The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-03-19

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work." will regret to learn of
the attitude of the greatest of
women workers in that line-Miss
Jane Adams, Of Chicago.
For good many years, Miss Adj
dams has done the greatest, noblest
and hardest work ever undertaken
by woman. She became interested
in the social condition. of the poorer
working classes of Chicago, and this
means the foreign element which had
been attracted by the allurements of
the big Western city, and who had
become little better than the animals
SO many Of them helped butcher and
prepare for the market. Miss Ad-
dams orWk differed greatly from that
of Upton Sinclair, and while the book.
Of the latter made known the appall-
ing conditions under which those
people lived, worked and had their
being, Miss Adams work was con-
structiye, and she was beginning to
make the people among whom she
lived realize that the reform in their
lives had to begin and end in the
home.
Given intelligence, the necessary
instruction in how to make their
lives brighter and more wholesome,
the working conditions under which
they lived were bound to improve,
and to this end Hull House," as
Miss Adams settlement was known,
was becoming q great and tremend-
Gus power for good
Without realizing it, Miss Adams
became very useful person to some
politicians; it was not long before
changes were noted in the Hull
House scheme; from an ally Of the
politicians, Miss Adams became a
full-fedged suffrag ette-and her use
fulness as factor in lettering social
conditions for those whom she
worked SO long among, is seriously
Handicapped.
This is SIMPLY another instance of
the trend of woman to take to her
self the masculine methods, leaving
much that is good and gaining little
worth while. There can be no argu-
men of the fact, that Miss Adams,
working as W0man-tender-he
ed, sympathetic, and understanding
was to many Of the poor and ignor-
ant Of Chicago, human angel who
not only led them to better things
and conditions, but helped to keep
them there.
One of the women identified. with
Miss Addams, has recently been ar
rested as disturber of the public
peace; the crime was that of sitting
on the sidewalk when a policeman
tried to arrest her; and the cause
Of her arrest was the militant tao
tics she was using to aid the strike
Of some mattresses, by urging them
to- divers and various modes of de-
struction Of the property of the en-
ployer against whom the strike was
aimed.
The mattresses in restaurants are,
as a rule, hard worked and not gen
erously paid; they depend in large
measure on the tips of the people
who patronize the restaurants, and it
is likely these particular mattresses
had a perfectly good grievance on
which to base their refusal to work.
Buff the suffragettes are to aid
and abet in these matters, will they
have accomplished any good for the
cause for which so many of them
seems anXiously willing to go to jail
and thus figure in the public prints?
When Miss Adams undertook to
show the children Of the foreigners
just what might be gotten out of
life, in this great country, wasn't
part of her teaching, respect for law,
and the order which will follow it's
observance? Hadn't she been teach