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The Washington herald., 1914-06-28

feet wet" Mrs. Charles S. McKinnon,.
who is In charge of the work In North
Carolina. told one girl.
oh! i won't" she said. I've Rets
an old pair of pas rubber boots. and
put my skirts right inside EN-"
When the nrst crop Is ready TO can,
the agent sends word that she viii,
meet the local club near the schooI-i
house for a demonstration. She ar
rves with her travelling stove, dozenA
OF shining new cans. and a eappinR
steel to seal them. The girls, wear
ing clean gingham dresses and cape
bring their fruit.
How They Do IL.
A IRE is soon going under the stsv.u
which has a square folding tank fosd
water. into which a wire basket ID
fitted. The cans minus their tops ara
put in the wire basket and into the
water to sterilize by two of the newg
cooks. Two others peel tn. fruit and
two more pack IL tightly into the cans
as they come out.
Then the covers are fitted on and
another girl runs the heated Gaping
steel around the edges. melting the SOL
der and sealing the cans tightly. Twen-
ty minutes OF boiling in the wire hask-
- '''SHcS 'N'". luc lAbels are hOC,
adjusted until just before they are
shipped.
The girls are taught 70 can the Wild
and garden berries in glass. In the
fail. when the harvest is all an tin or
glass. the demonstration visits each
home. weighs each can and marks it's
weight upon the outside. The little
gardener adds her name and address
and the can is sent straight to some
bOdV'S table at 10 cents for III. t1p
rams of vegetables and - for glass Jars
NJ preserves. II the purchaser is dis
satisfied she notifies the department
and the girl is directed to send an
other can. II there are continued COM
plants OF her products il is assumed
that she Is not following directions and
she Is dropped from the club.
The Washington herald., 1914-06-28
KEEPING GIRLS
ONFARM LANDS
Uncle Sam Doing Great Work
in South with His Can
ming Clubs.
WHAT pEr0pDc pCVCAI
WHAT RECORDS REVEAL
Under Department of Agriculture
They Are Turning Tomatoes and
Beans Into Money.

Guided by a Southern schooI-teacher.
Uncle Sam is turning his attention to
keeping some Of his country nieCes
happy on the farm instead OF letting
them join the workers in the cities. says
the New York sun. In five Southern
States. under the direction OF the De
partment Of Agriculture, schoolgirls are
learning how 10 turn toma toes and snap
beans into money.
Miss Mary CrOmeT. of Aiken, s G,
began the girls canning clubs with forty
six Of her own pupils. She had heard
Of the boys corn clubs. and saw no
reason why the girls should not make
little money. too. So one spring she
encouraged forty-siN girls to plant little
tomato patches.
Works All summer
All summer she worked with them.
showing them how to hoe and cultivate.
Along toward harvest time the neigh
boring station OF the farm demonstration
service heard about what she was doing
and sent a canning expert to Aiken to
show the girls what to do with their
product One girl got 5l2 cans from her
patch. which gave her a profit at the rate
of t40o an acre. Even Jerry Moore. the
hoy who won the corn prize. had cleared
only $40 an acre. Miss Cromer was given
a place in the Department Of Agriculture
and has organized tomato clubs in five
States The clubs are formed very early
in the spring before planting time and
the demonstration who travels about tells
the girls how to have their land prepared.
The farms are only one-tenth Of an acre
now. that being supposed to be all that
one girl can well take care Of. Usually
the fathers do the plowing. but they are
paid for their lime and the fertilizer
they use, just "a an outsider would be
For the cultivating the girls allow them
selves n cents an hour. They learn to
enjoy the work
You must be careful not to get your
The Washington herald., 1914-06-28

