Founders of a library imitated their husbands’ rituals

This year the Ida Rupp Public Library in Port Clinton, Ohio, is 100 years old. Like many libraries in the United States, this one was founded by a women’s club, The Literary and Social Club, now 127 years old. These clubs were an opportunity for women of a certain social stature to get together, study local problems and hear educational programs. The library in my little home town, Mt. Morris, Illinois, was started the same way, and became a public library in the early 1930s. Ida Rupp predeceased her husband Lawrence Rupp, and he donated money to establish a library--even designating the interior colors as azure blue to match her eyes. In my years in academe and in churches, I’ve seen designated funds and portraits come and go, and I salute Ida’s longevity! Apparently, no one has been successful at changing the name or tried to hide the portrait of her and her bird dog.

Over at the BGSU archives are the records of the Literary and Social Club of Port Clinton as of their 100th anniversary in 1981. This organization was instrumental in creating the Lakeside Women‘s Club which also is still functioning.

"The Ladies Social Club was formed in Port Clinton, Ohio, in 1881 for the "mutual improvement" of its members and to "aid the poor of the village." In reaction to their husband's secret lodge meetings, these women created a secret initiation ritual and designated the officers with such names as the "Superb Expounder," the "Assistant Expounder," and the "Guard." From the beginning, these women enjoyed a few hours of social interaction each month with an anti-gossip rule being strictly enforced. Later these ritualistic trappings were dropped and study topics were introduced along with a name change--the Port Clinton Literary and Social Club. Study topics included the history and literature of various countries, U.S. History, the Bible, and American biography and humor, as well as the reading of various literary works.

Civic projects also were undertaken by this Club including the establishment of a public drinking fountain (1895), a public restroom (1910), and the public library (1908). The Club also was instrumental in organizing a sister literary group in Oak Harbor (1882) and the Lakeside Federation of Women's Clubs (1894). Today this organization could well be the oldest literary society still in existence in the State of Ohio. Histories of the Club written by members are included in the collection and provide much detail on its early years."

Plugged in and plugged up

"The Barack Obama presidential campaign has tapped Apple's iPhone to help deliver news and information about the candidate. It's also giving Obama's supporters a new way to help swing the campaign to Obama's favor: a Call Friends feature organizes and prioritizes contacts by key battleground states, making it easier to place grassroots political calls."

You mean Obama supporters have friends who have iPhone who aren't already working for him? I'm shocked.

Speaking of grassroots, I was just raking leaves and stepped in some cat feces. Boy does that stink--travels faster than campaign poop on an Obama iPhone.

What happens to the other housing programs?

There are already programs in place to help distressed homeowners. What happens to those with the bailout? Are we only helping the CEOs of Fannie and Fred, or are we dumping good money after bad on an already failed plan? Are the old programs, worth billions, folded in? Replaced? Thrown out?

Port Clinton, Ohio has received $522,000 from CHIP, Community Housing Improvement Program. The limit, according to the website, is $500,000 but there's an extra $50,000 in there if you say please. According to The Beacon, Oct. 2, "The funds will be used to provide housing rehabilitation grants and loans to at least six homeowners and repairs for at least 9 owners . . ." plus some rental assistance, mortgage counseling, etc., and of course, it will pay the salaries of the folks managing this account--which is $25,000,000 just for Ohio. I wonder how you get to be one of the lucky six? If you can get this much under the mean old Republicans and that hateful President Bush, just imagine what the tooth tax fairy will bring under President Obama!! And you can get your unemployment benefits extended 2, 3 or 4 times under a Republican President, just imagine what it will be under Obama. You may never have to work again. Hope. Change. Just tax those top 5% more.

But I digress. We're talking housing. Look how many people are employed by Ohio CHIP, just by the state--think how this will spread around and help in your county! I see the Planner job is open (on the chart)--I use to be one of those on JTPA. Great job [the title is meaningless].

And what about the American Dream Downpayment Assistance Act--that was $200,000,000 a year under Bush. Will it flourish under the magic wand of Obama? And what about all those community partnerships we've been paying for?

