Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 256, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1934 — Page 5

MARCH 6, 1931

Wages Paid in Business Unbalanced Men Doing Same Work as Women Get More Salary. BY GRETTA PALMER Time* Special Writer NEW YORK. March 6.—"lf girl graduates want to rise from the unemployed class, it is time they stopped trying to be ‘artists' and started training themselves to compete with men in the business j world,” according to an address j given by Dr. William F. Ogbum of

the University of Chicago, to the teachers' con vention in | Cleveland. Women's stock * in the business world Is going up. in Dr. Ogburn’s opinion, j “if only they j w’ould realize it J instead of try-j ing to be story writers, woodi carvers, sculp-j tresses and painters.” The stock of women in the

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business world is going up, eh? You would hardly guess it. Dr. Ogburn, if you interviewed some of the' women themselves —one of those wives who have lost their jobs simplv because they are married women. I for instance. Or one of the girls i who are receiving a dollar less a ! week for doing the same work under j an NR A code as a penalty for not having been born boys, like the men at the npxt counter. You might find illuminating, too, a chat with one of the girls employed in the Connecticut sewing trades, where, according to the women's bureau of the United States department of labor, many young girls have been receiving $2 and SI a week, although the median—half receiving less, half more—of all wages paid to men and wcmen was $12.35. In the same report, sent from Washington, we learn that during the decade from 1920 to 1930 the number of women in domestic service has swelled by a million. Salary Figures Reported ‘Trained or untrained for the work, women thrown out of other employment turn to housework, says the report. It is evident that the problem of unemployment for women is. then, no temporary matter brought on by the depression. It is always there. But these, after all. are women workers in the lower-income classes. It is the college-graduate group to which Dr. Ogburn is painting so enticing a picture ot the business opportunities for women today. Very well. An instructive report called ‘‘Women and Their Careers” has recently been published by the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs. It tells you the salaries discovered through a survey of 30S j women in different professions. The earnings ranged from $750 a year to $30,000. but of the whole group only twenty-five were making more than $6,000 a year. And they were—mind you!—a hand-picked group of members of the federation—women, for the most part, of many years’ experience in the most aritocratic branches of work. Compare those salaries v'Vh the ones you would discover from a similar survey of Rotary Club members. At Least Artists (lot Break The prejudice against paying women the same salary as men for the same work persists in business and in the professions. Peraps it is less ardent than it once was. but it is there, all right. And there is no such penalty attached to being a woman if you are an artist. Nobody cares about the sex of the sculptor or painter if he wants to buy his wares. And that. Dr. Ogburn. may be why so many girl graduates set out on the perilous stream of an artistic career. It may not be lucrative—heaven knows!—but. at least, they know’ that they will get an even break. EVA ALLEN WILL BE APRIL BRIDE The engagement of Miss Eva Allen to William J. Malloy was announced Saturday by her mother, Mrs. Ethel H. Allen, at a luncheon at the Lincoln. The wedding will take place in April. The hostess was assisted by Mrs. Roy T. Hynes. Spring flowers were used as the luncheon table centerpiece. Mrs. Epphf to Entertain Mrs. Harry Epply is arranging a covered dish supper and card party for tonight at the Woodruff Place clubhouse. Residents of Woodruff Place will attend. Mrs. Arthur Schowe is assistant chairman.

Whose Fault?

The Boy or Girl Who Refuses to Eat

“What have I ever done to deserve a child who refuses to eat. and is just skin and bones?” The mother who asks that question might be surprised to learn that she alone is to blame. She knows a lack of appetite is the sign of a clogged system, but does the wrong thins to remedy the condition. A violent cathartic that upsets the stomach pulls down a child like a spell of sickness. It often forms the laxative

habit. A more sensible wav of regulating children is explained in the column to the right;

Arrange Voters League Meetings

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Left to Right—Miss Frances Holliday, Mrs. William P. Snethen and Mrs. George L. Denny.

A Woman’s Viewpoint BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

ALONG comes another prophet with the assurance that man's life span soon will reach the century mark. The prospect is a dreadful one unless we can all survive to a ripe old age together. To be 100 years in a world where the majority of the inhabitants were much younger would be the very worst purgatory a devil could devise. For we do not achieve companionship except with our contemporaries. We can communicate only with those who were born in the same decade as ourselves. Youth alone in a society of elders, or an old man among juveniles—could ever loneliness be more poignant? Not very many people in our civilization desire to live a hundred years. For the social system we have built is the most cruel America has ever known for those who are old. A long time ago when our frontiers were in the making, there was a valued place in c-ach household for the venerable man or woman. Small, necessary jobs, both outside and in, devolved upon them and made them feel needed. In a social order which demanded that all hands w’ork at top speed so the family might eat and prosper, old age was not a burden. But it is a burden now—one of the heaviest modern man must bear. With congested living quarters, poverty and economic competition uppermost, the old are in a bitter predicament. There are not enough jobs for the young so what are the aged to do? They can suffer. They do suffer. Thousands of them are forlorn and forgotten. Their life’s work done, they are considered useless incumbrances in the path

