Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-18
WE0orGR CITY WOMEN FIND
FAULT WITH rlM,piTv OF
LECTURER.
PRESENCE or WOMEN
cokFusEs sPEAKEa
Went . Dairy Train 70 Learn and TX.
psotsd 70 Hear Subject Discussed,
Says Webster City Wen,sn II Public
Letter knowledge Seekers Desire
Plain Facts.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Webster City. Jan. 1s.-The visit Of
the dairy train sent out by the Iowa
State Dairy Association to this city
has aroused considerable discussion
along the line Of Just how much free
dom should be granted a speaker talk
ing to mixed audience. A number
OF Webster City women visited the
train here and some Of them were
much disappointed over the failure of
the lecturer to give very much infor-
nation on some topics upon which
they sought enlightenment. Mrs. Har.
riet M. Gloss, q well known local wom-
an, has taken up the matter publically
and in an open letter, which 10 start
ling In some respects, pleads for q freer
and more open discussion before mixed
audiences OF questions that sometimes
embarrasses = speaker. says Mrs.
Gloss:
Mrs. Gloss Letter.
The fact that one Of the speakers
on the dairy train which visited this
city was disconcerted by the presence
OF q few women, and diffident about
discussing the subject assigned, seems
to call for comment, tho no criticism is
intended.
believe that cooperation is the
paramount word in the public mind
today. To cooperate intelligently. we
must co-educate. That is to say-in
this instance-the people furnish the
money to carry on combined expert
mentation which would be individual
ly impracticable and the result of said
is returned to the peo-
pie as the co-educative quivalent. BY
the people we mean males and females.
Men and women jointly pay the taxes
which supply the aforenamed aDpro-
priatlons. Young men and young wom-
en- attend the experimental schools.
Win no prohibition for any course or
exclusion from lectures. In other
words they are CO. eds bonded togeth-
er oy common interest-knowledge.
ihere can be no classification Of
knoWledge as male or female. Sex can
In no way alter or color the facts of
nature. The cooperative spirit is
abroad In the land and mixed audi
cnce must be met everywhere. so an
earnest and discriminative lecturer
need offer no apology to women for
the discussion of stock breeding, any
more than for the consideration Of
corn culture. The fact that women
are present In such gathering is a
guarantee that they are seeking en-.
lightment. Tho wave Of general and
special interest in life and its affairs
touches women as we'll as men. It is
as necessary to familiarize ones self
with the phcnomina of breeding and
care Of animals as 1t 10 to study
mathematics. and should be treated
quite as sincerely and judicially be-
fore representatives of both sexes.
Fortunately no progress that is one
sided can be permanent, hence men
and women must march together. Ma
terial benefits at the expense of men,
tai equipment is meeting discourage
ment. The hitherto hidden things Of
nature are being studied in class and
club. and discussed without apology or
embarrassment in college clinic, fam
lily circle and convention hall by both
male and female. The masters of the
earth have been going forward. but the
sisters of the soil are knocking per-
sistently for admission to the temple
of co-education and cooperation and
the door Is opening. unto them.
MRS H. NJ Gloss"