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New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
BY DEEMS WELLER

T~HE sound of high pitched voices filtered
out from the car barn at Seventh Ave-
and Fifteth Street and was
drowned in the rumble of cars outside 1t
came from the conductorettes' locker room at
the head of the stairs
They talking politics and they were
angry The point at issue was the two labor
bills limiting them to an eight-hour day be-
tween a. and 10 p. m.
"It gets my goat" said No. 2948, 'trying
to reduce US to forty-eight-hour week and
telling we can't go out after 10 o'clock
I'D like to tell those fellers in Congress that
a woman conductor can conduct herself as
we'll at night as in the day time
"For my part" said No. 1884, lacng up
her puttees with a snap, "Td rather work at
night than in the day. The traffic isn't so
heavy. The cars have to be run, you know,
and somebody has to work nights. Twenty
seven cents an hour looks just good to me
in the evening as it does in the morning. I'd
work every hour that could get. The more
hours work the more pay l get I'm holding
mans job. Men conductors work at night.
If l am able to do mans work in the day
time, l guess l can do it at night"
Miss Marjorie Mcconnell had an argument
all her own She pointed out that women
conductors should work at night because
womans place is in the home.
II like night work." said Marjorie McCon-
nell. II like it because it benefits myself and
my home. I can clean my house in the morn
ing and tidy up around the place, have plenty
of time to sleep, and then when the time
comes l go to my work with a free and
easy mind
when you have day run it's entirely diff
ferent. You get home at o'clock and then
you have to eat supper. Who wants to do
housework at that time of the evening? The
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
BY BEATRICE WASHBURN

EVELYN and l arose early last Sat-
~ urday in order to register. Reg
istration booths, we knew vague
ly, were always to be found in public
institutions. We tried the library and
the Children's Court and an under
takers shop. Over this last we hesi-
tated so long that the undertaken came
out in person and directed us to public
school. There are four of these in our
vicinity, and we tried them all. One
was deaf and dumb school, and we had
to assure the janitor by a system of
signs that we were on an honorable err
rand. He asked for our names, ad-
dresses, birthplaces, business references
and calling cards.
Then he looked keenly toward a map
of the City of New York hanging on the
wall, and wrote out carefully on his
pad: what you ladies want is barber
shop. You will find one on the next
block"
We did, but it was not the right one.
We didn't know much about barber
shops, and it was rather a narrowing
experience. If women must register
there, why can't they do it in front, in
stead OF having to pass long line of
mute figures covered with towels? We
ran the gantlet of all those dumb, in
qulring eyes and finally stumbled into
small back room, where there was a
plain table completely surrounded by
two men. In the doorway stood an off,
Ger of the law, and between him and the
things disguised as telephone booths in
the back was a long line of waiting fe
male figures.
The man at the desk was distinct
disappointment. He wore a deep green
suit, celluloid collar, and his head was
covered with tight, black curls. He
spoke very little English, wrote even
less and could not spell at all. In civilian
LIE he might have been an excellent
truck driver or ticket chopper, but in
an official capacity he somehow Jared
with our conception of the fitness of
things. Opposite MIN sat a fat man.
who shouted aloud our name. age and
other personal details for the apparent
benefit OF the motionless figures in the
chairs outside
Your name?" he queried loudly. as
we tlmldly approached. We have often
wished something could be done about
our name, it is so unpardonably full of
VoWels so we said 1t, spelled it, wrote
ibid everything we could to excuse it
and at each try the man in the green
suit only moaned and scratched his
head.
Il no SPELL he pleaded pathetically.
and peace was not restored until we
produced calling card, which he pains
takingly copied.
'Birthplace!'' shouted the fat man.
and at the word Chicago" the curly
headed one quivered like leaf. With
the assistance of all concerned he got
as far as the &c" and then collapsed
completely. Write U. S. A." suggest
ed the policeman as compromise. and
so it was settled.
Then came questions like how long
had we lived in the state, in the coun-
ty, in the district, what apartment did
we live in, if any; what floor, what was
the owners name, birthplace, occupa-
ton and personal character. Did we
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02

