The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-10-11
DIR. LEE HEARD
THIS AFTERNOON
SAYS EXECUTIVE WOMAN is
GOOD HoME-KEEPER. CAUSES
OF SOCIAL UNREST DIS
cUssED LAST NIGHT.

Women's activity I'm the business
world does not tend To wreck the
home but rather strengthens IL, If the
woman works through necessity de-
clared DIR. Guy Carleton Lee in his
lecture this afternoon on THE Soul
Of a Woman" at the Red Jacket Con-
church under the auspices
of the Calumet Associated Charities.
The lecturer first gave a historical
sketch of the progress of women from
the earliest times up to the present.
Women's influence in working reform |
was pointed out by the speaker as be- |
ing a great power for good
Admitting the adaptability of wom-
en- in business life and in the work
of REFORM" said DIR. Lee, eve still as
sert that for the great mass of wom-
en- destiny does not lie i'm the marts
of trade nor upon the platform.
Home For Mission.
"The mission of the average woman
IL to be home maker, as ii Is the
mission of the average man To be
home provider and supporter Yet. ex-
alting the home as / do, l do not for
moment accept the views of alarmists
who cry. 'Womans activity in bust
ness affairs is wrecking the home!
| believe that the increasing executive
ability of woman tends to benefit the
home. Granting to women the privi-
| lege OF earning their own living has
resulted in more homes and In hap
pier ones But, while | rejoice In the
strength and independence which has
given to women the power of support
ing themselves, yet l earnestly con-
tend that 1t is unwise and improper
for a married woman to accept bu-
siness position when her husband Is
capable of providing her with
home, be il ever so humble. lndulg-
ence in such custom is deleterious
TO family life, and l take my stand
as being violently opposed to anything
that tends to the destruction of the
sweetness of home.
All Are in Danger.
To-day it behooves every good man
and every good woman to stand guard
over the American home, for danger
threatens il which is almost entirely
unknown to the good women of the
land. l say you-and l know l speak
for every clean and virile woman, ev-
cry true student of history say, be-
ware of those who decry marriage;
for even though they may not realize
it, they are endangering the virtue OF
5 Four women, the morality of the state
| the integrity of the nation. Beware
> of those who sneer at the love of man
2 for they are attacking the greatest
human power for righteousness Shur
r those who would teach woman false
\ idea of wifehood and motherhood, FOL
e these false prophets, while pretending
to strike shackles from the limbs o.
[ woman, are dealing her the blows o
q poisoned weapon. whose viruelence
= eating its way like loathsome cance
g into the very heart of womanhood
: shall in the end destroy the very foun
dation of the great structure or civil
e zation."
d DIR. Lee will lecture this evening a
: the Red Jacket Congregational churcl
n on 1.-The Strength of the People
e America Like Ancient Rome.
n The evils that appeared in Rom
= and caused its downfall are now to b
u found in the United States, accordin
to DIR. Lee, who spoke last night o
'e when the People Wake" The lectur
also was given under the auspices {
. the Calumet Associated Charities, 9
: the Red Jacket town hall.
IS DR.. Lee, who has been successful q
IS an editor. historian, writer of book
e and student of humanity, meets cor
= ditions as he sees them and not as b
thinks they ought to be. He know
how to sympathize with men an
women. During his career he Ina
written forty-five books on literatur
A. has Just finished the 10th volume
nj his History of America" has receive
TT scholarship in three universities, d'
l. livered several hundred lectures al
n. been editor of several large rallies
l. zone who studies present social col
n ditions realizes that the people a
or troubled; that waves of emotion pa
n over the great popular heart and ST
I'd it to its depths, said DR.. Lee. TT
~ people murmur at-they knew n
what They resent conditions they a
unable to understand. If you were
!. look into the hearts of the ignorai
=, the poor and the suffering; into Z
minds of those who are unwilling
unable to work, you would realize tn
there is a different world than your
you would grasp more successfully I
tremendous problems that, confro
the nation.
Cause Of Unrest.
There are thousands OF causes I
unrest and discomfort, but they m
be divided into four catalogs. Il
first cause is envy and jealousy; I
second. dlstrust; the third. antago
ism. and the fourth, materialism.
you all know a dear old friend
mine-he died just 2.332 years age
his name was Aristotle. This wi
old Greek gave us rule-a rule th
has been proved true thousa
times, a rule that is well worth yo
remembering. Here 1t is: Natio
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