Source: Chicago Tribune, letter to the editor, 5 August 1933, pg. 8.
So King (Sanitary) Kelly and Sheriff (Who Gave Him That Gun?) Meyering are going to safeguard our morals by making the skin dancers put on some clothes? It is to laugh. What are they trying to do—ruin the Fair? Don't they know that all the people from out in the sticks where they still call them "leg shows" are saving their corn money to come up to Chicago and see if the fan dancers really don't wear nothing nohow? First it was Belle (Don't Forget to Use My Name) Spencer, and later it was Rufus (Pay Station) Dawes with his aid de cramp Maj. (Cash Before Comfort) Lohr, that were trying to make the Fair a 9 o'clock show in a 1 o'clock town. Now it's King Kelly and our sleepy sheriff that are trying to get a few headlines in the papers by cleaning up the Fair. The fan dances at the Exposition are—and always have been—extremely tame. The few seconds of actual nudity involved are a negligible factor, morally speaking. From the entertainment point of view, however, they are indispensable because they give the yokels a chance to say that they saw what they came to see. Why begrudge them this pitiful glory in their home town sessions at the ice cream parlor or the horseshoe lot? Kelly should remember that he is king only by virtue of the fact that the people never had a chance to vote against him and should stay out of the picture as much as possible. He's only giving the Democrats a black eye, and as a Democrat I object.
