The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 15, 1920, Page 10

Prize Letters Will - - Appear Next Week - Idaho Women’s Récord Rupert Club Put Farmer Paper on Its Feet; Managed Big League Meeting ] DITOR Nonpartisan Leader: I am so anxious to tell you some of the things our club is doing. We meet every Saturday afternoon and in spite of the busy season our attendance has never are enrolling at every meeting. About the time our club was organized a move- ment was started by some of the business men of Rupert to boycott our farmer-owned paper, the Rupert Pioneer-Record. - They withdrew their advertising and did everything they could to force our paper to suspend pub- lication. The editor laid the case before our club. We held a “council of war” and passed a resolution pledging our support to our paper and the business houses that had remained loyal. These people soon realized they had something to reckon with in this bunch of determined women. Giving them a dose of their own medicine soon had its effect. We have put our farmer paper on its feet. It has been ‘increased from four pages to twelve and advertising space is in great de- mand. 0 With Walter Thomas Mills as speaker, one of the most enthu- siastic meetings ever held in this part of the state was held at Paul, Idaho, under the aus- pices of our club. - One .of the Utah-Idaho sugar factories is located at Paul and we realized we were in enemy territory.” The big free speech tent of the League was on the ground, but rain had poured all the previous night and the sky was dark and the wind cold. Our county man- ager, thinking it too cold for a tent meeting, went out to Paul and tried to secure the school building. He was flatly refused the use -of the same. LEAGUERS MAKE NATIVES “SIT UP AND TAKE NOTICE” Well, the big tent was put up and stoves installed and that night our club members were there in a body with the Rupert band. Soon cars and vehicles began rolling in and when that bunch of Leaguers swooped down on ‘that burg it made the natives sit up and take notice. When the time came to call the meeting to order that old tent was full to ca- pacity and bulging at the sides. As Mr. Mills mounted the platform we all stood up and gave some of our famous campaign yells. Then that marvelous speaker bombarded that vast audience for more than two hours with a steady fire of facts and figures. - This is conceded to be the best meeting ever held in the county. We in reality had cold feet, but the fire of enthusiasm was burning too brightly to let that interfere. The next Saturday our regular club meeting was held ‘and all of our county candidates were present and made short talks. To say these men are pleased with _our club is only putting it mildly. g Ripert Club No. 1 is not loafing on the job. The bers. old. Kirkwell, Col. - decks are cleared for action. The pilot and lookout are at their posts and, as you know, ' Ships sail east and ships sail west, By the very same winds that blow, 'Mis the set of the sails and not the gales That determine which way we go. . So our sails are set and we are steaming ahead to the port called “Victory.” MRS. C. H. BURGHER, Secretary. Rupert, Idgho. : : 3 WHERE UNCLE SAM’S MONEY GOES- According to the United States bureau of stand- ards, 93 cents out of every dollar of Uncle Sam’s been less than 40 and new members THE FARM WOMAN'S PAGE money this year goes for war, past, present or to come., Only one cent out of every dollar goes for _education and the improvement of the public health, Copies of this remarkable analysis of our na- tional budget may- be secured on application to "Doctor E. B. Rosa, United States bureau of stand- Editor Nonpartisan Leader: These two little Leaguers are cousins. Their fathers are brothers, own adjoining farms and are both League mem- Lyle Croisant, on the left, is the son of W. G. Croisant. ‘on - the-right, is the son of J. T. Croisant. 'They are both two years- MRS. J. T. CROISANT. ~ was managed by Minneap- ‘before the meeting was ards, Washington, D. C. Subjects for Study Editor Nonpartisan Leader: In reply to the in- quiry of Mrs. A. K. of Lenville, Mont., for ques- tions of study for their club, I suggest they ac- quaint themselves with the fact that 93 per cent of l TWO YOUNG LEAGUERS I all national taxes are used for wats that have passed and those that are in the making, and study into the question of . how much of the remaining 7 per cent is used for construc- tive and educational work. It would seem that no other sub- ject would so effectively edu- and injustice of wars. To my mind one of the strongest arguments for or- ganization is the fact that the forces of evil are perfectly or- ganized and to combat them to that we may “overcome evil with good.” MRS. AURA C. PERRY. Glasgow, Mont.