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Show hAir TKiin!r JxAkw .nMifv jm Every Poor Child a Fighting Chance for Health and Happiness CoerrtrhL ONE hear a lot about tha mantla ot father faUJnr upon the eon To hav the father a mantle falling, upon the daughter Is lee usual. Therer fore, in many respects the position of. Rhondda In Britain today la unique. has inherited her famous By birth she Is Margaret Haig Thomas, by mariiage she Is Lady Mackworth and by heritags she U Viscountess Rhondda. Her father hating had no son the King conferred upon the daughter the right to bear las tKJe She has In herlted her father's privileges, on of which is the right to eft aa a peeress In the House of lairds She has Inherited his business genius and pr ganiztng ability. She has inherited his place In the confident e and esieem father's title. I should business To me all this tuea ls 30 absurd. If my father had had a wn. he would hate helped him in hi affairs as a matter of course But when I look a sons place, all the world dered "Now why should this be so It is pet fettly nstural, is it not Especially to those who believe tn the gospel of work I bellete In work for every man and woman No matter to what position one is born It is right that one should help In the labor of the world. "lit- - Britain we women have, for ages, been crushed by convention, stifled by snobbishness The early Victorian Idea that a lady should not soil her hands by work has hindered womans progress, prevented her from lining her powers to the fulL The Vgr however, drove a few nails Into Ihe coffins of dead doctrines, snd I hope that it has killed forever the false Idea that It is unwomanly to earn wages. "War, unfortunately, was womans opportunity. Clever, dear brained and f apahle women, who. by yirtue of their octal position, had never utilized their It telllgente In any way bent floral to the nation, hava helped to run th nd I rountry and to win the war. am sure of one thing' Now that peace has come these women will never be contented to rGtre Into obscurity Bra'na are like muscle, the again iiuuc jou use them the more they develop Tin cilia made upon women for all branches of war work have Improved the mentality and Increased the efficiency of the aex take la-- a C. there Is a new geneiano, . cl lusty, full of life-ancan vdry well he ti anted best for Ur'tain when 'he ,n Our duty, I think, in not look after the leg i at i ture, but to look al-ot the future to gli r what-vchance tlon in life, in. the two education and heilih The first djy oi the heaidh then will he t , c with existing organ zau infant we'fare mum- multifarious bianv bps c f , t better financial font i r wage an Intentt he i i j throughout the oounti turthe people, by pufuc meetings and by taiss wi homes the value of fresh cooked food and v leaulim--b- e taught that; at all time- - j is better than pit scrip' healthy conditions of life ar value than patent medicines Ignorance is criminal "Major General Sir Bertram ' t,Son has outlined a sketch of w health center in a small town r x bt like in operation This Is of w M 4 picture of an actively admin frdt.v ministry of "health Up Dignity in Labor "AmeriiA will And, too, that this true, for the daughters of ths over thirty, should have been asked lo takp charge of the whole develop- nient of womens coi ps for work In tha , navy, army, air and on the land. Is have done splendidly for the cause of victory, and surely all this will not be lost. By the time the bells of peace were ringing wromen of both low and high degree had discovered that there Is both beauty and dignity in labor, and a real Joy In work well done. "At least, that Ls what I think and what my father thought He always liked me to help him in business, for he knew the ordinary life of a social woman would never satisfy me. There Is something about the way Lady Rhondda says "niv father which It hints at the goes to ones heart tragedy of separation, gives an Index v - - means of- - making money, but for H own aake, she said to me. And aha, who sa easily might hava led a Ilf of ease and luxury, got up early every morning, went down to her father's office at the docks and put in as heavy a day's work as any man who had to labor for a living. She spent her time between 'Cardlff and London and found Ilf full of lnteraat. rich and absorbing. At this time Lord Rhonddas name not yet a title was on to conjure with In the world of commerce. Ha was tha head of some of tha biggest enterprises in our Island. H controlled railway and docka and owned coal mines. And eagerly following his lead came his daughter. he was further in hi confidence than any dns; he respected her Judgment. To an extraordinary degree aha