Show 7 1 NEWS 11 THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON consolidated features service JEW EW YORK there was once a ahill nhill N N hillbilly hill billy girl who walk walked ed 10 miles over the mountain to b borrow orrow a hammer she said her pappy was figuring to little candles build himself still burn in a a house next r i world M u fall it was darkening an act of faith not to be cynically regarded in spite of small beginnings and remote eventualities and quite comparable to the brave hopes and contrivances tri vances of sundry men of good will today paul van zeeland former premier of belgium is one of them he sees a world of decentralized power after the war with small autonomous states of economic and political groupings associated in regional collaboration lab oration diverse enough to allow a localization of function in world economy and compact enough to form a s table stable political equilibrium he presented his plan to the new york conference of the international labor organization and simultaneously there issued from the conference a proposal for a bloc of nations comprising poland czechoslovakia and greece for postwar post war rebuilding and for collective defense M van zeeland h holding both earned and honorary degrees from princeton university is widely and favorably known in this country both as a political philosopher and banking economist he was a soldier in the world war and in the ensuing years was an experimenter and innovator in financial theory and practice in a desperate effort to sidetrack a doom which he thought might well end western civilization here in 1937 as unofficial envoy of europe he tried to sell the united states a bigger cut in the bank for international settlements with the quite plausible idea that a freer flux of money throughout the world would cure bellicose nationalism nothing came of this but HI bl van zeeland keeps on hunch ing the son of a prosperous merchant of saignes So ignes he was educated at louvain and princeton returned to belgium to practice law and won eminence as an economist and banker a director of the bank of belgium and professor of law at the university of louvain B DACK ACK in the days of the militant suffrage rage campaign this reporter asked several of the leaders whether they intended to maintain a political militant MI M I w women solidarity of out for equality women after of responsibility setting getting the vote they said they would do just that the emphasis was on the effective pressure group rather than on widely diffused social responsibility among women considering that that is the history of pressure groups of both genders how to get power rather than its social uses and implications there is news interest in the simultaneous arrival of two distinguished women leaders of foreign countries each of whom has stressed social responsibility along with the liberation and political education of women they are bliss caroline haslett of great britain and senora ana rosa S tina de martinez artinez Al gerrero of argen miss haslett is an engineer and adviser to the british ministry of labor somewhat comparable in her career and achievements to our lillian moller gilbreth of montclair na N J she will study dy the parti cipa tion of american women in the defense effort and will deliver some addresses on the technical and industrial du mobilization of british women in the war she is president of the women enso engineering society director of the electrical association of women lv ollen founder and d editor editor of th the e woman engineer and the electrical ath 1 handbook for r worn en cn with many any variants and on many occasions she has said women once asked for of equa equality equalia lit opportunity now safo we ask for equality of responsibility p |