The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
Men Souvenir Collectors, Too


Even in the matter of collecting"
souvenirs from hotels and restaurants
the blame is not laid entirely on wom-
en-. Men, it is said, are frequently col
lectors," though perhaps not in such
large numbers one hotel manager af-
firms that the souvenir craze is no
longer regarded as dishonest by those
who affect X.
Honesty is not at all a question of
sex, in my opinion" said Mrs Mary
Hutton Pell president of the bureau of
social requirements, at No. Is East For
ty-third street, which annually finds
positions for thousands of men and
women.
1t is mostly a question of individual
character and partly one of education
or lack of 1t, of environment and of
temptation My experience in the bu-
reau has taught me TO believe there is
practically no difference between men
and omen in the matter of honesty.
''And even after investigating the
characters of thousands of applicants
for positions of all kinds as we have
to do, and after naturally running
across cases of dishonesty, | am a most
firm believer in the honesty and up
rightness of human nature.
Only One Case of Dishonesty
I'm the last year, for instance, the
bureau has placed 5000 persons, about
equally divided among men and women.
in positions of trust. out of these ca ses
have received, so far, but one com
plant involving dishonesty.
THAT case involved man, so for pur-
poses of a comparison of sex honesty
that case is quite negligible. OF course,
men and women are temperamentally
different. and this shows i'm their meth-
DDS of work Women are less apt to
,-t,,
less careful than men in little things.
Very likely their standards of honesty
in less important things are different.
woman would 1 think, undermine. If
she could. another's business sooner than
a man, but I imagine that is matter of
temperament.
In the big matters of trust and right
dealing and honesty j do not believe
there is anything to choose between the
sexes"
Secretary Lanes statement works, |
think, an injustice to men," said Belvi-
dere Brooks, vice president of the West
ern Union Telegraph company. THAT
Is my opinion from a knowledge of the
many employees, both men and women, of
the Western nion.
"Our men employees are just as honest
and faithful and loyal-and these two
latter things count for honesty-as are
the women and girls. It would be un-
fair and untrue to say they are less so.
We have many women in our employ
who handle money.
There have been cases among them
of abuse of trust, and these have been
fewer in number than among the men.
On the other hand, there are less women
so employed by the Western Union and
their environment is different. Women
are not tempted to drink or to gamble.
so the temptation to steal is much less
and that counts in human nature. But
even these cases of abuse of trust are
few, and in general, for honesty, [ can
see no difference between our men and
women employees
In the big New York department stores
many women are employed in positions
involving great responsibility and the ex-
ercise of judgment which If wrong or
employed dishonesty would mean great
loss.
Many of our best buyers for de-
partments,' it was stated at the Gimbel
store, ARE women. and they are en-
ployed because they are found more eff
fcent and more careful than men III the
particular positions they fill.