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 t5-"W Women s
greatest need is the need of being need
ed, said Dr Luther Halsey Quick, di-
rector of the department Of child by
ciene 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, magic place in which
to work. in which to make physical
attainment He has not made Of
it. however, a good nor a beautiful
place in which to live He has made
of the community factory, not
home
The world-ol 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 dischareing in the
school She is making Fairgrounds
for children. healthier conditions 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 motherhood
all the women being responsible that
every child is loved, cared for and given
fair chance She is beginning TO see
that she is responsible for much of the
municipal housekeeping
Women ard 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
en- To make goodness alluring and
show the shallowness and stupidity Of
viee-to bring the qualities and spirit
If the home into the community. to
embody such. ideals in the common
habits the daily life of a people, is
such task, such an opportunity as has
never before been given to the world
Thus are the age-long qualities of
women needed in our new world to
realize its SURPRISING possibilities as
well as to save it from spiritual dis
aster.
we are significant in the world
mainly by the extent to which we as
individuals and as groups differ from
each other NV special place in the
world is due to my differences, rather
than to my likenesses 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
4 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 II
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 10 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 10 it
and bringing into it the love and ser
vice and spiritual relations which in
the old days created the home and
which today are changing the man
made work house into a 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 a deliberate
attempt TO help meet the new and
splendid social world which is before
us