The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 19, 1920, Page 12

S Was Mrs. H A. P nghtp A Few More Answers From Women of the League States DITOR Nonpartisar ‘Leader: Leader of June 14.you ask woman . right?” Emphatxcally, no. ‘When did ‘Americans turn to the rich to select their statesmen? Was Wash- . ington the father of his country be- cause he owned a large estate? Was Lincoln elect~ ed to the president’s chair because he came from the wealthy class? - Were McKinley, Garfield, Grant or. Cleveland reared by parents who belonged to the leisure class? ~Germans have educated their ‘children to: become ; ralers of men, but true Americans never. = Art is the product of genius, not wealth. Out.of the pov- erty of the East Side of New York comes Jo David=~ sor and Jacob. Epstein, sculptors. And in painting there is Sterne and Haupert and Walkowitz and many others. East Side poverty is a social crime. yw+But a certain. phase of American wealth is also a social crime and a greater one. <Was Caruso am- -"bitious to be rich® and did that develop his vocal chords? I rather think not. He had a single con- suming ambition—to be one of Di Baris’ postilions and wear livery, but he was too fat and clumsy for that. so he sang when he groomed horses, and st1ll sings Surely the world of Mrs. H. A, P. and my world are far apart. Her husband is glad to give deserv- ing people work. My husband is glad to find men who will do the work and pay them $6 to $8.a day for'common }abor. I can not see the charity in giv-. ing people what belongs to them. - When the Bible " says “The poor ye have always with you” the refer- ence was that spiritual thlngs were above worldly ones, not that the rich were above the poor. I am not a mllllonalre, yet I am far from poverty-stricken and hope never to belong to the “too leisure class.” Idaho. : - MRS: G. E. R. MONTANA WOMAN BLAbIES “CLEVER” MEN FOR CONDITION Editor Nonpartlsan Leader: Mrs. H. A. P of Pennsylvania seems to think there must-be a leisure class, of which she is one, gained by being a wife " of a.clever business man. ' Now, I am just a farmer’s wife. not 'so clever as to have gained riches, as the harder we work and the more we raise Someone more “ elever than -ourselves gets the most of it and we =~ go- back and raise some more.. We must pay an . enormous price for seed, eatables and a little cloth- ing, then when we raise another crop maybe we can realize enough to pay for the seed and-interest; as many. of . the farmers who have been raising food for the nation have not-a dollar except what they - can borrow. As.to-educating our children they, as well ‘as ourselves, have to work for every day of schooling and many neyer go higher than the exghth i rgrade. But we should WOorry. Were not Washington, = Lincoln and many. others’ just common laborers?: Even Governor Frazier of ‘North Dakeota was a farmer and when he started in for.Jabor men he was = - called vicious, as this Iady puts it, and e may all have to appear vicious in just the same way, only it is not one bit vicious—just demandmg our rights, and give us the privilege of saying whether we keep : up a leisure class. If the farmers would just raise enough for themselves where woultl the rest be? Now, I am no crank and. if one works and saves for old age it is all right, but why hold the poor down? Sometlmes only poor in worldly goods but " 'yery rich in spirit: I.am very glad we women in Montana have the right to vote and hope we all. ' take the advantage -of it, as I am sure every. farmer’s wife - w111 vote for the workmgmans ‘in- terests. As to art and literature, the art of making $1'do the duty of $5 or. even $10, is an art we have fo And literature—say, we have the try, anyhow. Nonpartisan papers and a few cheap magazines and if one ean afford a dally at from $5 to $7 a year he isducky. - s e MRS. B. M, J. Custer County, Mont. G Editor Nonpartlsan Leader \.txon) Mrs.‘H A. P. S\Ietter in your 1ssue of June 14, e L5 .In the_‘ “Is this Maibe we-are 1 'head itk great interest (the word madequately descnbes my emo- ' The rephes to her letter should shed much illumina-’ tion on her, regarding the “other half” for which _she has such kindly (?) feelings. 1 hope you see she gets a chance to read all of them. 85 ‘What makes her think there must be a leisure. class. to educate our rulers and statesmen? Most ‘of ‘our educators do not consider themselves as be- i longing to that class, With her great “culture” did she never hear of that leader of men, the carpen- ter’s son, nor of Cincinnatus, who was called fron: " his plow to rule Rome, of Washington the farmer, or Lincoln the railsplitter? Why does she think we “envy” the rich? If she “demands back her purse, which has been stolen, does she “envy” the thief? No, Mrs. H, A: P., we do not think you “mean to seem . superior or harsh with the poor.” . Your re- marks first arouse bltbemess, contempt and all ‘through the list of human emotions till' we come at ““last to pity—pity that there are people so: unfor- ‘tunate as to actually believe the things you write. 