The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-11-04

time when steam was merely some.
thing that came out OF the tea kettle
and electricity only a mcnacing ad-
tunct Of thunder storms, before the
factory system or public utilities had
been dreamed Of, the burden OF man
uracture was on the housekeeper and
If she shifted It al ali il was 20 the
shoulders Of another woman, the ser
vant, who was her one labor. saving
device
The new homo win not be the seat
Of any productive industry; It will pc
as free from the obligation to make
the things It consumes IS a power
ma chine IN clothing factory is 70
make its own parts, though. like the
power machine, this new home wilt be
driven by the rods and belts of our
social lite and held in place firmly 10y
cur social needs. To run this social
machine properly IL our new problem
Of home administration.
our ancestors had easier problems
to solve than We have. for the very
simple reason that theirs were nearer
AZ hand. ours must be solved at long
range.
Too many women seem TO think that
their function " TO preserve the home
as sort Of shrine n thing apart. an
end in itself. They DO not see It as
q par, Of the great factory for tbs
production OF citizens, nor understand
that her lob IS exactly the same as
that Of any other factory manager
TO turn out the product. Shall We
preserve the white hands OF our SEN
I sihnities ut the expense Of the race
I The things with which tho oncomiuE
citizens ara 10 be fed, clothed and ed
uCated and launched are no longer
within the safes Of the home. The
, Industrial revolution, in sweeping the
loom and distars into the factory, In
trustlfying tae production Of cloth and
food. in substituting the telephone and
telegraph for the village crier and the
noighhorhood gossip, tho railroad and
trolley for tho prairie schooner. our
public schools for tho "old-fasn!oncd
pcdlgogues, has dropped such Il
boulder into the circle Of woman's in
;luence as has spread waves to the
ends of. the earth So long ~ women
content themselves with ilutt.rinB
about inside four walls under The de-.
luriou that these mark their T~orc:
sphere of activity they cannot So much
as grapple the problem OF home en-
cheney. She must set out IF the in
dividualistic groove in which sne Is
helpless, che must see her hons as
pert o. = E.e2tcg uI.!t t. b -5Gt-J..t I
only. by the greater power II manr
people working together she mast
demonstrate industry ds We are Sirtv-
lns To- deuocratizc government. II the
truth were known politics and parent
hood are pretty close Kin.
In a word the middle class mother
must stop soldering on her J)1, she
must follow the spinning wheel into
the world: she must take up her ehare
of the duties Of citizenship. F)r after
all what is tho home but "a flower pot
in which 20 grow the family rtc?
what arc All INC family trees tor but
10 furnish timber for the social build
ing? AnG Vet today the home aud In
dustry are in state OF abnormal and
immoral divorce. The health goes out
Of industry when it forgets that its
only normal purpose is To co-operaJa
with the home, not as equal, bat rs
servant, In the perpetuation If the
race and the nurture of good citizens
So long as women do not DO the
work set for them TO do, and men
make business a gamble and a 81 Irt,
our homes cannot be efficient. Brsi-
ness is woman's affair as much AS
mans, the home Is mans affair as
much ~ woman's. What we need most
today is the domestication of business,
and the Specialization Of the homo. We
find that the goddess of the home is
our lady of public service--not the
hired girl. That the altar OF the home
is not the cook stove but the factory
! furnace, and that when God made
homemakers, male and female, created
lie them.
Cannot the management OF the av-
GRACE household be conducted as
business proposition? \ study of the
subject seems TO indicate that 1t can,
and that enormous economics can De
affected by the application OF the
principles OF modern business manage
ment to the business affairs of the
home. Scientific management Is saw
| ing some of the larser corporations
and the railways millions of dollars a
year through economies and bette:
methods. 1t is science based on def
mite PRINCIPLES, and these principles
can be applied as we'll to the manage
ment of .he home as to the manage
ment of business enterprises. The
problems To be solved are problems of
application. rather than Of principle.
! Given n certain piece OF work, its
/ completion may he accomplished
! through variety of methods. and, by
means of varying instrumentalities. in
greater or less time; hut there is. gem
orally speaking one scientific method
and one best instrumcntality. Also.
! first class worker can accomplish
specific task i'm n certain time, calcu-
! lated to Ice a certainty by means Of an
I .c,nrat, aunlyeie Of its alenepts and