Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-09-09 | Page 4 | Job Hunting this Fall? don't be Frankly Forty

We, the Women Job Hunting This Fall? Don't Be Frankly Forty By RUTH MILLETT The only time that a job-hunting, middle-aged woman should admit that she is middle-aged is when she is making a list of the tnhe she thinks she is capable of holding. After that she should scrap her age instead of pushing it uniler, an employer's nose, as do so many women of 40. The quickest way to scrap age is to avoid "frankly middle-aged'' clothes, to walk young'' and to be enthusiastic about the job. That Is the advice ot Clara Belle Thompson, and Margaret Lukes Wise two women who. needing work, made lor themselves the Job of proving to other women that being 40 is not a serious handicap to employment. f They did it by actually landing jobs, going Into 30 cities, applying for any kind of work they thought they could do and managing be- tweeirthem to jret 50 Jobs in 10 week none of which they took. For the Job they had decided upon was writing a book about their experiences, telling other women, wo-men, "We Are Forty and We Did Get Jobs." Other women were so Interested In their advice that when the book was written, the authors received invitations to lecture all over the country, to colleges, to women's einhe oven to a slate reformatory. (I saw middle-aged women standing stand-ing to hear them when they talked in one of New York's department stores recently.) And they now have a weekly "Success Session" on a nation-wide radio hook-up. They told me to tell you: "Instead of being sunk at the thought of having to look for work at 40, a middle-aged woman should realize a few facta about herself. "One: She has more poise than the young girl who is her competitor. competi-tor. For poise only comes with experience. Two: She has a better vocabulary. vocab-ulary. Employment agency hearts say that young applicants are al-mnit al-mnit inniiuened. "Three: She has better command com-mand over a situation. She doesn't get upset, the way a young person does, if she meets with abruptness or arrogance. "Four: She has learned by the trial-and-error method, and can profit by her past mistakes. ''Five: She has learned that her need of a job is not important to an employer. That she must show him that he needs her."