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Woman Physicic Fairport, When arrogant lawlessness is i: the saddle, and the law-abiding citi zens keep out of sight, it is time fo the exercise of a strong hand in gov v ' ernment. So thought the electorate of Fail port, Ohio, last autumn. Whereupo: the men and women went to the poll and selected as mayor, Dr. Amy A ^ Kaukonen, a slight, comely girl o 22 years. Her election was a mandate fo strong arm suppression of the un restrained violation of the prohibi tion laws. " Fairport is a picturesque lake por 20 miles east of Cleveland. It ha only 9,000 inhabitants but, prior t last November, it had won a place i the front rank of the municipalise ~ c ^ i * 4U wiuuu uycu viuianuii ul iuc law i viewed with approval. In the PuL man smoker and the club car, Fail port's name had prominent place i the conversations devoted to the lc cation of the lawless haunts fror coast to coast. In Fairport itself, there was a sor of blatant pride in the openness o the law violation. Citizens bragged o the success of their stills, and thei recipes for brewing beer. An under taker, grimly humorous over a dua ocupation of bootlegging and bury ing, fitted out one of his caskets wit] a spigot and held a long, gleeful an* profitable wake over the demise o John Barleycorn. , A long debauch disgusts eve] those who participate in it. . And when Fairport awoke on* morning to learn that one of its po lice officers, crazed by drugged moon shine whisky, had run amuck in ? n a* ? i. ~ ? J ~ V /.i UOOUeggers resun, aiiu. auui tu ucaui another policeman, the little cit; decided it was time to put on th< brakes. Purport cannot yet understan< just by what trick of fate it happene< to choose a 22-year old girl for it mayor. A girl mayor is a novelty an; place. But a girl mayor who lhas nev er been a suffragist, never taken par in politics, never made a single stree corner speech, but has played the pi ano, romped with her Airdale, "Pat," shopped for intensely feminine cloth es, worn her blond hair in the lates coiffure, sung in the choir of Sunday and danced during the week, is i novelty of the most extreme degree Dr. Kaukonen was born in Elyria Ohio. During her school days she wai considered an unusually talented pu pli. At Conneaut, she won the higl school scholarship which enabled hei to enter the Woman's Medical Col lege in Philadelphia, where she agaii led her class, graduating as the in stitution's youngest pupil. About a year ago she hung out hei shingle as a physician in Fairport specializing in children's diseases. As a physician she naturally cam< frequently in contact with the effect* of the traffic in poisonous alcohol But she took no part in the politica consideration of the subject and i1 was an unmitigated surprise to hei wlhen a committee called on her-anc asked her to run for mayor on a re tinVaf fiho at the re IVliU bivuw. ? quest and would not accept tlie proffered nomination despite the seriousness of their insistance. They woulc take no refusal and left only wher she promised to think it over. , Then Dt. Kaukonen says she promptly put the matter out of hei mind. Dr. Kaukonen was called professionally when the bootlegging tragedy which resulted in a police officer's death occurred. This event determined her entrance into the campaign for mayor. The campaign , was a warm one. But the citizens, even the most confirmed liquor addicts, were aroused to the danger of the continued supremacy of bootleggism. Dr. Kaukonen had announced "her intentior relentlessly to ngnt tne pronioitior violators. . Women took the lead ir her campaign, but men joined them in the fight, and husbands and wives went to the polls together on election morning and Dr. Kauhonen received the largest majority ever given a Fairport mayorality condidate Dr. Kaukonen's induction into office was characterized by a new funeral at the bootlegger undertaker's place. This time it was a watery one. The new maalbr solemly marched sis of the town's huskiest officers to the undertaker's establishment, selzeu the casket saloon, hoisted it on a truck, and with the town band playing the "Prohibition Blues," marched down the main thoroughfare and dumped the liquor into Lake Erie. There was something spectacular about the first raid by the new mayor and there has been something spectacular about subsequent ones which she has led in person. Spectacular raids always draw the criticism of those persons who insist that government must be ultra-dignified. Regaidless of the justice of this criti^j1 ** must be admitted by the crit in as Mayor Ohio, Curing City n . ics themselves that the new mayor's i- tactics have carried out the town's r desires. Gambling and bootlegging have been made hazards instead of recog - nized xvocations. Mayor Kaukonen's a raids, whether they have utterly ? eliminated liquor, have made it a .. subject to be discussed in whispers f rather than in loud tones. The new mayor's law enforcement r programme has met the usual obstal cles, legal and human. She has been i- forced to call to her assistance the state prohibition authorities and to t arm them with technically correct s search warrants. But the clean-up o programme has gone forward steadn ily. Dr. Kaukonen has planned and (S directed each raid. The battle for s law observance has been characterl ized by sensational incidents. At one - place as the raiding was entering a n shot was heard; a man dashed out; i- Mayor