had Inherited his energy and uWvelous aptitude, and when, in 1913, h went to America she managed many of his affair. During that time, when she purchased the Herrick estates In Monmouthshire for a sum of D30 000, she completed a r- cord deal for a woman. fer a , well-mad- 1 - v rr. d. Hornadav i - iul Grange bolder tint of pc w oruiuttd betw and ti Cain a ti M on ( it t v fr v p?v If not or Jonp tf m lo lirs oj t tui a i p a n a it tJ&t .oun Vwn I tt p UiMMPl t i c St on ris b( u r) rni.uu th tnlied p Klo nme nui' s g inp b is the 'ower on n' tn i to m u 'rt h in adn no i ,v't ' j rob " i 1 tptxico of the tirno tu h ifnn r i o I - M v - - i imm Th - ot ! - i f mu vi lie , tno ) v Ml! ex p"in eS n m v ft ui - r , two - r , n i mi d giHI Is i i to I p.e- - H I n- - o - M i of g tv iicj tr if nr tol like-, c 'I ml MTIVVI lb1 ail - opr i"nn t lf t - i It ii ! u U b exo? ova on of thv - 1 - i r I t alijiane patrol s ro hi t .H - i oo N n t n Rio i H- in x OI t I th of Mexican conviction IP th firm ITcustom on . -- sol-die- is 1 k i r o li 'ilex q l.t nil it of VlA t now wing many m- - of v'ng VIS I ! the told come from It is Am- -i 1 v - have 'e .vlex guards l'xr rvf- ' an- - by ire fi-toaulhonues of Im'h Mexico oqj the United Slates who aie on duty . Ions i i V i i ' ' e . it exmi-ti-- i ; Ino ' v moe out ! ov-- tor -o i.- flat d li- Mexico -- upon 1 ' mild and i e vf puipnv.es prariei! If will qunhly come pr.i h tin- - way rimhri and the Of Texas a of ' Thomas Darnell, who the Coahulla. State Mexico, about rwvmtv five miles southwest of La has plated an order for three tppiince Two of these are to be of -njall sire and will be used by scouts f the tanch otvervn tion duty .. d 'he other maihnu wil tv of a of cirrv g four tons of .1" ms to use Mr Punt il U (ilit-- , tht-- n uio'.tnes for pia.tu.il ranch work There arc h leady several laves white stnu.II aliplanes an- - In use for loiating cattle herds i poo the larger ranches-op- d making erner-.-l irepeetion of these ptoper owns 130 000-acr- ranch e In tq-t-- - -- til s bellevcl also that the general ji pluic for tisnspot in on peivite In Mexico would do mi h to icstoie tranquillity In that unii.n It is known that the Car, i Government lias In view the pi ii p it ng into svlvic of a large numner hi- - aerial machines nut only for i ai'vii.g mnl hut In military The m tnufiu tilling of airplanes on a limit, d sc ile was begun under the dilution of 'he Mexican Government m the capita! several months ago It - i spot ted however, that the type of machine whuh was turned out waa not a comple'e sjerese for flying at gh altitudes wnich ts necessaiy In Mi v u By airplanes In the arn v it will b, possible it Is stated, to .ovate bands of revolutionists and Lin l.t x and to keen In close touch w th 'heir fhovements The first onal aerial malt o he tetwogn the United States and Mexico will be plated In operation uith.n the next three month, according to present plans. This announce Is np i - n of tnc Fairer, Better Britain s The country, however, deeply lm meised In the war, was calling for women to release men for the fighting line A leader was wanted who could ahow results a woman who could, In spire her sisters to the realization of and experienced all the horror of that the country's urgent need. All eyes most ghastly sea crime. They were turned upon Lady Mackworth, and hours in the water, and as the bodies when Sir Auckland qeddes In the of women and helpless little children House of Commons stated- - It gives floated past them in the Icy darkness me pleasure to announce that I have of that night, both marked up a heavy score against the Hun which one, at prevailed upon Lady Mackworth to settled with hla life. aotept thq post of chief controller of least, "I mean to carry on some of the women's national service work," there work my father left. Lady Rhondda was not a dissentient voice and the gieatest of these Is. said, When tt was first decided to utilize I think, his scheme for the establishwomens services during the war there ment of a ministry of health That I were only a few women here and there shall and further to the best promote seen In uniform. Before long the of my ability. streets were full 6f them. In their "The of health will be quite neat uniforms of khaki or navy blue differentministry from any of the other ministhese girls became aa familiar In the tries now in operation it will not, I national life as our aailoia and think, be administrative because much There was no women's aimy of the wmk with which It will be conIn 1M3, but In 1918 It was 500,000 cerned is nowr done by other vdrart What a mighty tribute not ments. But It will strong Inspire these deonly to the eplehdld patriotism of