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Show ' ' ' ' ' " " - THE ' PRESS-BULLETI- BINGHAM, UTAH - - - , r - -- : yJbUKLbv ABOUT, "I Believe That Every Girl Should Be . '; Trained to Do Something." By MISS MABEL BOABDMAN, District of Columbia Commissioner. ' Do 1 think a young woman should enter publi service provided she has the inclination? That de-pends' upon circumstances;,; family conditions mosl always playing a large part in a woman's decision, Her first, duty, lies at home, and nothing can evei change that. : On the other hand, I believe that every girl-r-ich or poor should be trained to do something, either by which she could make a living or by which she could benefit humanity. There is no excuse for an absolutely selfish existence. Every woman, with the possible exception of the young mother with a growing family, should find some opportunity for public servic work. 1 believe in beginning early to educate for citizenship. The children should be made to realize that citizenship means service. .1 also believe that in the schools girls should be given some special business instruction and, in fact, all possible equipment that will help to fit them for their particular niche in life.: What the "particular niche" may be is a hard question to answer." You can't lay down any law because it all depends ou the woman herself the circumstances of her environment, her training, talent and, most important of all, her inclination. As to the rewards and disappointments of a career of public service, women are young yet in their new field of opportunity. But I believe they are going to be less material than men; that when they go into pub-lic service they have bigger objectives and will therefore have bigger re-wards. Of course, they will have the same disappointments that men have, added to the sacrifices women have to make when they enter public life that men do not. As a matter of fact, I believe women are better fitted for municipal positions than they are for national, that their breadth of human sym-pathy and understanding of civic problems enable them to do a much bigger municipal work. In the Bed Cross, for instance, the national work is such a huge undertaking that unless we had given women some-thing to interest them in a local way we never could have moved them. Vanderlip's Soviet Concession Washington D. Vanderllp arrived in New York the other day from Rus-sia, and more reporters went down the bay to meet the Los Angeles man than have ventured on water at one time since Dr. Frederick A. Cook returned from Copenhagen and the North pole. And no wonde.r. The American mining engineer says he has put through the biggest business deal In the world's history. He says: "Over 400,000 square miles in Si-beria including the entire peninsula of Kamchatka has passed Into possession of the syndicate 1 represent for a pe-riod of 60 years. I also obtained from the soviet government concession to buy $3,000,000,000 worth of goods from the United States in tho next three years, payment to be made in the products of soviet Russia." He says he comes to .do "a little missionary work," in behalf of re suming trade relations with . soviet Russia. Until such relations are resumed, lie admits, his "$3,000,000,000 con-tract" as fiscal agent and his 60-ye- coal, oil and fishing concession In Kam-chatka are valueless. Even then the concession will not be worth much until somebody drives the Japanese off the concession, he snys. .. Vanderllp says all that H. G. Wells saw of Moscow was from the window , of his hotel and limousine. Vanderllp says he was born 53 years ago in Indiana and is a graduate of the University of Adversity. He has walked over most of the earth as an exploring engineer. He is a first cousin once removed of Frank A. Vanderllp. 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Consult more interesting for i us before going you 8S wd, as others elsewhere We want and with your I ' , y 3 help will print all 1 1 I THE NEWS I - MondeH's Jinx Is Persistent - - - - Representative Mondell of Wyom-- , Ing, is shown In recent Washington photographs to be getting about on crutches, with one foot in bundnges. It has been an unlucky summer In a way for the majority floor lead-er In the house. Last June, soon after returning to his home In Wyoming, the Wyoming legislator took to playing farmer. He quit abruptly at least for a time when he fell from a haystack. The haystack was big and high and he ' fell hard The result was two broken ribs. Then In October Mr. Mondell's official between session's activities took him to the Shoshone dam, in Wyoming, on the Cody entrance to Yellowstone national park. Here his Jins rolled a boulder down on him. Th!s time the result was a broken leg.. As is well known, it is hard to Reep a good man down, and November found the Republican floor leader back In Washington getting ready for the opening of the regular session scheduled to begin early in December. He was on crutches, but was getting along nicely, thank you. ' . But his jinx had not yet finished with him. The night of November 23 he ' was hoisting himself up the front steps of his home when one of his crutches broke. In consequence Mr. Mondell got a severe fall sever enough to lay blra up in bed for several days. ' ; It is reported that the Jinx is still active, as there are fears that the bone, set last October, will have to be rebroken and reset What the Women of America Are Doing Today to Help Keep Down Unrest. By REPRESENTATIVE JOHN MAC CRATE of New York. We have listened to men discuss the burden resting upon officials who administer the financial affairs of the city, state and