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The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-22

total sum available for the pursuit OF
d happiness. Such a plan would simply
mark step forward in the movement
Tor independent women. The salary
would be but temporary expedfent,
taking the place Of the allowance noY
common in some families
For the purpose of illustrating a
point, only the question decomposition
must be considered. Aside from the
more sacred and intimate duties of
wife. most of her usuaI. occupations
have a standard OF value fixed by the
competition OF specialists We are
presenting an economic. business prop
osition, stripped Of all sentiment, and,
therefore, only commercial factors can
be considered If wife is to be paid
a salary, the rate of wages would nave
TO be governed by prices current for
equal service. The proposition then
comes down to particulars.
Does the wife sweep? How much
cheaper and how much better Will oe
the service offered by her competitors,
the maid Of all work and the corpora
ton operating portable vacuum clean
ers? Can she meet their prices? VIII
she do the work as we'll? I think nat
Does the wife baker Can she pro-
ouce the Dreao and rolls fresh every
hour" at prices as low or lower than
the baker on the corner? OF course
not
Does the wife nurse the husband and
the children in sickness? Can she offer
the exceptional and highly specialized
services of a graduate nurse for less
than the usual pay of such experts? She
can give devotion, affection, personal at
tention. and a thousand and one things
that the trained nurse cannot give, bur
this is a proposition limited to the ques-
ton OF services and wages. In this day
of highly specialized service every mother
knows that the graduate nurse is the
only competent nurse. and here again
the wife, as salaried employee Of the
husband. loses by the inexorabIe rule of
competition.
The proposition is impossible
Why not put the wife on q plane OF
absolute equality and permit her to
maintain her personal independence with
resulting happiness to all concerned?
Why not begin with a practical plan
OF selection7
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BY SIMON NELsoN PATTEN,
Professor of Political Economy, Univ ersiy Pennsylvania

Why not have equals marry? AS
rule men wed interiors. They are daz-
zled by pretty faces, entertained by the
frivolous. and. finally. married to useless
women
woman who produces nothing is
useless woman. There Is and should be
no place in society for the useless
woman.
They say is responsible for more
unhappiness than the world knows.
When a woman who is a producer is ap-
preached with an offer Of marriage, the
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Makes Her Free,

try. declares that the wife should have
salary, but that she should earn it her
self outside the house.
1t is a further significant fact that no
woman so far consulted has approved
Professor Patterns plan
Signs are not wanting that the wives
OF America are making the MacLaren
salary plan a working rule already. with
out waiting for legal enactment.
Mrs. Frederick Kapps, young wifesof
No. 924 Dean street, Brooklyn, ~ Y,
had her husband arrested for desertion
In reply to the Charge the husband said
that before he left his wife had compelled
him to pay regular restaurant prices for
every meal she served him. and that the
meals she served were much inferior to
those of The restaurants.
Mrs Emma Case, Of Trenton, N j.
who had an excellent husband earning a
good salary a comfortable home and five
children, left all this to work in fac
tory at 81 a month She admitted tha-
her husband was good one. Judged by
ordinary standards, but said that the
life of a housewife in her position was
unbearably monotonous and dreary.
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- II 'LAREN, NJ p. has solved a great
M and terrible problem-one upon
Iva which MANY a household goes to
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"Save Institution of MatrimOny"
Nv mps MARTHA MccULLOCH-WI LLlAMS.

servant at SIS week. with the increased
expense Of food, lodging. etc, and the
offce-going lady comes out several dollars
to the bad. This upon the purely business
basis. What she loses, what her chill
dren lack. in the sacred delights Of
motherinS, no figures can sum, no words
express.
deserve and need them
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Shs Competition Arguing w

LEADING English Member of Par
n lament. Sir Charles MacLaren-
4 y has introduced a law providing
her husband
1t is a significant fact that every
woman who has discussed this project In
America approves of it.
Mrs. Eva Macdonald Valesch and
Mrs. Martha McCulloch Williams, two
prominent women workers Of New York.
give their reasons on this page for ap-
proving in a general way OF Sir Charles
MacLsren's idea
On the other hand. Professor Simon
Nelson Patten, Of the University of Penn
sylvania. one of the most original and IN
teresting political economists of the coun-
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ut Would Treble Marriage"

