davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-10-16
KEEP ON DEST ROyTNG
The COTTON STALKS

ATLANTA Ga Ok E-Ex2r-S
u M @74.,,rz-la 0sseaE-1s11 II -Az-s;zl-
-e z-5 7E-- 1-ls.s.-S g.-ss-a-v ~
Wig Ia ccc-u e1E1cs-x Ia IL
z-a- zzzz-sS- M s,-E we7svZ = czsr
s- z1-r -z-sss -Hss SaS - .2e -
,sr-sr Sz-1,s-..s c,s1,n -=cE IA e-Cz-2c
= Ssss-cEs.1
Ccc--c giving Iss-czz1-1S- -z--
.--,-rzs-z-1rs. 1ae newspapers E1c
,-e --zz-11za:.s -.lE- 1zvs 5sc.R--t--z
s..zy--.ss :, az-1-l-1---s~ = WIS r,,E-e='-
c1-- a--e -c,5fv- IL ce-szScs-- = c-s-
5s-G-,= III IL ccc1-C slzS -zsc *
5ss--cves5 Z IL e,cl =ezv- : :, re
s=s---1z-v Eev-e tsH-z Ex-e--s u -
a I Z / -a--cslE zz-a:;-------L e.
csi--zz- 1are Gsz7-c4s5 -.1-.ss1=- E,,si-
--zt E5 Ecs2r - z@E2S@-S - sa--e-s
zEr- = Ee = c--,E- 10 81 @7szv-
Z: -cc cElv = ia zsa u cscEsca cre-
ve-a-r=s- TT = r-sz; :iz-z-4- 1-T't-,sI--l-
c.-,c- L US z-sssr ~ u Ia t-51--s
q; - 5srrE@z1 ~ Scvs---1+z-
c:.5c5zI< 5<-ccs1zss5 ECl-s @-s--
- ScE-1 Gsc-z
T1e x-e-5tzcts .: -2oss Eao 1E7+
-Ess,5 ccc-cc Z wsEElIL-:.15ss-s,5 So
-ocs- = ~< r,,G,-5 CT - ci1gcsz., Is
q IL <a-s zz-a--s---zl Gs.&--<-- :;
-1a- -1r-e : less 5=s---ccsoc n 11=
~+v- reE ~1- @e co-1c1 SllSs 4.
~ -=-z--=<s - <.2-5 q Ex ss-sZh
q Ees- NJ <-zr-z L gathered
I Cssccc- SAX .ts---c1,1 < 1E sag
= - ev------f-
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-10-16
PURCHASING POWER OF
DOLLAR ABOUT &c

ATLANTA Oc- Tc-T1s p=-c1ls-
~ co@s- q t5< 3clz-. bass - =
100 ce--S vaiz+ ae51-s lie ~E. was
Go = Ev=s .Ie-+- accc-yz-s 70 I s--5r
a a-s 5zz-eS Hv local S,1tzse5cazS-
Fer II s-ozps q cso-zzC.55s-5s< Ire
coT-z- -s1c1s,3 IS 5o7vsS- v2t7s = M2v
1924 waxz :. wo1,G bcx shy n GEMS
yzc-ca q gods Ttss v4E1e Ecs< = ,he
Is. hzS u 1871 and = he 6-Se hat
q 19-- wkez ), WIS zovt = cents,
sz-ce wzs-z p<-55 :, k,aS is-,c--1-es5 ov-
e s-al sc1ie- Last January t5s dol
" VS. worth 81 cents
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-10-16
DOVE SEASON OPENS
ON THURSDAY NEXT

Atlanta, Oct 15--In telegram 70
all county game wzrdens il the state,
Peter S. Twitty, state commissioner
of game and hsh. Monday drew attea-
ton to the opening OF the season on
doves, which comes next Thursday.
The open season on quail, however,
does not begin in Georgia until No
vember 20 and Commissioner Twitty
urges all local game wardens 70 Co
operate in an effort to see that dove
hunters do not violate the law regard
ing quail. He also urges the waEdens
to see that they have an ample sup
ply Of hunting licenses on sale IN z
convenient place for all who wish TO
shoot doves
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-10-16
A RLNnD FEELING