4 S WE have said before, women
~ have done night work and hard
work ever since the first baby
was born, but nobody thought of pro-
tecting them from it's i'll effects until 1t
became an industrial instead Of hu-
man problem. Even now, with so much
legislation and agitation in Albany
about women conductors, no laws have
been invoked to protect the trained
nurse, who not only works on twelve
hour shift at night in hospitals, but on
private cases is "on CALI twenty hours
of the twenty-four.
Why do those who point out so pa
thetically the effect the hard work of
women will have on the future Of the
race make such conspicuous exceptions
in their sympathy? We venture to sug-
gest that it is because of the old fetish
that it is a 'woman's place" to care for
babies and for the sick, and that long
night hours spent on her feet in these
sweetly human efforts will do her no
harm-becduse the efforts are senti-
mentally correct!
1t seems hardly possible that any ply
sician would state that woman's anat-
omy is such that night work is more
harmful to her than it is to man. He
might say that it is more tiring for her
to stand continuously than it is for a
man-and in that case we would like
to make the point that there is no Job on
earth that requires more continuous
standing than housework and clerking,
and suggest that women be removed
from these fields of industry entirely
and all their washing and ironing, the
dish drying, the standing over cradles
and counters be legislated against and
turned over to the men!
So much for the physical end of it.
What of the "mora dangers" to the
woman conductor at night?
We submit the "moral dangers" once
supposed to lurk in higher education for
women. They kept girls out of colleges
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02

day Of ten and a half hours, but it will be
noticed that Sadie left her home at in the
afternoon and did not return until the next
morning, and that the short time she had off
during the night was of little value for rest
amusement.
This only goes to show that streetcar
conductors real working day is the "time
within which, she completes it, not the actual
hours she spends on the car
Alice and Sadie, with their ten, twelve and
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02

thirteen-hour days, are not isolated examples
picked out to create false impression. The
statistics gathered by the Department of Labor
show that of all the days worked by women
on the New York Railways Company lines 63
per cent required twelve hours or more to
complete them. On the surface lines of the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit 48 per cent of the
days worked by women were completed within
twelve hours or more. On the subway-ele-
waited lines so per cent of the "ten-hour"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
Wanted! Women Who Are GAME

for years. And what of the moral dan
gers of their going into mems Offices as
stenographers and clerks? The moral
dangers of their serving on juries and
being locked up for the night? No one
worries about them any more. These
things are all matter of mental atti-
tude-and you cannot legislate mental
attitudes. In Europe it constitutes an
impropriety for men and women to
bathe in the same part of the ocean to-
gether-here it is matter of course
In England now women very generally
are wearing trousers on the street and
in their work, and no one takes a Sec
ond look, yet here we still hesitate.
The conductorette has been with us
only a very short time, yet already the
attitude is that she is just an official in
uniform, whether it's night or day; and
we venture to predict that few men will
molest her because she is woman. Wit
ness man who the other day was wor-
rying about how conductorette would
manage to crawl along the platforms
of open cars in her skirts. He hadn't
even noticed that she doesn't wear them
And, by the way-suppose there is
an element of risk? Was anything
worth while ever done without it? Our
men are risking their lives on the bat
tlefront. Shall women hesitate to risk
a little comfort and security when they
fill mems places in the trenches of in
dustry?
The New Citizen is not feministic if
feminism means that women plead for
equal rights, power and responsibility
and then use this power to obtain spe-
cial privileges for themselves. The evils
which attend the entrance of women
into positions as car conductors have
attended men in these positions for
many years. Let us not forget that the
race has fathers as we'll as mothers, and
that there is no law of nature which
says that the results of poor living con-
ditions, overwork, long hours and un-
dernourishment cannot be transmitted
through the male line.
Our men are enduring what men
never have endured before. Sha MT we,
too, show little "gameness" and not
rush into mems occupations and whine
because we do not find armchairs and
footstools, dressing rooms and moving
pictures all ready made and waiting
for us? Why not use our votes to help
secure better conditions in labor for
every man, woman and child in the
United States, and, until we can secure
them equally for both sexes and all
ages, take our chances with the rest? If
there is certain amount of hardship
to be endured let the father of the race
and it's mother share them, and the sum
total of human hardship in labor will
not be any greater than if father had to
stand it all and mother were tenderly
escorted home after she had done her
eight hours work on streetcar.
Besides, the conductorettes are adult
women. Why not give them chance
to decide for themselves? M. de NJ.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
BY ELEANOR TAYLOR

he woman conductor has be-
come a matter of course
there are now about SS7 of
her in New York and Brook
iyn--and the great, selfish
public thinks of her only
when she funlhlns tnn lnnn
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-05-16

