The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1921-05-12
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river or canal7 No indeed! They would
not-they would throw up thSr hands
in holy horror at such wanton waste of
our productions. Then too, they love
to cook too well for that. Do you sup
pose they will permit for any length of
time situation which causes them to
| pay more in their own country for
home grown and home made products
than they would if they went to Europe9
1sNo indecd If there must be high
tax, let it be on the exports out of this
country, and not on things sold here.
EIGHTH: It will have new impetus
in the passing of Pure Food Laws and
the enforcing Of the same.
! A father might stand for his off
springs to drink adulterated milk with
chalk, water, and everything else in it
under the sun, but never mother; that
child flesh and bone of her bone is too
close to her own heart to permit such
an, injustice to it. How often has a
mother taken a highly colored piece Of
candy away from her child which the
father or some male friends of the fam
lily has unwittingly given It'll How
many, many times has the storekeeper
insisted on the housewife taking GER
x
she knows is genuine with the old say
ing that cit is just as good' as the
other, only little cheaper Why have
women established little home bakeries
and tea-rooms and cozy corners where
they did home baking, or in other
words, baking without alum and other
chemicals which initiate the bread but
give you less for your money? Be
cause they wanted to establish better
food laws! Why is it that sometimes
they will walk from one store to the
other to get what they want while
every storekeeper displays before their
eager and anxious gaze beautifully en-
bellished articles with fine labels but
not the real and genuine? When women
help men to be food inspectors, as a
great many women are doing today,
and more win enter, it will not be an
woman is always looking out for the
health of her family, t.
NINTH: Good Roads.
All women love beauty and symmetry,
a poorly kept house, dirty yards, un-
clean unsightly alleys and streets are
! to the average woman things Of disgust
and to be changed. It is the same way
when woman drives along a highway
filled with gulleys and bitches and brok-
en- culverts. She is naturally Of high
| " nervous temperament and such things
as this only tend to accelerate it. In
variable because her strength is not as
great as the mans, she says she just
wishes she could get hold of the man or
men who fixed the particular road over
which she has ridden and she would
make him fix it up right. And really
the reason why some states have such
good roads is because the particular
husbands of these particular wives in
that country like to take their wives
with them and they know they cannot
do it in peace without having case Of
nervous prostration or terrible scold-
ing which is almost as bad, so they get
| together and either vote set of men
| in who will fix up the roads or legislate
for it themselves In either case it
tends to the same goal and the result is
better human beings but to stock as
we'll and every state in the Union ought
to have a good roads convention and
advocate the idea so generally among
it's citizens that they will be willing to
be taxed little extra in order to keep
up the roads, for it will be safe guard
to every. one. I am certain the women
will do their very best to bring out bet
ter roads and more of them, since peo-
pie are travelling on the highways SO
much by auto in these modern times.
TENTH: Greatest of all these which
I have mentioned-More emphasis will
be put on Social Conditions.
Child Labor-Many a boy is driven
away from home because his parents put
L. 1o1o L. -, /,
than a baby and then take all his earn
4 ings to help keep. up the family while
i the father often spends his for other
things j remember when I was in Col
i fax, Iowa, once I had the pleasure of
| going down into a coal mine, two hun
dred and ten feet below the surface
where to my utter astonishment l saw
1 little boys (this however was before
they passed the child labor law in
Iowa) down in this dark dungeon away
from God blessed sunlight, away from
the pure fresh air which all children
should enjoy in . their growing years
where they could not either sec the flow
crs or hear the song Of birds. What 8
travesty on our great government which
believes in justice and freedom to al
men. Yet here was the making of {
part Of future America being denied
the privilege TO grow IN DOdy ana mlnC
as children should grow. Tears came
to my eyes when I saw these
little spraggers, for that was what they
were called, because their work, rar
along and spragged the trains as they
! travelled along the down-grade to th'
mouth Of the shaft. All day long thei
little backs were bent as they ran alon.
/ and placed these wooden sprays unde
) the train load of coal to keep it iron
) going. too fast for fear it would los
E some of the coal and thus the miner
would lose some of their greedy pelt
-f3ut think, my friends, of what each on
of these little bpys were losing as Wig
orous growth NOT only of the body bu
: mind as We'll getting bent form in
: stead of an erect one, a loss of all idea
: of the beautiful, getting weak lungs
l associating with miners who are not al
4 ways the best moral men in the world
!. all. this for WHAT A few paltry dol
e lars. Tsss
8 Let us turn for few moments to ou
t beloved Southland and see what tn
condition is here with regard to chill,
/ labor. Every year my husband and my
8 self almost get down on our hands an
9 knees and beg the parents to keep thei