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In the same January 28, 1932 issue of the Woodland Democrat as the story on Davis crime
previously posted (#250), Hiram Jackson also discovered an approving account of
civic organizations in Davis.
It is a valuable depiction of such entities in Davis at that
time.
We do not know what prompted the Democrat to assign reporters to work up this and other “feel-good”
stories on Davis in this period. (DHT posts 249, 250, and 251 are among a
larger number of such stories.)
But, if I had to guess, I would call attention to the 1929
crash of the American economy and the possible efforts of the Yolo County
privileged to respond with a campaign of “many things are still just fine” stories.
This effort to blunt--or even to deny--economic collapse
appears also to have been embraced by the Davis
Enterprise and others in Davis itself (discussed in Davis: Radical Changes, Deep Constants, pp. 109-110).
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