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

How many weddings do you sup
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 benef1ting 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
I,
small to support 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
a 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
It 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. 1t
simply is making their happiness
impossible
If these girls were permitted to
go ahead arA have their weddings
with the full consent of their en-
ployers, no one would be a little the
poorer, and even the employer, we
believe, would profit by the change |
For 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 |
a home for a girl he may think, |
what good is he, anyhow.
Gnawing worry over the situation |
"a sense of hopelessness 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 a
ruling, the sum of human energy
can be increased and the brides and
bridegroom's delight over the we'd
ding will be shared by ca the land
lord who rents them an apartment,
(b) the furniture house which sells
them their inStallment-p quota
of Early American reproductions. |
and Co the citizen whose tax bur
den is lightened every time the city
clerk rings up another Wedding
license on the register.