The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-11
order in the form of a bulletin asking

order in the form of bulletin asking everyone to break the chain. .'I have just succeeded In cnokins oh the south, but new patches are no" coming in from the west and north. in deed. if some one doesn't do some.hins | vii, get desperate. Why, after al tne ,ro,,hle I have not collected nearly $looc and we needed s5OOO l have spent neary that much in postage. trying to keep out of jail
 New York has been having it's 1uii share of politics for so early ln .ne wear and if there ever was tnorouenis I m, xer, np situation we have 1t right now First there is the bribery trial up at A,hanv which is tearing the republicans all to pieces, and which 1t IS geherany understood has more than one democratic solon on the anxious seat fearing tiiae fbe disclosures of legislature rottehfiess may spread and reach him. | New York democrats love a. ruetion ana | if nained them to gee the republicans have all the fun, so Tammany Leader Murphy and State Chairman corners oe cidedto mix it in what looked very iiuIn ,,. hike a Kilkenny cat 1ght. some usas | charges as to the sale of offices were made and retracted. Then wiser counsel nrevailed and the democratic lid ciampeo on again. and a truce declared
 | Now. the republicans are praying TOT ,ha rat,rn of former President Roosevelt, who Is looked upon as the Moses "no can lead the party out or the oesert VI graft and the democrats are casuns a abour for the man who Will De ape so lead the party to victory Tn the lai Ia qenerallv believed Mayor Gaynor could | l,a darl [, and it Is probable he means IL.
 | All signs point to an exceedingly inter- estIng campaign in New York this year The man who can pick the winner now, | ought to be able to make ms lortuhe as a speculator.
 The economical worthlessness or the American woman is one Of the causes oi the increased cost of living, in the opin- ion of Prof. Simon N. Patten oS .ne University of Pennsylvania, and he puts the blame upon the men for not en- coura ging the women to work. In an interview today Professor Patten said:
 Let the women of America take up their share of the work and the pressure upon the economic resources or the lam- fly will be capitalized.
 No one admires and believes more strongly that I do in what is termed | why a developed intelligence that would enable women to earn their own bread, and A developed economic conscience that would spur them to do so snouiu necessarily destroy the finer character istics of the wife and mother.
 "Yearsi ago our grandmothers worked for theit living The household duties they performed were of definite economic value Modern convenience have made
 1~txr .<.f oV1lx 1T H- necessary but impracticabe. Women have been left with their hands idle. That the American woman is economcal- ly worthless is largely due to tho atti- tude our men take toward her enort to work There is no longer need TOT women's labor in the home Is she goine to sit idle or is she going to make ner- self of use In the community! Fer sonally I do not question but that sne will make herself of use and thus solve her problem. Men fear to be pointed at as failures if their wives work. They know that among women 1t is commonly supposed that men do not care to nave their wives leave home and go to work because they fear it will interfere with motherhood I believe women are wrone in this opinion. I do not think The average young man considers this. He would be foolish if he did. Our grand mothers worked far harder than Nny woman is called upon to work today, and vet they brought fine, healthy children into the world" /,
 It is safe to gay that the learned pro lessor is & bachelor and that his ac- ! quaintance is among the rich. No mar of family in little old New York if no, financially independent would ever fal into the error of saying the American woman of today does not work. ven ture to say that the average woman, ths mother of a family, works more houri and works harder than the average man