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The New York herald., 1921-09-18
UP to the Minute Married Woman
Expresses Some Decided Ideas

To these varying opinions on the economic
ralue the economic necessity and the indi-
vidual contribution of the married woman's
work. Fannie Hurst successful author. sue
cessful wife along the most modern theories.
and thoroughly up-to-date in her thinking,
has added her quota.
Il thought that this question had long
since been decided" remarked Miss Hurst
briskly. when she was asked to comment on
Mrs. Gompers's statement. "It seems to me
that work isn't matter of sex or matri-
monial state; II is the contribution that the
worker makes to society and the self-expres-
sion which he or she finds in that work And
this applies just much to married women
to unmarried women or to men, for that
matter. A woman owes II to herself and to
society to seek what is for her the highest
self-expression. And whether she does this
by taking care of her husband and children
alone, combining the home with a job out
side, or doing just job in the industrial or
business world, must be a matter for her to
decide. Certainly II we are to begrudge this
to a woman, we reverting TO the Dark
Ages and sweeping aside all the social and
economic gains which women have made for
themselves.
Very few modern homes are sufficient 70
occupy the entire mind and time of a woman.
Mrs. Go pers would have them do. And
of her abilities stagnant, just because society
forbids her to work because she doesn't have
to support herself?"
Miss Hurst was asked whether combining
the home and job was not easier in New
York than elsewhere, and whether II was
fair to Judge women throughout the country
by the same standards as the professional
business and industrial women in New York
She answered.:
conditions in New York are. of course
more favorable for the individual develop
ment OF women than anywhere else. Here
you find the greatest achievement and the
most advanced thought and practice But
Just because that is so, we should Judge
women everywhere by the same standards
since these standards represent the highest
stage of women's development
New York Is the Eiffel Tower of civiliza-
ton and women's progress and from II we
must look out to gain the broader view and
the wider horizon"
The New York herald., 1921-09-18
Children Church. Mrs Borden
the Coblen Bidgehead PoIced by American Troops

lor and the Minister of Reconstruction
have said:
"Give us Upper Silesia and free trade
and we will free ourselves Of debt"
Directly after the armistice there was
deep bitterness here
But If separating the Rhineland from
the Fatheriand and making her buffer
state was possible when the revolutionary
spirit was abroad, as 1t was then, it is no
longer so to-day. The people would resist
it, and country cannot be made neutral
by force.
Above all this political chaos the Ameri
can flag floats above Coblenz, on the me-
di@val fortress of Ehrenbreitstein. AS 1t
stands out against the blue sky over those
massed clifflike walls 1t gives most won-
derful impression of youth and power
with malice toward none, with charity
to ALL with firmness in the right as God
gives us to see the right"
Verify the world does move. Under that
New World emblem flying above the an
cient Old World symbol of grim fear and
force and hatred there is being enacted
what may go down in history as an epoch
making dramatic American occupation.
Here in the busy little town of Coblenz
the streets are full Of stalwart, ruddy faced
The New York herald., 1921-09-18
Woman Head of Textile Workers
Agrees Wholly With Mrs. GompeI

Mrs Sara Conboy of the United Textile
Workers emphatically expressed her agree
ment with Mrs. Gompers's opinion. From
her wide first hand experience with the in
dustral worker she feels that much harm
is done when the wife and mother Of the
family works in the factory when 1t is quite
possible for her husband to support her and
their children without her aid.
Unfortunately said Mrs. Conboy, "it Is
not always possible. Industrial wages
especially among textile workers-are fire.
quently far too low for a man to earn
enough to provide his family with even the
necessities of life, unless he can count on
some actual financial help from either his
wife or children old enough to work. We
find often cases of families In which hus-
band, wife and two or three children are at
work in the same factory, and their com
bined wages are only enough to support the
entire family. In such cases these. where
the mothers wages are absolutely essential
to stretch the family earnings to cover its
needs, / agree with Mrs. Gompers that the
woman who works must be praised, not
censured"
Mrs. Conboy. however. would make dis
tlnction between the woman i'm industry and
the professional woman, or the woman who
has a specialized training for some particular
work. on this point she said:
The woman IN industry ls not nsualy
highly trained woman. certain amount of
training Is necessary even for routine me-
chanical processes. But for most Of the jobs
which women do i'm factories only a little
training is required. and the time necessary
to train new workers to replace old ones
is short. Thus It is not long before the new
worker at the machine Is doing practically
the same amount OF work as the old one.
I'm other words the industrial woman is
easily replaced. and except I'm the highly
skilled processes any woman can do given
Job as well as any other woman. II is there
fore possible for a mother whose wages are
no longer needed In her family to drop out
Of the ranks and be replaced without serious
detriment to the Job.
MANY married business women, although
they are trained workers are not highly paid
or highly specialized enough to Justify their
competition with other needy business
women who must depend upon themselves
The New York herald., 1921-09-18
Professional Women
M aintain T h a t
Mothers Can Run
Their Homes, Bring
Up Children and Still
Follow Vacations

