Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-19
Some Social Results.

Before coming here she visited relatives
In st. Louis and lectured in Kansas City
on Social Results Of Charitable Effort"
which was the theme Of last nights dis
course, under the supervision of the Chi
cago university and the auspices Of the
teachers.
In her Democracy and Social Eethics"
Miss Adams wrote that 1.-THE great difA-
Guilty we experience in reducing to action
our imperfect code of social ethics arises
from the fact that we have not yet learned
to act together and find it far from easy
to fuse our principles and aims" Last
night she related the work that has been
done (under her inspiration and guidance,
1t may be parenthetically added in the
slums of Chicago toward overcoming such
difficulty.
She declared that the poor, formerly OBJ
jects on which the good might bestow
charity are now appreciated as having
something to teach; that single exaggerated
cases of physical suffering muse cease to
occasion an expenditure Of sympathy which,
II rightly directed, would cleanse a whole
tenement and put its occupants to assisting
themselves; that the nation loses by the
condition of want among the poor In that
the latter should be taxpayers and sup
porters Of their old and diseased; that child
labor should be discouraged not solely be-
cause OF the detriment to the child but
the detriment to its degenerate posterity
and hence to the nation; that the state,
burdened with responsibility for the child
rem has a right to dictate to abusive en-
ployers some Of the conditions under which
the young and adults shall labor; that
prudence, that old value of saving SO long
associated with individuals, is now wisely
beginning to be exercised by entire COM
munities;" that "the sense of solidarity
has become a distinct social force manifest
ing itself in groups Of people as the Con-
sumers' league, which is the outgrowth Of
a realization OF the need of protection"
that there are twenty-six factories now
using the Consumers league label, a guar
antee that the work Of garment making is
not done in sweat shops.
Put Down Mock Sentiment.
Her life work and hobby, the Social set
Element" is IAN attempt to put down mock
ing sentiment and to reach people through
sympathetic contact and see things as they
really exist that the efforts Of Canon
Barnett and his original thirty Oxford
students who cleaned streets and improved
sanitary conditions in the slum %neighbor-
hood into which they moved, together will
the efforts of Bishop Ingraham who rented
play houses for the poor and furnished
them innocent amusement, now have fruit
in settlements in New York, Boston,
Philadelphia, Chicago and other cities, in
which settlements, Of which Hull house is
one, foreigners are taught to employ the
skill they used at home, children to honor
their parents for that skill; all TO seek for
the knowledge they most need, and Ameri-
cans to realize the possibilities OF a
quickened and encouraged foreign element
Of population.
Miss Martha Powell presented Miss
Adams, with the remark that introducing
her was more a matter of custom than of
necessity. At the conclusion Of the lee
ture the speaker conducted a general quiz,
making such clever answers 20 knotty
questions that she was frequently APP
plauded.
From $3.50 until IL o'clock a general re-
ception was held for Miss Adams. in the
parlors OF the church, under the auspices
of the Teachers Annuity and Aid associa-
tion. About 1000 invitations had been