Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-08
" 'Tis Industry Supports Us All"

AS the busy season comes there
will be hundreds of young men and
women going into the business world
to make a living and lay the foun-
dation for their future.
1t is the generally accepted idea
that. the young man. goes In with
he expects in time to have business
of his own and will marry and be
a real factor for the upbuilding of
his community.
And it is also a generally accept
ed idea that the girls go into the
business word as sort Of make
shift, or stepping stone to matri-
mony. When a girl asks business
manager for work he generally scans
her with the idea, us she worth the
time I woule give teaching her the
business? She will marry in year
and then I must break in new one"
I have boarded with both young
men and girls just beginsing their
business careers. On certain long
veranda I've heard them tell their
corning employers, work and their
business associates, and l am fully
convinced that there are as many
men seeking easy jobs and watching
for girls getting g92d sa lar wo as
is not always the lure. l am sorry
to say it, but many a girl is out in
the business world because she
loathes the ceaseless round, the daily
grind of the domestic treadmiu,
1t is so easy for all Of us to
see the hardships in our work ana
to imagine nothing easier than the
work some friend is doing.
knew one young man VINO moved
from store to store. He liked to wear
good clothes, wanted to be in the
lImelight and let the women do the
work. An influential relative backed
him until his patience ceased to pc a
virtue. Then Bonnie was told 10
pull off his gloves and settle oo"n
He told me once that he was "serl-
ously considering matrlmony. Inc
girl was making $50 a month at
glove counter"
1 mildly suggested that she might
expect to stay at home when she
took the responsibilities OF nome
on her shoulders"
"Well, that's where we disagree"
was his reply. "She has a snap.
There's no work in selling gloves"
I thought to myself, you wouldn't
keep the place more than week" 1t
takes patience, tact and pleasing
personality to sell gloves. women go
with as much shape as canvassed
ham and expect a, glove two sizes too
small to make a sculptor's model
out of it. Listen to grouchy remarks
and keep pleasant and smllingly IN
terested in selling gloves ii you can.
Girls at glove counters are we'll paid
because it takes a rare combination
to succeed there.
There is a sort of blindness about
all of US. We fail to see the true
aspect of our work. We too often fail
to put ourselves in the places of our
employers or patrons. School teach
ers as well as those in office forces
are too frequently looking for easie.
places instead of making the woSk
in hand a stepping stone to some
thing higher.
There are some teachers who have
low grade certificates who spend
vacations "having a good time"
when six weeks hard study at Knox
Vile, Peabody Normal, or Columbia
would fit them for something far
better, and that six weeks would
probably encourage them to take q
year and fit themselves for some
thing really worth while.
And now comes the girl of my re-
marks. Do not get the thought fixed
in your mind that you can start at
the top, and stay there. It's just as
easy for the child entering school to
begin in the fourth grade. 1t may
seem beneath the dignity of one of
your family to start at the bottom,