that the work she has been doing at home
is done by some one else, she finds out that
she cannot replace herself by one person
but must have several.
1T seems to me that when a woman's Job
at home fills her whole time she earns far
more than she could ever earn outside since
she earns practically the combined wages
OF half a dozen specialized workers she would
have to employ to replace her.
But in these days the home job doesn't
usually fll the whole time of a woman
Housekeeping has been simplified by the
labor saving devices so much employed.
The training of children after the first few
years of their lives is carried on largely out
side the home, and few women find their
whole time taken up by the business of
homemaking at least after the few years
while their children are small 1t is here
that the difficulty lies and it is this situation
that is responsible for the restlessness
among modern women, and the increasing
tendency among many of them to take jobs
outside the home.
THE question of whether a woman shall
earn her living in the home or out of it is.
after all, an individual one and cannot be
decided arbitrarily. No one can say as to
whether this woman shall stay in the home
and that one go out of 1t. Each must decide
for herself. This do believe, however, that
every woman should be trained to earn
living married or not. She should be capa-
BILE of self-support whether she can be sup
ported by husband not. And what she
does with her training it is up to her to
decide.
The New York herald., 1921-09-18
"Sha Married Women Work." Stirs Varying Views
Question Raised by
Mrs. Sam Gompers,
Labor Leaders Wife,
Gets Union Women's S
Support Under Ger
tain Conditions

q HALL the married woman work? And
if she does work, are her husband
and children neglected? And again,
what is the social and economic value of
her work?
Discussion of these much mooted ques-
tions has once more been stirred by the
recent statements of Mrs. Samuel Gompers
wife of the president of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, that married women who
work although their husbands can support
them are taking money away from needy
unmarried women; that the home, no matter
how small, requires the whole mind and time
of the married woman, and that both home
and children are neglected if the wife and
mother has job which takes her out from
the home into the industrial or business
world.
Taking issue with Mrs. Gomperss state
ment is that recently made by Miss Mary
Anderson of the Department of Labor who
says that for women who are capable of
productive work to remain idle is industrial
waste and that women owe it to themselves
and the community to go to work
THE nation Is coming to realize" says
Miss Anderson, that there is no place in
it's makeup for idlers of either SEX
Between these two views there many
others on which one may take a stand.
Some of these middle grounds find their
place in the opinions of various prominent
New York women, who were asked to com
ment upon the statements of Mrs Gompers
and Miss Anderson and to express their own
ideas in the matter.
The New York herald., 1921-09-18

this is true even when woman mas chill
dren.
why isn't it better for a trained woman
to go on working in the field in which she is
expert and have her child taken care Of by
some one who has been trained to take care
of children. and have her house managed by
some one who is an expert housekeeper?
"Our civilization has become highly spe.
cialized to-day, and specialization in all the
departments of living Is IN order. We shall
have to specialize the home even as we spe-
cialize other activities and we can no longer
model our home along the lines of the past.
1T is increasingly true that even mother
hood and child training have been affected by
this tendency. The endowment of mother
hood by the State, advocated as serious
measure in many countries, is example
of this, and the establishment of nursery
schools by the English Government is di-
rect illustration.
The New York herald., 1921-09-18
Economic Question Involved
Analysed by Columbia Expert