Britpartment, Instill new Ideas, send fresh ish girls but to the organizing genius blood coursing through their veins, and power of their leader' ur'll the whole social body Is reviviRhondda Is now on the board fied of directors of some forty companies Routing Out the Mums She has worked toward the reorganiz' some British under of don't think there Is any departIntetests, ing. o I the biggest Hun concerns in the ment of life in which the ministry of country This was a project to which health wlil not be interested. Take her father gave himself with great housing, for example In every city In The late Lord Rhondda the British Isles theie are large areas earnest nc had no love foi Get many. Ho went which should lie condemned A minAmerica on an Important mission istry of health would stamp out the His daughter accompanied slum. I know, of course, that there In 1918. him. They retut ned by the" Lusitania are powerful interests behind the slum ar-- t.ri-Hf- n . torv, provision for nurses, a r notes and records, and adjace common loom for the elx do of the town In the proxlmttv wot 1 b the hospital, baths and other lenW.a equipments, and the centeis dvr ma, temity cire, Infant welfare an i hygiene, etc. Rather more irmote would be the covered and open r ourdi for physical culture, and adja- cm to these the playing grounds ' "This, Indeed, sounds rosv . bu not of too rosy to be real The mii whealth, properly conducted, st , j be the greateet organization for pood that our country haa ever kmni ft should be highly suggestive at ' in. formative and should Inspire ev- -i department of public life with new pmer and vigor. It should be the c earlnf house for knowledge. VISCOUNTESS ment comes ftom an official source in the City of Mexico It Is stated that the starting points for this thiough airplane service will be San Antonio and the City of Mexico Engineers representing the Mexican Government are alieadv locating and surveying landing fields along the proposed route. These are to be lovated at Monteiev, Sa, uiin. San Luis Potosi. Q mretaro and Toluca. It is within the range of possibility that within the next few years an mall and passenger route, will be established between the United States and the Isthmus of Panama. There are no physical diffivultles in the wav of carrving out such a scheme, it is averted bv tho-.who have been through the countries that would have to he trave-seSuch a service would p!a,re 'he United States In close personal toucji with the Panama Canal Zone As a winter tourist route it would be epeciallV attractive,' eay those who are advocating the establishment of such a eervlce, either by the Governments of the respective countries or bv private njeana. f c d "Tell me in a few word th plot of this play V ashtub, hmout-lne- . duke "That s a little too brief. I dont quite understand" "Well in other words its the story of a social c'lmber. Opulent Fkther-l- Law What alls Since you have married you. Oeo--gyou seem to have lost all your ambition George Well, you wee, sir, I reached the height of my ambition when I became your son In law. n e RHONDDA tenements sometimes, but none so Much magnificent work .has Already- powerful as to withstand determined been done In Improving the conditions in mills and factories, and the ministry legislation "W want decent homes for the of health l help on this work In people places where the sun can every way possible. "The question of wages will also shine, where the clean air of heaven can blow. The squalid wurroifndings fall under Odr eagle eye. So far as men's work Is concerned, the trades in which many of our people are comunions look after their Interests pretty pelled to live have an Intensely degenwell, but womens work falls very far pererating effect. Pride, short of what tt ought o be. all these things sonal cleanliness But our greatest hope Iff the esgo to make decent men and women flutter and die In a place where tablishment of this new ministry Is human beings are crowded together, that It will have the finest effect upon the health of the children. My father 6ix In one room. Where allevs and stairs are dank and noisome health Is loved 'children. He would have had all legislation fixed so that no matter absolutely Impossible. ' The fl- -t duty of the minister of In what position it was born a little be to get In touch with child should have the best, possible health and chance for life the commissioners housing Our present Infant mortality Is apstrengthen their h tnds Ha can take things up where the commiaslon left palling It Is dreadful tr see the wastoff, can act on suggestions embodied age of the stream of new life which In their reports, get at the lessons con our country needs so