Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-15
WOMAN s NEED
/. IS TO Be NEEDED
DR.. |. H. GuIiCk, Social Worker,
Tells Her New Relation to
the World.

CHICAGO, ILL. July l5.--"W omen
greatest need is the need of being need
ed" said DR.. Luther Hasey Gulick, di-
rector of the department of child ny
giene of Russell Sage Foundation in a
speech. which follows. before the Ma
tional Educational association meet
ing:
Man has made Of his new world
wonderful, a magic place in which
to work, in which to make physical
attainment He has not made of
It, however. a good nor beautiful
place in which to live He has made
of the community a factory, not a
home
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 spiritual qualities
which she gave to the home.
Many of the psychic functions of
motherhood she is discharging in the
school She is making Fairgrounds
for children healthier conditions In
schools. farer conditions for the work
of men, women and children in farm
store. factory. shop and mine. The
ideal is that of universal motherhood
all the women 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.
Women and Social Life.
The relations between young peo
pie must be so arranged that all the
power of sex and the passion of love
and desire shall lead toward attain
ment and growth and beauty and pow
err To make goodness alluring and
show the shallowness and stupidity of
vce-to bring the qualities and spirit
of the home into the community to
embody such ideals in the common
habits, the daily life of people, is
such task, such an opportunity as has
never before been given to the world.
Thus are the age-lone qualities of
women needed in our new world to
realize its surprising possibilities as
well as to save it from spiritual dis
aster
I'VE 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 differences, rather
than to my Hkenesses to other people.
For example woman is as sure to have
the suffrage a. the tide is to rise, not
-no ic Vftcn ctr
skillful as man is. nor because she,
like him, is a human being, nor for
any other reason of likeness or du-
plication at all, but because she is
different, because she can do what
he can not, because the world needs
her peculiar and special abilities. 1t
is because 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.
Need of Women Is to be Needed.
The deepest need of woman is the
need of being needed This is why
she responds to the sick and crippled
child. If ever woman was needed it
is today The very riot Of our ma
terial riches is the peril of our souls
Woman is already taking hold of the
present material world, giving to it
ana bringing INTO II tHe rove dnu ser
vice and spiritual relations which in
the old days created the home and
which today are changing the man
made work house into place adequate
to the glorious future life of human
beings
"The Camp Fire Girls is an organ
ization which aims to bring the power
Of organization and the charm of ro-
nance again into the humble acts and
needs of daily life. 1t is deliberate
attempt to help meet the new and
splendid social world which is before
US