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NATION’S LABOR
PROBLEM
Over a million and a Half Wo
men Work as Farm Hands
in the United States.
By Peter Radford
Cturer National Farmers’ Union.
Our goverment never faced so
tremendous a problem as that
now lying dormant at the doors
of Congress and the legislatures,
and which, when aroused, will
shake this nation from center to
circumference, and make civiliza
tion hide its face in shame. That
problem is—women in the field.
The 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
our slaves and our women have
taken their places in bondage.
We have broken the shackles off
the negroes and welded them
upon our daughters.
The Chain-Gang of Civilization.
A million women in bondage
in the southern fields form the
chain-gang of civilization—the
industrial tragedy of the age.
There is no overseer quite so
cruel as that of unrestrained
greed, no whip that stings like
the lash of suborned destiny, and
no auctioneer’s block quite so
revolting as that of organized
avarice.
The president of the United
States was recently lauded by the
press, and very properly so, for
suggesting mediation between the
engineers and railroad managers
in adjusting their schedule of
time and pay. The engineers
threatened to strike if their wages
were not increased from approx
imately ten to eleven dollars per
day and service reduced from ten
to eight hours and a similar read
justment of the overtime sched
ule. Our women are working in
the field, many of them barefoot
ed, for less than 50 cents per
day, and their schedule is the ris
ing sun and the evening star, and
after the day’s work is over they
milk the cows, slop the hogs and
rock the baby to sleep. Is anyone
mediating over their problems,
and to whom shall they threaten
a strike?
Congress has listened approv
ingly to those who toil at the
forge and behind the counter, and
many of our statesmen have smiled
at the threats and have fanned
the flame of unrest among indus
trial laborers. But women are as
surely the final victims of indus
dustrial warfare as they are the
burden-bearers in the war be
tween nations, and those who ar
bitrate and mediate the differ
ences between capital and labor
should, not forget that when the
expenses of any industry are un
necessarily increased, society
foots the bill by drafting anew
consignment of women from the
home to the field.
Pinch No Crumb From Women’s
Crust of Bread.
No financial award can be made
without some one footing the bill,
and we commend to those who
accept the responsibility of the
distribution of industrial justice,
the still small voice of the woman
in the field as she pleads for
mercy, and we beg that they
pinch no crumb from her crust
of bread or put another patch up
on her ragged garments.
We beg that they listen to the
scream of horror from the eagle
on every American dollar that is
wrung from the brow of toiling
women and hear the Goddess of
Justice hiss at a verdict that in
creases the want of woman to
satisfy the greed of man.
The women behind the counter
and in the factory cry aloud for
sympathy and the press thunders
out in their defense and the pul
pit pleads for mercy, but how
about the woman in the field?
Will not these powerful expon
ents of human rights turn their
talent, energy and influence to
her relief? Will the Goddess of
Liberty enthroned at Washing
ton hold the calloused hand and
soothe the feverish brow of her
sex who sows and reaps the na
tion’s harvest or will she permit
the male of the species to shove
women—weak and weary—from
the bread-line, of industry to the
back alleys of poverty?
Women and Children First.
The census enumerators tell us
that of the 1,514,0CX) women who
work in the fields as farm hands
409,000 are sixteen years of age
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, and
what is to become of womanly
culture and refinement that grace
the home, charm society and en
thuse man to leap to glory in
noble achievements if our daugh
ters are raised in the society of
the ox and the companionship of
the plow?
In that strata between the ages
of sixteen and forty-five are 950,-
000 women working as farm
hands and many of them with
suckling babes tugging at their
breast, as drenched in perspira
tion, they wield the scythe and
guide the plow. What is to be
come of that nation where pover
ty breaks the crowns of the
queens of the home; despair
hurls a mother’s love from its
throne and hunger drives inno
cent children from the school
room to the hoe?
