TEN AMERICAN WOMEN

Evening Post, Issue 13, 16 January 1936, Page 19

TEN AMERICAN WOMEN

LISTED FOR NOTABLE WORK

An American writer lists the ten most outstanding women in America for 1935. The list was compiled/kfter an interview with Mrs. Carried Chapman Catt, pioneer woman leader. Mrs. Franklinh-I?. fHo'Ss^Velt heads the*tanks for .the^hir^jme; Other women listed for ; notable achievement were:— , '; ;' Dr.^Florfence Sabm, anatomist of the Rockefeller Institute, and recipient of a 5000-dollar award given by• - • Bryn Mawr College for medical research. Mrs. Ogdeh Reid, .vice-president of the "New York Herald-Tribune" and winner of the 1935 American Women's Association award for eminent achievement;.- . ;- .'. i, ;'•;':■.>. Miss Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labour, the only woman Cabinet member. . '. . : :■ .Mrs.. Ruth .Bryan .Owen, United States. Minister :to Denmark. Federal Judge' Florence Allen, of 0hi0.." :. ' •■■"-,, \ '.'■■''■.■<■•:'"■ '■'' Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wife of Colonel." Charles A. Lindbergh and author of "North to, the Orient." Mary Anderson* chief of the woman's bureau of the Department of Labour. Amelia Earhart, aviator. Anne O'Hara McCormick, writer on foreign affairs for the "New Yfrk Times," "WILL RECEIVE A HIGH PLACE." Three women;, who,. >in Mrs. Catt's opinion, "will.Teceiye'-a:high place in American annals"'passed;:on during the year.' They werie.. Jane. Addams, founder of Chicago's,* Hiill House; Charlotte Perkins Oilman, an early defender of woman'sright to work and to be paid for it; and' Dr. M. Carey Thomas, president emeritus of Bryn Mawr College. .: :

"Even if Mrs. Roosevelt were not first lady of the land she would-be an outstanding American woman," said Mrs. Catt.

"In a manner that-no other President's wife has ever done, she has contributed to the public good, through her advice, information, and constant devotion to the needs of people who are in distress.

"I include three women (Miss Perkins, Mrs. Owen, and Judge Allen) because they hold positions never before occupied by women and are carrying on to the honour of their sex," Mrs. Catt continued.

She cited Mrs. Reid particularly for "authorising and directing the call of a national audience to a forum on current problems." '■•■.'" Of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Mrs. Catt said: "Her life has been heroic and she is universally admired. Her dignity in the most trying circumstances has been a credit to American womanhood."

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