The day book. [volume], August 25, 1914, LAST EDITION, Image 11

About The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917

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"ORGANIZE TO AVERT HUMAN SLAUGHTER,"
SAYS JANE ADDAMS IN PEACE ADDRESS
BYJANEADDAMS.
(From an Address Before the Second
Annual Peace Congress, Chicago.)
Men very early learned to do things
together, because they were obliged
to fight together; one of the things
which war bequeathed to mankind
and to the male portion of mankind
was this ability to go out together,
to go in tribes, to go in phalanxes, to
go in regiments, to go in whatever
body of men was the safest to those
who were fighting, and to bring the
most destruction to those whom they
were fighting against
But we women never had thi&
training. It is said that even when
women were used as beasts of bur
den, which began very early, one wo
man always went by herself or went
with another beast, but two women
never pulled together!
Whether thas is true or not, I think
it is certainly true that the thing!
which is happening now to this spe
cial generation of women is the abil
ity and the learning how to act to
gether. At last women are learning to pull
together, to pull in bodies. We may
call those bodies clubs or we may
call them benefit societies, or we may
call them this, that and the other,
but they are all bodies of women as
such, and they are going out to do
away with.such evil as they .see and
to bring about such good as they may
be able to perform.
There is one thing which the the
ory of evolution has given to us.
It is very hard for us to detach our
selves from the past. That is, wheth
er we call ourselves evolutionists or
not, whether we think much about it
or not, it has so changed our point
of view that unconsciously we rea
lize we are children of the past.
The things which we are now are
the results of the things which have
gone before us. If at last in the full
ness of time it has come about that
Anglo-Saxon women have received a
larger measure of freedom, if they
can go to clubs without being accused
by the men of their family, or by the
newspapers, which are often much
worse, of neglecting their children at
home, in their cradles; if various
things have happened so that we can.
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without detaching ourselves too
much from the past, organize into
these clubs and movements, it is now
up to us if I may use that phrase
to see what we are going to do with
this power of organization and with
this new ability to act together.
If men learned it in fighting, it may
be harder for them to forget the
method ty wnich. they learned it It