. . .the purposes of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act of 1990 (NAHA), as amended, are: (1) to promote partnerships between States, units of general local government and nonprofit organizations, and (2) to expand nonprofit organizations' capacity to develop and manage decent and affordable housing. To assist in achieving these purposes, participating jurisdictions (PJs) under the HOME Investment Partnership (HOME) Program must reserve not less than 15 percent of their HOME allocations for investment in housing to be developed, sponsored, or owned by Community Housing Development Organizations (CHDOs).

Yes, HOME got in the bailout document. Just glancing through this HUD report I see we the people already had about $20,000,000 in place just to protect low income people from predatory lenders in 2001! Well, guys, how well did that work? Do we get more of this program that didn't work in the bailout?

There are thousands of housing-help links to be tracked--there are a lot of different government agencies dabbling in this. That's why it is so critical to keep poor people poor. Thousands of government workers would be unemployed if this were ever successful! You'll have to do some of this research yourself. I have no horse in this race. But if you own distressed property in a bad neighborhood and you earn less than $60,000 a year, I'd say it would be worth checking the internet to see if you can find a way for me to pay for your repairs.

The criminalization of HIV transmission

The two lawyers who wrote about this in the August 6, 2008 JAMA are probably correct. Making it illegal to infect another person isn't going to save many lives and will probably discourage some from getting the care they need. For the most part, their article is about Africa, although their footnotes are from Europe and US. Even so, their recommendations are so pie-in-the-sky it makes you wonder. Except for the sex part, I think I was collecting U.S. government funded reports on this in the 1970s in the agriculture library. And then the goal was a bit smaller--better crops. (AIDS was in Africa at that time, but no one knew it.)

address women's subordinate socioeconomic positions [mentioned several times in the article]

improve women's status and offer serious protection of women's rights

promote equal status of women in marriage, inheritance, access to credit, and employment

address cultural issues such as dry sex and "wife inheritance"

protect women from violence and ostracism

those with HIV MUST PROTECT OTHERS [my emphasis]

those jurisdictions which have criminalization laws in place must reverse them

Maybe they should cut their teeth on global warming first, then work on completely changing the culture of Africa.

"The case against criminalization of HIV transmission," by Scott Burris and Edwin Cameron. JAMA, August 6, 2008, Vol. 300, no. 5, pp. 578-581.

Barney's ex-lover was director of Fannie Mae

Barney Frank seems to have a wide stance problem with his ex's. One was running a male prostitute ring, one had access to inside information and influence that he shouldn't have. I don't know who the current squeeze is, but some sharp reporter ought to be checking him out for the next big story. Not that it would matter to Democrats. I don't expect this to change anyone's ideas of responsibility for the bailout. Whether it's about Bill Ayers and Barack Obama or Barney Frank and Herb Moses, it's always old, unimportant news to liberals.

Now that Fannie Mae is at the epicenter of a financial meltdown that threatens the U.S. economy, some are raising new questions about Frank's relationship with Herb Moses, who was Fannie’s assistant director for product initiatives. Moses worked at the government-sponsored enterprise from 1991 to 1998, while Frank was on the House Banking Committee, which had jurisdiction over Fannie.

Both Frank and Moses assured the Wall Street Journal in 1992 that they took pains to avoid any conflicts of interest. Critics, however, remain skeptical.

"It’s absolutely a conflict," said Dan Gainor, vice president of the Business & Media Institute. "He was voting on Fannie Mae at a time when he was involved with a Fannie Mae executive. How is that not germane?

"If this had been his ex-wife and he was Republican, I would bet every penny I have - or at least what’s not in the stock market - that this would be considered germane," added Gainor, a T. Boone Pickens Fellow. "But everybody wants to avoid it because he’s gay. It’s the quintessential double standard." Link

Obama worship

If you thought that video of little kids singing a hymn to Obama was bad, watch this video of young boys in paramilitary garb strutting and shouting Alpha-Omega and reciting different talking points of the Obama campaign, promising him their lives and careers. North Korean brainwashing anyone?

And to think I was bothered by those Obama logos--the red white and blue sun with the road going nowhere--painted on collapsing Ohio barns. Obviously I hadn't looked far enough.

