Show i X 40 1 0 MARY 0 A 0 8 yi 0 SUCCEEDS j 4 ivoa ia ari r 0 it M 0 ON OX 0 0 0 to 0 MAIN STREET 0 0 0 4 t 0 0 4 0 0 0 M 0 0 V i 0 0 by LAURA MILLER 0 0 0 0 0 1924 by laura miller orl EVEN MAGAZINE EDITORS DONT ALL LIVE IN NEW N EW YORKI YORK I 1 martha van rensselaer was recently named as one of the twelve greatest american Anicil can women born of parents who desired above all things to educate their children well miss van became a teacher almost without conscious choice As county school commissioner site she added an I 1 interest it in tile the life problems of rural 1 won women en A job had become a n career caree r in 1000 she was appointed by cornet cornell university for development of extension ter islon work with rural women A department of bf home economics in the new york state college of agriculture at cornell with miss hiss van rensselaer lu in charge followed the department has become a professional school a small college in itself mr hoover appointed miss van chief of the home conservation division of the united states food administration the american home economics association made her its president A lonians won comans womans ians magazine sought fier ner out to be homemaking home making editor with nil all personality boiled out in the telling that Is tho tha story of one woman who had only a school teachers position in nn an upstate up state town as a starting point what made miss van rensselaer Rens selner a woman to be listed in chos who in what way has she diffee differed ed from thousands of teachers who in their own embittered phrase never got anywhere I 1 it fairly easy to read between the lines martha van rensselaer the girl used to the full the gift her family had to convey they loved education their daughter made education her life work she developed early the ability to manage people women county school commissioners were not so common ta in atlantic coast states a quarter of a century ago but that office holding la Is significant she was intellectually alert not many people were seeing the differences between life in city and country na as problems that demanded help from public schools still fewer had a practical program martha yen rennselae evolved both she was feminine she directed one may easily imagine all her fine woman instincts not into antagonism to men as so many intellectual women have done but into a constructive service for other women and girls 1 I would develop more opportunities opportune ties for women joutsi de the cities she sh writes there ismach Is much work undone and many women overtaxed in fa i life because home equIp equipment men sod social a I 1 life and remuneration ore are not enouf enough h to told hold tile the average birlat girl at the seat of production |