JAMES ENNIS LEAVES
FOR FAIRBANKS
James Ennis, dispatcher for the
Pan American departed for Fair
banks, where he will be stationed
Stanley Bartlett, of the Pan
American arrived from Fairbanks
on company business and will be
stationed here temporarily.
There’s enough salt in the
oceans to equal fourteen and one
half times the bulk of the entire
continent of Europe above the
high water mark, according to the
Encyclopaedia Britannica. That
would be no less than four and
one-half million cubic miles of
rock salt.
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DEPARTMENT
NOME, FAIRBANKS, ANCHORAGE,
JUNEAU and WHITEHORSE, Y. T.
Phone MAIN 22
S\ omen Make Good Bankers
Savs Feminine Financier
By ADELAIDE KERR—(/P) Newsfealures Writer
The twentieth century offers women a big future as investment
counsels if they will take the time to train adequately and work hard
enough, says one who has spent the last 25 years the field. She is Mrs.
Arlene Hughes, head of E. W. Hughes & Co., Colorado Springs brokers
and investment counsels, which
maintained a Wall Street branch
off'ce until Mr, Hughes’ death in
1939. Mrs. Hughes, who is also di
rector o fa dozen utility and gen
eral service companies in New
England and the west, comes to
New York about four times a
year.
“Women have certain qualities
which fit them peculiarly for the
investment field,” she said during
a recent New York v’sit. “If a ner
son’s funds are to bewisely invest
de and handled, his personal life
and problems have to be consid
ered. That means such matters as
his health, the way his marriage
is going, the way the children are
behaving, etc. These matters can
present some thorny questions,
but there is always a way out, if
you will take the time.
"That is the reason I think wo
men can be of special value. They
are generally more painstaking
and patient, more inclined to
bother with the problems of hu
man nature than men. People
bring me a lot of personal prob
lems they would not talk over
with a man. I have as many men
clients as women and I find they
have as many of these problems
as women do.
“Here is an instance of the kind
of things which I have to consider:!
Suppose a widow who has chil
dren plans to marry again. She
has property from her first hus
band and wants to safeguard her1
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ARLEEN HUGHES . . . Fore
sees banking careers for gals.
children’s interest in it. Under
Colorado laws, if she should die
before her second husband, he
would get half of her estate. But
there is a way to work around the
problem by a living trust.
“If a marriage is heading tow
ard the rocks, certain types of in
vestment are not advisable. If a
person is not well, he should have
a sizable sum of cash available to
use if he needs it. If a man has an
irresponsible son, it is better to
leave his inheritance in trust,
CORA BROUILLET IN NOME
ON BUSINESS
Cora Brouillet, field consultant
in hospital nursing for the U. S.
Native Service from Chicago, ar
rived in Nome, from Tanana,
Monday evening. This is her first
trip to this part of the country,
and she is making a thorough sur
vey of hospital conditions. She
will continue north and visit the
Kotzebue and Pt. Barrow hospi
tals before returning to headquar
ters.
rather than to bequeath it to him
outright.”
Mrs. Hughes warns, however,
that both courses of study and
long office expreience are neces
sary to fit an investment counsel
for the job and that women who
consider entering the field must
be willing to give years to prepa
ration.
Mrs. Hughes is a handsome wo
man with dark eyes and pink
cheeks. Jewels flash on her fingers
and in her ears. She came to her
present 'position via the road of
hard work She was working as
secretary-stenographer in Denver
and planning to go South Amer
ica, when a friend told her that E.
W. Hughes, broker, was looking
for a secretary and suggested she
apply for the job. She did—and
got it.
A few years later, in 1923, she
was married to the boss, and in
1928 he opened his own firm in
Colorado Springs. Gradually the
brokerage business extended to
investment counselling and bank
ing. After the firm’s Wall Street
branch was opened, Mr. Hughes
ran that and Mrs. Hughes concen
trated on the western office. She
hasn’t reached South America yet.
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