Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 173, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1912 — Man's Usefulness. [ARTICLE]

Man's Usefulness.

Mrs. Edward R. Hewitt, president of the Woman’s Municipal league, was discussing in New York the movement for cleaner streets. “Now that women have gone in for cleaner streets,” she said, “we’ll probably get them. Don’t mistrust woman’s influence. It Is everywhere at work.” Then, with a smile, Mrs. Hewitt uttered this epigram on her sex’s behalf. "Few are the men who would have reached the top of the ladder if their wives hadn’t steadied It for them.”