Evening capital news., December 23, 1917, Page 9, Image 21

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CLARION CALL
TO WOMEN OF
UNITED STAUS
They Must Take the Places
of Men Who Are Called to
Fight the Battles of the
Nation.
Women Who Can Play Ten
nis and Golf Can Raise
Crops and Help Feed the
World—Can Do as Great
a Work as Soldiers.
By MRS. FRED T. DUBOIS.
(Nutlonhl Chairman of Conservation
•incl Production Congress of Mothers.)
The time is not far distant when
those in charge of the agricultural in
terests in this nation must mobilize
the women to do actual farming: al
tendy. the council of national defense.
• he National League for Women's Ser
vice, and the department for unem
ployed women, connected with the
United States' bureau of labor, are pre
paring to meet the exegencies of war.
Herbert Hoover said in his address
at Brown university: "Our whole food
problem resolves around one single
factor—-the diminishing productivity of
Europe and the disruption of commerça
1 y armed barriers.
"Since the wonderful world harvest
<*! 1915, the food supplies of the AvorUl
have been steadily lessening. This
year we are faced with a world short
age. and next year the shortage will
be greater. Seventy million men have
been called out of productive labor,
and devoted to fighting und the pro
duction of implements of war. The
women have been unable to in full re
new the harvest, and there has been
great diversion of animals and
transports to war. The land is no
longer receiving fertilizer as of old.
in order to decrease the production of
fodder, grains 'and increase the pro
duction of bread graiits, and to secure
protein and fat supplies. Europe is
iftting into her capital of animals.
This again reacts upon the produc
tively of the land, and food stuffs are
beyond this daily being destroyed it
/ea In shiploads. Our own allies arc
sepirated from their normal market
• f Russia. Bulgaria, Rumania, while
the Argentine has had a crop failure
and the shortage of our allies there
fore is more acute than their own de
cline represents. It is the impact of
ibis shortage that has knocked at
every door in the United States. We
' »re a country of abundant surplus, yet
I he reverberation of Europe's short
.gc would have thundered imperiously
von'had we never entered the war."
ACTUAL NEEDS OF PEOPLE.
This quotation from the food admin
istrator of this nation, states clearly
why those of the Civic Federation of
1 \morica ore endeavoring to place be
:<>!•*• the people the facts as to thp ac
tuality of the needs of the people as a.
hole, and how necessary it is that we
use all power to conserve and develop
food production.
Since the call to arms is being ans
wered by the men of the nation a mil
lion at a time; since the factories ar •
•ailing to their munitions works mil
itons more, and without munitions the
tight for existence cannot bo waged;
since the great cotton and woolen, in
dustries are demanding extra shifts
in order that the government con
tracts for clothing, blankets and so
forth may be rushed to the front, man
power is being requisitioned in these
vits to the detriment of producing
labor for the farms. However, the
statictici&ns who have been making
surveys for the agricultural depart
ment at. "Washington this year state
I liât with the help of school boy», boy
scouts and the usinai floating tramp
labor that the crop will be garnered,
but the situation forward looking civic
, bodies ought to *be preparing for is
the crop of 1918 when these men huvo
been called to the front.
WHAT WOMEN CAN DO.
During an interview with one of the
leaders of the National League for
Women's Service, she asked me to tell
lier the actual work on the farm that
women can perform without undue
fatigue. We discussed the question
NAVY CHIEF SOLVES OLD VISITOR
PROBLEM—HAS ONLY ONE CHAIR
fn.tfce office of Fear Admiral Sam
Qel McGowan, chief of the Rtjreau of
Supplies end Accounta in the Navy
department, there ia only one chair.
It'a McGowan'a. Visitors have to
ttand, fo they don't atay Ion»;.
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Memr Admiral Samuel McUovaa
from all angles and believing os she
does that a concrete mobilization of all
women capable of farm work must be
made at once In order that we be pre
pared to take charge, of the crops of
1918, It seems wise to me that the
American women ns a whole ought to
study this question from the same
angle that we as individuals arc sur
veying it.