Tsz1 z-<s3. as5E-sl::S. Giss-sGrssr@5 Fer
NJ skEss5 r & s,r-H5 Ezsr x1as c.,r<Ge-
-lSszss >e~siss eS1 ~ r,1zsn IA II EyE-A
SE-cErE -rcEEG1sss ~ gSSnlg EsrcE-ss4
y-E- Ss. rs esr,sssg.s,S- sssss VIII -s,ss lg-ss
6,se 81 rs Es-Ty1.g All rs.zz3;sz1rsc sEssz
= ao,r,CEa x-ss csEzc1Asas. h asz6 enlsy
Gzrzs csza ciiss x1s5 1rErz-xAss sSrs q M
-sx-SS 8 <y-isEs-Ss3 sss.nc Ct sxeEix-x<s,n-
scrsrgsa VIE sri eSazTszs-T &C Sr-ZS
Pesx s,e- Sef5 sw
7 / Haze 4 Ca
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-10-16
= : DUKES

NJ i Z 0-xes Wis zs5 = rs
E-c1zy z--<--cc- = A-oo- t1=-- 4
2=w- : L (s- 5z5 c-Ese 2: -55
Ira ss-v1-SS
NJ 0-ksS III s15e-s: wI-E Esz--
--o1sJz 5cr <srs-z- -oz-zs z-5 *
6sz-8 Gs5 III cc-z Sg-5sS :,
- E@r
TE-s5zv z.-e--oc1- wAe -o-s
a51z- * 6zzv asks Il 65e5 s-y5ts--
u NJ D-S5< was - vSz-s u z
z-t -e-le- a Ire E-l-z.-1vs 8srelS-
ciz-cE a t1sS cry
He I=4vss I we ard tcz- cE15-e-
II Eo=-z Us loss he -z-~ 5-se-GS
u thS deceased VII regret u hear ::
1;S 6S-<S
Ts--z- U---- 49, VE--1 S=w II
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-10-16
Can You Solve This Crossword Puzzle? A
New Feature For The Readers Of The Leader

rs rs -5--t- WIS E-E-z-t IT
NJ c<[c = E-s-z TT rs -ss=s
page. E<-Zz-S E-- 1v-S TESsse.-
Is c1@ CC- ycc III %cC- - -CaE---zi--S<
cce u -s-s-- GsSzS- = Fcu 10 =.
SS16 : -cc -1zs 1sEs-Gct- Ee1-+ ri
=S 81 PRINT = N0x @ Cce cr-
zo=-le= =a-cE ~ NIX wttS 81.
y t.se L<zss- z~- ~ ~ -GEs1
is r@i- o-rl-,z- NJ ~ c-r--a--
V,1r5S = cZacS
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-10-16

Below Is printed ne ES q 4e
popular crcS$-wcCG p-zles w-5c1 I'll
TOW bS featured Z ta5s newspaper E-cE
time - t1r,s- Cc6ez2ezr1 5e rHs
are printed the Seys - - corrscr
solution Ihev Gs cHs vs-o;L z-G
horizontal Synonyms q 1ae lE:G5s1
words When co-p5>ee re p-le III
read correctly s;cAs- n zot 6c~- q
sideways Try r Yo1 vi @1 !. graf
sport.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-10-16
Of INTEREST TO FORMER
FITZGERALD FRIENDS

The G--,sg-zrce.--<-- u cns s-SISs-
--e-- II Mss Agnes Ntx1 Nc&<z-L
~ -E,ssSz- 3D. II Nj. Cz116s Ls.-
z4E-~- cS 5tcR1z- so vi : L. E1-ctz--sc-,t
III SzzrSEyS s3exrs4 = ~ GzSt-Ss1 =
I z-lSe zzz-5.s- &c Es-zSgr.is1 --1se7l,ss,
TIE -zE-v1Ess < - -zSe -sis;s Nc1o-
ser - II eAe E1-se 5,1rczs- c-E--ce II
Sez-Isr
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-10-16
JIhNY OTcoNNSLL