Democrats for Life will have to buck their own President

Moral leadership on this issue is important. Democrats are about to put a man in office who believes the outrageous abortion rate among black women is just another informed choice, a decision between a woman and her “health care provider.” This is a parent who would have his own daughters get an abortion if it weren’t a convenient time in their lives (or his career). This is a man who will shut down opposition to his views in the media. Does DFL really think Obama is going to buck feminists and the left on this notification issue? Feminists don’t want to save babies lives--even babies born alive, and neither do Team Obama and its obedient workers and followers! “. . . parental-involvement laws reduce the minor abortion rate by 13 to 31 percent when a state enacts laws to require parental consent or notification before a minor undergoes an abortion.” Story here.

I’m on the mailing list for the Pregnancy Distress Center, and when the women’s reasons are listed they are often the boyfriend or her parents doing the pressuring to get an abortion--so what's the plan to reach them?

Thanks, Sarah

For showing the world, particularly the hateful women on the left and the right, who denigrated everything about you, from your accent to your education to your baby son, that women can hold their own. If I could change one thing in the debate, it'd be that Johnnie-one-note "corruption and greed on Wall Street," as if that wasn't the stockholders on Main Street in the pensions, IRAs, 401-Ks, 403-Bs and private investments and annuities who were depending on their elected officials--the other 3 guys you're running with and against--for some oversight of the laws and regulations they themselves have put in place. We need an investigation of the Barney Franks of Congress--like yesterday!

However, many people sold homes during the housing bubble and were thrilled that they were able to choose from bids offering thousands more than the asking price. Their "good fortune" was being fed by deregulation in the 90s, by CRA engineering the poor into bad home deals, by Congress taking money from Fannie and Fred in bipartisanship, by the push by banks to move low to moderate income people into homes they couldn't afford to meet their quotas. You can call it corruption and greed if you want, but some were just ordinary school teachers or business people from Dayton or Columbus, Ohio, taking advantage of a good return on their hard earned money as home prices doubled in a very short time. After the recovery from 9-11 with the Bush tax cuts, our investments soared, and we were enjoying the experience of having an imaginary "third person" in our home who just turned over his paycheck each month with no questions asked. We live on our pensions--hardly the rich fat cats that both the Obama-Biden and the McCain-Palin teams try to portray. When the bubble bursts, and they all do, greed has a different face, and it's never the one we see in the mirror. That imaginary tenant has packed his bags, hired a U-haul and left town.

Well, Sarah, you're a winner in my book. I heard someone say that if you watched on TV you saw one debate, if you only listened, you heard something different, and if you read the debate, you'll get yet a third message. Well, there will be a fourth message, as the media snip and cut away at you. They are very hostile toward you. They are subjecting you to the Justice Thomas take down routine, but you seem to be putting on the full armor. We'll know the truth, regardless of how the MSM spins it, and it didn't come out of Joe Biden's mouth.

We've heard this tune before

I don't know about the neo-nazis I never read their stuff, but the far left anti-semitism is certainly on the rise, encouraged by the huge growth of the USA's Muslim population, which now exceeds the Jewish population. Yes, remember this from the 1930s? Or at least the history books we used to have--it's probably all been revised. It's all the fault of those "Jewish bankers." I tell you, folks, you're buying into a package here with Team Obama and his leftist handlers. The left can always find a reason to blame the Jews and especially our ally Israel.

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How people you didn't elect control everything you do

This is just one. The Western Climate Initiative. There are many out there--mostly under the umbrella of global warming, which now includes health, safety, education, social engineering, and got its fair share of pork in the new bailout.

The Western Climate Initiative would establish a regional market to trade carbon emissions credits, allowing industries that emit greenhouse gases to buy and sell credits for their emissions. The goal is to cut the region's carbon emissions to below 2005 levels by 2020, a roughly 15 percent reduction. [I read 25% by 2020.]

The initiative, proposed Tuesday by seven western states and four Canadian provinces, covers more polluters than other regional plans adopted in the United States, Canada and Europe. [Yahoo News, AP story.] I would have copied from the WCI document, but couldn't--it's more scary in the "real" language.

I think I see hundreds of these a week--architects, engineers and the building trades are wetting themselves, they are so eager to build green, and by that I don't mean environmental--I mean $$$$. If you see a really ugly building that looks like a box of blocks attached with velcro and tin foil, betcha it's "green."

Cap and trade covers electricity, natural gas and heating fuels emissions as well as industrial emissions and transportation emissions. In short, just about everything that makes our world pleasant and easy and comfortable for us. It doesn't cover hot air by politicians and Al Gore.

