Judge — July 3, 1915 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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church, and whaled with a switch, she cud feel, when she went to bed nights, achin’ in every bone, that she'd did her hull, con- sarned duty by her particuler pieces of pos- y. This was mostly ‘cause she growed terit her own milk 'n’ eggs and garden sass, i] 1 made the clothes, the soap, and even the | | medecine, and knowed the gal what taught in the schoolhaouse and the Sunday class. Moreover, she felt that, even if her off- springs had to work, they’d git plenty of fresh air 'n’ sunshine and grub. 4 “But nowadays things ain’t so consarned | easy. When a ma comes to feeding her | fambly now, she don’t know a derned thing "bout the caow that guv the milk, or || whether the vegetables is dead 'n’ gone |) things revived temporary with water, or |) whether the flour is chuck full of dirt and of germs looking for a soft bed, or whether the dear manefacturers has give us more 'n we pay fur in cheap adulterants, She can’t jaw no hired man "bout these thingsif they don’t suit. It’s the city inspectors ap- p'inted by officials elected by votes that kin boss the food supply and keep it clean 'n’ pure or quite vicey versy. Then there’s the clothes—made lots 'n’ lots of ’em in sweatshops and tenements where disease is on the rampage. Why, I hearn tell that even in far-off country taowns there's ep- demics ’mong kids after their mas has re- ceived the fall or spring or winter clothes ordered from the mail catalogues of big city stores. If a ma is goin’ to feed 'n’ clothe her kids, she’s got to have power that reaches out and kivers food inspectors ‘n’ clothes manufacterers and workin’ peo- ple. / “The schools, too, is run by polertics, _ ‘and the streets where the kids play. Mebbe you think wimmen is satisfied to have kids gittin’ half-time eddication and kids killed by the hundreds yearly by street accidents ‘cause they ain't Mebbe you b'lieve that low dance halls and vice resorts is pop’lar with mothers. Mebbe child labor, that raises hull classes of dull-witted, whey-faced, spineless peo- f ple, appeals violent to the maternal instinct of fosterin’ 'n’ protectin’. Nope; us wii- ) men has our eyesopen. And the first thing we do when we git the vote is to go in heavy on kids—ourn and t’other woman's —git for em all the things they ort to have and pull ‘em out from under the car of commercialism what's riding merrily over ‘em now. Kids—our job? You kin jest bet it is! And votes is one of the tools we'll use to do our job well." “Wall,” says old man Bunk feebly, “I wouldn't have thunk it. I allus hearn that ) Suffrygettes had no use fur kids"*—— “‘Famblies is the foundation of sassiety,"* says I; ‘‘and famblies is jest kids and sum- body to take keer of "em. We callerlate that if the foundation’s strong, the hull Structure'll be; and so, 'bove all things in Creation, we're strong fur jest one thing, and that is kids."” a t SPRING WATER, as made it famous” * class stoppered bottles. [aDvT.] *nough playgrounds. . 'HE Panama Canal stands as one of the most marvelous achieve- ments of the age. Into its construc- tion went not only the highest engi- neering skill, but the best business brains of the nation, backed by hundreds of millions of dollars. Suppose conditions not to be fore- seen made it necessary to replace the present canal with a new and larger waterway of the sea-level type, to be built in the next ten years. Also suppose that this new canal would be the means of a great saving in time and money to the canal-using public, because of the rapid progress in canal engineering. This sounds improbable; yet it illustrates exactly what has happened in the development of the telephone, and what certainly will happen again. Increasing demands upon the One Policy The Price of Progress telephone system, calling for more see a better atti ao removal of every of the plant not equal to these densate Switch- boards, cables, wires and the telephone instrument itself were changed time and again, as fast as the advancing art of the telephone could improve them. It was practical todoall this because it greatly increased the capacity of the plant, reduced service rates and added subscribers by the hundred thousand. In ten years, the telephone plant of the Bell System has been rebuilt and renewed, piece by piece, at an expense exceeding the cost of the Canal. Thus the Bell System is kept at the highest point of efficiency, always apace witht the telephone requirements of the public. And the usefulness of the telephone has been extended to all the people. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES One System Universal Service Overlooking the White House. Offers every comfort and luxury, also a superior service. Hotel Powhatan WASHINGTON, D. C. EUROPEAN PLAN—SUMMER RATES: Rooms, detached bath, $1.50, $2.00 up Rooms, private bath, Write for Souvenir Booklet and Map. $2.00, $3.00 up E. C. OWEN, Manager comicbooks.com