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TWENTY MILLION EUROPE¬
AN WOMEN ARE WITH¬
OUT HOPE OF EVER HAV¬
ING MATES.
Government ('loses Eyes to Problem of
Superfluous” Females—Blamed for
Spirit of Recklessness and Lax
Morals.
London—Nearly 20,000,000 girls and
women in Europe today are doomed to
die old maids.
They are sentenced to sex-starvation;
no husband, no home, no motherhood.
it’s a situation without precedent in
history. It's the biggest human interest
story in the world.
Yet governments close their eyes to
it, statesmen and politicians ignore it,
reporters and authors avoid it. It’s too
,
vast in all its aspects—political, econ
mic and moral—for them to grapple
with.
There are 20,000,000 more females
titan males in Europe today because
of the vagaries of the birth rate, the
survival of more girl infants than boy
babies, the decimation of men by war
and the heavier toll of males taken by
famine and pestilence.
Fuiulajnentals of Life Involved
These millions of so-called superflu¬
ous women are creating questions in¬
volving everything of fundamental im¬
portance; the sanctity and preservation
of the home, the social and political
equality of women, work and wages,
and the next generation’s heritage of
good or evil.
In the British Isles the superfluous
women number 2,000,000. In Russia,
8 . 000 , 000 .
Their ten million sisters are scatter¬
ed throughout the other countries.
Not only are there no legitimate
mates for these 20,000,000 superfluous
women but eligible young men are d“
terred from marrying by lack of work,
cuts in wages, scarcity of houses, high¬
er cost of necessities and throats of
new wars.
The result is that a spirit of after
the-war recklessness pervades Europe.
Men and women alike spend more of
their wages, they are keener of pursu¬
ing pleasure, they are more defiant of
the conventions and lax in their morals.
The male is supreme. At dances he
has six girls to pick from, where fot
merly he had to compete for a partne*'.
Everywhere you see many girls danc¬
ing together; hostesses giving balls
have a hard time getting as many men
as women.
A new type has developed; the pail
male escort. In Paris, in Nice, even in
Monte Carlo you’ll see him dancing
with well-to-do women of middle age
while charming girls are wallflowers.
In every class of society girls will put
up with almost any sort of a man for
the sake of having him to go out with.
To make themselves companionable
girls smoke, drink and risk other indis¬
cretions.
More Babies Born Out of Wedlock
More children are being born out of
wedlock than ever before. In England
the increase has engaged parliament's
attention, but the latest official figures
show England least badly off in this
respect.
Out of every 10,000 babies born the
number of illegitimate was as follows:
England and Wales .............. 453
Scotland ......................... 711
Prance .......................... 87)
Italy ............................. 477
Belgium .......................... 641
Holland .......................... 213
Norway .......................... 690
Sweden ..........................1,494
t/enmark ....................... 1,043
Throughout Europe is an increasing
movement to assist unmarried mothers
and to give children born out-of wed¬
lock rights they never had before.
Maud Royden, the great British wo¬
man preacher, says:
The right to motherhood is a claim
based on the belief that the creative
impulse is more—or more consciously
present in the sexual nature of a
"oman than of a man; and that in con¬
sequence the satisfaction of that im¬
pulse is to a great extent the satisfac
I on of a need which makes the dis
Pi oportionate number of women in any
country a real tragedy.
I realize the cruelty of a civiliza
l *° n * n which war and its accessories
II cate an artificial excess of
women
°' ei men and in consequence deprive
many women of motherhood.”
Steps to Aid Luckless Children
i'* attribute the increase in illegiti¬
macy to this yearning for motherhood
is at least the charitable viewpoint.
Legislation has been undertaken in
S,v,ral countries including England,
Norway, Sweden and Germany to re
1 u ‘ie lathers to
support children born
llt " l wedlock and to make such ehil
•' < n s right more broad and
secure.
* ut ^'ance and the Latin countries
<Ue doing nothing along this line
ugh legitimate births decrease while
•‘■t'gitimaey increases.
II '* \arious countries striving In
are
'livers ways to stimulate the birth rate
*ug the married. In France, for in
' business associations com
to pay a million employes bonuses
■ ach child. Christiana, the capital
U Norway, pays pensions to widow's,
women divorced or separated from their
husbands and unmarried women wno
have children.
Single girls and women who must
support themselves are finding it in¬
creasingly difficult to obtain emplov
ment or to hold jobs.
Millions were engaged in war w'ork
or in replacing men who went to war;
the armistice, the return of the solJ
iers and the industrial slump threw
the majority of these out of jobs.
Forced to Compete With Men
Those that remained had to compete
with men. They found the soldiers de¬
manding their places back. Those that
held jobs found their pay cut. Many
were given the choice of showing per¬
sonal favors to unscrupulous superiors
or seeking work elsewhere.
