The evening world. Newspaper, February 18, 1918, Page 12

i | { | | ; MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1918 Girls, Be Business Girls Not Husband Hunters or Flirts, and You Will Win The One Who Desires to Win Cannot Dance All Night an «“vwder Her Nose Half a Dozen Times in the Morning, but Must Go at Her Work Like a Man—*‘Don't Look for Your Soul Mate in Business.”’ By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World “ee ON'T look for your soul mate in business; look for your busl- ness mate.” Both to the tired business man and to the tired busine: Man's stenographer that {s the advice offered by Sophie Kerr, author of “The Golden Block,” tho newest novel of New York business life and one of the cleverest I have read in many a day The cleverness of “The Golden Block” lies in the original but not at all improbable anglo which is developed in the conventional triangle—i. ¢., the man of affairs; his hearth mercenary wife and hia efficient, sympathetic woman assistant. After the last mentioned has saved her employer's business life several times over, he informs her that he intends to divorce his selfish wife and make her No, 2 Whereupon, she promptly replies that for her there {s nothing In such a programme, and that what she wants is a business and not a @omestic partnership. She gets her wish, and in order to quash all future romance she deputes a friend of her employer's to marry him off to a nice, home loving second wife. All of which, as I have said, seems to me inherently sensible and plausible, although it doesn’t at all jibe with the popular domestic conception of the pretty stenographer an a professional home wrecker. There is further reassurance for wives in the first words which So,h’ Kerr, otherwise Mrs. Sophie Kerr Underwood, managing editor of the ‘Woman's Home Companion, said to me when I asked her if the girl downtown has an unearned reputation as a love pirate. “The last person on earth the average girl in an office wants to marry Is her employer. She knows too mach about him! She is a dally witness of all his little grouches, meannesses and mistakes, She can’t even kick about them, but she does an awfal lot of thinking. The wife uptown need not worry about losing her husband to any one who knows him as well as the girl who works for him, Femme 44TT 1s time, | think, to understand the real relationship between the business man and the ambitious woman who works in his office, She is not after a husband, Rarely does he think of her asa wife or in any less conventional relation, What the efficient young woman downtown wants is recognition of her business ability, She wants responsibility, power, influence—a business partnership, if she earns it. “The girl who desires to get ahead in business cannot afford to be a little cutie, She cannot dance all night, and powder her nose half a dozen times in a morning, She must go at her work like a man, be neither more nor less scrupulous than a man, keep her eye fixed on the main chance like a man, “I don't say,” slender, blue-eyed Mrs. Underwood broke off with @ gentle smile, “that the normal life for women is not a husband and obildren. 1 say simply that this life is not possible for an increas ingly large number of women. What ts left for them? Absorption in their work, business success, They understand that, and the men with whom they work are coming to understand {t too, Although it {s still more dificult for a young woman to capture a big prize in business than for a man, we hear daily of such prizes going to women. I be- eve many of them can be as successful business partners as if they were men, for there Is no sex {n brains.” “How about the business man?” I suggested. “Does he view the woman who works with him as sexlessly as you say she views him?” “Yes, in the great majority of cases, if he {s an American,” she replied. “The wife of the American basiness man has the game all In her own hands. If she showed sympathy, Intelligent understanding of her husband's interests, if she makes him comfortable, he won't look elsewhere unless he is an exceptional cad, When he does hegin to think romantically about his steadfastly loyal woman assistant, it is because he has found selfishness and shallowness at home, Sé°7TE average American is not a philanderer, His business and his home fill his life, He 1s not interested in adventures with women, particularly with women who work for him. “The business woman, no matter how efficient in the office, often would not succeed as her employer's wife. She never has played the social game, and probably it does not attract her. If she had nothing to do but wear elaborate gowns and supervise a household she would be bored, after her contact with large affairs downtown, “Oh, I do think all these stories of girls