The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-17
Girls Must
Pick Career
or Marriage
BY MARTHA LEE.

One of the favorite topics for
novels and moving picture scenarios
is marriage or a career" And also
it is one of the fayorite converse
tional gems among women who
really are asking themselves that
question and women who already
have solved their individual prob
lens.
twenty-five years ago there was
no such question to be solved. Mar
rage was the career for women. If
women did not marry, they were
old maids, and in those days that
was no career.
twenty-five years is not a long
time to solve a problem that has
grown faster than the answers can
be put out. Because, along with
feminine freedom has come eco
nomic need. The fields of industry
have been opened, almost without
exception, to women. The fields of
art always have been open, but the
methods of learning and the recog-
milton have not. All this has
changed.
Money Is Needed
And SO has the high cost Of living
1t is no longer optional that women
brace up the family budget. In
many cases it has become neces-
sary.
AS a consequence, unmarried girls
are asking over and over whether
marriage is preferable to a career,
or if the question has been solved
in the affirmative, whether the
career can be disposed of In face
of financial obstacles.
We are speaking of the writer's,
artists, actresses and such, whose
careers call for years of training
and practice. We are referring to
the vast army of girls whose careers
consist of workaday jobs with re-
Enumeration in accordance to the
positions. But these girls have
learned to love the freedom that
comes with a weeks salary for
themselves. And when they marry
boys who are making just slightly
more than they we're themselves, a
number of entanglements arise.
Dear Martha Lee: I am % years old
have been working as a stenographer
for five years and nave worked myself
up to secretarial position, with a good
salary.
I have fallen in love with one Of the
young men in the firm where 1 work. and
he is in love with me. His position is
quite good. but pays only a little more
than mine. He wants to get married. and
I am In doubt as to what would be best.
Really Loves Him
I know I love him, and that I want to
marry him, but I can not decide whether
it would be for the best. We would have
so little, and I have become accustomed
to my own pay envelope. I know we
would not be able to maintain the stand
ard of living that We both have become
used to.
My sweetheart says that our love for
each other and the happiness We would
have would make up for all the, rest. You
see, if We marry. I do not intend to con-
tinue with my work.
MI.
No one can solve your problem
but yourself. You simply will have
to choose which you would rather
have, a home of your own and a
husband who loves you, or a flock
of dresses and what-nots and GER
tain amount of money of your own
each week. But what good will any
of those things do if you haven't
pair of admiring eyes to appre-
ciate them?
Love Is Precious
You have something more pre-
cious than all the money you could
ever hope TO earn, the love of a
boy, who is willing to share every
thing he is able to make with you.
You have a good job, SO you must
be smart enough to figure things
for yourself. A secretary is re-
CURED to have good judgment and
discrimination. Why not use 1t
now?
There's no law forbidding you to
work after you are married. If
you are Directing to this because
of what people will say land your
failure to do more than refer to
your unwillingness to do this makes
me believe that is the reason), there
are scores of wives who work after
they are married because they can
not bear to fiddle away eight hours
a day playing at housekeeping in
two or three-room apartment.