He gave it a heading, "Good-bye, Man, Says She.
Woman Owner of Big Machine Shop Replaces Men With Women." He also sent a special writer and an artist to New Bethel to get a story for the Sunday edition.
Other editors saw the value of that "Good-bye, Man" idea and they also sent reporters to the scene.

They came; they saw; they interviewed; and almost before Mary knew what was happening, New Bethel and Spencer & Son were on their way to fame.
Some of the stories were written from a serious point of view, others in a lighter vein, but all of them seemed to reflect the opinion that a rather tremendous question was threatening--a question that was bound to come up for settlement sooner or later, but which hadn't been expected so soon.
"Is Woman Really Man's Equal ?" That was the gist of the problem.

Was her equality theoretical--or real?
Now that she had the ballot and could no longer be legislated against, could she hold her own industrially on equal terms with man?
Or, putting it as briefly as possible, "Could she make good ?" Some of these articles worried Mary at first, and some made her smile, and after reading others she wanted to run away and hide.

Judge Cutler made a collection of them, and whenever he came to a good one, he showed it to Mary.
"I wish they would leave us alone," she said one day.
"I don't," said the judge seriously.

"I'm glad they have turned the spotlight on." "Why ?" "Because with so much publicity, there's very little chance of rough work.