The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-25
UNICO CLUB PLANS EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY
SISTERHOOD NIGHT
 LARGELY ATTENDED
Miss Crowley Addressed Meeting at Beth Fl Syna.
 gOgue Last Night
THE NEW FREEDOM


 citizens was the statement made by Mss Kathleen Crowley in talk given at the Sisterhood night ob- seryance at Beth El synagogue last evening. Rabbi Harry E. Schwartz talked on Woman and the Syn agogue', in which he said that the Jews viewpoint of woman is as Il and 2 hejpmate.
 Miss Crowley said: we have more wealth. more leisure and more of the comforts of life to-day than we ever have had. Our leisure hours are growing longer and If we want to get the most out of life we must plan as carefully for our hours of play as we do for our working hours.
 For a long time we seemed ,ob- sessed with the idea that to enjoy tional organizations with large work ing staffs to teach the wisest and best ways of spending leisure time.
 we are not concerned tonight with men and leisure. A man must work hard to maintain his family decently. After that he should use his time and energy to live his real life after work hours.
 If had my way every woman would devote much of. her time to the pursuit of beauty. Not the beauty one anncxes from lotions. creams or what not nor by following Fannie Ward and Edna Wallace Hoppers' footsteps. This. at best. Is but transitory. The beauty 1 have in mind never dies.
 First of all comes the Beautiful Mother--and every one of us who has had such one knows that long after her words or advice have been forgotten her lovely influence con- tinues in an ever increasing manner sacred in life. You might question me here by inquiring If beautiful mother Is not born rather than ready made? The answer 1t seems to me Is that preparing for this type of motherhood would take all of the leisure one could possibly find.
 Next comes the beauty of wo- man that takes time to be a friend. To have friends whose lives we can make happy or sad by our Influence is one of life's greatest gifts. And here too we must plan our way care fully.
 My next thought reminds me of the great fight women have waged
  freedom. Whether this freedom has ben an unmixed blessing can be de- bated most violently pro and con.
 Personally l think that in many cases this new freedom is cause for saddness rather than rejoicing. Some of us insist upon telling the world that women can do any work that men can do. Is this really cause for rejoicing? Is 1t worth anything at all--really?
 This world Is often desperately difficult place to be happy in. Then In the hours when we don't have to quire the art of being friendly. Wo- men spend so much time in scram- bling for unimportant advantages over each other and when this type of woman passes on she leaves, in- stead of the friends she might have made happier who would remember her gentle influence always, only erstwhile acquaintances mourn for her half heartedly ana then forget her forever.
 Women, far moro than man, have powers by which she can make the world a more decent place in which to live.
 How man women neglect worth
 
 place attempt to club more or less recaIcitrant legislatures into grant ing questionable privileges which the majority of women do not want, when, if the same amount of energy were put into studying their own problems they'd have a much better place In which chill dren might grow up in surroundings healthier, happier and morally wholesome. No community can rise higher than the ideals of its women citizens. Why not, then in our hours of ease interest ourselves in some phase of community work and again make others happier as well as our selves.
 For example, within the last few years we have awakened to the fact that every one of our states has q Housing Problem. We have learned that our working people. as a rule. are poorly housed. We have been startled into realizing that In some of our states the poor have appar- ently no legal right to sunlight. air and water and that in many of our cities only those who can. afford to pay for these commodities get them. Ruskin said once, that In six thou sand years of building we have not OT.
 Don't misunderstood me. It has been the custom to blame the poor for their surroundings on the ground that they are shiftless and dirty. Then the landlord has come into limelight upon occasion But the old time builder. the architect of an earlier day-mOst' of all the citizens are responsible for poor housing con ditions and if there be any truth in the statement ''the home Is the key to good citizenship" then let's have better homes. You can let people live like pigs and expect them to make god citizens" said Jacob Riis. The inefficiency of the workingman power and causing the dependency of his family must also be charged against wretched housing conditions wish the women of this country in their hours of leisure would stop chasing rainbows and try to find the best means of making this a nation, not of tenements but of homes.
 Let's sum 1t all up. For real liv- ing we need beauty. knowledge, ideals, pictures. books. songs. danc- ing, travel, games. adventures, TO- nance. friendships. companionship, mind touching mind, as Rabbi Silver OHCo EcCOHlHlcUueu, uHu IL u6eU dnu abiding love and trust in our fellow man.
 "Woman has more leisure than ever before In the history of the world, more freedom than our grand mothers ever dreamed of but as leading clergyman once remarked. Unless woman can get out of her new freedom motherhood as con- aecrated, spiritual quality as fine. idealism as exalted. religious faith as enabling ns distinguished previous