New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-21
We Must Work Earnestly and Lovingly, But
Without the Destructive Strain of Com.
petition, She Declares-1rUe Parent
hood is "the Most Vital and Artis-
tic Experience in Life"

that expressed her idea of some of the things
she had been saying about socialized HE, IN
dividualism and parenthood:
"'As she looked into the future she saw her
own future unroll itself before her.
Already she saw acts that carried her TAR,
deeds that would be expressive Of the strug-
gle of the classes in which she would take
direct part. Dimly she foresaw that she would
be called upon TO play her part in this greatest
of all dramas. She wished it to be so. But II
would not mean abdicstion of her own per-
sonal existence; 1t must augment everything
that had even begun in her; il must always
mean the full Towering of her whole personal
ity Out of it would be created her love and
her motherhood
IT say that there Is a new universal per-
haps inarticulate feeling for new democracy"
said Mrs. Walling, "and that is my answer to
preparedness. international unity of feeling
will supplant war, won't it'
America has an interesting problem In its
relation to other nations on account OF Its
huge immigration. But I should think that
immigration itself was no problem. For first,
there is the elemental right of human being
as the United States is glorious 1t has been
largely because we have been a refuge and
haven, and, thirdly, we cannot be needless
enough to overlook the enormous contribution
that the newcomer brings. He brings culture
from his country, the peasant lore OF his grand
fathers, fresh, new physical strain. robust
ness, and he brings the wisdom OF trial and
suffering and tragedy, the strength Of will that
hardship has engendered, the experience that
oppression knows
THE SOURCE OF GENIUS
1t was fitting for Anna Strunsky Wallng to
speak of that; her people know so well the
meaning of blood and tears; they have stood
so long under whip.
And the immigrants, If properly taken care
Of, do not hurt the American people even II
they marry them. The sport in nature Is born
of the union of two foreign elements; the
genius in humanity Is so created
And what about our treatment of the immi-
grant, Mrs. Walling' Aren't we doing the
wrong things, teaching them sanitation when
they are twice as healthy as we are opening
their eyes to dreamlands of opportunity and
tncn Sld1nrnlnB inc door III tncr races, giving
them enough education to make them unhappy,
weaving them away from the old contented
state"
Settlement work, you mean, and visiting
nurses" she said for me. well. I'm grateful
when visiting nurse relieves sick woman
or sets straight whole family. Pm grateful
but don't want the people to be. And that's
my whole attitude toward social, philanthropic
and 'uplift' work. l like and take what it can
give, but l deplore the psychological effect
on the 'uplifted' if it makes them SNUG, CRATE
full, respectable in the I-am-saved' sense of the
word. For don't want people to be grateful
to other people for what is human right l
don't want them satisfied with life after they
have reached the point of having something
But'-her eyes cleaned bit wickedly-"the
uplift work is so all-absorbing to the uplfters
/ suppose we ought not to take it away from
them; set OF lannels to a poor family each
winter is their ticket to heaven, and we ought
not to deprive them of that"