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SHE'S ONLY WOMAN PASSENGER AGENT-IN THE WORLD Miss Daisy Ogden of Davenport, la., the only -woman passenger agent in the world, owes hervunique posi tion to the fact that she persuaded railroad officials that-men haven't a monopoly on business tact and the ability to "meet people." Miss Ogden attendedthe recent men should not "become passenger gents at San Francisco, and is the tri-city agent of the Chicago, Bur lington & Quincy Railroad. "There s no reason why other wo me nshould not become passenger agents," she said, "and now that the ice has been broken the field will be easier to enter. The railroads are be ginning to realize that women can serve the public and their employers just as efficiently and loyally as men. I have great hopes for women in rail road positions in the future." Miss Ogden started in as a tele graph operator. o o JOHNNY ROCKEFELLER'S TANK STEAMERS Your good old Johnny Rockefeller misses nothing that glitters in this world not so you can notice it. Out of the worst wind that blows he plucketh the pence. Comes the au tomobile and Johnny makes it add hundreds of millions to his store or lucre. Now he's frisking old Mars for what he can get. It appears that coal oil is very necessary, these Lalcyon days of war, in burning cities, villages, factories and homes. In at least one army they carry it in canteens. Also you need coal oil and gasoline to run war aeroplanes and dirigibles, and you absolutely MUST put kerosene in the bombs you drop from the clouds up on the homes and frightened women and children and innocent babies in their cradles. So Johnny Rockefeller sends the stuff across in big lank steamers, and when it is seized as contrabrand of war he shrieks bitterly to Uncle Sam about it. Johnny's right hand is a good Bap tist and believes war is terrible un Christianlike. But his left hand cares nothing for the terror and desolation so long as the gold rolls in. o o The latest improvement is a nurs ery attached to one of the New York theaters, where the mothers may leave their babies in the care of. nurses.