Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-02
GIVING PEOPLE OF u. S. FACTS
SHOULD BE AIM OF SEEKERS
OF PRESIDENCY, SAYS FORD

Ihey are facts which can De
found out. For an amount less than
some candidates have expended in
their campaign Propaganda, they
could be brought to light, and the
man who would spend this money
that way for the unselfish purpose
of giving the people some bedrock
facts to work upon, would recon-
mend himself for a position of serV-
ice to the people much more than
any speech making or self-advertis-
ing campaign could ever do.
Perhaps the time has come when
We shall demand of candidates pre-
liminary specimens of the work they
would do if elected, the thorough
ness and persistence they would
bring to the big questions.
Docs any one know how much
coal is being mined, or whether next
winters needs will be met?
Advice to Candidates 4
Does anyone know whit the
wheat acreage is for this year, and
whether, in event of a good crop or
a poor one, the unsold portion of
last years crop will still prove suf-
ficient? There are two sets OF
statements made upon that ques-
ton each year. Which is the true
one? Or is the truth somewhere
between them? 1t would not be i'm
possible to find out. 1t would cost
money, but not as much as some
campaigns are costing.
From one point of view 1T is
splendid advantage for the country
to have fifteen or twenty men who
openly admit their ability and de-
sire to be president.
at is splendid that so many men
are willing to serve the entire ma
ton. And the incident of their
failure to win the nomination or
the election is not sufficient reason
for laying aside so laudable
desire.
Let them go on and serve, let
them get to work, spending their
money, using their executive ability
and proving their separation from
the exploiting class by meeting the
present shortage Of facts
cit would be a genuine benefit to
the nation, if, in addition to the
candidate showing before the nomi-
nation a piece of work of presiden-
tial size and Importance, tho de-
feated candidate, after the elections,
should go ahead and demonstrate
some of the services he had it in
mind tos render had he been
elected
"Mr Ford, what is your opinion
regarding women in industrial en-
ployment? Is it cheating the homer"
1 asked.
NNonon,,
Nowadays there is seldom a
question raised as to the propriety
of women supporting themselves by
paid labor. In even the wealthy
families the idea of rearing a
daughter in idleness is rapidly dying
out, although theer is always, Of
course, the consideration Of a
choice OF labor" said Mr.. Ford
I'm fact, it may be regarded IS
settled, and no question at all, that
the girls of the family may re-
nounce a life of idleness and be-
come supporting, or contribu-
tors to the support of the hon
without being even the slightest
the less Womanly for it, as some of
the forefathers thought they were.
THE Self-supporting type of
yOuIIS WOII1ctIl 11cto 1uNlCd new
strain to American femininity-a
strain of wholesome self-relianCe,
Clear-eyed vision of the facts of life
and general sanity Of reaction.
She has not been made masculine;
rather, the sounder qualities of
womanliness have been brought out
in her. The so-called new woman
really represents womanhood re-
o-{ifioioJ af
But now comes a new angle to
the question:
"Ordinarily, upon her marriage, a
woman stopped working for wages.
Her sphere thenceforth became the
home; not that she worked less, but
her husband became the bread-win-
ner, while she became the home
maker. To assume the work of
keeping a house is not exactly
retirement from work, as every
woman knows.
This was a division of labor
which seemed in harmony with the
fitness of things and which we are
convinced will remain the normal
condition in spite of instances or
periods of alteration.
Work and Married Women
periods now, and hence arises in
many quarters the question: Should
married women work? Employers
are frequently asked for their views
upon it. Social workers are very
outspoken upon it. More than that,
thousands of the very women in
volVed in the matter are wondering
whether they are really the pioneers
Of 49,
merely the signs of a period in
which many standards are tenn
porarily disturbed.
1T seems pretty true to say that,
however numerous may be the pres
ent-day instances of married women
working, they are not the pioneers
of a new condition of things in
which it will be thought right and
proper that all women should work
outside the home for wages.
Certain factors are irremovably
opposed to such a practice becom-
of home, for one. A home is a
place inhabited; not an apartment
TO which two working people come,
tired from their labor, to rest from
a days work. A home is a place in.
habited by the spirit of home-mak-
ing, which spirit somehow requires
the pretty constant bodily presence
of the home-maker, who is supreme
ly the woman.
Then there is the idea Of family.
Certainly the intrusion Of the even
one child breaks up the plan of the
wife going out to work. And, not
to repeat the counsel which has
been given on this subject from the
earliest times, who can separate be-
tween the idea of home and family?
LAS a broad rule, a great deal
can safely be sacrificed to preserve
the spirit of home. There are
many impressively dressed women
whose homes are not impressive.
The best setting any woman ever