World's Record Woman

The greatest Secretary of a Treasury on the Globe is not a male but a female, not Andrew William Mellon, not Philip Snowden, but Mme Vera Yakovleva who last week was appointed Commissar of Finance to the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.

Whereas Chancellor Snowden is charged with a British budget balancing at only -L-741,581,000 ($3,611,499,470), and Secretary Mellon carries on with but $3,643,519,875, the Russian budget in Mme Yakovleva's care balances at the stupendous total of Rubles 11,390,000,000 ($5,854,370,000).

Though the Soviet budget figure is the declaration of a sovereign state, and must be honored as such, it is also true that:

1) the ruble is artificially maintained at its par value of 51-c- in Russia by shooting people caught selling or buying it for less;

2) the Red budget is not only that of the government proper but includes receipts and expenditures from the state monopolies which carry on every sort of trade, plus mining, manufacturing, running the railways.

Obscure, like nearly all the new crop of henchmen and henchwomen with whom Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin is gradually filling the Russian Cabinet, Mme Yakovleva was until last week Assistant Commissar of Education for the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic. She is 44, boasts that she has never in all her life possessed as much as Rubles 1,000 ($510). Career: She became a revolutionist at deep-dimpled 19, flung a bomb, was exiled and imprisoned, grew morose and introspective, escaped, flung another bomb, was again exiled and imprisoned, became hard-featured and hollow-cheeked, again escaped, flung no more bombs, led the frugal, self-denying, intensely industrious life of a typical Communist zealot, rose steadily in the Party to her present dizzy eminence, where she is unquestionably the world's record money-woman of all time. The Jewish Telegraph Agency exclusively announced last week from Moscow that the world's record woman is a Jewess.

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