CCZY DOLAN
The baseball scandal following
attempted bribery of Heinie Sand,
Phillie tadelder, and for which
Giants jimmy O'Connell and Cozy
Dolan were banished from organ
lied baseball, is expected to fur.
nish more fireworks now that thA
world series games are ended.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-10-16

NJ \ + e Dcrzs1ex 5sSs Wed
-sSzs1~ scr --Se ~ Nsz-A
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-10-16
WANTED

EXCHANGE-17 room house in At
lanta. Rents for 500 mo-, arranged
for several families, modern conven-
fences. Loan $1,000 Price $4,000. Will
exchange for property in Fitzgerald,
Triton or Moultrie or farm in either
section. c. G. AYCOCK, Peters Bldg.
Atlanta, Ga. 1t.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-10-16
FOR RENT

FOR RENT - ONE 10 ROOM
house at 32l south Grant street, and
one 3-room apartment at lOo East
Roanoke. Phone 176, Mrs. H. 6;
Powell dOZ3
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-10-16
FOR SALE

RHODE ISLAND RED, BARRED
Rock and White Leghorn day old
baby chicks at $500 per hundred
Ben Hill COOPERATIVE Co. O3Opd
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-10-16

FURNITURE FOR SALE Good
second hand furniture. almost new
consisting OF all kinds, sold singly or
in suits to suit purchaser. Apply 5O/
E. Central Ave. Phone 20l 1t
FROST PROOF CABBAGE Plants,
Yes, we have them. 20 cents per hun
bred. Any amount Phone llOZ.
Stokes Plant Co., Fitzgerald, Ga,
% pd
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-10-16
LOST

LOST-One yellow jip puppy near
Sheriff Dorminy's place. Notify CHI;
Mclean. Wray. Ga. 1tpd
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-10-16

FREE! WINTERS SUPPLY OF
Coal absolutely free for few hours
spare time. Write today. Popular Coal
Company, 1911 Coal Exchange Bldg,
Chicago. ltpd
SITUATION WANTED - Expert
enced stenographer, banking, legal.
commercial and railroad experience,
desires work. full or part time. Ad-
dress P. O. Box 423, Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-10-16

Leader War, AS W5l Ser l.
The Washington times., 1924-02-01
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
By DIR. FRANK CRANE.
Optimism and PessinIisns

n KR. HAVELOCK ELLIS in his dance Of Life"
V really juicy and toothsome volume, takes fling in
AVA place at the Optmist What he Of course
those optmistS whose optimism Is but stubborn sent
mental smirk.
based upon deep conclusion.
G. Wells pauses occasionally in his triumphant literary
hur brick at the optmist and to indulge in
contemptuous at those who interpret conditions by
their own temperament rather than by solid logic
But right there is where Mr. Wells makes his mistake
And his mistake that the thing ne talking about which
whether civilization is going to collapse or to triumph
in the very Of the not thing any human mind
is capable of proving.
The causes Of what will become Of civilization lie in the
deep mind of destiny and comprise unknown elements that
cannot possibly grasp.
proof it would not carry conviction, however much it
might surprise feat Of mental gymnastics.
God knows whether civilization is going to collapse to
rumph-and God alone Because the eventuaon comprises
such and muarous factors God alone can grasp
1T al gong to come out no metr Of
fact is and always will be matter OF point OF view,
matter Of attitude of mind
Always the most accurate term for the thinker who be-
eves in happy ending "optmist And for the thinker
who believes that the end is tragedy the most accurate
For so long as the human mind subject its present
limitations neither Of them absolutely his posi-
ton And the who that he has proved and
at the other ignorant Sentlmentas merely
egotist.
That, unfortunately, is what Mr. Wells is While he is
constructive thinker forced to recognize that ne
oversophistcated.
believe that civilization will triumph that will emerge
successfully out OF Its present dculteS ana am frankly
an optmist Not because of lot Of facts and reasoning
but simply because have faith in the comic energies Of
Nature that health will disease that sanity
eventually will drive away insanity and that truth will
outive the most vigorous lies.
There living that should not be dead for the
very best reasons There is not single business
that should be bankrupt for equally good
And if all needed proof there is plenty Of to
convince anybody that the human should have been
extinct years ago.
But we still live That force of which Mr. Wells has often
spoken admirably that force Of growth development
and health which call God, continues to function.
Mcclure Newspaper syndcats)
The Washington times., 1924-02-01
Utilities Commission Should
Be Separate Body

