Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-31
EDlJCATION OF ALIENS
AND WORKING WOMEN.
ARE MEMORIAL IDEAS
The Rev. DR.. E. M. Frank
Thinks immigration
Probe m Should Be
Part of a Larger Scheme
of Social Work.

nuow would you spend $4,000 in a
memorial"
This question, which was asked by a
.,,hecriber of the EVENING LEDGER who
las $4,000 to put in n memorial and does
.ot know how to use it, has set serious
n,nded persons thinking i'm all parts of
,ho CITY, and suggestions have been made
pv representatives of all walks of life
and all classes of society.
Tho contributions today are from the
nav. Or. Edward NJ. Frank, rector Of
,be Episcopal Church of the Advent, 5th
and Buttonwood streets. one of the best
.rovyn and most active social workers in
,ha city, and John A. Phillips secretary
~ The Central Labor Union.
Doctor Frank said:
.we have peculiar code of morals
n this country. We are not like the
German peope-we are afraid of the
tocts We blind ourselves TO the truth.
Il Ia for this reason that many of our
charities fail Philadelphia charities are
hadIy managed, because all the initiative
rornes from the upper classes. Like Rus
ain. nave our bureaucracy. oUr 1uca
Il 10 give n banquet and get together
lot Of prominent people. who know
nothing about the life of the people, to
devise reforms.
"The lowest person at Sth and Vine
streets knows more about the needs of
the city and the people than those at
18th and Walnut streets. New Zealand
Is the best governed country in the
world because 1t Is made up largely OF
VA ..,t.x. Ia faIN
life and have overcome and conquered
them, to their mutural benefit.
"Tor this reason I would put my
memorial in the form of an experimental
station for sociological work. One of the
features would be a bureau for the pur-
pose OF gathering information and invit-
Ing suggestions from the lower classes.
1t would be a clearing house for ideas
originating from the people whom Il
Is supposed to help.
II would cause the work to be devoted
chiefly TO the emigrant. The American
people have a peculiar idea of the emf
grant They imagine he comes to this
country to be Amercanized just as
though he had read the Declaration of
Independence and the Constitution of
this country, when. as a matter of fact.
he comes here simply to make money.
Zone way in which $4,000 could be well
chase one of the many abandoned Ameri-
can churches in the foreign sections of
the city, and equip it as social centre
for these people,"
Mr., Phillips said:
"a most timely subject for any one who
has $4,000 to spend for a memorial to in.
vestigate is that of the conditions affect
ing women in industry. Such n sum could
be wisely used in the creation of a bureau
for the dissemination of information set
ting forth the advantages to be derived !
by women in the industrial field by or |
ganlzation. | would advise that the funds |
be placed in a trust and the interest
placed at the disposal of the Women's !
Trade Union League for the printing of
pamphlets and other descriptive matter, |
the holding of lectures and debates and !
so on.
There is distinct need for the educa-
tion OF women in industry along economic
lines. The great influx of women into in
dustrial pursuits has created a condition
that has never before been known. con-
1iton in which women have been brought
INTO contact with men without being in n |
position to insist on equal pay for the
same class of work. The remedy for this
can only be brought about by education.
The person who takes the first step In
providing womerf with means to fight for
their rights i'm this respect will perform
lasting service to the great majority |
Of the people"