STATES & CITIES: Noble Achievement

Year ago Colorado stroked its chin thoughtfully but nodded assent when Fred G. Bonfils, astute publisher of the incredibly blatant Denver Post, proposed that State auto license No. 1 be bestowed annually on "Denver's most useful citizen." He wangled the scheme through Secretary of State Charles M. Armstrong, got license No. i away from a Mrs. E. E. Sommers whose husband had held it many years, and grandiloquently bestowed it on Miss Emily Griffith, sweet-faced, grey-haired founder of Denver's Opportunity School. "Henceforth," blared the Post, "it will be a sign that one...

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