SSTIS nne idea I'd give up my
work and marry tomorrow if my
husband would pay me wages to
10 housekeeping" said an expert stenog-
rapher to me-
She expressed the sentiments Of many
women who are earning good salaries in
the business world and who hesitate to
marry and exchange their assured salary
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HAPPINESS is the real goal toward
RI which all people struggle What
= = constitutes real happiness IS a
matter which each Individual must de-
termine for himself In the family the
happiness of all is properly the con-
Germ Of all. maintain that the maxi
mum measure of true happiness viii
come only when each member of the
family contributes TO the common
treasury.
Why should a man pay his wife a
saIary?- 1t would add nothing 10 the
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-22

time such ideas. were swept away:
A wife's work is quite as difficult
and important as her husbands, ana
she should be entitled TO a reasona Die
share of her husbands income, inclu1-
ing the amount needed for household
expenses and for her own personal ex-
penditure.
pay his wife wages sounds at first
rather startling, but if for wages the
word allowance" is substituted the
problem seems more familiar
By all means give the wife lawful
right to her share in the family income
Many husbands are even now so i'm
pressed by their wives executive ability
that they give them the entire manage
ment of their income, feeling that the
family will benefit by that plan
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"can the wife sweep better than the
maids of all work or the vacuum
cieaners?"

Even a factory girl" said Mrs Case
has some hours every day in which she
can amuse herself and do as she pleases,
but a housewife has not one hour from
one weeks end to the other"
Sir Charles MacLaren, NJ. P.'s, project
is called "a woman's Charter" and con-
tains eight bills. It's six main provisions
are as follows:
L. a wife who devotes her whole time
to housekeeping and the care OF the
children shall have claim on her hus-
band during his life, and on his estate
after death, for a sum calculated on
scale not exceeding the wages OF house.
keeper in her station of life, provided she
has not received any other personal al
lowance-
. Where the wife Is a wage-earner
she shall not be legally liable for the
support of her husband or his children
unless her earnings or the income Of her
property exceed the minimum necessary
TO her support
8. Wives who work Jointly IN the same
business as their husbands shall be re-
sarded as partners
4. Fathers and mothers shall be Jointly
guardians of their children
5. All. universities and educational in
stitutions receiving revenue from the
state shall be open TO women.
6. Punishment for wife-beating is in-
creased in severity, and is always to in
clude Imprisonment at hard labor. Com
pensaticn is to be given to the wife from
the husbands property. If he has any,
or from the State. if he has none, during
his IMPRISONMENT
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- ~ LAREN, NJ P. has sofVeo Ste"'
MI and terrible problem-one upon
4s4 which many a household goes TO
shipwreck. what did you do with the
quarter I gave you yesterday" IS a re-
mark very often made by husband 10
wife. Mark the word gave" Innocuous
as It sounds. 1t sums up the fnancio-
matrimonial question Also, TOO oiteH -
sounds the kner of love.
Woman has become grave economic
factor outside the home. BY bearing the
labor market and thus reducing wages
she is more and more shutting herself
away from the chance of home-making.
All the more reason that when she gives
her whole mind. and body. and soul to
hone-making. which is the foundation
of civilization she should do It upon
saIar,ed basis. thus rising from the rank
Of denendent TO that of entity.
IT is only proposed to pay the wire -
reasonable living wage. In strict eqults-
TO pav for the labors OF even Hoo
eTately competent wife would bankrupt
envbodv below the grade OF millionaire
Sns;5e a wear The labors of omission,
iiire inc virtues of omission, are beyond
mice Think OF the strain involved in
hearing a man dilate grandiloquently
mon things he knows nothing whatever
sbout and keeping your mouth shut.
49," -fOO what naffeOf
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Der of marriages. OF course. among
rich people, the husband having plenty
to spare, always gives his wife. some
allowance.
The old way Of giving a wife no
money except when she asks him Cor
it for some specific purpose is part of
the system of treating her as an in
terior being, a child or an idiot 1t is
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Think. too, what patient
care is requisite to save
treading on the corns OF
a mind masculinei Or
the WEAKNESS Of giving
breathless attention and
laughing heartily at the
same old story. told for
the thousandth timeI
The salary will save the
institution Of matri-
mouy.
Regarding Professor
Patten, l see neither
politics nor economy in
his position. Outside
salaries to married
women seem to me the
root of bitterness.
Figures-Which can
lie upon occasion-in
this case are some
~ .idt tA-COiCcl tliie 10
his position say his
salarled wife earns $50
weekly. To earn If. at
the same time doing
her duty to her family,
she must pay a gen.
eral servant and a
trained nurse Only
a trained nurse can give
anything approaching
mother-care. Train ed
nurses command at the
very lowest SO a week,
beside board and wash
Ing Add the general
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-06-02
Sale Of Real Estate.

