The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1938-12-30
Make Your Own
Job Opportunity
By Airline N. Paiya

The Urban League would like to
offer this week suggestion for
cleaning service: cleaning wind
ows, upholstered furniture, floor
waxing, and general houseclean-
ing. With the number of wives
in the neighborhood who must
work away from home, there
should be gould demand for this
type of service. 1t might be wash
ing windows once a month, wax
ing the floors ever so often, or do
any of the other extra cleaning
that the wording wife finds little
time to do. The manager should
have something more than will
ingness to do the work; he should
have some sort of window clean
ing equipment, a device for wax
| ing floors, a vacuum cleaner with
attachments for cleaning uphol-
stored furniture would be a de-
cided asset in short all of the
equipment needed in houseclean-
ing plus skill in using them. 4. The
workers should know how to wash
woodwork without marring the
wall, for instance, or to clean the
wallis without marring the floors.
With spring coming ON a little
advertising should widen the pat
ronage for this service by secur-
ing work outside the neighbor-
hood that is, of course, if the
worlmen give first class service.
The following suggestions have
been submitted by readers of this
column. Mrs. E. v. Miller sug-
gests a hosiery mending service.
She knows where girls might re-
cieve a nominal fee. Mrs. Miller
has solicited this type of business
on a percentage basis, and when
she says there are good profits
to be made, she knows whereof
she speaks. And there is no hos
iery mending service near the
neighborhood. Only small space
need be rented from some already
eexisting business for one or two
smart girls to set themselves up in
business.
Another reader offers an idea
for stall at the public market
selling produce of various sorts.
AS l recall. Mrs. Marcia Phillips
used to have a stand at the public
market, and from all indications
she did quite we'll. The idea is
worth investigating.
Still another reader suggests a
general cleaning and painting of
some of Negro business already
established for tho purpose OF
attracting larger percentage of
of the trade. that passes daily
through the business district of
23rd and E. Madison ON it's way
either to Madison Park or to
Montlake.
George Wright Sr. suggests a
bookkeeping service. Small bust
nesses that cannot afford a full
time worker, could we'll afford to
pay for the services of an timer
ant bookeeper. In fact, bookkeep-
ing is more necessary than ever,
Mr.. Wright says, for all business
es must keep books now for the
income tax, if they don't keep
them for the net profits, to say
nothing of Social Security. Con-
sequently, here is fine business
venture just waiting for the right
person to come along. If the book
keeper can also do cost account
ing, so much better, for through
this medium he can indicate to the
entrepreneur the weakness in his
business as well as the points to
be emphasized.
These are only few sugges-
tons We trust that they will a
waken in your thinking of many
more, something that will fit your
particular talent The closing adj
vice to you is First know your
subject well, then go out to sell
your service to those who will be-
nefit from it's use"