The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-16

Anita Buckley was the pretty daugh-
ter OF a poor lawyer who lived in a
prosperous manufacturing city in the
middle west. 1t was struggle to send
her through school and when she was
still In the grammar grades she had
to earn her own spending money.
She used to take care OF the neigh
bors' children and run errands for
them and in this way she earned en-
ough to buy school books and other
little necessities.
Her father and mother determined
that she should go through high school
and even farther If 1t was within their
power to send her. 1t was a hard
pinch to send her through high school
and 1t was utterly impossible to send
her to college.
The Normal school was the only
higher education that they felt able
to give her. Anita did not want to
be teacher but she did not feel that
her high schol education was adequate
preparation for any special kind of
work and SO she decided that she
ought to 60 to Normal school for the
addition school work even if she did
not teach.
Worked for Her Father.
During her high school and Normal
school course she worked in the office
of lawyer who was friend of her
| father. In this way she earned enough
money to clothe herself. When she
was graduated from Normal school
she had firmly decided that she would
not teach, whatever else she might
have to do to earn her way in the
world
Her father had been somewhat
more prosperous during the last two
years she was in school and he finally
decided that he needed an assistant in
his Office. Anita offered to work for
him. She had had experience in law
Office work with her fathers friend
and she thought she might be able to
save money for her father, for help
was becoming more costly every day.
She had been with her father but
short time when he noticed what re.
markable ability she had acquired in
remembering and placing land values
He told her that her ability was worth
something and that she was wasting
her time working for him, that a bank
was the place for her.
Anita was overjoyed at the prospects
Of working someplace besides in her
fathers dingy law office or in school
room and so she applied for work in
every large bank in the city. She wrote
to the banks and stated what exper
fence she had had and what she
thought her qualifications were. She
received replies from two of the
swer. 1t was the First Trust Com
pany.
Enters Bank at Small Pay.
Arifo ho NJ
the title department and after briet
interview she was given a clerica
position in his department at a salary
Of forty-eight dollars a month. She
worked hard and found her memory &
great help. She did tipping at frs
and later filing and finally she was
made assistant to the head of the de
partment.
She was only twenty.six at this time
and a very pretty and attractive girl
She was earning more than hel
father earned with his meager Law
practice and three times as much az
any of her schoolteacher friends.
Then there came a break in hel
business career for Anita married Johr
Manners, the vice-president Of thu
First Trust Company. She continued
to work for time until they fount
someone to- take her place and the1
she stopped but although she remain
ed at home she was in constant touch
with her former work for they coult
not seem to get along without her ant
were continually calling upon her 70
consultation and information.
At the end Of her fourth year of mar
ried life the head of the Title depart
: ment in the bank was called to an
. other city and so Anita Bulkey Man
rers left her home and her two small
. children to so back to the bank, thi
time as head of the title department
where she had formerly been assist
} ant.
She is now the highest paid woman
in the city and she is holding dow