urgently either veyed by facts and flguies. and do being drud up or so tainted at Its the bold and iconoclastic work which source that It U rendered useless. is needed to bring about reforms One of the first things my father "Work hours, conditions of labor in did was to safeguard the food of the shops and factories will also come children. Had he lived he would have under our jurisdiction, for nothing is so done much more, for he thought that essential to a nation as to Insure that the leal wealth of tlie country lies In its vast industrial army Is working its little ones. I think so, too. If the under decent conditions It may not children are strong, healthy and happy slwavs be possible to have beautiful they are the true source of national factories, though some emplov ers are wealth. "The future of the country Is in no doing marvels in this d rectum, b it at least we can have healthful places peril when, growing up every day. self-respe- Airplane Smugglers Reported Active on Mexican Bordet Bv - " 'It would comprise rooms, examining rooms, mloc-tlorooms, X rav equipment Survivors of Lusitania When I called upon Lady Rhondda I I found her at the offices of the Min instry of National Service, West minster. I had never met her before, and as I was swished In the elevator third floor I lo'e1 the ''iun'ry an1 ,h 5rpHt out up to . tmn,t 1,1 hiU1(5 Bhe and remerobered all the things I had' read rf on lon t0 lrmP abouLharliL. the newspaper and the little gtri who wA to together, described heard her I had magazine. - as "a mistress of industry, "the . fnk her name as the clev erest woman and bMBngland. and the man who, In keenest woman in England upon to Mendarkt hour, wan "Britain's leading business lady." take up Its most difficult post that of a as her precise, visualized I tally formal person, severe in expression food controller In thoee early days, however, there with a calculating eye, a firm mouth was no shadow or talk of war. Life and a dictatorial manner. But when I came face to face with flowed on peacefully The happy years her aa she came forward to greet me, flew by The little girl grew up Iove with outstretched hands and a very entered her life She married Into a kind and friendly smile on her face, distinguished Deibytshire family Huminto thin air vanished all those pre- phrey Mackworth was one of the eleven sturdy song of Sir Arthur Mackconceived Ideas of mine. Precise, calculating! None of these worth, of Caericon, a family which haa produced some celebrated men. But things! Jolly big g'rl even marriage did not break the tie. Just a tall, Very Iencoed Castle her new home, waa With giay eyes and brown hair human and lovable is this "business only a few miles from Llanwern Purk, woman", and she look as though she her father's place and the warmest had an Instinct for friendship and for and happiest Intimacies existed beall the fine and sweet and sane things tween the two houses Then came the wai Sir Humphrey of life. want to talk about my fatheia Mackwoith marched off to join his regiment and hts wife, whose comtadegic at scheme, the mlnlstiv of health, she said after a lit! prelimimuy chat Ij'p of her father had Ipd her to take But first kt me say what I Kl about all fn'hiiMristie liksng lot business now went In for it wholeheartedly the. jositlon of women in the world to"I love woi k, not because it Is a day Pffple always talk as if it were Brit-ain'- poj-sibl- - Just .Jolly Big Girl I fcg Beblle By Helen R. Macdonald. an extraordinary thing that London, Jan. 1. - She 11. "But," and now Lady Rhondda ross, must have 'he lr'eyes glowing, wework A depa w the for people right ment like this cannot be run bv the ordinary civil servant. We must have men and women Inspired b a holv pa, shm of. service to humanity de'er- mined to leave the world a better place than they found It. We mut ha vs posts In the health ministry v U paid so that it will attract men and w oma of the highest Intellectual power Mr. tue Is Its own reward, but onlv in a sense. Many women with a real love for nursing and public health work cannot take up these things becauss the remuneration is so low; they cannot afford to. "Well, we want our people to hars sympathy for those wrlth whom they come Into contact; we want them ts have love and enthusiasm for the and passionwork, to be single-mindeate In their desire to sweep away die ease And the best way to Insure these qualifications Is to pay them well for their services To do so Is cheaper In the long run, It makes a keener nd more enthusiastic department when It officers are content "I think there is little doubt now tLfct the great dream of my father a working and life will become beneficent reality and that very soon. The