The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20

salary, but gave her a chance to
learn the business. A third was be-
ing allowed to hang around back
stage at a little theater as an under
study. Her salary was in the form
of free tickets.
Alice's luck became more compre-
hensible.
Now, these were girls whose edu-
cation beyond the minimum pre-
scribed by law, represented an in
vestlnent Of at least 50 ,00O-probably
a great deal more. And to what
puny and miserable little bits of
jobs they we're willing to apply it,
They did not seem TO take it for
granted that a certain measure of
proved competence and training
made them valuable employees to
some firm or another. They under
rated themselves and their educa-
ton TO a shocking degree. Any lit
tie crumbs from the industrial world
would make them squeal with graft
tude
Humility Is Wrong Attitude
Gratitude is entirely the wrong
y attitude to take toward the person
who is giving you job. If he hires
you because he wishes your services
it is an arrangement as pleasing to
one party as to the other. If he
hires you without thinking you can
do the work he is simply a nincom-
poop. But humility about whether
you are worthy of the job is silly
in either case.
You might suggest that this is a
temporary mood of panic on the
part of the woman college graduate
that when jobs are so scarce she
is astOnished at her luck in landing
anything at all.
Perhaps. but the trouble is that
she is not merely astonished; she is
apparently completely content with
whatever poor little niche she whit
ties out for herself. She is willing
to accept herself at whatever low
valuation the world may put on her
services in a difficult year.
Her brother, on the whole, does
not do this. He may become de-
pressed to the verge of melancholia
by his inability to find good job.
But he thinks that if he found one
he could fill it.
Doesn't Rejoice in Payless Job
. A young man out of Yale or Har-
ward may find himself selling neck
ties. But he does not rejoice in his
good fortune. or excite the envy of
his friends. He looks upon the work
quite properly, as a Stop-gap to
carry him over to the time when he
can get a Job more commensurate
with his ambition and abilities.
A young man does not feel that
any one is doing him favor by
letting him work for him without
pay. He may do it. mind you. for
the experience. but he is apt to be
well aware of the fact that his en-
ployer is making use Of him.
For the young man has been
brought up from his earliest boy
hood in the complacent belief that
he would be able to support him
self. 1t seemed an almost auto
IAldi4O HAONNCN AL AlAN AAACAA A4N AAeANA
ever met were able to; it could
hardly be so formidable a task.
Earning you own living was as much
a part of being a man as shaving;
neither one seemed very hard.
Grateful to Get to Bottom
But the girl who graduated re-
Gently from college grew up in a
world which sent up a rocket every
time a woman showed any signs of
real competence at all.
She was told that a remarkable
and difficult achievement had been
made when woman was appointed
assistant principal of a suburban
high school She was asked to
clasp her hands in establishment at
the picture Of a woman who be-
came third vice-preSident of a fur
niture store.