The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-02-02
Rejected By Girl With Bigger Salaried
Income Lonely Bach Would Have
Montana Assembly Fire All Women
On Payroll.


Helena Independent explains itself.
Read it carefully, girls:
Suppose you were a lonely bache-
lor and longed for home, which
only the lady of your dreams can
make, and you sometimes mad visions
of family round the old shack, then:
Suppose, f'rinstance, you louIneyed
over to the abode of your lady love
and proposed marriage with all the
ardOr that has burned your interior
for days and weeks and months, al
belt you suffered when you asked her
to share your fortune.
Whereupon-
'Raus Nit All Wimmin!
Suppose the lady politely but firm
ly turned you down and then rubbed
salt on your lacerated heart and
bruised bump of Ego, by telling you
that she couldn't see you, because her
income was easily double your own.
Wouldn't you feel that the entire
tribe of women employed on salary,
should be ousted and you and other
men be given the jobs?
Well, nebbe you would and mebbe
notl
Not His Way.
Perhaps you would be foxy and
suggest to the lady that her objection
needn't stand in the way at all; that
she could keep right on working and
drawing down the fat paycheck and
you would continue to drawn down
what you could and after while you'd
both retire and live happy ever after
ward, not to mention enjoying life
while you two were piling up the
"mazuma," the "cash" or the
"smacks," as dollars are sometimes
called.
But the particular and specific case
related in letter and a set of reso-
lutiOns received yesterday by Senator
George McCone of Dawson county,
doesn't see it that way He is for the
general firing of every woman en-
ploye of state, county, municipal and
school district governments and the
immediate turning over of the jobs
to men in order that matrimony, the
home, the race and the nation itself
may continue TO prosper and grow
great.
No Joke to Him.
Senator McCOne says that the con-
stituent referred to is a bachelor of
considerable prominence and means
in his county. He's a rancher and
he isn't trying to be funny at all,
when he makes this unique proposal.
"He is in dead earnest" said
Senator McCone. Hasn't a streak
of humor in him when it comes to
discussing the subject contained in
the letter."
So wrought up is this lonely old
bachelor on a ranch in Dawson coun-
ty that he alludes to his former lady
love as zone of these females" a
most ungallant thing to do. But here
is the letter, minus the name, just as
the man wrote it:
SAVE HUMANITY.
"HOn. George McCone, Helena,
Montana.
"Dear Sir:
GAS a result of having the matter
rather forcibly brought to my atten-
ton not long ago by an experience
of my own, it would seem that the
present legislature might do some
thing that might be of inestimable
benefit to humanity in general and
Montana in particular
Whereas, At the present time a
great many females are on the pay
rolls of the state, the various coun-
ties Of the state, and the school dis
tricts of the state; and
Whereas, These females are re-
-ceiving this money and are thereby
enabled to support themselves indie
pendently without the support of
husband;
FIRE EN- ALL!
"Now, Therefore, Be It Resolved,
That it is to the best interests of hui
manity in general and the state of
Montana in particular that these fe-
males be discharged from public en-
ployment and their places filed with
SINCE men, to the end that these SINCE
men be thereby enabled to take unto
themselves wives and to support the
same.
"Please give this your most earnest
consideration.
"The home is the backbone of the
nation, the state and the race. These
salaries paid to these females act as
a bride to keep them from entering
matrimony and also throws men out
Of employment so they could not sup
port families, even if they had fani-
lies.