HOME AND EDUCATION
Hunt, Caroline L. & Follette, Belle Case La
HOME AND EDUCATION The home is the real seat of government, and the Wise Men of all nations bring their gifts to the cradle. Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT A Little Visit...
...We need to establish standards of excellence and reliability of the cloth in our clothes, as well as the food on our tables...
...two dollars a year...
...One of the program committee has asked me to make suggestions for their work the ensuing year...
...Woolens are not wool...
...This is as important for rural districts as the city...
...Assisting her are Miss Helen Kinne, Teachers College...
...All seem willing we should work off our energy on scattered newspapers, tin cans, and rubbish, and we want to begin with them, but want to begin in the best way...
...The men's central campaign committee recognizing the effective work they were doing, added the names of the women's committee to the letterheads of their campaign literature...
...For example, we will suppose that the people of a state regard the giving of railroad passes to officials a bad thing, and the legislature will not pass a law prohibiting the giving of passes...
...For example a legislature might make what the people considered an extravagant appropriation for a new capitol building...
...Miss Anna Barrows...
...At home on the farm we have one made by driving iron rods into the ground and putting ordinary wire fence netting around them...
...We shall be most grateful to you...
...in Oregon it is eight per cent...
...When the news reached headquarters that a new mayor had been elected in place of the one recalled, the women went to the home of the successful candidate to greet him and his wife...
...Heretofore there has been nothing to do in such a case except to elect a new legislature,—always a slow, and often an unsatisfactory remedy...
...Every voter has had his chance to cast his ballot for or against the proposition...
...THIS DELIGHTFUL breezy note comes from Maryland...
...Work for the Women's Clubs THIS LETTER from Colorado is very kind and appreciative...
...We throw the rubbish in and put a match to it every day...
...The recall applies to the official...
...Does it simply nullify the election or fill the vacancy created also...
...No young mother with her first baby was ever more sorely in need of advice...
...Then the official may be a candidate for re-election with the other candidates...
...The women joined, in the most democratic spirit, in this public house cleaning...
...They are measures which women should understand and to which they should give unqualified and enthusiastic support...
...If a required per cent, of voters (this per cent...
...If we learn to see and pick up offending rubbish for the sake of a better town, we learn at the same time not to scatter it and we are educated to other improvements...
...Perhaps you could give us some account of how other women have proceeded in smaller towns...
...This little city of about four thousand inhabitants, where I chance to be spending part of the summer, has a woman's club organized for the purpose of personal as well as civic improvement...
...Women of Tacoma THIS COMMUNICATION contains a significant account of the way women entered into a campaign for the election of Mayor in Tacoma, Washington...
...I have just been made president of an infant woman's club...
...linens are a fraud...
...After the registration the women's associations arranged political meetings held both afternoons and evenings in halls, churches and private homes, giving variety and enthusiasm, as well as grace and dignity to the ordinary political meeting...
...Melvil Dewey...
...Flying papers, tin cans are good object lessons...
...The election is decided by a majority vote...
...The Secretary of State sends a copy of this proposed law to every legal voter in the state...
...C. F. Langworthy, United States Department of Agriculture...
...See Dr...
...The same number of the Journal is devoted especially to textiles and I would suggest to my correspondent from Wisconsin, who wishes to branch out in a new direction, that this is an excellent subject for her department to take up...
...We do not know how many diseases we may eliminate with fly extermination...
...They are simply putting into the hands of the people the power to enact laws which their representatives fail to enact...
...Fifty cents per copy...
...Women's clubs should cooperate with and support their local health officers and their state boards of health...
...Thomas D. Wood, Teachers College...
...They opened headquarters...
...They had experts come before them to explain the workings of the commission form of government...
...She answers: "Would you, in your department, kindly explain the meaning of Initiative, Referendum, and Recall measures...
...This is on the supposition that you must kill every fly...
...sign the petition, it is filed with the Secretary of State, a certain length of time (this also varies...
...They worked hard...
...This thriving society of earnest women took the charter of the city as their first text book...
...Wisconsin, Kansas, California and other states now have woman suffrage pending in this way...
...The most obvious urgent general civic work just now is the outdoor campaign for fly extermination...
