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Show I The Responsibility of the Club Women H To the Young People of the Community By Mrs. Philip Warren Knisely before the Utah Federation of Women's Clubs in Annual Convention Today T- iffWK In the course of these twenty mln- IKmE.j utes I hope to purge your very souls TigBu with our rravi- responsibility to the 'mA young people of the community- With Dorothy Canfield Fisher I Join to say this bitter note of blame, that KH the U. S. povernment does nothlnp. . MM;. What docs she mean? What la the United States government? She sas i3gt' that tho United States government Is "VidaE you. I. the woman next dour, your WL aunt, my sister' M-fW There are some four million three hundred thousand rhlldren of kinder-' kinder-' JHL garten age four to six yeai-s of these StVm only about five hundred thousand are ; 'w receiving kindergarten training. The Vtl majority of parents who want kinder-! jRSjiRv garten training for their children can- "4fm- not afford to pay tuition ut private kindergartens. Heretofore the klnder-'"kEB klnder-'"kEB garten slogan has been, "Save the &BK Child" so It is still 'Save the child rv?5 . at Us most Impressionable age, from disorder, filth and possible crime, and-' i ' teach it elements of order, decency' ,1 ' and cooperation." As Me. McAneny has said: "JCedUCe the rases in our corrective cor-rective Institutions by starting the chll-JSjJJj chll-JSjJJj dren right. Better to pay to educate than to reform!" K MAKE A HOME. Beliee m when I tell you that my IV years have taught me flrht and fore most that sutrs for a woman la the ability to make ' perfect honin and 'iftcmi tr the needs physical and mental of her famlh irle; and when this is done, a glorious sun send-O send-O eth its light into all the world' ( believe in the progressive and nd- 2 vanclng women, but I believe the world can onl advance Be the woman demonstrates that she Is 11 home in.ik-er. in.ik-er. Or civilization rises and falls with the status of the homes. They are the I k nerve centers, and if they are diseased p goodby to the healthy bodj 4mI 1 have had opportunity the past ten gTV ysars ut watching iiii ambitious club B4H woman the type thai belongs to ev- is ery club, not able to concentrate with i?v t R flfflnitp- concrete interest of perfect- jlh, 4 lng herself along certain lines of study - -. 1 until she la really capable and Influen tial in the community I have seen her Ekflki Jerk her feet nervously while she SjuE l watches the time, and leaves before ! 'yfj, her obligation to the present meeting v. Is completed In common parlance, i-djit! "a Jack of all trades, a master of frBrof' none." Is she effective? Yes, for a 4BDbL "while. Is she strenuous? Yes. Can; -IHtV F,1C Jl"l&f right l ? No ("an she act skseV rightly? No This attempt to cover ,'wn ,nucM ground accounts for much IBf of the superficiality of our modern! oPtf club woman. It is far better to be honestly Ignorant than pretentiously' intelligent Ambitious programs arc the bane of many organizations for nK self-cultivation One must know the hlstor of his own time; one must read J-jjIH ! tr"' newspapers and magazines with discrimination but the men and wo-PBIHii wo-PBIHii men who wish to live the life of the mind must selei t those lines of read-ln& read-ln& and sturly which follow the lines Mp of their state and aptitude, choosing a few subjects which appeal to them. WOMEN'S CONTROL, i The qualities which give women control over themselves, their associates, associ-ates, and their business in life arc: Imagination, Invention. Judgment, OUrage, Justice, sympathy; the feeling for mass suggestion, the power or od- lustment, kindness, patience end idealism. ideal-ism. We accept, generally speaking, du-tli du-tli of the home, take precedence over duties of the church or of the state. Madame Guyon made a mistake w hen she left her home and children to devote de-vote herself tn religion. I si: OF SUFFRAGE. It is said duties never conflict. Suf-frnxe Suf-frnxe Is calling for the flr.ni tim the mass of women's attention, so far we i ih women huvo not made use of our opportunity We have not made our--selves acquainted with pending Issues nor have wo voted with our best Judfr-nu-nt. I intend now to ra 1 1 your attention at-tention to ' a World of Windows' and. Stsp bj stop lead you In orderly ad--vanccment of careful thinking ;ilong this road of deep social significance.1 Talcing it for granted that nil I'tah dub women are fulfilling the duties of the home and h:ne time to acqu lint themselves with the necessary issues of the day; the ones affecting our homes whether we be rich, middle class or poor- It la said the middle class is kept too busy earning bread and butter to be Immoral. It s the Irll rlh nnH tVir Sdlf noor nr-f-rllnir dlslnfecttion. I -n rn not judging either class bj thi Icious members of that I class. Honor, truth and well meaning are not special privileges of any group. I Most of our great literature of