TAKING HER PLACE

Shannon News, 19 February 1929, Page 4

TAKING HER PLACE

Once a month at a council table in a large down-town Now York office not 20 yards from Wall Street, there meets a committee of three men, with hair grey and less profuse at the temples, and one girl of 28—and the girl takes the chair!

Mrs. Mae Robinson is an example of an increasing post-war American type. Ever-growing prosperity; ip the country is giving the “individual” young woman in America the opportunity for self-expression for which her modern school and college training in independence and self-reliance has fitted her.

Mae Robinson is the only woman m America who is running a public utility magazine. The magazine is that provided by the world’s largest privatelyowned water company, the Federal Water Supply Corporation, for the benefit of its thousands of shareholders, banking associates and employees. A definite editorial programme is arranged at the monthly conference. It is Mae Robinson ’s tasks to pick men out from various plants in the 14 States in, which the company operates and to assign to them articles, to be ready by a certain date, on certain subjects ■ —technical, bacteriology, water purification and so on.