Any woman Who can row. ploy ten
nis, golf, or swim, or do other ath
letic sports can wield a pitchfork, or
hoe or rake, she can plow, prepare
the seed bed or sprinkle fertilizer over
tne eaith. It Is no mor? fatiguing
than any one of these sports, only one
must have a vision and interest in the
work. This interest will come in the
knowledge of the extra production
their work is going to add to the na
tion's stores. There is no difference
between work and play in life. When
we analize the difference between
work and play wo find that it is only
when the interest is left out of play
that it becomes work. It makes no
difference what kind of a plow is used
any woman with very Nttle knowledge
can plow. I have seen girls from 13
to 16 years of age plow the great fields
for the wheat producing states of
North and South Dakota, and Mon
tana. This work is largely done by
tractor engines. However, it is nat
advisable to use much power on small
farms, and the women will be calle.A
upon probably to use the gang or
three horse plow.
CORN RAISING SIMPLE.
There is nothing about the plant
ing. cultivating, or picking of corn
crop that women cannot perform. I
have seen girls from 14 years of age
on to womanhood caring for the en
tire process of the cultivation of corn
to its fruition. On the corn crop of
this nation depends the future of this
country for we depend upon stock and
there can be no successful stock rais
ing without corn.
1 would that 1 had the brush of *n
innes or the gift of tongue that 1
might paint a picture of the garner
ing of a hay crop in the golden days
of September; first, the mowing down
of the purple sweet scented clover—
the very atmosphere ladened with the
drowsy humming of the bees, crickets
and grasshoppers, the singing of the
mowing machines os they rythmieally
cut the wide swaths of grass so full
of nutritious juices—the golden rod*
and the purple astors are adding
beauty to the languorous scene. Any
girl or woman who has a germ of
poetry in her nature will lie influenced
by the hazy atmosphere which covers
all nature, and will love the haying.
It is an art that women can perform,
from the cutting, raking, making into
haycocks to the storing away for win
ter's use. The garnering of the cereal
crops whether done by the old fashion
method of#the binder, or by the new
combination machinery cun all be
compassed b> women. Take for in
stance the threshing of the grain—out
side of the engine manipulated by a
skilled workman there is no part of
the occupa Hon 1 have not seen ac
complished by women, and. before the
conclusion of this war women will
have become skilled engineers. Already
they are operating motors and run
ning ambulances.
KNOWLEDGE OF MACHINERY.
There is so much interes-t in the
technical knowledge of machinery that
once a woman enters and graduates
from this profession and demonstrates
lier ability as a successful engineer
others will follow. Already the rail
roads are demanding that women take
the places of men in so far ns they
are trained. 1 have seen a woman in
control of an irrigation canal sys
tem. She had full charge of a corps
of men digging ditches* and putting in
concrete dams. In conversation with
a contractor who had watched the
work, lie- told me he had never been
able to get as much work out of the
same size crew of men in one day as
that woman accomplished. The secret
of that woman's success was the thing
that <11 women must learn. She had
made those men forget her sex.
The time is ripe when men and
women must no longer think of each
other in sex terms. Women have been
over sexed. Men made them so. To
day the world demands that we he
part of a great whole working all for
each, and each for all. There Is no
reason why women should not find h
successful vocation in animal hus
bandry.
It is a natural place for women. The
mother Instinct lying dormant in every
woman fits her particularly for this
vocation. It requires patience and de
tail to raise stock and women are par
ticularly trained in these virtues. There
is a great shortage of cattle, hogs and
horses, in this country. It is a matter
of great concern to our government,
is in charge of the young women
OLD QUEEN OF AIR
GIVES WA Y TO NEW
f)
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Katherine Stinson (top) and Ruth
Law.
Ruth Law's claim tc air supremacy
among the »rentier sex. .vor by a
flijrht, Nov. lit. 1916. of 512M. miles
from Chicago to New Yort. has been
wrested from her hv Katherine
Stinson, Texas flyer, who Hew ftr.O
miles without alisrhtintr between Sau
Dietro and San Francisco.
workers of this nation paint the pi
turc of the young girl surrounded I
her chlckensfl cows and other animals
■| in such glow ing colors that she can |
1 feel the call from within .to go for- j
I ward to battle for food in order that. J
I her Tieloved countrymen behind the I
i guns and sword thrusts on the blood
'stained fields of France, may have j
j food and raiment. For no longer are 1
we to produce for ourselves.
CLARION CALL SOUNDED.
Sound a clarion cull to the women of
j America! Paint such a vision of farm;
life and the value of production, that j
loads of common fertilizer are trans
formed into things which have a beauty
«and a Jovousness never known before.
