The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-11-13
WOMAN'S WORK
is TO UPLIf1
SOCIAL PURITY SUPERlNTENO'
EMIT SAYS WHAT HELPS THE
COM UNITY ALSO
HELPS THE HOME.

Z me real significance OF the Sfel
n unrest that prevades the atmosphere o.
I today is the emergence of woman int
$ the arena of world activities" said
Mrs. Leona ID. Field. superintendent
OF the social purity work of the Won
ans Christian Temperance Union, who
is in the copper country in the inter-
Iests Of this cause. this morning. Mrs.
Field viii address a meeting Of the
Calumet women and girls over sixteen
Iat the Y. NJ. {. A. this afternoon.
Woman has BY slow processes that
lhave wrung her soul I'm agony come to
the knowledge that her duty to her
family and her home means her duty
TO the great human family and the big
round world. that the world should be
la larger home i'm which the human
family may safely trust ana live, work
ing out generation by generation a
higher destiny" continued Mrs Field.
Woman has not of her own accord
come out from that beautiful ideal
the kingdom called home, with its love
and protecting care thrown around her.
Man throughout recorded history has
lreigned superior in the business world
and by arrogating TO himself these
rights and privileges has accordingly
excluded woman from any share in the
shaping Of the policies governing com
lmerclal and industrial life
Man is Short Sighted.
yet so short-sighted has our well
.intentioned brother been in his mad
rush for wealth that he has, one by
one, taken the home occupations of
women and commerCialized them, put
ting them into the shop and the var
ious business enterprises.
"Woma.. has followed her woman's
work out into the busy marts of trade
and today five million women are wage
earners, and men have learned woman |
Is no mean competitor either in eff |
cheney or endurance.
With the experiences that have |
come to woman through the business
world and the larger opportunities of |
she is claiming as her right |
a voice in all that pertains 20 the well |
fare of the nation. She has acquired |
a world vision and looks out with |
growing apprehension upon the picture |
she secs. with it's business intrigue and !
dishonesty, its political corruption anu |
It's social impurity. And she is going |
about in her womauly way to clean |
house. She is asking for clean streets |
beautiful parks and Fairgrounds. pure |
food ana sanitation everywhere. and !
the prohibition of the liquor traffic that
breeds only crime. poverty and vice.
she pleads FOR laws protecting !
childhood against the greed and graft |
of employ ers. she asks for the enforce
mcnt OF the best laws on the statute !
b oks as Wen as The worst-and here !
she meets the great injustice that has
been done her sex.
Classed AS A Lunatic.
For in seeking TO eradicate existing
evils she comes up against the ada
mantine-like wall of mems political
machinery She finds that whereas man
has in the home called her an angel,
in politics he classes her with Grim
inals and lunatics and when she has
tried To play the part of a cross be-
tween an angel and an idiot, she has
hopelessly failed in both.
Consequently she is asking today
that she be given equal political rights
with men. She bears equal burdens,
pays equal taxes and suffers equally in
the violation Of law.
she recognizes the danger OF fur
Their encroachment of the poly gamou.s
teachings of Mormonism, but she is
not one whit so alarmed over Utah
Mormonism as over the kind Of Nor
mOnism we have right here in the state
Of Michigan The handmade double
standard of purity that has maintained
IN social life, through all the ages. one
standard of morality for men and an
other for women. has resulted in the
moral cess pool of today.
Present Day Evils.
THE white-slave traffic, the house of
shame, the social impurity and the con-
sequent diseased condition of human
that are being directed against these
entrenched evils by the consecrated
womanhood of the nation.
And to this end there are organized
societies of women, Womans Clubs,
Purity Leagues, Civic Improvement
Clubs, ld-Study clubs. temperance
societies, etc, ETC., all working together
for education. purity, justice, mercy
and temperance, remembering always
that that which helps and benefits the
individual also uplifts the community
life and any influence that tends To de-
stroy character and debauch in the in
dividual is demoralizing to the COM
munity.
c. G. n. TRAINER KILLED.