The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-26
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changing. The child is transferred to
the Doshkolni (Pre-school Center)
where in a similar manner it is being
cared for; from there it is taken to
kindergarten, and from kindergarten
to school. Thus, with the exception
of the four months interruption, the
mother need not sacrifice her career,
nor need she fear That her children
will be neglected by her absence from
home, but on the contrary, is assured
that under scientific and sympathetic
guidance her child is better off than
under the loving but prevalent ignor-
ant care of the average mother.
Social, Not Individual. 1
OF course, | do not mean to paint
you picture of paradise, we are
keenly aware of our limitations. We
are aware, in fact, that you have
been experimenting, and perhaps have
institutions far superior to ours, but
the significance lies in the fact that
instead OF your isolated experiments
sponsored here and there by private
enterprise, we here are a part of the
whole, part of the gigantic program
in our national scheme for the adj
vancement and improvement of living
conditions.
National Organization.
We have today powerful and wide
spread organization of the "Protec-
ton of Maternity and Infancy" an
organization originally created by the
government Department of Health,
but which has gone much farther
since, including the social and cul-
tural development of the woman.
They not only promote the growth of
the yaslis and kindergarten but they
go further in establishing mothers
and childrcr's horaes for widowed and
deserted, orphans homes, GONZALES
cent homes, summer vacation homes,
legal aid bureaus, community restaur-
ants and clubs, community kitchens
where cooked food could be taken
home for the family. Great import
ance is attached to the latter, as they
relieve the woman of her house
drudgery, thus affording her rest
after work; the clubs an opportunity
for recreation, self development and
participation in the affairs of her
country.
! For The Masses.
( In short, we working women are
doing for ourselves what is being
done by the privileged few in your
country. You have demonstrated to
US the possibilities. Your grand
scale cooperative apartment houses
and hotels with their nurseries, play
grounds. club rooms, restaurants and
commissaries, all but failed to benefit
those who are in need of them most.
Destruction OF the Home.
And yet, to those prejudiced
against our present form of govern
ment, who see in it nothing but red
terror. the rule of tha rift-raff, can
not but fail to comprehend what
may go on behind the scenes of that
terror. They cannot see that heEind
the apparent chaos something sys-
tematic and tangible is being born
and they point to the foregoing meas
ures as the alarming indication of the
destruction of the Home Foundation.
But any honest and intelligent OBJ
server, before passing judgement, will
first pause and look about himself,
find out what is happening TO the
home in his own land. The violent
homequakes and frequent divorces in
the countries of rigid law as COM
pared with ours where marriage and
divorce have been so simplified as to
become the sole affair of the two con-
tracing parties cannot but conclude
that nowhere today is the foundation
sound, that in this age of rapid
changes in the entire scheme of living,
the home continues on it's steady de-
cline and that if it is to survive
readjustment of it is necessary and
a complete change in the status Of
the woman.
The Basis of Equality.
We believe that only on the basis
of equality can the home be sustained,
but that the woman can never be-
come mans equal unless she frees
herself from the social, moral, spirit
ual and intellectual limitations to
which the narrow home environment |
has subjected her. The combining !
walls of home, then, must go lest we,
like the pioneer women of yore who
were called upon to stand side by side
with men only to slump back into de-