Milford chronicle., 1928-11-02
NATIONWIDE BANQUET
FOR BUSINESS WOMEN

W
tion-Wide Banquet at the Sesqui Inn
near Dover. At the same hour all
the clubs in the United States were
holding banquets and carrying out
the same program-an invisible fell
lowship of business women.
Seventy-five persons were at the
Dover banquet; thirty from Milford; /;
four from New Castle; four from
MiddletOwn and the rest from Dover.
Miss Jane Townsend of the Dover
club acted as tOastmistress. Mrs
Emma Stewart presided at the piano
for the songs and special music. An
orchestra furnished music for the
dinner hour. Special music in the
form of solos was enjoyed through
the courtesy of Mrs. Russell Wilson
and Mrs. Joseph. Hoskins. A message
from the National President of the
Assembly of Business and Profess
sional Women was read by Miss
Elizabeth Roberts of the New Castle
discussed by Mrs. w. H. Beacon in
a special message, on the subject
Widening Horizons for Women"
Mrs. Beacon said in part:
zone of the most thrilling things
in the world is to sit down quietly
and think of the changes that have
taken place in the world within ones |
own memory. Things that we accept |
and use today as a matter of course,
were unheard of few years ago.
'It has not been long since the
automobile was more of a curiosity
than the Graf Zeppelin is today.
Then there is the wireless, subma-
rine, poison gas, and the radio. Why,
1 can remember the first time I
talked over the telephone-thirty-
eight years ago. 1t was in the Office
had just stepped out when that box
on the wall began to ring. There was
no one else around; it kept on ring
ing; I thought it had to be answered.
Strange as it may seem a great
many people have the same attitude
toward the telephone today-and
will leave customer who has taken
the trouble to shop in person, wait
ing at the counter while they take
two or three orders over the phone.
When I reached up and took down :
the receiver, and stood on tiptOe to +
the phone on the wall, was '
so I could hardly hear, /
much less talk. T
1--WE recently celebrated the birth t
day of Christopher Columbus, rather a
we didn't celebrate it, except by Civ il
ing holiday to bank presidents and
bank clerks; we allowed our italian Ii
citizens to celebrate it! 1t is less p
han five hundred years since Colum- r
BUS set out on his great adventure, v
.oday we have people flying across h
he ocean almost over night, while b
10 one thinks anything of crossing p
,ver and back for a few weeks va II
,ation.
'Now the world is so small that ..
III men are brought together in close u
What happens in the Ie
Far East today affects our markets II
and what takes place here ~
s felt almost Immediately to the ut -,
ermost ends of the earth. When -
tyles in the western world made
obbed hair fashionable, thousands y,
f Chinese women were thrown out ~
f work-they lost their one means %
f livelihood because of the falling ct
IF in the demand for hairnets. ~
hats how close we are together, to- eI
ay. n
Perhaps the greatest change is tb
he status of women. Women did not ed
cave their employment to seek a tb
lace in the business world-their ar
left them. lv
Business stepped in and said: Er
IL spin your yarn, I'll weave your ma
10th, I'll knit your stockings, I'll
lake your garments and bake your CO
read and can your fruit and vege-
Lbles. will do al these things for mt
0u and I'll do them better than you lie;
you won't have a thing to tn
} but sit around and be beautiful. sts
ou can pay me something for my nj,
ork, something for my invested GU
Ipital, a royalty on my brains, and die
profit on the whole business pls
ats all!' PEI
Nothing was said about where the far
oney to pay for these things was to
come from and sometimes it did bill
It come and women went after it. fire
ley are still going after it and they fru
e getting it. Which is exactly as SUI
should be. err
''In the course of time, women in spe
e home became tired of just :being Coz
of planning and striving era
make both ends meet, and girls cla
industry looked up wearily from deI
2 machines over which they spent De1
I and twelve hours day in fac Tar
'ies. Both groups turned their Ine
es toward the great Office build erl'
IS and now we have women in ers
m tbof oro foi+bf,,1 ~ ,.o,,ti,,o ,5,,+T, wit
ick to grasp an opportunity, re- "o'
1rceful in an emergency, depend Joli 5
lie always. uuC C
This is the golden age for wo- - =
N. So'l S
1T is great inspiration to sit i~I ipI
wn to a nationwide dinner at 49, Sao,
lded by more than 10000 women uoi, vrj,
the Business WOmen's clubs of wit,
} Y. w. c. A.-30,000 women Mn
saking bread together. When the iou. Ll,-
wager Empress of Japan asked Tr
Hung Chang if he had made offer Sen
p d. tne tenlPles ana shrlnes' ne witt
" res, noSG glorious empress, jori
Iuany' DuC all OF Cnem IN spirit Con
me- And so we 10000 sit down re-e
spirit and friendship. q
q you close your eyes for a mo- LEAD
mt and see all over this country, dat,
more than 300 cities, banquet ta- pop
S like these, decorated with flow pro
and surrounded by women and For
Is whose faces are aglod with Har
h aims, moral courage, enthus- Con