HOME AND EDUCATION
Follette, Belle Case La & Hunt, Caroline L.
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 Where Women...
...It is those who being enlisted, have moments of growing weary and of turning the crusade into pleasant holiday excursion, who tax her charitable spirit...
...In speaking of Mt...
...Gifford Pinchot's administration of the Forest Service, women's clubs and women's organizations all over the country were appealed to for support of legislation to create what has been known as the Appalachian Forest Reserve...
...What she thinks of those who never join in moral crusades is not recorded...
...Women of the Hour Alice Henry WE SAT on a hill top one summer evening, Alice Henry and I looking at the lake and the sunset sky and talking of a great social wrong about which we both felt very keenly...
...Now I know that out there on the hill top at sunset there were revealed two of the sources of Alice Henry's power...
...it will protect the watersheds, the sources of springs and streams and rivers...
...Editor, La Follette's Magazine: Permit me to call your attention to an error in your issue of May 15, 1909, on page 10...
...The old tomb was not in view from the "Attic room" there being no window on that side...
...Of course no legislation is contemplated beyond what may be suggested by the work of this bureau within the jurisdiction of the Federal Government...
...13, 1861...
...You take my life When you do take the means whereby I live...
...The illustration of the benefit of this work comes to us most aptly from the splendid result achieved for the people at large by the Agricultural Department and the various bureaus operated by that department, such as the Bureau of Animal Industry, the Bureau of Plant Industry, the Bureau of Chemistry, the Bureau of Soils, the Bureau of Entomology, and the like...
...In 1905 Alice Henry, having labored valiantly in Australia in behalf of dependent and defective children and for the advancement of women, started to go around the world for the purpose of finding out what other people were doing in these lines...
...Respectfully, N. W. Evans...
...she never, like the rest of us, has lapses of enthusiasm...
...The attic room was not finished till after 1859 and till then was occupied as a storage room only...
...We are glad to publish it because of the interesting matter it contains, as well as because it calls attention to an error into which we had fallen...
...Those who know how her longing thoughts often turn toward the country where she was born, hope that she will soon be able to complete the circuit, but that after a short visit she may be ready to start out again and come back to America...
...It was a forlorn hope, involving insurmountable geographical difficulties, and when she was obliged to abandon it, she so far abandoned her patriotism also as to say, "Well, anyway, I bet Miss Henry is loved by more people than ever Patrick Henry was...
...But the separate States and communities which have to deal with the problems of dependency, delinquency, infant mortality, occupational diseases, and the employment of children will be able to learn from the work of this bureau what can not now be learned anywhere else in any scientific or authoritative form...
...And when she looks pained, these delinquents are likely to come back into line and bless Alice Henry for shaming them into re-enlisting...
...Vernon until he was six years of age and remembers the attic room, as a child, very well...
...Washington could not have seen the present tomb from the window of the attic room for it was not there until 1837 and she died in 1802...
...For all the time they were working, apparently with no results, they were helping to create the public sentiment, which has now become strong enough to break down the barriers of prejudice, selfishness and greed, and to secure the enactment into law of the long-fought-for conservation legislation...
...Vernon in 1854, the son of Col...
...He was never a regular attendant at the church though a pew may have been assigned him...
...A Correction THE FOLLOWING LETTER refers to an article which appeared in these columns on May 15, 1909...
...To it she brings experience in journalism and a thorough knowledge of the conditions under which women work the world over, and of the movements that are bringing to women a larger life and to children the promise of a larger life...
...For it is very hard for women to see why any provision essentially for human welfare, should not easily become a law...
...But I was restrained by my uncomfortable recognition of the fact that, although I too had read the statement many times and realized that it must be doing harm, it had never occurred to me that I had any responsibility in connection with it...
...So I entered only a general defence of my countrymen on the plea that they were busy and that wrongs were many, but it all sounded very weak in the face of her moral fervor...
...Washington from the General's death until her own is told visitors at Mt...
...Having enlisted in a cause, joined a reform movement or set out to right a wrong, she never lets an occasion go by to get support for the cause, to refute a damaging statement, or to get a new light...
...His father sold the estate to the Ladies Association in 1859 and gave possession one year later...
...It has been supported, ever since its inception, by such leaders as Jane Addams of Chicago, Lillian Wald of New York, and Ben Lindsey of Denver...
...My impulse was to answer impatiently that we could not be forever running down newspaper reports...
...They have all represented to us that it is absolutely impossible, under existing agencies, to secure reliable information upon subjects relating to children, and especially to the unfortunate children of the country...
...Coming from a country where woman's suffrage is established and where it has a record of accomplishment in matters affecting the welfare of children, she is a powerful advocate of woman's enfranchisement in this country...
...ANOTHER measure in which women have been actively interested is one for the establishment of "A Children's Bureau...
...Vernon, you mention the "Attic room" to which Mrs...
...And so when a statement was current which was damaging to one of these causes and which apparently came from a great man, she rested not until she discovered that in reality it came from a man who had never done anything to entitle him to speak on the subject...
...Evidently those who were interested in perpetuating the injustice had taken advantage of the confusion in names to get popular sympathy...
