The Washington times., 1917-11-18


thTopsts is that Of aOho stand at the bottom of
prectpice gathering up and trying to heal those ivho
i them from going over."
Thus Dr. Anna a. Shaw, the powerful and triumph
ant worker for woman suffrage, speaks in her intensely
Interesting autobiography The Story of Pioneer pub
hshed by Mr.. Brsinard, boss of Harper & Brothers.
While she attending college and preparing herself
for the ministry Dr. Shaw worked among the unforunates
IN the streets. Said she:
''I soon learned that the effective work is the
work which is done for women before not AFTER,
they have fallen.'
The that does not break china is more valuable
than the other that CLUES together pretty well after
broken
This powerful picture is philanthropy at the wrong end
of the cliff of misfortune
The work that dozens do at the bottom Of the Cliff and
do badly could be done we by three they would
50 to the top and prevent the falls
There is too much activity reserved for the woman in the
gutter and the man In prison And this applies only
individual phlanthrOpiss trying to do good when ii is
late but especially to government which interests itself in
human beings when interest longer do any good
The man In rags, wandering desperate through the
Streets attracts attention except suspicious look from
the policeman As long he only starves and THINKS of
the choice between crime and DEATH he is completely unin
teresting.
But let him commit his crime and land in prison. and the
government viii do possible hire experts dis
his sanity paying them necessary thousand dol
iars day.
Il has often the public two hundred thousand dollars
@ to land safely strapped in the electric Chairand
perhaps two dollars and ten kind words at the right time
could have saved the large sum and the of electric
rmt
Prevention is the modern scientific philanthropy
This fact is embodied in the word prevenorium
which Nathan Saus invented and applied the work of
philanthropy established by him. taking children from poor
surroundings to for them in time and PREVENT their
getting consumption.
Prevention also is the work that Nathan sraus does
when he provides pure clean milk for children building
them up at the beginning saving them from dseaseens
Of thousands Of them.
That is marvellous Improvement on waiting until dis
ease has done its work. and trying to help little but not
much.
When Jenner discovered that vaccination would prevent
smallpox he did with five minutes intense thought and sub
quent experiment than could have been done by ten
million doctors trying to cure smallpox PREVENTED it.
His work has saved millions Of human beings from hOr
Fibls death.
Nathan sraus work has saved thousands of children
from death in infancy and has educated the nation.
Paseur added billions to the wealth Of his country by
showing how to prevent disease plants animals and men,
By attacking the source
When will charity philanthropy benevolence kindness
and all the other wemeanng forces at the bottom of the
cliff climb to the top and build fence strong solid and
high OF kindness, wise laws sanitary prevention good
instead Of waiting below to help when help means
nothing.
Very slowly learn to at things in the right way.
For hundreds Of centuries sewed with sharp point
at end Of needle and hole for thread the other
Gavages used such needles made Of horns hundred thou
sand years before the Pyramids built and civilized
women stitched away their lives with similar needles made
of steel until recently.
Then occurred to to put the point of the
needle and the eye Of the needle at the end That
idea made the sewing machine possible saved the eyesght
and nerves Of millions Of women. 80
Another genius Combined electricity with the sewing
machine another saving, another prevsntion
philanthropy and misfortune were together at the
top end Of this cliff instead Of being ct opposite ends this
would be better world
porous friends and what you and they do about
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