The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-12-18
Epigrams of Dean Sumner.

The two great factors In the
world today are honesty and
efficiency.
Efficiency is the measure of good
citizenship.
Women who seek the right of
franchise should know civic facts
quite as much as their husbands.
The ignorance Of the average
citizen is almost unbelievable.
The woman, however, has this con
ISOLATION, that she probably knows
as much about her home city as
her husband or son.
All Of us are getting a wage, a
salary or fortune in our own
town and we owe it our loyalty
Loyalty is one of the first
requisites of the good citizen.
The man who is intelligent and
efficient and loyal, but who refuses
to give of his intelligence for the
public good, is not only an inef
ficient, but an undesirable citizen
Genius now stands for the market
place with her soul for sale.
There never was time in the
history of the world when there
was so much kindness in the hearts
Of men or so much need for
kindness.
We give a lot of time to the
question of environment, but we
wholly forget the much greater
problem of heredity.
The boy must be made to know
that the call to fatherhood is just
as noble as the call to motherhood.
Presumably the sphere of the
woman is the home, but the big
problem is to take care of the ten
million women who have no homes
and who compete unjustly with
men.
The minimum rage is not
economically sound. A girl IS hon
esty is worth three, four or five
dollars a week and she certainly is
entitled to something for her
industry.
The minimum wage to prove of
value must be of federal enactment
with a wide discrimination in
enforcement.
We must dignity Domestic serv-
ice. Vocational schools should Of
fer graduation courses for both
men and girls.
The prosperity of the nation does
not demand the labor of 100000
children. 1t is ayarice and greed
that is working this injustice to
childhood and even greater inins-
tice to the adult.
Social workers are sounding an
old note in new tone when they
begin to notice the degeneracy Of
the home due to ignorance and
neglect of parents.
The big problem today is to make
the Indifferent parent different.
Decent society people are taking
the immoral dances from the pros
titutes and dancing them them
selves.
The responsibility for the degen-
eracy of childhood is not at the
door of the religious organizations,
but at the door of the irresponsible
parent.
1t religion may not be taught in
the schools, morals may not be
taught and without teaching
morals there is no building of
character and the purpose Of the
school fails.
The world has ever produced one
class who while underestimate de-
serves our full devotion and that
is the great army of pure teachers
of the public schools.
What women have done by indi-
rection they may do thousand
times better by direction.
Commercialized vice is man
problem. Your sex has been ex-
plotted by men, the profits reaped
by men, and it is man problem
from end to end.
Commercialized vice nas been
declared a necessary evil To
whom is it necessary Such a
statement is reflection upon
every unmarried man.
Segregation of vice does not Sc
gregate or solve the remotest phas,
of the problem, but it increases
every phase of it.
Regulation of vice offers ouly
false security.