todas !has deep social significance. This evolution ev-olution has Keen going on in this country coun-try for a long time shaping the widespread wide-spread unresl that is now beginning to assume moic oi less definlti form. Society So-ciety has gone beyond the stage of l tching up, and woman must throw off the dead weight of the past, with its ghosts and spooks, if she is to go foot-free to meet the future; woman ;must be prepared in this period of reconstruction. re-construction. We must U8e every medium me-dium to arouse the intellectuals of the 'dub woman of this state, to make them realise their relations to the people, peo-ple, to the social unrest permeating the atmosphere. Recently I read a lecture lec-ture given by Dr. Hudson Maxim on ''Oo-operatlv o Conduct" which commands com-mands one to stop' look' listen! He applies the psychology of the peoples it this time and warns us to take heed for the sake of our children's children. JOBLESS WOMEN. War Is said to have destroyed the efficiency of women The present attitude at-titude of women toward work Is alarming It's not what she gUes In efficiency in exchange for mone but it Is th" demand of wages irrespective of what she has to giie Therv arc two kinds of the "Jobless woman, ' the one with the job on account of a bit of specialized training und the one without with-out a job because of no specialized (training. The latter needs thoughtful plat emenl lor it has been discovered 'that a good many with culture and I educational advantages have been lost I in the drifting because of no specialized special-ized training. Right here Is the need !of Ihe Community Service in our midst 'as its need is in every stage of social j welfare work. Their method of procedure pro-cedure is definite, concrete, where our 'organizations or societies' work is indefinite, in-definite, nebulous. Why can't wc as 'club women band together, keep efficiency ef-ficiency experts for the social ills of jour body politic? They are far more I valuable to mankind than the rich but i Idle dispenser of charity. The value ! lies in the uplifting influence this o-lelal o-lelal work has upon th spirits of the peoples of our community. Erect a Social Center with many clearing houses, each with a trained expert at the head and Utah shall stand foremost fore-most In the nation. Let this be the definite aim and program of every club w oman. 1 wish time would permit my reading read-ing or giving a resume of the literature litera-ture that I have read In this preparation prepara-tion that jou might feel with me the pulse of the uge as conveyed through these literary minds, censorship never arrives, but good constructive community commu-nity s-r ice does. The community center cen-ter is the civic doctor eradicating In time all civic Ills with Its economy, its service, its Americanization. If you read "The House of Bondage" by Reginald Regi-nald Kauffman you can't help but un- rierstand and take iit-eii. 1 inn tor twenty minutes read Wilier BynnetS'i one-act play, "Tiger. " It was only nl- lowed to be produced In Philadelphia,! .the reason Is self-evident. It was far too telling. It deals with the problem of different standards for man and I woman. There is only one standard I in the life of a home. The Padonna lis as essential as the Madonna. We , women w ho have the ballot as a civic1 'tool, what use are we making of this j privilege? Politicians are watching! .'this recent feminist movement Wet must establish tor ourselves an ideal-list, ideal-list, "a thrilling Ideal," and stop this ceaseless dissipating in everything i without a definite purpose, but just another committee meeting. Men do the same, there is no difference as to sex- I The lost woman s woven Into our social fabric until she Is a menace, i Woman gives as man demands re-' verse th tide man gives as woman devises. If we solve or partly solve, by a community device the girl question; ques-tion; the boy question Is solved. EM I kL SER1 ICE In considering different organlza-, tlons sponsoring of social service work, there is one more than any other that should bring more force, more Intelligence Intelli-gence and thai Is the non-parochial ! 'State Federation of Women's Clubs' where neither politics or church dom- Inate Mrs. Jane Cunningham Croly had the vision when Hhe conceived the Idea of women banding themselves to gether. She fully sensed the future, the responsibility that vns to be wo men's I wish you might review with nn' '"The Dlury of a Lost One." (a translation from the German ) There can be no doubt that the diary Is a truthful record of tho actual life of a woman who has lived in the "'half-I "'half-I world. ' The pages pulsate with a fever of protest; With a longing Tor un-I un-I achieved reconciliation with the world of morality Now go with me to Jane ! una' The Spirit of the Youth of the Secret 'ity, and here we pausu for thought of our responsibility. A most recent novel causing comment is "Women's "Wo-men's Wild 1 ats." by