The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-28
How Lucille Young Found Her Success
After 10 Years OF Many ~Dlsappolnt.
Ing Jobs.

Six years about newspaper offices
found Lucille Young u cynical, pessi-
mistic young woman who felt herself
doomed to one disappointment after
another In this life. Her most recent
disappointment was experienced when
she asked the managing editor for a
raise and II was refused on account of
the war and the general hard times
which the newspapers were feeling very
keenly at that time.
Her first disappointment was one
that she never seemed able to forget.
For ten years she claimed that 1t had
made her a failure, When Lucille was
graduated from high school she was
planning TO go to Boston n study
music. She was talented beyond Il
doubt and she longed for a career as
a musician, Her clothes were packed
and her ticket bought when for some
reason which she has never found out
her father decided that he would not
send her. She vas almost distracted
for she had planned SO much and
worked so hard with her music In or
der to get Il scholarship which would
help her pay her way. She started to
teach music in her home town, but her
heart was not In her work she
hated teaching although her methods
were so good that she was unusually
successful for a person 80 young, After
u 9Ndt ~ liOENIH ltlttllilk biiG hNhllOA
she could stand 1t no longer at homG
and so when she was offered a position
as geperness to two children with a
family which was going to Mexico she
readily accepted, she liked everything
about her new position except the busi-
ness Of Il. She did not like to teach,
Her many new experiences took her
mind from her music and she was
really quite happy until the family re-
turned TO the United States n de-
eided to send the children to school.
What to do next was a problem,
She soon decided, however, that she
would not teach music or anything else,
From the time she graduated from high
school she had to earn her W way
| and so what IL do was u serious ques-
ton and must be answered soon, Hear
Ing of a position on II OF the large
daily papers she applied and was given
the Job, but II was far from what
she expected. Her duties were not
editorial. but clerical. She was made
the paper. Clipping, filing, hunting up
pictures and cuts and other routine
business was her lot, She liked II
because 1t was something different and
It was interesting because u was new
Here her methods again made her sue
eessfpl, Sho seemed to y q meth.
odlcal mind and she brought order
out Of the chaos that had existed II
her department. She was soon made
head OF the department II given AT
assistant. but her pay was stu very
small. Then a rival paper needed some
one to straighten up their morgue, She
applied for the place and was hired a
a larger salary than she had been get,
ting, She spent three years at eael
paper. She introduced to each an ef
ficlent system OF keeping pictures, cut
and clippings, She had a record Q
never having lost a thing, and she wa
so well-read and had such n good mem
ory that she seldom needed to loo
up the ordinary questions which wer
asked her about dates. statistics ant
names and the like, yet now after 81
years Of good service she was gettint
but $3.50 a week The managers re
fusai to give her more money was
disappointment, but y was also a
awakening. She was a6 and was con
sidered by tho paper worth just Si7,b
and no more. That looked as II sh
were in the wrong place, for she coul
not be satisfied doing the same wor
for years to come and at such a sma
sun
She made her decision quickly an
without any thought as to the futur
she left the paper. She tried TO get
position by answering advertisements
but was often turned away because sh
had had no experience along the rigi
lines or because she could not tax
d~ictatton. Finally she entered a MANI
featuring concern with the intentio
OF changing their filing system to
more efficient one. She had done ths
successfully at the paper, but hel
where allNthe matter was duh CORES
pondence about brushes and orders 81
/ found the work tedious, After con
pleting the Job of changing their file
she left them. This time she decid,
that she would take up s~tenograpf
al night, hut tho question was to fin
! some work which would enable h