Laws passed for the protection of wo¬
men workers proved a handicap to
them; employers rather than comply
with statutes requiring creature com¬
forts or forbidding night work dis¬
charged the women and hired men.
Willingness of many women to work
for less than men demanded soon de¬
veloped. This resulted in many instan -
es in reduced wages for men support¬
ing families. It kept .single men from
marrying.
Unquestionably thousands of women
have died of starvation, or of diseases
bred of hunger; but many others have
taken "the easy way,” with the result
that divorce records, as in England,
show more homes broken up by un¬
faithfulness of husbands.
The woman lucky enough to have a
husband has to fight to hold him.
Balked in Fight for Rights
The 20,000,000 superfluous women
stand in the path of political progress
of their own sex.
The law of supply and demand seems
to operate herein as elsewhere. Th•>
more wheat there is, the less the farm¬
er can get for it. The more women
there are, the less they can get for
themselves.
So women politically have added lit¬
tle to the gains they made in the way
of equal suffrage and equal rights be¬
fore the war. They have less political
influence, if anything. France, for in¬
stance, recently voted down woman
suffrage.
In forty or sixty years—after two or
three generations—matter probably will
readjust themselves. Europe’s attitude
seems to be—“Let nature take its
course.”
SAYINGS OF GREAT MEN
Lincoln: “Teach economy. It begins
with saving money.”
Wilson: “Economy and everything
that ministers to economy supplies the
foundations of national life.”
Franklin: “Save, young man, and be¬
come respectable and respected.”
Hanna: “If you want to be anything
In life or in your community, save your
money—and begin to do it right away.”
Gladstone: “A boy that is taught t:>
save money will rarely be a bad man
or a failure.”
Wanamaker: "No boy ever became
great as a man who did not in his
youth learn to save money.”
Washington: “Economy makes happy
homes and sound nations. Instill it
deep.”
Roosevelt; “If you would be sure that
you are beginning right, begin to save.”
Garfield; “It is the men and women
who pay attention to small savings
that become wealthy.”
Hill:“The seed of success is not in
you if you can’t save money."
Cancer is on the increase, we are
told, this notwithstanding many adver¬
tised cancer cures. There is no such
thing as a cancer cure. The only scien¬
tific thing to do for cancer is to have
a competent surgeon to remove the
growth. Any lump should receive im¬
mediate attention; delay is death.
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Atlanta, Ga., April 19.—Young girls
who have been receiving their mail at
the general delivery window to keep
their parents from being aware that
they are corresponding with young
men, received a jolt front Uncle Sam’s
postal inspectors who are in the citv
to investigate local conditions.
These same young girls—and others
in other cities in the south—may be
surprised at receiving their mail at
home—or not receiving it, whichever
the case may be—as mail for,
girls whose home address is known will
probably be delivered to their homes in
future.
Postmasters have been trying to cur¬
tail this practice for many months, it
is stated, and young ladies will no
doubt now make arrangements to have
their billet-doux delivered in some oth¬
er way than through the general de¬
livery window.
Postal inspectors point out in the
book of rules and regulations that the
general delivery service is for the trav¬
eling public who have no other place to
receive their mail when they visit a
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ENFORCE DIPPLING LAW,
URGES TEXAS JUDGE
Don't let any man lie arbitrary and
think he can go out and blow up a vat
and stop the functioning of the whole
government,” said District Judge Hugh
Carney, in charging the grand jury of
Case county, Texas, recently.
Judge Carney expressed hesitancy
about mentioning the cattle dipping
law because of the fact that several
vats had been blown up in the.county
following his charge to the grand jury
in 1921, and again 14 vats were blown
up following this occasion in 1922.
Since that time, however, a conviction
had been obtained in his court, and tin*
sentence had been upheld by the Crim¬
inal Court of Appeals, and no more vio¬
lations or acts of violence against the
dipping law are expected in Case coun¬
ty, Texas.
Judge Carney said further, “We have
i new inspector this year and I urge
ihe people to meet him over hadfway
and do the right thing. At first we
didn’t believe we could ever get rid of
the fever ticks, but it is my under¬
standing that at the close of last year's
dipping season there were only 47 herds
of cattle in tile county infested with
the tick. Let every man be a good citi¬
zen and enforce the law.”
COVINGTON MANDOLIN CLUB
APPEARED HERE FRIDAY
Visiting Musicians Were Well Received
By Citizens.
An enjoyable event of Friday night
was the appearance of the Covington
Mandolin club at the Jackson school
auditorium. A large crowd turned out
for the performance and all who were
fortunate enough to be present were
delighted with the several numbers
given. Members of the visiting troupe
showed the effects of careful training,
and the performance reflected credit
upon the entire school.
A neat sum was realized, being shar¬
ed by the public schools of Covington
and Jackson.—Progress-Argus.
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City Tax Payers
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The Books will remain open from April
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office of the City Clerk, Court House,
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