New Britain herald., 1929-10-10
Business and Professional Women to Cooperate
 For Success

among all women "OrkCfS IS the next Step in progress for women careerists, in the opinion of Marion T. McClench, Ann Arbor, Mich, in surance woman, lew president of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women.
 Miss McCleuch heads an organ ization that numbers 50,oo0 mem- bers, in 47 states, with other members in Alaska, Hawaii, Italy, Spain and England.
 "Women are learning to work together pleasantly in their offices as well as their clubs" Miss Me- Clench said. This winter our organization intends to foster sev- eral schemes for encouraging business and professional women to cooperate even more closely than ever before.
 Form Success Clinic"
 First, our organization is sup porting a Success Clinic which really is a clearing house to make contacts for beginners in this or that profession or business with others more successful than her self.
 Second, In our local clubs we have social reciprocity scheme This is plan to get all club women in a given city acquainted. It is a round-robin plan, whereby our organization entertains in a body several other women's clubs in the course of year.
 Third. we have pledged our selves to cooperate with the League of Women Voters to help get out the vote all over the coun- try.
 Fourth, our winters plans in clude starting a drive for a na- tional clubhouse at Washington. D. C. At the convention thus sum mer, one club member gave $500 for the first brick. Such cnthusi- asm resulted that s2G.00O were pledged. With that as a start, we feel it will not take many years |" 'SO IliC I!OuSe d dream come true.
 Work Toward Peace
 Last, We plan to cooperate in every possible way with the or sanizations working for interna- tlonai peace, In 1050 clubs we have committees on International Relations. These will foster study programs on such subjects as the world court and the ratification of the Kellogg peace treaty.
 Tn connection with this, we are planning other Goodwill Tours for next summer, including Pacific tours this time. We be- lieve that these tours form bonds of friendship that make for peace"
 Miss McClench has no illusions that women can win peace, or run the world alone. She believes that the future will bring better busi- ness and professional cooperation between men and women as well as between women and their sis ter workers, She merely feels that women, learning the art Of cooperation, will be better able to work with men.
 Holds Leisure Important
 But all life should not be given over to serious problems, in the opinion of Miss McClench. She has risen from the ranks in her own profession partly, she insists. because she has learned the art of forgetting work part of the time and enjoying leisure
 ITO me leisure is. or should be. pure recreation" Miss McClench said, "The moment one is made to feel serious about it, 1t loses it's charm. And certainly no business woman ought to take her leisure too seriously. Every woman should have both a vocation and an avocation, Only by proper balance between the two can she live the fullest life. But the avo- cation should not have too solemn an aspect. Otherwise it provides no recreation at all.
 Urges Outside Interests
 Within the last few weeks l have been interested in reading the first installment of a new novel by Faith Baldwin called The Business Wife It deals with woman of 40 who for a long period of years had been private secretary to man of affairs. She had really made him her whole life, watching his every motion responding to his every mood Her own pleasure was her last consideration. And presently she suffered the inevitable nervous breakdown. The story illustrates perfectly, I think, the point that the business woman must have an interest outside her office or else go stale on the job. What that interest is, is up to the individual woman.
 T hear a great many people nowadays, urging that the busi- ness woman use her leisure time to fit herself for a position ot greater responsibility. That is we'll enough if she has an abun. dance of free hours and can at. tend classes and get some recrea- ton besides. But if she cannot do both, let her have at least one