Surely. in the face OF all this, 1t Is a
sweeping statement, at least to say that no
married woman should work unless she has
TO. IL we are to be in touch with the times
in which we live we must take a broader
view of the situation than that"
The relative economic value OF the woman
in the home and the woman in industry is
phase of the question which must be con-
sidered. What is a woman worth at home
and what on a job outside? The exact value
Of the woman in her twofold capacity of
housekeeper and mother Is impossible to es-
innate, but IL is interesting to compare 1t
with what she might earn outside.
Mrs. Mary Swartz Rose, a professor of
home economics at Teachers College, has
devoted good deal Of thought to this mat
ter as the result of her Investigations In her
own particular field of work, and from her
own experience as well, since she has job.
a home. husband and a child.
1T is an expensive business for woman
to replace herself in the home" said Mrs.
Rose emphatically. IF she decides to take
job outside the home and starts in to see
The New York herald., 1921-09-18

has children whose physical. mental and
moral welfare must be looked after, and for
whom suitable home atmosphere must be
created in which they can grow up. If this
takes up the whole mind and time of a
woman. and she is making her best con-
tribution to the community and the world
in this way, we'll and good.
Il doubt whether mother at work neces-
sarily implies neglected home and children
at the mercy of the streets, as Mrs. Gompers
suggests. There may be some women who
sacrifice the home and the children to the
job, but / have idea that such women
do not last long in the stern competition of
the industrial world.
"A good worker should not be prevented
from working merely because she does not
need the money. II the necessity to earn a
wage rather than the quality OF the work
produced Is to be the standard of labor
production would indeed suffer. And as
said before, | believe that the test of the
value OF any persons work is what that per-
son produces and, such being the case, /
should he inclined to agree with Miss An
derson that II is industrial waste for women
capable OF productive work to remain idle"
Student of Labor Legislation
Thinks idea Is FaiIacious
Another woman who has had ample OPP
portunity to observe the woman In INDUS
try and who has made some interesting
studies In this. field. especially along the
lines of the effect OF the war upon the
industrial worker both here and in Eng
land is Mrs. Irene Osgood Andrews, who Is
associated with her husband, John An
drews. In the American Association for
Labor Legislation. Mrs Andrews considers
that Mrs. Gompers's statement that no mar
ried woman whose husband can support
her should work is falacious. Such state
ment implies that the work woman does
has no value In itself and that the money
wage is the only consideration involved.
III woman has been especially trained
to do certain kind of work she Is making
a great mistake TO give up doing that work
Just because she marries and perhaps no
longer has to work for living. think that
The New York herald., 1921-09-18

for support. and frequently share in sup
porting their families.
Il know of one case of girl who has
$24 week stenographic job. Her husband
earns $50 a week. ample to support both of
them. But she refuses to give up her job.
1t seems to me that job not worth more
than $24 a week is not so specialized that
it cannot be filled by some other person
equally well who is much more in need of
the money There are many similar cases
to this one.
II agree, then. with Mrs Gompers," con-
cluded Mrs. Conboy, so far as the Industrial
worker and small salaried business woman
is concerned, and think Mrs. Gompers must
have had in mind the industrial worker
when she made her statement. The pro-
fessional woman, of course, presents diff
ferent problem and cannot be judged by the
same standards"
The New York herald., 1921-09-18
Has Home and Three Boys,
But Finds Time to Work, To,

So much for the woman In industry, in
the narrower sense of the word. Rosalie
Loew Whitney. lawyer by profession, prom
inently identified with the suffrage movement
before the passage of the suffrage amend
ment, and since then with the New York
State Republican party, member OF the
state Industrial Board and last, but by no
means least married and the mother of
three boys, is a shining example of pro-
fessional woman who combines home and
the job
THE test of the necessity of any persons
work is what that person produces said
Mrs Whitney. 1T is not, or should not be,
a question of sex or earning capacity. If
married woman is doing work which is
necessary to the community, and can do that
work without neglecting her home or her
children IL she has them, she should by all
means go on working. regardless of whether
her husband can support her II she does
not work.
when say this do not mean to under
estimate the Importance OF womans work
in the home. Nothing be more impor-
tant than that, especially where woman
The Cordova daily times., 1921-02-08
BRITISH LABOR MAKES GAIN IN
 WAGE AWARDS