‘ % Mrs. Perry is chairman of the recently organized Valley county federation of Women’s Nonpartisan clubs. Valley county was the first county in Montana to perfect its count, organization. P Harold, = pROM A LITTLE GIRL Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I am only a little girl, but my papa is a loyal Leaguer. I - went with>them when my papa and mama both voted for the “right cause” this year. ~Last year I stayed home with my sisters. BERTHA JOHNEN. Alexander, N. D. ;i WANT CHILDREN LEGITIMATIZED °* The International Council of Women at Christi- ania, Norway, with representatives of 29 countries present, recommended that all countries legitima- tize illegitimate children by granting them the father’s name and compelling him. to contribute to their support. North Dakota already has a strin- gent law on this subject. IDAHO GIRL WINS CONTEST Katherine F. Butterfield, aged 16, of Weiser, Idaho, won the Harvey S. Firestone university scholarship- in the recent nation-wide essay contest on good roads and the ship-by-truck movement. 'RECORD- MEETING The biggest meeting in- the . Minnesota campaign olis women. The Ninth Ward Women Voters’ club invited all candidates for governor to speak in the Minneapolisauditori- um. The big building was filled more than an hour scheduled to start and10,- 000 people were turned away. Preus, Republican candidate for governor, failed to show up, but Shipstead, Nonpartisan, and Hodgson, Democrat, spoke, Shipstead getting by far the more applause. . Fairfield, Idaho. PAGE TEN ' Hors® cate women as to-the stupidity ~ any purpose it-is necessary to * A JUNIOR LEAGUER._ Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I'm sending ‘you a pigture of me and my four-horse team. My stepfather-is a Nonpartisan. As soen as I get old enough I’m going to join the League too. Do You Belong to . a Woman’s Club? . County Conventions Next Women’s Clubs Will Fornr Federations in Many States to Plan Future Work . . OUNTY éonventions of Women’s Non- partisan clubs will be held in League . states during November and Decem- ber, wherever a sufficient number of local clubs have been organized in a = county to justify a county federation. The rules of the clubs provide that wherever five or more clubs have been organized in a county a county federation may be organized. The county federations then can get together and organize a state federation. ~ Every one has been engaged so busily in organ- izing local clubs that only a few counties have or- ganized -federations so far. North Dakota, Minne- sota and Montana all have a number of counties with from five to 20 clubs which will be federated in the coming meetings. T : The county conventions will serve a double pur- pose, Miss Kate L. Gregg, national manager of Nonpartisan clubs, declares. “In the first place, they will give an opportunity for ‘taking stock.’ The club members can review in detail the work accomplished -in the last year. Member can learn from member, club can learn from club, the net result being a higher standard - for all clubs in the year ahead of us. work in the township and ward and plans by the county federation for the organization of the rest of the county. jR, ) “Women of .various clubs will come to know each other and find a home feeling in a larger group. To know the women of the township is good, to know the women leaders of the county is better, and to know women from other counties is better yet. At -the county conventions speakers from other places in the state will bring in their messages and extend the boundaries of the women’s world. From such conventions should come a breadth of vision that ,v;vill make us doubly strong in the year to come. i b, In North Da‘kota Reports from 899 women of Divide county, N. D.,_ show that they remodeled clothing under the direc- tion of the home demonstration agent, Miss Edith Hoffman, at a saving estimated by them at $1,426 during the past year. This saving in remodeled clothing alone is greater than the entire amount spent by the county during the past year for home demonstration work. Miss Hoffman’s principal work has been with school children, making physical ex- aminations and establishing hot school lunches. She held ‘nutrition classes in four communities, Alkabo, -~ Westby, Colgan and McCullough, for 71 under-, weight children and in four months’ time 21 of these children have been brought up to normal weight. S FACTS ABOUT FARM WOMEN “A recent government survey has §hown the fol- lowing facts in regard to farm women: The average workday is: 11.3 hours throughout the year and 13.1 hours in summer. All but 4 per”cent do their own washing and _ sewing. - o More than one-third (36 per cent) help -to milk cows. One-fourth work in the fields in addition to doing housework. g Farm women have a right to home pleasures and conveniences that practically all city women have. That is why they are organizing themselves into Women’s Nonpartisan ’ with League men to' fight for the rights of the farm RAY McGHEE. pqpulation.~ v “Following the taking of stock there ought to be _ organize the good of the world,” a development of plans for the year to come—plans for the afternoon study hour, plans for organization . clubs and are lining up -