...The writer says in considering the prominent part women took in the election, it is necessary to go back to the first of the year...
...On election day the question of railroads giving or not giving passes to officials is decided by a majority of the votes cast...
...Miss Martha Van Rensselaer, Cornell University...
...The taxpayers would insist on the submission of the question to a vote at the next election, and proceed in the same way as prescribed for the initiative...
...How is its necessity ascertained...
...Referendum and Recall are instruments of stronger, cleaner, more efficient self government...
...Like the nomination of all candidates by Australian ballot, the Initiative...
...Plant flowers, shrubbery, shade trees in the school grounds...
...Let us keep them from getting sick by preventing them from being exposed.—Edwin A. Brown in the World Today...
...Women certainly should give more thought to the subject of materials...
...Los Angeles was, I believe, the first of our cities in 1902, to incorporate into its city charter a provision that, if twenty-five per cent...
...It is a practical device by which a dissatisfied constituency can get rid of an unfaithful official without waiting until his term of office expires...
...ONE OF THE MOST important lessons in therapeutics is prevention...
...In spite of our game laws and fish hatcheries the fish are being exterminated in our lakes and streams and they spawn, like flies, millions of eggs...
...L. 0. Howard to give us an illustrated lecture on the typhoid fly as a carrier of disease...
...I have recently been appointed Chairman of that department, and am anxious to get the program committee to work as soon as possible...
...silks are adulterated...
...A FEW SUGGESTIONS THERE WAS A LETTER from a school teacher in a small town in Wisconsin, which I intended to use with this group...
...These progressive measures all have one object,—to make government by the people more secure...
...But they all provide that a certain percentage of the voters shall sign the petition, and that a statement of reasons shall be given for the recall and that the accused official shall have opportunity to answer...
...Women should always bear in mind the power that is theirs because they do the buying...
...but it is suited only to the small community...
...who ever heard of such a thing?' 'What is civic work any way, is it another name for trying to get the vote?' These are the questions filling the air while the whole town is standing with its hands up and eyes round with curiosity to see what we are going to do...
...It reminds people they should not throw things in the street any more than on the floor...
...to reject laws passed by legislatures, the wisdom of which the people question...
...So successful was the work of organization that in some of the precincts the women outnumbered the men...
...The effect on the negligent street cleaning service was noticeable for quite a while after...
...Address Roland Park Branch, Baltimore, Maryland...
...I shall feel greatly indebted to you if you can give me any helpful suggestions or refer me to parties who are continually in touch with that kind of work...
...Any suggestions you can offer will be very much appreciated...
...to recall officials the people believe unfaithful and inefficient...
...In starting a movement for a cleaner Washington the women called a mass meeting and appointed committees who planned a thorough canvass of the city, asking every household on a certain day, to clean their yard and the adjoining street...
...Housewives who are attempting to conduct their work in line with modern progress, and their number is constantly increasing, will find the Journal of very direct value to them in their homes...
...The old-fashioned New England town meeting is often cited as the best example of self government...
...As a preliminary step we have secured Dr...
...They can protest against the exposure of fruit and food to dust and flies, and other bad situations they find which can be remedied...
...Heaven knows it needs it...
...THE WRITER of the next inquiry lives in Wisconsin and gives an intimate touch to her letter by addressing me as sister club worker...
...Let's try,—not just one season but every season, until they are exterminated...
...But the new use of the referendum is to compel the submission to the people for ratification or rejection, a law passed by the legislature which the people wish to vote upon...
...This legislative body may not give us the laws we want...
...It makes a good beginning...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT A Little Visit with our Readers The Modern Town Meeting IN OUR ISSUE of March 25th, a friend from Ekalaka, Montana, suggested that we give part of our space to explanation of political terms for the benefit of our women readers, and I replied, asking her to put the questions...
...I recommend without reservation to all clubs studying home economics or domestic science to subscribe for The Journal of Home Economics...
...It is hard for one woman to start out alone, but a committee representing a club, can investigate conditions of groceries, meat markets, laundries, and bakeries...
...Let us enlarge our hospitals by properly caring for our needy...
...The first thing every one says is, it cannot be done...
...It furnishes suggestions for club program work...
