The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-13
By MIGNoN HALL

This very beautiful woman has finger in the pie of. about five bus inesses.
 It's up to her to lend assistance to the success of all of them.
 And she has-to two or three of them-for sixteen years. The others are new organizations.
 She doesn't look like she's but little more than that old now-but she started ts work when she really was very little girl
 Mrs. N. A. O'Hara is her name. and the job of being secretary to w. D. Nesbitt as ~Sli as assistant secretary of the Warrant Export and Discount corporation, hasn't turned her head a trifle. You can talk business with her any minute and get it over and under stand what she has talked about. For she speaks clearly, forcefully, and is absolutely so familiar with terms and her job that attending to business with her will not delay you overtime
 Grown Up With Business.
 Mrs. O'Hara has practically grown up with .the cotton business and has seen her company expand from an fnIant up to man .ze.
 Tt was an infant when I was a kid" she laughed. Its proud of it's age but I'm not I don't suppose any woman ever is..
 Still anybody can see she isn't old,
 Mrs. oHara broke into the busi- mess world. before she joined the Warrant Warehouse company, through substituting one summer for Miss Annie Peace, secretary to Hem " Badham.
 "I was simply scared to death" related the successful business woman and If it had not been for MT Badham's kindly understanding and a strict talk he gave me one day I don't believe I ever would have stuck to business"
 70. but I was green-poor MT. Badham-green and nervouss, which are two combinations hard to get around. MT. Badham must have seen this, or felt it consciously. For one day, after dictation, and after had been there little while, he called me. to him and looked squarely in my eyes. He said:
 Are you Afraid of your father?'"
 Naturally I said no.
 Will Try
 Well" he told me, If were your father and you did not understand thing. wouldn't you ask me again? And If you did not understand what l said the second time. wouldn't you keep on asking me until you did un- derstand it? You wouldn't cry. would you?"
 T said no.
 That's all I had to say to you he finished. I am sure you can do this work, and we will just try and try until we get 1t right.
 And we did"
 Don't you know that I will nev- CT forget Mir. Badham for his kind ness as long as live? Don't you know I feel like owe him a debt that nothing could ever repay?"
 When I came on with the ware house people I found the second step in business harder, since I was secretary to Mir. Nesbitt and some of the responsibility he carries was thrown upon my shoulders, as it has been ever since, not only in that, but in the other business MT. Nes- bitt has started since that time. Mir. Nesbitt has made me very careful to be efficient in my work because he himself Is such good worker"
 She laughed:
 T guess I'm a living example that the disease of efficiency and thor oughbreds Is catching-for I try to be those things. | don't know whether I have as good case as MT. Nesbitt, but mine is so virulent that 1t frets me like everything If work isn't going on just right.
 Five Companies
 The five companies Mrs. OHara falls heir to assistance in.' are these