ing all legislation relating in any way to the
social evil; improving the facilities Of the public
schools; securing better laws of sanitation and
hygiene. For twenty years this great organiza-
ton, with thousands OF members, has worked
through committees, publications, and mass
meetings for the welfare of the nation, led in
every community by its abest women.
The position of this vast and representative
body on the question of woman suffrage must
certainly be regarded as significant and impor-
tant. AT the beginning it was forbidden sub
ject, but by 1902 the futility of their work with
out the power TO elect the lawmakers had be-
come so apparent that at their annual meeting
this resolution was adopted: Without the firm
foundation of the parliamentary franchise there
is no permanence for any advance gained" This
was reafhrmed year after year by q majority OF
three-fourths, and in 1912 was supplemented by
a demand on Parliament that no electoral fran
chise bill should be passed which did not include
women.
Mrs. Humphrey Wards Views
Mrs Humphrey Ward, president of the
Ant-Suffrage Society, which belonged to this
National Council, then concluded that it was
time to get busy. There was absolutely no hope
of putting through an anti-suffrage resolution,
and so at the annual meeting of 1913 she threw
the weight of her influence in fav6t of propo-
sition that hereafter the council should pass no
resolutions on any subject. This was strongly
opposed by Mrs. Fawcett, president of the Ma
tonal Suffrage Association, and others. and re-
ceived only twenty-three votes in favor. Mrs.
Ward then endeavored to get through proposal
that five affiliated societies should have power to
veto the adoption of a resolution, and, in a
speech of several thousand words, pointed out
that this National Council was already regarded
by the public as suffrage association, and said
that if her resolution was not adopted the Anti
Suffrage Society should feel obliged to with
draw. She was able to muster only forty-four
votes, and so she took her doll rags and went
home, or, in other words, the Anti-Suffrage So
cetv of l27 members went out of the National
Council. Hereafter it will flock by itself in
Great Britain. Just as, for obvious reasons, its
only coadjutor hocks in the United States.
The National Council of Women of Canada,
formed in 1897, plays as prominent part in the
civic and social affairs of the Dominion as does
the one referred to above as those of Great Brit
ain. 1t is composed of nearly twenty national
and about two hundred local organizations, and
it carries on its work through nineteen standing
The Washington herald., 1914-06-28

en-. When women have achieved full
Hberty-in other words. fully found them
selves they will be Just as ra-
pacious. just as dishonest. just as sharp
and overreachinE as conditions and the
law permit. Those women Of brains and
character that deliberately select the
open for their talents instead OF the home
will ight man at his own game, and II
may he rout him, dispOssess him, eat
him up" OF the poor little ballot that
the innocents believe the goal OF femin-
ism, Miss AthertOn saws IL is absurd
that woman should not have it but
adds that the tndividuaIistic woman does
not care a snap of her finger for IL. ."
So We had suppOsed-merely an opening
lever for feminism en- rampant, and. as
put in the New York Call. a socialist
newspaper. "A means by which to obtain
socialism" as socialism is an impossi-
bility without suffrage"
The Snner Viewpoint.
Yet. sad to say. neither socialism nor
feminisin will he tried tomorrow, nor the
dsy after Men who see clearly, who
have had their youthful theories tempered
by long experience in actual government.
say that the present epidemic OF emo
ton is passing. Human history and
experience" declares former SENATOR
that things go round In circles. Radi-
cal doctrines are merely sign Of tn"
times. Some day there will lie further
swing round the cycle. and then you will
see a change"
We live in an age Of extremists" re-
Gently said former President Taft We
live in an age Of radical reformers. Of
who have the ear OF many
of the people. The danger TO the people
Is that in hysteria OF supposed reform
and a hope OF an impossible millennium.
the structure Of our government may be
so seriously affected and the relations
between the government and the indi-
vidual so substantially changed that Il
will take years 10 retrace the unwise
steps"
Ex-Gov. Edwin $ Stuart told Swath-
more men and women graduates. "Our
needs strong bodied and broad
minded men and women. These consti-
tute State. We are in danger from
class hatred and sectional prejudice
These unwhoesnme feelings are due TO
narrnw-mindedness mental attitude
which cannot extend its sympathies be-
yond its own class or section. There are
those who attempt to deIude the people
into thinking that they can accomplish
anything, no matter what. hy their votes
They seek to instill into the public mind
IDEAS that through the ballot hox and
legislation the operation OF natural laws
ran be changed and reE1lated-such for
Instance, as that of supply and demand.
They are dangerous demaEoEues They
obtain a following because they offer
nostrums for all ills that society is heir
10,
The Washington herald., 1914-06-28
What Cnusrs Ills.