Look on the label of your paper
If you find that you are behind come
in and pay up.
Mrs. w. A. Scouton returned Fri
day to her home at Iakster after a.
stay in Langdon with friends during a
greater part of the week
Any skin itching is a temper test
err. The more you scratch the more
itches. Doan's Ointment is for piles,
eczema-any skin itching go cents at
all drug stores.
1t is noted that the society columns
of last Fridays Grand Forks Herald
announces the engagement and ap-
: preaching marriage of Rev. Thos.
Buckton, and Miss Louise Hood. of
Emerald. Mr.. Buckton, it will be
recalled vas the assistant of Rev. F..
j. Hubbard as pastor of the Presby.
terian church here during last cum
mer. He has just graduated from
Princeton college and will shortly be
ordained as pastor of a church at
Stephens, Mimi, to which he was
lately extended a call. The wedding
is stated to occur early in June.
Mrs. j. H. Bland of Aureiia, N.
D., says she has been cured of ulcer
of the leg by DR.. Mellenthin's treat
ment. DR.. Mellenthin will be in Grand
Forks, Dacotah Hotel, Friday and
Saturday May 81 and June l, Hours
900 a. m. to 4 p. m.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-05-16
Plant a war garden.


William Campbell, one of Linden
townships better known retired far.
mers was here Friday last week on
business.
Langdon's two BARRIERS have changed
their schedule for the summe months
and their shops will remain open dur.
ing the evening all week,
Agent Gastonguay with the Great
Northern at Osnabrock has resigned
to enter the railway service of the
American army in France.
The farmers elevator company at
Alsen have purchased the grain ware
house property at that point of the
Northland Elevator Company.
The supper given Thy the toys and
girls of the Junior Red Cross at the
high school gymnasium on Friday
evening ls stated as netting nearly
1925.
Mrs. McHugh and daughter returned
during the week to their Langdon
home after an absence of most of the
winter, which they spent in the Twin
Cities and with friends at Omaha.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-05-16
FOR SALE
All cord tires and re-varnished
II series Studebaker family car,
Perfect condition all through.
Glad to demonstrate.
Langdon Telephone Co.

M. C. Campbell, who for some
time had the management of the in.
terests here of the Langdon Elevator
Company, is in the city for a few days
on business.
Butcher Henry Windemuth of the
Sanitary Meat Market, made a ship
ment of a carload of mixed stock
from this point to the Twin City
stock market Tuesday.
H. D. ALERT and wife, accompanied
by their youngest daughter, Miss
Daisy, are expected to be among the
arrivals of today from a stay during
the winter in southern California.
Mesdames w. F. and M. O. Win
ter were among the arrivals of yester-
day, returning from a visit of. up.
wards a month in Minneapolis at the
home of Attorney AMI Mrs F W.
Mclean.
Roy Hamilton, who has been in St..
Paul nearly all through the past VIZ.
ter visiting with friends arrived home
last week on receiving news of the
serious illness of his father, Mr.. j.
K. Hamilton.
Loyalty" Service Next Sunday
night, at. eight o'clock at tn Church
of Our Saviour. Addresses by pro,
mireat local men and dedication of a
service fig. Let US have as large at
tendance as on the last OCCASION il
March.
Barney Fendal and wife, the latte,
a daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank j.
Schwartz. were arrivals on Friday OF
last week from their home at St.
Cloud, MINI, and expect to make
stay of possibly a couple of weeks
visiting at the Schwartz home.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-05-16
DR.. E. J. Hughes
DENTIST
w.
A. NJ. HOURS P. NJ.
9 to - Phoness112 to 6
SCHULKE biloxi Langdon, N. D

Mrs. Judd H Kirkham and little
son we're returning Langdon passen
gers last Friday, having during an
absence of the greater Fart of the
winter visited with friends at their
former home in Wisconsin. DR.. Kirk.
ham is still in training with a medical
corps at Camp Cody ear Demming,
New Mexico.
D. W. McCanna. formerly located
at Cando. and having extensive Tow
ner county farm holdings, was in the
city several days of last week, look
ing over enc or two choice tracts Of
farm land in the eastern part of thi 6
county that lie contemplates purchas.
ing. He was accompanied by his
nephew, Chas. McCanna. Both gentle.
men came here from Minneapolis and
were the guests of M. L Sullivan
and T. <. Burke during their brief
Langdon stay
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-05-16
]. W. T0Wey
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
LangdOn, N. Oak,

