HOME AND EDUCATION
Follette, Belle Case La
Home and Education Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE Lincoln Steffens in Mexico and Russia. IT seems a long, long time since we were watching Mexico,—unable to understand the confused struggle,...
...Everybody's Magazine for August publishes his account of what he heard and saw during his stay there under the very best conditions for observation...
...The proportion of female to male students grows slowly year by year, and Is notably larger in the far West than elsewhere...
...social boycott...
...IT seems a long, long time since we were watching Mexico,—unable to understand the confused struggle, fearful each hour that the next move would mean the undertaking of a war on our part to subdue, perhaps to subjugate our unhappy, turbulent neighbor...
...Steffens lectured at many important centers on Mexico, and there can be no question that his personal interviews, his public addresses and his writings exercised a powerful influence in creating public sentiment and In shaping our governmental policy and in keeping us out of war with Mexico...
...We refer to the results of the Dayton primary...
...He had spent months traveling through Mexico with Carranza...
...He wrote an article for Everybody's, which revealed Mexico, not as a barbarous people, fighting savagely for tribal supremacy, but as a simple agricultural folk, struggling for freedom from peonage and dictatorship, fighting to get possession of their land and resources which had been wrongfully wrested from them...
...So, for many years it anticipated that awakened spirit in the modern world, and especially in our country, which recognizes woman's proper place in the general scheme of things, which she has been so long denied by antiquated and reactionary thought...
...It is really only a few months, and now, as compared with the rest of the world at any rate, Mexico appears to be working out her own destiny, not altogether smoothly, but much more successfully than the most hopeful could have believed possible a year or so ago...
...The terms of three members of the commission expire this fall...
...On another page we print a part of his article...
...He is temperamentally without bias...
...New events find him as sympathetic, as sensitive and eager to know arid understand as any youth in the field...
...Despite the fact that the socialist vote in Dayton has never been an important factor, voters from both old political parties deserted their former political affiliations, when an opportunity was afforded to express their disapproval of the conscription law, and to approve the demand for a statement of our peace terms...
...7,596 Sehroyer...
...On that platform the candidates presented by the socialists swept the boards, the vote for their three candidates almost equalling that of their six opponents combined...
...He reported his observations to members of the Cabinet and members of Congress...
...Home" is about the only place he can go, where they don't oppress him...
...So, the state university Imposes upon her the same requirements, and offers her the same opportunities, as the male undergraduate...
...Almost a full vote was cast, the result being as follows: SOCIALIST— Barringer........................11,032 Geislcr...
...If he leaves his low estate in the South and goes to work in Northern industry, he is mobbed and killed...
...If he goes to school he becomes discontented, and is unhappy and dissatisfied with his social status...
...It wa3 a wonderful service to render mankind...
...Because of its democratic nature, the state university is almost invariably and inevitably a coeducational school," the report continues...
...No summary can do it justice...
...2,762 The three present commissioners, Schweitzer, Sehroyer and Mendenhall will now be opposed at the final election by the three candidates Barringer, Geisler and Farrell...
...He is unafraid...
...Years of reporting have not made Mr...
...Five days after the primary the Chicago Tribune, which daily confesses to the charge of being the "World's Greatest Newspaper," printed a story concerning the Dayton affair under a prominent heading on the first page...
...lie is by nature keenly observant and interested...
...He loves his fellow men and has faith in mankind and be believes that the destiny of the world is determined by those great movements that have their origin with the masses...
...However wide or however limited our knowledge of world events, we should read "What Free Russia Asks of Her Allies...
...9,293 Farrell...........................8,998 CITIZENS— Schweitzer...
...Americans who desire to reduce the Senate to a status inferior to that of the Reichstag belong rather in Germany than in the United States...
...Just as jingoists were beginning to recover from the results of the Congressional election in North Dakota, in which the farmers by an overwhelming Tote sent John M. Baer to Congress whose first public statement demands conscription of wealth and a statement by the American government of its terms of peace, the contest was held...
...In addition to the three present incumbents, who ran on the citizens' ticket, there were three candidates supported by the democratic organization, and three candidates supported by the socialists...
...economic serfdom...
...If he does not go to school and remains ignorant, he is, then only a "coon," whom everybody exploits, and Who has to cheat and swindle in return, or go down in poverty to begging and shame...
...There aren't ships enough in the world to take him back to the land of his freedom...
...No one could be better equipped to study and report the Russian Revolution than Mr...
