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VOL. 113 May 31, 1924 No. 22 
Men Are Forbidden to Read This 
I N this issue of American Agriculturist we 
have tried [to do something of special interest 
to farm women. To be sure, American Agri¬ 
culturist tries to interest the women in all of 
our issues in our regular household department, 
but we believe that our women friends are en¬ 
titled at least once in a while to nearly all of the 
whole paper. If you women think so, and like this 
issue, tell us and some time we shall try it again. 
In no other business in the world are the women 
and the home so closely connected with the 
business as they are on the farm. It would be 
practically impossible to conduct a farm without 
a farm home, and further than this, we have 
always said as strongly as we could that public 
affairs of farmers and the nation need more of the 
influence of women. The Grange has always 
recognized this need. There is more need of the 
ideals for which women stand in our school meet¬ 
ings, in the work of the cooperative associations, 
and at the polls. 
Because we feel as we do about this, we want 
to have the women folks read American Agri¬ 
culturist and get something from that reading 
that will be an inspiration and a help to them 
both in their work in the home itself, and in the 
public affairs in which they take part. Inciden¬ 
tally, we’ll bet that every man who reads the title 
of this editorial reads it all the way through. Be 
honest, now, you men, your curiosity was too 
much for you, wasn’t it? We hope so, for, after all, 
one of the fine things about farming is that most 
of those things which are of interest to men are 
also of interest to farm women, and vice versa. 
A Modern Miracle 
H ENRY MORGENTHAU, SR., known to 
us as the father of our publisher, but to 
the world at large as the chairman of the Greek 
Refugees’ Settlement Commission of the League 
of Nations, has just returned from a five months’ 
stay in Greece. 
Our readers will remember the tragedy at 
Smyrna when the Turks destroyed the city by 
fire and massacred thousands of Greek people. 
Hundreds of thousands of these Greek refugees 
found themselves suddenly without home or 
shelter of any kind, and without food. As fast 
as possible they were cared for by charitable 
organizations and removed from Turkey to 
Greece. Under the Treaty of Lausanne, it was 
arranged that there be an exchange of population, 
whereby Greeks left in Turkey must be sent to 
Greece and all Turks in Greece must go to Turkey. 
This forced migration of Greeks, practically all of 
whom were destitute, threw upon old Greece a 
tremendous problem of assimilation. The size of 
this problem may be realized when it is known 
that Greece is a small country, that the total 
population is only 6,500,000 and that there were 
1,300,000 of these destitute refugees to be cared 
for. The problem and responsibility of rehabili¬ 
tation, resettlement, and assimilation was as¬ 
sumed by the League of Nations, and Mr. 
Morgenthau, who was formerly ambassador to 
Turkey, was placed in charge of the work. 
So well was this job done that the Greek 
Government conferred upon Mr. Morgenthau 
just before he left Athens the Grand Order of the 
Holy Saviour, a decoration which had never 
before been given to a foreigner, and only twice 
before to any one in the history of the nation. 
He was also made Honorary Citizen of Athens, 
and Doctor of Laws of the University of Athens. 
He succeeded in getting the Bank of England to 
loan the Greek nation one million pounds, and 
another million pounds will be loaned by the same 
institution in June. Mr. Morgenthau was in¬ 
strumental in the establishment of the Greek 
Republic upon democratic principles. Since he 
began his work, the financial stability of Greece 
has greatly improved, and the people have all 
settled down to recover by hard work from the 
conditions which prevailed during the war and 
since. 
Henry Morgenthau believes the great mass of 
refugees can be made an asset instead of a liability. 
Greece now imports thirty per cent, of the grain 
she uses. Large tracts of land, some of which 
were won from Turkey, are being turned into 
farms, and the refugees’ work on these farms will 
decrease the importation of grain and make the 
nation more nearly self-supporting. 
The day of miracles is not entirely past. The 
trouble is that many of us are so close to them that 
we do not recognize them. The Bible tells us 
how Moses led six hundred and three thousand 
people out of bondage into the promised land. 
This really was nothing more nor less than a big 
job of rehabilitation and resettlement, and has 
its modern counterpart even on a bigger scale in 
the resettlement in Greece of over a million Asia 
Minor refugees. 
The New York World, in commenting editorially 
upon Mr. Morgenthau’s work, said in part: 
“To the services Henry Morgenthau rendered in Con¬ 
stantinople when he represented there the interests of Great 
Britain, France, Italy, Russia and five smaller nations, as 
well as the United States, during the war, and to his briefer 
work investigating conditions in Poland after the war, he has 
now added a remarkable accomplishment in the cause of 
refugee populations in the Near East. 
