The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-07-19
Our Washington Letter
Nv Our Special Correspondents

thousands a.. and nervous children
80, . nroper lack of knowledge an"
attention and farm women are w
main sufferers. This evil was fesos
ni~ed years ago in England and 70
dav England is spending $l,loo'uoo
yearly to protect mothers ana DaDe
: england and Wales. Thanks MAN
~ - Miss Julia Lathrop, Chief OF the
Children's Bureau Of the Depai' i,e
~ labor who has carefully studeo
ond urged this measure, the matter
i now before Congress. The bill pro-
noses to grant Federal aid to sta'e
worl for mothers and babes IN furai
districts. The amount ailoweo o lo
the first year would be 81 '40o'ooo'
including the expenses OF feoerai al
ministration, this sum to be lncrea as
until in 1924 it will be Sz'4oo'ooo.
Amounts above the first Slo'ooo "in
hoavailable to a state only after the
state has appropriated an equal sum
The aim of the bill is to finally place
consultation Office in every couh-
tv or rural community in the natloh
and furnish medical care for noun
sat home and in hospitals. Moth-
ers in remote. sections Will De en-
co,raced to have their babies born
in hospitals. The bill has the sup
mort of the Admin: stration and ev-
erv farmer is urged to write his Con-
gresham and Senator urging us
passage.
Interests Oppose Labor Bill
The extreme sensitiveness OF the
big business interests to anything
threatening their profits or prestige
was brought out in the recent debate
IN the House on the Heating Bill,
providing for a minimum wage com
| mission for working women IN the
District of Columbia. The bill is de-
/ signed to protect women workers in
department stores, laundries, res
taurants, etc., and although a SINH
lar measure has been passed in ten
states, the Old Guard was on deck
to oppose it. Among the latter were
J. Hampton Moore of Steel Trust
fame, "Uncle" Joe Cannon and Nick
Longworth, son-ln-law of Theodore
Roosevelt. Longworth got an amend
ment through exempting domestic
servants from the. benefits of the
bill. Moore, Walsh of Massachu
sets, and Volstea of Minnesota
were shocked over the title of the
bill because it declares that the
I health, lives and morals, OF women
\ workers are to be protected by the
i wage board They wanted the word
morals" struc:.s out. Moore objected
to Congress committing itself to the
doctrine that morals has anything to
do with economic conditions. Can
non argued that the law of supply
anu uCIiJIIu WOu1u tdkc Cd1C VI Gllt
, workers and Meyer London replied
that supply and demand could not
take care of the millions of our boys
who would return fl ON the front ant
would have to be provided with work
II League Congressman Patriotic
Congressman George M. Young
recently reelected by the votes Of
the North Dakota Nonpartisar
: Leaguers, hardly answers the de
: scription of the disloyalists big bust
ness is holding w as the type o.
, League leaders He has gone tt
, Europe with a half a dozen othe1
members of the House to see VIVA
) the American TROOPS are doing. Lad
en- with knowledge OF true needs ant
; conditions at the font he will make
, great champion when he return,
for our fighting boys and our othe7
war needs.