The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-05-02
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1928.
WHAT WOMEN KNOW.

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X bers Of their sex it might be well for them
to put less intensive CAM
pagn just few of the fundamental facts
of the government and organization of the coun-
try, organization meaning the various practices
of political parties and a few little ncidentals
like that. Three rather recent demonstrations
of womanly ignorance make believe in the
necessity of such campaign.
Number one was like this: In one of the
counties of this state county seat fight is now
going One woman, resident in the town
thriving to keep the court house said "Well,
seems to me we have supported the court house
long enough. Why not let another town take
the burden for while" So much for deep
knowledge of county affairs.
Instance number two took place in Re-
publican caucus in county not thousand miles
away from Redwood. A came in and
asked politely to be told if "the blue or the pink
ballot was the Democratic ballot"
Number three is even worse: young woman,
several years teacher went to the polling place
at the last general election. When asked which
ballot she wanted she said quite frankly, at is
quite immateral to mel know less than moth
ing about either of them"
Before we work too hard on citizenship
classes for the poor benighted foreign-born wo-
and own community at least know the simple
little mechanics of government. There is no
way to teach them except to go straight and
"larn EN-"
P. S. We haven't bit of doubt that there
right here in this neighborhood who
think that Hoover of the presidential campaign
is the same man who made the popular vacuum
cleaner
p s again. Men are inst (umhi
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MONEY is LACKING
ROUSED by the published assertion of
~ Mrs John d. Sherman, president of the
General Federation of Women's Clubs,
that farm homes poorly equipped because
farm women are not as we'll informed about it
they should be-" the organized farm women of
America have challenged this implication, in a
controversy whose echoes are already rumbling
in the halls of Congress.
eff the farm home lacks modern equipment ~
says the farm women, at is not because we are
ignorant of the advantages which can be ours,
but because agriculture has not had the square
deal which would bring the money to purchase
these advantages"
The farm woman's stand is expressed by
Mrs. Chas. w. Sewell, director of the Home and
Community Department of the American Farm
Bureau Federation with headquarters in Chicago.
With thirty years experience a farmers wife,
she speaks the representative of the farm
in $4,000 local community units which
compose the Federation.
1.-THE farmers wife never does without beau
ty, convenience or culture because she is un-
acquainted unappreciative of better things, ~
says Mrs. Sewell in open letter to Mrs. Sher-
man, which is being called to the attention of
every member of Congress. "The farm home
is true partnership into which 60 talent, time,
money and industry. The farm woman is willing
to share her husbands losses, as we'll as his
profits, because she is brave, loyal partner.
IF American agriculture is given the square
deal and receives its just share of the national
income / am willing to vouch that the next five
years will see farm homes as well equipped with
modern conveniences city homes and sending
out boys and girls who in the future, as in the
past, will contribute most richly to the nations
advancement.
81 would like to make it perfectly clear that
the farm women know enough to select and pur-
chase every convenience known to modern women,
but, like the old recipe for cooking rabbit, you
must first catch the rabbit and the farm wife
needs to know where to get the money. If agri-
culture is prosperous, electric lights heating and
water systems will follow naturally as bees
follow the honey pot.'-Bureau Farmer.
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