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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1919
Page
6
A Washington County feature column introduces kindergarten guidance for parents. Government education bodies and the National Kindergarten Association have tested the material, and the column notes weekly appearances in these pages.
Martin Brambergh urges fathers to raise sons as companions and emulates a father who raised three fine men. He stresses home church and school as spiritual pillars, and the need for intimate father son talks to instill duty to God country and virtues of courtesy reliability and humility. He asks readers to pass the message along.
German women rapidly claim public roles as the new constitution takes effect. Berlin alderman, Potsdam councillor, and other towns elect women, with about 7 percent of lawmakers now female. Social democrats lead with sixty four women among legislators.
The article notes Italy forbids night work for women and places them under state accident and death insurance while preserving their earnings and property rights. It also reports twenty one American women to receive medals per the latest French government citations.
Leaders of women's organizations receive invitations from the National Social Unit to a Cincinnati conference October 23 24 25. Attendees include officials from the National American Woman Suffrage Association National League for Women’s Service and General Federation of Women’s Clubs. The aim is to develop a practical program for democratic social organization and to test community experiments in Cincinnati for broader municipal state and national governance. The program questions whether democratic control and city administration can improve with organized citizen participation and whether democracy can function in a changing world.
Bar oness von Boecklinsau once Miss Gertrude Berwind of the Berwind family returns to the United States as the first American girl to renounce her German spouse and come home.
The Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs reports 42 new member clubs joining the General Federation ahead of the 1920 Biennial. District meetings proceed with officers presenting on the Biennial and Thrift movement, Americanization, and public health.
A surprise birthday party for Aaron Batterson drew 24 relatives and friends on Sunday October 19 at his home with a two course dinner and a cake adorned with twenty nine blue candles. Marie Snider hosted about 55 neighbors for an evening of games music and refreshments. Mrs Eva Livingston led a Bible study gathering of Fortnightly with discussion on early Christian church history and a finance letter from the Iowa Federation of Women’s Clubs for Des Moines 1920 funds.
Signora Esarei Comani became the first woman to plead before an Italian court when she defended Corporal Giuseppe Francinella who faced a cowardice charge. The crown sought twenty years, but her splendid defense led the court to acquit. The decision was cheered by the spectators.
A survey notes women as majority in US librarianship and rising ordinations in the US while Berlin reports divorces. entries cover female ministers in the US, a young baroness in England, Eva Lavalliere in a convent, a single South American women’s group, hospital staff strikes in Niece, Mary Vail Andress as first woman war worker to receive the DSM, women factory workers in Lynn earning up to 40 dollars weekly, and women pursuing studies in Spain with no institutional barriers. It also mentions Lapland women’s dress, Kentucky illiteracy decline, Yale’s ruling on women students, and cloth shortages forcing leaf garments in southern Africa.
Civic department hosts and club events fill the week. Roscoe Lemley hosts Lust Us and La Foch Society afternoons, Mothers' club meets at Leslie McFarland home, and Delta Alpha class electionDay social. Candy socials, box suppers, and evening programs are planned at several schools and churches including Haskins, Landscape School, Work School, Queen Esther Circle, Modern Literature, and Fortnightly Club venues.
The passage notes Ontario women organizing for referendum work on prohibition, Polish women holding government posts with equal political status, and Swiss dressmakers winning a 20 percent wage raise while reducing weekly hours from 66 to 52.
Cartoon caption notes a playful caution on thrift and spending. It contrasts careless expense with prudent saving using humor and a pun on if. The line invites readers to consider frugality amid modern temptations.
Yaquina, first German ship to reach the port since the war, arrived from Hamburg in ballast carrying frozen beef from New York. A German stowaway, Christian Nissen, age 22, was found aboard and handed over to immigration authorities.
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