Ruth Bryan Owen: a woman of distinctive achievement in many lands

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RUTH BRYAN OWEN
A Woman of Distinctive Achievement In Many Lands


RUTH BRYAN OWEN
THERE are few American women who have had such an interesting and brilliant career as has Ruth Bryan Owen, wife of the late Major Reginald Owen, M. C., (British Royal Engineers) and daughter of America's great Commoner, the late William Jennings Bryan.

Perhaps the peak of her career was reached in June, 1928, when she won the Democratic nomination for Congress in her Florida district by a tremendous majority.  This is a very distinguished honor and in view of the fact that the solid south always lives up to its name, there is little doubt as to her election this fall.



A Busy Life In Many Lands
During three years in the West Indies, three years in London, three years in Egypt, and extended travel in Africa, India and the Far East, her busy life has touched intimately the peoples of many countries before, during and after the war.

In London, Mrs. Owen came into prominence as an executive associated with the Duchess of Marlborough, Lady Paget, Viscountess Harcourt and other leading women of the Empire, on the Executive Committee of the American Women's War Relief Fund, which financed and operated a great hospital in Devonshire, caring for thousands of wounded men during the war.

Mrs. Owen was co-secretary and treasurer with Mrs. Herbert Hoover on the Economic Relief Committee of the above Fund, which conducted six work rooms for unemployed women in different sections of London.  She was founder of the community center for factory workers in Woolwich, London, a much needed and appreciated institution.

In Egypt, Mrs. Owen was in charge of an organization which provided concerts for the war hospitals and rest camps, and she saw active service as a war nurse in the British Voluntary Aid detachment.  She was in Palestine when the Turks were driven back, and General Allenby and his forces occupied the Holy City, thus participating in one of the most significant and fascinating chapters of our recent history.



A Leading Woman In Florida
Following the war Mrs. Owen established her residence in Florida where she soon became one of the most active and prominent women of that state.  For two years she was president of the Community Council of Civic Clubs of Miami.  She is vice-president of the Board of Regents of Miami University and each year gives a special series of student lectures for that college.

Gifted with a voice of natural carrying power, associated from her youth with public speakers of national prominence, and having achieved very early in life, a brilliant success as lecturer for the Extension Department of the University of Nebraska, Mrs. Owen now speaks, not only with authority, but with a delightful ease and charm.



SUBJECTS:

MODERN ARABIAN KNIGHTS (A Resume of Romantic Facts Gathered in Many Lands)
OPENING DOORS (A Womanly Woman's View of Modern Women.)



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