Paint the picture of fertilizer being a
world power If this fan be done, if i
vision can come to every woman to 1
pledge herself to farm work, of her !
work and sacrifice saving the men on
the liât tie field or iu the factories or
that her labor is developing the bone
and muscle of a new race than the
sordidness and commonness of fer
tilizer will pass fiw'av. and a load of
common barn yard manure will stand ;
as à chemical nitrate in her well or
dered vision, and she will have in
terest in her work which will he play.
This, then is our work as leaders t « *
paint the vision of women on the farm
in such perspective that tlie interest
may never lag a moment.
The battlefields where democracy *
and liberty are fighting for supremacy!
.are on the field of France. WOMEN t
OF AMERICA WE CANNOT BE
THERE., OUR FLAUE IK ON THE
GREAT FIELDS AND PLAINS OF
THE UNITED STATES BATTLING
FOR FOOD IN ORDER THAT HE*
WORLD may be feil and that an in- j
ternational democracy and n world j
wide peace may come through our ef- j
forts.
A brass band composed entirely of J
young women is one of the boasts of j
Ogden. Utah.
JAPANESE KIMONOS
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Tickets en sale between
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Details.
D. L. Cecil
D. C.
Palmer
SOME Fi
MOUS PEOPLE
M. M. Cecil
D. C.
Palmer
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WHO TAKE
Graduai»
Chiropractic Adjustments
" — ' ' I --"- - - 9 -
It
For Their Ailments and Are Enthusiastic
Ovèr Results Obtained
The Human
Telegraph System
THE BRAIN, SPINAL CORD AND
NERVES.
The above cut shows tho distribu
tion of the most delicate, intricate and
sensitive system in existence. The
brain is the human dynamo, the spinal
cord the transmitter of the life force
generated by the brain, and the spinal
nerves the conveyors of this force
from the brain to every organ of the
body.
Bessie Love, Valeska Surratt,
George Periolat, movie actors;
ex-Governor Hoard, Wisconsin;
Charley M. Schwab, president
Bethlehem Steel Co.; Clara Bar
ton, mother of the Red Cross;
Opie Read, the author; Congress
men Gray, Indiana; Hamlin,
Mississippi; Campbell, Kansas;
Griggs, Georgia; Leagre, South
Carolina; Prince, Illinois; Pad
gett, Tennessee, and Thomas,
Prince and ' Ausberry, Ohio;
Thomas A. Edison; John Temple
Graves, editor New York Amer
ican, and Sir Rabindranath Ta
gore, the only man in literature
who ever received the Nobel
prize.
The Baroineter of Health
THE HUMAN SPINE.
ivnunum of ny of as
following porta any beoeased toy
serve# impinged at thoaptao fef
a aublax.ted vnrtntoCM
♦ BRAIN
EYES i
EARS *
NOSE
THROAT
ARMS
HEART *
LUNGS
LIVER
STOMACH
PANCREAS
SPLEEN
KIDNEYS
SMALL BOWEL
LARGE BOWEL.
""►GENITAL ORGANS
""•THIGHS St LEGS
tent or MAN
By referring to the above Illustration you
will see near the lower end a magnified Illus
tration of a normal and an Impinged nerve.
Fig. X shows a nerve In perfect health, per
forming lta function as nature Intended. Fig.
2 shows a nerve Impinged, and the flow of vital
energy obstructed. Fig 3 shows vertebra out
of alignment (subluxated.)
No person ean heal or cure; nature alone
doee this. We ean. however, readjust dis
placed tissue and restore functional activity.
Perfect health demanda 100 per cent of normal
nerve Impulses.
Let us explain this fully to yon personally.
If you will but follow the wise example of these brainy people and take Chiropractic adjustments for
YOUR ailments, you will soon be as enthusiastic in its praise as they are. We get results that cannot
be equaled by any other system.
Investigation costs nothing.
CECIL & CECIL
Cecil A- Uecil
Pafmer
til
i ne vmiupiduiuid
Ceoll A Cecil
Palmer
Grad ua tea
McCarty Bldg., Ninth and Idaho
BQISE, IDAHO
Graduates
PRE-CHRISTMAS SALE
PARISIAN IVORir
Very choice patterns in new goods which we are selling at
GREATLY REDUCED PRICE&.
Every woman prefers Parisian Ivory, so buy lierc and save
money.—Come early tomorrow.
WILKINSON, The Jeweler
1015 Main St.
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til 5 o'clock P. M. daily.
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S. H. HAYS. President
W. J. ABBS. Secretary*
o. O. HAGA. Vice President.
R. S. HOOVER. Treasurer.
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