The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 7, 1920, Page 8

o - ‘effort in the interest of all workers is ' gend her full name and address to the ‘cost just so much human energy and -home their -rightful opportunity. And Fal m Woman Ahead Her Hardships Have Brought Her Knowl-. edge, Says Indiana Farmer’s Wife DITOR 'Nonpartisan Leader: many others I ‘feel impelled to ex- press my- interest in the Woman’s page and in the entire contents of the Leader. < We have all much to learn about our political situation—even the. seasoned men voters admit many perplexities. Buf the Nonpartisan Leader is awakening us: to think about many things that we hardly knew the exist- ence of in times past. Gradually the light is pen- etrating easterly ‘and here and there in Indiana are people interested in the League or feeling the need of it, thongh we have not yet learned much about it. The spirit of the League lmpresses us, my hus- band and myself as enthusiastic, fearless and un- compromxsmg, and as the nearest approach to lov- " ing aur neighbor as ourselves of anythmg we know - of. The comment of ‘the city women regardmg' farm-~ ers’ wives is a rather common experience and never fails to ruffle our patience to some extent. No one. enjoys being judged.by unfavorable envxronment ¢ or’ appearance and the life of. the average farm woman has not offered much to offset that unfavor- ableness. cupled mostly with cooking, patching, scrubbmg,‘ raising chickens and gardening. But though we may show the effects of such close application to toil ‘our time and occupation has not been all loss,, by any means. CO-OPERATIVE EFFOR’I‘ IS HOPE OF ALL TOILERS We have learned thereby what~ the essentlals: of -decent living are and we also know something : about the cost of Kkeeping a home and fam- ily. -Not the cost in coin paid to someone else to do our work, nor the price of ready prepared ar- txcles, nor the number of roller skates, velocipedes: and ice cream cones. needed to keep the children: from quarreling—we may know: something ‘about these things and noné of them are to be despised. But the important thmg ig ~that ‘we know ~the . cost of respectable living in terms: of thought, effort, time, needed material and interest. ~'We know .that orderly houses, clean ;,clothing, good food ‘and. opportunity for. growing children’ do raw material. And‘we have struggled, gone without and ‘overtaxed. ourselves sufficiently that we would be easily con- vinced ‘that some sort of co—operatlve i our hope. : ‘We have one more compensatlon Our work does permit us o think, whieh is more than can be said’ of 'following styles and developing complexions: We will need to do a great deal of thinking in order to give every person and every. . - - there are some things we ‘can learn .- from our city sisters while we are about = it. With open minds and the habits'of @ = mdustry which our past life has given us we ought to be able to make consid- erable progress toward human better- ment: : UTI-I H, ASHLEY ~Wabash, Ind R. 1. : ATTENTION “MRS, M..E. R.” Will “Mrs, M, E; R who wrote: the - contrlbutlon, “Cruelty to Horses,” in the April 26 Farm Woman’s paze, please Nonpartisan Leader as her ongmal let- o 3 ter has been lost: Sl SPREADDIG THE FACTS Entive Editor Nonpartisan Leader: T have distributed dozens of copies of the'Non- patrisan Leader to our farmer friends or members of our little district. organ-' e ization, hopmg by g0 doing I can inter- est them in the: Nonpartlsan movement. i have sent marked coples of the March- . Like: - It is quite true that we have been oc- - stricken. farmers, askmg them' to wnte personal letters to our representatives and senators. ‘I also gent. marked copies of the Leader to these men, asking them to do all they can' to secure federal aid for these people, that we farmers felt these ’people Wereb just- as’ deserying of help as the Ar- menians. MRS.'ERVIN B. GRUBB, Lrberty, Ill ' Wornen Are Wlde-Awake detor Nonpartisan Leader: The letters from women prove that they are just as wide-awake and - well-informed astheir brothers and when given a - chance are ready to fall in line with them and make fheir influence :felt in pohtxes as well as in- - the ‘home. ' When we stop. to conslder the 1men who have been put in power in the state and in the nation as well " we can’t help feeling that even if we hayen’t enough brains to vote as Wwisely as the men; we can’t do much worse. So. .why not give us a trial? If'women have the vote this fall ‘many men of -'the type of our present politicians will be given'a chance to “lame duck” it home, where they can sit _-and dream to their heart’s content. We are not par- ticularly interested in how the “imposing: dome of the capitol emerges' from the humid gloom?”