Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-18
A VITAL HOME WORK.

the home in the future is that to be
done by the women of the land who
are seeking to reduce the cumbersome
system of modern selling to where Il
will be a more rational one. This work
has already been begun, and its fu-
ture seems assured of successful cul-
mination. OF it the Savannah Press
says:
One of the biggest movements VII ch
is going on today is the organization
of housekeepers by which the en-
croachments of organized and com
bined selling interests can be met.
The National Housewives league
which Mrs. Julian Heath has organ
ized and founded, and which is ever
day growing in power and numbers,
is the logical answer to the food trusts
and monopolies which have been push
ing the cost of living up so high that
it has become a grave question if the
average person of limited resources
should indulge in life.
The profession of housekeeping IS
one of the most general, the worst
paid and the most extravagantly pur-
sued in the world. Organization rec
ognized its opportunity. Combination
against this profession was easy and
highly profitable The housekeeping
profession has been cruelty exploited.
The buying business, seemingly i'm
possible to organize and control, look
ed good to the sellers. 1t was SO good
to the sellers that the sellers pushed
their opportunity too far The wo-
man awoke, under Mrs. Heaths leader
ship, and now the least organized class
of the country is forming itself into a
tody of sufficient size and force to-
give appreciable resistance to the
combined interests whose plans are to-
exploit them.
1t matters a great deal whether Dr.
not the women enter this organiza-
ton, but whether they do or not, all
Of them derive some indirect benefit
from its existence. The larger an
more complete this organization be-
comes, the more potent it's protests
and its influence, and that is why The
Press so frequently endeavors to in
terest its readers in this movement.
Mrs Heath argues that as the con,
dltion of the market depends upon sup
I,y and demand, the organized house
keepers can control the evil of adulter-
ated and impure food by simply coop
CT ating in the demand for clean and
pure food We must remember thar
bad health and disease come from
food which has been handled in an un-
sanitary and careless way as often as
they do from the deliberate tricks OF
manufacturers. The danger of con-
tamination, Mrs. Heath points our,
is almost as great as the danger ,.
adulteration, but housekeepers, by
banding together, can protect their
homes from these dangers and at the
same time make the manufacture %
impure foods pursuit which does not
lay.
discouraged manufacturer who
WIS dealing only in pure foods once
told the woman who organized the
hcusekeepers that he did not believe
the women cared whether their foo l
was poisoned or not.
1t is not that the women don't care.
but that they are ignorant of the
menace which is constantly before
them. They do not know how far the
pure food laws which have been pass
de protect them and how far they are
left exposed to danger, but these and
other practical things, which make for
economy and good health, are the
things which the Housewives league
! is teaching. 1t is putting information
of vital Importance into their hands
and enabling them 70 protect both the
family health and the family pocket
book from undue strain,