LONDON, Feb. 8 (by Associated Press) ).-British labor has gained a great advance in wages as we'll as a further shortening of working hours during 1920 but the new year begins with a rising tide of unemployment.
 Increase in wages during 1920 have amounted to nearly G5,O00,OOO and affected 7,5470QO workers.
 A labor correspondent of the Liv- erpool Post says, however, that Cit IS probably a modest estimate to say that the whole of these wage in- creases have been swept away by unemployment and underemployment. For example, the textile workers to the number of 1,053,000 received, in the earlier months of the year, ad- vances in wages totaling &5S0, 300 week. The greater number of mills are now running only three days a week and it is we'll within the mark to put the loss from under-employ ment at G1,00O,000 a week.
 'In the engineering and shipbuild- ing industries 1,202,00O workers re- ceived advances to the amount of &429,5 300 week but here again the wage advance has been more than lost by unemployment and under employment. Dock workers have had the same sorry experience, and the lesson which it carries is that in competitive trades the wage-earning power can oly be maintained on an output of corresponding value"
 During the year 553,700 workers have obtained an aggregate reduc- tion of 2,071,2 hours a week.
 Although there have been more in dustrial disputes than in 1919, the number of working days lost by strikes shows a diminution. There were 1,563 disputes during the year 1920, involving 1,952,OO0 workers and 26,567O00 days were lost, the lat ter being swelled by the coal strike in October and November.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-02-08

COAST DEFENSE SAN FRANCISCO
 WORLD LEADER

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8 (by As sociated Press).-Big gun coast de- lenses of San Francisco recently took world leadership when, official ser vice reports said, for the first time in history, twelve-inch rifles were fired entirely by directions from the air. Experiments have been con- ducted since last April on co-opera- tion between the army air service balloons and the various coast artil- lery and heavy artillery posts along the Pacific coast
 The 14th and 24th balloon compan- les sent here from Fort Omaha. Me- braska, conducted these experiments. So far as known, according to off c1al reports, the only previous ex- periments of this kind, undertaken in 1919 at Sandy Hook, resulted in failure. Special instruments were devised in the Pacific coast experi- ments, which finally resulted in suc- cess.
 Battery Wendell, one of San Fran cisco's big coast defense disappear ing rifle batteries, claims the honor of the first battery functioning ac- curately from aerial control. Twen- ty-two shots at a pyramidicaI target, moving at range of 14,0OO yards, included five direct Ship" hits.
 This demonstrated that fog or haze making low visibility hereafter will not cripple San Francisco's coast de- lenses. Balloons at an altitude of 15,OOO to 10000 feet, get over the fog, locate the enemy object at sea, and direct the fog-hiddtn battery's deadly work against the attacker.
 Following the big rifle experiments. the balloon companies worked out mortar firing problems from the air, as well as night-firing by flares, and tests of new instruments. The bal loon companies will be permanently stationed at Roos Field, Arcadia, California, as a part of the Pacific coast defense.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-02-08

On the principle that power we, hicle can haul more than it can carry heavy duty motor trucks are being built in both France and England with short tractor units and long, detach able bodies.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-02-08
EQUITY ASSOCIATION
 MEETS IN MONTANA

GREAT FALLS, Mont, Feb. 8 (by Associated Press).-Many prominent Montanans are scheduled to address the sixth annual convention of the Equity Cooperative Association, a farmers organization of Montana, here February 10, Il and 12, accord
The Cordova daily times., 1921-02-08
Kodak finishing. Scarborough.

