Letters, Aug. 12, 1957

Moonlight & Wages

Sir:

Re your July 22 article on "Moonlighting," (holding two jobs at once]: instead of doubling husbands' wages, fire all working wives. Result: happier husbands, wives and homes. Lower divorce rate.

JOHN BRADY

Detroit

Sir:

As a "moonlighter," I am "morally wrong," but I am willing to get back on the straight and narrow-minded just as soon as the Government organizes a "job bank" akin to its soil bank, and pays me for quitting my second job.

BEVERLY PLEMMONS

San Jose, Calif.

Sir:

A recent survey by this organization shows more than 50% of...

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