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Show nil leader IF I'll II is Mrs. Lena Forrest Speaks of Progress of Sex in Business Affairs The business woman of today In a womanly woman. Her speech, dress and actions are just as feminine as those of the woman who remains In the home. "The business woman is more unselfish un-selfish than the woman who spends her life in the home. -1'Tha wmnaa at Ufa business aapsrU ence makes a better homemaker than the woman who does not have It." These are some of the observations of a woman who is at the head of an organisation which has a hundred thousand business women as members. Thla is Mrs. Lena Forrest, president of the National Federation of Business and t'rofessionsl Women's Clubs, who arrived In Bait Lake today to address the business women of Utah tonight and to do other business club work while here. Mrs. Forrest hss established estab-lished headquarters at the Newhouee hotel. Her address will be made In the ballroom of that hotel, following a banquet ban-quet In her honor. ACCEPTED FACT. "Woman aa a factor In the business world Is an accepted fact today. All barriers have been swept from her path and her only limit to scaling the heighta of success Is her own ability. Women are holding some of the highest high-est salaried positions in the world today, to-day, ranging from operations of steamship steam-ship companies in China and Japan to construction engineers and architects archi-tects In the United Slates," Mrs. Forrest For-rest said. - Few women are willing to pay the price of winning success, and for that reason men in the business world will always outnumber women, Mrs. Forrest For-rest declared. TEACHERS PREDOMINATE. In the professions, teachera predominate," predom-inate," she said. She placed the teacher teach-er as among the most important professions pro-fessions for woman and declared that because of their Influence on the young, ahe waa strongly In favor of high salaries for teachers. A woman might easily fill the positions posi-tions of welfare and education In the president's cabinet, waa the opinion of Mrs. Forrest. She laughed and said, "It is a long peek Into the future," when asked whether she thought a womsn would ever be msde president. There are approximately 12.000.000 businesa women in the United States today, and business clubs among women are growing In leaps and bounds, Mrs. Forrest declared. ON TOUR OF COUNTRY. Mrs. Forrest, who has been connected connect-ed with the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance company for a number of years, started from her home In Detroit De-troit In January on a tour of the atate federations of business women's clubs in the Interests of the national convention con-vention of business women scheduled to be held In July st Cleveland. The first lap of the tour took hero the Southern states, along the Mississippi, Missis-sippi, in those states, Mrs. Forrest said, the women are stronalv nrran- ized and great numbers of them are going into business for themselves. WOMEN IN 80UTH. The business women of the South, she added, had a harder time organising organis-ing than did those in the Kastern and Western states, hut now runk among the most efficiently organised In the country. She said their difficulty was not due to opposition by the men, but to breaking down the barriers of timidity tim-idity and chivalric tradition which she had assisted in building around herself. her-self. At 10 o'clock Mrs. Forrest wss the guest of Miss Julia T. Lynch, president of the local business women's club. ft a luncheon at "My Shop'' snd wss a guest of Professor Maud May Bab-cock Bab-cock at the Social Hsll theatre at the sfternoon performance of "Hobson's Choice." |