Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-10
HOUSEWIVES TO
ATTACK EGG COST
THROUGH BOYCOTT
Local League to Make House
toulouse Canvass to Aid
. Cause"

Local League to Make House
toulouse Canvass to Aid
. cause"
A boycott on eggs will become eff
fective in Newark within a few days
as the result of a campaign to be in
augurated by the local branch of the
Housewives League. which will CO.
operate with other branches of the
national organization which has al
ready effected successful boycott in
many cities throughout the United
States. The date has not been an
nounced The two hundred and more
members of the league, which is a
subsidiary of the Contemporary Club,
will not only refrain from the pur-
chase of eggs themselves, but will
make a house toulouse canvass in an
effort to induce housewives who are
not members of either organization
to do likewise.
While the Housewives League of
Newark is a branch of the National
Housewives League, it is under the
supervision of the Contemporary
| Olupf anu yesterday ellltlh MUM thC
executive committee of the latter gave
it's consent for the members of the
league to join in the boycott.
After obtaining this consent the
members of the league assembled in
the auditorium of the Y. M. G. A,
where they were addressed by Mrs.
Julian Heath, of New York, president
| of the National Housewives League,
who explained that it was not the
desire of the members to work hard
| ships on any one, but as long as
| prices which she deemed were unjust
were maintained 1t was the duty of
the women to bring the prices down,
| and the only way in which this could
be done was to refrain from buying
| them.
Wanted TO Clear $1,000 on Eggs.
She stated that she had recently
read in a trades paper that one dealer
| who was making $500 on a carload of
eggs had refused to sell another egg
until he could clear 81, 200 on a carload
where before the present monopoly
was established profit of $50 on a
carload was satisfactory profit She
| declared that If a boycott was main
tanned throughout December the price
would necessarily have to drop on the
first of January, and in that event a
reasonable price would rule during
the remainder of the year.
She urged the women to acquaint
themselves with the market value of
everything they buy in order to be
able to purchase intelligently. She
pointed out that the consumer is al
ways at fault If she doesn't know the
market price and demand It.
! I'VE have not created this new fac
tor in economic life, the Housewives
League, to combat conditions. but to
| adjust them" she concluded. I'VE
have come into the market game
simply to level It,"
That women are too much inclined
to put the family hearthstone in
front of the cooking range and group
the home about it was the opinion
expressed by Mrs. Lemuel Skidmore,
former. State chairman of the House
wives League.
1.-THE kitchen should be reduced to
a science that serves 1t, and not ride
1t like the old man of the sea- said
Mrs. Skidmore This will never be
done until the brainy women stop
running around and get right down
to their own problems. 1t used to
give me a panieky feeling when L
was told that domestic service was
decreasing SO rapidly that there
| Wouiu SODll US llOllt itll " Jul
homes. Then / discovered that only
10 per cent. of the homes employ do
nestle help. and ! know that with 30
per cent. of the homes in the hands
of home women competent to run
them there would be no national
cataclysm when the last farewells
are said.
"a woman who spoke before our
club in Summit said that women had
swung out from the home into club
life to an excessive extent, but the
time would come when the tide would
set back toward the home again, and
then the club woman, with her
frightened brain and her increased
executiveness, would bring back to
the home the very qualities that
would conquer the problems await
| ing solution. Let the irresponsible
quality in service go. In its place
will come the trained service that
such a wonder working place as the
home should demand.
| BLESSED is the home whose house,
wife has to go into her own kitchen
Then we shall see sinks and tables
coming to proper heights, ice boxes
drawing up nearer the kitchen, cleo
trio fans drying those dreary millions
of dishes, labor-saving devices taking
the place of inefficient methods, and
the heart hstone of the home moving
back into the family sitting room"
| Mrs Skidmore expressed the opinion
that the careless way of many house
wives make them tempting prey for
the dealers and regretted that wives
| do not use the same scientific bust
ness methods in spending the money
that their husbands employ in max
| ing it. She gave a brief account of
| the work of the Summit league, which
| has bakery, grocery market, weights
and measures, milk, ice and laundry
committees, edits a column for house
| wives in the local paper, and has ar
ranged in conjunction with the Fort
nightly Club a series of talks on Tine
New Housekeeping"
THE only way | can see now to
grapple with the matter of prices is
to train ourselves to market more
astutely, to buy food values instead
not simply fill it up" continued the
| speaker. MY own opinion is that
| the control of the necessities of life
should be taken out of the hands of
| private competitive greed and come
under government control for equal
distribution
Mrs. Skidmore concluded her re
marks by advocating cooperation
| with local and State authorities when
they are working for the end desired,
rather than devising new ways, thus
not only helping the State, but engen-
dering in women a new and fine sense
of Statehood. of citizenship. which,