The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-27
SEEKING GAIN IN
RUTH LAWS FAME
Promoters of Soaps, suits, Cold
Creams and Petticoats Want to
Use Her Name
In Ads.
FINDS FAME IS NO FUN
Bird Woman, Who Broke All Records,
Is 6esieged by Advertising
Men Right
FINDS FAME IS NO FUN

NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-Ruth Law
mas discovered that being famous
isn't all fun. She can't get any rest
from people who want to make he1
more famous.
The woman who broke the Amer
lean nonstop cross-country record ir
her flight from Chicago to New York
mas two telephones in her suite al
the Hotel McAlpin and they ring all
day and part of the night, bringing
offers of wealth and fame if she
Will only do what the persons at the
other ends Of the wires want her tC
do.
The offers she has received run
from contract with theatrical
firm that wanted her to ride upside
down on motorcycle to an invita-
ton to lecture in girls. schools. Ii
between these offers are invitations
to allow her name to advertise pet
ticoats and raincoats, perfume, soap
and the "kind- of cold cream Ruth
Law uses"
After reviewing all her offers
Miss Law said that she was looking
most kindly upon contract by
which she would get $25 1000 for a
ten weeks lecture tour of the large
cities of the United States, taking
along her little biplane in which she
made her fight. In fact, Miss Law
seemed almost committed to an &C
ceptance c. this contract. She said
she would not accept any of the Of
fers from theatrical managers who
wanted her to do Stunts" because
she was very serious-minded
young woman.
Unless she changes her mind, she
will not attempt a nonstop flight
from Chicago to New York this
year. The lecture tour, which will
probably begin at once, will take her
into February. She has promised
her services from June l to Novem.
Der ! at $1,000 day for not fewer
than five flights week, she said.
She would not go into the details
Of this arrangement. She intimated
that she would most probably attempt
the Chicago to New York flight next
May. However, she made it plain
that she might change her mind and
try the flight within the next week CT
so, III things shaped up If she
could get the proper machine and the
proper offer II something to fly for,
Miss Law would attempt the flight
at once.
Want Use of Name.
An offer which came to Miss Law
recently was from professor in a
we'll known eastern college. who
wanted her to fly from college to
college and give lectures this winter.
She said she priked letter Of con,
graduation she received from the
women employees of the Guaranty
Trust company.
1t was a very determined woman
who gained Miss Laws ear the other
day. She represented the manufac-
turers OF a new kind Of waterproof,
windproof, coldproof cloth, and Of
fered Miss Law five suits and 500 in
cash If she would pose in her little
aeroplane for a trademark picture for
the new fabric.
Another concern which manufac-
lures aviators' clothes wants to put on
the market the Ruth Law suit" with
an offer to Miss Law Of three COM
pleta outfits If she will agree to the
bargain.
Miss Law said that very wealthy
New York woman had come to her to
say that she was Interested in the
of a new aeroplane en-
CINE that had been designed, but not
built, and wanted Miss Law to agree
to make her Chicago-to-New York
flight in a machine equipped
with her engine. Miss Law said she
replied that inasmuch as she wished
to make the flight within the next year
she could not agree to wait for the
Of new engine.
II was man who wrote Miss Law
that he wanted her to manage a new
aeroplane factory. II will give you
$500 a week. he wrote, and you
dom. even have to be here Miss
Law suspected that her name might
be used to further the sale OF stock
and maid no attention to the offer.
Miss Law told Of the proposal OF the
m eatrical manager who wanted to pay
her ss5. 900 a year for riding a mo-
torcycle on an inverted track. She
didn't see that that would help tho
cause of aviation, to which she says
she Is absolutely devoted.
ar all shows what advertising Will
do " said Miss Law. "Nfne-tenths OF
the people who make me these OFFERS
do not want any real service l can
give them. They are merely after the
nse of my name. don't want any
such business. I don't mind taxing
money for flying or for aiding flying
but that is the only business in which
T intend to engage.