The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-25
Job Loss
Threat Ban
to Wedding
Many Defer Marriage,
Fearing Taboo on
Working Wives.
BY GRETTA PALMER
Times Special Writer

pose have been deferred in the last
year because the girl was afraid
that she would lose her position if
she became a bride?
How many marriages are being
kept a secret by young women who
know that they would be dis
charged if word ever reached their
employers ears that they belonged
to the wicked category of working
wives?
The number must run into thou
sands. And it is hard to see who
is benefiting by the attitude which
prevents these girls from living with
the men they love and continuing to
draw pay checks which they sorely
need.
Must Live on One Salary
It has been decreed by some large
companies that a married woman
should not take a second salary
check into a house while single
women were without work. They
have announced that her duty to
the state required her to resign and
manage on her husbands salary.
And what is the result Of such a
ban?
Why, all the girls who are in love
with men whose salaries are too
small to support a family take great
pains to remain in the unmarried
group. AS a choice between semi
starvation with their beloved and
eating regularly without them they
make, UNDERSTANDABLE, the less ro-
mantle choice.
There is little sense in founding
home for the sole purpose of
watching love disappear through the
window. 1t is better, they believe,
to wait.
Doesn't Help Situation
The fact that these girls have
been unable to realize their hopes
for an immediate wedding is not
creating jobs for the unemployed.
1t is not helping the economic stu
alton. 1t is not removing the fact
that two salaries are being paid to
the girl and her young man. It
simply is making their happiness
impossible.
If these girls were permitted to
go ahead and have their weddings
with the full consent of their en-
ployers, no one would be a title the
poorer, and even the employer, we
believe, would profit by the change.
For a frustrated, unhappy young
woman is not the most efficient of
workers-not nearly as desirable as
a girl who is glowing with happiness
and the knowledge that her first
biscuits turned out well.
Mans Position Is Worse
The man in the case is now in a
position even more pitiable than the
girls, perhaps. Through no fault
of his own his salary has shrunk,
through pay cuts, to a figure on
which he is unable to support the
girl he loves.
And it is difficult for him to be-
lieve in himself under\these circum-
stances. If he can not even make
home for girl, he may think,
what good is he, anyhow.
Gnawing worry over the situation
"a sense of hopeIessness which
makes him debate whether he is I'M
fair in letting his fiancee wait for
him-these things are not condu-
Give to the most alert and enthu-
siastic achievements.
Let him marry the girl! Let the
stern decree against young love be
lifted and let the married women
keep their jobs.
The sum of human happiness can
be swelled so easily by such
ruling, the sum of human energy
can be increased and the brides and
brldegroom's delight over the we'd
ding will be shared by (a) the land
lord who rents them an apartment,
OBJ the furniture house which sells
them their inStallment-plan quota
of Early American reproductions,
and Co the citizen whose tax bur-
den is lightened every time the city
clerk rings up another wedding
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