The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-27
Must Stand
byHuSbands
in AdUeYsity
BY MARION spoRE BUSH

NEW YORK, Nov. 27.-The pres
ent economic depression seems to
me to present a real challenge to
American women. There is need
today for women to help their men,
as our pioneer grandmothers stood
shoulder to shoulder with their
men-folk in supplying food and
clothing to their families and sus-
tanning family home-life.
Times have changed, but women's
responsibility toward their families
SELL is equal to that of the men
folk. All over the country, families
are suffering today as a direct re-
suit OF women having failed to keep
the family's expenses within its
means.
Women must learn how to con-
serve and not to squander the fam
lily income before our next pros
perity era returns.
Old Lessons to Relearn
It is time for women to re-learn
some of the great American vir-
tues Of usefulness that their colo
NAL forebears knew so well. The
period Of luxury and plenty that
we lately lived through seems to
have made women soft"
There has been a general feeling
that "the best is none too good for
me-" 1t spurred women on to spend
more than they had, to lose sense
Of the value of saving, and to put
their family in the position of wait
ing for next weeks pay to settle
for last weeks purchases.
Indicative of this living beyond
their means are the requests many
women are making today finan-
cial help, saying: "We have a fine
house on which we can't meet the
payments" II must sell my jewels,
do you know a market?"
Wife May Guard Income
Men have earned good salaries
and their women should have been
saving for rainy day. Instead of
that, hundreds of thousands of them
over the country have spent to the
hilt and merrily charged to the limit
Of the family credit.
In most families, the wife is in
a position to control the larger part
of the family spending. 1t lies in
her careless or capable hands to
preserve and build up the family
capital.
Since her husband must devote
himself largely to the earning of |
the money, it is fitting that she
should undertake the job of guard
ing it against waste.
Almost any wife can make her
self into a good manager of money
if she frankly will face her respon-
sibility and admit that it is up to
her to be that kind of helpmate.
Many Ways of Saving
There are dozens of ways that
every woman in America can re-
learn the arts of saving. Every
family would appreciate mothers
putting up some homemade jams
and baking some home made cakes
and pies.
The very fact that mothers would
take enough interest in their homes
and families to expend this energy
creates an atmosphere of more in
terest in the home all around.
This is year when women can
save by making over their clothes.
1t is a year when they can save
by salvaging furniture by little
recovering, refinishing.
1t is year when food saving
can be achieved by planning and
that extra bit of work done that is
called for to make tasty croquettes
out of leftover roasts or a delicious
steamed pudding out of bread |
crumbs and figs.
Women Have Responsibility
The foundation of our nations
greatness has lain in good homes, |
saving and work.
Women who spend their time be-
tween bridge parties, beauty parlors,
nerve specialists and the movies do
not seem the rightful daughters of
the pioneer women who built Ameri-
cas- strength.
1t is up TO the women of Ameri-
ca quite as much as to the men to
bring things back to normal. If
every one learns once again that
it is necessary to save as we'll as to
work, not only will stability return,
but it will return to stay.
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