Ed. Godfrey received word the end
of last week from his son Joe, who
recently left Camp Dodge with a
train]oad of drafted men for a can.
torement in Georgia, located near At
lanta that they had left the southland
and are now at Camp Mills, in New
York state, This is one of the last
camps at which Company E. boys
were located before going aboard a
transport for the voyage to France.
Today the track team of the Lang
don high school, accompanied by quite
a number of their more ardent sup
porters have started for Grand Forks,
where they are entered as confess
tants in many of the more important
of the field and track events inc GUIDED
in the program of the last two days
of this week. The home records of
several of the boys would tend to our
anticipating that Langdon should
score up in points pretty we'll with
other towns over the state.
Mrs. F. j. Hubbard, wife of TIE
former pastor of the Presbyterian
church Of this city, is here for a visit
of part of the week with the many
Langdon old friends of the family.
Mrs. Hubbard ia here in her official
capacity as presiding officer of the
Presbyterial of of the Womans Mis-
sionary Society. comprising the 80.
%cieties representing the churches of
that denomination in Grand Forks,
Pembina. Walsh and Cavalier counties
The meeting which convened in Lang
don yesterday and reached an adjourn
ment Tuesday at nooa. wa, the
thirty.fourth annual gathering of this
society. While in Langdon Mrs.
Hubbard was a guest at the home Of
Mrs Jas w. Woolner.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-05-16

MIR. Farmer have you pledged your
Red Cross acre.
The Home. Milling Company is pay
ing a premium on good milling wheat.
Have that suit cleaned, pressed and
repaired at the o. K. shop. ] D. Roach
proprietor.
The appointment Of food admins
traitor for Osnabrock and vicinity
has been given to Ellen Ellenson.
Eli Shaver, of Hannah, was called
east to South Mountain. Ontario, by
news of the illness of his aged mother
DR.. A. o. Void will guarantee to
relieve you of any headache with
glasses and his new line of drugiess
treatments.
The postmaster at Weaver claims
to hold the record of having some of
the oldest purchasers Of War Savings
Stamps in the county.
Sam'l McAdams of Byron township,
a resident since 1885. died within
the past week at the home of his son
in Sarles, aged fifty seven years,
J. j. Willms. a Of Alsens' yonna
men to answer his country's cali il
at Fort Reilly, Kansas, in the medi.
cal corps and letters received by AL,
sen friends show his getting along
fine.
Hon. Henry. Mclean, Of Byron,
was a visitor in Langdon from hi,
home west of Hannah for a short
time Monday, in the interest of hi
candidacy for the republican nomina'
ton for state senator at the primary
election in June.
Munich is to have an assembly O
the Ridpath. Vawter Chautauqua sys
tenn this summer. The town ha|
named a local management compose
of Messrs. Mcdonald, Antony, Care,
and McCorquodale to handle the bnsi
ness-end of the event.
DR.. Tom Smith desires to max
announcement that he will be out o
town and that his dental Offices il
this city will be closed the first foa
days of the coming week while in at
tendance at the annual summer meet
ing of the North Dakota state denta
board, which will be in session a
Grand Forks.
The snowfall of May 18th, whic
by the way covered the ground du1
ing the greater part of the day woul
! from the weather which followed We.
terday appear to be the forerunner c
some really good growing sprin
weather, which has been patientl
awaited during the cold spell of tn
I past week or 80.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-05-16
Buy a war savings stamp.

The Red Cross boxes are doing good
work. Help them along.
The Home Milling Company is pay.
ing a premium on good milling wheat
The Mona settlement has organized
a branch of the Red Cross with ]. M.
Peterson as it's presiding officer.
w. H. Wilson was a Clyde visitor
in the city yesterday. taking the
train north to Hannah on business.
Headaches of all natures can be
Overcome with DR.. A. o. Wold's
glasses and new line of drugless
treatment.
w. A. Bolton has had carpenters
busy during the week building a gar
age at the rear of the hone on Sixth
street for his auto.
DR.. w. H. Porter, accompanied by
Mrs. Porter and the latter's mother
were Friday visitors over here from
their home at Calvin.
Rev. ]. ]. Mclnnis, of Calvin, was
among the clergy of the county here
to take a part in the program of the
presbyterial missionary society.
Elias Nelson and wife were called
to Camp Dodge, Ia, last week in re-
sponse to a telegram stating that
their son is quite i'll in the hospital.
Editor and Mrs. Norris Nelson have
had an interesting letter from ths
latter's brother who at the time wat
a patient in a Red Cross hospital il
! France.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-05-16
BRING YOUR FILMS TO
Ole Opie Studio
To be developed and printed
Popular prices and quick service
We also have q Iiae of films and kodaks
FOR SALE