The District Commissioners in statement Congress
few days ago. indicated very strongly their desire to divorce
themselves from the Public Utilities Commission They
pointed out that this job hankess and budensome
In informal statements the Commissioners have frankly
admitted they do not have sufficient time to devote to public
utility matters They have told the people Of Washington
that time should be spent by public officials in super
vising the District utilities corporations.
Every Washingtonan knows should know, that in
ming the District alone the Commissioners have
great which takes up practically all Of their time When
they not at the District building working at their desks
they found conferences in the Budget Bureau
Capitol Hill Their spare time is devoted to the study Of
The Commissioners have too much work. They are not
devong sufficient attention to the work Of the Public Utilities
Commission But is reflection them They honest
efficient and conscientious and they give much attention
possible to utility problems imposbty for them
to devote sufficient time to the Utilities Commission
Washington should have separate Public Utilities Commits
sion NOW. Congress should longer hesitate in acting It
is only matter Of time before the Commissioners will appeal
80 Congress to relieve them Of some Of their duties
Their statement OF several days the
opening wedge for appeal for relief also the first
time since the Public Utilities Commission created that the
District Commissioners have agreed that there should be
separation Of the two bodies with separate and distinct
Public Utilities Commissioners should devote ALL their
time to public utility problems Engineer Commissioner
Bell who in his spare time is chairman of the Utilities Com
mission made statement the other day which should interest
every resident Of Washington He said:
II wish that members Of the Public Utilities Commission
that we could have opportunity make thorough and
constant study of public utility problems Public Utility
Commissioners should visit other cities and study manner
In which their utility corporations operate They should
in daily touch with utility matters.
1T is almost mpossibity for to devote much time
30 the Utilities Commission We continually before
ees in Congress- Bureau of the Budget we are holding
conferences with citizens Again are board meeting
passing those matters which be officially approved
in full board meeting and the rest Of the time must devote
to the conducting Of the business Of the city
leaves but little time to devote to utility matters
II have never been person who wanted to dodge any
duties which devolve upon But do like devote the
proper and sufficient time to every task which given me-
Could any better be given for the prompt
ent Of legislation relieving the District Commissioners Of
the task Of running the Public Utilities Commission?
The Washington times., 1924-02-01
Buccaneers

"HE buccaneers were French
and English freebooters of
the seventeenth century who
had headquarters on the island
of Tortuga del Mar, off the
coast Of San Domingo, in the Ba-
hama channel. which was the
main line Of Caribbean commerce.
BY papal decree the Spanish
claimed the whole Western World
as private possession, and other
countries were driven to ques-
tionable methods in order to gain
a foothold. The French and
English pirates raided the Span.
ish plantations on San Domingo
and sold meat to vessels stopping
for provisions. This meat was
dried or cured in smokehouses,
called ''boucans," hence the
name buccaneers. Later these
buccaneers took to the sea them.
selves and began to capture ves-
SELF. In France the buccaneers
were called "filipusters," the
Spaniards called them demons
of the sea-" and among them
selves they we're known as the
brethren of the coast" The
buccaneers did much to break up
the Spanish sea power In the
New World.
The Washington times., 1924-02-01

