The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 7, 1916, Page 14

= *_Dakota’is’ to-have. the right to 'vote, but: :h - put in against education. in the Nonp;rtlsan Leader. Is the Vote Enough" _ME EDITEDBYMRS M.M.HOLL]S En]oymg the Leader W Children of C. L. Knutson. Kathryn. N. D.. having a laugh over the cartoons A Letter from a North Dakota Farm Woman Editor Woman’s Page: After a long time I will try and write you a few lines. I know you have been waiting for them but primary election was at hand and garden and so many other things that I failed to find the time. I have been wishing also to hear from others and am not at all surpnsed at “the letters that are coming in to our page. B I believe that the ‘only way out of the difficulties: ahead of the women' of glorth. so many _of the womenh. have the same: idea' Mrs. Colby has that we should go, ahead ‘and’ vote, but“how can we yate' without ‘the right. and what gobd unldi‘ our yote do without ‘an orgamzahon to demand 'that ‘our votes be counted? It “would be like the farmers when they went to Bismarck—“Go home and mind the children,” and that is just what an organized body of women would mean, looking out for the future of thelr children. You asked me for some of the social evils. Granted that the home influence is what it should be there are a great many drawbacks to rural life. First, . there is the church, a very poor accom- modation in a great many rural com- munities; second the school, which is a difficult problem in mgapy places where the majority is against a better school or even trying to better the rural schools and here is where the women’s votes are The majority here are against education and if the women turn out to vote who are in favor they brmg those that are’in favor of less education out to vote against us. « Then we get the poorest teachers. Then the third is the press. I think there are a great many things in our papers that should be forbid for the . children’s sake—so many nude pictures and immoral stories.— And then the social side of rural life. There have been a great many kinds of amusements which are passed upon as immoral which have been barred from citjes’.and town communities; but noth- _ing has been ax; orthe- n;ra.l life. I h » "and,_time . again of pubhe partles icnics and dsnces being and" bdys ‘and’ water and ‘4. st,ate ‘attorne; is alt ngiit!_‘ S do? T have: mothing to. s 'has tied Wwomen hand and foot and way for them than ‘to” get' their rights, ‘—that is, .the right to "vote: and help to make the laws; TENE I hope these are made plam to: yot:n. ve- enjoyed the " farm woman’s page, eépecmlly a few of the pieces that explain so pla.mly the patriotism that women owe their country and- which they have -always‘helped to build up in the public sentxment for right and reforms. 1 hope I have not tired you wnth my long letter but I waited so long’ and there ".was so much to writé about. . GRACE J OHNSON -~ English Women and War HE English board of censors Te- cently passed a letter to an official . of the British government, now in the . United States, containing a word picture of Londen in - war . time which . vividly illustrates the wonderful way in- which ‘London _women are helpmg to.’ keep: things gomg‘wlnle their men* folka are at the front.’ Here are some. exce from the letter, <. t.he postman’s’ ‘morning " knock,” anil" be- hold, the lettérs are delivered, by a’post=" woman. The milk arrives; it is -handed in at ‘the door by la latiere up to date. The city man leaves® his home after breakfast, boards a motor bus and gives hls penny to a high-booted, slouch-hatted ‘woman conductor; at the tube station *he buys a paper of a book stall girl; pumhasea his ticket of a female" clerk" “descends to the train' by grace ‘of a lift - girl or is confronted at the barrier by an amazon who clips his ticket coolly and regards him merely as a bifurcated ‘mon-entity. At his destination the tick- . ‘et is collected by a uniformed sister, and on the way he has seen platoons of ‘por- ‘tresses with mops, buckets and brooms attending the rows of waiting trains. ‘“Hhekeepshseyesopeuheper— cieves that women are taking a, lively B :pgrgmtheworkofthewuxtsel"nq . “The househeldet in the suburbs hea.gg ; drive metor cars fer the ministry of munitions, for high staff officers of the war ofice itself; they have bécome en- gmeers, mach.\msts and mum:hon work- ers in ten thousands. | © “This zs by o have done much sphere of undlgmfied ‘manual labor. “fyen in the Bank Englamd women- ‘clerks are mowiin®tl .typist, the wondan 'opmentf ig* that’ there five -gxrl auditors in the city. - “This ‘new ‘condition of wonderful - demonstration of the adapt- ability of English womanhood’ to war conditions. The far sighted people are a little disturbed by the problem of what is to happen when the war is over. The English™ woman; espduifly the young English: woman; never again‘will be con- tent, save under exceptmnal circumstan- ces, to settle down without ‘an-active .partintheldedflandonandthemn- try itself. have put the suffrage movement to sleep. to have revitalized in an utoundmg all’ that has Happened durin twenty months.” _gs is a. “The war is popululy snpnosed to Tt has done nothing of the kind. When peace comes, themwemtwfllhefomfl way " CONCBRNING WOMEN _After being defeated for several years, the bill granting to women the right to practice law has now ‘passed both houses of the Georgia legislature, David Lloyd George, England’s secre- tary of state for war, describes_ his wife as a- true intellectual helpmeet, and says that all his speeches “may be re- garded as the joint efforts of the family partnership.” " A jury of six women tried a case in- volving a disturbance at a political meeting in Topeka. The jury original- ly comsisted of six men and six women, . but each side challenged three of the men on suspicion of political prejudice. Philadelphia newspapers -have discov- ered that a thriving traffic in rotten eggs. exists at the city dumping grounds. Condemned eggs are treated with de- oderants, smuggled into the city and re- s0ld to bakers. . The Woman’s' Journal sees in. this a powerful argument for giving the women the vote so that local ' politics and government can be clean- ed up and an efllclent mspectlon service maugurated \ ' The death of Mrs.-Alice Monahan on August 14 deprives New Orléans of its first and only policewoman. Mrs. Mona- han was appointed to the fpolice force in July 1915, and until a short time be- fore her death policed the so-called “cabaret” district in .an eft‘ort to pro- “teet young gxrls. “GOOD MORNING” Colts and puppy at the farm of John ] Hooge, Stirum, N. D, POTATO DUMPLINGS ' 3 cups cold grated potatoes 6 tablespoons flour | Ste 2 tablespoons butter 3 eggs beaten; oneatatune 5 Salt to taste - The potatees should be. boxled the pre- ;~ vious ‘day (left over potatoes can be used iz way). Mix the flour, butter and thoroughly, then the beaten eggs ,one at a time. Whenwell ‘mixed, make mbo balls the size of an "egg and "drop into boiling waber well salted; ‘and ‘boil about ten Hay L PAGE HINTS Instead of putting the pie crust to be - baked for a filled pie, in the. pie plate, try putting it on the bottom side of the pie plate. Pierce with a fork, and you will find it keeps a better ““shape. —J. W. S. It is 'also much easier to bake cookies on the back of dripping pans than in the pan, as they do not burn so easily and are handier to put on the pan ° and there is less danger of breaking thém when removmg them from the pan while hot. * MIGHT TRY THIS Manager Black ought to try the oxygen treatment on the Good Govern- ment league. 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