Show WHO IS eft V ill NE NEWS W S THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON NEW A YORK one day a long tune time ago a 17 year old girl janet lord was walking along hanover street in boston a place where r yu you meet sea mother toper roper faring men me to sailors of from all ports the seven seas ot of the civilized world attracted by a hymn tune she stopped before a building listened r to 0 the music of a melodeon the lusty chorus of mens in ens voices and at length drawn by a power greater than her girlish timidity she mounted the steps and so entered the headquarters of the boston friends society thus destiny took hold ot of janeas life and showed her the way to go now janet roper house mother ot of the church institute on south street new york is observing the fiftieth anniversary of her work among sailors and there is hardly a forecastle from the cape of good hope to cairo from john OG to the ambrose light which does not contain at least one shellback beholden to her in any one of an infinite variety of ways she is slender almost frail of physique there are only a few traces of gray in her hair for all her 66 years and her eyes snap with intelligence vitality and kindly humor several years ago dother mother roper devised the idea of publishing lists of missing seamen copies being sent to homes throughout the world for display upon bulletin boards the service has obtained extraordinary results sailors out of touch with their families for years have been located and contacts restored brothers have been reunited in far flung ports all sorts of happy things have been effected in all to date sailorman sail ormen supposedly swallowed in the sea or forever merged in the melting pots of alien ports have been recovered from oblivion widle while in boston mother ro per met and subsequently married a congregational clergyman engaged in similar service they worked together in gloucester in canada and in in oregon until her husbands death in 1915 when she came to the institute on south street she has no illusions ii lu about sailorman sail ormen holding them to be no better and no worse than other men her work and her three daughters living with her in brooklyn comprise her enthusiasms i J MANLEY 0 HUDSON of the permanent court of international peace at the hague recently arrived here is characteristically spending his sees the 1 world i is vacation at in terms of C cambridge a in b ri agi human species mass looking into of international juridical import he was once bemis professor of international law at harvard a post he took somewhat in discouragement when his career was diverted by the refusal in 1928 of the united states to join the league of nations the worlds leading authority on all questions pertaining to comity among nations thi this S world to him is no ab abstract thing no matter of geographical division human affairs and relationships lation ships are his bis passion A missourian he was born in st peters in 1886 he reverses an an attributed reaction of citizens of his commonwealth in that far from asking to be shown he is at all times willing nay eager to demonstrate genial incurably optimistic men tally brilliant he enjoys nothing S so much as to sta stand nd at bay in intellectual combat indulging with dar tag nans ardor in swordplay sword play in thrust and riposte until his opponents are either convinced or at any rate silenced he will plunge into contest or if no struggle is waging he is very likely to start one now 52 years old judge hudson entered the league of nations secretariat with its origin in 1919 and ever since he has been attached to it two y years ears earlier he was with the inquiry and peace terms comm commission assion established by the state department and later in paris was a member of the international law division of the committee to negotiate peace work then begun began led directly to the world court bench when the league assembly gave him the second highest out of SO 50 ever received b by y a candidate william willia m sewell college liberty aio is 13 his alma mater and harvard where he took postgraduate post graduate courses his alter mater consolidated CoaJOU dated creatures I |