; Lindenberg with kites sent to aIti.
tudes Of more than $4,000 feet,
combined with the results OF en-.
tirely Independent experiments,
made at Manila, that most Of the
emanations do not come from
the earth'S surface, and he adds
that ''inasmuch as the source Of
emanation cannot be wholly In
the atmosphere itself, we cannot
avoid the assumption Of a cosmic
origin for it.
"The sun would naturally be
considered as the most probable
source, and 1t would be assumed
that corpuscular radiations are
emitted by the sun which are
carriers Of emanation atoms.
Since these atoms presumably
possess positive charges, we &C.
cordingly have the foundations of
theory for the vertical current
from the air to the ground, the
drop Of potential through the
atmosphere, and the ionization of
the atmosphere"
Radio Arrows.
AS another proof that it is tho
sun that shoots the emanations
to the earth, Bongards calls at.
tention to a correspondence
which he has found between the
quantity Of radioactive disin-
tegration products in the earth's
atmosphere and the movement Of
calcium clouds over the suns
disk an shown by spectrohello-
graph photographs taken at
Mt. Wilson.
That these hitherto unsus.
pected radio arrows aimed at us
from Apollo's bow play some
part in the Vagaries of the
weather, and consequently in the
state. of health and happiness of
mankind seems o go without
saying.
The Washington times., 1924-02-01
HEROINES OF HISTORY
BY MARK STUYVESANT.
Pioneer United States Worker for Ser Equality

; fourteen. At eighteen she mar.
ried Mr.. McNall, who died shortly
afterward. She then entered Cen
esee College, and after her grad.
uation became principal Of the
Gainesville Female Seminary.
The year that she moved to
Washington, to open a school,
she married DIR. Lockwood and
Immediately afterward began the
study Of law. When she applied
for admission to Columbia Law
School she met with the refusal
already recorded, and her next
and first publication was work
ing for the law, eventually passed,
eQuali5ing the salaries Of male
and female Government employees.
The next year Mrs. Lockwood
found that. her fight opposing
discrimination against women was
proving efficacious, for she ex-
perienced little difficulty in being
admitted to practice before the
Appellate Court Of the District Of
Columbia.
(Copyright, 1894. by NewspapeP
ReaturO Service. 1no.G
The Washington times., 1924-02-01

A LTHOUH the sun is not to
~ be ikened to a fire, or a
IA body in flames, or under
going combustion, yet. 1t Is mani
testify the cause of heat upon the
earth, as a radiator is the cause
Of heat in a room. This is so
evident to ordinary comprehension
that one wonders that the state"
ment. should be given out, from a
scientific source, as If it were a
puzzling novelty, that ''indica-
tons have been found that
weather is influenced in some
way by variations in solar radia-
tion."
No doubt what Is meant to be
emphasized is the fact that the
solar radiation does vary, at its
source, and not that since the
radiation varies. the effects pro-
duced by it vary also. We all
know very well that the weather
ia dependent upon the sun. But
what we do not know is in how
many ways, or through just what
selective action among its differ
ent forms Of radiant energy, the
sun governs the weather for us
or in spite Of us.
The sun is the cause OF many
other things besides heat upon
the earth. And that shutting
phenomenon which we name
weather" certainly has other
ways Of making us comfortable
or miserable besides changes Of
temperature.
Our nerves, generating our
moods, tell us continually Of OBJ
scure changes going on appar-
emily in the atmosphere, which
may make a sunny day depress.
ing and full Of moral gloom and
a rainy day a period of joyous
and exuberant physical and men,
tai activity. when our spirits
dance. The sun Is back Of all
this, playing upon us with its
infinite gamut Of electro-mag-
netic radiations.
Findings Startle.
Hermann Bongards, a German
physicist, has recently brought
out facts which may produce a
revolution OF views concerning
the origin Of some Of the radio.
active effects that have been
noticed in the earth's atmosphere,
and have heretofore been ascribed
to exhalations from the soil and
the rocks. Bongards attributes
them to corpuscular radiations
emitted from the sun.
The particular phenomena re-
ferred to are what are called de
composition products of radium,
actinium, and thorium found in
varying quantities in the atmos-
phere. 1t was natural to sup.
pose that these emanated from
the surface of the earth through
radio active decomposition, be.
cause they are found in espe.
cially large quantities not only
in the air of cellars and caves,
but also in the upper layers of
It has been believed that the
variation in their abundance in
the air arose from changes in the
exhaling power of the ground,
due 10 fluctuations Of atmospheric
pressure, etc.
But Bongards shows from en-.
periments Of his own made at
The Washington times., 1924-02-01
GARRETT P. SERVISS TELLS
OF HEAT SHOT BY SUN

New Findings Of German Physicist Reveal Radio
Arrows That Influence Earth's Weather.
The Washington times., 1924-02-01
For Big Men, No ''Pen"
Some Other Things.

