The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-07-18

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prevent the huge trusts from
asking huge profits so long rs it
permits the smaller concerns to
make any profit at all. The only
way the cost of living can be
lowered to the people is for the
government to fix prices based
on the average cost of prOduc-.
tion, otherwise the only adterna-
tive is the method employed so
much by the warning nations in
Europe government production
and distribution of the basic war
necessities.
Bill TO Help Farm Women.
Every farm man and woman in
the nation ought to get behind
and urge the passage of a bill re-
Gently introduced in both branch
es Of Congress by Miss Jeanette
Rankin, member of Congress
from Montana and Senator Rob
inson of Arkansas designed to
safeguard the lives Of mothers
and babes at childbirth who live
remote from towns. Over .22,-
600 American women die every
year at childbirth and most of
these are women who~die from
lack of proper instruction and
attendance because they live too
far from proper help. Hundreds
of thousands Of other childbirths
result in weak and nervous
children from a proper lack of
knowledge and attention, and
farm women are the main suf-
ferers. This evil was recog-
nized years ago in England and
today England is spending ST.
100000 yearly to protect moth
ers and babes in England and
Wales. Thanks mainly to Miss
Julia. Lathrop, chief of the
Children's bureau of the De-
partment of Labor, who has
carefully studied and urged this
measure, the. matter is now be-
fore Congress. The bill propos=
es to grant Federal aid to state
work for mothers and babes in
rural districts. The amount al
lowed for the first year would
be 81, ,480, ,0OO, including the ex-
penses of Federal Administra-
tion. This sum to he increased
until in 1923.24 it will be ST.
100000. Amounts above the
first $4,000 will be available to
a state only after the state has
appropriated an equal sum. The
aim Of the bill is to finally place
a consultation office in every
county or rural community in
the nation and furnish medical
care for mothers at home and in
hospitals. Mothers in remote
sections will be encouraged to
have their babies born in hospi-
tails. The bill has the support
Of the Administration and every
farmer is urged to write his Con-
gressnan and Senator urging its
passage.
Interests Oppose Labor Bill.
The extreme sensitiveness Of
the big business interests to any
thing threatening their profits
or prestige was brought out in
the recent debate in the House
on the Heating bill, providing
for q, minimum wage commission
for working women in the Dis
trict Of Columbia. The bill is
designed to protect women work
ers IN department stores, laun-
dries, restaurants, etc, and al
though q similar measure has
been passed in ten states, the
Old Guard was on deck to op-
pose it. Among the latter werel
j., Hampton Moore, Of SteeH
Trust fame, Uncle" Joe Cannon
and Nick Lon9worth so9-in-law
of Theodore Roosevelt. q Long
worth got an amendment thruet
exempting domestic servantsi
from the benefit /of the bill. |
Moore, Walsh Of Massachusetts,
and Volstad Of Minnesota were
shocked over the title Of the bill
because it declares that the
health, lives and N.morals" Of |
women are to be protected byl
the wage board. They wanted
the word morals" struck out.
Moore objected to Congress com
11itting itself to the doctripel
that morals had anything toadoI
with economic conditions. Can-
non argued that the law Of SUP
ply and demand would take care
Comtinusd q paee 3.