Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-14
Editors Letter Box
What Do You Waste?

What Do You Waste?
Editor, kennebec journal
Could you spare few lines Of your
space to announce the plan the
Volunteers of America have just in
augurated to help along the national
conservation Of food and also to help
provide for the many needy families
| who will depend upon the volunteers
for food during the winter?
The tremendous increase in the cost
OF living has resulted in hundreds OF
| more calls for help and these calls will
increase with the approach OF winter.
On the other hand the war collections,
the sale of Liberty Bonds and again
the high cost of living. has curtailed
our donations.
Our plan is to ask the farmers in
New England to help us. We would
| like to have them send us any sur
plus vegetables or fruit they may
have. A bushel of potatoes. too small
for the housewife to bother with, will
serve as mashed potatoes at several
suppers in our Orphans Home. The
extra corn, beans, or anything you can
spare will be prepared and canned by
US for distribution among the needy
| in the winter and for use at big
Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners.
also at the hot Saturday night suppers
we give.
We are going to ask the housewives
to send US jar of their preserves. II
they feel they can spare it, every little
bit sent now will go long, long way
during the cold winter months.
If you can help us by explaining our
plan to your readers you will be Civ
| ing aid to a worthy cause. 1t will be
one of the greatest benefits to us to
have your paper print our story and
we extend to you our heartfelt thanks
for anything you can do for US.
Fred A. Lindsay,
Colonel.
So warrenton Street. Boston, Sept. Z.
Madison. Maine. Sept. -. 1917.
Editor, Kennebec Journal:
Some of your readers may be as in
terested in some Echoes" of the
election as much as the writer.
Overheard on the street:
ID Two men. How are you go
ing to vote?" Don't know" Take
drop once in a while. don't you?"
Yes" "Wen, if them women crit
tiers get to runnin' the government
you won't be able to get any any
where." Guess I'll vote No then"
And he proceeded to the booth! Noble
pair!
20 Man reputed to be very
prominent citizen: II won't listen
to anything favoring woman suffrage!
There is no argument that can con-
vince ME! The very mention Of it
makes me mad" Little wonder that
distinguished German citizen. with
evidence of this sort in his mind de-
clared to the writer that Democracy
is a miserable failure. That sounds
like Abdul Hamid the Turk of Harem
infamy and bloody hands. 1t sounds
like Wilhelm III, the self appointed
substitute for the Wise for all the
world"'
C> II hope the women won't win
out" Why" They're not fit to
vote. Dent know enough Amt strong
enough" Enquiry discloses the fact
that the lady of this home knows
enough to care for it very creditably,
train TIE family. NOW the lawn, make
the garden. tend the furnace. shovel
the snow, and is reputed to furnish
most Of the family brains. He fur
nishes what money he thinks is nee
essary, eats. smokes, ad sleeps there.
She don't know enough to vote!
(3) II should have been forever
ashamed of myself il had gone to the
polls and voted against woman suf-
frage The man who did that made
fool Of himself by acknowledging by
his ballot that he had married wife
who in his political and moral judg
ment had not sense to cast a vote"
And then added. IT could not have re-
turned home and looked my wife in
the face again"
The above is three to one In Fo1l,-'e
favor, Madison however, voted two
to one in honor Of her noblest and
hest citizens
Would it not be we'll for us to drape
our state Motto. "Dirigo"? This Is
another instance in which we have not
proved true to 1t,
The Fathers Of New England waded
through seas Of blood for the franchise
at Bunker Hill. Concord and Lexing
ton. and now their descendants deny
that dearly bought privilege to one
half Of our most intelligent and re-
sponsible citizens! And vet these are
The makers Of our homes. the majority
in our Churches. the fewest in our
courts and jails. accomplishing work
ers of longest hours. the kindliest,
purest. and very best of our people.
Is it fair treatment? Is it square
deal? Another generation Of tiny ty-
rants must die before this right OF
citizenship will become the law OF the
land. fright forever on the scaftold.
Wrong forever on the throne. Yet that !
scaffold sways the future. And behind
the dim unknown. Standeth God amid !
the shadows. Keeping watch above
His own"
Respectfully.
William Wood. |
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