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Show "MANY A MICKLE MAKES A MUCKLE" If Old-Lady 1 rtune ' ever provided you witli an aummobile headed 'way south on the Dixie highway, you discovered dis-covered a clean u-lilte-and-green town which set you ti. wondering who had a hand In making Orlando, Fla., unusual. un-usual. Well, one of the makers, who yet insists in-sists that her part is only a minor one, is named Julia Chapman. It's the spirit she's put Into her two jobs rather than the size of her bank account ac-count that you find yourself interested in. For she sells tickets In the railroad rail-road station and insurance and loans on those white Orlando houses. Those sound like unexciting occupations to carry on in the home town, don't they? Unlikely to bring success or fame or even contentment? Miss Chapman developed the habit of doing the little things to the best of her ability. As just one result, the card of her insurance company now carries in the upper right-hand corner, "Julia K. Chapman, Sec. and Treas." Orlando, a village when little Julia Chapman, twelve years old, was orphaned, or-phaned, as a winter resort now attracts at-tracts thousands of tourists. Miss Chapman sees in her ticket office work not a monotonous, hateful job, but a chance to help all who enter the office; of-fice; an opportunity to take especial care of the great number of the white haired who come hunting sunshine to warm old bones or to cure deep-seated old-age diseases. She must have made a ' pleasant memory in the minds of many of the 10,000 who annually pass her window. For she has discovered that all over the United States have spread stories of the efficiency of her office. The war crystallized this reputation. reputa-tion. Uncle Sam, through the railroad administration, beckoned a lean finger at Julia Chapman and said, "I need you." A ticket sellers' school for young women was established at Atlanta. At-lanta. Miss Chapman trained the girls to help win the war by selling railroad rail-road tickets not Just any way, but Julia Chapman's way. Whatever success and recognition have come, she feels, are based on the fact that "I have made good in the town I've lived in sine; I was nine years old. A young woman in a Florida Flor-ida town has great advantages she could not find in a stramre city. Hera she can grow and expand as the town does." |