The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-06
Home Work
Unavoidable
for Women
Economic Situation Makes
Careers Impossible for
Most Wives.
BY EVELYN SEELEY
Times Special Writer

NEW YORK, Dec. 6.-"why not
' abolish the women's pager"
Mrs Charles Sabin said. I'm tired
Of this differentiation of mems and
womens interests"
Her brown eyes flashed. Her chest
nut hair. whitening at the brows.
was soft ABOUT her face. Her CHS
eled features are as delicate and pert
as when she was a girl She looked
suave and slender in her black be-
sequined evening costume.
Mrs. Sabin had just been awarded
BY the American Womens Associa-
ton (Anne Morgan. PRESIDENT the
medal for eminent attainment as the
woman who has most distinguished
herselt through her achievements
the last year" The eighth annual
Friendship dinner of some fifty clubs
was closing at the Hotel Roosevelt.
Career women by the hundred, with
names as bright and shining as their
rhinestones. milled about.
We lodged swishing trains and
encountered Anne Morgan, strong
and dominant in her rose-red satin.
She joined the battle.
You womens page writer's haven't
leg to stand onl" she declared.
All you write about" said Mrs.
Sabin, ARE recipes, school curricula.
fashions. health, billboards or per-
haps the place of Eugene O'Neill in
the hierarchy of dramatistS or Edna
81. Vincent-Millay in the realm of
poetry"
Career Women Few
But you are not facing facts, Mrs.
Sabin. You do not see beyond your
own group. You career women, to
whom the subjects usually discussed
on women's pages are uninteresting,
are only a drop in the bucket. You
who can afford to hire people to look
after food, children, health, educa-
ton, are only a molecule in the
whole world of women.
Probably ee-fourths of the
women of America must be con-
cerned with these special womens
interests-must be. whether they
want to or not. Some of them are
content. But those who are not con-
tent can not go out and get jobs and
employ some one to run their
homes, because there are no Jobs.
There is nothing belittling about
this domestic preoccupation. 1t is a
job, often a superior one-to many
women a fascinating one.
Cooking is a fine, creative art.
Children can draw on every facet of
experience and thought. Schools are
limitless in interest.
Being a housewife is a good Job.
II you like it. If you don't you should
be able to go out and earn the price
of some one who does. But. unfortu-
nately, at present it doesn't work
that way.
Aid to Majority
This is not a "back-to-the-
kitchen" movement, Mrs. Sabin. It
is mere economics. Since it so hap
pens that most women run their
own homes, why deprive them of
timely help and encouragement?
Newspapers do not consider for a
moment that the interest of women
readers stops with the topics dis
cuSsed on special pages.
How often do we read" Mrs.
Sabin challenged finally, "of wom-
ems organizations actively giving
their SlIDDOrt tn a national Issue
such as fiscal policies. farm relief or
the protection of citizens rights?"
The answer is that when women
deal with these matters they do so
as members of organizations which
embrace men as well as women
Moreover, what has that to do with
printing pages of special interest to
women?
You might as well argue for
abolition of sports pages because not
all men are interested in sports.