The Alaska daily empire., 1915-02-24

could attriu ends undreamed of in th. foldon days lt is not as go many sao ly declare. that the home Is degener ating, The splendid truth ls thet in , fant activities born and raised ii' ths home are now stepping into the com , munity This IS no more @ oanse foi regret chan s tho bursting Of tho shei
 when hatcning lime has come. or thJ T 2preading of wings when the time ha'
 arrived for fiight The world eyper lonce given by tho great adventure oi
 glshl far surpass even tho beauty
 comfort and safety Of the nest
 This wonderful new social lntegra ton of the world became possible on ly when man had invented machines and hanesaed power. With power
 end machines he has done most of the things that most of the people Of m the world have done during all thc aces He has thus increased the rich
 es Of the world more in one genera.
 tion chan had been accumulated be- i fore ,n m time This. as ] have al-
 ready soid was done mainly by man
 and not by woman.
 Tho result has been fundamentally
 Co alter lhs adjustment Of woman to
 the world In the olden days man, with his weapons. provided food. shel.
 ter and safety Woman made of them
 the home-she converted passion into
 love. domesticated beauty, invented inc
 dustry and YVES the mother of happi. ness.
 Today man has again gone out this tme into the social world and with i his tools and harnessed world power. ihas agam brought back food, shelter end safety from the primitive dangers. Food from the whole world in a new abundance and surpasoiog variety shelter such as was never dreamed of before and has doubled the average span of life by lessening It's dangers.
 Man has made Of this new world 2 wonderful, magic place in which to work, in which to make physical attainment He has not made of it ! however, a good nor a beautifui place in which to live. He has made Of Che community factory, moi home. In ether words. he has not done for the community what woman did for the home
 The world-old power and skin and devotion Of women are again being called for and again belng given, but now not merely to make and preserve the individual home. but to give to the community thoso spiritual Qud. tics which she gave to the home.
 Woman's work has largely been ta- ken into the community and the in dly.dual home Woman is. therefore, following her work into the conlmun, fly. She is taking on the same kind Of responsibility .n tho community which she has always carried in the nome. Many of the psychic functions or motherhood she is dischayging in the school. She is making playgrounds for children, healthier conditions in schools. fairer conditions for the work of men, women and children in farm, store. factory shop and mine. The
 Ideal is that of universal motherhood
 -an the women being responsible for every child is loved cared for and given a fair chance. She is beginning to see that she is responsible for much Of the municipal housekeeping, the conditions in the bake shops and gro- cery stores. She is concerned chat food shall be pure and water clean
 Women and Social Life.
 As women's deepest service in the home is social. so her deepest respon- sibility Is for the relations between people in the community It Is not enough that evil shall be prevented. ! that every sort of traffice in human bodies and souls shall cease Human relationships must so come to be car. ried on that tho deepest desires and hopes and passions shall develop that which is flne-shan lead toward life, not death. The relations between the young people must be so arranged that all the passion of love and desire shall lead toward growth and beauty and power and away from death and dis. ease. To make goodness allur'ng and show the shallowness and stupidity Of vice-to bring the qualities and spirit of the home into the community, tol embody such ideals in the common ha-l bits Of daily life. is=an opuortunltv such as has beyer before been glvenE to the world. Thus are the ageiong qualities Of women needed in our new world to realize its surpassing possi- hlities as well as to save 1t from spir- itual disaster
 We often hear in these days of the conflict between men and women. of the economic compensation. but th.s is. I believe, a lesser and not 2 larger fact. We are. of course, all human beings and as such most of our oualI- ties and abilities correspond. We allI eat and sleep, work and play. But we are significant ln the world mainly by the extent to which we, as individ. lals and as groups. differ from each other My spec.aI place in the world Is due to my differences, rather than Q my likeness to other people. For example, woman is as sure to have he suffrage as the tide is to rise iot because she is as wise as strong IS slllll,ul as man is. nor because she. ike him, is a human being, nor for my other reason of likeness or dupI- 'ation at al. but because she Is diff