Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-13
FARM LABOR IN IOWA.
TTraar Star Citnner1

| lIraer Star-Clipper.J
Farm labor in Black Hawk county
| and vicinity appears to be greatly in
excess Of the demand. The past week
a large number of men have registered
but at present there are no places for
them. The demand for workers on the
farms is very small. The supply and
| demand for laborers in other lines are
about equal. Waterloo Courier.
This is what the Star-Clipper has
commended all the year. A lot Of peo-
pie said much Iowa land would stand
idle this year because no one could be
hlred to work 1t, so many farm boys
being called into the army. The gov
eminent ordered the county eXemp-
ton boards to defer farm hands. The
boards protested. because they knew
there was no scarcity of farm help.
Finally the government became better
informed and last week cancelled the
order to allow drafted agricultural
workers to be, passed. They will all be
taken in their turn from now on. There
never was any excuse for such an or
der. There has been no scarcity of
farm help in Iowa nor of renters. A
hundred more farms could have been
rented in north Tama this spring if
any could be had. You can hire plenty
of farm help but it is next to impos-
sible to secure a mechanic or trades
man or clerk
"A CONNECTICUT REACTIONARY.
tSioux City JournaL]
senator Brandegee, of Connecticut.
has been thoroughly aroused by re-
cent events in congress and elsewhere,
and has been constrained to make a
protest. He has been able with diff
Guilty to tolerate the .compacency of
Secretary Baker in the presence of
war crises. But he has been able to
MAINTAIN decorous conduct and cir
culnspect speech until the discussion
OF what seemed to him extraneous and
irrelevant questions came before the
senate. Woman suffrage and prohibi-
ton were too much for him. At that
point he had to protest against such
discussions during the war"
Why Numbered the senator, I'VE
won every war we were ever in with
out woman suffrage and prohibition"
He refers to the revolutionary war,
the war of 1912, the Mexican war, the
war of 1S60-65. and the Spanish
American war. Thru them all, he says,
there were no pink tea parties, and
no talking about putting pink chemises
on men and Plymouth Rock pants on
women He closes his oratorical period
with the declaration that the women
do not propose TO go over in the
trenches abroad and do no fehiing"
Nor is the senator in favor of re-
dnclNg the SNliinr'c
to include liquor for he has no use for
prohibition for the lads in the army.
The idea of filling the belly with ice
water before the men go over the
top against shot and shrapnel and
machine guns and poisonous gas is
revolving 10 him. and he asserts that
the war is not going to be won by
fads and fancies." by which he means
woman suffrage and prohibition. And
he adds the definite advice: Now. let's
get down to brass lacks and win the
war"
The trouble with the Connecticut
senator is that he has not inhaled the
progressive atmosphere that has en-
circled the national capital during his
long term of service in the house and
senate. Evidently he still breathes the
essence that perEaded New England
when his ancestors sold wooden nut
megs. He has not been liberated from
the conservatism of discarded stand
ards. SO he finds himself now stand
ing out on the narrow edge of the only
section of the country where suffrage
has made no inroads and prohibition
has been stopped temporarily, uttering
an alarm that few, alas, will heed.
1t is very true that women will not
go TO the trenches. Their husbands,
brothers and sons will do that But
they will be leaders of a mighty and.
valiant and helpful army at home.
They viii assist in supplying the sinews
of war that will achieve victory, as the
senator suggests. They will assist in
maintaining the morale of the people
at home who will sustain the govern
ment in war efforts. And the part that
they have taken thru the instrumental
ity of the ballot since the beginning of
the war strengthens the determination
OF the men whose purpose can not be
questioned to extend to them the right
OF suffrage without indefinite waiting.
Nor is the country alarmed lest its
sons abroad fail in doing soldierly
service because they may have in them
less liquor and more cold water than
the SenatOr likcg They will not f,;