Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-21

I And the woman who a this Is a
| New York advertising expert, o
touring the United States to organize
| 11,O0O,0 900 business n professional
women into a huge national fedora
| ton which will reform Americas bust
ness conditions,
She is Mrs. Florence Spencer Dur
yea. You'd say she was modern"
But she says nay.
This talk about the modern wo-
man has been greatly ov%erplayed,'
! she declares. Women today are just
like their grandmothers.
For example, l recall In my youth
hearing of a married woman whose
| husband let her use the carriage In
the mornings. while during the after
moons it was used by his other lady
friends. Do you suppose she liked
that N better than the modern
woman would?
Not a bit of It. Any from
Eve down to Mrs. Pankhurst would
feel exactly the same about that.
circumstances have changed on
the male side of the house-that's
| the whole story. The man used to
find It quite convenient and cheap to
have a couple of maiden aunts stick
| ing around to help manage the house
] Labor started to raise its wages and
machinery cut down the work of the
house, so the maiden aunt ceased to
| pay SO sre found another job-a
better one.
women have always been clever.
They used TO he cleve/ at n sort of
| sorts. 1t isn't women that have
changed-it's the tasks, the %opportun-
tiles. 1t isn't correct to speak of wo-
men invading industry They were
| highly important in industry before.
They've merely changed their Jobs.
"Of course they'll never change
back.
Take advertising for instance.
Women are breaking into advertising
| with tremendous success. Recentlya
New York advertising expert, a male
drew a picture to advertise a certain
brand OF soap. 1t showed a woman
| with tremendous success. Recently a
Doubtless he had never seen a wo-
man taking a bath, but he ought to
have asked what they did with their
hair! No woman advertiser would
| ever have made that mistake.
There are several things that we
| plan to do with our National Fed
Grafton of Business Womens' Clubs
First of all, unequal pay for equal ser
| vice has to end sooner or later, and we
a hurry that time along.
Then, while mems commercial or
CARNATIONS are striving for higher
standards of honesty, there's plenty
to be done along that line, and The
| women can help.
Again why should an employer, in
hiring a girl, ask her whether she
is married, planning to get married,
or If married whether there is any
| prospect of children? No such ques-
| lions are ever asked about a mans
| private life-those things aren't the
employers business.
eff a man gets a better Job. he quits.
SO If a stenographer, bookkeeper or
| private secretary gets a job as her
baby's mother, she has q perfect right
to quit. Motherhood oughtn't to
queer her with her employer, as 1t
does at present"
In organizing the National Fedora
ton OF Business Women's Clubs, the
United States has been divided into
five districts. They are respectively
headed by Miss Mary John Hopper,
| New York: DIR. Anna r. Ranes, Chi
| cago; Mrs. N. B. Price, Atlanta; Miss
Ida l.. Venable, Denver; n Miss
Marion r. Glenn, San Francisco. Mrs.
Duryea has general supervision over
all five districts. The first national
convention is scheduled for st. Louis
the coming July.