Mrs C O. Hart-ley. Hart-ley. It Is most courageous and most Blncsre England and America, have D II '1 isovu-.slnK W It. Oeorge's "A Bed Ol Hoses. It's really been a sensa-LlOn. sensa-LlOn. H Is based upon George Bernard Ber-nard Shaw's play, "Mrs. Warren's Profession." This la the theme and Is taken from the play, '"It's Not Work Thai Any Human would do for Pleasure. Pleas-ure. ' goodness knows though, to hear the pious women talk you would suppose sup-pose it was a ' bed of roses." Last, bul not least, the books, "My Little Sister" and "The Girl Who Dlsap-pesrs," Dlsap-pesrs," a report of the chief of the New York Clt police force. These books have been condemned by some superficial minds, for their frankness; but they have been equally praised by the large majority of thoughtful read-ars read-ars who recognize in these wonderful human documents which must exert Vast influences through the great moral lessons conveyed, They are bound to arouse the most serious thoughts among club women with their terrible pictures of life stirring to the depths the hearts of their read-i read-i rt I hey will compel the grave attention at-tention of every humanist who Inquires In-quires into social conditions E ery normal thinking", grown-up man or woman wo-man must read them We must edu-uppn edu-uppn this basic life principle tin sexual problem Girls: Bos in this far-reaching attempt at democracy of i i Thc3 just have s -ghost of a i h ince. That Is all There Is no re-pi re-pi lor of class distinction, fter this study I am more convinced we are not here to Judge, it's our "place to discriminate, dis-criminate, to act; to bring about every Instrument of social service to efface such a condition. SOCIAL NEEDS. Environment and inheritance have established for each of us certain fun-j damentalfl which are not mutually understandable. un-derstandable. Think of the young woman wo-man groping in the dark trying to find an outlet for these emotions She wishes to be lifted out of the muddy stream society has cast her in. She wantfl opporlunilv. Sh( does not want sympathy. She does not want charity It's Inspiration she wants, It's inspiration inspi-ration that males for opportunity. She wants an outlook to recreate the wasting tissues of her soul, the worn fiber of her brain, to recreate the zest and couragt for life. She Is hungry for nourishment for her soul, euger for an outlet for her emotions. She never has realized the meaning of a home or possibly she is without a home only temporarily. Make It for her' Place at the head an expert who is equal to recreating the souls of women. wo-men. Keep the hearth fire burning Fit out the rooms simply and articti-cally articti-cally with a bit of color suitable to youth The work day has been drab with never a splash of color. She must come home to the Joyous, the recreative atmosphere that Is heartwarming. heart-warming. The New York Times said In a reel re-el nt article; ' Five hundred applications applica-tions In four houses accommodating sixty." "New homes to help sol- e the problem prob-lem of living plan s for girls and women wo-men earning moderate salaries are being be-ing provided for bj the Association for Providing Proper iiouslng for Qirls, which has taken three houses at 108 East Thirtieth street, which Is opened the first of this month. These houses will accommodate sixty girls. Before ih. . were op.s five hundred girls had; applied. The houses arc run In con-1 nectlon with a club house belonging to the association on the opposite side of the street, whore meals are served, the cafeteria In the middle of the day being open to outsiders. "An officer of the bureau of bonrrllnj.-housea bonrrllnj.-housea for girls, maintained by the association, as-sociation, whleh was formerly at 11 West Thirty-seventh street. The bureau bu-reau aids the girls out of town coming . Into the city to find a suitable home.! w ith information aj to vacancies md I prices, it charges a nominal fee of 16 cents, which Is remitted to girls earn-; lng less than six dollars a week. "About the first of October the as-1 soclatlon will open three more houses1 as boarding houses on Macdougal' I street. Quests at these houses must be under thirty and earning less than $35 weekly." CI1 IC ILLS. Accepting these conditions, fiow are we club women to eradicate these civic i ills'' . Toddlers' Nursery In ever community for one. two und thn years old. Placing children in homes and not Institutions Dorothy C. Pisher In September Pictorial Magazine makes a plea for the Illegitimate child She takes exception and sayy there are no j illegitimate children, just illegal father and mother. France does not scorn these little ones as we Americans who throw them into tho scrap heap France makes them Into useful citizen-' N Isltlng teachers, (class teachers have more than their share New York hjus started it and even a country so remote us IndSu has sent representatives representa-tives to learn the details of visiting teachers. She is