The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-22
MRS. KIWANIS"

I0NH1S is story about one of the incest. sweetest women in Bir-
 mingham, Mrs. Florence NJ. Tar rant, Mrs. Kiwanis." real squaw,' the Kiwanians call her-who as assist ant secretary to Secretary Clarence M Wiley of the Birmingham Kiwanis club, has made good" and then some"
 You know perfectly well that even as you and I,' nobody could possibly write a story about Kiwanis without mentioning that inimitably clever and charming gentleman, the Hon. Jeff" Bailey, former club secretary and now Held secretary of International Kiwan IS, Tor the name of Kiwanis is as indis solubly associated with the Hon. Jeff" as Damon With Pythias, babies with milk, debutantes with lemonade.
 Also there must be reference made to the clever editor or The Kiwanis Torch the Hon. Roe Fulkerson, who hands out that dashng Andrew and lmogene' dope every morning in The Age-Herald, that classy" gentleman whom Birmingham had the pleasure of meeting during the big International kiwanis convention here last spring, Tor between the Hon. Jeff and the
 Hon. Mutt q mean "Roe"O. there sprung up in their inventive brains the idea of women in Kiwanis," and this is the way the Hon. Jeff" tells it:
 What, woman secretary, a paid secretary in skirts?' asked Roe F'ulker- son, editor of the Torch. the Interna-
 ional Kiwanis magazine, chen I was H Washington and told him how Xii wanis was kept on her tiptoes in Bir- mingham, where hospitality is the big thing that all delegates and visitors to the kiwanis convention held here last May remember
 That is a capital idea" said Mr. Full kerson and I am going to advocate it in the magazine. The trouble about the clubs that are not alive and up and go- ing is that they do not pay enough att tention to the details of the offfce-the little things-the little attentions that great big baby men like-of course Mercer Barnett, Windy Currie, Joe Loveman, Henry Cobb, Andy Arrant Jim Davidson and all of that bunch of big rail maulers that you have down there in Birmingham are hot going to admit that they fall for the powder puff stuff, but they do. Bald d-headed and unhandsome as I am, I am strong for just a little attention now and then.
 Now, getting to the brains of your movement to employ a woman paid I of It gives you efficient. detailed and watchful service, if you get the right kind of a woman, and at the same time it is delightful position for a woman surrounded by bunch of 200 good fel- I lows who are ready and faiting to do her bidding at any time while if a mere man is on the job they would tell you where to go-you would have to do all these little things yourself. A woman can simply handle men better than man can. No man knows anything about a woman, but any woman knows everything she cares to know about a man. sooner or later.
 "The average club gets a secretary of ability when they organize and start to work. He gets interested in the work and before he knows it, his own business is ceondary, and soon he awakens to the fact that he must earn his own living outside the club office or go to the poor house. Then the club finds that they cannot afford to re. tain him on full time at salary com mensurate with his ability, or what that ability would bring in an open market They have to let him go. Now, in the paid woman assistant secretary I see the remedy. She does the detail work. keeps the books, handles the magazine and correspondence details, keeps open shop, has a flower or two sticking around on the table. little picture here and there, a spotless office, plimenting Miss Pearl Siegal and MT. Joseph Sher, whose marriage will be an