The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-05

Sent6Q by LnaC OIHce-uOlucT, Cdho LhO
request: Hasten hitter and help us
can our cow And Uncle Sam hast
ened: for the federal office-holder in
question was one of the four hundred
women who serve Uncle Sam as
county agents." teaching farm-girls
how to can tomatoes most other
things, from oranges to okra.
There's curious fact about these
county agents" which makes them
different, very different, from most
other teachers. It's the key, this fact
is, to the full meaning of the word
demonstration" These county
agents" do not report to Washington
on how many lessons have been
taught. They report on how many
cans of tomatoes-and other things
have been produced. The report
on results in the lives Of the people.
That's education-the kind of edu-
cation to which the Smith-Lever
money will be devoted.
In the year 1914 the girls belong
ing to Uncle Sans Tomato Clubs"
managed to add some 100000 cans
of various products to the total
wealth of the year.
But the most important thing
about those clubs to us just here is
that through them We now see Uncle
Sam going en- from helping the girls
to helping the girls mothers 1t was
mothers that summoned the county
agent" in Louisiana to demonstrate
the canning of a COW. And the sub
sequent proceedings deserve honor
able mention among the canning-bees
of our day. The women who were
present demonstrated" that cow
completely.
That COW entered upon longer
and tenderer culinary career than
had ever before fallen to the lot of
; any COW in the neighborhood.
Simple? That's the ideal To lift
the standard of living, inch by inch,
for the masses of the people, for the
all of us.
This winter, for the first time, the
four hundred women county agents
who report to Uncle Sam have re-
; ceived instruction to work definitely
for the mothers as we'll as the girls.
| And how? We are delighted to find
that the United States government
for it's first contribution to the life
of farm women, has picked out the
| very thing almost unanimously men
/ toned by our own readers, in the let
tiers sent to us in our Smith-LeveI
prize letter contest, as the first need
of farm women 1t is "labor-savine
l convenience"
t Men are lazy. That's one of their
: Ichief virtues. If a man wants tC
/ move hundred briks Is yards, he
3 puts them on wheelbarrow and rolls
Y thief and makes one trip. II woman
: wants to move hundred dishes II
= yards she carries them and makes
: five trips. There's a fine sale fol
e wheelbarrows and very poor one
: of wheel-trays.
v Uncle Sam will demonstrate
0 wheel-trays. But, first, he will dem
onstrate" fireless cooker.
: And then they will go on to othel
"labor-saving conveniences' such al
:. kerosene stoves" and "wheel-trays'
: and "fll-traps" and "step-saving de
: vices"-and, pleasure that "befor'
t long this work in labor-saving con
s veniences will include practical waite
works systems"
r How simple, how pathetically sim
S pile, are the beginnings of practica
v water-works system for the womal
n with the pals. There's a count
d agent" in South Carolyina who ha
q been blessing-and use that wor'
IS advisedly-blessing the women o
her county by demonstrating" tn
s following system"
On the outside of the kitchen wall
p shelf.
= On the shelf an empty molasses bal
rel.
t. In the kitchen galvanized $1.2
n sink,
.e From the barrel to the sink piec
1t of pipe.
ID In the pipe 50-cent faucet.
A. There's the start. Between thu
start and a bathroom and hot waite
III lies many weary day. But tn
g. smallness of this work is its bignes
Almost anybody can show people no
s. to finish. Uncle Sam is showing the
n how to begin.
D. Is it nothing to you? Let us SO
i'd Pyou live in tenth-foor five-rool
IL apartment in large city. 1t
e. nothing to you? Why, even to yo
he and to your children, the farm WI
rk man is the most important in IL
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