Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1929, Page 6

6 DAVIS PAYS HONOR | TOVORKGES W Introduces Her as World's Greatest Business Manager in Radio Address. 1 i | In a homely tribute to the home- | maker. the workingman's wife, Secre- | tary of Labor James J. Davis last night | introduced her as the “greatest business manager in the world.” sgeaking over a * Nation-wide radio network on the pro- gram of the National Radio Forum, ar- ranged by The Evening Star &ponsored by the Columbia Broadcast- ing System. In announcing the topic of his speech, and | i i the Labor Secrptary. withholding the | identity of the subject of his discussion, | had said that he proposed to surprise his audience by his designation, and in Isunching into the address he said | that he would wager that none had : guessed to whom he was about to refer. Describes “101” Daily Tasks. Helped to his present eminence, a eabinet officer under three Presidents of the United States. by the devotion of his wife, and the father of six children, Secretary Davis, who started work as a boy in a Welsh colliery, told of wash day, ironing day. mending day. marketing, cleaning and all of the hundred and one daily tasks of the housewife. He painted a word picture of her untiring devotion to her never-completed labors, saving and sparing of her few extra pennies to take care of the many emergencies that come up in a big family, but never grudging an ounce of her strength or energy. The Secretary of Labor urged the workingman to give thanks for the busi- ness manager of his home and not to take her for granted, but to try and help lighten her burden by carrying a fsw on his own broad shoulders. Urges Vacation for Executive. He suggested that the workingman try next Summer to give this busiest of executives a two-week vacation. The speech was broadcast from sta- tlon WMAL, beginning at 10:30 o'clock last night. It was the second appear- ance of the Secretary of Labor on a radio forum program. Secretary Davis &poke the first time in a Labor day program. His speech follows: This is Thanksgiving day and I feel 4t is good to give thanks for the bless- Ings we.have received during the year 4pd I feel sure you will agree with me that it is also a good day to give thanks to the -greatest, buslest business ex- ecutive in the world. Who is the greatest, buslest busi- ness executive in the world? If I.could collect all the clever and well-thought- Qut answers which you are ready to | furnish, I would probably find in the Hst the name of every great American business magnate and many foreign ones, bat I am willing to wager that none of you has put the saddle on the right horse. Because I'm going to sur- grise you by producing a “dark horse” carry off the blue ribbon. In seeking to solve th= problem of who is the busiest business executive 4n the world you have doubtless looked 10 the seais of the mighty, to those in the limelight of publicity and the glow of prosperity, whereas my answer ex- alts those of low degree, those who are behind the scenes, who are too busy and to humble to seek the spotlight, and who are therefore overlooked in this great modern bustling world. “Who 1s this great business executive?” Here {8 the answer—the greatest, buslest siness executive in the world is the wife of the working man. Backbone of Civilization. - There are thousands and thousands of this type of business manager in this great country, and they are truly the backbone of our civilization. They are the producers and ryers of future citizens; they are® the - producers ‘and conservers of economic goods, carrying on their labors not in the factories and. workshops. but in the hémes. They: build patiently, unceasingly for the present and future. They hold the home and family together with the mortar of love and devotion. They keep the home fires burning. the wheels of family life turning. They play an im- | portant behind-the-scene role in the whole industrial life of the Nation. Let us take a careful look at this wonderful executive as she goes about her humble, tasks in the home. She is just an everyday human being. She may be evervday, just as is the ‘sun- shine, but she is not ordinary. On the contrary she is extraordinary. Therc i8 no more wonderful person in the world, I maintain, than this same wife of the working man, who willingly sac- rifices her youth and personality for the work of her life—the bringing up of her family in co-operation with her breadwinning husband. You have only to look at her healthy family of boys and girls to grant that they are worth any sacrifice—f{rom 14- year-old Thomas, jr., just beginning to show promises of a fine type of man- hood. to Nellie. a winsome little tot of three Summers. As you look at these human stair steps—each so interested and so eager. each representing a set of problems in the individual's unfold- ing and development in life. To see her bustling about, managing all the family affairs—the home, the focd. the clothes, the finances, manners, morals, health, religion. edu- cation, and happiness of her family, you would think that she must be a machine to attend to it all satisfactori- ly. She works with mechanical efficien- cy