Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1916-12-16

college chapel, since she was forDld,
den TO hold them inside. While Still
an undergraduate, her deep feeling
against social injustice found expires
sion in work for the unfortunate
children of the neighborhood at
probation officer.
Her active work for the hire waist
makers strike in New York had IL
root in iris same desire to right indus
| trial wrongs. When her thrilling
| street pleas for the strikers cadset
her arrest in New York, charged will
| leading an unlawful assembiage,
| her protest at her arrest was not So
| much over the fact. as that the youh'
| working women who were her com
panions suffered the penalty OF tn
| law while her cast was dismissed
| From this time she was an actlN
member of the Woman's Trade Unloi
League, and it was her earnest desir'
to help industrial workers caught II
the tolls of the law which caused hel
to become an attorney.
The denial of her right to study
law at Yale University on the groun'
of sex, aroused protest on her par
that caused the feminists of the Eas
| to enter an earnest campaign which
she led in the newspapers with teiiln'
effect for many weeks. Finally en-
tering the New York University Law
School. she received her degree II
1912 and opened Offices in East Nintl
street. location that would keep he
n touch with those she wished tf
reach. men and women unable &c
afford TO purchase Justice through tn
services of powerful attorneys. lie
first cases were successful: she coulf
fluent course had she not been a
have pursued the conventional and at
heart young crusader.
Typical of this spirit was her inter
est in the case of Steilow, the con
demned murderer whose cose touche'
to the quick her yearning for fair pla
for even the most defenesless ant
neglected. 1t aroused her hamlni
,corn that great State like New
York should. after cat and nous
: game, in cold blood take, the life of
half-witted irresponsible. Her batt'
on his behalf brought her face to fac
with the black side OF capital punish
ment. and her recent organization o
the New York an i-capital punishment
campaign is still fresh in the minds
her friends.
The mining boom wnich is about
to overtake the people OF Mason Val
ley promises to do so much more thar
to merely develop the mining grount
with which the valley surrounded
that it now behooves the people here
to get together ond look out for th-li
own in erests. To one who sees
things, the next six months shows Z
big mining boom, with the usua.
trading and specializing in MINING
claims, the usual development OF the
mines. and the accompanying tail
ures. There also appears, what /;
apparently foreign to the mining enc
OF it. Mason Valley has agriculture
possibilities beyond the dreams OF
the people of the East, who are con
stantly looking out Tor opportunitie
to invest their money in something
which will prove permanent ant
profitable. There is nothing whicl
is so sure, 20 profitable, nor SO per
manent and satisfactory as good
ricultural land. In this. valley lherC
are hundreds of thousands of acr,
of as good land as can be found il
America. which only require the
touch of the magic wand of capita
to make them productive, and ths
productiveness will practically last for
ever. Though the mines will pay
faster, and give bigger returns for :;
few years, they never yield but once
while the land, producing crops, keeps
on, for ever and ever. producing the
things which men eat drink, and
wear. and these things are transported
to the four corners of the earth t.
, serve mankind. When these caster
investors hear of Mason Valley and
Its great opportunities in the mining
way. they are going to come out and
look it over. Some of them are going
, to see the great agricultural POSSIBLE
: tiles. and they are going to take ad
vantage of the chance and gather ir
: great tracts of the unsurpassed land
{. on the mesas, provide a storage res.
Z ervoir and canals. which it has beer
I shown can be done very chcaply
when TIE number OF acres it is pos
9 sible to reclaim is considered, and f.
these men will come the reward of en-
ergy and forethought. If the peopl,
: who are now here. and who know al
7 about the agricultural possibilities
do not want to get left and want to
get their share of ttc prosperit,
! which has been provided by a gen,
erous god and is lying at heir feet
they must get togcther. set somethin
in motion. and beat the eastern people
to the chance There can be nc
doubt Of the chance, and no doubt
that the men of the east will come OUT
, and see 1t. and seeing it, going beg.
, ging. will take it. Land (which is
capable Of being made inc productive
farms. and which only requires the
hip of man 30 make it para
disc is not to be had any more 1t has
nearly all been taken up and is now
( nprivate hands. Once it estntc
private hands, it is hard to get The
people who get hold do not like te
let go. 1t is the kew TO prosperity
Il and wealth in all lands. There is