City Federation President Will Attend Meeting Outstanding problems relating to education and child welfare will be discussed by men and women of national prominence at the convention of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers to be held May 13 to 19 in Des Moines, la. Mrs. Hugh Bradford, national president, has announced "The Future of the Forgotten Child” as the discussion theme. Mrs. W. J. Hcckett, Ft. Wayne, president of the Indiana congress, and Mrs. William E. Balch, president of the Indianapolis federation, will attend the convention. Instruction will be given in par-ent-teacher organization technics, legislation, parliamentary procedure, character education, social hygiene, safety, parent education and publicity. Panel discussions will be nold on "Educating for the New Leisure.” Dr. J. W. Studebaker. Des Moines superintendent ci .. - a public forum, ciemcn ;Lrr . : g the value of adult education in a community. All parent-teacher members and other persons interested are invited to attend the convention. Meeting Date Fixed Ladies’ auxiliary, A. O. H. 8. will meet the first Tuesday in each month at the Washington.

It’s a lucky girl whose mother knows how to regulate her children’s bowels without some strong, eviltasting cathartic that upsets the system and ruins their appetite! \Vhenever sluggishness coats the little tongue, makes the whites of the eyes a bilious yellow, or a child is headachy and fretful, just try pure California Syrup of Figs. The senna in this fruity laxative is so agreeable to take, so natural in

action! Get real California Syrup of Figs at any drug store. The bottle should say 'California*.

of the aggressive. We are too busy to bother with them, too hurried to understand their plight, too unimaginative to truly sympathize with them. They have no economic security from a government they helped to make, no place in a democracy they worked and fought to fashion and a good many of them have no care or affection from children whom they have supported and loved. A hundred years of life is a boon to the savage whose tribe honors age. in the United States, where gray hairs are apologized for, a hundred years of life is a major tragedy. Meeting Date Changed Monthly luncheon of the Phi Delta Theta Mothers’ Club will be held at 1 Thursday at the Butler university chapter house instead of tomorrow. The bridge section will play following the luncheon.

rjZ > cLcll|A> Inclosed find 15 cents for which send me Pattern No. 161. Size Name Street City State

RATHER smart, don’t you think? And it’s made up so easily in handkerchief linen or cotton print. The designs are in six sizes, 14, 16, 18 and 20 with corresponding bust measures of 32, 34, 36 and 38, and also in 40 and 42. Size 18 requires 3% yards of 39-inch material plus 1-3 yard contrast for the bow and neckband cut crosswise or bias. To obtain a pattern and simple sewing chart of this model, tear out the coupon and mail it to Julia Boyd, The Indianapolis Times, 214 West Maryland street, Indianapolis, together with 15 cents in coin.

Pledge Services Held Alpha chapter, Phi Delta Pi Sorority, held pledge services last night at the home of Mrs. Grace Knight, 590 West drive. Woodruff Place. New pledges are Misses Estelle Poe, Marion; Gertrude Bose, Chicago; Ruth Lorentz, Peoria. 111., and Frances Korckendorfer, Menominee, Wis.

A Day’s Menu Breakfast — Halves of grape fruit, cereal. cream, sausage rolls, milk, coffee. Luncheon — Oyster stew, oystei crackers, salad of grated beets and shredded gingerbread sandwiches, milk, tea. Dinner — Tomato soup, macaroni with dried beef and mushrooms, brussels sprouts, apricot and nut salad, crackers and cheese, milk, coffee.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ,

Series of four meetings on government structure to be conducted by the Indianapolis League of Women Voters is under the auspices of the efficiency in government committee, headed by Mrs. Leo M. Gardner. Members of the committee met recently with Mrs. Smiley Chambers to complete plans for the initial discussion mee tin g scheduled for tomorrow morning. Among the members attending were Miss Frances Holliday, Mrs. William P. Snethen and Mrs. George L. Denny.

BRIDE-ELECT TO BE HONOR GUEST

Miss Dvera Cohen. 3057 Washington boulevard, will entertain with a kitchen shower and bridge party tonight for Miss Jennie Efroymson, bride-elect. Misses Gertrude Kroot and Geraldine Lasner, both cf Columbus, will be among the guests.

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