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 who has achieved nobly rides forth.”
Last week Colorado gasped and gasped. Affixed to the shiny blue Packard of slick Publisher Bonfils, onetime river gambler, was this year’s license No. 1.
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