective makes a lot of difference.