Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-14
women DEMONSTRATORS
TO SELL AUTOMOBILES
Prominent suffragists Praise New
Plan Of Maxwell Motor Car
Company.
EQUAL PAX FOR EQUAL WORK
VIII Give Employment to Fully 1000
Women, Says Mrs. ALICE Carpenter,
Leader In Work for Unemployed.
Local Women Approve OF Plan.

So long has the cry. Equal pay for
equal work." been heard from the mod
ern women, that they herald with de-
light ths decision of a leading motor
company to employ women as demon-
strators with the same compensation
for their services as that of men in the
same capacity.
Mise Alice Carpenter. a prominent
Boston woman. who is active In the
work for the unemployed In New York
City this winter. as Well as leading
euffrastst. attended the National Con.
Richmond last week and told the con-
vention that this move would give en-
ployment to more than 1000 women in
the United States.
Mrs. Crystal Eastman Benedict, a
college woman from the Middle West,
has been put In charge Of the women
aemonstrators, and every one who
never falls to make. good" In New
York the progressive women, especial
~ the suffraglsts, are heart and soul
IN the enterprise and leading Virginia
women declare they regard 1t as The
most hopeful sign OF the times.
WILL SELL MODEL KNOWN
AS a @WoAIAN's CARR
This car Is cistinctiveiy q 'twoman's
car" It Ia handled with ease, and is
one OF the best in the market for be-
ginpers. 80" said the company, "if
women buy 1t, why shouldn't women
They shall" replied Mrs. Benedict,
soon DO installed in Richmond, and the
probability is that she will be as sue
cessful as are the women In other cities.
Miss katharine H. Hawes. president
OF the Young Women's Christian AS
ISOLATION, In writing Miss Carpenter of
n a N a.
Every woman should appreciate the
new departure In the policy of the
Maxwell Motor Car Company, opening
as IT does new opportunities to women
IN Industry on the terms OF equal pay
for equal work. There would seem to
be every reason why 1t should be in
every way successful to GIL parties
concerned. Here's wishing the COM
PROMINENT WOMEN PRAISE
NEW OPENING FOR WOMEN
Mrs. B: p, Valentine. president of
the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia,
speaks in highest praise of this enter
pr!sipg company's move. She says:
we'll Motor Company ono OF tho most
hopeful signs of the times In the de,
velopment OF 'woman's sphere Of Inv
duatry.' and shall cooperate In every
possible way with Mrs. Benedict Ia
taking advantage Of this opportunity
Miss Virginia McKenny, executive
secretary of the women's occupational
Bureau, declares: ~ am tremendously
Interested In the move of the Maxwell
Motor Car Company in It's relation to
the development Of new opportunities
for women" {
Mrs, NJ. NJ. .caldwell.> OF s Roanoke,
president Of the Virginia State Fed
Grafton Of Women's Clubs, writes:
II am glad to see the AfaxwelI Motor
Gar Company, IN opening it's auto In
dustry to women on the same financial
basis 1t grants to It's mon denonstra-
tors, has put in charge Of itseselection
of women Mrs. Crystal Eastman
Benedict. whose character and position
assure the appointing OF women OF
dignity and ability only, and SO promise
the new Industrial opening a begin-
Ming on alhigh plane. The nature OF
the occupation makes 1t a healthy-one,
and for many women opens a scope for
talents hitherto finding no outlet"
Mrs Walter McNeal says the neld is
well fitted for women. because the
lightpess Of the car makes 1t peculiarly
we'll suited TO the woman driver.
These expressions OF opinion are
only few of those that Miss Carpep-
ter will carry back TO Mrs. Benedict,
and which seem undoubtedly to assure
the new work success.