WOMEN: Bonfire Girls

In 1928 bellicose, able Doris Stevens proposed, founded, organized a certain thing called the Inter-American Commission of Women (a sort of handmaid organization to the Pan American Union). Miss Stevens' job does not pay anything. The commission cannot actually do anything—except find an occasional fact, present it to higher authorities. But since 1933 many a scheme to oust her as chairwoman has been hatched.

For Miss Stevens, who was once sprung from the District of Columbia jail by Dudley Field Malone* after suffrage-picketing of the White House, holds that women are created...