The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-01-28

worth it-he doesn't long to be an
angleworm again. Likewise, society
has paid the price for its evolution;
but with this difference-the radicals
want TO return TO the angleworm
stage again.
After all, it's a good world. Com
petitive democracy has been kind to
most of US. The newsboy may become
a president or a millionaire. I'm not
quite so great an optimist as the SOL
der who, when he discovered that he
had lost both of his feet, remarked,
"0h, well, they were always cold any
how" But can't see what the radi-
Gals are SO excited about.
| Recently Mrs. Trusler overhead two
colored women talking on the street.
as you married, sister," questioned
one. Eyes, honey" was the reply. "T
has. husband; he's some devilish in
places, but he acks like daddy and
nanny bofe to me-" Just so / think
of our free democracy: 1t may be
some devilish in places. but it's like
| a daddy and nanny both to me,
and | will not go back on it.
We cannot help the war of the
classes. The radical has revolted,
organized and tasted blood. For him
it is all or nothing. He aims to con-
quer the government, to destroy ma
tionalism, to smother patriotism. The
socialist in the minority tends to be-
come the Bolshevist in the majority.
He does not espouse democracy; he In
guilty of ignorance or cowardly de-
Iception when he says the form of gov
eminent he advocates is ultimate
democracy"
We cannot prevent the conflict, but
we can determine which side is to
win. The success of which side
viii best secure the welfare of the
people? Will best ameliorate the
problems of pauperism and destitu-
ton? Will best promote the cause of
social service? We should decide and
specify the right form of govern
mental environment in the blue print
of social service. Hitherto, the activi-
ties Of social workers have been along
the practical lines of natural growth,
not of artificial processes.
The boy goes wrong. We do not try
to destroy the energy which has
brought him into conflict with the
law. We do not seek to punish him.
We send him to the industrial school,
instruct his mind and normalize his
interests, and as soon as possible, re-
turn him, with added force and use-
lfulness, to the activities of his own
M This La, 4.
natural law and democratic institu-
tions.
| The girls urge, of life united with
unhappy opportunity brings her t.
Isocially forbidden conduct. We do
not seek to Danish Athe bloom OF
young desire and purple light OF
love" but at her own industrial school
Ideftly direct the forces of her life
into more profitable ways and finer
Womanhood. This is in harmony with
natural law and democratic institu-
tons.
i The soldier returns to US shattered
in mind and body. We do not say
Look, here's wounded hero. let's
take him to the movies and give him
tea" We place him in an institution
where nature may knit up the raveleG
4 threads Of frayed mind We stimu-
late his ambition and independence
and train the remnant of his body into
La new instrument through which his
Ienergies may run to work of social
value. This is in harmony with nat.
lpral law and democratic institutions.
Likewise, our Y. M. C. A, Y. w
4 G. A. and Red Cross work, our voca-
tlonal training, and our methods OF
dealing with the problems of destitu-
ton and pauperism, all reject the
lpaternalistic spirit and agree with
Nautilus, ct is in the highest degree
important to the general happiness OF
the poor that no man shall look to
charity as a fund upon which he may
confidently depend" This being SO
may not social workers look askance
at theories of communistic govern
Iment accepted by no professional
economist save one, (according to
the New international Encyclopedias
that at best endanger liberty and in.
dependence; that reduce all of us, re.
lgardless of our wishes, to the status
of men and women hired to the state;
that, TO speak mildly, contribute tc
the least efficient or productive the
permanent charity or bounty of the
!. Istate; and that, as expressed in Rus.
STA, realize their dreams of social
equality by numbering those who
. have committed the unforgiveable
, crime of learning to read and write
I It is one thing to deal justly anC
! generously with the unfortunate, ig.
Inorant and needy. We should do this
i It is another thing to allow them tC