Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-12
WOMAN FLAYS
JOBS SESSION
FOR OVERSIGHT
Says HOuSekeepers Ignored
in Unemployment
Conference.
Special TO Indiana Daily Times
and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
By CONSTANCE DREXEL.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.-Housewives
are resenung more and more their desig
nation a. women of mo Ocupaticn.' That
is the way they are rated in the United
States census. And now comes Mrs
Charles T. Thompson, who fays the Ma
tiOnal Unemployment Conference for
ignoring women in general and home
keepers In particular.
Mrs. Thompson, who lays claim to no
other accomplishment than that of an
American housewife, but who has studied
household economy from every angle for
many years, was detailed by Secretary
Hoover to attend sessions of the unem
ployment conference as an unofficial OBJ
server representing household interests.
In her opinion those interests have
been so thoroughly ignored that she took
up the subject at a meeting of the House
keepers Alliance. which passed the fol-
lowing resolution asa result Of her ap-
peal:
Resolved, that in any future confer
ence on industrial affairs called by the
United tSates Government, household in
terests shall be considered a definite
sphere involved and the housewife shall
be given representation therein, the same
as any other responsible economic agent"
Mrs. Thompson declares that all
women have been fouted at the confer
ence She told the writer today that
Miss Ida Tarbell, Miss Mary VanKleeck,
Miss Elizabeth Christman and Mrs. Sarah
Convoy are merely present as tokens Of
gallantry."
OF course, many Of US feel that, In
dealing with unemployment and its
causes. men should first be considered
because women and children Of their
families viii be automatically affected.
But nevertheless, Mrs. Thompson's con-
tention. drawn from many years observa-
don and from the conference to which she
is now devoting her attention, is one to
set everybody thinking. She claims that
both the Government and the individual
man ought to tell the home woman more
about business affairs.
REIGN SUPREME
IN FRANCE,
In France, where woman IS said 10 reign
supreme, though she does not have the
vote, there is 8 much closer partnership
between the mans business and the wom-
ans household than IN this country. In
countless small businesses, the husband
and wife run them together. In larger
affairs, it Is quite customary for wives to
20 TO their husbands Offices the first Of
every month to look over his books. She
then tries to run her household expenses
N accordance Win his pIVAtS anu AVSSSS
as the case may be.
FoUND USEFUL
= DURING WAR.
During the war housewives were used
By the millions 10 carry out orders Issued
By Mr.. Hoover in his great food saving
campaign Miracles were accomplished
and the desired result obtained. But the
housewives want to do more than to carry
out orders. Those who are striving for
a greater recognition Of the importance Of
their sphere want TO be consulted before
the orders are given out. They think
they ought to be called in to partnership
even in an unemployment conference such
as is now in session in Washington. To
thus recognize the hOmekeeper as Of i'm
portance in economic life would indeed BE-
a new departure.-Copyrisht 1921. by
Public Ledger Company.