Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-07-09
BLONDES JUST
AS EFFICIENT,
MANAGER SAYS
Bv MAREL WmEELER.


Cheer up. blonde business girls and
you with the bobbed hair, all is not lost
yet. even though F. h Daniels Of the
Aetna Life Insurance Company Of Hart
ford, Conn, does declare that he will
employ no bobbed heads or yellow tops
in his Offices for all business men do
not feel that way. And II you have
leaning toward insurance work don't hes
ltate 10 apply at the local Aetna Life In
surance Company for II. y Throckmor-
ton states emphatcally that they do not
care whether girls are blonde or brunette
red headed or henna locked. thin haired,
thick haired, bobbed haired or shorh
heads, as long as they look intelli gent
and can talk sensibly.
In fact he says, 1--WE do not even
notice their complexion or hair when
employing our office force However. I
can say that our office Aich comprises
thirty FIVE girls, has accumulated
splendid. practical, efficient flock OF girls
and there are quite a number Of blonde
heads shining among them. In fact, one
Of our girls who has a perfect shock
Of yellow hair, Is a splendid example Of
Office efficiency. As to the bobbed hair,
| see no objections to that Personally,
If I were woman l am sure l would
bob mine or even go farther and clip
1t close to my head this hot weather,
We have no cropped hair among the
office hands at present, but we formerly
had two young women who were as sen
sible, intelligent girls as one might find.
One Of them left 10 continue her work
in an Eastern music school and the other
is working for a degree In college which
doesn't seem to At I'm very well with
the brainless bobbed hair theory. 1t is
ridiculous to make such a statement CON
corning the appearance of person. We
find our blondes fully as dependable as
our brunettes and II our home office
would attempt to control the complexion
and manner Of hair dressing Of cur en-
ployes. 1t would only be laughed at.
Probably we would get more work done
II all our girls had their hair bodied.
They spend a few moments, you Know,
pushing it back, adjusting hair nets and
arranging their hairpins n bit more
comfortably. Why, we are just plan
ming better facilities for the girls to do
their dolling up in. All we ask is that
they dress sensibly and do their work.
And they all do, whether light or dark.
Miss Ada Royal, who has charge Of
the employing Of girls in the accident
and liability department Of the Aetna
Life Insurance Company, who, by the
way, is a maiden of the nut brown type,
with discerning dark eyes, laughed at
the idea of choosing her girls by the
color Of their hair.
II only look to see whether their face
shows intelligence and interest when I
interview applicants" she said. II don't
suppose I could tell you whether they
even have hair after they are gone.
Blondes. perhaps. are not as numerous as
brunettes, but they are quite as efficient
z. w Simpson of the local office of
the life department states decidedly that
he doesn't care whether they have any
hair as long as they can do the work.
"If after a week or so we find they
are inefficient we let them go, whether
they are brunettes or blondes" he de-
clared "a black haired girl can be quite
as light headed as the faxen- haired lass
In our department l have a decided
blonde who is leaving after several years
faithful service, and ! can frankly say
that there isn't a man in the office whose
loss would be more vital She is abso-
lutely efficient in every detail. as near
perfection as you find any one in bust
ness.
"She is leaving us to take a position
of decided responsibility. She will travel
from one end of the United States to the
other in organization work on a man
size job, which is pretty good proof that
blondes can succeed in the business
world.
I'VE have but one decided brunette in
our office by the way. AS for powder
would a whole lot prefer powdered faces
to shiny sticky ones and l know the
girls feel whole lot cooler and more
comfortable with powdered skin this
warm weather. My opinion is that Mr..
Daniels was temporarily deranged when
he made those rash statements, If he
made them seriously, as I am inclined to
doubt"