BY. virtuess Of authority vested in me
under judgment and decree of theSu-
perior Court of Robson County, en-
tered before the clerk, in a special pro-
ceeding entitled E. G. Sipher and H. E,
Carter, administrators Of D. W. Biggs
VS.. Georgia B. Sipher and others heirs
at law of D. w. Biggs, same being
special proceeding No 1892 upon the
docket of said court, and being a pro-
ceeding to make real estate assets, |
will, on Monday the Goth day of June,
1910 at IL O'Clock noon at the court
house door of Robson County at Lum-
berton N. c., offer for sale at public
auction to the highest bidder for cash
the followin, tracts or parcels of land,
both situated and being in the county of
Robson and in the town Of Lumberton
and bounded and described as follows:
| First Tract: Being part of two lots
bought by w. J. Britt from H.B. Robin
son. beginning at stake the south
western corner Of the lot sofd by WI.
Britt to n. A. Regan and runs then
about South 108 feet to stake; thence
about North 10S feet to stake: thence
about West IA J feet to the beginning
and being a part of the land conveyed
|
being part of lot No. five (5) on the
official map of the town of Lumberton
and being the same lot conveyed to D
w. Biggs and wife by deed dated Janu-
ury 28th, 1908 and registered in book
5 u" at page 800 This is the home
place of D. w. Biggs upon which he
resided at the time of his death.
Second Tract: A part Of lot number
four hundred and fifty three upon the
official map of the town of Lumberton,
the portion being designated as sub
; division "B'' of said lot number four
: hundred and fifty three as located on
the map of a portion Of Lindell as sub
divided by F. F. Wetmore and duly
filed in book of maps No. at page :
and being the same lot conveyed to D,
w. Biggs by A. E. White ct al dated
) Jan 26th, 1909 and registered in book
, 5''N' at page 1862. Dated May II, l910
R. (. Lawrence, commissioner.
Mcintyre, Lawrence e Proctor,
? Attornys for plaintiffs.
r 5-19-4thurs.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-06-02
Attention.!

Game wardens and all interested in
the protection Of the birds are inform
ed that Sec. 1866 Of the Revisal Of 1905
reads: IF any person. shall at any
time hunt, capture of kill any non game
bird, or shall during the close season,
or time in any year in which the hunt
ing or killing is prohibited, chase with
dogs, hunt, kill or wound or in any
manner take Or capture any game bird,
or any deer. he shall be guilty of mis-
demeanor. and be fined not more than'fifty
dollars or imprisoned not exceeding Sc
days" This section does not apply to
English sparrows, owls, hawks, crows,
black birds, jack-daws and rice birds.
Game birds are snipes, woodcocks,
partridge, quail, dove, robin, and mead
ow larks. and these may be killed only
between Nov. LIST and March LIST. AL
| other birds are protected by the law
during the entire year.
Frank A. Bond.
Chief Game Warden for Robson Co
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-06-02