These ills are due very often to per-
sonal deficiency in moral equipment. and
hundred other causes, none Of which
can be reached or cured by Legislation
The body polite Is in danger OF dying
from the remedies rather than from the
maladies.
THE greatest danger Of our institu-
tiOns and the most formidable menace to
our advancement and development lie In
the ability OF the damagoEue to secure
n following by appealing tn vanity and
arousing iraluusy. Men and measures
merits. but because some blatant agitator
has excited a feeling OF hostility by an
appeal to class hatred. There is a great
need Just now for sane. practical think
ing and practical action as an Rntidot..
To the wild theories which are being
and are most insidiuus and
dangerous influence
There is hardly a first-Class represent
ative newspaper in the East which has
rot. during the last week, editoriaIly
the sentiments these men
have so ably expressed. Contrast their
sound common sense with 'he 'regener-
ating gospe" Of Mrs. Ogden, with its ad-
vocacy of hoy and girl parenthood with
put marriage that means more for the
OF woman and the up
building OF the race than all the books
hitherto written" or with Gertrude
Atherton's prophecy CT tSe indiridualistie
woman of tomorrow" who will ngtfsl
man az his own game, and it may be-
rout him, disposses him, eat him up"
Compare the visvB OF these men,
The Washington herald., 1914-06-28

It cost a railroad company ZOO to
remodel a new station in a California
city when il was found that every
whisprr in n large waiting room could
he heard in every other part Of the
room
The Washington herald., 1914-06-28

The executive board will meet in London in
July to arrange for the International Suffrage
Congress at Berlin in 1915.
In this connection there is one point which
cannot be too strongly emphasized. With these
suffrage organizations of more hundreds of
thousands than can ever be counted, actively at
work all over the world, there is just one that
has ever broken law or done an unconstitu-
tional act, minority society in one country and
only few hundred of its members implicated in
actual deeds of violence. Yet because of these
there is an effort to hold the suffragists of the
whole earth responsible and prove the unftness
of all women to vote. These "nilitants" do not
belong to the International Suffrage Alliance or
to the International Council of Women; they
affiliate with no other association and despise
ordinary procedure. They have not wrecked the
forty years work of the National British Suf-
frage Association, and it was great pleasure to
learn from its delegates to the recent council in
Rome that favorable public sentiment there is in
creasing and that the press is modifying its hos
tility toward the enfranchisement of women.
They believe that a new government, whatever
its politics, will grant at least limited parlia-
so we'll organized as those of Great Britain, so
well informed on public questions, so methodi-
cal, so capable of conducting neeting accord
ing to rules of order, so thorough in printed re-
ports but their splendid effort goes unnoticed
at least by other countries, because all the news
paper space that can be spared is given to the
violent acts of few women driven to despera-
ton.
The Washington herald., 1914-06-28
Suffrage Resolution Adopted BY Inter-
national Body of Women Shows that
Twenty-three Countries Are Active
ly Engaged in Working for Equal
Franchise.
By IDA Hustled HARPER.
No. VII.

Rome June 13-No fact was so much in
evidence at the recent great international meet
ing of women in Rome as the progress of the
Worldwide movement for the franchise. AS has
been related, the resolution demanding it was
adopted by the representatives of twenty-three
countries without one dissenting voice, and this
from an organization that up to ten years ago
would not even allow a committee woman
suffrage! Of these twenty-three countries,
Greece and Argentina are the only ones without
an association for the express purpose of obtain
ing the vote. To this large number must be
added Portugal, which was admitted at this
meeting, and Bohemia, China, Gaicia, Iceland,
and Roumania that belong to the International
Suffrage Alliance, but not to the council. Spain.
Turkey, Persia, and Japan are not organized,
nor are Mexico and the Central and South
American republics, but aside from this it may
be said that practically all constitutionally gov
erned countries are to great or small degree
~rganlzed to secure votes for women. Even in
Java, Sumatra, Hawaii and the Philippine Isl
ands are groups working for this end.
Movement Encireles the Globe
The woman suffrage movement may truly be
said to encircle the globe, and so far as known
it is only in the United States and Great Britain
that associations of women have been formed to
oppose it. This universal movement has princi-
pally taken place within the last decade, and
while defeats have occurred there has not been
during the time any backward or reactionary in
dication. The forces everywhere have rallied at
once from each defeat and pressed forward with
more vigor and determination. To quote the in
,spiring words of the international president,
Mrs. Chapman Gait:
1T is reported of every land that there are
more meetings, larger audiences, more speakers,
more writers, more money; more influential ad-
vocates, more space in the press, more favorable
editorials, more earnest supporters in Parfia-
ment, more members more and better organiza-
ton. and best of all, more conservation"
The Washington herald., 1914-06-28
A Case in Point.

