The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-05-21
WOMEN WILL HOLD
A LAND CONGRESS
Event Is Next Week and Is Be-
ing Promoted by Missouri
Enthusiasts.
SETTLERS BADLY WANTED
IN me .sHoW Me" STATE AND
THE WOMEN ARE EXPLOITING
THE UNoccuPiED LAND-TENTs
FoR DELEGATES.
american News Service,

(American News scrvice)
st. Louis, Mo-. May 21.-On May "a
ard Is the first Women's Land Con-
gress ever held In America will meet
In Arcadia. under the auspices OF the
Woman's Missouri Home Develop
ment company. an organization which
was formed last January for the pur-
poses Of cooperating with the COVER
nor and other officials for the develop
ment Of state resources, and inducing
the people to settle on the unoccupied
land in the state. for there are more
than 100000 acres which have new
er been touched.
Arcadia is one Of the most pictures.
que spots in the state and tent city
is being erected for the accommoda-
ton of the delegates.
Back to the farm" will be the slo-
gan OF the delegates. and every effort
will be made to interest the people OF
the state In the agricultural field.
The Unique Feature.
The unique feature of this conven-
tion or congress will b. the agricul-
! tural exhibit shown In the fields. In
stead of putting fruits and vegetables
! in glass Jars and bottles and standing
them in rows on tables. or tying the
grain In wisps and stacking 1t In the
corner of some exhibition hall. the
delegates will be taken over the coun-
try and see the products In stu.
They will drive over Ideal country
roads. see the picturesque herds of An
CORA goats. the Missouri mule In his
native habitat. the sleek cows driven
home at milking time by the little Ar
cadian maiden and the ranches, which
are pastoral idyls worthy the brush OF
q great artist.
OF equal interest with the agricul-
tural exhibits at Arcadia will be the
exhibit Of the loom industries. The
women are ransacking the district for
,rag rugs and woven "kivers" made
by the early women settlers.
The loom exhibit will be one OF the
most unique and complete collection
OF the home industries of we olden
tyne" ever made in this country. The
women are reviving tho loom industry
and intend to create such demand
for the products of the hand loom
that the women of Missouri who are
under the necessity of augmenting
the family income or their own may
have an opportunity OF carrying on
their work In their own homes.
Much 10 Accomplished.
The women in charge OF this move
siderable, and the state Is being
aroused from one end to the other.
They have secured a five-acre farm
in the heart of the Ozarks and will
put woman farmer in charge to op.
crate It as an experimental farm to
show that q family of four persons
can be supported on five acres of land
In Missouri.
They are establishing rest rooms in
ever town In the state of over zoo
inhabitants for the comfort and con.
venience of the farmers wife and chill
dren when they are in town for the
day.
They are organizing the girls of the
state into auxiliary societies.
They are reviving the home indus
tries, such as hand weaving.
They are working to have agricul
ture taught in all the country schools
and have already influenced the state
board Of education to approve q text
book.
I. viii Rival Her Mules.
They declare when this is done Mis-
souri, will be as famous for her farm
ers 40 she Is now for her mules.
Their membership includes some o.
the most prominent women Of the
state. most OF them farmers wives
and dwellers In the small towns.
The girls auxiliaries have already
been organized the largest Of which
Is the Camda auxiliary at Ironton.
Mrs. John A. Curran, the state presi
dent. who has spent most OF her life
in the Ozark region and who Is an en-
thusiastic lover of its people and seen
cry. says:
why should the Missouri farmel
boy 20 to the city to become q lawyer
merchant. thief. or to swelter in un
healthy factories and shops, wheI
there are all these broad acres of fer
tile soil waiting for the touch OF tn,
skilled hand? Why should any maj
waste his life in a dingy office long
ing for little spot Of earth to cal
his very own. when that spot of God
country is waiting for him in Mis-
souri,?
why should little children starv,
for food and play on garbage heaps Ii
dirty city alleys when they might b,
living under the blue skies and grow
Ing strong on the products of tn,
fields here on Missouri farms?
The work that poor men and VIC
men do in the cities and get for 1t bu
O dingy dark attic for home and in
sufficient food would give then
enough to eat. pure air to breathe an
freedom OF life II put In on Missouri
farm"
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