Show NEWS THIS WEEK by lemuel F parton emage NEW EW YORK young james del anage ross rode a bicycle from chatham ont to new york city to get a job as a chemist ebe mist he got the job but noted that Is everybody in the piffling riffling Piff ling f to 0 factory did noth Yo young ross ing but w work 0 r k pestles seemed riffling piffling piff ling so he pedalled pedal led back to chatham and kept on going on his bicycle on foot and on boats hes been around a lot and now at sixty four the president hands him a job which no mere or ped aller could handle boss of the bonneville project the biggest dam in the world he will resign from his S E C post to become administrator of the huge power plant mr ross was for 20 years head of the municipal power development of seattle his selection for bonneville is taken as an administration declaration that it is going all the way through on its power plans he has not only been a vigorous champion of public development but he has fought for public distribution here he says is the kernel of the whole business he says private companies could manufacture power at possibly a lower cost than could the government and makes his fight on distribution costs he stakes out big regional power hookups through the northwest existing and planned his policies are aggressive gres sive and tar reaching and his appointment would seem to sharpen the disagreement between the president and the power companies he has taken and administered a lot of punishment several years ago a newly elect knows know how ed seattle mayor to absorb tossed him out of punishment his power J plant job they recalled the mayor and named a mountain after mr ross a rocky peak overhanging the skagit river which mr ross wants to rope and hog tie to foi the good of all concerned as he sees it then his partisans just to show that they were with him spotted up a mountain side on the cascades for a gutzon borglum Borg lurn has relief like the sculptures of presidents in south dakota the project is still being worked up his was one of those roll your own educations after his bicycle trip to new york he headed tor for the alaska gold fields in 1898 bi cycling to the fadeout fade out of the road tramping up through edmonton ma makin king ghis his own boat for the rest of the trip later in seattle he helped design the first municipal power plant and stayed on the job 32 years lie he loves kilowatts and amuses himself in his rambling old house by keeping a copper keeps trick I 1 rick ball in the air with gadgets in no visible support his house and by frying eggs in an electrified pan held in his hand on his living room table is abood a book on the natural sciences published in 1832 he says it started him on his career and he keeps on reading it he was consulting engineer for the new york power authority when franklin D roosevelt was governor also consultant for the st lawrence seaway and power project he went to washington as consultant for power power development and later was appointed a member ot of the S E C As he caroms carols around mountain cliffs a violet by the roadside brings a yell to the chauffeur and a screech of brakes he just has tp p get out and look at it he is childless but he and mrs ross have reared five children RS ANNIE NATHAN MEYER MRS M founder of barnard college is against women scabs 1 I feel it would be better she says if women omen w instead of r i c L I 1 lady scabs sc abbing tor for lower are bane to wages would seek out new fields ln in mrs meyer which there would be no competition with the men mrs meyer dislikes being called a feminist but in her early youth she dropped her subscription to godels ladies book and urged women to do something on their own account women as people have been her absorbing life interest she was an anti suffragist but now qualifies her opposition she thinks women ought to be honest and admit that when they take a job they are out for a husband and that she thinks is as it should be she has written 15 plays 8 of which were produced some of them on broadway she is a small merry white haired woman living her life with keen zest at seventy in her book littered park avenue home she is known as a writer lecturer and playwright C consolidated news t k ea maiure eai tures ure service sea level sea level refers to the level of the surface of the sea specifically this level at its mean position midway between high and low water adopted as a standard tor for the measurement of heights |