News-Journal from Mansfield, Ohio • 9

in THE MANSFIELD NEWS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1928 Page 9 Author's Story Parallels S. S. Vestris Disaster Maurine Watkins (left), famous playwright, who handles the tradition, "women and children first," without gloves. Right, sailors of S. S.

Berlin picking up a Vestris survivor, and, below, artist's drawing of lifeboat quitting doomed liner. NEW YORK-When the S. S. Vestris went down off the Virginia Capes with a sickening loss of life among women and children, wave of horror swept the country. Had the knightly law of the sea, "women and children, first," been thrown overboard? Was the new shibboleth "a survival of the fittest?" Five investigations got under way to determine the WHY of the damning ratio of husky, ablebodied men saved as compared with frail, defenseless women and babes.

Maurine Watkins offers an entirely new slant on this old tradition of the sea. In a story written months ago, but which finds a startling parallel in the recent disaster, and which is to appear in the January issue of Hearst's International and Cosmopolitan Magazine, the famous playwright the problem of "women and children first" boldly and without gloves. Parallels Vestris Disaster A modern liner -staunch, swift and comfortable, but with lifeboats for only eighty persons, and with three hundred passengers on board! To Explore Africa IN Mrs. Sarah L. Straus (above), widow of the late Oscar S.

Straus, has organized an expedition for exploration and collection of scientific specimens in Africa. Most of trophies will go to ornithological department of the American Museum of Natural History. In such a potentially dangerous setting is her story laid. Fenton Ridge-, ly, the hero of "Common Sense," felt safe aboard the great liner Balamina, just as passengers on the Vestris felt safe. Then came the unexpected- (it was called the impossible until 1t happened), the ship had to be abandoned.

And with this the dread discovery that there were not enough lifeboats. Because some had to be sacrificed they drew lots to see who would go and who would stay. Of course, in the Vestris sinking, there were plenty of lifeboats, but the listing of the ship made the launching of many of them impossible. So the result was identical. Skilled Oarsmen Required Perhaps some of the women and children of the Vestris could have been saved had they merely leaped into the water and kept afloat till picked up! How safe would they have been in lifeboats without skilled seamen along to keep them right side up? For lifeboats require experienced oarsmen to handle them if they are to bet safe! Perhaps "women and children first" isn't: such a good rule after all! But the author of "Common Sense" raises an entirely different question.

Fenton Ridgely took a poor girl's place in the lifeboat. He was saved and she was lost. He was a young millionaire. Press and public condemned him as a coward, but the author doesn't think he was. For her story points out that' Fenton Ridgely, alive, accomplished much good with his millions.

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