Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-05-18
PROFESSIONAL AND
BUSINESS WOMEN
TO ORGANIZE
Directory Will be Big Bene-
fit to Women in CONNER
cial World.
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tionnaire sent out by the organizing
committee which will bring forth the
establishment of a directory of pro-
fessional and business women, has
brought forth from the women who
have led in war relief work the COM
ment: What blessing this will be
in our reconstruction work, and what
a force it would have been in our war
work."
When the Woman's Committee
Council of National Defense, in obed-
fence to government direction, called
for the coordination of all the for
ces of women, that they might unite
in national war work it was discov-
cred that all elements of women had
their organizations through which
they could be called together, except
the business and professional women.
There were the patriotic women IN
various bodies--the federated club
women, the missionary societies and
church workers, the philanthropical
women, those making for industrial
betterment. The Colonial Danes came
with their splendid organization, and
found the war cause one common with
the women's auXiliaries to labor UNI
ions, and the church and missionary
society brought to Red Cross chap
tiers everywhere the best of workers.
The business woman and the profess
sional woman, wherever she appeared
as an individual worker was shin
ing light. 1t was but very short time
after the council of defense modified
the women of the nation that it was
observed by the leaders of war work
that one of the weak points in the
organization was the lack of fed
Grafton of the business and profess
sional women-the lack of way into
which to reach them in orfanization
that their great force might be APP
jlied in every community where it
existed.
Atlanta WOman's Work.
'.If there were only one like her in
every community of the state" was
the oft-repeated remark of the leader
of Georgia's co-ordnated war work
ers among the women, when she re-
ferred to the work of one of Atlanta's
bushes women, in the state council
of defense work in this state. When
the work OF coordination began, and
women were asked to send in reports
from every community, and Washing
ton asked for tabulated report of
all these, one of Atlanta's business
women was asked how would be the
best way to tabulate the reports or
to compile them in such form that
Washington could see exactly how the
women of Georgia were organized and
exactly what kind of war work they
were doing.
Il ,hpI
was, how much time it would take,
she accepted the responsibility of
compiling the reports and made one
of the most valuable contributions to
her state and to the nation, in the
way in which she did it.
Those who know anything about
the reports which the average wo-
man makes about work, know that
one of the little feminine weaknesses
is not to read directions sent to her
on such subjects, and not to report
the things asked for, but frequently
the things not desired. Reports of this
kind were turned over to the chair
man of compilation, who patiently
reviewed them, took out the facts
asked for and recorded them. Then
she wrote back to the woman report
ing time and again asking for the
facts desired by the government, and
in many cases, after perseverance,
she succeeded in getting the informa-
ton needed. In time Georgia's re-
ports were assembled by Georgia's
chairman of compilation, that when
the day of final reckoning came in
Washington, the women of Georgia,
were found to be 9S per cent organ
lied on the council of defense records.
Not only had they actually become or
ganzed, but they had begun to do
the work asked for; they had grad
ually learned to comply with the re-
quests the government asked of them,
and their method of report was ac-
copied as model.
A great deal of this excellent re-
cord, the Georgia chairman attrib-
utes to the efficiency of the one bust
ness woman who undertook the i'm
portant office of compiling the re-
ports. Had there been federation of
professional and business women in
Georgia that organization could have
its woman representative in every
department of community war work
and aided every way in the same eff
ticient way that the one Atlanta wo-
man has done.
Another Evidence.
Another evidence of the necessity
for the woman trained in business as
factor in all movements in which
women are interested, was proven in
the incident of Mrs. William Chiffon,
the wife of the former senator from
West Virginia, and leader in Wash
lngton society during Senator Chill
tons term, who became an efficient
office secretary. Early in the Liberty
Loan campaigns Mrs. Chiffon volun-
teered her services to the Womans
Liberty Loan committee of West
Virginia, but recognizing restrict
ion in her work because of lack of
training, she took a secretarial course
at a Charleston business college, pass
ed her examinations 99S per cent,
and in the headquarters of the Lib