Faith Votes Columbus

is funded by National Industrial Areas Foundation, a Chicago-based community organizing network established in 1940 by Saul Alinsky. IAF provides training and consultation, furnishes organizers, and develops national strategy for its affiliated broad-based community organizations [i.e., community organizers--like Jesus]. You can follow the interview of a Faith Votes worker who was picking up, taking to registration and telling homeless voters to vote for Barack Obama at this video. I think it is the third interview on the tape that shows the illegal behavior.

Saul Alinsky was an American marxist who died in 1972. His son is proud that his father's handiwork footprint was so visible at the recent Democratic convention, and on Obama. Sen. Clinton was also one of his disciples. Clinton actually knew Alinsky; Obama did not--too young. He just taught from his marxist playbook being one of the best and brightest of those trained by the IAF--certainly light years ahead of the woman interviewed on this tape who needs to go back for a bit more training in how to talk to the press!

We own Fannie and Fred, let's investigate

"Now that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s failures have forced the federal government to put both into conservatorship — costing taxpayers some $200 billion — Americans, who now own the two entities, are entitled to know what role the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) played in creating this mess." Here.

Will Nancy, Frank and Chris ever allow this? Barney Frank claims he didn't know his partner 20 years ago was running a gay sex ring out of Frank's home, and 2 years ago he stonewalled an investigation of Fannie. He's not going to get smarter, folks. Throw him out.

"So why didn’t Congress do anything about these taxpayer-financed “bastions of privilege” sooner? Lest anyone ask questions about what they were up to, Fannie and Freddie also showered elected officials on Capitol Hill with campaign cash to keep their mouths shut and vociferously defend their accounting practices."

Gwen Ifill needs to recuse herself

The public's trust in the news media is maybe a few notches higher than Congress, but not much. Why the Commission on Presidential Debates needs someone selected from the news media is a mystery to me. They read and write text for a living--they are no better informed than a blogger from Ohio who reads and writes for fun, their faces and voices just are recognizable. Why not someone who doesn't make a living catering to politicians at the local, state and national level? It's OK for them to go out and explain weather to the kindergartners or cut ribbons at the opening of new nursing homes, but let's give them a night off during the debates. She has a serious conflict of interest, and McCain is a wimp for not objecting. There would be no reason for Obama to object--he knows the press is in his hip pocket wallet.

PBS sure gets their shorts in a knot over someone else's perceived conflict of interest.

Cheap gasoline and cheap tricks

Here in Columbus gasoline is about $3.25. I realize in some cities you can't get it at any price. Never thought I'd say $3.25 was cheap, but that's down $1 from what it was on the peninsula this summer.

Then those great old "community organizers" are rounding up the drunk and homeless to register to vote. Yes, Barack Obama has already started to steal Ohio--as of a few days ago you could register and vote on the same day, and boy were the Demmies ready for that one with a Democrat Attorney General and a court that seems to have lost all common sense. Not satisfied with a Democratic machine in Chicago--they've brought the goon squads here. The locals are outraged.

"Election officials around Ohio were preparing for a rush of early voting Tuesday, the first day absentee ballots are accepted in advance of the Nov. 4 presidential election.

Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, is also allowing new voters to register and cast an absentee ballot on the same day during a weeklong period that ends Oct. 6.

For weeks, the Ohio Republican Party accused Brunner of interpreting the early voting law to benefit her own party by allowing same-day registering and voting. Republicans argued that Ohio law requires voters to have been registered for 30 days before they cast an absentee ballot.

But the Republican-dominated Ohio Supreme Court decided Monday that Brunner was following the law. The decision was backed by a federal judge in Cleveland. Another federal judge in Columbus declined to rule, deferring to the state Supreme Court's decision." AOL News, Sept. 28

One caller to a local station said it looked like a drunken rodeo with the "organizers" trying to chase down their transported prey in the parking lot and herd them into the building. Hmm. Sounds like Congress doesn't it?

Student reporters interview registrants and "impartial" volunteers getting them to the polls. Here. One guy was for Obama for his "Thug Thizzle." Really, folks, it's pathetic, but no more so than the white, middle class voting for Obama to assuage their guilt for all their failed programs of the last 50 years and a past they had nothing to do with. Or because he is in Joe Biden's words, "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man."

