Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-07-14

England training. He simply didn't like
being hurried into anything.
Yet there was no reason he should
be SO pig-headed about 1t. Her outraged
pride warmed the flame Of her rage
anew. The idea! Making her look as II
| she couldn't wait to marry him! When
all she was really thinking about was
his good.
Serve him right If she phoned him
right now and said, "All right. Master
lose her job. and he'd find out what
| 1t was like to support wife on nothing
a week.
But she discarded that impulse as 1t
was born. 1t wouldn't do. There was
no use getting married unless they
could make it click. And losing her job
would n BE sta on gs anne Of Of HUBS
earning wives. Goodness, the man was
as archaic as old Matteson.
OF course, once Hub really got 60
ing in his profession she could tell the
Matteson Corporation goodby and con-
centrate on being the wife Of a sue
cessful scientist: That would be-well,
say in five or six years. Not more and
probably less. Because Hub Bates was
like other sure, slow-moving bodies
Once he got going he'd roll fast.
Meantime, though, Winnie knew to
a penny the amount Of his monthly
check. and with social security deduc-
tions. it added up to the impractical
half of what she got from the Matte
son Corporation for composing tactful
little form letters that sent housewives
running to their grocers for Matteson
| food products.
But-the Matteson Corporation was
in the business Of selling things, while
the Ridpath Research Foundation, for
| VI IQhnra1
passion. was merely in the business OF
developing devices and formulate for
|. the benefit Of mankind.
Once in a while, when its laboratory
technicians hit on something Of COM
mercial value, they were permitted to
gressions from the main purpose were
rather frowned on. Hence Winnie's Ger
tainty that 1t would be some time be-
fore Hub could really afford wife.
The door signal buzzed. But it wasn't
Hub. Only Nina Parsons, with whom
Wnnis n shared fbs her sOzy little apart
What" said Nina. mo boy friend
kicking around undertook"
He left early" Winnie evaded He
he had to go back to the laboratory"
.Nh-huh." Nina tossed her hat on
too. dearie. what was the a war ' abou 1s
"Oh. we'll, If you will be intuitive!"
And Winnie told her
Nina nodded sagely. She was %
six years older than Winnie-and had
given up serious love affairs after
burning her fingers in youth. Though
she never talked about it, she was sig
nificantly bitter against philandering
married men.
Il see," she summarized. you could
lead your horse to water, but you
couldn't make him Jump in. Well, don't
"Of course. He's wild about you, dar-
ling. Just give him a chance to think
1t over"
But 1t won't do any gooo," gloomed
Winnie, unless he changes his mind.
And he seemed terribly definite. Oh,
Nina. If lose him, I'll never forgive
old M latte as long as live: I don't
for putting out an order like that!"
OF course there isn't" agreed Nina
putting out long whiff of blue smoke
"But-,what can you do about it? He's
your boss"
Long after she slipped into bed that
night, though, Winnifred lay awake,
thinking about her employer and the
recent. order to employees that was re-
sponsible for her entire predicament.
The girls at the Matteson Corpora
tion-and, there were hundreds of
them-called it the Gym" order
among themselves. Gym standing for
| get your man."
Posted during the last week of April,
it had informed all and sundry that,
to avert an indiscriminate reduction in
personnel management for wholesale
firing the company would pursue a
policy, beginning June of dismissing
all girl employees who got married.
n hull -ofI
to discourage marriage, but to distrib-
ute Jobs more equitably. Defensively,
1t cited identical action by other large
concerns, also by the heads of public
departments in some states and cities
Some Of the girls. especially the I'm.
mean. Others, whose jobs were safe,
had hailed it as triumph of economic
| justice.
For or against, however, one thing
had been Immediately clear to all.
NANNY ana any 70 f Bod R Ses Job Reo oS S
have to maneuver the bridegroom
elect to the altar before the first of
June.
1t had been disquieting news to many,
and particularly dtsquieting news to
Because, unlike most of the girls,
she couldn't Just mention the order
casually to her boy friend and let ma
ture take its course.
i Not for a moment. Hub Bates wasn't
that kind Of boy friend.
And E. L. Matteson was a grand guy
to work for Swell Like Simon Legree!
| She was drifting off to restless sIum-
Der when she suddenly recalled that
offer from the Babcock Company. Bab-
cock was small but lively competitor
of the Matteson Corporation. Once, the
BabcOck sales manager had intimated
to her that she might see him II she
ever felt like changing Jobs.
Hmm. Still, would 1t be worth while?
Changing Jobs because Hub Bates
wanted to be pig-headed and arbitrary!
No. She should say not.
The whole trouble was that Hub,
along with some other peculiar INTEL
lectual quirks that slowed away on the
Mayflower, had picked up the notion
that 1t was stigma on q man to