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SIMPLY FOLKS
A number of distinguished publicists are making much
of the employment of women in industrial occupations; j
crediting this alleged new departure to the present world;
war, and in at least one instance declaring that it marks J
a sociological epwh in the history of the race.
In point of fact these deductions are entirely un
founded in the main, hut find an apparent justification in!
tiu* conspicuous publicity recently given to the industrial
activities of women in the war news.
Americans who have visited Europe any time within
the last dozen years, and were at any pains to observe,;
found women coal miners, field hands, shop workers, and j
laborers in other natural occupations, to be the usual and
accepted order of things. Possibly one-third of the coal
miners in Cornwall, and certainly a very large percentage
of the agricultural workers in France were women, six
years ago.
Most of us never train ourselves to the habit of noti
cing; even color or height or peculiarities of things seen
daily are overlooked, but it is amazing that professional
publicists, who are supposed to be highly efficient oh-'
servers, should mislead themselves in a matter in which
the facts are so apparent.
What is true of female employment in industrial oc
cupations in Europe is also true in the United States;;
merely in a smaller degree, and as regards the nature of;
industries employing women.
bulletin 17’) of the Bureau of Labor statistics at:
Washington, in touching this very subject of female em
ployment, in machine shops and metal-working plants, has
the following to say:
“In these industries, none of which belong to the tra
ditional field of women's activities, females formed more
than one-quarter of the total working force, while in in
dividual industries their percentage is much higher. In j
some cases the numbers studied were too small to be signi- i
ficant, but in the twelve metal working industries, each of i
which furnished a thousand or more employees to the!
total group studied, the proportion of females employed!
ranged from 7.58 per cent in foundries to 80.45 per cent
in the manufacture of corset steels. In only three ot the
more numerously represented industries did the propor
tion of female workers fall below one-fifth; in seven it
rose above one-fourth, and in five above one-third. ’
The war may have accelerated the employment ol
women very perceptibly, but the entry of women into com
petitive occupations with men started long before the war
began, and is merely an incident of the industrial evolu
tion. the bud and blossom of which we see in this passing
century, but the full fruition of which no man can foretell
other than by guess.
During the half-dozen decades or so just past, there
burst upon the world the flood of inventive genius and ac
tivity which the accumulated experience of mankind made
possible. Before that virtually everything was fabricated
in the home—cloth for clothing, leather for shoes and
other uses, earthen-ware for preserving foods, and so on
all down the line to sugar from the maple or cane, candles
from tallow, and medicines from herbs.
Improved machinery resulting from inventions, and
new applications of force in its use, revolutionized the
economic statu-; and it became cheaper to buy things than
to make them. This left a surplus of females in the home
unemployed by taking away their traditional employ- i
ment; and women were thus forced out of the home andj
into the industrial labor market and other non-domestic I
occupations. The war is in no sense a cause,'but merely I
an incident contributing to the larger activity of women
in industrial pursuits.
And in considering this question it may be well to re- j
member that the present scope of women’s employment is, j
itself, but an incident of a wave of progress which prob-'
ably is rapidly approaching the climacteric.
A few years ago, to most of us women were women,
and men were folks. There is, in fact, no difference be- j
tween men and women worthy the attention of a philoso
pher, and his perspective is sadly distorted who does not j
now look upon all the members of the human family as
simply folks.
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When the 49th Star ceased to twinkle in Valdez, and
was faced with the choice of iournalistic death or a berth
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quired a grudge against the sheet, accepfed the latter al
ternative, and forthwith began to pay his compliments to
Valdez; said compliments always being preserved in vi
CONFIDENCE.
-McBride *n Newjik Star-bagi*.
triol. Now that the 49th Star has gone into eclipse be
hind the new ‘‘Democrat" constellation, we had supposed
that “that unfortunate, wind-swept glacial moraine known
as Valdez,” would have time to grow another epidermis,
but we see that opinion was premature. Indeed, we’re
prepared to place a small bet that we can name the man
who wrote all that blister-raising “Democratic” stuff last
week, and that the unholy joy of seeing a neighbor suf
fer is not to be denied us.
When you hear a man always complaining about the |
way folks wrong him, and claiming that all he wants is
justice, you may be pretty sure he is getting all the justice
that is due him, but the folks with whom he has relations
are not, unless they keep their eyes or. him every minute |
of the time.
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IN THE PRORATE COURT FOR
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signed selects as her place of business
in all matters connected with- said
estate of ADAM BLOCH, deceased.
Dated: Seward, Alaska, April 10,
1917.
ANNIE CHRISTIANSEN,
Administratrix with the will annexed
of the Estate of Adam Bloch, De
ceased.
L. L. JAMES, Jr.,
Attorney for said Administratrix.
April 21-28-May 5-12.
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claims against the said deceased, to
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Seward building, Seward, Alaska.
LEON C. BOOKER,
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Nimmo, deceased.
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