Coolidge must think there was dash of IRONY in the fate
which framed for him to take the Presidential by
light Of an oil lamp.
England recently Of her leading statesmen to the
penltentlary Have gzzard enough to do likewise if
veopments it? The PEN may be mgher than the
sword but this Government unable her big plumber
ers there
No executive officer is good enough power to
sell or lease our natural That power should be
exercised only by the lawmang power which country
Is the Congress and the President.
Oo many cigarettes much dancing!" rather sum
mary states Boston father regarding the suicide Of his
thing and it will save them they be saved But let
them drift into gded useessne they to be ptied
Tor all OF their windows look out upon mischief.
Where others collect autographs and old prints Fall COL
lected natural resources Oil fields coal Mines public rail
roads aroused tender yeargs which could be satisfied only
by placing them under the control of his department He
was crabbe from the day he entered the Cabinet.
he had been at Versailles when the treaty signed
he would have grabbed everything Germany had before
france England and Japan could have got started.
Fall had gone into any en-cent store in Washington
and started to fill his pockets with clothes pins and
traps the hepomania department would have cot busv bn
ne his collecting program under the eyes of
COoy curing what seems to have been the longest Of
sleeping Sickness that attacked national
Fred HOppe Of % Park avenue New York. convicted
fifteen years developed that he had been free from
State institutions only two years he committed
an orphan asylum at the age Of four years.
If we give this to a who never had chance what
should we give to politician who has had all the honors
the public could give him and who then picks the pocket Of
Uncle Sam?
K Chesterton stout humorist who this country
not long spoke London before the King Knights
landmarks Of the Blessed Sacrament denounng the modern
method OF disturbing knghthood in England He says that
the plutOcra swnders and Oppressors of the
poor made knights not to be compared with the
medieval knights of Arthurs round table, and later.
They different modern British
who has made soap successfully or risen on the stock
change probably good the ancient knight that
ran around insulting everybody elses fair lady, breaking
the monotOny occasionally by running with somebody
wife.
This isn't perfect world but it doesn't get worse and
that includes the knights.
The Washington times., 1924-02-01
THREE-MINUTE JOURNEYS
TG CITY THAT SEEMS ALMOST AMERICAN
By TEMPLE MANNING.

the fertile plains stretching from
the mountains of Transylvania
across the Danube almost to the
Adriatic, and for centuries were
the buffer Of Europe against the
powerful Ottoman Turks.
They became rapidly civilized
and were the first nation in Eu.
rope to adapt themselves to mod
ern inventions. The palace of
the King Of Hungary, which is
the most beautiful palace Of Eu-
rope externally and its location
makes 1t visible to all parts Of
the city and surrounding country.
Budapest was the first city in
the world to tackle the problem
OF modern city transit and the
first electric car subway in the
world was built In that city.
In Budapest was the first sus.
pension bridge. a structure which,
although much smaller, looks
enough like the Brooklyn Bridge
to be a sister.
Copyright. 1894, by Nswspapsr
IeAturo Service. Inc.
The Washington times., 1924-02-01

~ ECAUSE she was a woman
she was refused admission to
- the Columbia Law School.
The reason offered to bear out
objection to her sex? that her
presence would distract the atten-
ton Of the young men!
And this Is the actual story Of
how 1t happened that laws were
passed equalizing the salaries Of
male and female Government en-
ployes, and authorizing women to
practice law in the United States
many, many years before the nat
ural course Of feminine progress
would have brought them about
automatically.
Belva A. Lockwood disproved
the theory that a woman must
begin her life work at the very
opening Of her career to make Il
successful. Her great work was
establishing sex.equality, yet she
began as a school teacher In the
little town Of Ration, N. Y, where
she was born.
She began to teach when but
The Washington times., 1924-02-01

Mr. Coolidge must think there irony in the fate
which framed for him to take the Presidential oath by the
light of an oil lamp.