being insulted by thotr employers are perfect nonsense!” the author of “The Golden Block” exclaimed impatiently. “I had a friend who was aghast when she found she must become self-supporting, because she had heard such lurid tales. For months in her oMfce she shuddered whenover a man came near her, thinking that he was about to put his arms about her, or something like that. How she laughs now at the remembrance of her absurd imaginin “I agree with you almost entirely,” I told Mrs, Underwood. “Only {f more and more girls go downtown, and if downtown girls don't want husbands, what's going to become of the well known future of the race?” “I don't know,” she admitted with a little shrug. “It seems as if we must “nd some adjustment which will permit women with bust- ness brains to keep on using them in business after marriage, In that way the percentage of marriages and children would be kept up, Meanwhile, the real new woman, and to me the most interesting one, is not the shouter for causes and reforms but the woman who runs a big job downtown and who would rather bave {t than the band in the world.” of best bus- va a See City means of @ series o | Nplipteiteastag werid's sett |i concave mirrors, | Nobody ever reads it in the first place, but that’s something else eee ee ee tLe pra ieee but a/ gain. The Record ts simply printed so that short Congressmen can Entrusting thy money with thy friend is like sending a cabbage ardent patriot. ‘Yhen Syracuse, his] monatrated its possibility ie pus it'e0 shalt AunTe te taane ia log Ripoalng: sri m Hay at dnwty (ent: by a PRHbite _ native city, waa besieced by the}refecting surface 7 fect aquare he sec| it Sino comes ite ee oe ; phi bey Hh sh ty i ea WN alan The man of the hour knoweth that the day containeth twenty-three Romans hs invented a catapult which | wood on fire ut a distance of 160 texe | CArobama calla t sresamaan from Pennsyikote « urched, | ove, threw stones almost a ton in weight] One of his devices, the chicas | wensel-eyod, fat-wheeled whoorls and other things that don't get into | = ae ea at eS a distance of half a mile ao accurate] screw for raising water, 19 used in| the Sbfidged edition of the Record. ‘oal SI Italy E : many galleys were sunk Holland to-day. His was the famous| The Government Printer has notifed the word mechanicy that un Coal Shortage in Italy Ever Since 1913. Another device wao @ crane bullt/ saying, that with a lever long enough | less they Hooverize on their chatter the Record ts due for a place in’ | gTALY !s 80 1 ed for coal that not risen in proportion to coal At on the city wall and stretching out/and @ fulcrum on which to rest it,| the Smithsonian Institution's department of rare and cur Inds gas engineers arc Nea tol Idle of 1916 coke was costing| yet the water, Armed with great / the world could be moved Paper ja getting #0 scarce that even shoe manufa And employ substitut he w two and a half times as much as| claws, it lifted the Roman boats high} The efforts of Archimedes forced more economical to use leather thelr army shoe HineGias with Turkey has been] war. Private gas works, into the air and dropped them to de-|the Roman General Marcellus to nm next moni®, Washington is to have « Chl Monday la serious shor fuel int i 1 ur contracts struction. His most — wonderful| abandon the alege, but the city, on the} t*" F ierananer st nee pa cieeel nae MOuday) nO ee Por a MDAehIG wht miiharlt lai tea | achievement was setting on fire many| site of which the modern Syracuse in| Chinless Tuesday, 4 Se Wadnonday, & Speechless Thuraday, | er aay aos nes & precarious condition and arg run vessels of the besioging feet by| Sicily 1s built, was captured by gure| & Wordless Friday and a Yawpless Saturday, much as It did a few years ago, Yet, |ning at enormous loeses, duc to the exe focussing the sun's rays on them by prive in 212 B, C. and he was killed, ae if : “4 aes ny, Gut C3 | | sane | 1 The Camouflage Economy Bag d NEW YORK VARIETIE —— | | | AND HOW THEY HAVE IMPRESSED THE ENGLISH AUTHOR AND ARTIST, MISS B. BENNETT BURLEIGH. eT | an ON WAR WORK 4 mE BEST You KiVOwW. i BAG \ apy 4 OP ALL ’ a i tre THE wS-8 H THE COULD PLAYS ay Ril ||]] TOM ET OW IV ree Ne Praait Te ~ Society —"You MUST HAVE OVE. 4 Te i; 4 : Tone ASS lie i. : SE A a : ‘ SLA co A Le RIAPSACK BAGS. crmun we Won MILITARY FASHION ; Hooverizing the Congressional Record Scarcity of White Paper Has Made Conservation of Conversation Among Con- gressmen a Necessity, and the Public Printer Has Given Nolice the Chat- | ter Must Be Canned So the Old Maxim Silencer Is to Be Parked on the National Capitol Acoustics and the Week's Six Working Days Will Be Chirpless, Chinless, Squawkless, Speechless, Wordless and Yawpless. By Arthur (**Bugs’’) Baer. SS et, AD— THE SIGOER THE BAG —THE MORE You CAV : CARRY ite | Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World), 1) Joined the Sahara af 1 can only be used as a megaphone. LTHOUGH ail other kinds of food cost enough to supply golaea | But if w ; ; {scone ce stam a Gh a eke | | A shoes for an adult centipede, you never find a man who ts willing earvatlon che F : she eubbahaa eaaian chen eases | | to conserve foodstuffs and make an economical meal of his OWN | technies to s erssy WOFAN from MARS TANCK ta CHUA words, That ty one thing on the menu that all diners refuse to orders | must eliminat cet aya ie tice Although conversation Is cheap enough, nobody ever orders a plate of it. | ng a apecoh with eppappriate There are enough ced verbs, adjectives en casserole and to the appropriate gesture | broiled pronouns floating nd t pply the world This nr : tomime fortwo hours and | 4s especially true of Congress, where conversatton fills the air, the ea p wa in rebuttal for two more hours. | and everything but the stomach, Kverybody is Hable to talk, especially ‘This will not y reduce the ft printing the Record, but it @ Congressman, But it looks as if the old Maxim silencer was golng to it nice for folks in th tors’ gallery who formerly had bo parked on the Congressional acoustics owing to the high cost of interrupted by all the u ssary talking. paper, Everything that a Congr ) says at work—you know that a Congressman's work is talking, although talking isn't work fora Con- | gressman—everyth eaaman anys At work 1s published in POOR RICHARD JR | the Coi | * | | And since the war started the Record has beon getting thicker and | | thicker, until] now they have to wheel it around on casters, Unless | When thy friend promises thee the lion's share maketh certain that the Representatives take in a reef or two on their chip the he is not dividing birdseed, Record will be so thick that nobody will be able to read The meek shall inherit the earth, but at present it is in litigation, This aii going to be tough on Congressmen, as since Washington | strange to say, the price of coke bag!or bilant prices they are obliged to pay, wee bk me ate 2 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1918 ORTY- 8, 18 |German Army had surrounded the over by the military authorities, and Winning Out Before Forty How a $10,060,000 Concern Called In One of Wall Street's Youngest Bankers When a Presilant Was Needed— Charles Edwin Mitchell Took the Job and Has Made His Company a Leader. By James C. Young. | Copyright, 1918, by the Pres» Publishing Co, (‘The New York Evening World). OST of us think of an investment banker as an old gentleman M with mutton-chop whiskers, gold-rimmed glasses, and an air of knowing weighty secrets. Some of them are, but Charles Edwin Mitchell has come to be @ prominent figure in the New York financial community without possessing any of these things. Nevertheless he is President of the National City Company, one of the largest invest- ment banking organizations in the country. And he but recently passed his fortieth birthday. The National City Company is an off-shoot of the National City Bank, and was established for the purpose of developing the parent institution's Investment activities. Its capital is a matter of some $10,000,000, and it maintains twenty-three branches im the United States and abroad. Two years ago the need arose for a man to direct the company’s multiplying interests, Charles Edwin Mitchell was decided to be that man, True, he had a flourishing banking business of his own. But the powers behind the National City Bank waved away auy such obstacle. He was the man wanted, they told Mr. Mitchell, with an invitation to name his figure and start packing up. 3\ it H E came over to the National City Company as Vice President in the spring of 1916, and during the fall of that year was made President. Assuredly this was winning out before forty—two years before forty—with direction of a $10,000,000 enterprise. Since then the business has grown as never before, and is now numbered among the most influential financial institutions of the ct Mr Mitchell had done a number of interesting things before his big opportunity found him out. He started Mfe in Chelsea, Mass. Was graduated from Amherst !n 1899, and then went to work for the Western Electric Company, Chicago. Beginning as a clerk, without any special advantages, he had become credit man within the span of three years. He was such a good credit man that he felt the need of understanding a few additional matters which went with the job. so he studied accounting and law. The company had other plans for utilizing Mr, Mitchell's encrgs? and ability to get results, He was picked to fill a foreign post and sent to this city for a comprehensive grounding in factory and sales methods. After he left Chicago, the