Evening star., 1923-04-17
monday CLUB HEAD
IS MRS. VAN W|NKLE
Woman's Police Bureau Chief
, Accepts Election When
!: Notified by Phone.

Mrs. Nina c.. Van Wrinkle. chief OF
the woman's bureau of the police
department, was elected president Of
the Monday Evening Club at the an
nual meeting held at the Cosmos
Club last night. Informed of her
election by telephone. Mrs. Van
Wrinkle accepted.
Louis A. Simon was elected firt vice
president of the club for the ensuing
year Other officers elected were Mrs.
Fila West. second vice president;
retary; Mrs. Louisa s. Roberts, COR
responding secretary. and Miss Ger
trude H. Bowling. treasurer.
A. J. Driscoll. Mrs. Charles A.
Goldsmith, Dr. Loren b. T. Johnson.
Walter S. Ufford and Miss Elizabeth
Brandeis were elected as members Of
the executive board. Last nights
meeting was the last for the year. as
the time .of the May meeting comm
the national conference of social
work. in which members of the Mon
day Evening Club will take promi-
nent part.
Talk ON Personal Relations.
Personnel relations was the sub
ject discussed by George d. Halsey of
Woodward and Lothrop.. DR.. John A.
Ryan, director of the National Catho-
lie Welfare Council. was chairman of
The meeting. He will preside as chair
man of the committee on industry of
the national conference of social
work, at its fftieth anniversary ses-
sion.
Mr.. Halsey pointed out that during
the last half century many industries
had grown so large that the human
touch" had been lost, anu that th>
problem of personnel administration
is to bring 1t back. He declared that
there are two viewpoints, that of
those who say that armed neutral
ity is the only solution vt the prob
lem of harmonious relations of en-
1 ployer and employe, and those who
say that the fundamental interests
OF both are the same in a properly
planned and managed institution.
Closer Mutual Trust.
In a department store, MIR. Halsey
said, the problem is simpler than it is
in large manufacturing concerns, for
there is a closer mutual trust between
management and worker. The diff
Guilty lies in the exposure of the en-
Qloyes to the public, so that a grouchy
employe in a department store comes
into contact with hundreds a day.
whereas a similarly afflicted person
In plant does not meet people and
therefore does not rub them the
wrong way, in fact, he may be a very
capable employe despite his crouch"
MIR. HalSey told of the divisions of
work at his store, outlining the work
OF the employment section and Show
ing that It's activities are to the
,mutual interest of employer and en-
,ploye. He told of the work of the
training section, botn routine train =
ing and training for promotion, and
said that this activity, too, was for
the interests of both employer and
employe. Similarly he considered
the questions of wage payment and
industrial democracy. OF the latter
he said that it means sincere de-
sire on the part of the employer to
give the employe a real part in the
determination of his activities.
Too many plans, he said, are de-
Aligned by the management and hand
ed to the worker. The best first step
in industrial democracy, Mr.. Halsey
declared, is to allow employees to buy
stock in the company, and therefore
allow them to participate in the
gains and losses of the nrm.
Miss Ethel NJ. Smith, legislative
secretary of the National Women's
Trade Union League, who was down
on the program to present the views
of one whose attitude is critical" did
mot appear.