The farmer and mechanic., 1912-05-14

their turns in social service as city OF
ficial1 as such men do in the en-
cient and honored city governments
of Europe.
The South's Special Social Problems
What now are the social problems
that in the South somewhat more 1han
elsewhere challenge the attention OF
the best minds:
/. Lynching is social prooiem
that touches the very foundation o.
ciyilizat ton, government by law rathe[
than mob impulses. Iynching mas
had no severer condemnatiOnS than
in the South and what is needed IS
campaign Of education to support the
SCuth's own crusaders against IT.
2 AS TO suffrage, a problem that
touches the very foundation OF popu-
lar government, l dare TO say that the
disfranchisement Of ignorance, when
is right and wise, should be impartial
" applied regardless Of 'grandfa-
thers" Let notice be served that
after FIVE years no new voters, native
or foreign, white or black, Will De
admitted to suffrage who cannot read
their ballots unassisted.
g. Social immora lity, though found
everywhere. is in the South a most
serious part Of its race problem. Ashe-
Vile has started a movement in this
matter which should find wide sup
port.
No longer can any intelligent per-
son innocently believe that doctrine
of devils about necessary evils
since the abolition Of the vice markets
in Los Angeles, Seattle, Omaha, Min
Deapots and the whole State OF Iowa
Every Southern state should adopt
the Iowa injunction law and back 1t
up by campaign of education in
school and out Of school on the
SacredneSS Of sex.
T. Child labor is problem that
touches the very foundations Of the
communitys physical and mental and
moral welfare This Is one Of the
sui jects in which the new "Children's S
Bureau" at Washington ought to be
able to help by promoting uniformity
OF State legislation in the real inter
est OF all
s. What call the Sunshine Branch
veloped in the South as yet to such
a large degree as in the North. I
refer to such matters-to take only its
application to childhood-as children 8
Fairgrounds. fresh-air funds, vacation
schools Juvenile courts with big
brothers. and George Junior Repub-
lies, and the like. 1 am urging that
together every Monday noon, the
preachers leisure hour, in a 'Welfare
Lunch Club as q social center. for
making plans Of cooperation. (Of
this proposed "Welfare Lunch Club
I will send particulars to any who re-
quest them.)
The Social Ideal.
In conclusion, let me remind you
! that the South has an advantage over
| other sections in building "the City
Bea utiful and Good in that it has the
beauty at hand in profusion. Some
one has said that art is not adequate
ly expressed in a separate picture OF
statue, which are but fragments, but
rather In a building beautiful alike in
interior decoration, In outside appear
ance and in its surroundings In a
beautiful Southern street, with roya-
palms in the frontage Of it's modes,
homes as we'll as it's palatial resi-.
dences, l revised that critique Of art
and said, Art Is adequately expressed
only in a whole neighborhood o.
beautiful buildings And when
visited Riverside, Cal, in which NJ
Ugly slums or novels or saloons ar,
allowed, and where the deforestet
hills are castellated, and where In tn
family and city life we see the fines
OF fine arts, the art Of right socia
living, I said, There is no adequate ex
preston Of beautiful and useful art
except in what the prophets fror
Abraham to our own day have sought
the City Beautiful and Coed