The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-03-18

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APPEALS TO WOMEN FOR AID
IN SAVING SHEEP INDUSTRY
"The "Buy Pound of Wool" cam
paign which has been instituted in
Idaho among the women to aid in
saving the wool industry in this state,
has been indorsed in a letter written
by Mrs. L. B. Green, president of the
Idaho Federation of Women's clubs
to Mrs. Fred T. Dubois, chairman of
the industrial and social relations of
the Idaho federation. The letter is in
part as follows:
IF every member of the State Fed
GRAFTON of Women of Idaho would buy
Apound of wolo-Don't you see what
wonderful impetus we would give to
one OF ldaho's greatest industries that
is suffering from the lack of an en-
barge or protective tariff?
In nut shell, this is what | mean
by the Buy Pound of Wool cam
paign which l, as chairman of the
social and industrial committee of the
Idaho State Federation of Women, am
endeavoring to launch among our
clubs members. There is q link of
brotherhood which binds us all to-
gether. This year we have been made
to realize our interdependence upon
each other even more than during the
trying days of the war; We obeyed
orders then and endeavored to deliver
the goods
Ours not to reason why,
Ours but to do and die
Now in this great reconstruction
period of storm and stress, men and
women alike, on the farms, in manu-
featuring districts, in the cities, are
asking-Why? They see the savings
of a lifetime vanish like dew. They
had no vision that would have made
forAprotection. Keen business men
overlooked the old law of philosophy
that action is equal to reaction but |
in the contrary direction-and so, we
have closed factories, unemployment,
bread lines, the female fighting for |
food for her young, bread and meat |
riots have started and ugly unrest is |
in our midst. This is the very atmos- |
phere that the radicals have prayed |
for. This is the chance for the seed |
of discomfort which the l. w. w. and |
the Bolshevik have planted to grow
unless every patriotic man and
woman in the western states arise in
their might and unselfish American
ism and, putting their shoulder to the
wheel. endeavor prayerfully, unsel-
fishly and scientifically to solve these
economic questions.
"The war is not on the other side;
1t is in our midst. For years, women
feeling the need of study, have stud
led and banded together in clubs.
They hAye spent hours in study which
gathered together into days would
transform themselves into years.
when the zero hour struck and
the accomplishments of women. They
were ready-they knew not only how
to organize, but the power of organ
ization. Side by side with their men
On the field of battle; side by side in
the hospitals; side by side in the gov
Offices, they turned the I
wheels of the machinery of thought
which would battle to victory. Bear
ng the future generation they toiled
with smile of victory on their faces.
Only seeing their babies long enough
10 feed them, the young mothers !
worked in factories, thinking of peace, ,
praying for peace. The armistice I
.ame but no peace True, a cessation y
of armed h0stilities but is there peace :
IN this state? Can we not, ought we !
not, the club women of the state, q
study the conditions surrounding the b
Industries which have made Idaho r
such a wonderfully productive state I
II seems to me, as chairman of this v
my first work ought to be Z
10 point out to the best of my ability I
conditions as / see them and how we &
Ian help to remedy wrong conditions. {
sThe sheep industry has for many Y
Iears made Idaho known, for there b
lave been men with vision and knowl- n
]ge who have prided themselves on n
welopia9 herds producing the high e
grade of wool. Other states, like n
slifornia, New Mexica, Utah and e
kyada, came to Idaho to secure e
Deding stock. Great fortunes were I
led up in the sheep industry. Dur ii
the war contracts were made for Il
re amounts of wool. Men, in or d
to serve their country, invested t
willy inSbree4ing stock. Idaho is
natural forage state. Conditions .
which no one had seeming vision I
se- Drought in 1919 caused feeds d
reach an untold price. Hay sold /
high as $35 and S45 per ton. The |,
feeding season of 1890, from c
pber 25 to June 1, cut down all L
It's and caused many an investor d
all for loans. Mortgages were S
kssary but every investor looked "
F1rd 10 selling his feeces. This G
n tide over the situation What Ii
y happened? Wool had been a
il frola other countries in such {,
tities st such low rates that our is
ktry could not compete We had al
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