Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-12-04

The Rural Womans Club must be-
Why Because The Rural Woman
needs Il, she deserves II. and She
must have the social and mental
stimulus that the rural club Will
bring 10 her II we are TO hold her
In the country and the rural woman
must stay in the country II the city
and nation is mainhined Whyg
because the rEfal Woman Is the
greatest and most IMPORTANT produc.
er In the world
Reduced to It's simplest analysis
the High Cost of Li,ng" IS the d.
rect result of TOO NAM helpless con
sumers and too few helpful produce
ers. The rural woman not only sup
plies her own table with an It's fresh
vegetables. milk. butter, eggs and
poultry but produces 8 surplus equal
tc the needs OF the great cities Be
sides the care OF her home and family
she carries on side branch indus
cry greater than the attle business
OF our nation The poultry business
is owned managed aud controlled
almost exclusively by her. as Is al
so much OF the garden aud diary
products You never sit down 10 q
meal in your elegant dty homes but
that tho work of the rural woman is
somewhere In evidence
But the physical aud commercial
products are only her east contrihu
tons to mankind. The rural woman
produces 90 per cent 81 the leading
business men Of our dties. SS per
cent OF the Ministers and like per
cent of an the leading educators and
government officials For an these
gifts OF the rural woman to the city
does not the commercial. social. u
tclligent and religious HE OF the city
owe something in return 90 her
II Is q square deal for the rural wo.
man 10 WELD mp the very best pro
duets Of her life work and life blood
to build MP the churches schools,
and commercial interest of the cts
aud then never hear a first class ser
mon. never listen TO an iutcrostln2
lecture, never enjoy pleasant so
cal hour. never see q good enter.
tainmcnt hear a sweet song or catch
glimpse OF the hiVhcr arts' Il Il
fair for the cities 10 absorb all N,
talent aud culture that s. generated
IN the country and never send ans
of II back 10 the place from whenc,
il came have lived IN the coun.
try all my life and seldom have
ever known high official of church
school. or state Ia visit the ruru
| districts except 10 draw more votes
more dollars or more children from
the home Of the farmers The stat,
University OF Texas IS q notable cX
cetpion to this rule.
We need some one 10 discover ;
new social force OF gravity that vii
lend TO draw great men and wOmor
with all their perfected powers bach
to the place from whence they rose
As 1t stands today the distribution
OF bread, butter. beef pork milk
epss and all farm Ifuducis Is go sys
tented that few. very few OF on
a2.HOn,0u0 of people ever staryc Z,
death hut the social. mental aul
! spiritual food o four nation is SO con
cntrated and congestod in tho cito
that millions of noble self saCritc
Ing country women are starving O.,
death for this same food which they
themselves have thrown upon Tho
professional market of our land
Their minds are breaking down ihoil
ambitious spirits are shriFc|mg
their once happy dispositions ari
growing gnarlcd an1 Respondent lu,
their bodies falling carly prey Co dis
ease for lack of This food and $50
who have had II ahuudantly keep 90
building sanitariums and asylum
for them and cularFIug the ponit'u
| tiarics for their hu, instead 81 de-
wishing new ways and means of en-
larging their lives and building new
ideals aud new hope uio their homes
and community Bu' how can this be-
done.
believe tho Rural Womans ClIi
is the key 10 the situation % uIl
BRING the city and rural women t'
ccther unite their interests and .ei
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