The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-04-06
NEW FEDERATioN or
BUSINESS AND
PROFESSIONAL WOMEN.

The Initiative meeting of the Attain
ia Federation of Professional and
Business Women held in Atlanta
Thursday afternoon. was a most :
teresting occasion. and assembled the
women leaders of women in business
and the professions, as well as women
leaders in all matters which pertain to
the interests Of all women individual
~ or in organized groups. The or
ganization of business and professional
women is not a new movement. but
it is to bring together all these separ-
ate organizations into one federation
which the new movement is making
for. having as its preliminary purpose
the use OF such a. force in the recon-
struction program as it relates to the
professional and business women Of
the nation.
The old principle of "in union there
is strength" stands out in this as In
other movements of the kind. and at
once suggests the advantage there -
TO the young unframed, inexperienced
professional or business women that
she be brought into organized relation
to the women leaders in the ptofes-
eions and in business, in this after
war period when so many young
women are entering the professions
and business. many Of them just out
of school and many Of them limited
in their training.
That the new federation stands az
harmonious link between the en-
ployer and employee,in it's principles
and purposes, was indicated by the
presence as promoters Of the fedora
ton of group of Atlanta women who
are leaders in the life of the COM
munity. as well as being the wives of
men who are employers of large num-
bers OF women. These women viii be
on the board of directors as recognize
ing the value Of the force of an or
ganization which represents the train
ed woman OF the community. as well
as representing the cooperative spirit
which should exist between the wo-
men OF the nation in their every inter
est, and in recognition OF the applica-
ton OF the principle Of the ideal DEM
ocracy.
Significant of the inspiration of the
federation, which is backed by the
National Young woman's Christian
association. was the presence and par
ticipation in the meeting Of the head
ISOLATION of Atlanta. Mrs. Archibald
Davis, who so well knows the need
there is that every influence be
brought to the younger women of the
business world and the profession ).
There could be no greater influence
than that which must result from the
bringing together in an organization
and federation of the younger and less
experienced women with those wo-
men who. through their genius, tall
emit or ability, have become women
leaders or women or well known ac-
cdmplishments.
Far from the aggressive spirit which
closer together of the business and
professional women, in organization.
the whole motive of the new organi-
zation is the harmonious spirit to de-
velop the woman force through the
individual. that force as expressed by
the trained women of the nation as
they make with all other women for a
national prosperity and a better civil
ization.
In the federation will be the woman
in insurance and in all lines OF bust
sable in the banking institutions and
trust companies. and the women Sec
retaries in all business corporations,
women doctors, lawyers. statisticians
snovelists, publicists. newspaper wo-
men: those who have made their
records in the line of advertising, wo-
man editors and essayists. women
teachers. women nurses in every line
Of that profession. women architects
illustrators, painters and designers,
women interior decorators, women
lecturers and women as they relate to
every profession and line of bust
ness
In Endorsing the federation Mrs
John King Ottley. wife of the presi-
dent OF the Fourth National Bank II
Atlanta, which institution employs
sixty women. including tellers. cash
iers. bookkeepers, secretaries, writers
and stenographers. said:
sAn the trained common sense that
can be brought to bear on the big
problems facing the business woman