New-York tribune., 1911-11-17
|CALLS WOMEN IMMORAL
| WHO STAY At HOME
Those Who Remain by FireSide
Untrue to Motherhood, Says
Professor Zueb|in.
MUST SHARE IN POLITICS
Day Past When Feminine Sex
Could Sit by Hearthstone and
Leave Civic Progress to Men,
Educator Declares.
LRv Telegraph TO The Tribune. |

Philadelphia, Nov. 16-"So long as i'm
morality haunts itself on every side, vice
and disease hold their grip on the social
fabric and corruption is rampant in our
city halls and legislative chambers,
woman cannot remain true to her
motherhood and stay secluded in the
home"
This was the substance of startling
address made by Professor Charles
Zueblin, formerly professor Of sociology
at the University of Chicago, before the
University Extension Society i'm Wither-
women applauded vigorously. A num-
! ber OF others. however showed their dis
approval by keeping silent. Further on
he said:
No woman in America can stay a. home
ana be a good mother. The days when
Won%n could sit by the hearthstone and
leave the direction OF political and social
progress to men have passed. The quicker
selves, their families and the country.
The ''old-fashoned" woman is not only
out OF place I'm tie old world Of to-day, but
is immoral II is argued that mother be-
I
their side i'm the home. She does belong 10
| the children. But how is she to safeguard
their water, milk and food supply IL she
never leaves the fireside?
Not even the most rabd anti-suffra gist
dares to say that women lack sufficient in
tellgence to vote. Nearly all our civic
leagues are manned by women. They are
doing the work left undone by men. They
are devoting more time and thought to
civic and social problems than men, In
| fact the political platforms drawn up by
the National Federation of WOmen's Clubs
are twenty years ahead of anything ever
proposed by the great parties.
! Professor Bueblin devoted much OF his
time to a discussion of what constituted
democracy. Few words in the English
language, he said were so misunderstood
in America. He asserted democracy was
not a faith but a superstition in this
country. and that cities in England were
more democratic in their form of gov
ernmeht than any in the United States.
Continuing, he said:
The best definition of democracy we have
is the one given by Lincoln. "a govern"
r.ent of the people, by the people and for
the people. such government is nom
existent In America. You people of Penn
sylvania never even approach Il, though
the recent upturning I'm Philadelphia was
most hopeful sign that the desire is there
Democracy I'm its highest estate means
liberty. equality and fraternity in every re-
latiOn OF life. But not even Missionaries of
the most pronounced type can foresee such
realization of their dreams within the
coming century. II will take long years Of
education. We must get It in a modified
form. such as liberty for the worker In
his work. equality of citizens in their citi-
zenship and fraternity In existing condition
IN America.
Our whole industrial system is. the
greatest foe OF individual liberty The
worker is denied the opportunity OF ex-
pressing his personality in his work
Manual workers have less liberty than the
mental. When a man is constantly bossed
and ruled by controlling mind In the fac
tory, how can we expect him to exercise
independent judgment at the polls?
The work performed by our high
schools Is farcical Students are turned
out of them with only the rudiments OF
culture and totally unfit for any useful
work Unless our schools soon begin TO
give us students trained to use their hands.
eyes and minds in inventive or creative
work, and with a sound, rounded and COM
plete culture, America will never be able
to compete successfully with Germany for
the trade of the world.
One Of the greatest sources of waste OF
human energy i'm America is the effort to
III square pegs I'm round holes. Boys and
girls are constantly getting into wrong
occupations. A job is not the goal OF life,
but a right Job Is. We must have voca-
tional bureaus as we'll as employment
bureaus