Show government BY grandmothers MRS EI ERY Is governed by its leisure class that Is to say by the people who have nothing else to ilo do hut but gobern if the united states and its governmental units are governed by politicians th eliat a t Is because we ne have got tile the habit ot of paying allaying better salaries to professional politicians than men ot of equal ability can earn in private business ks and so vie lie have created a leisure class which rules vs us they can afford to do nothing else but run the affairs of 0 government nut flat we vie have another and larger leisure class Is beginning to conic come into its own ou n that Is the grandmothers ol of the die nation time it was as when illien a grandmother was thou thought g g lit ot of as having fulfilled her earthly duties and as hagn no occupation tion deft left but to prepare for or the lie next net world but that time Is long past grandmothers today are among the lie most active class in public life and affairs affair not actually grandmothers all of them to be sure but women of the maturity and experience per peri lence ence ol of life which distinguishes the he grandmother type we are thinking at the moment of the announcement from washington that mrs newe nellie loss koss formerly member of 0 congress front roni wyoming Is to ito he be appointed treasurer of the united states state in which capacity antong among other thing ti lings slie she will have her nettle name on all united states money we are thinking of mrs ruth bryan ouen daughter of the f famous commoner an actual grandmother n isho ho Is to be we vie hear assistant secretary of 0 state we think too of mrs lars nilson nillson oho nho goes hy by her malden maiden name of 0 arances perkins and Is secretary of labor in the presidents cabinet those ladles ladies a and lid many others fit public life are 3 mp toms of ark an approaching government by grandmothers it may be objected that we ne hie bale had sper perle lence with plenty of old women in tile the and eleude e although not of tile lie feminine sex but i nho 1110 that knows knous thing about grandmothers mothers 3 could object to having let ing them run the the great thin about grandmothers grandmother i as we MC see it jq is that they know so much more about the real thin bilings of life about human nature and how it than the rest of us do its hard to fool a grandmother site she lias has had too ton much experience with men and women and children to be imposed upon easily and nhen mien it comes down doun to thrift to keeping the house in fit order and saving every available penny vie lie bould rather trust a congress of grandmothers than a congress of politicians any time IV women omen cast one third of the otes at the last election we bould be nih ing frig to glie ghe the the grandmothers especially tuo thirds of the offices |