Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-06-12
High Calling .........
By Maude Radford Warren

going to speak to you again when yo,
refused. the year after Mary was born
Your hands are all red," he said
suddenly.
Nothing" she returned. Il was jus
a bit awkward with the pressur,
cooker"
There you are" he said slowly, "if
accept Uncle Max's offer and join hin
in his advertising business. you neef
never look at a pressure cooker again
You'd have a and the children
would have advantages | can't give
them now"
That Marcia of pre-Walter days ex.
PEELED a hydra headed wish-ease
leisure, the chance to take up he,
music again: to read. to buy all the
books she wanted, to have pretty
clothes, to own a car, to be able tc
travel, TO have trained nurses for the
children: TO spend m by the
sea!
Get thee behind me" Marcia MUIR
INJURED to that other self.
She took her husbands arm and led
him to the living room window. A
full moon silvered the campus. The
sharpness of late autumn had stripped
the trees, and their trunks and
branches looked like black iron. To
Gordon those arched trees were like
cathedral aisles, and the gray build
ings they surrounded were temples of
learning and enlightenment. the back
ground for his career of service.
You don't want to give this up,"
Marcia said. You don't want to stop
helping these cropping students"
Its my job to put out my hands
to their cropping, l know, but if l stay
| might Just sit on a platform and get
rusted into routine work"
You never would, she denied. Let
you be taken away from the work you
love? Never in all the world! You
want TO teach English, not write adver-
Using copy. We can afford to edu-
cate the children right here, and, bar
ring the climate in winter. this is a
lovely environment for them. THEY'D
stifie in New York City, and if we
lived in the country, you would wear
yourself out committing
Gordon looked at her adoringly. IF
there is another wife in the world
like YOU" he said, there is another
PNAANNty AidPPJ AldAA IL tlO0OlC loy
dear, we have no margin. There al
ways seems to be enough for rent and
for food but for nothing else. Be-
negie pension"
Marcia said. Well, but at the
you a raise. 1t is the logical time for
vos,r Nrnn,nf1np pnctInr vrbA~ fNn
baby is older, I'm going to try to get
something to do; you said l could.
Then your summer teaching will help
out. Perhaps something else supple
mentary will turn up"
Il should not be worn out commut-
Gordon said, because Uncle
Max suggests that we take a little
house on Long Island next his place.
In fact, he has bought it or the chance
I'll accept. That means I'd drive
in with him every day. He'd start
me at six thousand-till l learn the
business. Other beginners get about
a week. Don't you see, dear,
he's treating me as if / were his son.
In the end 1 should be. practically"
"Oh, but my darling" said Marcia,
oassionately, you don't want to do it.
Your heart is in your work here, and
nine for you. I'd be Wretched if you
we're not doing the work you like best.
I'm in love with you, and your happi-
ness is mine"
Her eyes were shining, her face,
,urned to him, was beautiful in its de-
rotion and self-forgetfulness.
whatever you do, you'd never turn
back" Gordon said. You'd never do
vain wishing. Uncle Max says he
Won't listen to any answer till the
He reminds me that two
birds of the young faculty couples
live on their incomes, must
10 something outside. Well, he's right.
When 1 keep putting in my time at
teaching and tutoring; when
get sick Of endless faculty meetings
where nothing is done; when / have
committee work loaded on me because
am one of the younger men, then l
Wonder where the time is coming for
he research work that I want to do.
wonder whether l wouldn't be wiser
0 go into the advertising business,
make enough money to retire and then
10 what I want"
Marcia shook her head. TOO late,
hen. Uncle Max has taken you up on
high mountain and is showing you
he wonders of the world"
There is a big work here" Gordon
aid. The students are just bewil-
children. They don't under
tand the world. They wonder if there
S a God. They are full of cockiness
md humility and emotion and ques-
ions. They want sWe to their
questions, and half the time they don't
the answers or they are afraid
o listen. They have no discipline Of
mind. They are reaching after infinite
hings-"
That's the answer" Marcia said.
We stay here"
His arm about her was eloquent. She
bought, with a thrill of happy vanity,
hat her own work in the world was
Indispensable.
Il have no doubt l cal find some
supplementary work." Gordon said.
Ainslee mentioned this afternoon that
John Hawley, one of the old graduates
Who is head Of a publishing business
S coming here to choose a MAJ to
dit a series of English classics and to
a textbook. Ainslee says that
or Parcher or / will be chosen,
md that I am the logical choice
Ainslee was the head OF the English
department.. Further, he was attached