| Show f v e l' l 1 tit fl 11 01 m a n 1 I r 0 I y 7 r r t q Gr i cV r ir i 4 t Inspiring Success of or Miss Jane Jane Carroll m i 1 1 Organizer and Administrator Who r Manages a aVast Vast Export Business m a f and Points the VI Way a y to f r.- r. 1 a i S fA r q 1 t Broader r r JA Y JG 7 y v vt t i ar I k ct L or l 1 I. I a v. v k j ir Wl r i Q J r j A 1 L l i l tI Y 1 J 1 r r v ji j- j t Ir 1 U y l p q J rt J fJ r 1 t 7 n F r r h wy Ia i nr i t Y i rn vr l l Jr r i. i i s 1 rl Jr rJ ll I 1 r d 1 In i fe i t v- v y yi i t L i w r rd Y Ar r t r r 4 l i Ar r w Io J r v r 1 n hJ i i ft 4 f 4 r. r ip J O. O tt wi d i 4 W S S P r i A 1 q f i fU r i r i r v r f f I f s.- s. i t t r I y tr li c T e y 6 z r rI 4 t Y f g Y f I o J I 7 1 y 6 J r jL j. j J I r fl By Helen Hester Hill Hil 1 TF F you arc are an old fashioned as h. h lone d m man an w with notIons IF 1 about womans sphere or something h l like c that hat you are arc to in for a n few ew shocks these days s And if il you are an old fashioned woman woman-we woman well tI yon ron may just wonder when wIlen you read ab about u 77 J Jane Jano ana Carroll Carron for how example just she does docs it Thi Think k of a woman at the helm of a g great e t b big I e export ort organization with hands controlling tho the J- J Je m most t practical practical details of administration and eyes eyes on en all the world Its It's hard to fancy it at first But not a after f f ter r you Jon have really seen Jane Carroll t. t fc L. I wanted to see Jane Janc Carroll I I. I wanted toI to i i. prove pro it Women are re reputed to b be doing wonderful wonderful wonder- wonder ful things and to be doing them in a u won wonderful e ul fr t k I- I way But a woman managing ging a a. a twenty million y-n y dollar doUar corporation that corporation that merited investigation c There was no blame I r think to be attached tomy to tomy my y rather inadequate picture of her as she was f r likely to look One couldn't gue guess so satisfactory a picture Very womanly brown that eyes sparkle and snap and glow blow tawny hair falling I careless of restraint over a good rood forehead t S a green frock z trimmed with fur and p pretty r city ivory buttons L showing bowing a fine care for all the feminine niceties t of dress s feet daintily shod and her hands 1 though small smail immense immensely Y capable and energetic p There here you h have e Miss l Liss ss Carroll seated at I a a d desk devoid j of I ornate ornament lent and of or almost everything else f save a much used telephone and a few feasts t Cats Casts of her sample merchandise Certainly not J. J line looking a desk l devoid as it was as of all aU that in in- Interesting cOl confusion and disarray of or comforting papers of papers of th the pipe and ashes place that at one alwa always strewn all aU of over r cr the tIlt s associates with a roan mans man's desk r But not like p the thc ordinary k I 4 Nor or docs does she sit it in womans woman's desk tit either cither her l inner off office ice solitary She state stale in some inac- inac n about bout ten other desks simply one of in f ro room mJ which together with a n very large general fc office separated only ony by a partial another equally lax large b he fler present export partition form quarters rents however she told me a are These arrange arrange- re still in the thc making mak mak- fig ing and constantly expanding t Right here her I want to stop and t that throws tell a little incident in in- an interesting side character ter r and business methods light on th the I 1 had of Miss 1 Carroll noticed a quaint i the thc type that has to quiet plod little steno and results e and I strive for asked Miss Carroll whether preferred preferred she site a woman or ma man n as secretary i The Stenographer Question n nOh Oh of course we have both she said It lilt makes no nce so j tent Do long as u they are cy arc compe- compe you see fee that young girl she con continued Pointing to the thc very one I had out out Well Wen she already singled sInge was in tit f part ment She is an industrious an entirely different def de- de worker conscientious without uis Is self assertion I learned that ambitious she e and studies s Span Spanish m Inan manoeuvred her into this sh at night s so E I cause use of the language department where because ben beuse because be be- which witch t n no good where would have d done one her herR she w she he R was as G will have c chance hence of an nn added a advancement k serves nerves to succeed and A 6 girl girl of that t kind crag del do- ment certainly mere merits is encourage encourage- Now Miss Carroll has no not t been fished with the long i corporation and the duties that naturally d of re- re devolve evolve upon her taking over the it in ill s conduct of such Euch absorb he her r time and md a huge plant energy yet et sh she time tune to y c found the fate i interest rest herself 7 1 the tho humblest in the l affairs o of f one of of the coat company P an Y t. t t. t She he herself not only s speaks