| Show 0 XOi x n 1 MARY 0 0 j SUCCEEDS 0 1 l I 1 1 ON j MAIN STREET 01 0 10 0 0 1 dy by LAURA MILLER 0 0 xv w 1921 by laura sillier GOING GOIN G tm EM ONE BETTER IN THE POST OFFICE 1 I can do what anyone else can do a small girl out in arkansas took as her motto then she added to it if its while I 1 can even go em one bet better terl I 1 thereupon life called her bluff as the buys say bad started the family record by being the first of five small Seli Sc haera aers slie sile was as within lt liln an ace of winning a co feted school record nt at graduation lien ilien fal failure lure an empty family purse auise lucymay landed a teachers tea chera job then the rot hot springs paper did I 1 fly lucymay lived in arkansas down at the very end of a branch railroad ralli rall oad road carried a letter from uncle sam to luckay Luc vmay may extra luck Il hardly ardly it aas as just an announcement of examinations In for post office clerks lucymay felt a bit of a thrill when she went into a first class office of the united states government then women cant eur earn n ft their I 1 air salaries she was informed but she set herself liei self to qualify for a special clerkship the department rules that a clerk must handle letters at the rate of 16 per minute alias averages GO 60 per minute and lias has on climbed up to 72 without error but she held no political pull and special lal clerkships clerk clerks ships hipa were ft ere jobs handed to the fa faithful she stuck to the job F four our years ago came the merit ruling deml anabal examinations to determine those eligible for special clerk ships ahen when my winning day ay arrived she says buys it was rn cn merit alone outside the ollice she lias has mothered two younger sisters gone into the local Y IV C A and learned team work by gaining members for the post office clerks organization when a new organization that seeks out successful women reached hot springs it require political pull to make lucymay successively local and state president of the business and professional club she still holds so far as she knows the post record of post office work she says 1 I believe a rood woman noman worker can succeed better than a man her hands are quicker and her brain travels faster and as for living in the smaller place she suggests one must prepare herself for a special line to succeed |
