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Rh understand that he is a member of the great human family; that he has his part to play, his service to render; that as he plays his part well, he is fulfilling the purpose of his existence. It is during these early years that the spiritual quality of the child is developed; he is thus led to richnesssrichness [sic] of the inner life—in which alone is true satisfaction.

Although I have been in public life for thirty-eight years and realize the influence for good one may exercise when dealing with large bodies of people, yet my conviction steadily deepens that woman's highest service, her greatest influence for the future, is in the home. When I meet a woman who is a good wife and mother, something within me bows in reverence to her, for there is no greater work, no higher position, than to be a real homemaker; nothing that counts so effectively for the welfare of the future.

The world needs your children, Mothers—children trained by you to stand, in the midst of the world's turmoil, for principle and right; who among the self-seeking mass have a larger vision—the good of the whole. Through your children, the outcome of your consecration, love and wisdom, the tragedies of business and politics, the wrongs of the social life, may be overcome and the world become a fair and harmonious dwelling place for the children of men.

In motherhood and home-making lies woman's most effective world service, her most powerful influence for good, her richest, most satisfying life—her supreme achievement.

BENSON, Minnie C., (Miss), R. N., born in Plymouth Hill, Massachusetts, May 22, 1888; former resident of Illinois, living in Arizona since 1922. Public Health Nurse; Director of Pima County Health Center. Chairman of Public Health Committee, Arizona State Nurse Ass'n.; member of National and State (Arizona) Nurses' Ass'n., American Red Cross Reserve Nurses' Corps. Member of Alumnae Ass'n. of The Chicago Hospital Training School. Active in Public Health work. Home: 421 N. Main St., Tucson, Arizona.

BENTLEY, Evalyn A. (Miss), born May 25, 1878, in Friend, Nebraska, daughter of Randall S. and Sarah E. Laycock Bentley, a former resident of Kansas, living in Arizona since 1914. Home Demonstration Agent. Active in all civic affairs. Holds a Bachelor's degree in Home Economics, Kansas State Agricultural College. Chairman, Music Committee, Rural Districts, Saturday Morning Musical Club. Member: Collegiate Club, Tucson Civic Club, W. C. T. U., Saturday Morning Musical Club. Home: 1220 N. Euclid Ave., Tucson, Arizona.

BOEHRINGER, C. Louise, (Miss), a native of Illinois, daughter of J. F. and Louise Boehringer, a resident of Arizona for 15 years. Educational Journalist. Studied and secured degrees from Columbia University and California State University at Berkeley. Has held several positions as instructor in Springfield, Ill., University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. and as County Superintendent of Schools. Yuma, Arizona. First woman to hold such an elective office in Arizona. For two sessions Member of State Legislature and Chairman of Committee on Education. Former National Vice-President (for Arizona) of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Vice-president for Arizona National League of American Pen Women. For twelve