The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-13
DIR. ADLER, FOUNDER OF ETHICAL CULTURE MOVE
 MENT, IS 63 TO-DAY

Dr. Felix Adler. world famous as the father and leader of that 'new religion which goes by the name of ethical culture, was born in Germany sixty-three years ago to-day, the son of Jewish rabbi. Alter graduating from Heidelberg he came to America. forty years ago. and became profes- sor of Hebrew and Oriental Htera- ture at Cornell. Tn 1876 he found ed the New York Society for Ethical Culture, the parent body of what has been described as the church of this world. .' Since then he has devoted himself to featuring on ethical and hu- manitariasn topics from the. platform
 of his society and at Columbia, and has made several tours of America and Europe.
 l Dr. Adler is especially interested in l the progress of the fair sex toward po- litica1 and social equality with men, and many of his later lectures have
 dealt with such problems.
 The modern won1an'ss moveme ent, 7" says Dr. Adler. means that she shall be a partner with man in seeking truth, that she shall be a priestess of l truth. We want to see woman take her place in the intellectual guidance of the world which has been so long fin the hands of men. The existence of the social, evil is menace to the
 physical perpetuity of the race. and the moral soundness of our boys and girls. The social evil has never been dealt with in the radical way that it would have been if women had taken | part in the intellectual leadership of 1 the race.'
 Motherhood" declares the ethical culture leader, must become a Evoca- | ton, must become el1ectuAlized.
 Blind love, that is, love without mind, l is no longer adequate. In medieval
 days woman was described as the
 moon and man as the sun, but I pre-
 fer to reverse the synbofs. Woman his the solar influence the warmth, the l light, the golden value of our lives.
 That is her destiny in the scheme of natural love and motherhood.
 | I've may assume that every woman
 desires a calling, a central expression | of her being, which is motherhood. It
 is not enough, however, merely to l have the will, the mother must know how to fulfil her desire. She must
 be able to have a knowledge of the mental life of the tiny baby, as also | of the character moulding of the child. The vocation of motherhood
 must be recognized as imperative to | There will be a new study in the vo- | cation of motherhood, that should cauf human horticulture,A the evolu- | ton of natural laws by mental process l of discovery and improvement in ] mother love. It is the mother who | II1uSI DS ITd1noO III SulOdnC0s even l more than the child.
 | f"The first course in the vocation of
 motherhood must be the study of hy- | gienics, Of dietetfcs, of every phase l of the best physical development.
 Health, a, clean, strong physical body l is the basic princip pie of a useful life. ''
 Of the prevailing craze for wealth, pr. Adler recently said:
 ''Men say that they are entitled to
 all that their ability can get for them
 They forget that a part of their abil- ity does not belong to them at all Their organizing, executive gifts are
 not created by themselves, but by the lgenerations that have preceded. They ought to thank their stars for being so favored, instead of asking so many
 dollars as a further reward After
 nature has been so generous to them
 is it rfghtSto demand an excessive re.
 ward for being so fortunate? The Ireward is in doing the big things no
 in the money that he can pile up''