The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-10-02
National Business Wcmen's
Week Is Celebrated

Next week will be observed as Nationa
Business Women's Week by thousands 4
busis ess and professional women.
II has not been long since mention @
hns;ness woman called to mine a woman Z
severe features with hair tied PACK III q piaii
Inot Of tbe nape of her neck dressed IN
n a.a.a hlacL tailored suit with a manish III
and hat with which she wore DARK s.oohihss
and low-heeled walking shoes.
Today,c business woman Is as smart as Z
aah,,tar+o and as attractive If money ano
the aid of numerous beauty parioTs Count
fnr ANYTHING. In modern business colleges
almost as much stress is placed on appear
ances as intellectual development.
0N1 re- modern business woman has progress
"a Nth eli the sisters of her sex from barely
ha;ng accented by men in the business worlo
;mmediately after the last war TO q poSltfoh
of prime importance TO-DAY.
Tn this country where women ENJOY un-
limited freedom and in England wnere tney
are assuming jobs vacated by men women
are becoming increasingly more lmporIan.
to the national life. rms goes lor my -
> sex rather thar a class. 1t seems incredible
that slightly more than twenty years ago
women in England were struggling against
oil the forces of the conservative British male
for the right to vote; that their pleas fell on
such deaf ears that one of the more mliitanl
creatures by the name OF Clcely namiitOn
threw herself in front of the horses at tne
Derby, sacrificing her life in order 70 gam
the attention of the King to her cause.
Today the role of women in the war IS
equal to that of the men. They are depended
on to keep the home front functioning. II they
cease the war will be lost.
The part of the American women in peace
or in wal is an important one. Whether she
is a member of a Business and Professional
Women's Club or not she is a business w0-
man. She actually controls seventy percent
of the entire wealth of this country. She does
about ninety-seven percent of all buying for
her family including her husband. Her in
fluence is paramount in the schools, churches
and community life. To a very great extent
the future direction of America is hers
through the rearing and training of tomor-
rows citizens which, after all, is the supreme
sphere of woman.
All women then should be interested in
the observance of National Business Women
Week which represents, in a way, the long
road of progress travelled by that sex since
its entrance into the equal" class with men.
1t would not be amiss, we believe, at this
time for the millions Of women Throughout
the country to give more serious considers
ton to the course of our national life to
perhaps ponder on our mistakes and per
haps, through orderly processes, to exert a
more wholesome influence on government
and the destiny of our country, through her
influence in the home and the life of her
community.
If our men expect our women to go on
bearing children we should have some con-
fidence they will be allowed to grow and
devNNop into useful manhood and not
just be cannon fodder. The world our men
have fashioned has failed to find a solution
for war
Perhaps the softening influence of wo-
men should be felt more strongly.
The business women and mothers of Am
erica should give it some thought.