The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-05
MISS JANE ADDAMS OF HULL
HOUSE TALKS TO CLUB
DELEGATES.

:,
en- who take mems places because
OF demands OF war conditions may
have an opportunity to improve a
least some OF the methods" used ii
to Miss Jane Addams OF Hull House
Chicago, who last night addressed
the general Federation OF Women
Clubs on The Worlds Food Sup
ply and Womans' Obligation She
c!ted the distribution of milk 4,
one instance in which improvement
might be made, said woman Ger
tainly are under obligations to main
tain labor Standards and added :
1T may be easier for them than
it IS tor men to obtain some of these
results on the same principle that
it is always easier to secure legls-
lation limiting the hours OF women
i'll industry than it is to secure the
SAME legislation for men.
From the time we were little
children we have all OF us, at mo-
ments at least, cherished over
whelming desires to be of use in
the great world, to play conscious
part in its progress. The difficulty
always has been in attaching our
vague purposes to the routine of our
daily living, in making synthesis
between our ambitions to cure the
ills of the world on the one hand
and the need to conform 10 house
hold requirements on the other.
1T is a very significant part OF
the situation, therefore, chat at this
worlds crisis the two have become
absolutely essential to each other.
A great world purpose cannot be
achieved without our participation
founded upon an intelligent under
standing-and at the same time the
demand can be met only ii it IS
attached to our domestic routine,
its very success depending upon Il
conscious change and modification
OF cur daily habits.
Is Compelling Challange.
at is no slight understanding to
make this synthesis, it is probably
the most compelling challenge
which has been made upon woman's
constructive powers for centuries.
They must exert all their human at
lection and all their clarity OF mind
in order to make the great moral
adjustment which the situation de-
mandS.
Students OF primitive society be-
lieve that women were the first ag-
riculturists and were for long
tine the only inventors and devel-
opers of its processes. The men
OF the tribe did little for cuitivating
the soil beyond clearing the space
and sometimes surrounding it by
rough protection. In some tribes
it became a fixed belief that seeds
would not grow il planted by man.
In Central Africa TO this cay a wo-
man may obtain a divorce if her
husband fails TO provide her with a
garden and hoe.
Students OF the origin Of social
customs contend that the change
from the wastful nomadic life to a
settled mode OF fexistence may be
fairly attributed to these primitive
agricultural women. We can easily
imagine that when the hunting was
poor or when the flocks needed
new pasture, that the men of the
trihe would be for moving on, but
that the women might insist that
they could not possibly go until the
crops were garnered. The desire
TO grow food for her children led
to fixed abode and a real house
from which our domestic morality |
and customs are supposed to have
European visitors never cease to |
marvel at the leisure OF American |
women, OF the very sort from whom
club women are largely drawn. The
woman is not, however.
of her responsibilities and
il is well If she has so utilized her
leisure that at this
in response TO great cri-
IS. she is able to enlarge her con-
,eption of duty in such wise that
he consciousness OF the worlds
needs becomes the actual impulse
)f her daily activities.
Men Took the Money.
We are told that when the crops
u grain and roots so painstakingly
Produced by primitive women be-
.an to have a commercial value that
heir production and exchange was
AIKEN over by men, as they later
ook over the manufacturing of pot
cry and other woman'S early III
Such a history. Of course.
AT illustrates that the present sit
aiior: MAY be woman's opportun-
" II only because foods at this mo- :
iert are no longer being regarded
,oza their money making value hut /:
rom the point OF view OF their iiu-
IAN use.