when tasks demand it, but she is never too busy or preoccupied for a jest or a word of sympathy. She is al- ways ready to laugh over all the funny CMttle things of life, to exchange a bit of gossip with her next-door neighbor. -8he never fails to turn a_ sympath-tic | ear to her husband's tales of shop _troubles Attends Varied Duties. She is Johnny-on-the spot when it is | necessary for some one to help her boy | . out of a scrape with the corner police- | man for smashing the grocer’s window <with his base ball. She can always snatch a few mom-nts from hey routine | of chores to inspect Tom Junior's new seroplane model; or to plan a birthday | “ party for Elizabeth with Wm(e-{msledl cake, candles and everything, or lol administer to George’s kn-es after his +fall on his roller skates: or to answer Jimmy’s searching question as to wheth- et God will mind if he changes his rayer for a billy goat into a petition '.For twins like the new babis of his buddy’s mother. Of course, there's real rock-ribbed, ¢ hide-bound working schedule undeg. the Zsurface of the we Sities. Each day has its own special ks, which must be performed with | Rain or shine, | “elock-like regularity. Monday is washday, and it's some job to get all the soiled clothes of this family, sheets and tablecloths, bed, boiled, blued, starched.,and hung on the line before the children come trooping from school and clmoring for bread and jelly to fill their aching Voids until suppertime. Tuesday is ironing day. does go more swiftly now with her new electric fron than it used to with the old flat irons, but she has more of it to do. Almost every weck there are ex- tras, because Nellle has mgde an un- usually big supply of mud pies, or Eliza- +beth has been allowed to wear a clean dress to school every day. Mending and sewing on Wednesday Xkeeps our busy executive glued to the old army chair by the window with her work basket at her fect, or cutting out _garments, or stitching at. the sewing {imachine. She is t an_ordinary might call “weary” when she SECRETARY OF THE EVENING LABOR DAVIS. buttonholes to be repaired and the in- numerable buttons to be sewed on. This | price of a movie or a base ball game oc- | casionally for the children. | "So the biggest, buslest, business STAR. WASHING'TON, D. C., FRIDAY, NON EMWHER /29, 192y, T executive. Her husband knows what it | is to have an .eight-hour day, but his | wife puts in a day twice as long, and | sometimes more. She often puts in a night of it too, if one of the children | happens to be sick. It seems to me that her husband might see to it that redu tion of working hours begins at ‘hg | so that his helpmate could have her | workday cut down to the eight-hour | standard and be sure of at least one day | of rest in seven. Breadwinner's Job Hard. We don't want to be too critical of | the breadwinner, for his job is & hard | one. We just want to chide him if he | takes his wife too much for granted | and forgets that sh> nceds to have her luboes lightened. He knows that a ma- chine that runs all'the time will wear | | out, and he fals ‘sometimes to apply | the same prmciple to the wife who| stands shouldcr to shoulder with him | in his home. ou get this well meaning, hard- | | working husband in a corner, he will| probably contcss that perhaps he does | take his wife too much for granted.| Also the children take her too much | for granted! To be éure, it is the cus- | | tom now for us to set apart one day | {in the year as Mother's day to honor | these women who are the human dy-| namos in our home and family life, and on this day we wear a carnation in our| buttonhole and send mother some flow- | [ers or a box of candy. It is a pretty sentiment, and we do niot want to abol- | thousands of women in the homes of ish this custom. Instead we want to enlarge upon it and make every day a| Mother's day and see to it that the cife of the working man, the mother | of future citizens, gets a fairer deal in | | dess. Sometimes she gofs tired and cross and occasionally bossy. Why not, considering the load cn her shoulders! As we add up her list of occupations— wife, ‘mother, nurse, housekeeper, cook, laundress, seamstress, shopper, financier, master of every trade—we gaze at her An.wonder and admirafion.’ If we were to take the patience of Job. thé Wisdom ot-Solomon, the LOMMOR. Fense of Abraham Lincoln and roll $hese qualities together with many fine fraits of true womanhood, we would come close to the wonderful combination we find in this busiest of all executives, This is far from the whole story, too. It tells only what this mother -does in | a practical way. But when all the rest | f the family are cross or blue, she 1s | the one who keeps their spirits up. | How often she fills the house with her | ng while she works, no matter how | tired she is. When the head of the house comes home exhausted and dis- | couraged, she is the one who braces him up. In every way she is the main- | spring_of ‘the whole’ family. ~And let | me tell you something about_this busy | executive.that I learned from my own | working mother. It is easy to see what this busy wifc and mother does for the rest of the | family. It is not so easy