Kaukonen braced herself and I n captured 'him. One woman attempt- j ed to destroy the evidence of her j t husband's business by pouring raisin I f whiskey into a sink. Dr. Kaukonen i f quickly seized a piece of bread from! r a table near by stopped the drain - with it, and enabled the officers to i obtain enough of the liquor for anly sis. 1 Federal prohibition officers and i aw enforcement league officials somef how got the idea that the Kaukonen administration would need instruca tion in how to enforce the law. So a representative went to Fairport to ine struct. When they got there, she took - personal charge and gave her in structors a valuable education in the i course of a raid that included 11 a speak-easies. The biggest raid of her T campaign took place about a month e after she took office, ID stills 1,000 : gallons of mash and 25 barrels of I whiskey being seized. I Although Dr. Kaukonen conducts s her crusades earnestly, she entertains y no illusions of the immediate de struction of the liquor traffic. t "Do you believe bootlegging will t be completely wiped out " some one ' - asked her. "Bootlegging," she replied, "is a - long and lingering disease. When you t think it is done for, it is the most s dangerous. Many men who appear to i be the most ardent prohibitionists . are the most ardent seekers for cases , of whiskey. 3 "As a mater of fact, the bootleg tram rin more than the enforcement i officers to make prohibition prohibir tive. They make drinking a hazard ous avocation with poisonous drinks. i The drinking public has little faith - any longer in the truthfulness of lables. There are a few drinking men r who will risk anything for the 'kick' , but most men nowadays are wary of drinks they are not able to identify 3 definitely." 3 It has been in connection with her war on prohibition violators that Dt. 1 Kaukonen has been most active as t chief executive. But her own attrac tive personality, her youth, and the I novelty of her incumbency of the - mayoralty office all combine in the - arousing of the intense interest that has been taken in her.Dearborn In dependent. l Women in the United States who reach the age of 100 years exceed: i the men by the ratio of 5 to 3. Miss Era La Rose, of Lawrence, . Mass., is said to be the only woman . sign painter in New England. Sixty-five manufacturing establishments in Kentucky have women managers. ^ Mw f > 1 A 1 A year ago? almost unknown Todaj /-a leader J A sweeping verdic FINISH OF THE WARSHIPS. Time Approaches When Aeroplane Will Take its Place. j If the prophecy of Capt. Frederick Guest, British Air .Minister, comes true, there will be no new battleships built at the end of the ten-year naval holiday arranged at the Washington conference. Speaking in the house of commons a few days ago on the air estimates, he declared dramatically: "In ten years' time I believe a combat between forces of the air and forces of the sea will have become a grotesque and pathetically one-sided affair." Capt. Guest prefaced his conclusion with brief but significant revelations of the progress already made along those lines. The possibilities of the bomb have only been partially explored, he said, adding: "A few months ago we started a bombing school. It has already proved that one bomb can sink the most powerful battleship in a few minutes. The warship may survive a direct surface hit, but you cannot protect it from the explosion of a bomb underneath the water line. It is merely necessary to perfect the bomb sight, which is a matter purely of practice and experiment. "To show the power and superiority of a bomb over a shell?its accuracy must be greater as apart from the fact that the former is dropped from a height say, of two miles, while a shell must traverse, say, twenty miles?the error inherent in the gun itself is completely eliminated. "As regards range there can be no Mmnariann The ranSTft from a Ship v. vr ***?*?? ? aww**. W can hardly be more than twenty miles, while an air bomber can cover something like 200." Hottest Place on Earth. Ten years of records obtained at the United States weather bureau substation at Greenland ranch in Death Valley, Cal., indicate that this is the hottest region in the United States, and probably on earth. The average of extreme maximum temperature reported to the United States department of agriculture since 1911 has been 125 degrees. At Greenland ranch temperatures of 100 degrees F. or higher occur almost daily during June, July and August. The hottest month on record is July 1917, when the mean temperature of 107.2 degrees F. But the temperature of 134 degrees F. observed on . July 10, 1913, is believed by meteorologists to be the highest natural-air temperature ever recorded with a standard tested thermometer exposed in the shade under approved conditions. -Death Valley is from 2 to 8 miles miles wide and about 100 miles long, lying between high mountain ranges. It is the deepest depression in the United States, some estimates placing its lowest point at 337 feet below sea level. Greenland ranch is 178 feet below sea level. White people find the midsummer heat intolerable, and even the Indians go up to the Panamint range during Jury and August. The normal annual precipitation in Death Valley is less than 2 inches. Successful agriculture can not# be maintained on less than 15 or 20 inches of annual precipitation without the aid of irrigation. 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