STATE POLITICS
Revell, Aldric
State Politics Heil's Ad Libs W omen Workers The Merit Test [By ALBKIC KfcVELLl GOV. HEIL should never eat at Rotary rlub luncheons. Not only is it bad for his digestion, but he always contrives...
...WAS A HEILOGRAM When he said he would fire all married womrn in state service v.'ho...
...The subject of married women working is a serious one, and therein pops the problem...
...Now it is a known fact that Gov...
...In other words, it is verbal salt and can't even be sprinkled on celery...
...Heil's ad libs are rich in color, strong in expression, and wobbly in logic...
...This statement might easily be swallowed with apple pie and cheese, but in the unflattering light of reason it is highly indigestable...
...No one who is serious, too serious, ca$i keep a proper pe:sp»ct-ive...
...We can imagine a situation where a woman makes more money than her husband and one evening at home they face the problem of the wife having to lose her Job and the husband to support the family on his meager income...
...Judging from the rate at which employes are being dumped into the ditch, we would say emphatically not...
...In the first place, as everyone except the governor seems to be aware, we have a civil service law in Wisconsin which prohibits discrimination because of race, sex, or creed...
...That statement was an aside of the governor's...
...Wc do not go so fai as to suggest Ihct he wear corsets The w if" could probably s ill do a: good a <> pitc till- transmogiifica-unn, nit;: :-li she might have trouble julb tile citjais...
...Ma-:r,chufttts tried such a law and the measure v.a...
...The governor had before him as he spoke a speech prepared in the execu-tive office, which dealt with state finances...
...j. j. IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL Even the attorney general's office In Wisconsin has ruled that such li-v or such an attitude is unconstitutional...
...The governor can be forgiven for making such a statement because he doesn't know the law...
...For instance, at a Milwaukee Rotary club luncheon recently, the governor promised he would discharge all married women working for the state whose husbands f.Lso hold state jobs...
...Not only is it bad for his digestion, but he always contrives to make a speech which affects citizens of the state in parts other than the digestive tract...
...The county beard In Burnett county tried to bar married women and was rapped on the knuckles...
...knocked out...
...but he cannot b_-forgiven for having the type of philos-opy that would consider such an action acceptable...
...Although Heil might believe that a woman's place is in the home, he certainly should not attempt to legislate that belief...
...value, leads on to misfortune, for the maker of it...
...When Assemblyman Maurlc Pitasimons (Di, Fond du ljc...
...A Heiteg.'am...
...True, the governor can make their jobs irritating and their positions uncomfortable, but neither Heil nor his Floradore Sextet can discharge married women except for cause, such as negligence or unsatisfactory work...
...Suppose married women whose husbands work for the state are discharged...
...It was simply a Heilogram...
...Is there any guarantee that the husbands would have tenure so that at least there will be one breadwinner...
...Again, any law which provides that married women should be discharged from state service simply because of being married would be prima facie unconstitutional...
...poor chap, would have to give up reading the sport pages and go on a steady dirt of cook book...
...introduce* his anti-married woman's bill each (¦ession of the legislature, hundreds of persons became concerned FOLGHT SUCH LEGISLATION The League of Women Voters as well a» other organizations have always fought any such class, or if you wiil, sex legislation...
...Married life is enough of a handicap without adding other burdens...
...Nothing in the prepared speech mentioned married women...
...The only thing that would remain to be done in a case like this, is for the wife to cut her hair short and wear her husband's clothes...
...This problem has Its light side, however...
...h-.r-bands were also on the payroll, h? meant it...
...They have to face the constant shallow argument that it would provide work for the unemployed, that if a husband has a Job the wife should stay home and raise children . id bake cakes, and other fatuous arguments...
...but like other thing: he run said and meant, nothing will come of it...
...Women who work for the state at present, and whose husbands also work for the state, need have no worry about being fired...
...you muse know, is n statement made after a rich and satisfying meal, which, taken at its far...
Vol. 10 • March 1940 • No. 12
