The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-20
eOccesS Is a Snob Who
Smiles Sweetest on Those
Who Need Her Least y
Woman Writer Declares,
BY DOROTHY DIX,
Worlds Highest Paid Woman
Writer,


rs Il selfish for . woman who loves a
poor young man 10 marry him
This is a very interesting problem
est is discussed in a brilliant new play.
y this play the young woman Is IN love
bhh o young scientist who has just
orsun 10 climb the ladder Of success,
Nj who is on the Threshold Of
Srhieying fame and fortune for himself,
ard OF doing great good TO humanity
He needs every cent Of his small salary
Tor books. instruments. study and travel.
These he cannot have II what he
earns has "a 60 10 support a family,
and the girl feels that she loves him
100 well to permit him to sacrifice his
career BY marrying her The play set
ties the question, as II is not settled in
real life, by a philanthropist coming
along and giving the young couple plen-
Nv OF money 20 marry on, 50 that they
esr have their cake and eat Il, too.
The dramatist has touched upon one
Of the most vital and perpleSlng ques'
lions OF our day, and one that IS
troubling thousands Of intelligent, edu-
Gated. thinking young people. They are
m love. They want TO marry, but they
sre poor and ambitious, and even when
the man is willing to offer up his as
STATIONS on the altar OF domestlclty,
he woman hestates to let him make the
sacrifice.
DOTH have seen 80 mucn genius
~ smothcreA under butchers, bakers
and grocery bills. Both have seen the
door OF opportunity shut = o often in The
face OF a shabby coat and broken shoes
Both have seen the man who could
have climbed held down TO the earth
BY the weight Of the wife and pack OF
children on his back
There was A with his wonderful
gifts as a surgeon who might have risen
10 the top of his profession It he had
stayed single. But he married lie
had 10 90 and live in a shabby neigh
borhood, and take any kind OF a cheap
practice in order that his family might
be supported. He had neither time nor
money 10 take special courses, or TO 20
among the people who could push his
fortune. His marriage doomed him to
obsturity and poverty.
And there's B who was already gain
ing reputation as a novelist OF unusual
freshness and charm. The critics were
prophesying great things for him But
he got married, and with a wife to sup
port he could not risk the uncertain
Income Of one who had TO wait on IN.
spiration SO he was forced to harness
his Pegasus TO the family dinner cart,
and do whatever hack work would pay
him best. The necessity OF feeding the
children Of his body starved to death
the children OF his brain, and he who
might have been great, sunk into medl-
ocrity, pulled down by marriage.
And there was c who has spent his
lin on a clerks stool Yet when G
wss young he was clever and energetic
and alert, and thought TO have unusual
promise in him. But c married while
he was getting small salary. The
babies came quick and fast, and ex-
pehses piled up on him so swiftly that
he has never been a lap ahead Of the
blu collector. He has never dared to
ash for a raise in salary, look for a
better situation, or make any move that
would jeopardire his job because there
was always the nest full Of hungry
mouths to feed at home. He has run
way behind the field in the financial
race simply because the matrimonial
handicap was too heavy for him to
carry.
EVERY young couple knows dozen,
~ Of cases like these. They know
that nothing breaks a mans spirit
nothing takes the snap and ginger out