...For years women have passed resolutions, petitioned Congress, written their Members and Senators apparently to no purpose and often to their great discouragement...
...The Committee in their report say: "We have had before the committee a number of disinterested advocates of the bill...
...Lawrence Washington, was born at Mt...
...First having put her hand to the plow (and she puts her hand to many plows that are preparing the way for justice and democracy) she never for a minute takes it off...
...Miss Henry writes and lectures extensively on the subjects of child saving, the woman's suffrage movement, and the labor movement in Australia and elsewhere, and when she speaks it is with the authority of one who has just come in from the field of battle...
...Martha Washington is said to have retired after the General's death...
...Unlimited appropriation of natural resources to individual use, regardless of consequences to the earth and mankind, must yield in this country, as older nations have learned, to the higher ideal of government protection of what is fundamentally needful for the preservation of nature's balance and the general human welfare...
...Remember that here is an opportunity to make your influence felt in legislation...
...it will prevent further needless deforestation...
...I am told that the legend of the occupancy of the "Attic room" by Mrs...
...But more than all this it marks an epoch in our national development...
...Washington never occupied the "Attic room" after the General's death, or at any time...
...At present after having for several years edited the woman's section of the Union Labor Advocate, she is just entering upon her work as editor-in-chief of Life and Labor, the official organ of the National Women's Trade Union League...
...The bill was endorsed by the National Federation of Women's Clubs, the National Child Labor Committee and the Conference for Dependent Children...
...Let your representative know that you feel the danger of its being neglected in the House because of the pressure of legislative work in the closing days of the short session...
...Vernon, but there is not now and never was any foundation to it...
...Women should rejoice in the patriotic service they have rendered their country...
...His remains continued there until 1837 when they were removed to the present tomb...
...Then having rejected him, after investigation, from her Who's Who, she was able thereafter to prcve that his statements need not be given serious consideration...
...We cannot dodge the fact that our future commercial prosperity and the future general welfare of this country depend not on our natural resources alone but mainly upon the intelligence and the ability of the people...
...She has recently contributed an article on "Women and the Trade Union Movement in the United States" to the Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science...
...Will you help...
...The information secured by capable experts on all these topics and freely published to the people have been the cause of the saving of millions of money and much useless effort, and have been the means of building up vast industries to the growth of our national wealth...
...Industrial Training Commission...
...He resided in Mt...
...Neither is it true that General Washington was ever a vestryman at Christ Church, Alexandria...
...and they should take heed...
...the great professor to whom it had been attributed but by an obscure individual having the same name and a similar address...
...it will prevent the carrying away of the soil and the destruction of the earth by erosion and floods...
...During Mr...
...The second source of her strength which our little talk revealed is the fact that she is a veritable Who's Who in the world of those who are worth while, of those whose words or deeds have power to help or to injure the causes which she holds dear...
...At this point in her story Miss Henry turned to me almost fiercely and said, "Why did no one in America take the pains to tell me who it really was that made that statement...
...The creation of the national forest reserve in the East, will operate to remedy the conditions brought about through reckless destruction by axe and fire...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Where Women have Helped TWO VERY IMPORTANT MEASURES to which women's effort individually and collectively has been directed, are likely to become laws this session of Congress...
...It shows how unreliable is much of the information given by care-takers at historical spots...
...Down at the headquarters of the Women's Trade Union League in Chicago, they love to tell the story of a certain patriotic young woman unionist who in the enthusiasm of her admiration for Miss Henry wished to connect her genealogically with Patrick Henry...
...John A. Washington who was killed at the opening of the rebellion Sept...
...She told me that when she came to this country from Australia, four or five years ago, there was passing from newspaper to newspaper and from person to person a statement, having apparently the weight of a great authority behind it, which tended to make the wrong seem right and to excuse and justify it on scientific grounds...
...The committee believes that such facts as may be scientifically ascertained and may be published in popular form concerning the child life of the Nation will be of inestimable advantage...
...The success of the conservation movement should stimulate all who are interested in this important measure (the children's bureau bill) to bear down upon their Members with letters and telegrams for the passage of this measure before Congress adjourns...
...The bill passed the Senate by unanimous consent February 14 and at this writing it has gone to the House where it will probably receive favorable consideration...
...Washington was buried in an old tomb on the hillside facing the Potomac river...
...She added that by her own unaided efforts she had traced the statement to its source and had found that it had been made, not by...
...He was elected at one time but declined to accept...
...The Bureau is created for research only and will not duplicate the work of other bureaus but is expected to cooperate with education, census, and labor in their investigations...
...This kind of knowledge is of course invaluable in debate...
...This particular piece of legislation—dealing as it does with the welfare of the children—merits all that you can give to it of interest and worthy effort...
...Probably her thoughts seldom turn to them...
...And as she has moved along, she has been so helpful that she has been held here and there and has not gotten around yet...
...The naked rafters under the roof were used to suspend paper bags filled with cubes of white sugar and he visited the room frequently to obtain sugar, which was then used for the children instead of candy of the present day...
...But now they should take heart...
Vol. 3 • February 1911 • No. 8
