The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-10-21
Bad Citizenship Of Good
Women
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pendent on the conditions of the whole
community And no home can be per.
feet until environmental conditions,
physical, moral and spiritual suv.
rounding it are perfected SO while
woman's task as a citizen is home.
making, it must be home making in its
broadcast sense. Rheta Childe Dorr.
in her interesting discussion of wo.
mans work says, home is not con.
tanned within the four walls of an in.
diyidual home HOME is the com.
munity. The city full of people is the
FAMILY The public school is the
real NURSERY"
If every individual home were per.
feet, there would be no need for the
great reform movements. but till that
ideal is reached, there is broad
field for women's labor
There are many great national
movements in which women are inter.
ested, working and accomplishing not.
able results. and when our good wo.
man who has been sitting al home re.
her citizenship indifferently
is aroused to some sense of her duty
as citizen, some OF these great ques.
tions of which she reads in her news.
paper and magazines, are apt to call
her. That is good, for the problem
of the sweatshop and child labor. the
fight for control of tuberculosis, the in
ternational peace movement, and Other
great questions of the age, cannot be
given too much aid They are deser
wing of the best effort of all citizens
But let not our good woman become
so absorbed in these problems that
she overlooks the crying needs al
her own door They do not so i'm
mediatoly affect her as defects near
er home. What is there in your own
town, your own street, perhaps YOU
own block, which needs correcting, i'm
proving or reforming? And whatevei
that ned is. be sure II requires your
interest and influence 10 bring il
about.
Has your city the best possible
water supply? Perhaps on no othel
one condition does the health of YOU
family and your community so mucl
depend. If you have no good water
what can be done about 1t? Do no
merely think about it, but talk abou
it. and do something.
Has your town perfectly conduct
ed sewer system? Is all garbage pro
perly disposed Of? Are all possible
means being taken 10 prevent tn
breeding of the house-fly? These ant
many other questions of sanitation ar,
of prime Importance If they are no
being looked after, whose fault is it
Yours if you are indolently leaving
for others 20 do DO not complai
because the city officials are not al
tending to all these matters. The
will do SO If the citizens really dc
mand It of them.
Are your schools all they might
if YOU and other good women of tn
town were interested in them an
working to help them? Are they trail
ing your boys and girls to meet tn
conditions of life? Is the daughte
learning the principals of homemal
ing and home-furnishing along wit
the other subjects OF the curriculum
Is your son being trained in the funC
amental principals of the industrie
of his community? Is he learning t
appreciate the dignity of labor? Is b
| learning to create with his own IL
diyidual efforts and to take pride
this creation? II not what can you
about Il?
Have you libraries and readin
rooms for the young people? Pla,
grounds for the children? Are you
Juvenile courts receiving all the hel
and encouragement you can giN
them? Are the streets of your cit
clean and well kept? Are they ;
beautiful as the community can a
ford to make them? Has the terrib
white slave traffic reached youI cor
munity? We have all recently bee
awakened to the fact that this awf
traffic in young girls has such no
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