The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-03
News of Society and |Actiiv iitGii@@ of w W0nn@m
By EMMA REID RYALL

ing of the highest American ideals in the
 business world.
 Eleven million women workers bound
 ed together for benefit and for service
 are obliged to he strong factor in re-
 construction" said Miss Phillips
 There is no longer any question of
 the acceptance of the business women"
 said Miss Phillips, who has made and
 won her own way in the business world
 and who knows every obstacle in the way
 to success. They are indispensable to
 our commerce. It may be that the exl-
 gencies of the war brought this condi-
 tion about a trifle sooner than otherwise.
 but it was bound to come. Women are
 absolutely necessary in our business, both
 for our national life and in many onses
 for the preservation of the homes from which they come.
 The war has opened to them many new
 occupations and responsibilities, which they have accepte$ unfalteringiy. Th9 period of reconstruction will make some adjustments in the work in which they should be engaged. It ought to make greater adjustments in the conditions un- , der which they work and in which they and their families may live. These women, it must be understood have heretofore factored as individuals Each has held her own position, accept ed the wage offered her and has worked in general under conditions as she has found them.
 Because of this, the group influence
 was lost. They were not united-they had no consciousness of solidarity-their , influence had been largely wasted be- | cause it had been that of single mem" 1 bers of a community.
 l 'They could secure better living condi- 1 tions, better working conditions. They
 could make life happier and more worth i the living for little children. They could be of invaluable assistance to the I younger women coming into business m 1 aiding them to find their rigntful places and to make their own personal adjust ! ments. They could standardize thei' work and benefit both employer and em- ploye.
 l "All this is what the federation of busi- ness and professional women of America ! will accomplish"
 l To promote efficiency and the sense or responsibility among women in business and the professions, we women, who are
 so intensely interested in the federation, | believe is the best way to meet the rad l ical tendencies and to conciliate the rest ] less spirit which is trying to penetrate 1 into the world of American business
 among women as well as men. 1 Miss Phillips is representative of a 1 group of outstanding women forming the 1 rational committee promoting the leueId l tion It includes Miss Eugenia Wallace, personnel director of the Guarantee Trust 1 company of New York, and who built up 1 the women's department, Mrs. Jeanne B. | Foster, statistician for kuhn-Loeb ana l company, Miss Florence Spenser, director l of personnel of the National City Bank, 1 Miss Grace Parker, president of the Ma tional league for Womens Service, Miss Florence King, of Chicago, a lawyer and | president of Women's Association of Commerce of the United States, Miss l Mary Johns Hopper of the' Prevalent
 Life and others of similar outstanding
 positions.
 Mrs. Nina B. Price. of New York, who
 introduced the movement in Birmingham held a responsible position with the Brit ish Commission in the United States be-
 fore going into the federation.