A case in point is that of the British Ma
tional Council and Union of Women Workers,
begun in 1885 and formally organized in 1895.
1t is composed of 155 national societies, among
them the Constitutional Suffrage Associations,
temperance societies, womens colleges in Ok
ford, Cambridge, and London, Young Women's
Christian Association, womenS local government
societies, teachers associations, social work de-
partment of the Salvation Army, etc. with ,431
divisions. This council is unquestonably the
greatest civic and social force in Great Britain,
and this entire article would not be long enough
merely to enumerate the lines of work-watch-
ing every bill before Parliament relating TO the
interests of women and children and insisting on
needful changes; obtaining the appointment of
women on public boards and as inspectors of
various kinds; looking after the hours, wages,
and conditions of wage-earning women; observ-
The Prescott daily news., 1914-12-03
MONEY TO LOAN

Money to lend in amounts fron
 SloO.OO to $l0,00OG0, on improvad and unimproved city property aas farm lands. Interest 6 her oosa s straight. Interest rayable annuall,, or semi-annually. Time: one to tas years. Applicants for loans will please give detailed descrint;on os property offered as security for loan We want County representatives to receive applications for loans an praise property, and serve as our ex- elusive representative in states of Flo rida, Georgia, North and South Caro lima, Alabama, Mississippi. Toxas Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee. and Louisiana. Attorney or real estate man preferred. Give two references Write or wire Southern Office. Soutb- eastern Mortgage Loan Association Fourth National Bank Building At. lanta, Ga. Advt. W-3
The Prescott daily news., 1914-12-03
DESTROY THE DESTROYER.

In his book, Mans Value to Soci- ety." Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hills says: "Statisticians reckon the aver age mans value at $500 year. Each worker in wood. iron or brass stands for an engine or industrial plant worth $10,000, producing at 6 per cent, an income of $500. The death of the av- craze workman, therefore, Is equiva- lent to the destruction of a s10,000 mill or engine. The economic loss through the non-productivity of 10000 drunkards is equal to one Chicago fire, involving S200,000,000"
 This does not take into account the cost of the crime and pauperism which 10000 drunkards entail upon the public, nor the degeneracy of drunkards offspring which adds enor- mously to the economic loss through nonproductivity and direct criminal ity. By the license system this nation is deliberately destroying each year it's chief assets. The liquor traffic must go!
The Prescott daily news., 1914-12-03
NEW CCMMANDM ENT.

The voice of science speaks with greater authority than ever before; and the average man is beginning to believe that it is the voice of God speaking to his children Science, industry philanthropy, patriotism, re- ligion and common sense are today laundering from a hundred Sinais the divine command: Thou shalt not use alcohol in any form, neither thou nor thy president, nor thy army nor thy navy, nor thy physician, nor thy pas tor, at the communion table, nor thy teacher, nor thy railroad engineer, nor thy chauffeur, nor anyone who dwells Stauffer In Union Signal.
The Prescott daily news., 1914-12-03
DANGERS IN BEER-DRINklNG.

Dr. s. H. Burgen, q practitioner for 35 years, 2S in Toledo, O., says:
 My attention was first called to the insidious effects of beer when I began examining for life insurance. I passed as unusually good risks five Germans, young business men, who seemed in the best of health, and to have superb constitutions. In a few years I was amazed to see the whole five drop off, one after another, with what ought to have been mild and easily curable diseases. On comparing my experi- ences with those of other physicians found they were all having similar luck with confirmed beer drinkers, and my practice since has heaped contir- nation upon confirmation"
The Prescott daily news., 1914-12-03

people. Tho Catholic Total Abstlnence Union of, America has 100000 mem bers, and upon that society the church through her last four popes has in- voked the blessing of heaven-to the envy, we are told, of all other Catho- lie organizations who have not been thus favored. This church. moreover, through her bishops and priests, ad- ministers the pledge to tens of thou sands of children every year on the occasion of their confirmation or first communion.
 Last summer saw the first organized move on the part of Catholics look ing definitely toward the abolition of the liquor traffic. A conference of Catholics of the United States and Canada in the interests of prohibition was held at Niagara Falls and adopted most radical resolutions. Hereafter moral suasion methods will be backed up by legal suasion policy.
The Prescott daily news., 1914-12-03
INFLUENCE OF SALOON.