The census bureau shows that
155,000 of these women are forty
five years of age and over. There
is no more pitiful sight in civili
zation than these saintly mothers
of Israel stooped with age, drudg
ing in the field from sun until
sun and at night drenching their
dingy pillows with the tears of
despair as their aching hearts
take it all to God in prayer. Civ
ilization strikes them a blow
when it should give them a
crown, and their only friend is
He who broke bread with beg
gars and said: “Come unto me
all ye that are weary and heavy
laden and I will give you rest.”
Oh, America! the land of the
free and the home of the brave;
the world's custodian of chivalry,
the champion of human rights
and the defender of the oppressed
—shall we permit our maidens
fair to be torn from the hearth
stone by the ruthless hand of
destiny and chained to the plow?
Shall we permit our faithful
wives, whom we covenanted with
God to cherish and protect, to be
hurled from the home to the har
vest field, and our mothers dear
to be driven from the old arm
chair to the cotton patch?
In rescuing our citizens from
the forces of civilization, can we
not apply to our fair Dixieland
the rule of the sea—“women and
children first?”
There must be a readjustmenl
of the wage, scale of industry so
that the woman can be taken
from the field or given a reason
able wage for her services. Per
haps the issue has never been
fairly raised, but the Farmers’
Union, with a membership of ten
million, puts its organized forces
squarely behind the issue and we
now enter upon the docket of civ
ilization the case of “The Woman
in the Field” and demand an im
mediate trial.
Over-production and crop
mortgage force the farmers into
ruinous competition with each
other. The remedy lies in or
ganization and in co-operation
in marketing.
Old men have visions, young
men have dreams. Successful
farmers plow deep while slug
gards sleep.
Whatever change the tenant
farmer makes, it is bound to be
for the better—it couldn’t be for
the worse.
The soil is like a man’s bank
account. It can soon be exhaust
ed by withdrawing and never de
positing.
The growing of legumes will
retard soil depletion and greatly
add to its power to produce.
Education is a developing of
the mind, not a stuffing of the
memory. Digest what you read.
UGIi! CALOMEL MAKES
YOU DEATHLY SICK
Stop Using Dangerous Drug Before
It Salivates You! It’s Horrible!
You're bilious, sluggish, consti
pated and believe you need vile,
dangerous calomel to start your liv
er and clean your bowels.
Here’s my guarantee! Ask your
druggist for a 50 cent bottle of Dod
son’s Liver Tone and take a spoon
ful tonight. If it doesnU start your
liver and straighten you right up
better than calomel and without
griping or making you sick I want
you to go back Ito the store a r .u get
your money.
Take calomel today and tomorrow
you will feel weak and sick and
nauseated. Don’t lose a day’s work.
Take a spoonful of harmless, vege
table Dodson’s Liver Tone tonight
and wake up feeling great. It’s per
fectly harmless, so give it to your
children any itime. It can’t salivate,
so let them eat anything afterwards.
THE BARTOW TWjB I NK, NOVEMBER 26, 1914.
DIVERSIFICATION IS
ON IN GEORGIA.
Atlanta, November 24, 1914.—As a
direct result of the European war,
Georgia will show’, a year from now,
greater progress in diversified crops
and stock raising than in many pre
vious years of her hiistory,” is the
statement of J. D. Price, Commis
sioner of Agriculture, after reading
reports received from chambers of
commerce and other commercial
bodies all over Georgia.
“These reports show the tremen
dous results accomplished by the ef
forts of hundreds of progressive
Georgians since the war started
August Ist; grain, stock and truck
are already greatly on the increase;
abattoirs, cold-storage plants for
Men's and Boys’
WORK SHOES
■*>
The Best on Earth
We have them in high cut lasts, work
shoe last, railroad and lots of others too
numerous to mention.
If you want the best Shoe on earth
come to see me. If I can’t please you
there is no need to try anywhere else—
you can’t be pleased.
Don’t forget that I keep Shoes for the
whole family, and am in a position to
save you money. The Shoes you buy
from me are all new and the very latest
styles.
