If Grandpapa were Santa Claus, how happy we would be !
When toyshop toil was finished he would take us on each knee.
He'd tell us all his secrets and he’d name the pretty toys
He'd made and kept in hiding for the other girls and be>s.
We have a real, live Grandpapa! He visits us each year,
And he is quite a bosom friend of Santa Claus. I hear.
Although he owns no reindeer, and of playthings no great store —
If Grandpapa were Santa Claus, we could not love him mcr !
GENE MORGAN.
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Fencing, and the Famous Keen
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Over a million and a Half Wo
men Work as Farm Hands
in the United States.
By Peter Radford
cturt: National Farmery’ I’nioii.
Oiu goverment never faced so
tremendous a problem as that
n<>w lying dormant at the doors
of Congress and the legislatures,
and which, when aroused, will
vhake this nation loan center to
circumference, and make civiliza
tion hide its face in shame. That
problem is - women in the field.
1he last Federal census reports
show we now have 1,514.000
women working in the field,
most of them south of the Ma
son and Dixon line. There were
approximately a million negro
slaves working in the fields when
liberated by the emancipation
proclamation. We have freed
-nr slaves and our women have
taken their places in bondage.
Me have broken the shackles off
the negroes and welded them
upon our daughters.
The Chain-Gang of Civilization.
A million women in bondage
m tbe southern fields form the
chain-gang of ci\ilDatton—the
industrial tragedy of the are.
I here i> no overseer quite - >
cruel as that of unrestrained
urced, no whip that stings 1:
the lash of suborned destine, and
no aucti nee:'- k quite - •
revolting that of organize!
a\ ancc.
Hie president < >f the United
States was recently lauded l>\ the
press, and \ef\ properly so, t <r
suggesting mediation between the
engineers and railroad manage: -
in adjusting their schedule id
time and pay. 1 he engineers
threatened to strike it’ their wages
were not increased town approx
imately ten to eleven dollars per
day and service reduced tr >m ten
to eight hours and a similar read
justment of the o>, ct time sched
ule. < >ur women tire working in
lie held, mativ of them barefoot
ed, for less than 50 cents per
lay, and their schedule is the ris
ng suit and the ewening star, and
liter the <lay’* work is ver th“\
milk the cows, slop the vw -
rock tlie baby to sleep. Is anyone
mediating over their problems,
and to whom shall they threaten
a strike?
Congress has listened approv
ingly to tho«e who t"il at the
forge and behind the w 'vucr, and
many of our statesmen have smiled
at the threats and have fanned
the flame of unrest tarm ng indus
trial laborers. But women are as
surelv the final victims of indus
dustrial warfare as they are the
burden-bearers in the war be
tween nations, and th -c who ar
bitrate and mediate the differ
ences between capital and labor
should, not forget that when the
expenses of anv industry are un
necessarily increased, society
foots the bill by drafting a new
consignment of women worn the
home to the field.
.Pinch No Crumb From Women's
Crust of Bread
No financial award can e made
without some one footing the bill,
and we commend t>» t’ sc who
accept the responsibility of the
a IS l n SHU 1UI1 Ul IIIUUMI I l JUMlir,
the still small voice of We woman
in the field as she ; cads fur
mercy, and we beg \iat they
pinch no crumb from her crust
of bread or put anothr patch up
on her ragged garment -
W e beg that the\ 1: ’en to the
scream of horror ih m :he eagle
dii every American dWAr that is
wrung from the brow f toiling
women and hear the r, ddess of
justice hiss at a verdict that in
creases the want of man to
satisfv the greed of mac..
The women behind t;ie counter
and in the factory cry Waul for
‘-empathy and the pre - thunders
out in their defense and the pul
pit pleads for mercy, but how'
about the woman in the Held?
A\ i 11 not these powerful expon
ents of human right- oirn their
talent, energy and i: Wience to
her relief' Will the t, -ddess of
l.ibertv enthroned at Washing
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The Newark Journal
t *n hold the calloused hand and
- >othe the feverish hrovv of her
-ex who sows and reaps the na
tion's harvest or will -he permit
the male of the sptvics to shove
women—weak and weary—from
the bread-line < f industry to the
bark alleys of poverty?
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Women and Children First.
The census enumerators tell u
that of the 1 .$14,000 women win
work in the fields as farm hand
4«)‘XX) arc sixteen years of ape
and under. What is the final des
tiny of a nation whose future
mothers spend their girlhood
days behind the plow, pitching
| hay and hauling manure, am'
| w hat is to become of womanh
| culture and refinement that grace
the home, charm society and en
j thuse man to leap to glory i;
| noble achievements if our daugh
, ters are raised in the society o:
I the ox and the companionship o:
i the plow ?
In that strata between the age
| of sixteen and forty-five are WO,
000 women working as farn
i hands and many of them wit!
I suckling babes tugging at theii
: tireaM, as urencneu in pcrspna
lion, they wield the scythe anc
1 guide the plow. What is to he
: come of that nation where pover
i tv breaks tlie crowns of tin
(|ueens of the home; despai
i hurls a mother's love from it
I throne and lumper drives inno
I cent children from the school
' room to the hoe.'
The census bureau shows tha
155,000 of these women are fort)
| five \ ears of ape and over. 1 lien
is no more pitiful sight in civili
zation than tlie-e saintly mother
'■ of Israel stooped with ape, drudg
l inp in the field from sun unti
I sun and at night drenching thei
dingv pillows with the tears o
despair as th?ir aching heart
j take it all to God in prayer. Civ
j llization strikes them a blov
I when it should give them
i crown, and their only friend i
< v/ftti n. '■••vr,
'gars and said: "Come unto in
all ye that are weary and heav;
j laden and 1 w ill give you rest."
Oh, America! the land of th
fiee and Jjie honie of t,hc braye
the world's custodian of chi\ airy, j
the champion of human right-j
and the defender of the oppressed
—shall we permit om maidens
fair to he torn from the hearth
stone by the ruthle-s hand d
de.-tinv and ehained t 1 the pi w : 1
Shall we permit our faithful]
wives, whom we covenanted with |
j (h>d to cherish and protect, t> ■ he
I hurled from the home r the har-i
■ vest held, and our mother- dca
to he driven front the old arm
chair to the cotton patch?
In rescuing our citizens from1
the forces of civilization, can we 11
n it applv to our fair Dixieland
the rule of the sea—“women and
children first?"
F
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There must he a rcadju-tmenl
of the wage scale of industry so
; that the woman can Ire taken
1 from the field or given a reason
aide wage for her services. Per
haps the i-sue has never been
fairly raised, hut the banners’
I'nion, with a membership of ten
million, puts its organized forces
squarely behind the issue and we
now enter upon the docket of civ
J.
Id:
Of
| ilization the case of The W oman
I in tlte Field" and demand an im
mediate trial.
Ox er-production and crop j
mortgage force tlte iarmers*into
ruinous competition with each
other. The remedy lies in or
ganization and in co-operation i
in marketing.
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Old men have visions, young
, men have dreams. Successful
farmers plow deep while slug
. gards -deep.
1 Whatever change the tenant
- farmer makes, it is hound to he
i for the better—it couldn’t he for
; the worse.
The soil is like a man’s bank ul
i account. It can soon he exhaust
- cd hv withdrawing a"d never de N
’ »J»ositmg.
The growing of legumes will
retard soiUdepletion and greatly
? add to its power to produce.
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