The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-11-06
WHO'S ii
! NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL r. PARTON

w Lily
BY LEMUEL r. PARTON
Consolidated Feat,ires.-WNU ReleaEs.
NEW YORK.--Mrs. Lillian M. Gil
~ breth of Montclair, N. j., is the
mother of IL children, holds six col
lege degrees and is distinguished
Lining Proof That the various
Women Can Be moves to
Great Engineers irl4s "o,e,.
work engineering, including the
present forum of the American So
ciety of Mechanical Engineers at
Rochester, Mrs. Gilbreth is busy and
prominent. Her sixth child was
born when she was getting her Ph.D.
at Brown university. I asked her
a few years ago If it wasn't quite
an engineering problem, running
house with IL children. She said
that was proof enough for anybody
that women could be, and were, good
engineers.
Her degrees, in literature and
engineering, are from the Uni
versity of California, Brown,
Michigan, Rutgers and Russell
Sage college. She shared the
study and practice of her hus-
band, DIR. Frank b. Gilbreth, an :
eminent engineer, and when he
died, in 1924, picked up his work
as well as her own, chiefly in
the field of industrial motion
study, and i'm combating drudg-
cry, inefficiency and waste in {
factories. She believes that tools
are Iiberating instruments il
used intelligently and the frank
enstein of modern machinery
can be neatly and nicely domes-
ticated. Women, she thinks, can
be a great help in this-as well
as in winning the war. II
She is a brisk and personable lady,
So years old, born and reared in
Oakland, Calf. AS consultant in
factory processes and organization,
she stresses the fact that her meth
DDS involve no "speed-up" plans.
WE ONCE knew an illustrious
w and talkative citizen, an au-
thority on nearly everything of pub
lie interest, who came to grief when
Kaiser's Ghost but suddenly up
Assemblies Spare and died on
Parts for Wizard t n,r. n.ru.n
really had been any such person as
he was supposed to be. He was
synthesis of this hired alter ego and
when the ghost died the great public
man became quite inarticu1ate and
helpless. Before long he was utterly
forgotten.
Henry J. Kaiser, the cargo plane
and ship wizard, has a ghost but
need have no such worries. He can
say his say effectively and it is
merely in, the interest of his famous,
super-efficiency that he has Philip
H. Parrish, editorial writer of the
Portland Oregonian, writing his
speeches and statements for him. It
might mean a loss of a half dozen
ships If Mr.. Kaiser took time out to
write speeches. Mr.. Kaiser can lay
the keel Of a sentence or a speech
as simply and soundly as the next
man. Mr.. Parrish, one of the best
wordsmiths in the business, assem-
bles the various parts and brings
through the superstructure, all ship
shape and in jigtime, and it's all au
thentic Kaiser.
As to transportation, Mr.. Par
IRISH started away back of
scratch, several years ago, with
a book, Before the Covered
Wagon" He is q fast worker
and moved on handiIy into the
cargo plane era, with MIR. Kaiser
and, in charge of the editorial
page of the Portland Oregonian,
made his typewriter crack
steam-riveter blows i'm the build.
up of the master shipbuiIder
Everybody out that way knows
him as Phil Parrish, turning in
q professional talent of high or.
der to help win the war. Having
started newspaper work in
Olympia, Ore, ON the Morning
OIympian he catches in nicely
the quite uniformly Olympian
stride of Mr.. Kaiser.
MIR. Parrish is 46 years old, a
native of Constantine, Mich, educat-
ed at the Oregon State college and
the University of Wisconsin. In
Portland, he worked first as a re-
porter on the Journal and then
worked on through virtually every
editorial post on the Oregonian. He
takes the long view of Oregon and
the nation, as disclosed in another
successful book of his, Historic
Oregon" He is married and has
one daughter.
CIR EDWIN L. LUYTENS, ven
y Grated and distinguished British
architect, takes over the job of put
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