Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-24

MRS. GEORGE SPELVIN,
" American. having been
called to Washington to give her
views on the state of the ma
ton, testified as follows. -
A-(By Mrs. Spelvin)-WeII,
1 must say you take me by sur
prise, asking me to come here,
because the way things have
been going these last several
years, why. the idea seems to
me that II you don't spend all
your time running around to
lectures. well. woman who
spends her time trying to raise
the children right instead of or
ganizing things all the time, like
committees for this and that
and, as far as l can see, IL In
pretty near a full-time job run
ming q heHfe and leave the hus-
band take care of such things,
because l have been a woman
quite a long time myself. and
some of these busybOdy women
can't fool me just because they
are women, whereas man
thinks just because a woman In
n woman you are supposed to be
treated differently when 1t comes
to politics.
0-(By Senator Nilly of Indi-
W ana - Will you be good
enough to clarity your last re-
mark. Mrs. Spelvin. because I
am sorry I perhaps didn't pay
strict attention. but il seems to
me / don't quite understand
whether you mean a woman in
public Zfife. as compared with
housewIfe-and We all know
motherhood is Gods noblest
mission for womankind - and
naturally every man with a
spark of chivalry would be I'M
true to the holy memory of the
mother who bore him If. as YOU
say. and l heartily agree these
matters call for unusual dignity,
but, on The other hand. since
women have the vote. and in
case Of war We all know the
great sacrifices made by the
English women
A-Oh, no, Senator Niliy. that
isn't what mean at all, be-
cause my viewpoint goes much
further. unless, OF course. we
actually get into the war, but
until we do / always think back
TO the other war when I was just
a mere slip of girl and Mr..
Spelvin was overseas I'm the I'd
Division, but the very day he
landed back he sent me a wire
reminding me OF my promise,
and. OF course. I was terribly
excited, and we didn't have any
money to get married on. but
my mother said, "Money isn't
everything" and I have never
forgotten those words, and IL
certainly makes me sick and
tired, all this moIIycoddling
young people, and the govern
ment has to help them through
college until they are even IS
years old. when we all know
very well person that old
ought to he ashamed To be liv-
ing on their parents or the gov
eminent, unless they are sick
or something or II Is just i'm
possible to find a job, and yet
we have this Youth Congress
and the government youth de-
partment here in Washington
and the worst OF II is
~ take it, then, Mrs. Spell.
W win. that you seem to have
in mind something on the order
of the great President Abraham
Lincoln, who became one of the
greatest men the world has ever
known. but. inasmuch as we
\ have progressed so enormously,
/ wish you would give me a con-
crete example of an imaginary
case where a woman has met
her solemn responsibilities to
God and country because.
TO face facts. today we have the
electric ice box and the vacuum
cleaner, and the mother no
longer bakes the bread for the
whole family, as my dear old
mother did. and the boys al
ways kept the kindling box full
and fresh pail of water from
the well, and still we managed
to work our way through coll
lege, but if you take the case
of a college youth today
A-There you put your finger
right on the very thing l was
trying to say In my own way,
but l am not used to public life,
and naturally IL flusters mo
being here before you senators,
but the whole thing In nut
shell, senator, boils right down to
whether q woman ought to raise
their own children and never
mind the neighbors' and not go
around stirring up committees
and speeches when there Is al
ready so much disturbance that
YOU can hardly turn on the radio
without you hear some woman
yelling her head off about youth
or how all the women ought to
join something, whereas 1t Is
true I have a vacuum and l buy
store bread, but the government
has formed so many A b C's and
XYZ's and this and that
until nobody knows what these
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