The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-04-06

which ignorance and outworn custom
have fostered among US
| I'VE require more and better school
houses. a sounder and more uniform
and rational curriculum adapted to the
development OF the faculties of the
] child. compulsory educational laws
universally enforced. more and better
trained teachers encouraged by such
incentives as will call to this high
public service the best intellects the
nation can command
1T being a commonplace that re-
publican institutions are built on edu-
cation, In order to safeguard them it
becomes the duty OF the Government
to provide necessary opportunities for
the education Of its citizens. Here.
then. is need for Federal department
Of education. with q Cabinet member
at it's head, through whom the Ma
tional Government ought to establish a
certain standard of education to which
| all states should conform.
Before the war there were In this
country eight million women gainfully
employed. Of whom two million and a
half were engaged in manufactures.
In trade, transportation or in public
service. Since the beginning Of hos
tilities, women have become increas-
ingly employed in manufacturing and
other productive industries, and the
presumption is that their number win
be augmented with the assurance that
they are a permanent economic indus
trial factor.
Because OF the disadvantage under
which women have heretofore Iabored.
which has placed them in a weaker
economic position than men. there 10
greater necessity for control Of the
standards OF their employment. In the
reimbursement OF industrial relations
from a war to a peace basis, oppor-
tunities are afforded for q new up
building OF safeguards to conserve
alike the Industrial efficiency and
health OF women, to make 1t impossible
to exploit them and their labor, or
compel them to become unwilling COM
petitors in lowering standards of
wages, hours and working conditions
which are for the best interests OF the
workers, the industries and of citizen
ship.
1.-THE Federal Government has done
much in an effort to call to the atten-
ton Of employers the necessity for CO.
operation and to maintain the stand
ards advocated and adopted by the
War Labor Policies Board; but with
the cessation of hostilities, the author
ity of war agencies is no longer recog-
nized, and constant vigilance, cour-
ageous agitation, carefully prepared
literature and vigorous political activ-
ity are required to create Q popular
demand for and to secure necessary
and just Regulation to produce satis-
factory results.
while we have a Secretary Of La
Dor in the Presidents Cabinet at the
present time, the unique position OF
women, coupled with ancient tradt-
tons which threaten their liberty in
the WORLDS market. requires that there
shall be an Assistant Secretary Of La
Dor to whom problems affecting wo-
mems employment may be referred.
And this assistant secretary should
be a woman. When the time comes
that women, like mon. may freely and
without prejudice enter into the In
dustrial life OF the world, with all the
incentives which men now enjoy. the
necessity for special legislation win
disappear.
while It is unquestionable true that
public opinion must precede and sup
port the demand for all reform legis--
lation, 1t is equally true that in a re-
public. controlled by political parties.
the vote is the deciding factor in de-
termining legislative action.
1.-The vast service rendered during
the war by the Woman's Committee
OF the Council. Of National Defense
through its state divisions demon
strated the tremendous resources and
power of organized womanhood when
given an incentive SUFFICIENT to call out
its loyalty and a purpose worthy OF
its united effort. No other agency was
SO well adapted to reach the individual,
to carry out all lines OF propaganda,
and to arouse public sentiment
Through organized womanhood. ma
tional and state governments have
mobilized army as ready and willing
to render voluntary service In the In
terests OF peace as in those OF War.
what may not women accomplish
when, in addition to their power OF
and educational agitation.
they add that OF legislation? With
political enfranchisement In many
states and the assurance Of universal
suffrage In all states, women have the
high privilege and opportunity to build
into a demonstrating government
those ideals which make for domestic |
social morality, civic In
tegrity and national peace"