Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-07-25
Why WOMAN WILL WIN
DR.. Luther H. Gulick Says It's
Because She Is Different.
sure To Have SuHrage-fer New Re-
iation to the World and the Camp
Fire Girls Discussed ut Chi
cagO.

Dr. Luther II. Gulick, director Of the de-
partment Of child hygiene of the Russell
Sage Foundation. gave an address before
the National Education Association in
Chicago on THE New Relation of Women
to the World" and he declared In con-
clusion that the Camp Fire Girls rs an
organization help fit girls for their rela-
ton with the world
DR.. Gulick said In part:
We are significant in the world mainly
by the extent to which we. as individuals
and as groups. differ each other. My
special place in the world Is due to my
differences from. rather than to my like
nesses to other people. For example.
woman Is sure to have the suffrage
as the tide Is to rise, not because she
is as wise. as strong. as sklful as man
is. nor because she, like him, Is a human
being. nor for any other reason of like
ness or duplication at all. but because
she is different because she. can do what
he cannot, because the world needs NJ
peculiar and special abilities. It Is be-
cause she Is different. because these DIFF
ferences are fundamental world needs.
that 1t is necessary that she shall bring
these differences to the service of the
world.
This fact, whether woman wants 1t or
no. the suffrage will force inevitably upon
her We insist that she must speak, but
because she is different and not because
she is like. The vote Is needed in itself To
serve the community in ways in which
she is the creator and specialist is tho
end. and toward this service the women
Of the civilized world arc pressng-most
of them unconsciously a few of them con-
sciously-but all Of them inevitably.
We are many Of us distressed by the
lack OF responsibility which so many chill
dren shOw-thelr failure to understand
and yield to the deeper needs of work
and It's place in life. This deeper moral
equipment for life in the old days was
| associated with the faithful performance
OF the daily work in the home and the
deep lessons which were learned by work.
| ing alongside of the parents.
| We have thought, however. that these
lessons Law in the specific work done--so
we have organized the elements of the
work with tools into manual training, ne
| and pedago gicalized cooking and sewing
into domestic science and domestic art.
| From two to four hours of laboratory
work per week has taken the place OF
| from six to twelve hours a day of real
work with a real mother doing real work
| for real people in real home. And We
are only just beginning to realize that
learning how TO do work in no rcspec,
has tho character effect of doing work
and that heine taught IS one thing and
working with. is another, and that know
ing how, and having responsibility foi
are all different in thei' effects upor
| life
| About cooking. for example, have grown
NEST of the social feelings and customs o.
the family. To break bread or to eat SAL
together Is . social flct far deeper il
significance than is the knowledge o
physics ard chemistry involved IN the
cooking. The college .ir, gets her chains
dish not because she Is hungry. but t.
feed her soul with the charm Of comrale
ship.
To meet the new and larger RESPONSE
hiiticS II is necessary that the woman o.
the present world affairs shall
First Continue In her learning to 10
team work. To bring about home con
ditions of beauty comfort. health. socia
happiness and wholesomcness in the com
munity means the very highest order o
mutual loyalty and of team work. Thu
is new demand uron woman.
SecondIt is necessary that the con
seriousness If dignity, romance and beaut!
he again restored to daily work, that |
may once more take the Fundamental
place In the training of strong tru
character.
Th!rd-The psychic relations betwee
daughters and mothers have been hur
by those forces which nave lessened thei
wording together. These relations between
mothers and daughters are to be not onl
brought back but to be decpened ant
rendered more beautiful.
Fcurth--And last. and most importan
and most difficult. the nature of true so
cial relations is to be so revealed tina
il Is evident that the adventure. romano
and happiness are to be found in thos
human relationships which are found o
the broad roads of life and work. rathe
than IN its fenced off sloughs and desert.
The deepest need of woman is the nee
of being needed. This Is why she respond
TO the sick crippled child. If eve
woman was needed, II is to-day. The YER
riot of our material riches Is the peril G
our souls. Woman is already taking hol
of the present material world, giving I
IL and bringing into 1t the love and servic
and spiritual relations which in the oil
DAYS created the home and which to-da
are changing the manmade work-hous
into a place adequate to the glorious ~
ture life Of human beings
The Camp Fire Girls is an organizatio
which aims to bring the power of organ
ization and the charm of romance agai
into the humble acts and needs of dali
life. 1t Is a deliberate attempt to hel
meet the new and splendid social worl
, which is before us.
THE SUFFRAGIST'S RIGHTS"
Z The suffragist cries,