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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-04-17
PRICES FIXED WITH STEEL TRUST
OPPOSED BY CABINET MEMBERS

New Schedule Would BE Ruinous to Government 0peratons-Re-
Calls Coal Price Standardization on Judiciary Committee to
Fight Acknowledgment Society Mourns Loss Of Cars
Minister-New Attorney General May Change Poicies-Baer
to Introduce a Bill to Help Soldiers Out of Bread Lines.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-04-17

2 or 3 Drops Applied in . Few Seconds-
There's No Fussins or Cutting.
"GetsIt" Always Works!
the old, savage way. "Gets-It" is
the modern, painless, simple way.
Lean over and put two drops Of
q "Gets-It" on the corn, put your
stocking and shoe right on again.
and forget the corn. Pain is eased.~
treatment Of corns. It neve irri-
tates the true flesh. You'll stop
limping on the side of your shoe,
and do away with greasy salves,
bundling- bandages, thick plasters
it's common sense. III
"Gets-It," the guaranteed, money
backcorn-remover, the only sure way.
costs but q tri1e at any drug store.
MfdbyE e. Lawrence & Co.. Chicago. Ill.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05
Social Hygiene and War

responded to not only in expressions of
interest through letters, but in the act
ual purchase of pamphlets, posters and
other printed matter in quantities long
since passed from thousands into mill
ions.
Another section of the commission un
dertook the work of protecting girls,
some of whom had homes in the neigh
borhood Of camps, many of whom were
attracted thither by the markedly hu-
man interest in the uniform, or, very
frequently, by offers Of work made by
vice gangs. Women inspectors and
police have been on the ground in time
TO prevent disaster in many case and
to reclaim the girl for whom this was
the first offence
But with the task of preventing came
also the task of retaining There were
women, confirmed offenders, who did not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05
France Has No
Servant Problem

"Mlle. Bourat," I interrupted, "you
spoke just now Of employing a maid.
Is it then still possible to secure maids
in France?"
'That was before the war;" she re-
piled. II understand that in America
you have servant problem. But in
France we have no problem, because
there are no more servants. They have
gone into the factories and prefer to
stay there.
1T was the women who had always
worked in industry who suffered most
IN 1914. When the terrible rumor of
war began to circulate the orders placed
with French establishments were with
drawn, and the factories were obliged to
shut down. Of ten thousand establish
ments only three thousand weathered
those August days.
ut was not enough for the women
to give up their husbands and sons, their
fathers and brothers. On the same day
they were deprived of their own wages
and those of the men who were taken
from them.
"From these women the government
recruited it's munition workers. Makers
of artificial flowers and feathers, milli-
ners, cardboard box manufacturers,
workers in the silk mills, tailors, and
even employers were glad to accept the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05
The Time, the Place
And the Ideal

But clearly this programme, splendid
challenge though it was for war SER
vice, is not to be laid aside because
peace has been declared. 1t is pro-
gramme of months and years-begin-
ming to-day. 1t implies the Fright about
face OF every community in this coun-
try and of full many an individual of
that community. 1t means the realiza-
ton OF social reorganization for which
societies like the Recreation Association,
the Prison Association and many or
CARNATIONS whose aim is public health
and mental soundness have been for
years but voices crying in the wilder
ness.
To-day sees the meeting of time and
place and ideal, and to an extent be-
You'd estimation the fulflment of this
ideal in this place and at this time lies
IN the decision and the intelligent activ
ity OF the women of America.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05
Why Not Extend
Vocational Teaching?

so tar the states have failed to take
full advantage of the opportunity the
Smlth-Hughes law affords them to ex-
tend vocational education. One dollar of
Federal money is offered for every dollar
spent by state for approved instruc-
ton IN vocational SUBJECTS Not an offer
to be overlooked.
TO utilize every agency to improve edu-
catlonal opportunities for children is the
idea of the eleven million women who
are behind the Back to School" drive.
This is the year when the greatest num-
Der OF state legislatures meet-so that
they have an exceptional opportunity to
secure the passage of measures favorable
to children.
10 carry on the drive, a school welfare
committee will be appointed for each
school in the country-and there are
28l'ooo of them-through the local units
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05
The Work of
DR.. Katharine B. Davis

And then, since it is impossible to saw
that on one side of an imaginary line is
the military extra-cantonment zone and
on the other side of that imaginary line
strictly civilian population, education
al work and activity in law enforcement.
public health work and reclamation, have
spread all through the country. SO rap
IDLY aid the opportunities for such worl.
multiply and SO widely did interest
spread among American women that
Section on Women's Work appeared last
spring in the commission. This section,
in charge of DR.. Katharine Bement Dn.
Wis, former Commissioner of Correction
for New York City, has taken the entire
country as its parish.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05
We Must First
See the Problem

