Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-07-25
TOO MUCH PLAY,
RABBI CLAIMS
Men and Women Shun Work
for Pleasure.

PHILADELPHIA. Pa. July %
There arc servant troubles because all
too many of our women seek vicpr and
health on tennis court and golf links.
when they might obtain q far better
supply Of red blood Corpusclcs by spend
ing equally az much time at the Kitchen
stove ut the washtub. or at the SOW in
machine" said Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf,
il discourse on Too Much Play"
Practice Of business men who avoid
an the work possible To avoid was men
toned also in a comparison OF the need
twenty years ago of gospel Of relax
alton with the need now for a gospel
OF work.
In constantly increasing numbers. %
said the rabbi. young women are IS
ignorant Of domestic works as is new
born babe. Large parts Of their days
are spent in bed, the other parts IN
idlius, primpinS. dress parading, CAD
ding, pleasure seeking, money spend
ing.
There is a lack OF SERVANTS because
all too many Of our mothers and wives,
of our sisters aud daughters. are
wholly dependent upon them. are igno-
rant Of even the simplest household
work, know nOt-no matter how pro-
playing. horseback riding, dancing,
dress paradinE, face painung-know not
is much as how 10 boil an egg or how
TO peel a potato, or how TO make a cup
Of coffee or make i bed, OF sweep the
floor. or wash the dishes
There are servant trouble because
all too many Of our women look upon
domestic work as mental, degrading,
unbefittinS d lady, fit only for interiors.
There are servant troubles because the
class Of girls who formerly took posi-
tons as cooks and maids-when such
work as theirs was made honorable by
the participation in it by the mistress OF
the home and her daughters seeing their
miStresSeS nowadays victims Of the work
stunning and pleasure seeking disease.
have caught the disease themselves They
seek employment i'm factories, mills. shops.
Where they are required TO work but
eight hours a day, where they have every
evening and half of Saturday and all OF
SUnday Off. to be spent on plea sure in
diligence, in the dance halls, at the
thearerS. in motor trips in street parad-
inS and the like.
Nv hat Is true Of many OF our working
women IS yet truer of FAR larger numbers
Of our laborinS men. They. too. are
stricken with the work stunning and
pleasure seeking disease.
The shortening Of the hours of work
and the lenEtheninC Of the hours Of play
are the besettiug sin of modern day so
oiety; are responsible for not few Of
our social sing. our dissertation Of the
Sabbath. our SpVrning of religion, our
sxtravaganceS. immoralities. Infdelties,
nfelicites. They are responsible for not
a little of the bitter conflicts between
capital and labor. between employer and
employee They are ,sp0nsible for a large
part Of the insuGiciency and ineficiency
Of labor. aud for the consequent high
cost Of living
What is needed is a clearer conception
than now obtains OF the dignity Of labor
and Of the purpose Of play.
There must be stop to the con-
sPicuous prominence given to sport in
the colleges, in the press. in society
There must be lessening Of loafnE and
idlins in the home and in the shop. There
must be a deepening and frightening of
the dignity of labor, Of the pleasure of
work. There must, at the present time.
be less Of the preachment oe the gospel
Of relaxation and more of the preach