The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-04-06

ing various facts record card is kept for every
man woman and child, we'll as for each of null
tude of items of industry in thriving country
The hot weather will soon be here and then the tab
ulation work will be at it's height. Day after day
these hundreds of will be at their desks,
their busy fingers flying the keys piling up
statistics that you and see how fast coun-
try is growing and may get return in dollars and
cents by knowing where the weak spots lie in
production
Women have been found especially reliable
work involving minute details They have a pa-
thence that do not possess and for this
they in considerable demand for such work.
They take everything as it comes without MUIR
heroically and stoically
One seldom hears work discussed outside the big
departments. The spirit of silence, so characteris
tic OF office holders as efecually seals the lips OF
the woman in the public service as it does those OF
the men. Things not nfrequently so across the desk
of those holding quite subordinate positions which
prematurey whispered on the outside would create
tremendous sensation. While the government bust
is public business. it is not the publc's bust
ness, and the common good is often best subserved
without the trumpets blast.
Women Know How to Keep Silence
A REPORTER for one Of the big dailies not long ago
n thought to make scoop for his paper by
foreelling the governments estimate of winter wheat
acreage. So he proceeded to wheedle the informa-
ton out of OF the girl stenographers in the de-
rartment of Agriculture, recalling the old saying
dozen American beauties, following it by two
pound box of chocolates. Then invitation
to the opera, with nice little midnight supper at
of Washngtons expensive hotels And now
for the wheedling He skillfully brought their talk
TO the subject of agriculture
You know am sort OF farmer he laughed
although Journalist I like nothing better than
work on big farm. And by big farm mean one
OF the kind we have out in the Dakotas where we
ut the gang pillow to work and it moves from you
in straight line till it disappears in the distance
That's farming, wheat farming.
She listened attentively and when she caught the
word wheat her instinct reused.
81 should think you'd find celery growing. orchard
ing. or poultryraisng more interesting" she sug-
gested.
"oh, no: me for the west And talking about
wheat, II bet a months salary against tencent
neckte that can guess the governments estimate
of winter acreage within thousand acres"
WASN'T Otheo simply charming" she replied
His paper went to press without a SCOOP" and
the wheat pit did not go wild over straight tip
All because the rule of silence grips with
hand even the girl who operates typewriter in a
government office.
1t is not unusual to hear young men in CONNER
cal life complain of being crowded out OF desirable
places by women. The same thing is true OF the
public service. Not only is this complaint heard
from those seeking appointment but it prevails to
extent within the departments when promo
ton time comes round. Some politicians have gone
so far as to suggest legislation providing that no
public Office shall be held by long
man is available to fill it.
81 don't believe in pettcoat government" is the
way one man expressed it, Then he qualified his
opinion by explaining, every time gets an
appointment she steals poor fellows bread and
butter.
Woman's sphere of activity is by no means con-
fined to the subordinate places Many hold admin
strative posts which carry great responsibility. Such
is the kind of Office held by Miss Estelle Reel, sup
erintendent of the 279 government schools for edu-
eating Indian children. These
schools scattered all over the
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country, of them being in
the west and employ nearly .
500 teachers and assistants. Miss r. 4szks3wK
Reel does not believe in X#WEH I
ing schools from desk, but is &M
an OF