The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-04-12

by Dozen Big National Woman's
Organizations and any Number OF
state orssrizations--congrsssionai
| Committee Convinced Of Worthiness
Of Cause.
whether sOggy biscuits, unbalanced
| dinners and bad bargains can be legis-
| lated out OF existence Is question
which the last congress smiled and
trowned over and finally passed to
| Its successor The committee that In.
ypstigated the need for federal as.
sistance so train housewives was read.
NY convinced OF the wOrthness Of the
cause But the bill providing a gov
! ernment fund for home economies
courses got pushed aside 10 the final
rush OF imperatively important iegis-
iasou, writes Frederic J, Haskin In
the Chicago News.
| The BIZ, 10 not lost. however. II IL
| snrs 10 tome up IN the next congress,
| possibly at the extra session. IL H.
| aet sn expensive measure as expendi'
lures 20 10 congress, but Il 10 bill
Of far-reachlnE Importance and one
that offers an opportunity to every
| state and It IL being urged by dozen
| big natlonal woman's organizations
and, any number OF state Orghnisa-
| lions.
The foundation for the home eco
nomlcs bill, Is the old story--for sew.
eral Of them:
\ H. ~ lao mn 0Ml
women and girls In the United States
keep house, and as homemakers these
| 26,00O,UO0 women constitute the larg-
est class Of workers In the country.
/ II Is further estimated that more than
! nine.icnths ~ women keep house at
some time IN their lives.
More thrn 30 per cent Of the buying
FOR the home is done by women.
Nutritiye food In the proper proper
| lions, sanitary home conditions, econ
| omy la the home. are the basis OF
| Americas, or any cOuntry's health,
wealth and happiness
| But there is u negative fact Of equal
Importance The housewife who Is 50
largely responsible for the American
digestion and hank account Is for the
most part an unskillcd laborer, where.
as with training she might properly
class her work among the professions.
Homes Badly Run.
The home has been called the most
costly institution In America, and IL
might equally well he called the most
inefficient. II il largely because OF
unfortunate home conditions that we
have with Us Juvenile delinquency,
mnlnutrition, indigestion, the grouchy
business man and other problems"
| Up to now II has been taken for
granted that the homemaker got ade.
quate training as girl In her par
ents' home. or, falling that she picked
~ housekeeping naturally. by expert
ence. II girl elected TO delve In.
tn the technical business OF calories
aud budgets at school. well and good.
She was merely rounding out her ed
ucntiun with extra accomplishments.
This Idea Of how housekeepers
should be nade l. losing credence,
partly because housekeeping has be-
come recognized field for science,
and partly because the home school
OF household training Is practically
extinct.
Rarely Is a girl given the thorough
training IN household affairs by her
mother that the daughter of the house
generation or two back receiyed
Mother Is generally too busy getting
Through with h0usework SO as to make
time for clubs aud politics, and daugli.
ter's well meaning offers 10 help make
the pies are likely to be met with dis.
trscted II eau do II while I'm showing
you how
Girls themselves, we are told. are
more Interested In home economics
, now than they have been for several
years. Girls by the thousands have de
serted the Kitchen range for the fac
tory bench and IL they have to keen
the home fires burning too, they pick
up something skcichy on the way home
. and rke Uui the reai with canned
goods and raw fruits,
Women Want TO Learn
The greater concern over hOusrkcep
Ing now being displayed Is attributed
10 tlc wave of economy ana the retiuc
I tlOn VI wages. II Is not. however. u
return 10 the old hOusckeeper's view
, point Of before the war. Women ar,
beginning Ia accept what home eco
Evui.c, experts have so long and pa
tientiy explained housework neet
no, be drudgery, that the principles
, Of balanced meals can be graspcd By
ANY woman who will take time Il
study them. and In general, that home
economics Is not u subject limited e
college text books, but that IL Is simply
huusework by methods tested By ex
! psrts
The biH which extends the oppor
4 tunily Tor women and girls 10 become
cowu"t'n, honseEeepers provides $50,
CO.. 90 The start, to be divided among
he sta,aa according to population II
receive is share Of the money, what