the inn of the School extended into the home to draw the school and the home together for the benefit of the child. It Is her work to establish friendly relations sMth the homes of these children who exhibit the first symptoms of falling below the school standards in scholarship and conduct. She uses every means to make the child's surroundings a help rather than a menace to his educational progress She also brings back to the school an account of the individual ehufnctorlstlcs which intimate acquaintance ac-quaintance with the children has shown to exist and reports upon such of the social comlitlons as indicate the district's general educational needs The visiting teachers have proved again and again in the past that by obtaining ob-taining cooperation in the child s home and by giving the teacher at the same time a better understanding of his environment, en-vironment, so that methods of bis particular needs can be adopted, the most Improving child can not only be ;. pt from the Juvenile courts but maj bo developed into a potential good citizen. citi-zen. Nl W YORK TIMES ILLl STH ATIOX. "We recently had the case of a Polish Pol-ish girl who was brought from the country by her aunt. She was never entered In any city school, but the aunt came into the school office and demanded working papers. When reins., re-ins., i ghe sal,i she could not keen the girl, and the only course seemed to be for the child to go out on the Strei Is and become a beggar. The visiting teacher finally got the aunt to take a place as Janltress and place the girl in school and she Is now attending at-tending the school Irregularly, apparently appar-ently a truant The visiting teacher found that there was no mother, no woman at all in tho house, only males. The father refused cooperation, asserting assert-ing It was the business of the girl to take care of the younger children at home and keep care of that home ("nnrl Hrtlniw n lir.. ni.rrvunrv in Ihk case, but tho visiting teacher finally succeeded in having a housekeeper hired and the children wen- kept in school." More than 160 principals have pledged themselves to the support of the committee, which la working for the addition of visiting teachers. In the report to th0 board of education asking that this be Included In the budget for the coming year a request for fifty visiting teachers has been made This will provide one for each district, a really small supply, for in mans of the congested districts numbers num-bers of the committee maintain that a visiting teacher is needed for each school. Mrs. Joseph Swann Is the chairman of the educational committee commit-tee of the Women's C?ity club, and has been extremely active In the work. .New York even has "'A Spooning Parlor" where girls and boys may enter en-ter and spend the evening With playgrounds as a beginning for leisure. The Community Serice bureau of pageantry and dramatics. (With clearing house for information informa-tion as to available plays, scenery, costumes, cos-tumes, and lighting, as well as directors, direc-tors, coaches, designers, costumers and lecturers at the disposal of the various community play house drama study, clubs and producing groups which are scattered through the country. 200 in number.) This service bureau is ready to furnish fur-nish help to any group or committees who contemplate in si Uv part in tor-centenary tor-centenary celebration. It looks most hopeful for us to bring about a healthful health-ful condition to hc had for the asking So club sisters It's up to you, to me. to be fulfilling our responsibility to the young peoplo of the community. We must create clearing houses of service, serv-ice, economy and Americanization " Americanization means more than the aliens standing at attention when the American flag passes by or when the American anthem Is sung, it means more than his learning to read and write the English language- It means giving the right to start life to every alien, as to every native born child; so that they may become true citizens; and it also means giving to the child's parents a sounder citizenship fiber." There is not one moment of women to censor. "Christ came not to destroy, de-stroy, but to fulfill " The social service serv-ice must be clothed in brighter garments gar-ments and their splendor will be dynamic dy-namic and not anaemic. Its real splendor splen-dor would bo recognizvd by the splendor splen-dor of Its expression. Ono of Carlyle's wise sayings in "Past and Present" Is this. "How can a man without clear vision In his heart first of all. have any clear vision In the head?" Impossible. Let us try-to try-to remove all Jealou.vdes between women. wo-men. Find always the key woman who understands leadership under whom every department will work Women must determine what Justice Is botwoen man and man. P'or this she must have a clear note of the principles of Justice Please, I beg of you. go forth creating cre-ating a better state. Save the child for the state of Utah. |