Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-19
FEWER POTS AND PANS
PLATFORM OF WOMAN
CONGRESS NOMINEE
Community Cooking Among
Measures for Bettering House
wives Hard Lot Advocated
by DR.. Elizabeth Baer
NOMINEE OF. SOCIALISTS

The irst woman TO be nominated for
congressman-at-Large east OF the Missis-
sippi River Is DIR. Elizabeth Baer. OF Phil
sdelphia. Doctor Baer a practlcing physi-
clan, has been nominated by the Socialist
party for the position of Consressman-at-
Large Of the State of Pennsylvania.
'Tn the Socialist party" said Doctor
Baer today, II have charge OF the educa-
tional department. We, my associates In
this department and myself aim TO bring
better understanding of socialism to the
elected, l should endeavor 10 keep up my
educational work. Only my sphere OF in
fuence would be broadened; It would In
clude my fellow Congressman"
But Doctor Baer, II elected, would not
rely solely on indirect influence to better
conditions: she would block measures that
were not for the public good
FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN
II would work for better conditions for
women and children-to make homes
good place for women to stay In and to
give every child an opportunity to get an
education and n start in life"
The remaklng of the home Of the average
American family is a problem that interests
Doctor Baer A man at his Job works a
certain number Of hours day; house.
wifes work Is never done The idea that
| she must stay In the house in order to make
| a home of It is old fashioned. In the thou
sands of little homes in the city. says Doc
| tor Baer, every Monday morning, at the
same early hour, the weeks washing goes
out on SO many clotheslnes. The daily
| drudgery goes on day in, day out. three
meals a day, S65 days a year and will go
| on under existing conditions. These condi-
tions Doctor Baer would remedy In this
| way:
| Community kitchens in apartment homes
yratld ha IN vi ha w n
problem" said Doctor Baer. mot apart
| ment houses as they are today small rooms,
poorly ventilated and lighted; but large
| rooms, homelike and comfortable. the
community kitchen would be managed by
| staff of specialists, cook who would
| attend to nothing but the meats. a pastry
| cook to concoct desserts, a cook who would
| prepare vegetables only capacious court
yard would serve a playground for the
| children; q trained Kindergarten would
| supervise their play. In brief, community
| life conducted by specialists would give
| woman-the hardworking housewife-an
| opportunity to create a real home for her
| family. 1t takes more than blacking a
| stove daily and putting out the slop can to
| make a home"
Every woman has an antipathy for the
daily drudgery that goes to keep a home
| in order, claims Doctor Baer. AS soon as
the head of the family has a surplus 1t is
used to hire a household servant. AS soon
as woman can, she gets another woman
| to do her household work But there's still
woman doing the monotonous work. And
Doctor Baer wants to readjust matters SC
that there won't be any monotonous work
| for any woman to do.
FAvoRs SPECIALIZATION.
THE whole tendency in education is tc
Specialize" said Doctor Baer. Specialists
will do the same work in less time and they
will have regular hours. Their work will
have an end.
THE work of the future" predicts Doctor
Baer. will be social. And my use of tn,
word social is not in accord with the def
milton generally accepted. The social worl
of the future will not suggest philanthropy
as II does today. The word will stand fol
work for the community, for the benefit o.
all. For instance forestry. landscape gar
dening and the cultivation of community
Il gardens will attract the next generation
/ Work done for the community will be NOR,
interesting than work for private individ
uals. And that is one form of practica
socialism work done for the benefit of al
and the profit of none"
Doctor Baer has just returned from tn,
national convention of the Suffrage party
to which she went as delegate of the Social
ist party.
"Of course I am a stanch suffragist an,
| am also in favor of Federal amendment
| Though Doctor Baer Is not at all conf1den
OF election to Congress and fears that, evei
. II her campaign be successful. some consti
tutional objection would be brought up T.
unseat her, she believes that socialism 4
putting its handwriting on the wall.
THE threatened strike of 4oo. 900 railroa,
|, | men-well, that shows we're going some
Four hundred thousand men stood togethe
and then they got what they wanted. Il
! New York several unions have offered /
|! go on a sympathetic strike to bring quicl