Mortgage crisis sends illegals home

It seems only the illegals knew our economy was robust during most of the Bush years. Certainly Democrats and particularly Barack Obama were clueless as was Kerry in 2004 when he declared it the worst economy since the Great Depression. Ten percent of Guatemala's population was living in the U.S. sending home $4.12 Billion in 2007--more than its exports of coffee, sugar and other commodities. All this from jobs Americans don't want? In that terrible Bush economy? Well, no wonder our household income was decreasing--it was going south!

Miriam Jordan’s article , "Latest Immigration Wave, retreat" on the exodus of immigrant labor in today’s WSJ is careful not to use the word “illegal” or “undocumented” in the front page story. You need to get to paragraph 6 before that’s even hinted at. But it is slipped into the tiny print of the sub-headline and on page A16, you do find the headline has been readjusted by the truth meter: “In immigration’s latest wave, an illegal worker goes back home.”

Her sob story teasers are then strip teased, little by little. For instance, Ambrosio Carrillo of Guatemala had to use his savings of $3,100 to get back home after construction work dried up. That’s early in the story. Then near the end, you find out it really only cost him about $300 for one-way fare--the rest went to ship his truck back home ($1,100), as well as a new TV, a DVD/VCR, a music system, and he gets home with $600 and his cell phone, where wages might be $10 a day.

The talented Ms. Jordan, who has impressive street creds, can speak Spanish and writes sympathetically of illegals, also has wings, and flies right over Mexico during Carrillo’s dangerous and life threatening trip with a Coyote to Arizona, where he was picked up, taken to California and then flown to the east coast, all for $10,000, which must have been a horrible burden for his family. Mexico, in case you didn’t know, is not nice at all to central Americans found illegally in their country, even though Mexican authorities don’t mind if their own people travel north to work and send money home to bolster a corrupt government.

Here are some of my favorite parts, with my comments and asides. I am not unsympathetic with Mr. Carrillo's plight, he's a hard worker and has become a small businessman since returning home--but American journalists, particularly those who write for WSJ, drive me up the wall with their leftist, pity-parties and op-ed front page rhetoric.

"Once a construction worker earning about $15 an hour in Maryland, Mr. Carrillo barely worked in the fall of 2007 as plentiful jobs evaporated." What happened to that terrible pre-2007 Bush economy that was hurting middle class families?

"Mr. Carrillo is helping to write the latest chapter in the American immigrant story." Switch to script writing, Ms. Jordan. Let's not get him confused with people who played by the rules.

"In part, the slowdown is a product of a Bush administration crackdown on illegal immigration, with factory raids that led to deportations and even criminal charges for thousands of undocumented workers." Yes, let's blame Bush crackdowns, even though his own party wouldn't support him on amnesty and guest worker programs. He's one of the best buds the illegals ever had.

"The fee charged by a coyote, or smuggler, was 42,000 Guatemalan quetzales, or about $5,700 -- including the overland journey from Guatemala to Mexico to Los Angeles and then a flight to Baltimore. Mr. Carrillo's family made a downpayment of about one-third of the tab before he set out. With interest, the total cost of the trip would double to nearly $10,000." Why no outrage at how a poor worker from another country (and obviously not that poor) was exploited in his own country, Ms. Jordan?

"The Census Bureau reported last month that the income of U.S. households headed by non-citizen foreigners dropped 7.3% in 2007 from the previous year, after rising 4.1% in 2006. Pew Hispanic says that among households headed by Central Americans, the drop in income has been in the double digits." Let's keep in mind when Democrats describe the losses of income by "household," they aren't necessarily talking about Americans. The Census counts anyone who is here, even those illegals keeping wages depressed for African Americans.

" "I started as a 'laborer,' making $9 an hour," says Mr. Carrillo, using one of the English words that leavened an interview otherwise conducted in Spanish. After tax and Social Security deductions, Mr. Carrillo says his take-home pay was about $400 a week, more than a dozen times what he earned back home. He bought a 1998 Nissan Sentra for $425." Although Ms. Jordan carefully notes he was learning English as he worked his way up to better jobs, she slips up here and says this was an English word he knew. But American fire, emergency, police and health care workers are severely chastised when they can't respond to 911 calls because they don't know Spanish!

