The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28
". Viuien HindZey, Banker

It is something of a shock to walk into big banking establishment like the Morris Plan Banks Company of Birming- ham and have yourself referred to a tall, slender young girl with peaches and cream complexion-who bushes to the roots of her pretty hair when you ask her personal questions about her work. the monarch of all she isurveys'-a modern Alexander Selkrk as it were. But this is precisely what happens when you ask,for the right person to dis cuss trade acceptance" or credit &C., counts with at the Morris Plan Com pany, for clever New England girl, Miss M. vivien Hindley by name, from Rutland Vermont, answers to the call and givds you flrst-hand information right off the bat" with the celerity, | the clarity and the intelligence of the oldest banking official in this part of 1 the country although she is now only | 23 years old.
 1 To be sure, there has been a war and women have come to do all sorts or | things they never did before, and the "ette' is a suffix which is added to nearly every trade. with the conductor ettes", "yosman-ettes", "farmer-ettes not to mention the hundreds who have gone Into every conceivable trade from running an elevator to driving an omni- ] bus and to ventures in insurance, real estate and other activities.
 | Nevertheless, it Is a bit of shock to find Miss M vivien Hindley arising from her swivel chair before the conventional office desk and answering to the name | of banker ette."
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 In this case it is young woman with a splendid high school education ac-
 quired up in her home section Of the ] JT S. Ain New England-which never ' hzr ba hut always thor oughly and accurately = later college | work-and then a keen determination to | do "something worth while"-to get out | into the worlj into "bg business and 1 take her place as a cog in the great 1 wheel of industrial promotion to snow | that a clever young American girl can
 assist in bridging the gap between labor and capital, soothing the nationwide
 unrest, stimulating thrift, decrying reck- | less expenditures and helping the poor man or woman who Is whirled ana eodieo | about in the whirligis of commercial I problems In other words 100 per cent 1 American.
 There really isn't much to tell you about my career as banker" Miss Hindley> said. "Mr. w. E. Willett, the manager of the Morris Plan Company of I Birmingham came from my own home
 town and in talking with him one day he asked me how I'd like to make my home in Birmingham It was bit of a shock, as I had just left college-to think of leaving snowy-clad New Eng Hand where I'd grown up, had gone to l high school, finished and then studied
 at the University of Vermont, but the | chance looked very interesting, and so I accepted and three years ago started my work here as stenographer to MT. Wil- | lett.
 'At school had studied Commerce k- A. ..
 help to me theoretically in the banking
 business" Miss Hindley said, but the
 actual practical banking business I have learned day by day since I have been
 with the Morris Plan Company here. un- til now I am secretary of the company.
 "It Is the most interesting place in the world to study human nature-a bank is" Miss Hindley said, land banker must be good judge of men. to be a good banker There's no business on
 which more depends in this particular
 way. than the banking business.
 "A banker deals with all kinds of peo- ple-rich and poor alike" Miss Hindley
 continued flor the rich man wants cred
 it, as we'll as the poor man. and right
 here, please let me say that contrary to
 the belief of many, the Morris Plan
 Banks are not poor mems banks exclu-
 sively They are not charitable insti-
 tutions but business institutions con-
 ducting their business along banking
 principles.
 'The object of the Morris Plan of
 Banks is to do for the average men
 quite as much. if not more than the
 great federal reserve does for the com
 mercial or financial interests of the na,
 tion."
 For instance, the Morris Plan , Banks are getting ready--indeed have , already inaugurated an active thrift , campaign" Mss Hindley said "Oi course. the federal reserve has been ad-
 vocating this all along, but we are now
 trying our level best to persuade the