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Show Knowing big city, small city, town and country Intimately, Mrs. Guild declares that If a girl has ability there is always room on "Slain Street" even though It may look crowded or empty of opportunity. MOTHERING THAT PAYS DIVIDENDS The profession of motherhood Is not supposed to be a well-paid occupation. And foster mothers who do for pay what real mothers gladly give from affection are generally not highly regarded. Yet out in Phoenix lives a woman who mothers all the children In the state of Arizona, gets paid for doing it, and has been honored by nearly every organization in the state. When Mrs. H. A. Guild was a girl she loved her younger brothers and alsters. When she grew up and taught, she loved her pupils even In the huge muchlnelike system of the Chicago schools. And when marriage brought no babies of her own, she began be-gan to love and foster public movements move-ments for bettering humanity. Out of this last love grew her present mothering moth-ering job. She was the first woman in Arizona to be appointed head of a department of state. Secretary of the Arizona child welfare board, she now has supervision of all child welfare measures, working through 65 county child welfare board members. And in addition she is a foster mother to a child for every day In the year, for there are 3(i"i orphan children who live in foster homes or with widowed mothers, as v:inls of Arizona. "That's eiK-iv-!' to keep any mother heart full in m onioning, isn't it? Even if the men tnul women of the state forget her, I imagine Mrs. Guild could keep lmppy. Furthermore, she's owner of a tcn-ucre ranch thrt has been turned from n sagebrush and cactus cac-tus desert to a pri'ducer of roses and "king stulo" o'.it h. i v. ianch owner own-er Oigiiiiieil -he nun! vw.m?n of t he state ami bi ' . !:' ! -iitn association associa-tion with t!i- - its ibrm b district fpilfi-utiu;;.-. .NatU'.lllly ll!'' Federation el' Women's Clubs made her state president. Then Mrs. (iuild decided that women wom-en who had the vote ought to use it politically. Not unnaturally she waa the lirst Arizona woman sent to thy national Republican convention in 1020. In 1022 she was nominated for representative to congress, and was defeated only because her whole party ticket was sno.veci. under. i |