The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-22
TAYLOR'S ADVICE.
Urges Students to Enter s. Set
Element Work.
Tells Them That They Owe 1t
to Society.
HERE FOR RECRUITS.
Makes a Scholarly Address at
Washburn.
Well known for His Work for
the L0wly.
HERE FOR RECRUITS.

Df. Grdndm IaylOr OF 'CflcagO COM |
mons,' has opened recruiting station |
at Washburn for the purpose of secur- |
ing student volunteers to enter the slum
work at Hull House, Chicago. He is
spending three or four days in Topeka. |
and is doing personal soliciting among
the students. At 4 O'Clock this after
noon he has arranged to meet any stu
dents who wants to make social reform
their life work
DIR. Taylors address at Washburn last
night was largely an appeal to the stu
dents of the college to offer their SER
vices in this work. His subject was in
regard to the debt which an educated
man or woman owes to society, and he
claimed that this debt could only be
paid by helping the downtrodden and
oppressed. Dr.. Taylor made a forcible
appeal, and it is believed that quite a
strong following for the Chicago Com
mons idea will develop among the stu
dents.
Henry F. Burt, graduate of Wash
burn in the class of 1899, is now en-
gagged in this work, and was referred to
in very complimentary terms by DIR.
Taylor last night. Mr.. Burt has charge
of the boys work in the slum district.
He is known as the Boys Boss of the
Seventeenth ward"
THE only trouble is thet ! am afraid
1 can't keep him with US said Dir. Tay-
Tor. He is making such a reputation
as a leader of boys that he is certain to
be called to broader fields of work.
have wholesale orders for social workers
coming in all the time. We can't train
men and women fast enough. We are
sending them out all the time to accept
positions Of trust and responsibility as
leaders of social reform movements
DR.. Taylor in this way made it evil
dent that A student would not neces-
sarily sacrifice his chances for advance
ment and self-improvement by entering
the slum work as training course"
Chicago Commons is a large build
ing at Grand avenue and Morgan street
Chicago. According to the prospectus of
the institution for the winter of 1SO2-'oS
which distributed to the audience
last night. Chicago Commons is a
social settlement, located al the corner
of Grand avenue and Morgan street. Ii
was founded in May. 1894, and is the
home of a group of people who want to
share the life of the neighborhood, it,
comforts and disconforts, its privileges
and responsibilities, its political, civic
and personal duties and pleasures. They
offer their home as a social center for
the neighborhood, where they desire to
be friends. fellow citizens, neighbors."
The celebrated Jane Adams is the
founder Of Hull House and of the set
tlement movement. She it was who
first interested DR.. Taylor in the work.
He is a teacher at the Chicago Theo-
logical seminary, and now devotes much
of his time to the Commons work He
is the editor of THE Commons"
monthly paper published in regard to
the settlement work. Some of the things
which Hull House offers free of charge
to the residents of the slums are these:
Social clubs for men, women. boys and
girls, gymnasium and baths. choral
club, orchestra, instruction in all mu-
steal instruments, educational classes.
day nursery and kindergarten, public
library, penny savings bank, free nurse
in cases of sickness, manual training.
| cooking school, loom for weaving car
pets, mothers meetings. free lecture
rr
of music, speeches and pictures, open
house every Saturday evening, COM
munity club open every evening. neigh
borhood parlor and the free use of
rooms for private gatherings weddings
special meetings of trades unions, neigh
borhood organizations and churches
DR.. Taylor is a man of pleasing and
straightforward bearing, q. good voice
for public speaking, and a marked
ability platform story teller He
is restless and full of gestLNes; his eye
glasses are constantly beingf transferred
back and forth from his hand to his
nose, and We're it not for his magnetic
glance and incisive words. he would
make his audience nervous. His style
on the platform shows what he is-a
man of tireless energy, original ideas
and the mental and moral backbone
necessary Cor a reformer.
Leisure to learn is a privilege we do
not appreciate was the keynote of the
address. mo one ever pays for his ed
ucation Everybody else does. Who
built these walls? Not the scholar. but
the stonemason. the carpenter. the la
borer. Capital brings its money out of
the earth, but it does it by means of Ia
Dor 1t is the Iahorer that makes the
paper in the book. the laborer that
prints the pages binds it, and then puts
it into the hand of the scholar We who
do not have to labor by the sweat of
our brow do not appreciate the value of
leisure to learn. or the debt we owe TO
labor
Dr. Taylor spoke for about an hour
He announced, after making his plea
students, that he would like to meet any
who were inclined to investigate the ma
ture Of the work with the idea of en-
tering it, and said that he would be at
the residence Of the Rev. d. M. Fisk
today and Sunday. and at the college
office at 4 O'Clock this afternoon.
DR.. Taylor will preach at the First
Congregational church Sunday morn
/ ing.
DR. Taylor's address last night was
given at the close of a short programme
/ by the members of the Gamma Sigma
! Literary society. 1t was the evening of
the annual open meeting of the society.
/ but the programme was abbreviated in
/ The programme as rendered was as
follows:
Observation-Disclosures Scroggs, McGili,
Van DeMarI. Clark.
Declamation-N. r. Lands.
Original Poen-C. Zumwalt
Piano Solo-AEiss Rowena Bishop.
Readine-Imri Zumwalt-
Ouartette.