The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-04
SUPREME DUTY OF WOMEN


Creek, Mich, who is lecturing at the
Rush county chautauqua and the
teachers institute this week, gave
the women new conception of their
business. She said too often women
had been accused of falling down
on their job because they had been
showing too much interest in every
day affairs
II am just old-fashioned enough
but wait a minute am a suffra-
gette-to bark back to God and what
| He appointed us to do, rear men,
she said. That's our job here ON
earth rearing men. Sometimes it
takes two women and then it's an
awful job. And again a third one
il the form of a second wife is call
co to complete the task, and even
then they may make mess of it
| What the United States needs is men
The strength and integrity of the
nation depends on our business.
Mr. Banker, we can get along
without your your business Mr..
Merchant, we can get along without
your business. Mr.. Farmer, 1t
might go hard, but we can get along
without you. But they can't get
along without our business, because
they always need men.
q remember hearing the national
corn king speak to crowd of corn
growers. He told them to go
through their fields and pull out the
small ears. Don't waste your time
raising nubbins he said.
But that's what we've been do :
inf for years. Raising nubbins has
reduced the standard height for
standard armies of the void six in
echs in fifty years. 1t we aren't
rearing as good stock as our mothers
did, there's reason for it.
why is the race reteriorating !?
Eugenists say it is because the sires
are not right. Men are sapping out
their vitality and it is showing in
their children. Does a man think
he pays for his glass of beer when
he lays his nickle down on the bar?
Never. He pays for his glass of beer
in his baby
DR.. Geisel quoted from a celebrat-
ed German scientist who inyestigat-
ed the results of alcohol on children
in Munich, the greatest beer-drink
ing city in the world, and in Maine.
She said his observations proved that
two and half more sound babies
were born in dry territory than in
wet. Continuing she said: He
went up to rocked-ribbed Maine. :
YOU know, where prohibition doesn /
prohibit. Ever hear that before?
The only reason prohibition doesn' [
prohibit is because New York and
j., New Hampshire are so wet" that
| they slop over into Maine. He found
| out that two and half more sound
babies were born in Maine than in
Munich Seventy-one and a half
babies out of every hundred in Mu-
nish. Therefore, it is up to yoa
fathers and those of you who expect
TO be mothers to move into dry
territory, for it's better for your
business
Sometimes ! am asked why we
women want the ballot. We do not
want it to clean up politics. No, l
am convinced politics is a mess. II
you men can't do any better than
you have with all the time you have
had, there's no use for US to try.
We want the ballot TO drive the IL
Quor business out so we can help our
business. The'liquor men know WIN
We want the ballot, and that's the
reason they are fighting 5"
DR.. Geisel quoted statistics 20
show the immense cost to the nation.
o. caring for imbeciles and Grim
inals, "a majority Of whom are in
one of the two conditions because OF
| alcoholism. she commented on the
recent statement from Russia that
the people of that country had saved
az much as s3O.OOo,0OO in a month
since vodka was eradicated. In
spite OF the war. whereas they had
y never in the history Of the nation