The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-08
WOULD PUT WIFE
UPON A SALARY
Suffrage Leader Has Evolved
New Propaganda Which AS
tOnishes New York.
SHOULD BE A UNION
SCALE IN THE FAMILY
Wife Should Start to Draw Pay
Saturday Following Her
Wedding Day.
BY RALPH JOHNSON.
Wire to The Tribune,

BY Leased Wire to The tribune
NEW YORK, May Mrs. Harriet
Stanton Blatch. one of the leaders III
the suffrage movement IN Amenea, has
astonished New York by announcing
that, in her opinion, wives should he
placed upon salary. According 10 MIS-
Blatch 3 idea there should be union
scale and q wife should start to draw
pay the Saturday following her wed
ding day. She is now working upon
scale based upon the financial posses,
sions of the husbands ''It is Il most
excellent idea," said she. 1t IS pro.
posed that wife who devotes her
whole time 70 Housekeeping and the
care Of the children shall have CLAIM
on her husband during his life. ana
on his estate after death, for sum
calculated upon scale, not eXceedlh%
that which she received as personal
allowance.
Mrs BIatch got her idea from bill
introduced in the house of commons IN
London by member friendly TO the
suffragettes providing, among other
things, paw as we'll as votes for wives
Mrs. Blatch admitted that II might be
a long time before such bill were en-,
acted by congress, but she hoped II
would come very, very soon.
Exodus of Americans.
The exodus of the army of rich
Americans who each year with pock-
els well laden with American dollars,
invades Europe. TO the great profit OF
the Europeans and The shaking of the
balance of trade figures, is in full
swing, and ii the year 1910 is not a
record breaker it Will push the record
mighty hard. | talked with Gustav
II. Schwab. American representative OF
the North German LLOYD, the other day
. y 40
- Conditions Just now are most en-
couraging. Bookings are coming in
ranidlY and everything presages a sue
cessful season. Already the number OF
passengers carried during 1910 are, IN
most instances, in excess of those OF
90a and 1908. The actual figures for
1910. with the figures for the CORE
First cabin eastbound or outgoing pas
sengers for 1910 number l9,S9S, which
is 1866 greater than 1909, and II.
greater than 1905 In tie second cabin
outgoing the numbers for 1910 are l3,'
4l2, which is 15S more than In 1909
but 6054 less than during the same
period in 1905. The third or steerag ge
1910. which is 6l40 more than for the
same period in 1909. but l47, ,496 less
than in 1905 The period covered III
l909 and 1908 in second and stecrage
business was during the height of the
panic.
Slap Boys in Face.
1.-The Depew bill to require license
for amateur wireless experimenters i:
slap in the face for 10000 ambitions
Yankee boys" remarked w. r. d
Stokes, ,Jr. the 13.vear-old president
of the Junior Wireless club, limited
as he demonstrated some OF his owI
inventions for wireless telegraphing
lie was undertaking to get into commu
nication with Washington and after he
had got the Office there he complained
Of other stations ''butting in.
That's the trouble with the govern
ment's system . he said f'Hasn Z any
special tuning system, so s to keep any
body else out. Why. If there was {
war on with Japan tomorrow, the Jap
anese could stick up poles anywhere
and read every wireless orders the navy
department could send TO it's ships. No
only read it, but send entirely different
orders that would lead that fleet int
any old kind Of trap. We amateur,
are only kids, but we've done more