Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-05-14

w what extent do occupation and
w low wages affect the changer
There are to-day about 100000 women
workers in the United States.
The United States Government has
undertaken an exhaustive inquiry TO learn
If the trend Of modern industry Is
dangerous to women, and II their moral
qualities are affected by her occupation
Two striking facts have become ap.
parent out OF the countless statistics that
have been officially collected. OF nearly
four thousand women made the subject
Of this inquiry, In Massachusetts, New
York, New jersey Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois, not one assigned poverty or
low wages as a direct and immediate
cause Of immortality. II was agreed that
indirectly their influence Is great, but
not primarily responsible for retrogres
sion.
The other fact is that occupations in
themselves have nothing to do with lead
ing a girl astray, but that the influences
being a servant in household with men
of low type, are very serious cause
of wrongdoing.
II is not improbable that the complete
alteration in the Industrial status and
environment Of women In the course of
three or four decades has had marked
influence on women in several ways, and
more especially that their moral natures
may have been affected by increased ex-
posture, Increased economic independence
and their active share in the competitive
struggle involved In their transfer from
the home to the shop. factory or office.
Why then, do girls fall from grace?
Rescue workers assigned Ave occu.
pations as being morally dangerous
First-Domestic service.
Second Work OF hotel or restaurant
%altresses.
Third-Low.grade factory trades,
Fourth-Trained nursing.
Fifth-Cheaper stenographic positions
Careful inquiry revealed the fact that
with both domestic service and the low.
dangers lay not so much in the work
though with each the conditions
under which II is carried on are fire.
duently dangerous in the class of
women who are likely to enter such oc
equations.
The good showing made by the newer
occupations Is due to a combination Of
education and discipline, The stenog
rapher or bookkeeper or cashier must
have a certain amount of intelligence
and general education 10 begin with, and
must usually have taken some special
training In addition Some force OF char.
heter, some sustained and purposetul
effort is required before woman can
enter such a position
Tho place once secured, u cannot he
held without a considerable amount ~
patient application, ~ attention To unln,
tereatlng detail Of doing a thing because
n must he done and OF aarrihcing present
inclination 10 a definitely conceived plan
of action ny THAR very nature these
positions carry with them training and
discipline 0f hlsh value
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advantage 20 very limited extent
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