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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