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

people ulSnC nave developed q
sturdy, home-loving, race which would
have meant much to Chicago and
themselves?
Isn't the false standard which the
poorer people-the wage Gamers
have set for themselves, the real
basis for all of this trouble?
The American-born man and wo-
man, or those who have had the adj
vantages Of the public school teach
ing of America, soon learn that the
real worth which is inherent in every
one who will take the trouble to de-
velop it, is the true basis Of ''cla8s."
We may argue about and around
this till doomsday, but it does not
alter the fact. 1t doesn't mean that
the man who has gone into an office
as clerk at SIS a week will be taken
into partnership q year afterward;
and it doesn't mean that he can live
as his employer lives, without set
tins into debt and maybe disgrace;
the same thing applies to the woman
who works But there is more
chance for the man or woman who
is really in earnest about lettering
themselves rising in the business
world, and making a success of
w ldICYSI JuGy uuOOI ID AS--3L JISV
are willing to pay the price in hard
and earnest work, and determina-
ton.
We have had a lot Of corn fed
philosophy along this line, and it
usually means that those of socialis-
tic tendencies will refuse to see the
point Of view of the one who is try
ing to convince them that, while we
n
the very heart out Of those in the
way of them; while we have laws
that seem to make it easy for the
rich to escape the penalty which the
poor criminal must pay; while we
have conditions in every city and
town as horrible as those Upton Sin
clair painted in "The Jungle -the
remedy Of all of it is in our own
hands.
When the women of Miss Adams
stamp, having won the confidence
and the trust OF the people who suf-
fer from these conditions, Will use
all the influence at their command to
better those conditions, by instruct
ing the women affected in the art of
home-making and housekeeping, the
influence Of those women, through
we'll as the fathers, will be the leayen
which will leaven the whole lump Of
rotten National, State and Munich
pal politics.
If we could make our men realize
that unlimited drinks, cigars and
shows" were not all necessary for
the man who tolls; if we could make
the woman of moderate means real
iZe that willow plumes, slit skirts
and silk petticOats were not abso
lutely necessary for her SOULS saliva
tien; if we could make the young
married couple realize that it wasn't
absolutely necessary to start house
keeping with silver plated ware and
mission furniture; if we could even
make the children feel that because
one little girl wore a hat to school
with four yards of ribbon on tit
was no Disgrace to have less than that
quantity on every hat in the school
it wouldn't be so hard to bring
about condition which would make
the solving Of other problems an
easy matter
And right along these lines are
where the women of today, collec-
lively and individually, may do the
work of saving the Nation.
It's hard job, and it will take
more years than some of us will be
able to look forward to, but it Will
be worth while, and when the women
will realize it, the emptiness and the