establishment of a ministry of health should do much more even than I have outlined here. It ehould bnrf t nearer that falre, better Brjta-se which we are all looking forw'-ireageily now that pace lia ome "And, above all. It should give to even the poorest little child in these realms a fighting chance for life, health and happlfress." d Must Indians Pay Hunting License? Muskegon, Mith., Jan. 15 the American Indian the right JJAS to hunt and fish where game abounds in Michigan without the of obtaining a State hunting or On this question fishing license Chief George W Wheaton of the v lupptwa Indians, has taken to the legal waipath and after being twice ai rested for hunting haa announced that the righta of his people and of the survivors of three otner Indian tribes who met In coqncll here must be decided m the United otates Supreme Court. There has been considerable unrest among the Chtppewas s.nce gme wardens twice placed their chief under ariest during the season, which has Just ended Both in a Jus tlee court and In a circuit coui t Chief Whtaton flatly declined to pay $1 as the fee for a hunting license, which would give him freedom of the vasl wilderness left depleted of Its forests by thq lumberjacks but thick with game. Chief Wheaton Is almost seventy-tw- o year old. but Is as handy with a rifle and skinning knife as any young buck of his tribe might have been before the coming of the Jesuit fathers to the depths of the peninsula. The chief bases his refusal to abide by State laws upon several tieaties between the United States and the Chippewa. Taking the stand in circuit court. Chief Wheajon spurned the offer of Prosecutor JBroek to- - byy him squinting license and dismiss the case. "I shall deal with the United States Government, eaW the Indian, and , y nl-g- deer-huntln- g not with youi: State courts. I still retain my tribal rights and the $1 fee pays only for the license of a I am not a citizen citizen. I am leader of my tribe and we Chippewas bave never given up our tribal otgsn-izatioAs long an we retain our tribal organization we are not citizens. Even the $1 license is not undi r. rur treaty In the cou t of the ruial justice the chief maintained the same stand and wa compelled to spend a night in jail before his lawyer rtuld file an appeal It was this favff, which caused serious mutterlngs among thff members of the tribe, who were Joined by virtually every Ottawa and Wyandotte Indian in the Sate at the sol emn conclave held at Saginaw, when more than $1000 in small contributions was tossed in a blanket around which the tribal members squatted This fund waa handed over to Chief Wheat,-othat he .might carry the fight to Washington, where the Indiana believe they will icceive a square deal. Since then the chief has received a deluge of mail from all parts of the State With offers of aid In his fight "I thank all of these people for their offersT said the chief at his modest little home on the edge of the great Muskegon Paver swamps, "but It Is my fight and I feel certain that In the highest ,court my people Will receive Justice The land along the Muskegon -- River haa never been jurveyed and Is 'measured lapd and Government property. I know every nook and turn in the Shlawasvsee and Saginaw Rivers" and whv shouldn't I, when my birthcanoe, in which, place w aa a blrcji-bara a papoose, I waa carried over these n k t' ' rivers for years in my father's canoe, and we knew nothing of these game wardens who sleep days and work nights? "The treaties we hold were never Paycarried out by th Governmen ments of moiyy stopped years ago and other promises were broken as rpe In a few years the Indian Ir M c'ik gan win be no more. The deciea-- e in our population Is gtiytllng ar-- mauv of our people verg victims Spanish Influenza scourge wh h swefit our villages I ask only that a- - be 'ind given the right to make our t before the ravages the white im o brought upon us by being al'owei and trap shoot go into the woods and as our fathers did Muskrat skins In former year nl!' for twenty five cents but this year thn skins have found ready sale for $1 v. "How can they say I hunt when I hax-- e taken muskrats on Ld formerly covered by water surchief, "and which has never been to.d courts the be that veyed? Can tt the treaties we made as mere 's rap of paper'? -- lx--- a-- ks c In olden times it waa customs! y Lr ar-an officer to go round the towns mhab the lhat wee to Vdlages c had no weapons of war. On one the these tours an officer called at house of a worthy Scotch coup.e the questions to the old man of war in -"Any weapon hos-se-f , ! 5an 1 After scratching his said-- , nd half looked at his better tonsJ Deed, aye; pit oot your " ) gutdwlfe! |