Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03
WIFE MUST MAKE
HOME FIRES BRIGHT"
Dr. Tuft Tells Social Workers at
Shore Family Should Re-
place Saloon Ties
MARRIAGE IS WORTH WHILE
sy a star Correspondent


Atlantic City, N. j., June 3.-Friend
wife must make the home fires more
attractive to console 'hubbie" for the
loss of the saloon. in the opinion of
DR.. James H. Tufts, professor of
philosophy at the University of Chicago.
Doctor Tuf.s warned the women of
America of the new domestic responsi-
bility prohibition gives them in a talk
on the family before the forty sixth
annual convention of the National Con-
ference on Social Work.
Doctor Tufts and Porter r. Lee, di-
rector Of the School Of Social Work,
New York, dissected the family for the
5000 social workers, scientists and up
lift workers, who are in Atlantic City
to organize a reconstruction social pro-
gram, for the after war days.
Doctor Tufts told how the war has
improved the family, and Mr.. Lee told
how far from perfect the family still is.
Good Housing in Demand
q The war has encouraged early mar :
riages, has brought income tax exemp-
ton to stimulate larger families, has in
creased the value of the home because
of prohibition and established a higher
wage standard and greater demands for
good housing. This is the conclusion of
Doctor Tufts.
''The enactment of prohibition" he
said, is likely to throw a new RESPONSE
bility upon the home, as well as to give
it new opportunity for the wife and
husband to be together more. The re-
sponsibility is to provide such substi
tutes for the older allurements from
home as shall afford recreation for both
man and wife, and, II possible, for the
whole family together
Mr.. Lee, in describing the fabric of
the family" said it must now meet the
new test of its value to democratic or
ganization of life. He told of the de-
fects of the family, but concluded that
1t is still something worth holding on to-
He said:
"There are those who maintain that
all the values of democratic organiza-
ton of life found in the family could be
developed in another kind of institution
which would not be subject to some of
the family's grave weaknesses. Proposals
for modification of the family as an in
stitution vary all the way from pro-
posals for retaining it in its present
form subject to more stringent control,
perhaps, more effective marriage laws,
to proposals for its entire abolition. For
every broken home there are no doubt
many which, though preserving the out
ward form of solidarity, have some Of
the high values by which family life in
other homes has been sanctified.
1.-THE divorce rate is increasing. We
have evolved the domestic relations
court in order to do justice to disor-
ganized families. The law. gives an
autocratic control over their children to
parents, which is not tolerated in other
human relationships. The law permits
marriage under circumstances which
I make harmony and solidarity impossible
from the beginning. Beyond a doubt
, many of our present conventions in re :
gard to the family are anachronisms.
Society will not eliminate the family,
for just as it was born of society's
need, so is it vital in society's contin-
ued life and development"
Rebuild Belgium ON U. s. Lines
Is Belgium will rebuild her industries
along American lines, DR.. Rene Sand,
a captain in the Belgian army and
noted for his medical work il indus
trial plants, said today.
Doctor Sand is attending the national
conference of social work to learn how
welfare work Is done in American man
ufacturing plants and to tell his plan
for the medical man the center. of com.
munity social service.
The Belgian was specialist at the
great royal hospital in Lepanne, the
headquarters Of King Albert during the
war. He came to America six weeks
ago to study American industry and
social methods.