...Accordingly they called a meeting early in January which resulted in the formation of the Voters' Educational Association...
...Its policy is one of close and constant cooperation, not only with women's club organization, but with housewives...
...Hodge's article in La Follette's for April 15...
...The articles it contains may well be summarized for presentation at local clubs and the best possible topics for club consideration are discussed in each number...
...All the people of a state cannot very well assemble at the capitol to make laws, so we elect representatives to make laws for us...
...Why not have dependable labels on manufactured cloth as well as on foods...
...Being an interested reader of your magazine, I suggested that we ask you for information and suggestions...
...A club of women for civic work...
...Hitherto we have studied mostly home building and home making, but I think it would be well to branch out some this coming year...
...The course, as I understand it, is to include civic improvement, domestic science, and some literary work...
...Every school ground can have a rubbish receptacle...
...She says: "I am very anxious to get some new topics for our next year's program in home economics...
...Mary H. Abel, Editor...
...How is the recall operated...
...Arbor day spirit should be kept up the whole season...
...Election day found the women precinct workers at the polls, checking the names of women as they voted...
...Miss Abby L. Marlatt, University of Wisconsin...
...THE VOLUNTARY submission by the legislature of questions to the people for approval at elections, is familiar to all of us...
...Would it be possible for you to refer me to some department where they send out such help...
...The progressive states which are adopting the Initiative, Referendum, and Recall are not abolishing legislatures nor doing away with public officials...
...We want to clean up the town...
...Think of the millions lost in profits, as well as the suffering of horses and cattle from flies...
...If the school board will not furnish it, the boys can make one...
...She held out her hands to those who came to call upon them, assuring them of her gratitude and appreciation and exclaimed with tears and smiles, "Without the Women of Tacoma, we could not have won...
...In every place, large or small, city or country, the school is the best place to start campaigns for permanent improvement, and for cleaning up...
...It is published bi-monthly by the American Home Economics Association...
...I have seen in the Home Department of La Follette's Magazine an outline of home economics course of study but I always pass along my numbers and have not them at hand for reference...
...of the constituency of any city official should sign a petition expressing their dissatisfaction with him, an election must be held at which that official should contest with all comers for re-election...
...Any group of neighborhood women, even though they do not constitute a club, would do well to subscribe for the Journal and pass it around...
...In 1909 the contest to remove a notoriously bad but strongly entrenched mayor, attracted the attention of the whole country to the Los Angeles recall...
...Only a few weeks had elapsed when the women found themselves in the midst of a political campaign brought about by the recall of the mayor...
...A large proportion of the women supported one candidate...
...The missing ones were communicated with by telephone, or sent for by automobile, if necessary...
...We want sewage and some of the business men say, 'Come out boldly and try and get it.' Others beg us not to mention it, the town is so poor and taxes so high...
...Precinct workers made a house-to-house canvass, urging the indifferent to action, so that the last days of registration the city hall looked as though a bargain sale might be going on...
...What majority is needful to carry it through...
...Miss Isabel Bevier, University of Illinois...
...The Initiative is a simple device to strengthen government at this weak point...
...I remember at Rochester, Minn., after Mrs...
...This editorial board is a guarantee of the authority and excellence of all the material which appears in this publication...
...The Initiative and Referendum apply to laws...
...You really have the principle of the old fashioned New England town meeting carried out...
...After they had been enfranchised, women at the outset felt the importance of informing themselves on political questions...
...Laws providing for the recall of public officials vary somewhat in detail...
...A bill in the form of a petition is circulated over the state among the people...
...varies...
...I am sorry to have mislaid it, for it well expressed the interest teachers should take in the betterment of the communities where they teach...
...Have mottoes of cleanliness and sanitation hung in the school room...
...Crane had been there (See "Home and Education," La Follette's for May 27) the women thought they could begin by placing rubbish depositories over the town in convenient places...
...in Oregon it is four months) before the next election...
...Why should they not yield like other things to the ravages of war...
...On its editorial staff are Mrs...
...Wards and precincts were organized, the ground was thoroughly covered to make sure the women registered...
...It gives the people the power to make laws of their own accord independent of the legislature...
Vol. 3 • July 1911 • No. 27