So far, the Child Welfare committees
OF thirty-six states have started the
roundup of children. State labor com
mlssloners and state, county and civ
superintendent of schools have also in
dorsed the work and promised their
hearty support. So we feel we are
moving.
On the other hand a community needs
often to be convinced that it has child
welfare problem
In one town investigation by the local
committee showed that 1000 children
had dropped out of school, of whom only
a small per cent had secured working
certificates. Nobody knew why those
children had left Yet the town main
tanned that it had no child labor problem.
This Inconsistencies on the part Of
the community that problem exists Is
really the root Of the matter The fault
may lie in an inadequate child labor law
or q poor system of issuing working Ger
titicates; no provision for vocational
work; or inadequate school facilities.
Whatever it is the Back to School,
drive will help to locate it.
Once located, it becomes our problem
as we'll as theirs, the problem of the
eleven million women who have deter
mined that every child in the countrv
shall have the best chance they can give
him to live and learn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05

tie felt like sittin' and thinkin' to him
self" And he wasn't day dreamer,
either. The child was reading a book on
the industries of Europe. He explained
that it was "full of things he ought to
know"
So 1t goes. For it is often the child of
above average intelligence who grows
restless and bored with the regular
school work. He wants to use his hands
TO do something which shows results.
Often he has some special aptitude which
can be trained.
Most schools do not provide facilities
for such training. There are, of course
vocational schools in various cities. but
there are not enough of them. Nine
states have legislation for continuation
schools to which working children NAV
go. But in only two of these. Pennsvl-
vanla and Wisconsin, is attendance com
puISorv
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05

believe in the new regime of "cleaning
up established for the camps, and who
still sought to ply their age-long trade
in the vicinity. Detection of the feeble
minded and their permanent segregation:
compulsory work for those disincined to
work; training for those who had not
already definite means Of honest live
lihood-all these, together with the nee
essary medical treatment and the estab-
hshment or Encouragement Of social re-
latlonships (means of recreation just as
valuable for girls in civilian life as for
soldiers on military duty, all these were
included in the commissions programme
TOR civilians within the extra-canton-
ment work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05
How the Camps
Cleaned the Cities

No less an emphasis than that upon
the work in camps was placed upon the
responsibilities Of civilian communities.
Economic advantage was one means of
appeal.
Said the Secretary of War: "The
cities near our camps must be clean or
the camps shall move away" More than
125 of the oldtime "red light" districts
have been swept away this past year.
New laws have been put on the statute
books in more than thirty states, provid-
ing for permanent control of venereal
diseases through state and local depart
ments of health.
Through the section on mems work
in the commission tremendous chal-
lenge went out to thousands Of employ
ers throughout the country, a challenge
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05
Jobs for Both Sexes
In France

mile. Bourat," I ventured, there
is one more question I would like to ask
you. You know in this country one of
the topics Of the hour is, What shall We
do with the women who have gone into
industry now that our men are return
ing? How does France mean to handle
this situation?"
"Ah, mademoiselle, for one thing
fewer of our men are returning. With
two and half million men killed or
manned, Frances problem is rather to
meet the demand for labor than to find
positions for those who do come back.
We have enough work for all of them,
men and women, to do.
I'm the future, believe, the men and
women of France will work together
even more than they have in the
past. Net long before l left Paris rode
in bus run by husband and wife, he
the driver and she the conductor.
II asked the woman if she intended
to keep on working when the war ended
oh, yes she said, 'the only way to en-
JOY life and to have money is to work
1t is what the women of France believe"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05
BY MARGARET MAR MOSES

"What's the trouble with SCHOOL," Miss
Davis asked boy who was brought to
her Chicago Office by his mother.
"Teacher said I had too much energy
for school, and I'd better go to work."
was the reply.
And teacher" was right. The boy
had too much energy for that sort of
school, He needed something to really
occupy head and hands. According to
his mother, he turned the house topsy-
turvy' with electric bell systems and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05
All Classes Now Work
in France