There's more. Obviously, the Democrats in Congress and the MSM have been lying to us about how awful the economy has been the last 7 years, and who was getting rich on the backs of working Americans. All so they can get their guy elected.

Veep gaffes

"In what has now become a disturbing pattern, the Alaska governor seems either unable or unwilling to avoid embarrassing statements that are often as untrue as they are outrageous. Recently, for example, in an exclusive interview with news anchor Katie Couric, Palin gushed, “When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’ ” Apparently the former Alaskan beauty queen failed to realize that in 1929 there was neither widespread television nor was Franklin Roosevelt even President." Victor Davis Hanson on Sarah Biden.

But in case you don't read Hanson's article closely and were planning to cut and paste, he is rewriting all of Joe Biden's gaffes into sweet Sarah satire.

Kill your parents and the fork salute

The legacy of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, who are mentors, friends and advisors of Barack Obama, lives on in their adoptive/foster son (whose birth parents received the prison sentence they should have) who is also unrepentent. See Roots of a Rhodes Scholar Radical, book review at HNN (2002 long before Obama set his hat for the WH). In case you don't remember, the "fork salute" refers to the Manson murders. Dohrn thought Manson was inspirational. “First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!” And apparently, the Obamas didn't mind eating with the Ayers family either.

Freedom of information, Barack-style.

"The mainstream media, in their zeal to elect a Democrat, are assiduously airbrushing Ayers: “an aging lefty with a foolish past,” as the Chicago Sun-Times has so delicately put it. In fact, it is the press that is rife with foolish, aging lefties. Ayers, by contrast, is an unapologetic terrorist with a savage past — one who beat the system he so reviles when, after his years of fugitivity, terrorism charges were dropped due to government surveillance violations. He’s “guilty as sin,” by his own concession, but “free as a bird.” " The company he keeps

All Aboard the Obama Train--now leaving the station for parts unknown

—“The Wall Street ‘bailout’ has been the subject of more one-sided media coverage than Barack Obama’s campaign,” Accuracy in Media editor Cliff Kincaid said today. “The media love Obama and they love this ‘bailout.’ What they have in common is a desire to massively increase federal government involvement in the economy. But our media won’t label it for what it is—socialism.” Story at AIM.

Blogiversary!

My fifth. I started October 2, 2003 then back filled October 1, because it didn't look tidy.

So tomorrow, if I write, I'll be starting my 6th year.

Top 5 reasons most blogs don't last.

Art's back!

I didn't even know he was out of jail, and here he was on 610 WTVN talking to John Corby! I about dropped my Swiss Chard. Checking local news sources I found

Art Schlichter, the one-time OSU All-American quarterback whose promising career in the NFL was derailed by his felonious gambling addiction, is back in Columbus—on the airwaves, anyway. Schlichter’s spots as a guest analyst on 610 have been met, so far, with a positive response by most listeners. Most listeners. Schlichter still has a few detractors in Columbus, despite having served some 10 years for his criminal offenses and spending time as a peer counselor in addiction recovery programs.

“He’s really good, he just happens to be an ex-con,” said Mike Elliott, WTVN program director. Elliott said public feedback was split 80/20 in Schlichter’s favor. Most listeners whole-heartedly approve of giving the reformed Buckeye a “second chance,” while others still bear a grudge. Responses run the gamut from “he’s sleazy, he’s awful to ‘good for you, this gives the guy a second chance,’” said Elliott. The Other Paper

He's had more do-overs and screw-overs than the coach's son in a second grade t-ball game.

He talks openingly of his addiction and prison time. We used to work with convicts and know a lot of addicts of various substances and things. You're never cured. It never ends--for the addict and for the family. And Art has had more than a second chance--he's had many. He says he placed his last bet in prison in 2005. He lives with his mother (or did in 2007). His father committed suicide some years ago when he was in prison.

One of my favorite reference questions back in the 70s was when Art was every college kid's idol--he could do no wrong. A freshman came up to my desk and asked, "Who is Art Nouveau?"

Casino gambling keeps reappearing on Ohio's ballot. Remember Art and the family and friends he scammed and destroyed and the promising career he ruined to keep his addiction going. It started really small and finally ruined him.