The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-17
THE CITY REAPS
CERTAIN BENEFIT
SOCIAL SETTLEMENT WORK NOT
FOR. sLUMs ALONE.
Professor Graham Taylor Tells How It
TIas Helped Neighborhoods Of Bet
ter Glass, and Thru Them, Cities
The Relative Positions Of Labor and
the Church.

Professor Graham Taylor, who is
visiting Minneapolis, emphasizes the
idea that social settlement work is not
slum work and that with notifications
to suit the local requirements is quite
as applicable to prosperous suburban
ters, the only difference being that the
people of greater means are better
able to supply their own needs, If they
are shown the way and have leader
ship.
CAR industrial residence district, I
think, affords the best field for settle
ment, such as is found in the vicinity
of Bethel in Minneapolis, and such as
we have surrounding the Commons in
Chicago said Professor Taylor, who is
quite familiar with Minneapolis locali-
ties, conditions and settlement workers.
''The present field Of Bethel I consider
very good, altho perhaps more Salts
factory location could be secured in the
same neighborhood.
"The idea is to form neighborhootl
! center for meeting and an interchange
of values between people who would
otherwise have no natural point of con-
with varied classes Of society gives the
individual a larger share in the race
life. This is quite as much true of the
privileged class in settlements as those
of less opportunities. Even Jane Adj.
dams has been made much bigger
woman by the relations into which the
settlement has brought her.
Cementing Neighborhoods.
"The underlying idea of settlements
is an educative force applied by socia
contact. The means employed is per
sonal relations rather than organiza
tion and the institutional idea. Part
of the charm of settlement life is thai
it is not highly organized and retain:
the zest that comes Nfrom persona
initiative and spontaneous work.
"Neighborhoods suffer from sense
of detachment and one Of the problems
center of city life, that they may fee
the force of it's movement and join ii
with it. The settlement becomes a cen
ter OF civic cooperation, generator
of public spirit. It lis place to heai
up all kinds of beneficial plans. Thu
Commons is the meeting ground fol
All kinds Of betterment movements. pc
itlcal or legislative, as well as philan
thropical, sanitary. and educative. II
the recent campaign both candidate
for mayor of Chicago were entertained
at the Commons at supper by their re
spective adherents and addressed them
and it is a factor taken into considera
ton by all political candidates havin.
interests in the ward.
/ Benefit to City. '
Yesterday morning, at Plymouth
church, Professor Taylor spoke on tn
necessity for social settlement work an,
of the great benefit of it's work to tn
life Of the city. His address was an effec
tive introduction for the special ple
for aid in putting Bethel settlement o.
; Q substantial and permanent basis. Pro
fessor Taylor spoke of the settlement a
community feeling, making the cit
what it should be-a compact Of FAM
lies, "a kind of municipal househole
The seventeenth ward Of Chicago, i
) which Chicago Commons is situated
was formerly noted for it's isolated fee
ing, due in part to the mixture Of race
With civic center cultivating neigh
borhood spirit, this has been greatl
changed, and, from being one Of til
worst represented wards in the cit
politically, it is now well represente
and is one of the most independen
celebrates in the city.
;. Labor and Religion.
1nSas eE SPOKE last night
' "What There Is in Common Betwee
9 Organized Labor and Organized R,
+ ligion.'' This was in the main an e,
\ position Of the work Of the labor unions
i which, like the churches, stand for
: high, ideal Of living. The unions d,
j mand higher wages, that their member
d may live better, keep their children i
: school and keep their wives and mott
ers at home.
Professor Taylor favored the churc
!. giving greater attention. to the struggl
- ,, between labor and capital in order ths
it may aid as third party, represen
=, T. ing the public, whose rights are il
3 volved, in the solution Of labor pro1
= lens. He considered it the highe
duty of the church of today to ASST
I. tai. "a third party he remark Ike
) can often see things to which tt
representatives of the opposing ia
IL tions would be blind.''
e Professor Taylor will speak at Il
) meeting and supper of the Minnesot
d Congregational club at Plymouth chur(