WOMAN SPEAKS

foreign foreign how do you do come with me to a monolith in Colorado The Castle Rock that named a town a town in which a woman upholds the prime principle of human Freedom the freedom of the press the publisher of the record Journal Miss Marjorie e case weaned on Printers Inc now Deft fingers at the keys she sees copy through from pen to typewriter to liner type tapping the keyboard faster than the machine can mold the metal letters translating news into type type to fit the forms [Music] The Galley proofs [Music] and so to the printing press all incapable transition from gathered news to newspaper with her birth she's 24 her father said the record Journal has needed a new printer and she arrived today we hope that someday she'll do the editing too perhaps from the newspaper man's Valhalla he sees the record journal with a staff of one miss Marjorie case while in Colorado a woman upholds a principle of freedom in Yucaipa California Mrs Nan songer helped win a war to save that freedom the webs of spiders provide her means in the flowering Yucca named by Spanish conquistadores the candlesticks of God she snares her Weavers within her home she breeds them [Music] and children help in her Supply [Music] looking on all eyes as she prepares to Silk three specimens forgotten the navigation sites and Precision Instruments vital in wars destruction but as vital in the constructive projects of Peace she silks spiders of their webs [Music] producing preferred webs the Golden Garden and Green Lake spiders with bites devoid of poison and with a bite of death the venomous Black Widow her tools a block of Yucca wood a small staple to hold them without injury a dissecting needle tweezers and a small frame with lacquer at a corner to catch the web just tickle the spinnerets with the needle and the spider gives of the fluid which the air turns into web now you see how to Silk a spider because no spider web is so coarse as five ten thousandths of an inch to supply special needs Mrs songer spins two or more together or actually splits a web to five one hundred thousands of an inch in the far Pacific her fighting son saw his Target on Cross sites from his mother's spiders at home his sister had to leave the wax to assist their mother in performance of a more important duty [Music] but her preference runs to horses [Music] as a wreck she rode for Camp Roberts in writing competitions as Betty Willis trick and fancy writer she has known forever rodeos are held and as the saying is there's a reason the way she rides her Palomino is it the Palomino is the golden horse of ancient Fable the but then no girl like Betty to ride one ride em cowboy riding cowgirl [Music] yo show rodem girl and showed him goodbye now to Betty Willis daring sportswoman and her golden horse [Music] thoughts of Daring women revive recollection of an event in 1926 when for the first time a woman during the chill and current of the English Channel swam from Cape Grizzly France to the White Cliffs of Dover on England's Coast [Music] foreign [Music] New York City your fellow countrymen acclaimed her and at City Hall mayor Jimmy Walker welcomed her welcomed Gertrude ederly home [Music] in the year that Gertrude Italy swam the channel Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly the Atlantic and later the first woman to fly the ocean alone then nine years ago to circle the globe eastwards across the continents to Lai in New Guinea she soared the encircling skies at Lai she took flight into a legend the Pacific Ocean keeps the secret of Amelia earharts and her Navigators fate now in honor of Amelia Earhart a former member of zontar international and to encourage women's graduate study of Aeronautical Engineering a scholarship has been established by this organization of executive women [Music] [Applause] [Music] our embattled might traversed the lanes that Amelia Earhart flew in mystery and at Hiroshima the enemy Fells the awful force of the American Eagle's rage [Music] linked with that Havoc of exploding atoms is the work of a plain and kindly woman researcher of radioactive substances akin to the uranium from which derives the atom bomb Mari Cori gained the world's respect for her guiding purpose was to Aid all Humanity in four of India in women of the bondage of here a class in domestic science [Music] so you don't like the cooking eh a secluded woman in traditional costume paints a traditional character to be kept like the painter in seclusion but here an art class and the women not secluded [Music] now for women too a class in logic and public speaking to us these things may seem commonplace in India they portray what is to them a major advance freedom of expression for women [Music] symbolizing traditional custom the barefooted water carriers and the dancer permitted expression only and entertainment of guests all in sober formality [Music] in contrast the encouraged public dancing of girls just for the fun of it not quite like the Jitterbug but a dance nonetheless toddlers get the spirit even the baby [Music] perhaps the solution of India's manifold problems will be hastened when there as here woman speaks [Music]