Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-19
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> WOMEN FIGHTING
= FOR Ten THINGS =


Mrs. Margaret S,annard, chairman
Of the Hospitality Committee Of tn
National Mothers congress, gives the
Boston American the following list O:
ten things which women want, and
which lie back Of their present unrest:
Would Advance Civilization.
First. The women OF this age are
lighting for an infinitely finer and
higher civilization than the world has
ever known. This purpose, as exem-
trifed in the work OF the Mothers
Congress for example, means that wei
are definitely waging war against the
forces that pull civilization back and
fighting for the forces that help it for
ward.
Seek Home Improvement
Second. We are fighting to improve
the home in every department. The
home represents with absolute fidelity
the degrees of understanding to which
the parents have evolved. Therefore,
in order to improve the home, We
must train the home makers first.
Must Protect Children.
Third. We are fighting to rouse the
whole nation to a sense of it's duty to-
ward children. 1t is to the children
we must look for the advancement of
the future, for the civilization of the
future. We cannot do too much to
ward laying the right foundation in
childhood.
Want Trained Fathers
Fourth. We want our men to have
higher standards OF morality and a
deeper sense Of the sacredness AMI
purity of marriage. Therefore we are
fighting for the education of the
young men as future fathers and
founders of homes. We believe iii
training men for fatherhood, as well
as in training girls for motherhood.
Would Teach Girls Executive Work
Fifth. We want our girls of the pres
ent day to learn how to do the eXecu-
tive work OF a home-this is what the
modern girl must learn if she would b:
true success in the womanIy profess
sion of the wife and mother.
Want Higher Standard for Men
Sixth. We want our girls to insist
upon higher standards and cleane'
habits in the young men with whom
they associate. l think it is a girls
duty to refuse to condone even the
smaller vices INDUCED in by her men
| friends, and thus establish at the start
rule of conduct from which they will
not dare to depart, at least while clam
ing her friendship,
Must Rouse Leisured Women
Seventh. We want the women OF
leisure, the women of means, to use
their time and their influence in the
great upward and onward movement
for better social conditions. The wom-
en- of leisure is the free lance in So
ciety, and it is sic who has the big OPP
portunity to further civilization.
Girl OF Leisure Must Help
Eighth. We want the girl Of leisure
the grl with the exceptional advant-
age for culture, to give herself to the
study OF the vital problems affsct!na
the race. Her influence may be un-
bounded, for she has the ways and the
means to do great things. She should
turn her talents, her brain, her culture
to the end that really means most to
humanity-the study of home-buildin:!
in the largest sense.
Would Promote Efficiency
Ninth. We are fighting for greater
efficiency in our young people, in al
practical matters of life Especially dl
we want to see girls and wor I OF TO-
day well trained, thoroughly equippe;
in household arts The girls OF to-day
are sadly lacking in such usefulness.
Want Ballot Above All
Tenth Last of all-and this shoul,
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