to see what | goes on in her own soul. But I can teil | you that the wife of the working man | is a praying woman, who keeps her | family reminded of the Power aboic| that Tules us all. These hundreds of our workers are one of the greatest forces in keeping this country reallv sound at heart, really believing what 4 y “In God We How about giving our busy executive a two-week vacation next little woman, the American work'ng | wife, 1s too busy planning or making | executive in the world keeps a stronz the Winter wardrobes of the whole fam- | grip on the present, but a vigilant eye ily to permit complaining thoughts Lo | on the future. and so insists upon keep- register in her active brain, ing out a little each week for the saving account. Busy Thursday. | pared - for —doctors, dentists’ ~ bills, Coming back to the weekly schedule. | school needs, or the proverbial rainy Thursday s our busy executive's day | day, when sickness or slack work may for such odd jobs as making jelly and l('ut down her byshand’'s earnings.,K Of apple butter, or giving a fresh coat of | course, if she can ever save. enough ‘she { paint to the hall and stairs, or varnish- | is going to buy a vacuum cleaner, an { ing the furniture in the boys' room to | electric washer and a real good radio. | cover up many hard knocks, or golng | Another item which she has to downtown on shopping expeditions. | squeeze with difficulty out of the family | Friday is cleaning day, when the|fund is the price of a few gallons o whole house must be swept and dusted, | gasoline for the flivver which her hu and the bathroom, kitchen and porch ' band uses to go to work in every day floors scrubbed, the front and back and to take the family for an occasional Emergencies have to be pre- | the | ly household activ- | Tub- | The work | yards “picked up,” and the g cooking utensils 'and silver polished Our busy executive goes through this humdrum program every week withont complaint, but with the wish that she might have a few accessories like a | vacuum cleaner, an electric refrigerator or a maid of all work, when she is feei- ing tired out. % And what a day is Saturday! . The older children are home from school to help with the chores and to mind Nellie 1 and Jimmy and keep them out of mi: haps. But there is a lot of extra bak- ing and marketing to.be done. I failed to mention the provision of food. the cooking of .three meals a day. always a big part of every day’s schedule in Jook- ing after a family. Then there is the Saturday catering and cooking. It is something of a job to buy enough food along all lines to | last until Monday and enough dry gro- ce-ies to supply the whole week. Mother goss to the store, but on this day not alone, because she couldn’t manage to | b-ing everything home without the help of her right-hand man, her son John, anc his express wagon. Saturday after- noon, when her husband is at home, his wife and oldest boy help him weed | the onion bed, prune the raose bushes and plant a few flower seeds. Not a D~y of Rest. ‘Then comes Sunday, the day of rest, tive of ours. She is up bright and early to'cook the breakfast and get the chil- dren ready for Sunday school and church, to sew up a sudden run in a | stocking, o brush off this one's coat. | and comb that one's hair, to find somebody’s hat and somebody else's | Sunday school lesson book, and to get the whole' crowd in order and off. There isn’t even time to draw a breath then, for she must clean up from breakfast, make the beds, straighten the house, dress herself for church, and g0 and collect and coax the whole tribe | untfl she gets them all, safely landed {4n. the pew in her place of worship. ° 1i_ After church she has to hustle home | to ©ook dinner, and which mustn't. | be late. And so the davs of the week pass, cach full and overflowing with activities. ut her evenings, surely she has some. time to rest then,” you say. But peep | into her little home after supper and | you see her washing the dishes, straightening the kitchen and three nights a week making bread and set- | ting it to rise. Then there are the | children’s lessons to be heard almost | every night, for mother is quick about { Agures from handling her own accounts, | and knows how to drill her young ones in this spot. % | "By the time she has undressed:the | younger children, heard their prayers, | tucked them in bed, and made her plans for the morrow, it is after 10 o'clock, and she is too tired and sleepy to do anything else but put out the milk bottles, lock all the doors and windows, turn out the lights and tumble -into | bed with the thought of being ready | to get up early the next morning. Needs Expand Yearly. ‘This keeoing of accounts is no small matter with our big business maneger, but a task that require¢ good judgment and pianning. Although her husband's | earnings from year to year increase (only at a snail's pace, the needs and | wants of the family seem to advance | each year with a giant stride. The older children get, the longer grows the list of essentials for their develop- ment. To be sure, her husband turns | over to her his pay envelope each week. Experience has proved that she is a better financier than