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THE JAPAN ADVER...

Miss Ruth Law Exchanges Ideas With Marquis Okuma

"So long as air craft are handled by muscular men they are apt to be used as an engine of destruction but when they are manipulated by the gentler sex they should be considered as a veritable mission of peace," said Marquis Okuma yesterday to the American aviatrix, Miss Ruth Law, who, with her manager, Mr. Friedman, called upon the Sage of Waseta at his residence yesterday. "Your visit to this country with the 'black ship' of the air will no doubt bring a wholesome effect to the 'new women' in this country, who are fast increasing," he added.
Miss law told the Marquis of her share in collecting subscriptions to the Liberty Loan, when she flew for ten successive days over more than thirty towns, covering 2,500 air miles in the aggregate, and when she sold 2,500,000 worth of bonds in the course of a single day. The American aviatrix further added that since the angels were always depicted as winged creatures it is only natural women as aviatrix are destined to bring the peace of heaven to earth, and, in this sense it is desirable that they day comes speedily when women flyers are as numerous as men aviators. 
Asked about her impressions of Marquis Okuma, Miss Law said: "I was agreeably surprised at the extensive knowledge possessed and keen interest displayed in the matter of aviation by the veteran statesman. There are not many men, even in America, who possess such clear ideas and so penetrating an intellect as manifested by Marquis Okuma."