| Show NEWS THIS WEEK me by lemuel F parton EW YORK career diplomacy nis L is closed to women brilliant girls just out of college keep on knocking at the door but it open in the de smart girls apartment part ment of corn com help spur merce things are diff derent erent trade U S trade roae commissioners or assistant commissioners in seven countries are women they have been singularly successful working as uncle sams saleswomen finding out what people of other nations want employing tact and discernment in their work supplying the with all sorts of keenly observed data about preference taste and sales possibilities they are proving themselves excellent trade envoys the national league of women voters publishing its survey of women in public office notes especially ally the success of miss A viola smith at shanghai and miss elizabeth humes at rome miss smith has been with the department part ment of commerce in china since 1920 A native of los angeles she was graduated in law at george washington university she was at neiping two years before being transferred to Shang shanghai hal she has been president of the american club of shanghai vice chairman of the international committee of organizations and has been active in I 1 n many fields of social and civic life in china miss humes assistant trade commissioner MISS loner in rome in 1925 and commissioner italy goes thereafter showed for scanty typical resource C falness in inducing swim suits g italian 1 women to wear backless bathing suits this with a successful cosmetics campaign sampa ampa ign opened new avenues tor for american trade in italy she travels a great deal around taly and keeps the department minutely informed on an trade con lotions and opportunities she was reared in louisiana and educated in taly italy and switzerland in the war she was with the red cross and later was attached to the american in rome miss gudrun carlson carison has made a similar success at oslo norway ather her nations in which america Is represented by women in trade posts costs are brazil Gua guatemala tamala chile ind venezuela all reports are that chic intelligent women are highly esteemed in foreign capitals and it would appear that more good jobs for bright girls are coming along in the department part ment of commerce as clerks or commercial attaches it if not as commissioners A S T THE HE buddhists have it the turn of the wheel is the whole of the law so ignatius timothy lincoln has six wheels etched on his bald six wheels skull with hot etched on irons and be bald skull ci 11 comes chao kung a buddhist monk in Manchu kuo he op kopines opines ines that japan will bring about more peaceful conditions on earth than the christians have done an internal internationalist tion a list he was chased and caught by a brooklyn policeman landed in an english jail circulated during the war pretending to be a german spy helped in the kapp putsch in germany was chased out and went to the orient he was born in hungary and reared in the slums of london he became a presbyterian missionary then a vicar in the anglican church and in 1910 a member ot of parliament when the brooklyn police nailed him it was supposed to be a spy case but it was later disclosed that england wanted him for forgery that was in 1915 thereafter he staged himself in a great deal of european spy melodrama all of it supposedly im imaginary aginar out of prison he was engaged in arms traffic in germany and built an impressive estate in ceylon then he became a buddhist abbot ab bot in coarse robe and sandals 0 0 amore FOR OR the first time the forty or more peace societies seem to be making themselves heard at washington one hears talk of their possible influence in peace army changes enforce lifts up a ment or negation of the neutrality loud voice law mrs estelle sternberger executive secretary of world Peace ways is a blue eyed brown haired grandmother who has swiftly risen to leadership in the peace army during the last few years she sharply challenges the presidents stand in his chicago speech says her organization the president points the american people down the road that led to the world war her gospel is simply that war is horrible and weve got to keep out of it she was estelle miller reared in cincinnati an alumna of the university of cincinnati much mitch of her life has been given to philanthropy and civic enterprise a consolidated news features feature service |
