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Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Edna Funderburk Shares Opinions on Robert Peary, Women's Vote, Teachers' Salaries, March 9, 1920

From The Monroe Journal, March 9, 1920

Just Some Opinions

By Edna V. Funderburk

The death of Robert Peary, the discoverer of the North Pole, brings to my mind some of the thoughts I had about him. It is said that he spent a fortune and a great part of life exploring around in those cold regions and I never did have unquestioned faith in him for the reason that after he had made that strong effort to have the name of being the discoverer, he would not let Dr. Cooke have glory, if glory there was. He knew nobody could prove it one way or the other so I have always doubted him. Any way I think it was a useless waste of means and energy for either of them to be chasing around up there among the icebergs. What earthly good is it ever going to do the human race. They might have served mankind in a better way than that.

The Creator has put that vast expanse of ice up there so that we might have a place to get a cool breeze from in hot weather and it is nobody’s business to go prowling around in it.

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The writer who said when we women vote, we are going to change the laws in regard to property, said a good thing but she didn’t go far enough. In my opinion even where there are children the husband shouldn’t have the legal right to will the property to them without her consent. I think every dollar of it should go to her for her life time and then at her death the children could get it. It costs the mother more than it does the father to raise a family. Very often it leaves her with broken health and a nervous wreck not able to earn her living by work. She having spent the best years of her life caring for her husband children, taking care and saving for them so that she and him may have something in old age only to see him die and the property divided up and sometimes she has to live around with her child and said to say, not always welcome either. No, I say, the property is morally just as much hers as it is his and ought to be in her possession her life time, every dollar of it.

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Well I suppose suffrage is coming and our women of the Southern States will have to vote whether they wanted to vote or not, because there will be so many million more votes because of the suffrage in the republican states that if the democratic women do not vote then in my opinion the next President will unquestionably be a republican.

So get out of the way, moss-backs, and let us pass please. We are going to the polls to help you and save the day. And we’ll come back just as good as we were when we wept and we wouldn’t be surprised if you are not better because of it.

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All this cry about school teachers not getting enough pay seems extravagant is another of my opinions. Why bless your soul, the school teacher has the best time of any of the professions. They only have to work five hours a day, five days in the week and anywhere from seven to 10 months in the year and the rest of the time they can do what they please while all the rest of us have to keep our jobs from Monday morning until Saturday night, from the first day of January until the first day of January and all our expenses to carry along as we do it. So it seems to me that considering the amount of time and money invested, the school teacher is well paid.


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