stand with the farmers and lend
them a helping hand in all their
laudable undertakings. You ask
what will build up the country
and extend your business? I will
try to tell you. I think if I tell
you how to develop the rural
districts and make country life
more inviting l will give you suf-
fcient information along the line
Of developing and extending your
service. There are many agen-
cies whereby the independence of
the farmer may be materially
promoted. Among these are to
be counted the construction of
good roads, the increase Of the
rural free delivery system, the
augmentation generally of means
of communication whereby life
on the farm may be freed from
isolation and brought in touch as
much as possible with the
great world beyond. In one
| Of his messages to Congress,
President Roosevelt said: 'Ru-
raj free delivery, tax en-
in connection with the telephone,
the bicycle and the trolley, &C.
, complishes much toward lessen
> ing the isolation Of farm life and
making it brighter and more at
tractive. In the immediate past
: the lack of just such facilities as
| these has driven many Of the
more active and restless young
men and women from the farms
to the cities; they have rebelled
= at loneliness and lack Of mental
! companionship.' [ want to lay
t special stress upon the great i'm
r portance Of this aspect of our
: farm life. I wish to impress up
n on you all the necessity Of work
n ing toward conditions which will
f lessen. if not entirely overcome.
n the yearning of the country boys
d and girls for the city life. We
I shall have taken a long step to.
f ward an ideal state Of life on the
d farm when we have made oul
% young folks satisfied with it. T.
It do this we must place within
e their reach all the facilities To-
t. acquiring useful and pleasan'
l. knowledge. Educational oppor
Y, tunities must be enlarged in tn,
m country districts, to the end tina
le the farmers son may be instruct
as ed not merely in the three R
w and some "ologies" and "ono
IL miles," but also in those matter
of that will be helpful to him i
I'd the work on the farm if he elect
I'd to devote himself to that grea
work. By the same token tn
be farmers daughter should be il
ci- structed in those branches thu
a. will be helpful to her in increa!
in ing her usefulness in the home
RS In brief, education for thes
of ought to be made uplifting
ed strictly practical directions.
he Before the SouthernComme
M cial Congress in Washington
it December, 1903, Mr.. Clarent
ar H. Poe, editor of the Progessi,
lty Farmer, delivered an address. tt
,e- subject of which was Five HUI
nd dred Dollars More Year for tt
tho Average Southern Farmer
,ist the course Of this address Mr.. P
IAN urged this matter of practical e
raj ucation so strongly that I a
18th tempted to read what he said:
ent Teach the farm boy he
lat cotton and corn and tobacco m
the be improved by seed selectio
on how plant feeds, and how so
our are exhausted: what elemer
be- are found in common food STUFF
Ion- and which make fat and viii
ase. make muscles; which COWS ma
to Continued on page 81
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-06-02
RURAL LETTER CARRIERS.

RURAL LETTER CARRIERS.
Meeting of Robson County AS
ISOLATION Officers Elected
Congressman Goodwin Urges
Importance of Organization
and Tells How Conditions
May be Improved.
Reported for The Robesonian
AS mentioned in Mondays
Robesonian. the Robson Rural
Letter Carriers Association met
in the court house in Lumberton
Monday. TWENTY-FIVE Of the 48|
carriers in the county were pres
ent and though the attendance
was not so large as at some for
mer meetings this was PERHAPS
the most enthusiastic meeting
ever h.ll. The Association was
called to order at II o'clock a. m.
by president c.. H. Howard. Sec
rotary E. B. Hayes read the ad~
dres of Superintendent Splllman
before the National Rural Letter
Carriers Association and Presi-
dent Howard spoke on the I'M
portance of organization and feel
ingly referred to the unvelllng
of monuments to deceased breth-
rem, T. w. McHargue and E. J.
johnson, the former taking
place a year ago and the latter
the day before the meeting. At
IL o'clock a committee went to
the Waverly hotel and escorted
Congressman H. L. Goodwin, who
had been invited to address the
Association on the subject of
good roads, to the court room.
Mr.. Goodwin was introduced in a
few appropriate words by Mr..
Stephen Mcintyre, of Lumberton.
At the close of Mr.. Godwin's
address the Association adjourn
ed for dinner and met again at 2
o. m. for the transaction of bust
ness. The election of officers re-
suited in the reelection of G. H.
Howard, president; E. B. Hayes,
secretary; D. H. Smith, vice
president. The president ap-
pointed an executive committee
as follows: E. L. Odum, A. S.
Pitman, J. J. Oliver, C. D. Will
Iiamson, J. S. Humphrey; and R.
O. Edmund, R. E. Thompson. ].
E. Prevatt and E. B. Hayes were
appointed a committee on pro
gramme.
Mr.. Goodwin made a fine ad
dress, showing himself to be &
we'll furnished man, we'll inform
ed on many subjects. He EN-
phasized the Importance to thu
CARRIERS of organizing, calling
attention to the fact that there
are about $4,000 carriers in tn
United States and only about Z,
GOO of them are organized. Il
emphasized the necessity of organ
izing in order to accomplish
things that would be of benefi
to the carriers and to the peopl
whom they serve. He spoke i
part as follows:
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-06-02
MIR. Godwin's Address.