The saloon is sending more children into the factory, the mines, the mills and shops, that ought to be at school or play, than the influence of the trade union has been able to eliminate, ei- ther by direct action or by legislation. The attitude of organized labor upon the employment of women in industry Is just the same as it is with children. The saloon influence is driving by the thousands women into the industrial world who ought to be at home.-John Lennon. Treasurer American Fedora tion of Labor and General Secretary of Journeyman Tailors' Union of Amer.
The Prescott daily news., 1914-12-03
OUT OF A JOB.

The cry is sometimes made that if saloons are voted out saloonkeepers will lose their jobs and their families will suffer. Did it ever occur to you. pertinently asks an exchange, that if the saloons are not voted out, hun dreds of the patrons of the saloons will lose their jobs and their families will suffer?
 When saloonkeeper puts man out of job, he disgraoes the man and his family, and units him for an- other job When prohibition puts saloonkeeper out of a job he be- comes more honorable citizen, his family becomes more honorable and the community secures a wealth-pro- ducing workman instead of a wealth destroying workman.
The Prescott daily news., 1914-12-03
TO LOVE WITH INTELLlGENCe
Much May Be Accomplished by Apply Ina Efficient Methods to
 One's Affections.

Efficiency in loving?" we may ask in surprise. Are you going to get even loving on an efficiency basis?'
 We'll. why not? Take the friend who has a girl chum living in some lonely place, or who is lonely in great city, wouldn't that friend be very efficient if she sat down and wrote the lonely girl, not a note, not hurried letter, but a real long, unhurried, chatty let ter?
 Take the daughter of an overworked mother who labors for hours em- broiderir the mother some gift wouldn't there be more Efficiency in her loving [, she ! 'actically helped her mother and learned 70 closo the doors softly when slamming jars the sensi- tive nerves?
 Wouldn't great many mothers be more efficient in t, cir loving if, in their desires for their children, they saw their problems from the children's points of view md not so much from their own?
 Wouldn't a good many wives be more efficient in their love for their hus bands if they studied a little moro than they do their husbands concep- tions of happiness rather than to hold quite so fast to their own ideas of what husbands happiness should be?
 Oh, yes, there is efficiency in lov- ing, and we do not make the emotions mechanical by applying efficient meth ods to our affection. We may love folks sincerely anl truly, but do we love them intelligently? Does our love really count in their lives? Does 1t en. noble ourselves and others? Is our love, in other words, efficient?
The Prescott daily news., 1914-12-03
1tGI2alRgEE[994lz[!!tsa5 1tI2lRgEE9l[!t ta Ma;aNl NWulLy -E1EJEZ ZA g. (Conducted by the National Woman'a
 Christian Temperance Union.)
A VIEW OF HIMSELF.

The following story Is going the rounds of the newspapers and is well worth passing on:
 A young man of a fine family and splendid gifts was going down as fast as 1t was possible for man to go. through strong drink. His friends had pleaded with him, but he had taken their warnings as an insult. One of them. who was a court stenographer, was sitting in restaurant one eve ming when the young man in question came In with a companion and sat down with his back to him at the ad- joining table. He was just drunk enough to be talkative about his pri- vate affairs, and on the impulse of the moment the stenOgrapher pulled out his notebook and took shorthand re- port of every word he said. It was the usual maudlin folly of young man with his brain muddled by drink and included a number of highly can did details of his daily life-things which, when he was sober, he would as soon have put his hand in the fire as speak about to a casual acquaint- ance. The next morning the ste- nographer copied the whole thing neatly and sent it round to his office. Tn less than ten minutes he came tear ing in with, What is this, anyhow"
 Its a stenographic report of your monologue at the restaurant last eve- ming" his friend replied, and gave him brief explanation.
 Did | really talk like that?" he asked faintly
 'I assure you 1t is an absolutely yer batim report" was the reply.
 He turned pale and walked out. He never drank another drop.