Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-16
Brownsville Club
and Social A ctiDitieS
With Women
Of Today

VI 4O00J
m APRIL l Mrs. Kate Burr John
son Of Raleigh. N. c., will be-
come superintendent Of the
state home for girls at Tren-
ton, N. j.. Mrs. johnson resigns her
position as commissioner OF public
welfare for the state Of North Caro-
lina-the first state to appoint a
woman TO this position-to take up
her new duties at a substantial in
crease in salary.
In her new position she will SUI
peruse a statewide program of
classification work among women
prisoners, a new venture in pencil
ogy.
Mrs. w. Thomas Bost Of Raleigh.
executive secretary Of the North
Carolina Federation OF Women's
clubs, will succeed Mrs. johnson as
commissioner OF public welfare. the
second woman to serve in that po-
sltion.
MISS Mary Anderson, director OF
l the women's bureau of the Uni
ted States department of labor.
was a guest of honor recently at a
dinner of the Chicago Women's
Trade Union League. preceding the
dedication Of the Mollie Guinan
Rest Room, furnished and TO be
maintained in memory of the late
Miss Guinan. long time league work
nr Nfcr Anderson and Niec CY4f-
had been shoe workers together
In the early days. Many Of the old
time Shoe workers we're reunited at
this dinner.
THE GIRL Of today has more pro-
blemS TO meet than any other
girl in history" Miss Helen p.
Greene of Antioch college. Yellow
Springs. O.. recently told a group Of
council members. teacher advisers
and the staff of the department of
work with younger girls Of the Y.
w. G. "A. in Cleveland. :.
Miss Greene, who has had much
experience with younger girls, urged
her audience TO remember the kind
OF world into which the younger girl
Is growing.
The girl Of Is 10 Is today has
more chance for acknowledge than
in the past" she said. but with
this she needs self -direction. The
duty of women working with the
girl is to help her make her choices"
from far away siam came re-
Gently two little maids TO OBJ
serve the work Of the school of
nursing, Western Reserve univer-
sity, Cleveland. Miss OBJ Chatur-
ongkul and Miss PhongSie Xavier
of Bangkok, both from aristocratic
families, highly educated and grad
uate nurses, were sent to Cleveland
by the Rockefeller Foundation.
Miss OBJ" as students at the
school call Miss Chaturongkul, be-
gan her long journey from Bangkok
last September. Up to that time
she had never been out Of the tro-
pics, had never seen Snow or ice,
or felt the cold Of a northern win
ter.
She Is the granddaughter OF the
SiameSe minister to Germany. In
her childhood she became the ward
Of the great Prince Mahidol Song
kla. whose recent death was regard
I'd by the world-presS as the great
est Ill fortune that could have come
to his country. The brother Of the
king OF Siam. he studied medicine
at Oxford and Harvard and. r
ing nothing for the glory Of war
and the pomp Of court life, his
chief interest was the health and
education OF his people. He sent
his intelligent little ward 70 the
American Mission school in Bang
kok, and then TO the Philippine
General Hospital In Manila, from
which she was graduated.
Miss Xavier's name is n that
her family assumed in the sixteenth
century, when an ancestor was bap-
tized by the Jesuit missionary, ST.
Francis Xavier. AS a small girl
she was sent 70 the convent Of the
Sisters Of the Infant Jesus in Hong
kong. When she was a little older
her father vas appointed Siamese
ambassador to Italy and Austro-
Hungary. SO he took her to Europe
with him. placing her in succession
in school in England. France and
Italy. that she might learn the
languages and thought of these
countries. She expects 70 return
to London shortly. where she took up
her nursing training. and work for
1e. degree from the London School
Of Medicine. A married sister, Lady
Srivisar. the first Siamese woman
10 receive a medical degree. is al
ready engaged in health work in
her native land.
Il am eager to return and help
her." says Miss Xavier. 1T will be
q terribly slow process. Siam is so
ancient a country that IL doesn't
know. itself. how old it is. 1t is
rich In art and beauty. but terribly
backward in scientific health. Par
ticularly in childbirth women and
children die by the thousands. /
cannot wait TO get into the work
OF educating them TO stem the
dreadful tide. II will be as slow
as the tide. because 1t home. per-
haps because OF the hot climate.
perhaps because Of old. old tradi-
tion-it takes endless time TO start
things. Our nation is a happy.
friendly one, however. At home all
Siamese are kind TO each other and
70 their neighbors."
Mss Obs plans are indefinite,
but, ultimately. she. too. will return
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