Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-04-13
NEW FEDERATION PLANS W0MhN'S
 CLUB DIRECTORY
Will Compile Data of All Professional and Business
 Women's Clubs.

When the comttee on National Federation of Business and Profess ion Women's Clubs which was organ ized last February in New York, ask ed the head of the Congressional I- brary in Washington for a directory of the business and professioal wom- en's clubs of the United States, he stated that there was no such direc- tory, but that if it could be compiled uses would be found for it every day in the year. Especially at the time the women of the country were be- ing mobiliZed for war service in the first months of the war, he decraled would such list have proven in- valuable.
 A directory of Business and Pro- fessional Womens Clubs and of out standing business and professional women not affiliated with any club, will be an incidental outcome, but no insignificant achievement of the National Federation of Business and Professional Womcn's Clubs to be ef- fected in St. Louis July f4-17.
 The first step in this direction in the South was taken. a few days ago by committee of the city federation of professional and business wom- ems clubs of Atlanta, Ga., now in course of formation. Miss Bettie Young, chairman of the temporary organization, with committee of prominent business and professional women, and one member the. wife of an employer of women, who was in vited in an advisory capacity, com posed q questionnaire which was sent to the business and professional wom- ems clubs and to individual business women who hove expressed inter- ests in the federatio. This ques- tionnaire was intended, first, to se- cure formal expression as to the de- to be used as beginning of a di- rectory, complete in it's information, concerning the clubs and the individ- uals coming into the federation, and their different qualifications.
 To Use Questi0nnaireS.
 The use of this questionnaire has been extended to Mrs. Nina B. Price. organizer for the south of the na- tional federation of business and professional women's clubs, who in- spired the Atlanta federation, and Mrs. Price will in turn extend it's use of charity and state federations throughout her territory as fast as they are formed.
 The questionnaire, as it stands, is an example of the forethought and comprehensive viewpoint of Miss Bessie Young, who has the honor of being the first president of a city federation of business and pro fessional women's clubs in the south. Miss Young now holds the splendid positor of director of the Personnel Division, Retail Credit company, one country, with branches in every sec tion and in most of the large cities. Her ability and splendid equipment had striking recognition some months before the armistice, when she was called to Washington, and until the close of the war did important work for the government in the selection of women all over the country, best adapted to particular lines of gov ernment work.
 She is type of the woman of suc- cess who is receiving with enthu- siasm the idea of the new fedeation, and is spreading it's message for a coming together of this substantial, thinking element of the country's womanhood to bring about conditions and changes which will mean much to the comfort and happiness of America's army of professional and business women.