VA YORK without marriage, or, if she
w is fortunate, marriage with
work to-day awaits the woman
Of France, according to Mile Mar
guerite Boufat, factory Inspector of the
French government
Mile. Bourat has been a keen student
of sociology, both in her own country
and England. She is now making a
study of the condition of women in in
dustry in the United States.
"To-day women Of all classes work
in France, even the woman of what we
call the petite bougeoisie.
Before the war she did not work"
Mile. Bourat explained 'Her husband
was proud to have her nicely dressed,
attending to the duties CT the home.
She was never--what shall | say
idle, like some women in American
That was before the war" inter
rupted. "Not many of us are idle now"
"She did the work of the house." CON
tinued Mile. Bourat, imperturbably,
with the help of perhaps one maid.
She brought up her daughters with one
idea-marriagc
To-day all this is altered. When in
1914 the war drained the country Of
every man between eighteen and forty
eight these girls had plenty of time to
think
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05

entire net profits it makes child labor a
non-paying proposition.
But neither the war nor the present
lack Of a. Federal child labor law is en-
tirely responsible for the tide of children
yearly flooding our industries. Children
left school before they should even in
ante-bellum days. And they will con-
tinue to leave at the earliest moment the
new law permits until they and their
parents see an advantage in their re-
naming.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05

such truck"
To-day he has finished his work In a
technical school, where he took me-
chanical course which prepared him for
a really good position.
In normal times only about one-third
of the children leaving school quit be-
cause of poverty. Of the remaining two
thirds many leave because school doesn't
teach them what they want to know
One little boy confessed that he wasn't
interested in the things the teacher said.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05

1t has prepared pamphlets for women
in industry, for club women who wish to
study the principles Of social hygiene
and take part in its activities in their
home communities. Lectures, chiefly by
women physicians, have been given in
factories of all kinds, in department
stores, in schools churches and at club
meetings. A motion picture film was
prepared which shows the value of home
training and proper enlightenment for
children and growing girls. and it is now
being shown
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05

of the Child Conservation Committee Of
the Council of National Defence.
These committees will get in touch
with children and parents. A child
doesn't realize that to leave school al
fourteen for work limits his chances for
a really good job later. He needs to be-
shown. And so, often, do his parents.
That is just what these committees
Will be able to do. BY following up the
children of certain community who left
school for work they will be able to sue.
gest solution for the particular child
problem of that community.
For children who otherwise would be
obllged to leave school as soon as the law
allows, scholarships are suggested by the
Chlldren's Bureau. One scholarship for
each school in the United States would
mean that 2S1 900 children received =
better start in life
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05
Child, Mother and
Grandmother Work

All, those brave refugees There
was one family in which the husband
had died, and the Germans had retained
the three boys between fifteen and
twenty. The women, however, were al
lowed to come
Three generations - grandmother.
mother and daughter-worked in the
State Powder Making Plant, living in
the barracks established there. The old
grandmother was very weak, but she
was still able to take in mending.
Zone Sunday afternoon [ visited the
plant and found them washing and iron
ing their clothes. Do you work SUNDAYS
also" l asked. oh, no, mademoiselle,
the old grandmother replied. AT
o'clock we will battle and go to rest
SO it was all over France. Women
were not afraid to accept their share Of
the work and hardships. Before the
war night work had been forbidden for
women, but the standards were relaxed
during the war. It was necessary. The
Women's labor was as essential as that
of the men at the front, and thew were
as glad to give it. Night work was for
hidden only for children and expectant
mothers.
Il understand that in your country
the government advocated equal pay
for equal work. 1t was so in France.
too. But where employers claimed they
had to make alterations in machinery.
etc, because of the women. the cost Of
the alteration was deducted from the
women's pay.
You asked me moment ago for the
number of women to-day working IN
France. I am not able to say. In Amer
lea it was different. There was time to
prepare. In France the war came sud
denly. Our first thought was to defend
cur country, our next to help the refu-
gees pouring into Paris. Statistics must
come later"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05
The dot No Longer
Solves Marriage Problem

"They saw that the dot they could
expect would not support them if they
married a man incapacitated for work
through wounds No other men were at
hand, so they began to prepare them
selves for work.
'As the war progressed more and
more of these girls who had led shell
tered lives entered industry or took
clerical positions. To-day they would
not change their lot
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05
How All Women
Can Help

Most important Of all the work of the
Women's Section is the bringing about
Of more intelligent thought on the part
of women in this country. Early in the
work Of this section kind of platform
was drawn up. This platform is the
best possible illustration Of the scope Of
social hygiene and of the opportunity
open to women in making certain ideals
an essential and permanent part of
American life. 1t reads, in part, as fol
lows:
The intelligent understanding and
help of every woman in the United
States is needed and may be effective
ly given by:
Avowing d personal belief in the
single standard of moral conduct and
requiring the same standard of the
men of. their acquaintance.
Studying the causes of disease and
delinquency, social economic or moral,
and helping to determine the proper
means whereby each community may
provide for the rehabilitation of it's Of
tenders and for the prevention of
future offence.
Seeing to it that every effort is
made in each community to close all
houses of prostitution; that means are
provided for the treatment and isola-
ton of diseased persons; that recrea-
ton is wholesome and properly super
vised, policewomen being employed
when necessary.
Instructing young girls of the COM
munity and arousing them to their re-
sponsibility in matters of behavior and
dress so that they shall not even inno-
Gently offend.
Cooperating with existing agencies
to promote such objects and stimulat-
ing organization if none exists.
The stand taken by the United
States government makes possible, as
never before, definite action by women
for the conservation of character ac-
cording to the best American stand
ards. Let women rise as one to meet
the opportunity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05

