Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-01
WOMEN OF STATE
ENTER ECC FIGHT
Mrs. j. G. Bley of Chicago Asks
100000 Club Members to
Aid Parcel Post Plan.

Chicago, Ill, Dec. Eggs, known
as ordinary firsts," dropped to 5
cents wholesale today, and though
dealers would not admit the recently
iraugurated boycott backed by leading
Chicago club women was responsible
for the decline, women derived much
satisfaction from the reduced prices
suit OF the federal government at
Chicago charging that the Chicago
butter and egg board with violation of
the antitrust law will be brought to
trial here this week.
Kansas City, Dec. Am egg boy
colt is already in forced in Kansas
City and a meeting of club women
next Thursday will perfect plan to
force reduction of prices. Many
grocers in the poorer districts have
ceased to handle eggs on account of
lack of demand.
Chicago, Ill, Dec. Mrs. John C.
Bley of Chicago, president of the
Clean Food club, yesterday issued a
call to the 100000 members of woman
club throughout Illinois for coopera-
ton and assistance in a plan to elm
mate men from the state egg markets.
The cali is the first step in an eff
fort to bring the housewives of both
city and farm together into an or
ganiZation for the direct marketing
of fresh eggs chiefly by means of the
parcel post The women are deter
mined to cut out the commission firms
responsible, it is said, for the prevail
ing high prices of eggs.
Mrs. Bley is one of Chicago's orig
inal campaigners for "32 cents a doz-
en- eggs or none" Already 1,5OO Chi |
cago women have enlisted in a boy !
colt which has brought overtures |
from the Chicago butter and egg
board. The activities of the women |
also have brought the attention of the |
government TO present high prices.
The woman residents of the towns |
and villages of Illinois will be neces- |
sary factor in the proposed state CO.
operative combination. Mrs. Bley al |
ready has received assurances that |
some of them are anxious to help the
women of Chicago in their fight on
the commission firms. The appeal for
their assistance is being made through
the various woman's clubs. which are
strong and influential in almost every
locality.
Mrs. Bley is certain the women of
the state who do not live in cities can
sell eggs at 80 cents a dozen, pay the
parcel post rates out of that. and still
make a big profit. The first move
will be to get the address of those
who produce eggs to sell.
I'VE are going to interest the re-
sponsible members of woman clubs
said Mrs. Bley. I'VE will
teach the egg producers how to han
die them to prevent loss in Ship
nents by parcel post and otherwise.
We are going to enlist the women of
he city clubs and instruct them how
% get eggs from the country. how to
prepare eggs cheaply for the table.
and how to take care of them after
ng to the bottom of every phase of
he egg question.
Women sell eggs and buy them.
the sellers and the buyers
here is a lot of unnecessary Juggling
IN the part of the men.
THE campaign will prove of great
7alue in developing the ingenuity Of i
Most women have got into the
groove of serving eggs for breakfast
very morning. They don't know
What else to prepare. The boycott
will develop their culinary ingenuity
md thereby set their brain cells to
where they have performed
through habit before. The boycott on
ggs will force women to devise new