El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-06-09
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
SCORED BY BRANDEIS
Problems of Workers Dis
cussed at Boston Char
tiles Conference.

in America was heavily scored Dy Louis
D. Brandefs of this city in an address
| on s'Workingmen's InSurance,-Ihe
| Road to Social Efficiency" before the
| national conference Of Charities anu
| Correction here.
Mr.. Brandeis said in part:
American democracy rests upon the
basis of the free citizen. Politically
| an American workingman is free-so
| far, as laws can make him so--but Is
he really free, can any man be really
| free who is constantly in danger OF
! becoming dependent for mere subslst-
| ence upon somebody and something else
! than his own exertion and conduct
/ Men are not free while financially De
pendent upon the will OF other lnaivlo-
uals. Financial dependence is consist
ent with freedom only where the claim
| to support rests upon right and not
| upon favor.
| Il Everybody recognizes the fire in
s,1rance premium as a current expense,
and yet the chance OF loss by fire. IS
very slight rs compared with the
chance of loss to man by sickness
accident or premature death. Every
Intelligent manufacture makes in
some form a regular charge for de-
probation of machinery and plant, ane
vet the depreciation of a man through
invalidity and APPROXIMATION is no
less certain and frequently more Sc
we're than the depreciation OF machln-
cry Every intelligent manufacturer
| recognizes rent interest and taxes as
a current daily charge which eontin-
ues although his plant is shut down
or operating at less than full capacity
but the cost to the employer OF car
rying an unused plant is not as great
relatively as the cost to the employe
of carrying himself and family while
| unemployed"
Standard Working House.
Fatigue in men and women IS not
a. nhilanthropie or sentimental fiction,
it is a chemical fact according to
Miss Josephine Goldmark, publication
secretary Of the National Consumers
league, who addressed the conference
this morning on Standard Working
Hours"
In the lives of working people"
said Miss Geldmark, ~no single factor
counts as much for good or i'll as the
length and regularity of their work
ing hours. Even such important mat
tiers as wages, housing and insurance
are subordinate. No reform. no bet
torment, is as important as the ADJUST
ment of work to human effort All
| the possibilities Of life, the workers
whole plane of existence, rises and
falls with his scale of time expendi-
ture."
Miss Go1dmark made a special plea
for more definite laws in the other
states and especially laws which will
protect workers in such occupations as
laundries, telephone exchanges, can
! neries, restaurants. candy stores, ice
cream saloons and department stores
Mrs. BacOn's Address.
That women are beginning to learn
| the ropes in getting laws through
C$o 70 1oO 1af demon
/ before the section on Housing,
Health and Recreation" here this
morning by Mrs Albion Fellows Ba-
con OF Evansville, Ind, who has be-
come known all over the country as
the author OF Indiana's housing law.
Two things are needed in every
state" said Mrs. Bacon. 'one is the
faith of the prophet In Indiana we
count our success due to our prayers
more than to our hard work. The
other is the vision of the prophet.
| a vision Of the filth and sin, the alb
| omination of desolation' of our cities
| and above that, a vision Of the City Of
| Shining Beauty where there is no sick
ness nor crime nor eontagion. where
/ the streets are clean and it Is always
| light"
Miss Garrett ON Children.
That children should early be
| taught the facts of procreation and
, sex hygiene was the burden of an
! address by Miss Laura B. Garrett Of
New York before the section on chill
/ dren this morning Today great
scourge of physical and moral degra-
| dation," said the speaker, lis sweep
/ ing over our land because we in ig-
| norance have not grasped the situa-
ton but we foolishly expect purity
in our people when they have been
improperly taught from babyhood-
Today doctors and laymen are organ
| izing into societies whose object is TO
study the prevention and the cure of
! the socal1ed Great Black Plague The
best means OF prevention. legislative,
moral and social, are being studied
and employed The enlightenment of
! the public respecting the social evil
and the education OF the young must
be accomplished by all working to-
gether.''
DIR. McCrea's Address.
DR.. Roswell c. McCrea, associate
philanthropy, in discussing the pro-
fessional school for social workers.
said. the lawyer or doctor or engineer
| who cannot refer to his law or medical
college or his school Of engineering is
exceptional. Indeed it is disparaging
not to be able to do so. The growth
| in specialization in recent decades has
made necessary the professional or
| technical school. Social work is per-
haps the newest of professional spec
| ialties and the schools for the train
| ing of such workers are In their in
fancy, yet developments IN this field
| have rapidly paralleled those in the
| older fields and the educational prob
J lens appearing in schools of philan-
thropy are in large degree a recapitu-
| lation OF those that have been met and
J are being met in other professional
schools. The social worker needs to
interpret activities that come from
| study of the larger BEARINGS of social
| life and social movements
Cleveland has been selected by the
national conference of charities and
corrections as the meeting place of the
next convention. Seattle, Detroit, Mil
waukee and Fort Worth made strong