The Hagan school west Of Langdon
in the Elgin district gives a Red Cross
benefit entertainment Thursday even
ing of next week, the program being
furnished by the children of the
school under the direction af their
teacher, Miss Vera Hagan.
Morning and evening services will
be conducted on Sunday at the Pres.
byterian church in this city by Rev.
Duncanl Mathisen of Melissa Park,
New Mexico, who accompanied by
Mrs. Mathisen arrived during the
week by auto to spend the summer
with Cavalier county friends.
Your headache can be stopped
though good medical doctors may have
told you that there is no way of
overcoming it. In this they are un-
doubtedly honest for medicine only
deadens pain. DR.. A. O. Void re-
moves the cause with his new line of
drugless treatment and headache must
cease.
Dewey Pierce arrived in the city
yesterday from Washington, D. c.,
where he is taking a purse in law at
the American Catholic University.
He has enlisted for service in the U.
S Navy, and after a visit with friends
here and with his folks in Western
Canada expects TO go into training
for active ervice with Old Glory.
Walter C. Gran, a graduate of the
State School for the Blind at Bath.
gate, is stated as touring the state
this spring for the Red Cross, giving
entertainments. He has in less than
two months raj led several hundred
dollars as a contribution for the so
ciety. Mr.. Gran is quite we'll known
by q number of Langdon people.
1t is with regret that the friend:
of j. K. Hamilton learn of his &C.
rious illness of yer a week past a
the family home on Fourth street
He is suffering from an attack OF
pneumonia in an acute form. Promp'
medical attendance AID careful nurs
ing have so far, however, resulted ir
reports from the bedside favoring his
ultimate recovery, in case of no re.
lapse setting in.
Langdon friends of Rev. M. M.
Dougherty, a former popular paste,
of St. Alphunus church learned dur.
ing the week from what is considered
to be a reliable source that Father
Dougherty is in France, having some
little time ago resigned charge of his
church at Alexandria, N. D., to take
an army c%haplaincy. Langdon now
has the record of two Catholic priests
formerly located here who are now on
the battle front with the boys.
Murray Dickson, son of Attorney
and Mrs. w. B. Dickson, who is in
France with Co. K of the First North
Dakota regiment in q letter received in
the past week at the family home in
Dickinson states that the North Da
kota contingent to which Co. X has
been assigned lately changed camp for
the fourth time since they landed over
there last November. The Lang
don boys of the 10th Trench Nor
tar Battery are in camp at no great
distance and he plans making a Sun.
day visit with them.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-05-16

T%uesday's casualty list from the
western fighting front in Northern
France includes the name of George
Rourke, of Osnabro *, who left here
with the Company E. boys, as among
those who are slightly wounded. No
details have as yet reached the fam
lily, but it would appear that the
10th Trench Mortar Battery has
been into action. The arrival of the
next batch of letters from our sol
der boys are naturally awaited with
considerable anxiety as we'll as more
interest than usual.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-05-16

Don't try and Hooverize on your
war garden.
Help our boys in France by buying
a wal savings stamp.
j. B. Boyd returned to the city
Fri day from his buying trip east and
a round of visits with friends that he
had not seen in years.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-05-16

Frank Jordan, who since leaving
Langdon some six years ago has been
a Canadian homesteader neal Regina,
is making a visit of couple of weeks
here with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
C. Jordan. Frank has been in the
service of his country over in Cana
da since the first of the year and is
expecting to join up with a contin.
gent leaving for overseas about the
end of this month. He states that
in the western provinces of the do.
minion there ia no trouble about the
draft, most of the younger men offer.
ing their services as soon as they
reach the age.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-05-16
.
A. 0. WOLD

Chiropractor and Optometrist
Licensed tt Practice in North
Dakota, Montana, Washington,
Oregon and California.
LANGDON, N. OAK.