Glacier County chief., 1940-06-14
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON


it is more among the
asses than the sopranos. Counsels
Women Leaders ,a ~ haws
Urge We Think been singu-
With Calmness larly calm
trained. There is little shrill out
ny among them.
Currently, Mrs. Sadie Orr Dunbar,
president of the General Federation
# Women's Clubs, and Miss Juliet
VI. Bartlett, the latter taking Of
ice as newly elected president Of
he New York Women's City club,
lrge calmness. Miss Bartlett says
We SHOULD keep our feet on the
ground and our heads cool"
Mrs. Dunbar, addressing the
federation convention at Mil
waukee, stresses the collective
need for thought, rather than
emotion. 'Never In our national
history has there been . more
desperate need for clear under
standing" she says. Mrs. Dun
bars job is community organi-
zation," heading this effort for
the University Of Oregon med
ical school. II Il understand
able that she should emphasize
reasoned techniques rather than
emotional excitements. Com
munity organization" seems to
describe our present national
endeavor.
Elected to the presidency of the
federation in 1888, for three-year
term, Mrs. Dunbar represents about
2 1000, 900 club women. She tells
them, 81 want women to tune in
with modern life" A widow and
grandmother, of pioneer stock, she
has behind her a unique tradition
of collective organization" Her
grandfather was the first white man
to plant corn in CANCER, Mo-, where
she was born in a log cabin. Her
family trekked on to Chanute, Kan,
to Fresno, Calf, and thence to Ore
gon, where, after her graduation
from the State university she taught
school. She has served "a years as
executive secretary of the Oregon
tuberculosis association. She was
one of six children and is the mother
of a grown son and daughter.
A GOOD reporter these days
\ should have a diploma from the
Massachusetts, Institute of Technol-
ogy. Making inquiries among ex-
Experts Assure tha nos Ss
OF SlDift Work ties of swift
In Preparedness industrial and
military pre-
paredness, this inquirer finds the an
swerS reassuring, but complicated,
to be taken on faith, with political
factors still an unsolved x in the
equation. Both pertinent and en-
couraging is a general agreement
by authorities that with all our
fumbling and faltering, the index Of
productivity in free state is higher
than in slave state once it gets
going.
Secretary of the Treasury Nor
genthau recently met with repre-
sentatives of the machine tool indus
try in Washington to start team
work on tooling and Standardization
for the mass production of planes.
Participating were DR.. George Jack
son Mead, vice chairman of the Ma
tional Advisory Committee on Aero
nautics. He accepts a newly Great
ed post, at $4,000 a year, the office
being established to facilitate deci-
sion on types of planes, swift stand
ardization of parts and swift produc-
ton.
On technical qualifications,
DR.. Mead shows q good report
card, as one of the leading air.
plane designers Of America. He
received the Sylvanus Reed
award, for 1889, for his technical
contributions to the advance
ment Of aviation, and his pro-
fessional and business expert
ence has covered both the tech
meal and industrial field.
Mr.. Mead attended the Massachu-
sets Institute Of Technology from
1911 to 1915. In 1917, he was in
charge Of the power plants at the
laboratories Of the United States air
station at Dayton, Ohio. He then
became a plane designer for the
Wright-M Martin Aircraft corporation
and later chief engineer for the
Wright Aer0Rautical corporation. He
founded the Pratt & Whitney Co.,
and was chief engineer Of the United
Aircraft corporation. He d - years
old, native Of Everett. Mass.