Evening star., 1923-06-29
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL y. COLLINS

pete for jobs--as in Europe today
wages fall. The United States IS
practically the only country in the
world where the job is crying for
compared with wages given the
worker anywhere else in the worlc
or at any other time in history.
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A prominent feminist, Alice Foote
McDougall, regahes New York with
some differences which she draws
from the 1920 census, on which she
prophesies that in 100 years from
now women will be carrying on all
kinds of business and men will be
! at home scrubbing floors and rocking
babies
She frightens timid men, by the al
legged fact that the 1920 census shows
that there are now 2l.1 per cent of
women engaged in gainful occupa-
tlons. whereas in 1910 there were only
l4:1 per cent. Also, there is a fright
ful falling off in the per cent of men
engaged in gainful work-one-half OF
l per cent. (Maybe that covers the
war millionaires who no longer have
to toll or spin,. but are little white
Illies sitting by stone, waiting and
watching till the sun shone.)
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/ She fails to analyze the situation.
| ana snow that women no longer need
TO spend SO much time in housework.
| owing to modern labor-savine appu-
/ ances-sweepers, for example. But
our women do not follow the example
OF their European; sisters OF going
into the farm fields, or taking en-
| ployment scraping streets, or doing
other menial work unsuited to the
refinements of feminine nature.
AS for mans taking to housekeep-
| lng-asfde from poor downtrodden
| henpecked victims of tyrannous feni-
nlnlty-lt would not be six months
/, Defore Yankee fatherhood would in
/ vent automatic, self-starter hahy
| cradle rockers, operated on the first
| squawl OF the occupant Cookery
| Would De done on quantitative plan
IKE making tin Lizzies. or as baking
bread and cakes is now done Wifn
regular deliveries-posstblv tbrougb
| pipe line with faucets for the sen
arate items.
Brains! Management That is where
men men shine. Come on. ye centuries,
%**
! Up to date there are fourteen ships
which have made a point to violate
the NoIstead law. by bringing LIQUOR
| within the three-mile limit. hut il
does not follow that they are the
| same as Wilson's famous fourteen
points we used to hear about.
/ " X X
! How the spirit of DR.. osler must
have gasped-if spirits can gasp-
upon seeing a sixty-year-oId Young
I
last week! 1t was his first air frolic
alone. too. Now he is as proud as a
shavetail with his new silver wings
Gen. Mason NJ. Patrick, and he has
been chief OF the air service since Oc-
| tober. 1921, but had not heretofore
achieved the right to fly.
| **&
Is not this new demonstration OF
| the utter absurdity of counting a
mans age by his years? Many a man
at sixty or sixty-flve is physically and
mentally younger than others at for
ty. Many men. only begin to find
themselves at fifty. and only after
the age when osler bade them go
way back and die outside the house
do they do their best work.
At the banquet in honor of the com
mander-in. .chief of the American Le-
gion last Tuesday there sat at one of
the tables a soldier who had served
on active duty in the civil war, three
Indian wars and the world war. He
had been refused In the Spanish war,
as the ALMANAC betrayed that he was
then over sixty, but when the world
| war came he was only eighty@three
and so he got active duty" Lieut..
Williams is the youngest and most
| enthusiastic soldier and legionnaire
in America-only eight-seven now
and he never misses a meeting OF the
George Washington Post He stirred
up the fogies of forty, or thirty five,
| when he rallied them at the Com
mander Owsley banquet.
The almanac is liar. Prove il by
Mai. Gen. Patrick or Lieut.. Williams.
lCopyxight. aa23. by =. v. OSilins.A