Show DAUGHTER WANTED TO BE FIRST If my children are of ot age I will not not stop them from doing some some- something something thing I would have done myself when I Ivas was vas their age That was the answer Mildred Doran received ed when the year 22 old Michigan school told her ber father William Wllliam Doran Sr that she wanted to be the first woman to fly across the Pacific It has bas been a long time since the senior Doran was Mildred's was Mildres Mildreds age But perhaps when the Flint farm farm- farmer er gave his permission he remembered rem remembered em some daring dream of ot his youth that his own parents or his neighbors thought Just a bit hit fool fool- hardy In his young oung day of course wo woo women women men were different or so we are led to believe shrinking overdressed more or less servants of man to do his bidding without question that that m-that that is the pic pie picture ture handed down to us by our own elders Girls these days for the most part know what they want to do doand doand doand and do it There is more opportunity opportunity opportunity for them to exert their capa capa- capabilities capabilities and extend their ambitions ambitions than there was when Dr Doran was a youth |