cals P a fluent French and nd Spanish but has selected expert heads of de del who I do dothe the the case of the little same and w with them theta as in fn stenos stenographer a h she one of the e principal g Per feels that duties those who as well as the joy of ot rise to pre t to take others pre eminent position in in life is along as far n as they c ca can n so go J y f Y I i. i ftP of r W f r r i j ft I Jr-i Jr t fy A 1 1 er W i I I J of t f 4 Ite ti y W a N 1 j jw iF t w t f u I 7 r v 1 i M. M ur Kr- Kr AJ w If r t t f fr r 5 r 7 A id l h Hr r I S f Gi t ly 1 A Cr tJ I believe firmly that officials of organizations should disseminate as widely as possible among their subordinates the views view and impressions they acquire in their wider contact with the outer world It gives ives them a breadth of horizon and outlook which they would have no other means of acquiring and makes them far fur more valuable to themselves l es an and d hence to their firm as well weB Vo y o a t talked of success she and I 1 that word perhaps most P potent tc t 0 of all words word in to the human vocabulary to lo kindle the imagination to arouse all i ones one's own combative energy It seems tho the to one common desire of the thc human race that race that will wiH willo get to the top one of time the big incentives in life to o mi make S good od and nd then w with th the sel self confidence that tW that comes of achievement to do still sUIl better Miss s Carroll express expressed cd this its idea very charm charm- out Lf in h answer to my Question Did you start wIth a definite goal Have LIeve you U cv ever she sho y Countered gone eagerly eager- eager Iv ly tm toward a r rosebush to Pluck some Borne particular particular lo rose and n e th then when y you U g got of there covet coveted an in in- in finite y prettIer n on one on the thc bush bt bend l m nn in the road load i oX Just beyond th tho So it is with ones one's e goal gal scarcely do you arrive than another harder carder e to attain ValId and more distant seems to beckon What will satisfy your ambition 1 I asked Success for me mc will not be spelled in terms of ot position or power or monc money When I feel Icel within me that I am exercising my fullest powers and capacities ca cal panties and can show adequate results then I Ishall Ishall Ishun shall shun know the thc rea real measure of content and Miss Misa Carroll turned to me with wilh one of those sudden smiles that so irradiate her face suffusing its strength with ith womanly sweetness If If it il were possible so soon after the war just ly Iv to estimate any any of its effects then I should s say that in its insatiable call cuB upon women as well as men it has already and permanently demon demon- J Miss Carroll at Her Desk the possession by women of qualities and abilities no one including themselves ever dreamed they had And the versatility the dynamic dynamic dy dy- dynamic energy the power of quick thought and de dc decisive decisive de- de action that we have now been taught to associate with women seem veritably y to be embodied embodied embodied em em- bodied in this one little woman Born in Foxcroft a little town in Maine transplanted to New York at al an early age one une of ot ofa ota a family of three girls and one brother brothel she graduated graduated grad grad- almost from front the thc lap of Cornell University into a business care career r in which by meteoric stages she advanced to her present post To e- e expand the thc export trade of the thc United Stales States so EO that it reaches from all aU of South America Ameri Ameri- ca to the outermost fringes of the earth to create a n demand in the highly populated and developed countries and to penetrate and seize the pioneer advantage in others s calling for or development this is the time life work to which Miss Carroll has hus set herself her self and she seems in a fair way to realize her ber kindling ambition The Great Work York of Foreign Trade From conducting her own advertising agency for purposes of or foreign trade trade Miss Miss Carroll was appointed foreign trade promotion manager amie and ami e editor of tho the Foreign Trade Bulletin of the thc American Express Company a I position o of vast responsibility She was called from rom this latter post to undertake undertake undertake under under- take the general of the thc American Safety Razor Eq Export ort Corporation To her as general manager will fall the task tusk of or coordinating co ing and reorganizing the thc work of the component companies recently merged into this corporation and and she will assume entire charge of ot tho the e. e ex c.