Yours for an honest deal,
H. A. BLACK
“THE NEW STORE”
115 West Main -Street
For Sale at a Bargain
150 acres, more or less, good farm
ing land in 2-4 of a mile from good
town. Running water, good 5-room
house, good pasture. This is a bar
gain at $2,100. This must be sold
at once.
H. C. COWART, Cave, Qa.
It Always Helps
says Mrs. Sylvania Woods, of Clifton Mills, Ky., In
writing of her experience with Cardui, the woman’s
tonic. She says further: “Before 1 began to use
Cardui, my back and head would hurt so bad, I
thought the pain would kill me. I was hardly able
to do any of my housework. After taking three bottles
of Cardui, I began to feel like anew woman. I soon
gained 35 pounds, and now, I do all my housework,
as well as run a big water mill
I wish every suffering woman would give
The Woman’s Tonic
a triaL I still use Cardui when 1 feel a little bad,
and it always does me good.”
Headache, backache, side ache, nervousness,
tired, worn-out feelings, etc., are sure signs of woman
ly ‘rouble. Signs that you need Cardui, the woman’s
tonic. You cannot make a mistake in trying Cardui
for your trouble. It has been helping weak, ailing
women for more than fifty years.
Get a Bottle Today! , M
meats and vegetables, packing
houses, grain elevators, bonded
warehouses for grain, and merchants
to buy the new products are spring
ing up all over the state,” said Gom
miissioner Price.
“Diversified farming is not com
ing to Georgia; it is already here,
and on the march. Farmers who
wait urut.il the harvest season to see
the results of these changes, instead
of getting on the band-wagon now,
will have empty pockets and the
memory of lost chances as a result
of t.heir failure to make the most of
their present opportunities.”
Some of the reports upon which
Commissioner Price based these
statements are as follows:
John W. Greer, secretary of the
Moultrie chamber of commerce,
Colquitt county, writes that hogs
and cattle will supplement a 50 per
cent reduction of the cotton crop.
AH of the stock will be bought by
the Moultrie packing house, and ar
rangements are being made to han
dle the grain and truck raised. Be
tween 15,000 and 55,000 hogs are es
timated to be raised during the next
twelve months, said Mr. Greer.
E. H. Hyman, secretary of the
Macon chamber of commerce, Bibb
county, writes that “forty-seven
fields of alfalfa are doing beauti
fully in this county. We have 121
demonstration farms, all doing
splendid work. We have a cold-stor
age plant here, and plans for a
packing house, a grain elevator and
a grain warehouse are being formu
lated. Alfalfa, com, oats, red clover,
wheat, burr clover and hairy vetch
will supplement next year’s cotton
crop, which will be cut from 50 to 60
per cent. We are raising many cat
tle and hogs.”
John H. Mock, secretary of the
Albany chamber of commerce,
Dougherty counity, reports that
many acres are to be planted or
have been planted in oats, com, oats
and hairy vetch, alfalfa, grazing
crops for hogs, and that many bogs
and cattle are to be raised.
William E. Royster, secretary of
the Griffin and Spalding county
chamber of commerce, writes that
every farmer reported at the last
meeting of the agricultural club
that, he was diversifying his crops.
Cotton acreage, said Mr. Royster,
was to be cut 50 per cent, and oats,
wheat, peas and alfalfa will be
planted in place of the staple..
From C. G. Bradley, secretary of
the Carrollton chamber of com
merce: Carroll county, comes the re
port. that diversified crops will sup
plement reduced cotton crop, and
that a bonded warehouse for grain
is being organized.
R. D. Cole, of the Coweta county
chamber of commerce reports that
com, grain and hay will substitute
a 50 per cent reduction in cotton.
Farmers are buying short-horn cat
tle, he says„ and the number of hogs
will be increased.
