The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-05-20
WOULD ELIMINATE POLITICS
IN CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS

81 IOuis, MO-, May ZU.-lne eilIn-
ination of politics in the appointment
of state governing boards of cnarita-
BILE institutions was strongly advocat-
ed during the discussion of the ad-
ministration of homes for the poor
and Unfortunate before the general
session of she National Conference of
Charities and Correction.
st. Louis. May 19.-Jane Addans,
head of the Hull House Settlement,
at Chicago, and president of the con-
ference, in her address expressed the
opinion that pAilanthropists are ap-
preaching greater uniformity in their
aims. their studies and their methods
of dispensing charity
Dividing the great body of philan-
thropists into two groups. the Chari.
table, actuated by pity for the poor
and the Radicals, fired by hatred of
justice" Miss AddaSns declared that
both are coming to realize tlat the
world needs a certain power of COM
passion in our social atmosphere.
Sheer experience in the complex
ity of life has at last united both
groups in sentiment as well as in con-
viction," said Miss Addams "The mega
even, the more generous one of pre-
venting it. is giving way to the posi-
tive idea of raising life to its highest
value
IF at times, the moral fire seems to
be dying oait of the good old words
relief and CHARITY. it has undoubtedly
flied with & new warmth certain
words which belong distinctively to
our own times. such words as proven
ticn. amelioration and social Justice"
Miss Addams declared that the
charitablv inclined person seeking
legislation, must. to be effec-
tive be armed with more than senti-
mental zeal: they must appear as mea
of science, armed with statistics to
support -heir pleas.
Speaking of women who must sup
port themselves and children, Miss
Adams said that when the woman
was unable to do so, the state furn-
ished home for the young ones. II
the rcaildren are to be boarded, the
speaker asked, why not with their
mothers?
Many illustrations" said Miss Ad
| dams, "are possible of social advanc-
/
the Charitable. but for our purpose.
| nothing illustrates this more rapidly
and graphically than the changes
arising them the movement to control
and eradicate tuberculosis. We can
quite honestly instance the demand
for a more generous feeding of the
healthfiIl members of the family
which is arising from the proper feed
/ ing OF the tuberculosis patient"
Miss Addans asserted that an obli-
| cation rests upon the charity and COT
rection people to discover now many
/ OF their burdens come to them as the
results Of social neglect, remedial in
capacity, and lack of industrial safe
guards. She instanced an American
white lead factory, where, she said ev-
erv workman is discharged at tae end
of three months, not for faulty work.
but to prevent the men from develop
ing lead poisoning.
"T-,is is, of course, cheaper than to
employ examining physicians or to
install safeguards commented the
speaker. She told OF pottery factors
where she said men are chiefly en-
gagged who are already afflicted with
tuberculosig and cancer. because
knowing they have but little time to
live, they do not protest against the
fate Of :eae poisoning.
"Taree hundred years ago, John
Bah looking out over England tells
us tnat ne saw the great treadine
down the little, the strong beating
down the weak. and cruel men fear
ing not, and kind men daring not. AID
wise men caring not and then. with
heart burning within hi.n. he cries