“The welcome which New York accorded Mr. Morgenthau 
yesterday was well deserved.” 
On Cleaning House 
T HE farm woman’s work, her health, her children 
—all have their share of space in this special 
household issue. There is one topic we wanted to 
include, but for which room failed. In fact, it de¬ 
serves so much thought that we wanted to ask the 
opinions of our readers before we published anything 
on the subject. 
Woman’s place in politics—it is a topic much in 
the public eye! The farm woman’s place in poli- 
tics—that is what we need to talk over now, when 
both political parties are bidding for the support of 
the public. 
First, what does the word 'politics mean to the 
farm woman? Does it stand for government by 
furtive, outgrown methods of wire pulling, of per¬ 
sonal favor, of graft and spoils-dividing? Or does 
it mean the expression through an orderly medium 
of the community’s wish in the matter of its own 
administration? If the word has an evil connota¬ 
tion, whose fault is it? More important, how can 
the meaning be removed? Most important, to us, 
what part may the women of the country play in 
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the great job of political house-cleaning which is 
equally necessary in small local communities, State 
affairs and national government? 
It is not just a question of house-cleaning. Such 
a process, accompanied by the same turmoil, dis¬ 
comfort and dust-raising known to every woman 
who ever tackled the job at home, has been carried 
out time and time again in national affairs. To the 
intense surprise of decent citizens, it becomes neces¬ 
sary to do it again every so often. 
The women could tell them that there was no 
cause for surprise; that a house once clean won't 
stay clean of itself. It must be kept spotless and 
dirtless by the utmost vigilance. But in the long 
run, most housekeepers find it is easier to keep a 
house in order than to put the family through an 
annual paroxysm of exhausting spring-cleaning. 
Is not that, perhaps, the part women can—if 
they will—take in national politics? The lesson 
they have learned only after many spasms of yearly 
distraction is one sadly needed by our officials, 
whether local, State or national. 
In all elections, great or small, women must vote 
for candidates who will not only clean house, to fulfil 
election promises and gain merit for their zeal, but 
whose records prove that they will keep plugging 
ahead, even if the limelight gradually fades, at the 
less picturesque but most necessary task of keeping 
in order the house that has once been set to rights. 
How to Get Good Movies 
B OTH men and women will like the interesting 
article and the beautiful pictures in this issue 
about good motion pictures. The movies have, 
come to be a tremendous factor in our life. 1 
Pictures like Griffith’s “America” will give young 
people a better understanding and appreciation of 
American history than will a whole year in the 
dry classroom. On the other hand, some of the 
emotional love or murder scenes which children 
see in the movies do untold harm. The better 
pictures are just as entertaining. Why not get 
the best then in every local show? Whether the 
movies are good or bad is up to the people them¬ 
selves. Proprietors of motion picture houses will 
run the best pictures if the people demand them 
and will go to see them. 
We know of no better work that a local com¬ 
mittee, appointed by the Grange or some other 
organization, could do than to work to get better 
films in the local movies. Any such committees 
or organizations that wish to give consideration 
to this problem can get help from the National 
Board of Review. American Agriculturist will 
be very glad to make suggestions and to put you 
in touch with this board upon request. 
Eastman’s Chestnuts 
I THINK nearly every man likes to get a good 
joke on his women folks. Of course, the kind, 
gentle critters never try to answer back! ! And 
all that talk about women getting the last word 
is all bunk! ! ! But there is one kind of a joke 
about women in which I could never quite see the 
point. That is about their spending money so 
freely. The joke columns are always carrying- 
some variation of this joke. It may be true that 
some women of the butterfly type are spend¬ 
thrifts, but I think that if we men are really 
honest about it, we will have to agree that most 
women, particularly farm women, are not at all 
like John’s wife, Mary. < . f 
John was looking over the bills. “Good gnei, 
Mary,” he said, “you must think that I am 
money itself.” 
To which Mary promptly replied: ‘ I wish to 
goodness you were. THEN MAYBE I COLL 
CHANGE YOU!” 
But when it comes to women’s talk, I am not so 
sure that I can give them as good a recommenda¬ 
tion. I am inclined to agree with Bill. 
Mrs. Bill had just made the remark that she 
had been reading that the average woman has a 
vocabulary of only five hundred words.. 
To which Bill answered: “Yes, it is a small 
stock, BUT THINK OF THE TURNOVER! 