Deafness Cannot Be Cured.
by local applications, as they cannot teach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
way to cure deafness, and that is by constitution
al remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed
condition of the mucous lining of the Eustaehia;
Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing' and when
it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and
unless the inflammation can be taken out and
this tube restored to its normal condition, bear
ing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of
ten are caused by Cgtarrh, which is nothing but
an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case
of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be
mred by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for clrcu
lars, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Professional Cards
HOWARD E. FELTON, M. D.
Office 2 1-2 West Main Street,
(over Young Bros. Drug Store
Office Telephone No. 3
Residence Telephone No. 175
SAM M. HOWELL, M. D.
Office 2 1-2 West Main Street
(over Young Bros. Drug Store)
Residence Telephone No. 255
DR. C. H GRIFFIN,
DENTIST
23 1-2 West Main Street
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Office Phone 191. Residence Phone 241
ROY D. STONE, M. D.
, Office and Residence
200 S. Erwin, Field Block.
Telephone 279.
Money to Lend
on Farm lands. Low rate ofinterest
PAUL F. AKIN,
Cartersville, Ga.
MISCELLANEOUS.
7-room house for rent, West Main
street. Apply G. M. Jackson & Son
Pure Appier Oats; rust proof:
greatest producers. Seed for sale at
Young Bros. Drug Cos.
6% MONEY 6% MONEY 6%
Loans may be obtained for any pur
pose on acceptable Real Estate se
curity; liberal privileges; corres
pondence solicited.
A. C. AGENCY COMPANY,
758 Gas & Electric Bldg.,
Denver, Colorado.
St. Louis.
Nothing better for those distress
ing coughs and colds than Syrup
Tar, White Pine and Wild Cherry.
Young Bros. Drug Cos.
MATTHEWS’
Extra Specials
FOR
Moodily, Nov. 30
Flour—Postell’s Elegant (the
Highest class flour on the
market) regular $2.00
per bag, 48 pounds
now for
$1.90
95c for 24 lbs. Limi onet.
Merry Widow Self Rising, regu
ular $1.90,48 pounds at
$1.75
and 90c for 24 pounds.
Orris Flour, regular $2.00 for 48
pounds, at
$1.85
and 95c for 24 pounds.
Table Talk (a good one) regu
|l.6s for 48 pounds, at
$1.49
Sugar, 25 pounds for
$1.49
or 16 pound for SI.OO.
Breakfast Bacon, Star brand,
1-lb. cartoons, regular
85c, at per pound
32c
ScudJer’s Maple Syrup, regular
50c seller, at per quart
39c
Fresh Fancy Fruit Cake for
Thanksgiving, per cake
30c to $2.50
Fresh packed fancy canned To
matoes, per dozen cans,
No. 2s, at
85c
No. 3s, regular 10c and 15c
cans, at
$1.15
Fancy Tuna Fish, regular 20c
seller, at, the can
15c
Aunt Dina’s Syrup, for cooking
purposes, ginger bread, etc.
I Oc
Fresh canned Kraut and Hom
iny and Corn, etc., 3
cans for
25c
Fancy fresh Fruits for cakes and
also fresh soft shelled Nuts,
Celery and Lettuce on
sale for Friday and
Saturday.
Still got some more fancy Geor
gia Sorghum (oh, it’s good)
at, per gallon
70c
Cheaper prices on quantities for
same.
Snowdrift Lard (the popular
shortening), regular $1.25,
at, per 10 pounds
sl.lO
Meat, fancy streak lean and fat,
regular 16c, at, the pound
14c
Fancy Cape Cod Cranberries at
quart
12 I-2c
Fresh Prunes and Dried
Peaches and Dried Apples at
prices that will appeal to you.
The best line of Groceries and
Produce and Feeds in the city
and at popular prices. The above
named prices for cash only and
we reserve the right to limit
purchases. If not our customer
now is the time to get in the
band wagon.
Cartersville's Best Grocery Store
F. E. Matthews
Phones No. 12 and No. 1"
Call either number.