Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-07-05
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house servants. The girls and women who
went into munition factories and other war
work are disinclined to return to the
kitchen. In France, in England, as well as
in the United States the servant problem
has become acute through lack of supply.
Higher wages, even to doubling or to
trebling, have had little effect, nor does the
multiplication of servant privileges. In
deed, it is the very fact Of being a servant
that is creating all the trouble. The spirit
of democracy has been taken seriously
Good wages they want and better hours and
treatment generally. But first of all they
want to be men and women. If any SER
vantless mistress wishes to know just what
this means, let her imagine herself working
in another wOman's Kitchen Such a
thought may seem fantastic to her. Pos
sibly it is when she thinks Of the somewhat
undeveloped maids she has seen. Yet she
must remember that one has aspirations far
above the present ability to crafty, and to
attain those ASPIRATIONS
During the last year of the war cultiva-
tors of vacant lots in Great Britain grew
sixty thousand tons Of vegetables on five
thousand acres of land. Leadership Of this
wonderful effort given to the Vacant
Land Cultivation Society Of London With
an expenditure of little over $4,000 for
the year, this organization developed an
army Of 295 900 cultivators of little gardens.
Now the owners of vacant lots who have
been willing to ASST on them to garden uses
for the war are recalling them, and the
question arises in the minds Of these work
ers who have turned to utilizing land that
hitherto has lain idle, why there is not some
means by which they can have access to
land in time Of peace as well as in time Of
war. "A parliamentary committee has been
appointed to consider the matter with a
view to devising Legislation that will keep
the Stacker vacant lots producing for their
country. The Vacant Land Cultivation
Society. which was founded eleven years
ago by Joseph FEELS, and is continued with
the cooperation of Mrs. Fels. was so efficient
in it's work that the British Government
placed all the war gardens in it's charge
during the latter part of the war
The Argentine Woman s Party which was
formed recently is planning pan-American
conference to be held in Buenos Ayres in
July. 1921, at which women from North and
South American countries will be present.
Though women in Canada are enfran-
chised, they have not achieved full political
or social freedom. They are not yet eligible
to sit in the Dominion Parliament, nor in
some Of the provincial legislatures. nor to
hold municipal offices, nor to sit on jures,
and many magistrates benches are forbid
den them.
The State Department on the 14th notified
the National Woman Suffrage Association
that Wisconsin goes down in history as the
total amount of salary paid to the supervis-
amendment. On the 10th Illinois (and
Michigan unanimously took similar action,
and on the 10Th the New York Legislature
passed the amendment without dissenting
vote making New York the sixth State to
ratify.
AS one of it's first acts after winning pres
idential and municipal suffrage the Knox
vile Equal Suffrage League of Knoxville,
Tennessee, has been formally disbanded and
merged into the Non-partisan League of
Knoxville, which is composed of both men
and women of voting age. The object of
the new organization, as expressed in the
constitution adopted, is to encourage the
study of municipal government, the invest-