The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 18, 1922, Page 3, Image 3
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
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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.
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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
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that one bomb can sink the most
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The warship may survive a direct surface
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"As regards range there can be no
Mmnariann The ranSTft from a Ship
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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. A group
of springs serve as the source of irrigation-water
supply for Greenland
ranch. The water has a temperature
of about 100 degrees F. and is only
sufficient to irrigate 70 acres. Four
crops of alfalfa are gathered each
year. The principal product of the
ranch is dressed meat, but experiments
are being made in raising poultry
and in growing vegetables, dates,
citrus and deciduous fruits.
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