"You have splendid opportun-
ity to do good and | shall be glad
to say something. if can, that
will assist and aid you in your
worthy undertakings. / am al
ways glad to say something in
the interest of our working men
and the general development of
out country, and Judging from
the appearance of the honest and
intelligent people here today, |
am satisfied that what l say, if
worth anything, will fall in good
ground where there are no
stones but where there is great
depth of earth and will in due
season bring forth a full harvest.
This is wonderfully strong COM
munity, strong intellectually,
strong morally and strong from
an educational standpoint. The
work of the rural carriers has
done more than anything l know
of to build up strong communi.
ty. Old Robson, the home OF
the Scotchman, is known far anC
wide for her noble traits ant
worthy purposes.
1t is great privilege to bt
an American citizen and especi
ally citizen of North Carolina
Our great State is the oldest il
the Union and our forefather
were pioneers in the business 0
State building. They performe'
many brave acts to secure tn
blessings Of liberty for them
selves and their posterity. So
becomes our sacred duty to can
nv on the work and it is the dut
Of every good citizen to do some
thing to help his community an
know of no class of people VIII
are in better position to ASST:
in developing the country tha
the rural carriers. The rur
delivery service is extended wit
the progress and developmel
OF the country, so you see VIVA
ever betters the condition of Il
farmers will guarantee the CO
tinuance and extension of yo
business. If the country b
comes depopulated and abando
ed your business will ceas
therefore it hehooves you
The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-09-08
RESULTS At DENVER

OVERLAND PARK, DENVER, Sept
Meadow, carrying top weight Of
l25 pounds, outclassed her field in
the handicap today. and after running
second to the head OF the stretch
came away and won galloping from
Lomond, which easily beat ocean
Queen for the place: Results;
First race, five and one-half fur
longs, selliug-Rio Picos won. Hid
den Hand second, St Joe third Time,
1sOG 3-5.
Second race. six and one-half fur
longs, selling won Fred Mul-
holland second, Barnesdale third.
Time. 1:19 As.
Third race. five furlongs, selling
Fore won. Buck Thomas second, Gem
mel third, Time. 100.
Fourth race. Rough Riders handi-
cap, seven furlongs Meadow won,
Lomond second, Ocean Queen third.
Time, l.27
Fifth race, mile, purse-Orbicular
won, Barney Oldheld second, Sea
Green third. Time, 1:41.
Sixth race. five fuTlongs, purse -
Captain Miller won. Ed Leyan sec
ond. Orella third. Time, 1:O1
The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-09-08
SPEEDY TELLS HOW
He SHOT Churchill

Salt Lake. Sept. S.-William JEFF
iress, alias Speedy" confessed at
the county Jail last night to the kill
ing OF William Coslett, alias Tim
Churchill. at the Heidelberg saloon on
the morning OF August ;. He says
that he killed Coslett nortoriouS
gambler. in self-defense, aud that Cos
lett had for a long time threatened
To take his life.
Jearess was returned from Seattle,
where ne was arrested. by Deputy
Sheriff Andrew Smith yesterday al
ternoon.
Il shot Coslett, or Churchill. az
had always known him." said Jeifress
last night. after he had attacked me
in the entrance TO the cafe above the
Heidelberg saloon Churchill then
kicked me and II caused terrible pain.
1 cvaded him for the time being, but
entering the snlOon d few minutes
later | saw Churchill at 4 table with
three companions.
The moment l entered the saloon
Churchill rose from the table. He
had something in his hand that flash
ed. I don't know what 1t was. and |
didn't stop 10 inquire He had made
hre1ts Tor a week that he was going
to kin me, and 1 drew my revolver
from my pocket which l had carried
for n long time. opened Are. and
Churchill dropped TO the floor. | in
tended TO disable him and not to
KIN him. and am sorry that he died.
After Churchill had dropped 10 the
floor from the shot fred ] natu-
raIlv started to get away. Near the
saloon encountered policeman pa
trolman G A. Pattersonl He collar
cd mo and asked II / bad fired the
shot. Though J had the revolver IN
my pocket, I told him thf9 had not
done r. He took me hack as far as
line entrance TO the saloon and. when
two others dashed ont OF the Heidel-
berg and the policeman released me
and started 10 chase them, couldn't
believe my eyes
Running up Third South street,