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This, Miss Lena Phillips Advocat
for Business Women

This, Miss Lena Phillips Advocates
for Business Women
When women quit wearing their
old Sunday clothes to work and
adopt simple pretty style of dress
which does not emphasize their sex,
when they learn to relax and to for
get their sex consciousness and when
| they gain faith and courage enough
to place a value on their ability, then
and only then will women succeed in
business"
That in brief is the belief of Miss
Lena Madesin Phillips, executive
secretary of the National Federation
of Business and Professional Wo-
mems clubs of the United States.
Miss Phillips arrived in Salina this
noon for the meeting of business wo-
mems clubs here this afternoon and
this evening, and tonight will speak
TO the business women of this dis
trict who are present at the conven--
ton, as we'll as to others who care to
attend. Her message is strictly to
women, however, for she is vitality
concerned with the problems of the
business woman.
"Women are hampered in business
by their traditional characteristics,
Miss Phillips said today. "They are
afraid to do some things which they
find men doing in the business world
because their grandmothers didn't do
those things. For that reason they
fail to take ventures, where if they
would be just plain folks, take the
risk and have the courage to try
things, they would be successful and
would have an income measured in
five figures"
Miss Phillips is inclined to the OPP
inion that too many women are look
ing at pennies instead of dollars and
in trying to save a penny by making
over old waists at night, thereby sap
ping their strength, they ruin some
chances for business success the next
day.
s'I think it may be all right for
women to make over their clothes at
night the national secretary for
business women admitted, eff they
have nothing more profitable to do
with their time. But otherwise l feel
that they merely sap their strength
so much of what would be marked
success"
Wearing old Sunday clothes to
work is another bad habit, Miss
Phillips believes and feeling sorry for
themselves and getting their feelings
hurt are other great drawbacks to
women in business
''Women need to learn to relax as
men do and they need to learn TO be
real human beings instead of mere
ly women" she adds. The organiza-
ton of business and professional wo-
men into clubs all over the United
States is the way in which the wo-
men are to be taught to "acclimate"
themselves in business life, Miss Phil
lips says.
The organization is not philan-
thropic or for 'fuplift" except as the
members try to promote their own
ideals and live up to their beliefs of
what, business women in business
should play in the life of the nation,
so the national secretary says. The
clubs seek their membership from
women who are executive heads, as
well as from women in factories and
the members work for their own in
terests, and not to uplift any partlc-
Mar class. However, the clubs are
vitality interested in legislative means
TO correct the evils which exist for
women in industry.
Miss Phillips will talk this evening.
She is sharing honors today in Sal1na
with Miss Ruth Fleisbach, OF hays,
who is state president of the Business
and Professional Women's clubs and
who believes that the best thing the
organization can do IS to encourage
womanly qualities and help women
blaze a new trail for themselves IN
business.
al do not believe that because wo-
mon are in business is any reason
whv thew must ape the mannersms,
characteristics and vices OF men,
Miss Fleisbach said 81 think that we
should encourage all our womanly
qualities. We may not handle our
business in the way man would, Dut
what of it? Let the women oiaze
their own trail, in business, and as
the business man is distinct type:
so let the business woman be type
all her own.
esThe meeting together, as we do
in these clubs, furnishes an environ
ment which takes the place OF the
traditional business life of man,
and gives to women the feeling they
need to succeed, I think:
The movement in which MISS Pnll-
Inns and Miss Fleisbach are vitality N
terested and of which the Dorian CLUB
in Salina is part, was started carry
in 1919 by Miss Lena Phillips, VINO
sneaks tonight, and, now numbers
every state but Rhode Island. 1t has
affiIiated with more than 800 clubs,
some with memberships of 800 to
1900 and many of which have their
own club rooms. The meeting today
in Salina is being attended by some.
what less than fifty delegates out OF
Salina. -,
This afternoons session began with
an auto ride for visitors at 81 ano
Ir-i+h the first meeting at the Metho-
6;st church at $50. This evening
there will be a banquet, special nau-
sic. and the address by Miss Phillips
-Salina Journal, Feb. p, 1921
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