The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-01-31
LECTURE ~ pa e
z. oevINE-
President Of United Charities. % Nee
York. Taken Through the Local
Industrial Piants.

II inoostftai Piants-
i Following a day in which he Was
not allowed an idle moment. DIR. Ed.
ward 7. Devine. editor OF The Sur.
vey. president OF the United Chair.
ties OF New York, professor OF
sociology at Columbia university. and
an authority on social service and
charity work. last night in a pleasing
and forceful manner addressed an
audience which filled the Elks' club
auditorium TO its capacity. The ad.
dress on Working Program for Social
Betterment. was one that will be
long remembered here and that will
likely result in an increased interest
in scientific social service.
II Dr. Devine arrived here at 10 -
yesterday morning from Pittsburgh.
and was met at the station by a re-
ception committee composed OF
MessSs. X. b. Naylor, Howard Hazlett.
W. s. Brady. DIR. {. 4. Wingerter. A.
r. Sinks and others. and after having
luncheon at the Fort Henry club was
taken for an automobile trip through.
out the city and environments.
II Considerable time was spent by the
party in the industrial sections and
then a visit TO the model Hill Top
farm was made. In the evening. Dr.
Devine was the honor guest at a
dinner party given at the home OF
Major and Mrs. +. W. Alstaetter in
Woodsdale. and he returned to Wheel.
ing In time to open the lecture at
80 y. m. the scheduled time.
n Dr. Devine spoke as follows:
II Divine Lecture.
10 atal
| Tor change as such. There is a conserv-
] awe as well as revolutionary social
| M"rk ~ he done. To destroy or TO con-
Stfuct may seem more heroic than To-
+! oppose impending changes or to main
/ tam EXISTING institutions; but the tru.St
s't ice OF the common good may lie in
I <uch conservative opposition To- radical
! policies Social workers are therefore
I TO lie found liz both camps insurcent and
sialwari. and there H. no consistency in
| thriI MUTUAL recognition OF their essen
tial kinShip.
| A generation ago one OF the last
piacS'. perhaps. from which one would
4 nave expected new view or social rela-
Tons To- come would have been the chart
I table societies. The charities of "A gen
GRAFTON ago were respectable. but W
tHiuly not radical or revolutionary They
! emphasized the old fas hioned virtues of
. thrii,. Temperance and Industry. They
.ah not over much sympathy with IN
! They fixed their attentions upon individ-
! ualS or families In distress and seldom
penetrated To "A CONSIDERATION Of social
conditions which might influence per
! S"nal character and the fate of the in
! dividuals. They did not compare notes
Ih-y dld not generalize except within
very narrow limits They were. IL not
exactly the ally. certainly often tn. sc-
| Compartment OF wealth and privilege.
! M"rkiiSmen looked askance at them.
, foltcians never heard OF them except
| IN pseudo form. as a device for keep
ing In line "a very
Low Grade of Political Supporters
F4f a
/ things with great. ~ would probably
! isN" caused . ~Heer ike that heard of
old. 40 - whether any good could come
out OF Nazare'h. 20 have suggested that
! I"re in the daily experiences ~ these
neglected AMI often miSinanaged ~hafi-
lies. was To- be- found after all tAe reRen-
Grating and reviVifying discovery the
r"-di-cov~ry II YOU prrfer--that We do
not i've q" ourselves aion,. that poverty
and iil-health. intempefance and crime.
eruption and INJUSTICE. sgualor and
misery. involve all in one common de-
~tru'tton the old lesson II religion and
tn new lesson 81 sOc.di solidarity and
at the one thing needful ~ such a
spiritual awakening as VIII compel the
community to deal. not by some magical
formula. not by som" golden ptna'es.
not ono" Tor 81 - some mistakenly
a. Ms. hut 60 deal nevertheless radically
ami intslligently VIA specific social
evils. and TO dea. with them not merely
iu their symptoms. but In their compl-
"at"d ramifira,iOns and with their uii-
: mate causes
Yet >" II has been. The charitable So
r4rftcs have given uS
New View of Life
aud 80 human relations IN general =
View which IN az once conservative. con
sfruriiVe and wholesome radical rev 80
.ufipnatN and disturbing. absolutely
ron partisan. catholic and social. com
~" i"uSiv" IN Is sweep and set sternly
practical ami 4 .ieuflfir lea It's recognition
"f things - they are. Vi~w "a hitch at
tsmpts 20 40 violence and Vet leaves me-
srnn2 permanent, on the throne a
a.. g.. al ito