he. In fact, her skill in getting the necessities for the family out of that pay envelope is equal to a magician’s. The problem of feeding a family of | eight, including several growing boys and a husy man in this present age, is almost emough to dishearten any ohe. But the working wife tackles the situ- atfon like a foot ball hero. And she gets there every time! She watches ths | papers and advertisements for sales and knows when and where to buy the bulk and how by saving a few pennies here, there, and all along the line, to get the most for her money. Buying 8-cent soap for 6!, cents, 15-cent canned goods for 121, cents, and sugar, flour, meal and coffee each for a couple of pennies a pound less, in the long run makes possible the purchase of quite a bit more. She knows where to buy the cheaper cuts of meat and how to con- vert them into appetizing dishes. She knows the fine art of furnishing plenty of nourishment for her family out of the less expensive vegetables, cereals and fruits. She keeps her youngsters well fed, happy and healthy because she is a good and economical purveyor, buyer and cook and one who knows how to save her husband’s money but who is layish in the amount of her own thought and energy. In buying clothes she is just as*wisé and just as skillful as she is with food. She has a real nose for bargains. Belng a normal woman she loves a bargain for its own sake, but she loves bargains more for what they mean. Without bar- gains and specfal sales she could never keep her family decently and properly clothed. She always knows when and where there is to be a remarkable re- duction in the price of men’s shirts or children’s shoes, Mother Meets Bills. It is the mother who also parcels out & portion of the limited income for the regular payments on the little five-room house which she and her husband hope. to own some day. She must pay with- out fail the gas and electric bills once a month, and the coal and wood bills. Out of her roll of bills—none too fat—which the one and only real breadwinner in the family brings home to his wife every Saturday, she needs to set aside’ the sums necessary for his’insurance, lodges, unien- dues, newspapers and “merson Ty at last sils down before the pile of wesk's m°nding. . An ordinary woman would rebel a 2 ‘number of stockings o be darned, * Bt thtere are the’shirts to ‘e patehed; * magazines, and ‘the church and Sunday scheol comtributions of the various members of{she family—small amounts, but just as regular as Sunday itself. She ean -nranage, 100, to' squeere ‘outithe as stove, | but it is no day of rest for this execu,.|. ride on a Sunday afternoon or holiday. All in all.’our busiest executive tries to save and spare everything but her own energy. Man's work is from sun to sun, but woman's work is.never done, | from Sunday morning until Saturdav this_big, hustling Nation, which, with- | | Summer—try it! our, her support, influence, guidance and FpTEl ) E SUDI is great country of ours may well | actlvities, would g0 to pieces. g s 3 ol P | be thankful that. it has to its everlasting | 1If her husband's earnings were higher, | glory this wonderful element among she would get assistance at her task|ys, “the reverent, faithful, devoted, | and do away with the necessity of being | patient, hard-working, ennobling wife of | the one and only pack horse for the our American working man. It is oniy family household burdens. If the cost| too true to call such a woman the great- | of commodities were lowered, her prob- | est. busiest, business executive in ths | lems would be lessened and her situa-| world and she is more even than that. | tion would be brightened She could | own more of the labor-saving devices ' that lessen ‘the drudgery of household| Confessed Embezzler Jailed. activities. The wife of the workingk < man is not looking for nor expecting | HASTINGS, Nebr., November 29 (#)— rewards for her faithful labors; but if | George A. Carter. former treasurer of | :\h' could “lal";nz !m? lwrmlife DT“;‘!“‘“‘F‘rlnklln County. who pleaded guilty e so-called uxuries with which the| .. Al world abounds today and which are the | YeSterday to the embezzlement of $32,.- | right of every toiler who helps to make | 386 in county funds, has been sen- them possible, this wife, mother and|tenced by District Judge J. W. James | busincss manager would be getting only | to serve from 2 to 18 years in prison her just desserts. and was fined double that amount em- So, as we look closely at this wife of | bezzled, or $64.772. This is believed to | night. That’s the situation in a nut- shell for our biggest, busiest business ! | the working man, we realize that she | be the heaviest fine ever imposed in | may not be a saint, a queen nor a god- ' the State of Nebraska. 111 1 | \? i i | I LI ! il [ GRADUATE OF CORNEL SPEAKS FOR ARABS Families Declared Dispossessed of Their Farm- - By the Associated Press JERUSALEM, November 20—Selim Farah, a graduate of the Agricultural | Schools of the University of Illinois and Cornell University, testified on behaif of the Arabs yesgerday before the Brit- ish Parliamentaty Commission of in- quiry. 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