The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-06
BACHELOR IN EAST
GETS OFF HIS BASE
INDUCES in TRADE Against
American Women Without
knowledge of Facts.
HE is A PROFESSOR IN
UNIVERSITY PENNSYLVANIA
His Acquaintance Only Among
Rich, Hence He Is Ignorant
of Many Things.
BY RALPH JOHNSON.

BY RALPH JOHNSON.
BY Leased Wire TO The Tribune.
NEW YORK. March 5.-The economi-
cal worthlessness OF 1.-The American NO.
man is one of the causes OF the Increased
cost OF living, in the opinion OF Prof.
Simon " Patten of the University OF
Pennsylvania and he puts the blame up
on the men for not encouraging the wo-
men to work. In an interview today
Prof. Patten said: Let the women Of
America take up their share of the work
and the pressure upon the economic re-
sources OF the family VIII be equaliZed.
strongly than | do in what is termed
woman's Womanliness. But \ do not see
why a developed intelligence that would
enable women 10 earn their own bread,
and n developed economic conscience that
would spur them on to do So should
necessarily destroy the finer character
istics OF the wife and mother Years ago
our grandmothcrs worked for their lv-
ing. The household duties, they per-
formed were of definite economic value.
Modern conveniences have made many
forms OF manual labor not only uhneces-
sary. but lmpractlcoblc. Women have
been left with their hands idle.
Wives Do Not Work.
THAT the American woman is eco
nomically worthless is largely due 10 the
attitude Our men take toward her cl-
| fort to work lnSrc rs no longer ncSb
| for woman's labor in tho home. Is she
going to sit idle or is she going TO make
| herself of use in the community: Per
| sonally | do not question but that she
| her problem, Men fear To be pointed III
as failures If their wives work. They
| know that among women II is commons
| " supposed that mon do not care TO have
| their wives leave home and go To work.
| because they fear ii will interfere with
motherhood l believe women arc wronS
! in this opinion. | do not think the aver
| age young man considers this. lie would
| be foolish If he did Our Grandmothers
worked far harder than any woman Is
| called upon TO work today. and yet they
brought fine healthy children INTO the
| world
Professor Is Bachelor,
Ii is safe TO saw that the learned pro-
fessor is bachelor and that his ac-
| quaintance Is among the rich. No man
| of family In little old New York who IS
not financially Independent would ever fall
into the error of saying the American
woman OF today does not work. l ven
| turc to say that the average woman, the
mother Of a family, works more hours
| and works harder than the average man.
| This Woman a Worker.
Mrs Marie Robinson Wright OF Geor-
| gia has Just lett New York Tor Mexico,
| where she goes in pursuance OF her
studies ol Central ana South America.
II is safe 10 say that Mrs. Wright knows
living man or woman, She has made 1t
| her life work and has not only written
books. which are standard classics, on
MeXlco, Brazil, Chile, BOLIVIA and Peru
| and has ready for publication similar
! works on Uruguay and Argentina, but
| she has been the means OF opening tue
| eyes OF American capital To the enot-
| nous riches of these countries, ana tnns
aided wonderfully in the development OF
! these countries. Shs has the warm per
soual friendship Of President DiaZ and
OF practically all the great men oi Latiii
| America. Mrs. Wright is Il native oi
! Newman, ca, the daughter oil JudS'
| Robinson OF that city, Snc married I'm
! ton Wright OF Atlanta, who died some
| fifteen years ago, leaving her practically
dependent on ncr own resources. she
| engaged in newspaper work ana was sent
| To Mexico in a professional capacity
This was the beginning OF the work
| which has made her Il recognized au-
| thorlty on Latin America, During hei
nrtcen years OF work III the southern
countries she has Travelled m, more co,nt,.Y th2I
| from lei Paso 10 Sandy Point.
Woman Owns Mine and Ranch.
To be very fond of outdoor sports, an
expert with a rifle, 10 have slam bears
| 10 own q mine and big ranch and tt
| have the right To vote ana YET not car
| to exercise II, may strike some Oh VIC
militant suffragists OF TINS land as be-
| yond belief for a woman, but MIS-. Laura
! M. Stoibcr a widow, Of SilVerton. Colo
says 1T is not strange al an, MIS-, Stol-
ber who is here with her daughter OWNS
= biz gold and silver mine out there
hut she does not work II. she found
she saws. that men know more about
| running mines than women. so shc leaSSu
her property To an operating company
and enjoys life mostly in Colorado. She
is Il Phiadclphan by birth; but "enl
! west lust after her marriage, Shc says
she would not live in the east Tor any
thing I'm the world, New York is a nice
place to come to, just TO see the theatel
and opera and to do little shopping
but there is no room here to take Sooc
breath.
Does Not Like Rich,
Bishop Cranston OF Baltimore does not
| inlnk very much OF the rich, lie said
recently That the greater portion oi
the wealthy people OF this country ar
already doomed, The wealthy are not
10 be patterned arter," he said, 'Do not
follow them. II you. my brethren, were
| to visit their mansions, you might pe
not receive you into their fellowship;, II
they did, perhaps, 1t would be Il false
| fellowship
House Famine Prevails.
\ house famine threatens TO compli-
! cate the high price situation In New
| York. The stream OF aliens passing
through Ellis island is looding jmmi-
grant districts in old city centcrs. Old
dwcllcrs I'm the tenement localities are
being forced ont by the Increasing den
sity OF the population and the outgoing
wave Is causing similar waves in dis
the result that the city is overnowIng
into the suburbs The result is large
demand for houses I'm residential districts
now building up and builders say that
1T is running far beyond the supply,
sHail Motberland!''