...A primary was held on Tuesday, August 14th at which there were nine candidates...
...Steffens always refers to himself as a "reporter...
...The country can stand it.—The To-peka Capital...
...It is his genius to search for and discover the facts essential to the understanding of the problem he is studying and to give them to the world to fulfill their mission...
...It sesks to make woman independent in thought and action, so far as circumstances and the limitations of sex permit, and thus to fit her as an efficient and fitting companion and comrade for man, rather than that mythical, impossible creature, who was the glory of tho sentimentality of the mid-Victorian period...
...MEN'S VIEW OF CO-EDUCATION Arecent report of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States as to the reasons why State Universities have succeeded, has this to say of the part played by Co-education...
...The primary was held on Tuesday, August 14...
...He is a rather quiet man but you always feel that he is watching and listening and reflecting,—alive with a kind of disinterested curiosity that keeps him searching for the facts and the truth and never satisfied until he has found them...
...He is herded by himself in a ghetto, and if, while he is there, he revert to the jungle type, he is burned alive...
...3,602 Oswald...
...But I trust this will cause our readers who have not already done so, to make a study of the complete story...
...there isn't room enough for him here except on the crowded bottom round of the ladder, and there always the grinding heel of those climbing over him topward is mangling his black hands...
...At the crisis of affairs with Mexico, Lincoln Steffens came to Washington...
...The six candidates receiving the highest number of votes were to go on the ballot at the final election...
...6,598 DEMOCRAT— Huffman...
...3,997 Kem...
...In that election the socialists running on a platform calling for a declaration of peace terms and for the repeal of the draft law swept the contest and polled as many votes as the two other factions combined...
...Local issues were overshadowed by issues growing out of the war...
...If he tries to break out of his ghetto, and, by assimilating the white man's civilization, rise, he is driven out by his white brothers...
...Steffens hard or callous...
...He was brought to these shores from Africa a captive...
...The Chicago Tribune is authority for the statement that: "The socialists presented three candidates with a demand for a statement of war terms, repeal of the draft law, and the overthrow of the local government...
...IF the black man loafs In the South, he starves...
...The 'co-ed,' as she is generally known, has the opportunity of a practical test of comradeship during her four years' sojourn at college, and the roll of marriage licenses in after years between classmates is the best answer to the specious statement that education gives woman a distaste for domestic life...
...DAYTON—A STORY THE NEWSPAPERS SUPPRESSED THE manner in which the American newspapers are endeavoring to suppress the news and smother the convictions of the American peo-plo is again graphically shown in a recent event...
...No wonder he sings: "Hard trials— "Great tribulations, "Hard trials— "I'm gwine for to live with the Lord...
...Some papers who, to date, have not printed a single line in their news columns with reference to the contest are now printing belabored editorials endeavoring to show that the election was one of local interest only...
...It is the key to the understanding of the truth as to Russia, just as Mr...
...7,033 Mendeuliall...
...As a woman's increasing participation in economic and political life is clearly one of the marked features of coming years, it is evident that she is entitled to and must needs receive, more serious preparation for her new part than the milk-and-water education, and the flummery of elegant accomplishments, with which a past generation afflicted her...
...He is held by his captors in economic bondage today—forbidden to rise above the lowest serving class...
...He is a true follower of Christ, an early Christian...
...No wonder as he looks dismally back at the forest whence he came, and dismally forward to the hopeless sea into which he is slowly being pushed, he lifts his plaintive voice in its heart-broken minor and wails: "Swing low, sweet chariot, comin' for to carry me home...
...FREE SPEECH One need have no sympathy for Senator La Follette's peace resolution to condemn the childish utterances of ex-Socialist Chas...
...Steffens' article on Mexico was the key to understanding the truth as to Mexico...
...Significant as this news is, it was not given any prominence in the jingo papers of the middle west until Saturday morning, Aug...
...Let Senator La Follette have his say...
...He is a philosopher and interprets facts, he is an artist and illuminates facts, but he never distorts of misrepresents them...
...Edward Russell regarding free speech iu the U. S. Senate...
...Dayton is governed by a city manager, selected by a commission of five members, who are elected by the people...
...Race riots, lynchings, political ostracism...
...If he works in the South, he is poorly paid, more or less in kind—chips and whetstones—and hi3 wife becomes a "pan toter...
...THE TRAGEDY OF THE COLORED FOLK WILL ALLEN WHITE, in Emporia Gazette...
Vol. 9 • August 1917 • No. 8
