The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-01-14

we're given In response 90 rofi caiI.
Mrs. Gcarhat wa. chairman Of tn,
afternoon and most pleasing, and
instructive program was rendered.
| The subject In hand was The Effect
Of woman's Work In the Industrial
World
| !. Reading ITO labor Is TO Pray
by =. :. osgoodi by Mrs. w. o.
barnes.
2 Pappr-"The Entrance OF Woman
In the Industrial World" as a scciologi.
oiigical Question" by Mr.. Gcarhart
| .. Reei,ation-"Thc Song Of the
shirt" 7. Hood by Mrs. A. A. Finch.
T. 'Paper-"lIas tihe Increase Of Wo.
men In the Industrial World Deprived
Men Of Their Positions 7" by Mrs.
frcdha Graike.
). Reading An Extract on Work. by
Mrs. $. fillmore.
The whole schedule for the enter.
tainment was most thoroughly enjoyed
and especial PLEASURE was found in the
individual offerings Of the Mesdames
Gearhart aud Gratke
The entire theme contributed by Mrs.
Gearhart y here published. and that
Of Mrs. Gratke win appear in tomor.
row. issue, the demand on space today
precluding it, publication along with
that Of her colleague.
Mrs. Gesrhsart's Address.
"The Entrance Of Women In the In.
du.trial World as Sociological Ques.
ton"
"Just now magazine writers. editors
aud .cciologist. are spending deal of
ammunition on women In public life;
women IN club life-particularly are
they turning their batteries loose on the
sociological effects Of the entrance Of
women in the industrial world
"Some Of them assert without quail.
;cltion. that . decadence OF home lie.
dccrea,e in marriage. increase in di.
yoree, decrease in birth.rate as com.
pared 10 death.nte and increase Of
the social evil, are the results Of women
entering the business world.
President Roosevelt, In his hast mes
sage 10 Congress says these social eyils
are Ieoiucidcnt with the entrance Of
women in the world Of business.
"Yes. he says, IL is wosking change
and disturbance in the domestic and
social life Of the nation. and recon
mcnds that the government take step,
To secure scientific data, not only OF the
condition OF child labor, but Of working
women. as well. These data 10 form
u basis for legislation looking TO amel'
iorating the condition.
I'VE must have. he says accomP.
lishcd facts. and the adjustment to
factory conditions must be made; but
surely il can be made with less friction
and less harmful effects on family life
than now is the case. The whole mat
ter in reality forms one Of the greatest
sociological phenomenon OF our time; Il
is a social question Of the first import
ance. of far greater importance than
any merely political or economic qnes.
ton can be, and TO solve it We need
ample data.
Before just Judgment, as i is look
ed upon from the limited standpoint
can be made, there must be a eompre-
hensiye understanding OF all sociology |
cal aud economic principles underlying
these conditions.
"We are standing too near the be-
ginning of this revolution to give the
results correct setting. There are
too many factors entering our complex
civilization to correctly judge the value
of one to the exclusion Of all other
factors.
There are those who quickly say
The woman is at the bottom Of II ALL
II has ever been so, since that little
episode In the Garden Of Eden, and
from the oldest literature of Egypt
and of Greece, every fall from grace
has been laid at woman's door. Not
long ugo clergyman of New York at
n Sabbath alliance convention, blamed
woman for the lax observance of the
Lords day. A thing absurd on the face
Of it. How would religious sentiment
be preserved Il not for the woment
"The plague Of poverty which has
fallen on so hrge a portion Of the Brit
ish islands Is laid, by one and antoher
in England to the extrava-
gance and idlcness Of women. Blamed,
Or exonerated. woman's power and in.i