- passion of export of their razors blades and other shaving accessories th the facilities She is perfecting plans to enlarge tics ties of the corporation abroad so that it will bo be possible for fur every man in in need of a n new razor or new blades to step into the tho nearest retail store and n m make ke his purchase just as easily as ho lie cando can cando do 10 so 50 in lit m America In the tic matter of England France Iranee and Italy this i is already a comparatively accomplished fact but hut Miss Carroll Carron has no idea of limiting her activities to those countries Over All the thc World She feels the confines confutes of or Persia In India ia South Africa the South Sea Islands Iceland Russia Japan and China already receiving in consignments of the corporations corporation's products to be all too t narrow farrow and she seems to share for her ambitious plans the regret of the Greek Grode Alexander who wept that there were no more worlds to conquer I live on Brooklyn Heights she said sahl and Uan directly beneath my window I can see the thc Brazilian BrazilIan Brazilian Brazil Brazil- ian steamer that curries carries our goods along the en entire entire en- en tire tiro l length of the Amazon and that ship is symbolical sym to me of the thousands of others sailing carrying not myrrh and frankincense frankincense frankincense frank frank- the fo four r seas incense like the Phoenicians of old but modern goods to peoples all aU over the earth oarth to many of ot whom but a little HUh while buck back their very use would have s seemed a n my mystery Doesn't it stir the pride and imagination to think that headed hard business mini inn n captains of big industry will turn over the conduct of such sueh affairs to a mere woman For remember that with the condition of Europe as ns it is today with its own production largely at a o standstill and nt in cr crying caring ing need for fur manufactures this is the hour of oi Americas America's b opportunity to seek out and supply the markets of the thc world and nd at such a n juncture ue t tL L' L fa c r I Jt I r AY r J r r f Miss JANE CARROLL CARROLLto to Invest a woman with so much authority and re Fe- responsibility represents a triumph for Miss Carroll proved the tho possession of the pioneer pioneer pio pio- neer spirit as far back as January 1917 1911 when as the only girlY woman delegate she attended the fourth at National Foreign Trade Council convention con Pittsburgh Pittsburg-n. She represented the League of Advertising Advertising Adver Adver- Advertising York and was given a Women of or New table Mr James place of honor at the thc speakers speaker's Steel Corporation Corporation Corpora Corporal A. A Farrell of the United States tion iron Mr E E. M. M Herr president nt of the thc Westinghouse Westinghouse house Electric Manufacturing Co Mr F A. A t Rubber Co Tire rire nb n of the thc Goodyear and many others of like importance Were among her table companions on that occasion in to Carroll whether she felt ask Miss I did not or out of place in that assemblage as as- tl way ray any of 1300 odd 1300 odd men because se I recognized recognized recognized some of at of those persons persona at once that she Is one and of such unconsciousness rare adaptability and becomes part she immediately o of se self if that wherever she may beTell beTell beTell be of f her surroundings parcel in woman woman wom worn what qualities i a Tell me I asked for success an make malee Into the does not enter liThe Tho being a woman she answered quickly and emphatically matter Given the In In business there should be no sex and the tho same circumstances suc sue success same qualities I believe be it to man or woman ll will come e cess qualities qualities initial initia initiative There must be certain inherent resourcefulness an and i industry y with a capital capitalI tive how to take tako must know all one T I and above and if necessary to of opportunity an nn td advantage e antage clement element cle- cle there may be some create one I dare daro are say allones all allone's allones allones allone's should not put case one ona ment meat of luck in its any ones one's s in one ono basket In other words one ona eg eggs egga should always shoot in many directions and at least one shot will be bound to hit nit the mark What final message will you OU give mo mu for women 1 I urged Her Advice to o 1 Women omen Work and specialize It may te De an advantage advantage tage tag to be college bred but above all aU it is an advantage advantage ad ad- vantage to have character energy outlook outlook and and health These are days when wizen all aU positions are aro open to all women Banks even in Japan are appointing women presidents one of the most influential clearing houses in to the South has a woman manager another mother woman is managing the thc business end of one of New Yorks York's largest daily newspapers a former ormer stenographer is now V c. c export port manager of one o of tho the most important disbursing disbursing dis dis- dis- dis bursing firms for lor knitted woollen worsted and cotton fabrics in New York and I could go on enumerating hundreds of 01 others within my own 1 knowledge r z most of them risen from subordinate positions The day o of womans woman's opportunity has come como she has le lc less s skepticism to meet and more chance chanc to rise What one has done all may do f |
