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Show Bryan's Daughter Pauses Here To Speak Good Word for Silver I i vi r Mv'V"" . Former U. S. Envoy Will Lecture in Britain By CLARENCE HHXIA.M8 The silver-haired daughter of the late silver-tongued orator stopped briefly early Thursday morning at the airport and speke a good word for silver. Racing against time to make train connections after alighting from a Western Air Express plane from Loa Angeles at 4 SO a. m Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen Robde, daughter of William Jennings Jen-nings Bryan and former United States minister to Denmark, only had time to say a few words. But she lived up to her reputation as a real diplomat Admitting she hadn't been following fol-lowing the silver question "vary religiously," but remembering thst her (kther was Its faithful champion, cham-pion, the wife of Captain Boerge Rohde, a bodyguard of King Christian of Denmark, le glad the federal government has been giving more recognition to the metal. While not familiar enough with the aituation to venture an epin -tsit-aa to Whether the president will continue the silver purchase act, the first woman envoy from this country, like her father, had visions of a better future for silver. sil-ver. The late William Jennings Bryan Bry-an tramped the nation, fighting for silver, advocating a lS-to-1 ratio with gold. In many of his speeches ha asserted thst America Amer-ica was being crucified on a cross of gold. "I'm on a lecture tour," said Mrs. Rohde, before shs started her dash in a taxi to catch a 6 a. m. train for Ogden. There she was to board a train from San Francisco Fran-cisco and go east to meet her husband. LIKE FATHER, SHE FAVORS SILVER Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde... At Ogden "Then we are going to London." Lon-don." she asserted. "What are you lecturing on? she was asked. "Oh, anything," she remarked, making gestures with her hands-Mrs. hands-Mrs. Rohde said she Is not con nected with the federal govern ment In any way. She is the author of several books and has served as a nurse in the British army. OGDEN, Dec. Denmark's success with farm cooperatives well can be duplicated In the United States. Mr, Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde said here today during dur-ing a two-hour stopover en route , east. "I believe the Scandinavian cooperatives are workable im America." she said. "Their sue cess In Denmark, the laboratory for the cooperative, indicates that undoubtedly they can be applied In America, with changes to make them adaptable. "Cooperatives such as Den mark's would solve SO per cent of the American farmer's problems. prob-lems. In Denmark everything a farmer buya Is through a cooperative coopera-tive and everything he raises is sold through a cooperative." |