The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-07-13
As Demanded by Modern
Conditions is Discussed
by DR.. Gulick.

a. Quick, director of the Child
Hysiene Department Of the Russell
Sage Foundation delivered an adj
atesssTast night before the National
Education Association. His subject
was THE Camp Fire Girls and the
New Relation of women to the
World" and he said in part:
dn the olden days man, with his
Weapons, provided food, shelter and
safety. Woman made Of them the
home-she converted passion into
love, domesticated beauty, invented
Industry and was the mother of hap
piness.
The world-old power and skill
and devotion OF woman are again
being called for and being given.
but now not merely to make and
preserve the individual home, but to
give to the community those spirit
ual qualities which she gave to the
home.
Many of the psychic functions of
motherhood she is discharging in
the school. She is making play
grounds for children, healthier con-
ditions in schools, fairer conditions
for the work of men, women and
children in farm, store, factory,
shop and mine. The ideal is that of
universal ENTHUSIASTICALLY the wo-
men being responsible that every
child is loved, cared for and given a
fair chance. She is beginning to
see that she is responsible for much
of the municipal housekeeping.
We are significant in the world
mainly by the extent to which we,
as individuals and as groups, differ
from each other. My special place
in the world Is due to my differ
ences, rather than my likeness to
other people. For. example, woman
is as sure to have the suffrage as
the tide is to rise, not because she
| is as wise, as strong, as skillful as
man is, nor because, she, Like him.
lis a human being, nor for any other
reason of likeness or duplication at
| all, but because She is different, be-
cause she can do what he can not.
because the world needs her pecult-
ar and special abilities. It is be-
cause she is different, because these
differences are fundamental world
needs, that it is necessary that she
shall bring these differences to the
service of the world. This act,
whether woman wants 1t or not, the
suffrage will force inevitably upon
her. We insist that she must
speak but because she is different
and not because she is like, Tho
vote is no end in itself. To serve
the community in ways in which she
is the creator and specialist is the
end, and toward this service the
women Of the civilized world are
pressing, most Of them unconscious
ly-a few of them consciously, but
all of them inevitably.
We are many OF US distressed by
the lack of responsibility which SO
many children show-their failure
! to understand and yield to the
deeper needs of work and its place
i'm life. This deeper moral equip
ment for life in the old days was
associated with the faithful per-
Torrance of the daily work in the
home and the deep lessons which
were learned by working alongside
of the parents.
We have thought. however, that
these lessons lay in the SPECIFIC work
done-so we have organized the
elements OF the work with tools into
manual training, we have developed,
systematized, organized and peda-
goglcalized cooking and sewing into
domestic science and domestic art.
From two to four hours OF labora-
tory work per week has taken the
tplace of from six to twelve hours q
! day of real work with real mother
doing real work for real people in a
real home. And We are only just
beginning to realize that learning
how to do work in no respect has
the character effect Of doing work,
and that being taught is one thing,
and working with, is another, and
that knowing how, and having re-
sponsibilHy for, are all different in
their effects upon life.
To meet the new and larger re-
sponsibilities 1t is necessary that the
woman of the present world affairs
shall continue in her learning to do
team work.
1t is necessary that the conscious
ness of dignity, romance and beauty
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