nation, and we have wondered what these government experts would do were they lim-ited to incomes as are the women of our homes. Governmental officials are continually exceeding the amount allotted to their departments and congress, too frequently without condemnation, appropriates more. Did the average housewife of America spend what cornea to her from the family with, the open-hand- ed carelessness of some departmental heads the unrest which we see about us would be multi-plied a thousandfold. Its utterly impossibleto calculate what the women of America are doing today toward keeping down riot and revolution. If our efficiency experts in the field of government could make a little go as long a way and could adjust expenditures to income as well as do the women of our households, this nation would soon see" its in-debtedness reduced, r BianchiV Diplomatic "Break' Senator Moses of New Hampshire a member of the foreign relations committee, introduced a resolution in tl:o senate the other day which seems to contain large possibilities of Inter-esting reading. The resolution set forth all sorts of trickery and bad faith by the government of Guatemala in dealing with Estrada Cabrera, the dictator who was deposed by revolu-tion last April, and called upon the secretary of state to transmit to the senate such information as he mhjV possess on the subject And then, to emphasize matters, Dr. Julio Bianchl (portrait herewith) minister of Guatemala to the Unitec States, made a bad break which in to say, was guilty of undiplomatic procedure In going to see Senator Moses about It, instead of going to the state department. Ministers have been recalled, you see, for things llk this. According to a memorandum accompanying the senate resolution, tho agreement guaranteeing Cabrera good treatment was drawn up at the American legation. He was to be lodged In the military academy and his property wa to be safeguarded. The memorandum asserts he Is in a common jail, and that he has been stripped of $15,000,000 of property, even to his false teeth " j - ' ' Adequate Punishment for Motorist Who 'Kills and Then Speeds Awar. By LAMBERT WALTERS, Laredo, Texas. ' No punishment could be too severe for an automobilist who kills a person and then deliberately drives away in the hope of escaping. The laws of Texas make this a felony, but there should be a punishment to fit the crime. What is needed is a drastic law, fixing a punishment as severe as can be fixed under the Constitution, for speeders' who crash into a pedestrian or another car, kill one or more persons. and then speed away The law should be so severe that the first person caught after it went into effect would form an example that would deter motorists in the fu-ture from taking any chances and, when they do have an accident, from shirking responsibility by running away. Traffic accidents are largely due to pedestrians. But the accident that happens out on the open road is, with very few exceptions, the fault of the motorist. I hope to see the Texas law in this respect strengthened, and I think every state in the Union would be doing a general good to humanity by passing laws against this practice as drastic as they can be niade under the Constitution. ' Sixty Years to Pay War Debts Senator Watson of Indiana (por-trait herewith) advocates extension of time for the payment of the war debt over a period of 60 years. He urges , that to lighten the tax burden. Kei-f peal of the excess profits tax and re-- l duction of the sturtaxes on large in-- , comes also are urged by him. N Senator Watson's declaration for ; the extension of the time for payment - is presumably significant as showing .: decided drift of opinion among the ; Republican leaders. It has been the ; program of the treasury department to pay up the war debt within 25 ' years. Anyway, "Senator Watson dis-cussed the tax situation following his return from a conference at Philadel-phia with Senator Penrose. The Penn-sylvania senator Is chairman of the finance committee. It was Senotor Watson's, opinion that hearings on either tax or tariff legislation should i f s 4 , tart soon after the holidays to get it well under way by the time a special ess?ion Is called under the new administration. , Representative Longworth of Ohio, favors repeal of the excess fronts tai and the substitution of a tax on undistributed profits of corporations. Ua jt be will not believe congress will approve a sales tax. r ZI Parcel Post System and the Salary of the Fourth Class Postmaster. . By W. H. BROPHY, National League of Postmasters. Ore of the crying needs of the service is a classified civil service status for third and fourth class postmasters. The parcel post system has placed a burden on the postmasters of this class "that is all out of proportion to their compensation. Since the parcel post system was es-tablished it has grown to gigantic proportions, and in the smaller towns, where a large percentage of buying is done from mail order houses, it forms the bulk of the mail handled. The present compensation of the fourth-clas- s postmaster is fixed on conditions that existed a half century ago. His py is based on a per-centage of the cancellation of stamps in the outgoing mail. Incoming mail is from three to eight times greater than the outgoing mail, and the postmaster gets nothing for handling it. . That means that, he has from three to eight times more work to do free than his paid work. An adequate wage scale, based on the hours of service required and the amount of work performed, is what the National League of Post-masters stands for, and congress will be asked to grant such scale at th eoming vssion. |