THE COMING DAY
The Coming Day A GAIN Christmas comes and the New Year be- gins with the horror of war saddening the heart of the world. The customary joyous greetings come less easily before the spectacle of half...
...Indiana is now suggesting that Purdue University send out women throughout that state to co-operate with the farmers' wives whenever assistance is requested by the farm women...
...Consecrated to the general progress, it is a means of civilization and of liberty...
...We feel confident in asserting that the passage of this wise and necessary legislation by the Sixty-third Congress was one of its distinctions...
...I can't live on $4 a week...
...property 41...
...We should, therefore, lose no time in registering our emphatic protests with members of the Sixty-fourth Congress in favor of the maintenance and the proper enforcement of the Seamen's Act...
...God, I've tossed in my bed night after night, trying to find some other solution...
...They DO want Peace...
...The customary joyous greetings come less easily before the spectacle of half the Christian world in murderous conflict...
...But there is, at this dreadful time of world conflict, a special and imperative need for the people's representatives comporting themselves wisely, disinterestedly and devotedly to the end that American ideals shall not suffer...
...That goes without saying...
...On Guard IN its comprehensive and vigorous report at the recent annual convention in San Francisco, the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor has this to say concerning the Seamen's Law and the ship-owners' conspiracy against it: This measure marks a great forward step in the march of human freedom and progress...
...Heap will try and help Lillian as an individual...
...Never was there higher call to great statesmanship...
...The story of the hearing is thus told: Judge Heap heard her case this morning...
...Figures which have just been made public by Secretary Cochran of the civil service commission give the distribution of women among the various departments as follows: social welfare 110...
...The girl won her point...
...Your crime is on the heads of men who pay starvation wages...
...Lillian's answer made the judge look thoughtfully through the windows on Chicago's skyscrapers which represent so much wealth...
...There are thousands of Lillians all over the country Their fate cries out to society...
...One by one, communities are re-creating them into pulsing centers of neighorhood life...
...It is a time for stifling all peanut politics and petty prejudices...
...Down in Springfield today social workers are trying to help all department store girls through the fight for the minimum wage bill...
...Above all, let there be no wavering at the self-ish behest of financial and manufacturing interests whose Patriotism is the patriotism of Profits...
...TO SEE a man fearless in danger, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult and laughing at all those things which are generally coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.—Seneca...
...But have we not passed other birthdays of the Prince of Peace—have we not begun other New Years in consciousness of the fact that Christian employers were oppressing Christian children, that Christian money kings were shooting down Christian toilers, that Christian financiers were looting a Christian people, that Christian politicians were betraying a Christian citizenship...
...Here is an instance, however, where they tell an inspiring stosy...
...Under the guise of antagonizing the shipping bill favored by the present national administration, and which was withdrawn during the closing days of last Congress, the National Chamber of Commerce submitted for a referendum vote to its 600 affiliated local chambers of commerce, and other trade bodies representing some 300,000 business men, several propositions including the following: Subsidies from the government sufficient to offset difference in the cost between operation of vessels under the American flag, and operation in the same deep sea trades under foreign flags...
...improvements 6; finance 28...
...This table shows what responses came back from a questionaire sent out to nine hundred school principals in Wisconsin: 1910-11 1912-13 1913-14 1914-15 Number of responses 176 441 491 573 Schoolhouses used as community centers 86 265 384 509 Total number of community meetings 1265 2452 7932 9031 Neighborhood assemblies organized 5 15 111 200 Principals undertake secretaryship 1 8 80 152 Schoolhouses as polling places 12 50 72 109 Principals as voting clerks 0 0 8 17 Seating provision for adults 12 74 180 242 Young people organized 24 60 102 204 Schoolhouses equipped with Gym 0 12 51 130 Library used by community 55 271 298 479 Systems employing community secretaries 0 1 2 7 The Social Center department of the University of Wisconsin may well feel gratified at this evidence of progress...
...And Congress must take heed...
...Unremitting vigilance will thwart the insidious and unscrupulous machinations of the Sihpping Lobby...
...Lillian's indictment of our social order cannot be passed over with mere sympathy...