'And with pity comes charity to say, “Father, for- give them for they know not what they do.” MRS GEORGE W. SIGLOH. Kenaston, N. D. 2 LEAGUE ,BOOSTER& ALL " ‘Mrs. Arthur Horan (above) is secretary and freas- ' urer of the Sebeka Women’s Nonpartxsan ‘club; and - Master Horan would like to join a Jumor Nonparti- san club.. Mrs. ‘Horan’s father and ‘mother = “ likewise are enthusiastic boosters for the League. Warmng to Llars anesota Woman Recalls Saymg of Chi- nese Philosopher - _DIT.OR Nonpartxsan»Leader: Here’s a dream of what may happen to some of the “plunderbund” outfit, as the - Hibbing Daily News likes to call them. “For want of ‘'a better name we may as well let it go at that. If it isn’t good enough to print give it to the devxl—the printer’s devil, of course. Walker, Minn. MRS. FRANK KESO W o e WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN 2 If sleepless liars were forced to take A dose of morphla, for “sweet sleep’s. sake B Such things as lars would never be = (A happy world, from lies set free). Or. if the liar would try, instead, == " “To picture himself among the dead AR, ‘And see himself by the judgment seat ‘And the solemn words his ears could greet - Of judgment upon his culprit soml— . 7 gamzed. - That hell at last was to be his goal— g . 'He'd tremble to his very shoes To know the devil would get his dues * * . He'd find the world, from his presence fteed In happiness, its only creed, ' Without a hint of wicked deed 5 Freed from murder, wars and greed o Lenvoi . - What is the moral of thlB screed ? - It’s not in the book of golde'n deeds i Bat if you really wish to heedrx- : It was a Chinese heathen’s creed: -/ “Do not do unto- others that which you would ¥ . not have done unto yon.”—CONEUCIUS\ PAGETWELVE e e "';‘, . ¥ '—m the Nonpartisan league. - - DORA E JOHNSON. o Y | The F arm. Woman s Home ,'What a Survey Shows About Condlhons on - the Average Farm HE waste of woman power is one of the greatest menaces to the rural life of _the nation; according fo Miss Florence E. Ward of the United States depart- ‘ment of agriculture, who has Just com- pleted a farm-home survey in 33 northern and westem states, covermg 10,015 farm homes. « : * The survey discloses 2 number of the Teasons - why ‘many women do not find farm life attractive, The working day of the average farm woman, - shown by the survey, is 11.3 hours, the year round.v ~In summer it is 13.12 hours. ' And 87 out of each 100 women have no regular yacation during ‘the year. On the average, the farm woman'can find ~only 1.6 ‘hours of leisure during the summer and - Jonly 2.4 hours in winter. Half of the farm women' - ‘areup and at work at 5 o’clock in the mormng : Forty: per cent have water in the lntchen, but'the other 60 per cent must go to the spring or the pump to bring the water for cooking breakfast, > Thirty- §iX per cent help with the milking. On the average, the farm woman has a seven-room house to keep-in order.. Seventy-nine per cent have kerosene lamps to trim and fill.' Ninety-six per cent do the fannly Awashing, about half of them having’ chines and the other half doing the work thh tub,~ washboard and: boilers. Only 26 per cent have gas or electric irons to make more comfortable the task ' _-of ironing. - Ninety-two per cent do some or all the family sewing. Garden work is done by 56 per cent, 94 per cent make all or part. of the family ‘bread and 60 per cent have churning to do. Eighty- Xy -“-one per cent of all: poultry flocks are cared for by . .women. _One-fourth of the farm women help to - feed and bed the livestock and 24 per cent of them spend over six weeks in the year. assmting with: some part of the field work. All of this is in addic tion to cookmg the family: meals and carmg for the ‘children. ' MODERN CONVENIENCES IN FARM HOMES NEEDED sts ‘Ward pomts out. that the farm woman’s i working hours might be shortened if the principles of moder business were applied to the farm home. Running water for the 60 per cent who now must “carry_water, and bathrooms for the 80 per cent ‘who now. have none would lighten the woman’s labor and add to her comfort and contentment;‘ “Labor ‘could ‘be lessened if the farmhouse were as well equipped as the ‘up-to-date barn, which the ' farmer looks upon as so much cutrency with which = to. buy efficiently. ' The installation of modern light- .- ing systems would release some of the time of the " -women in the 79 per cent of homes where kerosene - ‘lamps are used. The initial cost would be small : yvhen weighed against convenience and comfort. “As power on the farm is the greatest of time a.nd S : labor savers for the farmer,” Miss Ward’s report says, “so power in the home is the greatest hoon to the housewife.”. Forty-eight per cent of farms covered by the survey reported power for operat- . ing farm machinery; but only 22 per cent have this advantage for the home. -The washing machine is . anotherlabor saver. - Selling the cream to a cream- - ery.wherever possible instead: oi churning xt at, s ~ home is still another.- 5 ‘But neither Miss Ward nor the. department of. s . agriculture tells what is to be done if the farmer " 'does notmake sufficient ‘money to install ‘labor- ‘savmg machmery That is a task for the organized farmers- and: t’helr lees. who should also. be or- { FROM A FOUR’I'EEN-YEAR-OLD : Editor Nonpartisan Leader: ‘T am answering the | letter written by Miss Frieda- Gramm, and .what T . think of Mr, M. T. Bean.” I'm sorry to see that Mr. Bean wants to knock the Nonpartlsan league, be= i~ cause at the time he i is doing it he is knocking him=~ - self." But it might come a day that Mr. Bean will - open his: eyes and see the mxstake he has been mak- I as a girl of 14 ‘years, can see hght m the future j thtle Falls, an. -~