The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-11-27

Is not tnat comment JUST IL IL is
injurious for girls to work more than
nine hours in shops will it not be just
as injurious for her to work longer
than that in our homes?
We have in our midst women OF
other nations who have no conception
OF citizenship or the aims or ambi
tons of our country. What are we
doing to help them to a better under
standing of our ways and institutions?
Boise is doing splendid work along
this line and one Boise woman proudly
told me that they had a number of
alien women helping in their Red
Cross work. These people help make
up our population and they will help
or hinder our purpose as we help or
hinder their progress.
We are fighting for the freedom of
all people, to give them their right to
life, health and pursuit OF happiness.
Then let us first make each possible
within our own district. You see that
the social and industrial workers have
plenty of work ahead.
Harking back to the question of re-
sources-We have vast undeveloped
possibilities within our own state.
How many are giving any time and
thought to the conservation of these
interests? Take our Carey Act prof.
ects. How many have been wisely
administered We find all sorts of
abuses existing and it has now be-
come necessary for the federal gov
eminent to step in, in order to form
anything like fair adjustment. We
have discovered that the state is not
an adequate medium through which
our vast arid lands may be irrigated.
In the meantime, with thousands of
people in need of homes and thous-
ands of acres of arid land in our state
there is an annual run off of III, 000-
900 acre feet of water at the Dalles,
one-half of which or S5,500,000 acre
feet belong to water sheds of Idaho
and much of it to our own district.
Our conservation workers may find
arduous task in attempting to find
means of placing the many acres
needed for production under irriga-
ton without the usual distress to the
settlers and the abuse of privilege.
The hue and cry from all sides is
that our educational system like that
of England is inadequate, that radical
changes must be made to meet the
needs of the times.
1t is claimed that the child is not
developed physically. so per cent of
all men examined for the army and
navy are physically unfit for service.
That the graduates of our colleges
and universities are unable to con-
centrate.
That the finished product of our
schools are not capable of success in
the business world. SO per cent of all
business men are failures
That our schools do not turn out
capable and understanding citizens.
They lack the knowledge and duties
of citizenship.
Again our government stands in
dire need of specially trained men
and women to carry on the vast work
of preparation, conservation and war
fare and its equipment for such train
ing is very limited. We have thous-
ands of young men and women who
are anxious to get this needed train
ing and do a bigger bit for their
country, but under existing economic
conditions, such training is out of
their reach financially. 1t should be
our privilege as well as our duty to
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needed positions.
May not those interests in education
expend their energies well in attempt
ing to meet these educational needs
of our youth? Health is a matter of
vital Importance. We are told that the
spread of tuberculosis is endangering
the very life of the French nation.
Many other forms of disease will be
found on the increase owing to the
conditions under which the men must
live while in the trenches. This war
will send back to us many that will
be MANNED and ill. Now is the time
to double our efforts in the drive for
prevention and cure for tuberculosis
and begin some work along the line of
caring for the i'll and finding means
of helping those manned to earn
livelihood. When a man has risked
his all for us we should at least let
him keep his self-respect by helping
him to a livelihood under new condi-
lions.
Pensions are all very we'll and just
ly given, but such men as are going
to the front will not be content to
subsist on a pension alone. They
are men of action and will demand
the right to continue to render such
service as they are able to give. Let
us study the avenues of livelihood
open to such men and endeavor to
fill that need when the time comes.
1t is under such times of stress
that vice finds means of establishing
its self in new and varied forms. Ev-
eryone is so busy that there is no
time to give to matters at hand and
we are appalled, when some terrible
thing has been brought to our atten-
ton. Many forms of vice and graft
that we are fighting now had their
rise during the civil war.
AS far as our boys at the front are
concerned everything possible is be-
| ing done to furnish them entertain
ment and clean living We have
shown our interest in this phase of
work in material ways, but are we
doing all that can be done for the
youth at home along this same line
Are we not for the most part just
letting them drift? Many of the in
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