The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-02-23
SOCIAL CONTROL AND
NEW CONSCIENCE

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This might we'll be the earnest
question OF the hour as presented
TO the club women OF the Athenaeum
| Yesterday morning by Raymond Rob
ms Of Chicago. recognized as an au-
thority on social problems The ad-
dress as made in Grace Presbyterian
! church. Social Control and the New
Conscience" was his subject.
I'VE are now in the presence OF a
new strain in the history OF the re-
| public-old moralities are broken
down and new ones are not fun
blown" said Mr.. Robins. In the
next thirty years the women OF this
generation will be interested. vitality.
personally interested in more strikes
and lockouts than ever before in the
/ history Of womankind This is why
, In 1901 fully 90 per cent of the peo-
pie were interested in rural pursuits.
There the woman was master of her
| own labor and the labor or others.
Now over so per cent live m the cit
les and old frontiers and isolation are
broken down. The woman in the city
buys everything in small quantities
from the shops around her. The in
dividual born in the city cotrols moth
ing.
Child the Big Concern.
| The child is the big concern of the
woman. Do you know that the building
| NANAhduttS NoIAEOl lne late OF the
child OF today Building ordinances
food factories. educational institutions
these develop your child and bring
MIN To maturity. Social control not
individual control. either keeps your
child on the street in good company
or bad, gives him good or bad food
| to eat
Have you ever considered the fam.
| lily downstairs? | have. In the tcne-
ments OF Chicago there once lived a
| family under my roOms-father moth
er and seven children-in three rooms
! The parents both worked and the lit
| Tie father and little mother of the
brood really reared the younger ones.
| lOu cannot rear a healthy child in a
| three-room tenement Every teacher
knows that "A child's morals are made
IN his leisure hours. and they are So
cial morals permitted by the chief OF
police. not the home. In the city the
child from TO 10. the formative, peri
cd, Is raised according TO indu strial
conditions surrounding you. Ali this
/ presents new story in history De-
culiar 10 the time we live in.
/ There II "A complete change in the
Character of employing capital. There
/ used To he personal bond between
Z the employer and employe. but with
! the growth OF the great units OF pro-
! auction the great organizations of Ia
Dor and capital are arrayed against
4 each other. There has been "A divorce
In the moral and intelligent personal
/ Character OF the directors from the in
hustrial circles | am in favor of in
corporate control. but with the great
changes in social and economic con
dltions now in the making must be
Z born new conscience
Mutually OF connict.
! There g. 9mutuulltv and "a conflict
4 IN every alliguC" or labor and capital
4 lf.1ise OF individual Ecrvihty Co cor
. purate interests. Good moral men i'm
diyiduaIIy submit their consCicnr.s Z,
/ composite interests an over the cuur-
| tfN, and the great giants ~ industry
I and capital stand one against the other
Yet there b. ru interest separate from
f ~" working man and rapItal.-one that
Z demands e. new couscieute-thc home
Z ana the woman iu 10.
Woman has had sheltered life up
. 70 nov. She controlled the business
/ supply and demand. We hear much or
D o." invasion OF women into business
/ walks of life into the factories. me
stores. 70 D. all absurd. Women have
B never invaded. they have simply fol
lowed their own work In the factory
sh" has become the worker without
sr'u-ihiltes. new rates ~ speed. new
. lempiauor~ \Il "f which dictate a new
/ morally and new ,nIyalry
Women are being driven into poll
} fl's Ih" social and eguuomi, impetu-
D .r making women necessary iu the poo
Z iiiDu world not because she want Co.
mother Co regain her control over her.
thing 90 Say about tho laws tNaf gov.
. "rn Ii' or course. There viii Boo a cost
q certain ZOOS. and 90 certain gain And.
rasrur IhiIi'. before trem fhD polite
circles who "urna" There will come o.
time Whom their attitude Will mot U- r.-
( World Turns 20 cities.
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