The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 20 September 1966 — Page 4

4 The Daily Banner, Greeneastle, Indiana Tuesday, September 20, 1966 One Woman's Too Busy To Work For A Salary

By ROBERTA ROESCH “I am one of the few women in my neighborhood who don’t leave home for a job every day,” writes a reader from Pennsylvania. “Actually, I have no desire, no training, and no need to work at a Job,” she says. “In addition, I keep busy with so many other interests I would

have to cut out some worthwhile activities, if I changed my schedule and went to work. Beginning To Bother Her "But despite my interest in what I am doing, it is beginning to bother me that today most people seem to feel that unless you answer the question of ‘What work do you do?* with the name of a specific job.

f you’re actually doing nothing. "I have been stopped by that question so often," she said, “it is making me feel inadequate, even though I don’t have time for a salaried job.” In my years of talking to women, I have met a good many others who have also been stopped by this question. One woman I remember particularly never had an answer to the question “What work do you do?” since she, too, felt that people expected her to name a job. Therefore, she never told them about the work that filled her life to the brim. Each summer, for example, | this woman, who had no chil-

dren of her own, opened her home to boys and girls from city slums. Then during the winter she gave three days a week to helping at a county orphanage. Read And Mend “Some days I mend for the children,” she said, “Other days I read to them.” When this woman, who won’t let me use her name, wasn’t working with children, she was giving her time to worthwhile organizations, remain ing so well organized herself that she never abandoned one commitment to keep up with something else. In the hours she was at home,

she was usually at her desk, often until well into the night, writing letters to servicemen. She seldom mentioned all that she did, and she kept away from the limelight so much that people who asked “What work do you do?” never had any idea that this quiet but competent woman often put in twice as much time carrying out worthwhile activities as her neighbors with a job. “It is the life I have chosen,” she told me, when we discussed this subject, “and I love the interests that I pursue. “But sometimes I wish I had the right words to answer people who ask me about my work

land who make me feel Inadei quate because I cannot tell them exactly what I do.” Adequate Answer In our opinion, this woman— and every woman like her—has more than an adequate answer to the question even if she can't put it in precise words. The world is so full of so many types of jobs. And there are as many different kinds of work as there are kinds of women to do it.

The woman who chooses one kind of work should never feel She Opened Her Home To Boys shc doesn’t count because she And Girls From City’s Slums did not choose another.

' Demonstrator Killed NEW DELHI, India UPI— One demonstrator was killed and 40 others were injured Monday when police opened fire on a right wing mob protesting the arrest of a member of the Punjab state assembly. Police said the fatality was the victim : of stones thrown by the crowd * during the height of the demonstration by some 1.500 persons in Rohtak, about 60 miles from Delhi.

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