The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 11, 1918, Page 10

2 W N.D. Wo’mn Says Women Are Pedple Mrs. Sam Dean of Hurdsfield Wants Women to Vote, Make Time to Read and Do Sundry, Other Things RIGHTS OF WOMEN (Written by Robert Burns in the year 1792.) 3 While Europe’s eye is fixed on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; ‘While quacks of state must each it is governed.” Why on earth shouldn’t women be interested in the laws of our land? We must obey them. Our children are governed by them. They affect our lives in every way directly and indirectly. Perhaps the majority of women do not know as much about politics or civics as the majority of men, .but try? Well, I guess so, even to what . we eat just now, and say, wouldn’t you like to have some voice in your laws when you see your husband work- ing so hard to make a living and every year it gets harder and harder to meet expenses? Do you like to see him selling barley so cheap—around 70 cents a bushel—while you must -~ do on a farm—I have as little to do with as any one I know and as much ~to do. Six children make considerable . work for any woman. That’s the size of my bunch, but I've always found some time to read and I still clean my teeth and brush my hair just as I did before I had any children. There are a few things, evén mother should have ! listen, the majority of our high school Pay 10 cents a pound for it when you time for, to do for herself. There will produce his plan, grad\;ate: areJ gifl:sr and to al% appear- buy it back in flour? Don’t you think = be work lofig after you are dead and And even children lisp the ances it looks as though women were it’s time we farm women woke up and gone. “Rights of Man.” Amid this mighty fuss, just let me mention, > The “Rights of Women” merit some attention. BY MRS. SAM DEAN WAS sorry to note what a small pro- portion of farm women voted—still if the men had as few officers to vote for as we do I wonder if they would make the effort to get out either? Surely the time is coming soon when universal suffrage will be the law of our land and it behooves every one of us to pre- pare ourselves for it. Some women say to me, “How can you be so-in- terested in politics, I don’t care to vote?” " As well say, “I am not in- terested in the land I live in, nor how getting better education, of late years, than men. Is there any reason why you shouldn’t know as much about politics as men if you care to know? A minister once told me that he did not care to mix in politics, as they were too rotten. He did not take the trouble to vote, he said, for the whole mess was too rotten for him. He might be contaminated by it! A minister of. the gospel, forsooth, and willing to turn his country over to the rotten element and let them rule for fear he would soil his hands if he tried to better conditions. Perhaps that is the way some of you women who do not vote, feel about it. Would you be willing to turn your home over.to a servant who was in- competent and let her do just as she pleased with it? The majority of women are too much interested in ° their homes to do anything so foolish, but isn’t the state your home too? Does your responsibility end with your own four walls? Isn’t your home life affected by the laws of your coun- The Leader is delighted to present to its readers these two promising new citi- tried to help our men? NEW KIND OF HELP FOR HUSBANDS No; I don’t mean help as many of you have been helping—milking cows, or feeding calves, or doing any thing so foolish—I’'ve seen too many women break down under such work and the money that went to pay the “doctor would have paid for several hired men. Every man, woman and child in these United States is entitled to a decent living if he is willing to work, sanely, to earn it.. The man who works the hardest and holds his nose right down to the.grindstone, by the very nature of things can’t possibly see very far so . he usually gets paid the poorest. Now the League is waking up the farmers all over the land and let us hope the farmers’ wives are waking up too. . Is there any reason on earth why we farm women shouldn’t be just as well educated and up-to-date as the.’ city women? The only reason we don’t have more clubs, societies, etc., is that it is harder for us to get to- gether than the women in town, but whether we get together and discuss these things or not, we can at least read and study them at home. And if we hope to put through the entire League program, if we hope to see our country governed as it should be, if we hope to enjoy the full fruits of our labor, we must each and every one of us do his part. "Then, I say to you, take time. It is your right, your own individual right “to know what is going on in this world just as it is your right to take enough time each day to care for your own person. I know there is lots to System is a great big help, I've found, and another is to do the essen- tial things and simply leave out those which are not. If you really want to take your place in this world as a citi- zen, you should know what’s going on. I consider it more important to read. than to iron sheets, pillow cases, etc. Some women do not—they would iron ° the last washcloth and boast that they couldn’t find time to even read the dailies. - g : In view of the work women are do- - ing to win the war, in recognition. of their services,. I think-they will soon be given universal suffrage. And it -is up to us to get ready for this new privilege. It is quite true that many 2 man votes who doesn’t know what he is doing it for—some of them can’t write their names, but there will be women like that too. We don’t want to belong in that class. Read those new books your husband got at the Mills meeting.. Isn’t “The New Free- dom” just splendid? Winter will soon " be-here again and with it come the - long evenings when we should all find time to read and study. It's a fine time to go over the history of our country—you know it does say this was to be a government of the people, by the people and for the people. Say, ladies, we are the people too! It . doesn’t say “of the- men folks,” nor “by” nor “for the mén folks,” but it says “people.” Let’s keep right.on asking for our right to vote until we get it and in the meantime, let’s not forget to go and vote for what few of- ficers ‘we can and let us study these political affairs and get ready for the day when we will be classed as real “people” and not catalogued with “idiots, insane and criminals.” Shall We Eat Whole-Wheat Bread? (North Dakota Agricultural Experi- ment Station.) After a somewhat detailed consider- ation of the opinions of 45 nutrition experts of the United States on the nutritive value of graham or whole- wheat breads, the case in favor. of the higher extraction flours is summed up as follows: “When the layman is de- bating as to the best: policy to formu-- late in stocking the family larder, he should keep in mind that the higher extraction flours are (1) not normally harmful, (2) are digested almost as completely as the lower extraction flours, (3) contain more valuable nu- trients in the form of ‘vitamines’ or that these conclusions are supported by the majority of nutrition autheri- . ties.”: It ‘has been said that the higher ex-. traction flours cause digestive trou- bles, but the author cites good an- thority. indicating that where digestive disturbances have been observed they have resulted from a one-sided or:un-' balanced diet, consisting largely of bread, rather than from the kind of flour employed. He meets the millers on their own ground, pointing: to the peculiar position they have assumed in the face of their own familiar adver- tisements ' in' the papers and-maga- 4 zens of North Dakota. The youngster on the left is Lynn J. Chandler, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Chandler of Livona, N. D. Heis 12 months old. The fine boy on the right is Lynn J. Gillman, and he is one and one-half years old, Need- less to say the parents of both of these children are real Nonpartisans who, Mrs. Chandler writes us, believe Governor Frazier and his administration in . North Dakota “is the best the state ever had.” - Alse, needless to say, these two boys are named after Lynn J. Frazier, the farmers” governor. Mrs. Chandler. < says she hopes that these boys will uphold the principles-of their great namesake, The Leader knows that they will, .= zines, in. which they laud the virtues of wheat bran.as a cure for constipa- tion ‘and a restorer of health and vigor. Continuing he asks this perti- - nent question, “If we can eat wheatin. = the form of bran muffins and white ‘bread, why not eat whole-wheat breads’ occasionally and save the miller the trouble of separating them for us? growth-promoting = substances ‘and mineral salts, (4) can be manufactur- ed more cheaply when the public de- mands more of the whole-wheat flour, - '(5) that the laxative action is bene- ficial, (6) and what is more important - at the present time, more grain will be . released for the allied armies, and (7) - CPAGRETRNGG e L e s