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Show What the Women of America Are Doing Today to Help Keep Down Unrest. By REPRESENTATIVE JOHN MAC CRATE of New York. We have listened to men discuss the burden resting upon officials who administer the financial affairs of the city, state and nation, and we have wondered what these government experts would do were they limited lim-ited to incomes as are the women of our homes. , Governmental officials are continually exceeding the amount allotted to their departments and congress, too frequently without condemnation, appropriates more. Did the average housewife of America spend what cornea to her from the family with, the open-handed carelessness of some departmental heads the unrest which we see about us would be multiplied multi-plied a thousandfold. Its utterly impossibleto calculate what the women of America are doing today toward keeping down riot and revolution. If our efficiency experts in the field of government could make a little go as long a way and could adjust expenditures to income as well as do the women of our households, this nation would soon see" its indebtedness in-debtedness reduced, r |