Omaha daily bee., 1919-06-22
PROFESSIONAL
WOMEN TO MEET !
IN SAINT LOUIS
Miss Marion Glenn Explains
Purpose Of National Organ
izatjon Of Business
Clubs in u. S.

New, York City, June 2l.-Miss
Marion Glenn, who is organizing
the business and professional wom-
en- on the west coast into state
declarations which will send dele
gates to the National Federation
of Business and Professional Wo-
men a. ST. Louis, July l4-l8, has is
sued an A B c of the work of the
organization that has proved to be
one CT the most popular pieces Pf
federation literature yet sent out.
She has very clear and definite views
on the subject and in re cent inter-
view says:
/, THE National Federation of Bust
ness and Professional Women of the
u. S. A. has been brought about by
the desire of the millions of business
and professional women of this ma
ton, who feel the need Of working
in group force that will not be sdi-
verted or lost. Five organizers are
at work, with headquarters at New
York. Denver, Chicago. Atlanta and
San Francisco. The national head
quarters are at 600 Lexington ave-
nue., New York, where Lena Madi-
son Phillips is executive secretary.
Women Are Producers.
i fWomen are not in business and
professions merely to divide human
labor: They are producers and they
add to tic power III llu,haI produc-
ton. Their status, their pay, their
problems indicate that contributions
are not being measured by adequate
standards. They now propose to
direct their power wisely and to put
the business woman on the eco
pomia map through steady publicity,
TO vllify their mutual interests, to
get direct action upon their prob
lens, to make better personal ad
jtistments to their own work and
to raise their own standards.
ar is SO composite that it is non
partisan, non-political and non-sec-
tartan. Miss Maude Smith, of the
War Community Service, at Ports
mouth, New Hampshire, is q the
chairman of the committee and Miss
Lena Madesin Phillips, 900 Lexisg-
ton avenue, New York, is the secre-
tary. The Federation will frankly
be just what the member clubs make
il. Ii every club of business and
professional women enters the fed
Grafton in the formative state, it
will never become either partisan
or one sided. The way to get what
you want out of an organization is
to put the right spirit into it.
Many Will Attend.
Pledges are rapidly coming from
general and civic clubs of business
women, from lawyers, doctors, ad-
vertising women, Y. w. c. A. and
Y. M. c. A. clubs of business girls,
who see in it a wonderful guide to-
ward business honesty and success.
The convention viii discuss what it
takes to make thorough business
I woman. The constitution and poll
cies of the federtion will be for
INFLATED at St. Louis on the basis
. of what clubs want done-training,
higher standards, employment IA
eilities, better balance in the salary
and the mental scale and the right
kind of living conditions. &C.,. a
The things we business and pro-
fessional women will get out of the
convention will be many. In the
first place we will get out of the rut
I'VE will get a chance to give what
ever we have to give by way of
ideas, effort or suggestion. We will
get much stimulus from the meeting
with successful women in every line.
We will get known and we will get
a new line on ourselves by contrast
with these other women.
e "The men are cooperating with us
splendidly. In St. Paul. Mimi, the
ST. Paul Association of Commerce
atsonce selected committee to act
upon a suggestion to send dele
gate to the convention from their
women's division. The St. Louis
Chamber of Commerce has done
the same thing. We would like to
sec every chamber of commerce that
has woman's division do the same
ting. We believe many Of them will
do SO. a, rsstf~