company found still further need of him, and he was called back, becoming assistant to the Pres- ident. The next year he was assistant manager, with supervision of all sales and purchases in the West, not to mention the departments manufacturing electrical and engineering equipment, But this rush of work did not satisfy his ambition. He sought a broader field, and resigned in 1906 to join the Trust Company of America, New York, as assistant to the President. This was his firs: real experience in finance. He entered the field when the country was on the verge of bard times. These hard times were not long in matertalizing, and the next year Mr. Mitchell learned a great deal about banking. It was a season when only the strong could survive. His bank came through the stress successfully and Mr. Mitchell e'so held on. i> moved along in this way during the next four years. In 1911 he struck out independently, establishing C. E. Mitchell @ Co., investment bankers, with himself at the helm. From ite inception this business progressed, and in a very little while had come to be one of New York's recognized investment banking houses, Mr. Mitchell was still at the helm, and his enterprise still was growing, when the National City interests determined to call in this hustling young executiy So insistent was the call that he relinquished the thing he had built with his own hands that he might undertake the larger work, Now Mr. Mitchell is a director and stockholder in a half dozen organizations, and regarded in that magic place called “the Street” as & man who {s likely to go much further. He looks forward from forty with the future beckoning on. When Pas Surrendered to shi Cincy SEVEN years amo, Jan. the most terrible siege ever endured by @ modern capital camo to an end with the ca- pitulation of Paris. For 132 days the took to the trade of rat catching and the rodents became tho staple diet, With the coming of Now Years Day, 1871, the city was Practically bare of food. The tron ring of the Germana grew tighter, and in Parts buman beings died like files, the vio. tims of starvation and th follow In ita wake, me Ue “thes On tho Mth of Janua, opened negotiations with city, cutting off all communication with the outside world except by balloon and carrier pigecns, The great guns of the Prussians thun- ty F dered in vain until famine came to avre Bismarok, thelr aid and Paris wae forced to|and four days later the Prussian ead surrender. French statesmen signed an armis. The siege of Paris began Sept. 19, 1870, when the city was completely invested by German troops, On that day the boulevards were as gay as ever, and Paris was apparently un- moved by the fate which hung over her. Within a few days, however, Parisians began to feel the pinch of hunger. All food supplies were taken tice Involving the capitula city. It was not until March, however, that made their triumphant entry The fall of Pa act marked the ending of on ue? Gambetta sought to prolong the sistance of the untrained voluntesrs against the masses of the Wermene who had poured into the south and west of France. Defeat in 195 mt the French an indemnity of 93,000, 000,000 and the loss of ayn.” Lorraine. The grim determinats nounced by Preaident Wilson insure when the great war ends, tion of the the Ist of tho Govmane was reduced to a horseflesh diet. But fate had yet se- er trials in store. When all the horses had been killed and consumed ravenous Paris slaughtered its ca’ and dogs. Household pets were ruth- lessly killed go the capital might a little longer escape the ignom‘ny of surrendering. Finally cats and dogs became rare delicacies, and Paris soon the city Alsace. Martyrdom of Bruno IE first great philosopher of the | Renaissance and the frst mar-| Trans-Andean Railroad NE of the most remarkable en- gineering projects of tho wor tyr to modern science and was completed ante world free thought, Giordano Bruno, W931 years ago when the first ey four burned at the stake in Romo 918] over the ralirond between nn Mae years ago- A great statue of Bruno, |Ayres, Argentina, ang yh Husnoe built by contributions from sctentists |Chile. ‘The line traverses Page and freethinkers of the world, now ain ‘ohaln hee tee reas stands in the Campo Del Fiori, facing es over chasms and mit, and the Vatican, and a demonstration 18] incredible depth. So nd mors 3 of held there every year on the sixteenth | chasms t passonasra pantie of February, He taught that tn all! known to become absolutes 2 the diverse phenomena of the uni- {stricken while F hind verso there must be something tha ha routo Was shortened scr gives unity and coherence to the years ago and made less dan overal whole, and that, as part of the divine to travellers by the weve | construction og whole, the human goul ly immortah tunnels,