Show NORWAY WOMAN WOMA FEATURES WORK R Rm m IN Am DOF Of Sf SEX X Madam Betzy Pioneer Leader in Making Making Making Mak Mak- ing Lives Happier OSLO March 13 AP The AP-The The most most prominent woman In Norway today is Madam Betzy g a pioneering pioneering pioneering pio pio- leader in every form Corm of welfare work likely to make happier happier happier hap hap- pier the dally lives es of working men and women To list the organizations she heads or the welfare missions she has undertaken would be to cover the whole field of 01 s social cal work PArticularly Particularly Par PAr PAr- has she labored to improve conditions in factories and In the homes homed of workers ers Norway was one of 01 the first countries t to pass factory laws Madam campaigns being largely responsible for their enactment As the first firt t woman factory inspector she taught employers em employers employers em- em and s the need for tor greater cleanliness cleanliness' and modern Industrial in industrial industrial In- In methods method which she had studied in the United States Slates Great Britain and on the mainland of oC Eu Eu- rope She met much opposition from both sides but today the re results results results re- re of her efforts are evident throughout the country FORMER FACTORY WORKER Work Vork ork In the factories led her to workers workers' homes where here she saw the difficulties of 01 the wife unskilled in household arts and management and these she began to remedy by bJ bythe bythe the organization of classes in cookery cooker cookery cook cook- er ery home hoine management and the care of children Born In 1866 of oC a a. Norwegian fa father and a Scotch mother Betzy whose maiden name was Borresen nJ has s spoken English fluently frob childhood She at attended attended attended at- at tended business college later workIng workIng working work- work Ing In an office for Cor two years be before before be- be fore tore marrying a lawyer and settling down in the town of Dramen not far from the capital In spite of oC her housework she found round time to organize a society called the Business Women's union The Theo union was such lIuch a success that Madam was waR drawn Into other branches of oC social and political political cal cat life a and d proving herself an able organizer was In demand not only In the affairs of women but also In political organizations hitherto exclusively composed of men AIDS GOVERNMENT The government go made nude use ulle of ot her experience In social welfare work and she else occupied positions of or importance Im Importance Im- Im on numerous official com cont- committees among them being the tariff commission and the royal commission on unemployment Madam has been presIdent president president pres pres- ident of oC the Norwegian Council of Women since 1922 Is president of or orthe the board of or the State Slate Normal School of Domestic Sciences and h vice president of the Norwegian Association for Social Work Vork She has been Norway's official delegate to numerous conferences In Washington Washington Wash ash ington Inton and Geneva Gene |