Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-24

and fruit and less meat and starch
Particularly during the hot Summer
months we know by experience that the
lighter diet enables US to function more
efficiently and will destroy much OF the
depletion which comes from hard work
In the heat
II believe you will agree with me that
this very incomplete summary of homely
subjects demonstrates the usefulness OF
our Government and proves that 1t is
functioning most eff1ciently for the
comfort, health, happiness and pros
perity Of the people as a whole. The
pamphlets, as have said before, cover
the entire range Of activities and inter-
ests of householders. tradesmen. profess
sional men, scientific men, farmers.
builders Of homes, and they properly
give most generous attention to the rear
ing of the future generations. 1t Is
Government. It belongs to you and to
me. Let us continue to use 1t more
and more. and by the use of IL we will
be better citizens, more helpful citizens
healthier people, and q more devoted
people to its interests, which are, after
all, our interests"
Outlines WOman's Duties.
Mrs. Owen alluded to her campaign
experiences in pointing out that
woman's place Is not necessarily In a
home that Is limited to the house she
and her family occupy.
During the course Of my congress
sional campaign there was a phrase
which ran like theme through the
speeches Of the opposition. This phrase
was, "A woman's place is in the home.
II agree that woman's place is in the
home. that it always has been. but I
believe We have come to set different
limit to the home and have widened
those boundaries considerably during
the last few years.
There was time when II woman
kept the inside Of her home clean and
sanitary she had done her duty by her
family, but believe that my home is
the place where my family and my
dren can move about in a space as big
as an automobile can travel IN every
direction from the house / live in, and
! believe that 1t Is useless for me to
try to keep the inside Of one house safe
and sanitary. II the town that live in
is not safe place for my boy or my
girl .rt
II remember the first time that I
had glimpse Of this wider home. It
was when I was 20 years old and had
two children OF my own, and neighbor
came and asked me to- 60 with her to
the city Jail. There Is O little boy
IL years old in the Jail and the crime
for which he was jailed is stealing
a watermelon she said.
1T surely Is not possible to lock H.
year-old boy up In jail for having
stolen Watermelon I asked.
" He Is not only in jail. but he Is
locked up amongst criminals who have
long records of crime she replied.
and there he must stay tomorrow and
the next day unless We do something
about it.
Tells Of Juvenile Work.
"I said, I cannot see why the mothers
in this town tolerate such a law as
that
The mothers pay no attention to
the law. sometimes, until it touches
their own boy and then they find out
what 1t Is. she said.
THAT was the beginning of our work
for Juvenile Court In the town lived
in. for knew that II 1t was possible to
treat one boy unjustly under the law.
my own boy was not safe while I al
lowed that law to remain.
1T was not long after that we began
our work on the pure food law. for we
realized that much Of the food which
our children ate came into the home
from the world outside, and that unless
the pure food laws were properly made
and enforced We could not protect the
bodily health Of our children, and IL
would be interesting II We could trace
all the steps in legislation which have
come so close to the well-being Of our
children that the modern mothers have
felt these laws to be their intimate
concern.
Not long ago. in Kansas City. the
women noticed how many children were
being injured and killed by automobiles
In traff1c. and set out to study this
problem rs modern mothers. They
took a map Of Kansas City-and every
time q child was injured or killed by an
accident in traftic they marked . cross
on the map at the spot where the &C.
cident had occurred.
After q time o very significant fact
appeared. They noticed that most all Of
the accidents had occurred in parts of
Kansas City where there were no play
grounds for the children and the chill
dren had been playing In the streets,
and that the parts Of Kansas City
which had supervised Fairgrounds were
almost free from accidents-so these
modern mothers set to work with their
city commission to try to obtain more
Fairgrounds for their children. and as
they worked In the politics of their city
to this end, think they were better
mothers than II they had stayed inside
four walls and paid no attention 70
existing conditions.
Work for Clean Movies.
But although the bodily welfare Of
our children Is important, there are
considerations more vital even than
bodily health. There came into the
world q few years ago power for
impresSing the mind and the magma
ton of childhood more forcibly than
had any other medium which man had
invented. When the motion picture was
perfected, there was Embossed in the
world the greatest force for propag anda
which man had ever made. While q
speaker can reach few hundred by the
sound OF his voice, and q writer car
reach q few thousand by the printed
page, during the same time motion