. but we are very much interested in electing ‘men who ~will take their feet down off. their office desks and help us.solve the problem of how we are going to get.a few of the benefits to whxch our never-endmg o 'toll entitles us. If 'you care to publxsh thls, please Just sign me as, Wyhe, an i "MRS; IMA HAYSEED. _ WANTS A BIGGER PAGE ~ ~ ]:.dltor Nonpartisan Leader: JTam a daughter of'a’ Nonpartisan league member, luck to. the Nonpartlsan league.’ . MRS. FRANCES DE MOSS Glover, N. D. s _ : “FIRST LADIES” OF TW 0 STATES ; Both ‘Mrs. Frazier and are able helpmateg of th: were born and: arming dxstnets. : Aal _members of the - Secretary Farmers’ Improvement League ) T enJoy the' Leader : very much, I read every word of the Farm Wom-" an’s page and think it is 'great. - There’s just one fault ‘with the Farm Woman’s page—it dsn't half | big ‘enough. ' Here’s ‘hoping it will grow.- Good We’ll stick; we'll . f Governor N hy They Are Stlcklng Beach (N D.) Woman Cites Benefit Under : Hall Insurance ‘ber of the Women’s Nonpartisan club in President: A. C. Townley’s old home, Beach, N.'D., shows how: the North Dakotans who have experienced the benefits of the Nonpartman league ! laws feel about them: Mr. A. C. Townley: I amlwrltmg you a few hnes t0 inform you that we want you in our community - to speak some time in June at our club, No. 69. I am to entertain the'club in our grove: of trees and you are needed. 'Your presence has a great bear- ing on the people.” Our ‘club now has 25 members, thh good prospects of more. You can make more « in one hour than our club can in weeks. = = Thanks "to the League laws we' got. $2 100 hail " insyrance on last year’s crop. Iam wxllmg to work for a party like that., .+ Wishing you strength and health to fight ‘the cutthroats, MRS. SAM D. WHITMER Beach,N. D, Party Versus Prmclple‘r - Editor Nonparhsan Leader: I am an enthusi-’ astic'believer in the doctrines published in the L.ead-- €T, I only wish I could impress on every. labor- ing man and woman the necessity of mforxmng “themselves ‘on the topics that go to help: themin the battles against the oppressors of the laboring class.. But you can scarcely realize the number of . people who seemingly take no interest outside of thinking " their party. will do something that will settle the question, when, as 'a matter of fact, they are both the tools of the aristocratic class. \' s T only wish I could see Capper and Frazier in - the White House the next four years. I only hope ‘the people may get their eyes off party and turn “their minds to principle. : ' “Will you please publish the ‘amount of flour that i the different: grades. of wheat make to the bushel"d IVRS W. A STRAIN Doctor E F. Ladd’s tests show that 100 pounds of wheat’ wxll*produce ‘the, _following amounts of fiour,: dependmg upon the grade of the"wheat: No. 1, 70,12 pounds; No. 2, 69.21 pounds° No.- 3, 69.41 pounds; No. 4, 67.33 pounds. , The lower-grade wheats produce. less flour' but more bran and shorts than the No. 1 wheat. According to Doctor Ladd, -at present prices the difference in- val- o ue: between the total products of No. Rocky Ford Col = ranges from 8 to 11 cents per ousheh : _Aceordmg to the Minnesota grain in- " ‘spection department, the! différence. in value between the products of No. 1’ ~'wheat and No. 4 wheat is 12 cents per bushel -—-THE EDI’I‘OR WOMEN’S CLUBS GROWING North Dakota ‘now has 79 Women's Npnpartisan elubs, all reporting to state - headquarters -at ‘Fargo. ' Donnybrook has the: largest club; with 150 members. - The club is 50 large that for convenience ‘in' holding meetings it is divided into five branches, each with a leader to ar- . range-meetings, programs, etc. A num- “ber of counties have five or more clubs ill be ‘as f=WOMEN IN LEAGUE CONVENTION For the.first time in the: hlstory ) ~North Dakota politics ' women partici pated in a state political gathering at “the League convention:at Fargo ‘Ma: 14. " Delegates representing the Wom: _en’s’ Nonpartisan' clubs included Mrs . Howard R. Wood of Deering, Miss “dyth Ward of Bismarck and Mrs, ;ijg and Mrs E P. Warnerro M 7 HE: followmg letter, wntten by a mem-{ » ‘1 wheat (flour, braxi and 'shorts) and “the total products of No. 4 -wheat, :* .each ‘and’ these countles may organize —'county federatmns m the near future b esota, or. rather one . 5 el el