The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-05-05

{ kon Territory at ottawa, has many
friends in all the coast towns in
southeastern Alaska. She has been
a resident of Dawson since 1898 and
now travels from ottawa to Dawson
each year
At recent discussion of the I'M
employment question, Mrs. Black
made the following address before
the members of Parliament.
Mrs. Black CYukon1: 81 have
heard some very clever men say that
woman's tongue is hung in the
middle and loose at both ends, but 1t
seems to me that this has been re-
futed in the last few days. I have
| listened very carefully, very atten-
lively, and in vain for solution of
this unemployment question. No one
| in this house is more vitality inter
ested than I am in helping the youth
of this country. l know what it is
to bring up sons. 1 know what it is
to see boys and girls helpless and
idle. In this session, from my own
small means I have given over one
hundred dollars to men who have
asked me for a little help. I have
given eleven directed envelopes with
the word free" in the upper right
/ hand corner to men to whom I have
! given help, and have asked those
men to whom I have given those en-
velopes and small amounts of mon
ey, if when they got to their des-
tination they would kindly let me
know; in the envelope was enclosed
a sheet of paper, and l asked each
man If he had a pencil, and each
man answered me, yes. I have not
received in reply a single envelope
or a single letter.
1T is my opinion, from my ex-
perience during the last nine years,
since the depression first struck
this country, that there are a num-
Der of men--and l do not exclude
the women-who under no circum-
stances would work If they could
get along without working. But I
do not believe these form the large
majority. I think we are safe in
saying that if they had an oppor-
tunity Of being properly fed and
properly looked after in order to be
fit to undertake hard work, ninety
per cent of our employed would go
to work. am hopeful of the young
people of this country For the last
forty-one years l have been associ-
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one woman, so I feel that 1 under
stand the male mentality about as
we'll as anyone can.
I'VE have heard quotations from
the Bible. do not believe that when
our Lord said, 1.-The poor we have
always with you" he meant only
poverty of goods, or money. 1 be-
lieye he included as well poverty of
/ body, of soul, of mentality, of Nor
ale We shall always have men and
women unfit, by reason of their
physical disabilities, to cope with
the hardships of life. Unfortunately
we shall always have men and
women unable by reason of their
mental disabilities, to cope with the
hardships of life. It is not always
poverty of money that makes a man
undesirable or that makes a wom-
an incapable of fighting, it is power
ty of man attributes.
81 was afforded an opportunity of
visiting unemployment camps in the
states of Washington, Oregon and
To in
previously that l believe in a semi
military training. I believe in dis
ciplining children. My boys were
just as disobedient, just as boyjsh.
just as devilish as probably each of
you men was in your youth, but
insisted that they show respect to
their elders and that they obey.
With that end in view l gave them
semi-miiitary training, and 1 be-
lieve our youth should have that
training to-day.
IF we do not come to grips with
sure to reap the whirlwind; there
is no doubt about it. l am afraid of
a dictator; l am afraid of the brand
Of alism, bolschevism, naZism.
fascism or whatever you may call it,
that is preached in different camps,
in different industrial plants, and
taught from one end of this fair
country to the other by men who
want to make trouble.
81 shall be berated by many for
saying this but personally it is a
matter of absolute indifference to
me which party is in power. / want