Being new but perfectly profess
sionai politician, this woman accepted
defeat with a chastened spirit and de-
termination to learn by experience.
II have found out" che said, that
elevcsith-Iour enthuaiasm won't carry
women over TIE top. When it comes To
voting it ia much like religious creed:
Baptists will 90 to Methodist festivals,
enjoy the musical programme, praise the
preacher and the speakers, and be 80
delightful IN their Fellowship that no one
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05
Children Should Give
Place to Soldiers

The following summarizes what she
told me:
Of course the big wages paid to children
as result of the demand for labor, as
we'll as the high cost of living, both of
them byproducts of the war, have been
the chief causes. Ten or twelve dollars
week is princely sum to youngster
Yet many children Of fourteen have been
getting it.
Now that the war is over and there
are more available men, children's SER
vices will not be in such demand. En-
ployers are already making plans to take
back employees who enlisted.
The two million children now in in
dustry should certainly be the first to
give up their places to these returning
soldiers.
Child labor will be literally taxed out
of existence if the amendment to the
revenue bill just passed by the Senate
becomes a law. This amendment pro-
poses to penalize the man who employs
children in mine, or quarry, factory or
workshop. By 10 per cent tax on his
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05
By GERTRUDE SEYMOUR

N1NCE the opening of the war the at
tention both of military authorities
and of civilian folk has been drawn
as never before to that group of prob
lens comprised within the term "Social
Hygiene.'
There came revelation Of the preva-
lence of vencreal diseases in our com
mon life when the first soldiers faced
their medical examination for active ser
vice, when the War Department changed
It's methods so suddenly in September,
1917 and, instead of refusing men SO
infected, took them in and segregated
them for strict medical treatment
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05

positions the government offered And
so were the refugees. In 1914 one million
refugees, of whom three-fourths were
women, passed through Paris. They who
had lost all were glad to work in the
munition factories.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05
What the War
Has Shown Us

We read with amazemcnt and cOnster-
nation the disease rates that were re-
ported i'll the Surgeon Generals Office in
those first wceks-weeks when that rate
rose even to 1888 per thousand, computed
on actual basis, and once, in one camp,
to 586 per thousand. The increase in these
rates so promptly after the men had
reached camp was very concrete refu-
tation Of the oldtime criticism that the
army was to blame for such infections.
This criticism was further made un-
tenable by simplifying the records in the
Surgeon Generals Office, so that from
these records it could be ascertaned
what proportion of the men were infect
ed when they reached camp-that is to
say, had contracted their infection in
civilian communities; and how many
were infected after enlistment-thati is,
while on leave. After careful study of
the five camps where reports we're most
complete the estimate was published that
the proportion of infections gained after
the men reached camp was one-sixth;
the proportion gained before reaching
camp--that is, in civilian life-was five
sixths.
How the government and the comml-
nifty joined forces in an attack never be-
fore equalled upon these diseases-an
attack theoretically made upon disease
as problem in public health, problem
in economic efficiency, in social organi-
zation and spirit and in moral progress
as well; how the commissions on train
ing camp activities came into being;
how these commissions brought song and
play, athletics and theatre, as we'll as
frank exhibits and lectures on the par
ticular question Of social hygiene, has
been told and remains in the archives of
social progress as a distinctive and pio-
neer effort in its field
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05
The New Citizen Won't
Stay Put

could tell the deacons of one church
from the deacons Of the other church.
But the faith built on longtime teaching
holds fast. Each congregation bows and
prays in the same old church the next
Sunday, and there are no proselytes."
Notwithstanding the logic of the
aforesaid party leader, the value of per
sonal influence is to be reckoned with.
A young woman of Don Marquis's now
famous "Hermione" type-and there are
quite number of them, though they are
not by any means in the majority
smoothed her fluffy ruff1es and declared
she had never taken any interest in poll
tics, but she certainly intended to vote
for Mr.. Blank. Asked if he was not
candidate on the ticket of the party op-
posing her family politics, she answered:
"Oh. yes; but he telephoned and asked
me to vote for him. Just think! a man
actually took the trouble to ask me for
my votel 1t did make me feel my new
Importance, if you get what I mean"