Photo Courtesy and Copyright Seattle Post-Intelligencer / Kurt Smith

In Seattle, piety has always taken a back seat to business interests. In the 1920’s "Big Bertha" found out the hard way. Bertha K. Landes was the first female mayor of a large city. She ran on a platform of ‘REFORM’ with a capital Bible in it. The town was cleaned up and only two years of ‘reform’ got her voted out of office. The new mayor, Frank Edwards, promised to refrain from ‘reform.’