New cuff links really are claps, being hinged at the outer ends and having tongues that pass through the button holes.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-02-08

kin, attorney general of Montana;
 w. L. Beers, president of the Mon- tana Farmers Union; Professor c. F. Arnett, Montana state college of agri- culture; William Bouck, president Washington state college and Cap tain Robert Wilson of the United
The Cordova daily times., 1921-02-08

ing to announcement by H. O. Folk stead, associated secretary.
 Efforts are being made to have Governor Joseph M. Dixon address the delegates on the opening day of the convention, February 10. Other speakers include Wellington D. Ran
The Cordova daily times., 1921-02-08

States department of agriculture at Washington, D. c. Professor Arnett, it has been announced, will thorough ly review the wool question.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-02-08

CordoVa' Jazz Orchestra dance at Eagle Hall Saturday night.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-02-08
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In case of FIRE, and when calling the tele- phone operator to give the ALARM, be sure and state location of FIRE to said operator. During an ALARM and FIRE, priority ser- vice to the fire department over the central telephone svrss.lDoard will be given above everything else.
 Turing an Al hPT and when the SIREN is blowing, kfns'ty remember that the operator on duty cannot snswer all calls.
 Subscribers want to know simultaneously the location of the FIRE. To avoid this in future, the above priority to the fire depart
 7F will be first. Business, commercial
 - -~.'strT'' s~~o~d. Residence subscrib- third.
 ALASKA PUBLIC UTIL TIES
New-York tribune., 1921-05-31
Inside, but Inside of What?

question: am advised by friend that
II has been suggested to him to buy some
Lima Locomotive preferred selling be-
tween "a aud 95. He has inside" infor-
mauon that this preferred stock is to be
retlred in abouG eighteen months at 1O7
can you give me a line on this as
hgure that this would be a good buy, not
at all speculative as I see it, except as to
nme OF retirement "A. NJ.
Answer-The preferred stock of the
Lima Locomotive Works, Inc, is a
good investment, in our opinion. 1t is
convertible into the common stock at
par, and redeemable as whole or in
part at l071a and accrued dividends.
But it IS not reasonable to suppose
that the preferred stock, or any of it,
will be called at 1071a, when it can be
bought for much less in the market,
nor probably as long as there are any
of the first mortgage bonds out, which
are being retired by purchase from a
sinking fund. Your information NAV
be inside, but inside of what? Lima is
one. of the smaller equipment COM
panies. 1t was reorganized in 1916 and
has been doing we'll. Your inside" in
formation is just about as good as
most of the representations of the
kind.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-31
Youth Saving $1,000 a Year

Question: am a young man. twenty
four, earn s2Soo year and am saving at at
a fair savings account, $500 interest in
a second mortgage; safe, representing my
profit in a real estate transaction and q
check account of $500. l propose to in
vest $1,000 OF this sum. II possible prefer
500 bonds in the event need additional
capital, but would not object to one $500
bond l know the sum l have is too small
for diversification. but would like your
suggestions, Naturally, l desire safety
that s, consistent with yield of n per
cent, and also long terms wherever possible.
In this category the foreign bonds. such as
Swiss, Danish. Belgian and Norwegian S.,
seem good. Is safety impaired? These
are bargain times. L think, and the chances
OF appreciation are great but my capital
Pasco convertible SIS? The railroads seem
slated for boost during the next five
years. l know your opinion of Canadian
of Cleveland. Cincinnati, Chicago &c St.
Louis 6s at 50? l know I am a little too
ambitious in this direction both for my
age and capital. but l am trying to go
ahead in the right direction.-M. O. A.
Answer-$100 bonds are not so read
lily marketable as regular $1,000 pieces,
and we do not think it would be wise
for you to split up your $1,000 into ten
bonds. You can get the protection that
diversity affords by buying the bond Of
a corporation which receives its income
from many dlHerent sources, so that If
depression hits one industry it still has
many others to draw from. The bonds
Of the American Telephone and Tele-
graph Co. are good illustration of this
principle. People have to use the tele-
phone whether times are good or not,
and they also have to pay their tele-
phone bills. We suggest, therefore,
that you buy one of the several parent
company bonds; or, if you wish to
come closer to an even $1,000 invest
ment, Bell Telephone of Pennsylvania
Z per cent, 1945, at about 102 or 1903,
or a Northwestern Bell Telephone 7
per cent, 1941, at 80. The Cerro de
Pasco is reasonably safe as to principal,
and its conversion privilege, which is
speculative Of course, will carry the
bond up three points for each one
point rise in the stock after the stock
passes 33. We regard the foreign
bonds you mention as good invest
ments. So are the Big Four Is.