The Washington herald., 1914-07-12

have II now, four of which have survived
it for a generation; and in the next
they refer to things that are going tC
happen when women get the vote -
as IL no community in all the world had
tried this experiment, What about the
States that have had woman suffrage
all these years? Did women get the
same pay as men there 'as soon as they
got the vote?'
Wage of Teachers.
The average monthly wage Of female
teachers in Utah is $3.50, while the aver
age pay of men is s7732 That is. the
average pay of female teachers is only
20 per cent OF the male teachers. while
in Maine II is - per cent: in Virginia. u
per cent: in Indiana and Missouri 80 per
cent, and in New Mexico. 80 per cent
Also in Wyoming. the average monthly
wage of female teachers. or A difference
OF $32.g per month, as compared with a
difference in Iowa OF S2ls1: South Da-
kota. 1904; Ohio. $l4JO: Pennsylvania.
$li-3S; in Oklahoma. $S.6l, and in Ala
bama, S6.I5
The average monthly salary OF all men
teachers in the United States is So. s..
and of women teachers, $5l6l. a differ
ence OF SlOE which is less than one
third the difference found in Wyoming
and less than one-half the difference
found in Utah. where women have voted
for fOrty-four and eighteen years. re-
spectively. Yet. as soon as women get
the vote DR.. Shaw tells US. women will
get the same pay as men for the same
work.
These statements are in line with the
suffragists' plea that without votes for
women a mother cannot keep her chill
dran nrOOhrIy fad nr prOfArTad Uhila
educators. physicians. and sociologtsts
are learning that personal skill in con-
nection with her every day duties is OF
more importance to the individual women
and the race than anything that science
or state can accomplish by legislation
A few years ago we turned to patent baby
foods as the solution for unhygenic feed
ing Of infants; today we know that even
a dirty and ill-condtioned mother Sc
cretes better milk for her baby than can
be bought in any laboratory.
Ignorant Mother Love.
We must WASH our homes and enlighten
our mothers where II is necessary. Sani-
tary nurseries and institutional care are
not the remedies for ignorant mother
love; and here. as everywhere else.
science is learning to depend on awaken
ing and conserving natural instincts by
education, rather than trying to train
few experts to take the places of
mothers in rearing worthy children.
1t is hard to pick up a single news
paper or magazine without reading of
the wonderful work some lone man or
woman has accomplished. and left as
legacy to civilization. As in mechanics,
the patentee OF every great device that
has assisted industry is always a single
individual of genius or insight, so in art.
in literature, and in reform, the great
deeds are done. not by the bulk of voting
or nonvoting humanity. but by the seer,
the individual, the genius, man or woman.
who can invent new tools or thoughts to
serve mankind. And education is the
medium by which humanity gains the
benefit. And while we read the history
of the various inventors and reformers
let US reflect that neither Edisons nor
Lincolns are products of progressive leg
islation. and that not one reform in a
hundred is credited to the organized ef-
forts Of any political party.
Even the Socialists. loudest advocates
of the impossibility of doing anything un-
til the State owns all the means of pro-
duction, proudly point out that Upton
Sinclair's book. the Jungle. was the force
behind our present meat inspection laws.
Yet Sinclair. at the time. had no vote in
the packing-house district. and no polit-
ical party backing. He was only an un-
known and poorly-paid writer Of dime
novels, according to his own confession.
Many Years Ago.
Another book, by a woman. written so
many years ago that Uncle Toms Cabin
Is forgotten except in the rural commu-
mites, is claimed to have done more to
abolish slavery than all the organized
efforts Of the abolitionists. How are
these things possible? Is II not because
public opinion in our country is stronger
than politics. and that anyone who can