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speaking division OF the committee on
public information. which are recon-
mending that in each state speakers
bureaus be organized. Up to January
Is, according to the state councils
section of the Council of National De-
fense. twenty-five states had reported
the existence Of speakers bureaus: six
had reported that they were planning
to organize such bureaus. and six more
had reported that the fourminute men,
since they do speaking outside the mo-
tion picture theaters in their state, are
Utilized as a speakers bureau.
The Council of National Defense and
the speaking division of the committee
on public information join in the rec
ers' bureau shall arrange. as the open
ing gun in campaign directed to reach
every individual in the state, a two
day war conference to be called by
the state council in the capital or prin-
cipal city of the state. This will be
attended by the able state speakers
both men and women, those people who
have organized audiences at their dis
posal, or who are able to arrange for
public meetings.
Uniform for Foreign Operators.
Women with a fluent knowledge OF
French are being trained in San Fran
cisco, New York. Chicago and other cities.
to go 20 France as telephone opera tors, is
the statement of the chief signal officer o.
the Signal Corps today. They will not be
sent over in one unit, but ordered to go in
groups from time TO time.
The members of this unit will wear a
standard uniform, which they will be re-
quired 10 furnish. The Signal Corps
finds II necessary to lay stress again upon
the fact that no wives of officers or en-
listed men will be accepted and that ap-
plicants must be able to speak both
French and English perfectly. Applica- :
tions from women. preferably between
twenty-three and thirty-five years of age.
who are physically fit. and who answer
the language requirements. should be sent
to the chief signal officer of the Signal
Corps. room S26 Mills building annex.
Washington, d. G. No information can
be given as to the locality in which the
telephone girls will be stationed.
Assistant Paymaster Dorsey
"The most valuable woman in the
government" is the way Rear Admiral
OF the United States avy, characterizes
Miss Sue Dorsey. the only woman
recommended for an officers commits =
sion in the Navy. Admiral McGowan
urged her appointment assistant
pa ymaster in the reserve
III any one deserves commission she
does he said. speaking of he work of
the dark haired. attractive young WON =
an. who has the formidable title OF
"Assistant for Personnel to Officer in
Charge of Fleet Division, Bureau of
Supplies and Accounts.
Miss Dorseys job is to keep trac *
of 500 pay officers. She knows where
each of these officers is and how well
each does his work. Most of them do
not know that young woman details
them to duty. When q ship calls for a
pay officer it is Miss Dorsey who as
signs one OF the 1900 on her list.
1T used to frighten me every time I
detailed an officer to ship" she said.
The thought would come. What il the
ship should sink. 1t seemed just as II
were sending some man TO his death -
Miss Dorsey entered the Navy Depart
ment as a civil service stenoRrapher.
She was temporarily assigned to Rear
Admired Thomas j. CCwie. Rear Ad-
miral McGowans predecessor. When
the bureau OF supplies and accounts
was reorganized size was found so val
Iuahle that responsibilities which hifher-
to had fallen TO an officer in the Navy
were assigned to her