...It's the right to live I'm asking...
...It is the time for Service...
...They DO want internal problems of social, political and economic injustice settled...
...But let it be with steady hand, clear eye and comprehending mind...
...Shall we not then find comfort this year in filling our hearts with the vision of the day to come when Christ enters wholly into His Own...
...And when the girl, between choked sobs, had gotten halfway in her arraignment of the millionaire department stores the owl-like sternness of the veteran jurist, who has heard so many hardened tales in the morals court, was replaced by a look of sympathetic tenderness...
...It is one of the first measures that the A. P. of L. urged Congress to enact into law...
...If I give you one more chance will you be a better girl...
...The people of this country do not want their international policies determined by War Orders...
...INSTRUCTION, like riches," can be a source of either good or evil, according to the intention with which it is used...
...Opportunities for organization will be extended, seamen in other countries will enjoy its beneficent influence, the general public who travel on the high seas will be afforded a larger measure of safety provisions...
...It isn't a question of reforming...
...she asked earnestly...
...What can I do, your honor...
...Let the light be thrown in dark places—yes...
...It will improve the working conditions of seamen...
...It removes the last vestige of involuntary servitude from the laws of the United States...
...And in finding its school, the community is really finding itself...
...I don't like to see a girl like you here," said the judge, and his voice was very low and humane...
...It is, therefore, necessary that our membership be alert to the dangers confronting the people of the United States, because there is no question, but what the vested interests will exert themselves to the fullest extent to defeat the meritorious principles contained in the La Follette Seamen's Act...
...You're not the sort of girl who should be here...
...A Momentous Session CONGRESS, again assembled, faces considerations of nation welfare that may make this session one of the most momentous in our history...
...IF YOU WISH to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.—Joseph Addison...
...Never have the eyes of the country been fixed more intently upon the national capital...
...Of course the "business" controlled legislature of Illinois turned down the humane proposal to require industries to provide a living wage for women and girl workers...
...Social Center Progress FIGURES are not always interesting...
...safety 6; auditors 2; elections commission 5; civil service commission 2. * * * Women As Farm Agents WOMEN farm agents in Illinois are assisting the women living in the rural districts of that state...
...The Right To Live L AST Spring the Chicago Day Book gave an ac-count of an underpaid department store girl whose efforts to better her financial condition led her into the Morals Court...
...And in the face of Lillian's bitter cry against the wages of department stores, no one else could answer...
...Each member should ever be conscious of his high duty to maintain the spirit of our institutions...
...Any industry that exists upon the souls and bodies of girls is a parasitic demon that sucks the life blood from our civilization...
...A continuous, persistent campaign has been made against the measure by the great financial interests of the nation under the management of the Chamber of Commerce...
...The people of Wisconsin are coming to see the true value and meaning of their school plants...
...Their work is to help them solve their problems as agricultural agents have helped the farmer to solve his...
...It should not be permitted to exist...
...The cupidity and greed of not only the shipping interests of the United States, but the shipping interests of the whole maritime world are so aroused that they will leave no stone unturned nor hesitate to stoop to any subterfuge to defeat the law and the wise, humanitarian and safety provisions which it contains...
...They DO want strict neutrality maintained...
...The wars of Peace are no less an affront to the Christmas spirit than the wars of War...
...Neither do they want a terrible militaristic Frankenstein saddled upon them and their children in the seductive name of "preparedness...
...Judge Heap could not answer this...
...The vote upon these propositions was overwhelmingly in favor of the one quoted...
...Not alone the labor unionist, but every other good citizen should make "emphatic protest" to his representative in Congress...
...used only for personal advantage, it becomes a means of tyranny and corruption.—Mazzini...
...Women in Civil Service OUT of the 1,500 employees of the city and county of Denver, 200 are women...
...Don't think I haven't tried hard before I weakened...
...I've scraped, I've skipped meals, I've worn second-hand clothes, and still I can't make $4 cover my expenses...
...Nevertheless we find it to be a painful duty to call attention to the fact that a great danger still confronts this valuable piece of legislation...
Vol. 7 • December 1915 • No. 12
