Will T. Kirk

“ Her ambition urged her toward further achievements, so she began the study of law, grasping the fundamentals so readily that her tutor gave her credit for being one of the brightest students in his class. ”

“ MISS Fern Hobbs, age twenty-seven, is drawing the highest salary of any woman in public service in the United States. She is private secretary to Governor Oswald West at Oregon and receives $3000 a year. If she had secured her position through the manipulation of politics the telling about it would not be half so interesting; but she secured it because she earned it. She says she won the place because the governor is broad enough to employ a woman as readily as a man when she does the same work. All that he wants is results. ”