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Education to be broad must come
not only from books, but from travel,
experience and observation. One may
be able to calculate the inmate tiis
ances of the stars, or to translate
with, ease the yellowest parchment
from some ancient Egyptian tomb,
and still be uneducated. Education,
in its deepest sense, means first, the
knowledge of the why and wherefore
of ordinary things, with the appreci
ation of their importance in our lives,
and secondly, it means the knowledge
of the why and wherefore of things
uncommon which is possible only for
the so-called student.
"Education makes the man," de
velops character, and who can have
a noble character without a knowl
edge and understanding of the joys
and sorrows, failures and successes
of everyday life?
Believing this, the authorities at the
University of Nebraska have set aside
Friday, as a holiday, so that univer
sity students may be the guests of the
Omaha Commercial cluD for one day,
in order that they may see the prac
tical side of life as well as the theo
retical. The factories, packing houses,
WORKING GIRL TO
HAVE BIG INFLUENCE
MISS TAYLOR SPEAKS BEFORE
POVERTY AND DEPENDENCE
CLASS
Discusses How Poorer Girls Are
Helped in Meeting Problems of
Life
"In the evolution of commercial life,
the working girl is absolutely indis
pensable. She will play a great part
- in legislation and social reform in
the future," said Miss Clara I. Taylor,
national industrial secretary of the Y.
W. C. A-, before the "Poverty and De
pendence class, yesterday afternoon.
Miss Taylor is the Y. W. C. A. organ
izer of the Federation of Industrial
clubs in the middlewest, and she works
with the girls in the factories, stores,
five and ten cent stores, and canneries.
In her work she must know about the
labor market, she must know how to
cope with different nationalities, with
girls from all the different social
classes. The Federation of Industrial
clubs has as its policy, self-government
to develop Individual character and a
group consciousness. There are many
calls for volunteer workerB, who are
mostly all college graduates. The or
ganization is somewhat on the same
line as the national federation of
woman's clubs, except that it dealt
with the working girls.
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Point of View
wholesale houses, the large newspa
per offices, huge retail stores, the fa
mous art gallery all will be visited.
Every effort will be made to enaDle
the visitors to get some conception
of the vast number of industries in
the Gate City, our Gate City.
It has been rumored that the uni
versity women are not making the
enthusiastic, plans for the trip that
they should. Why is it? Surely It Is
"lady-like," for there will be plenty
of chaperons. The women need this
practical education as much aye,
even more than the men, for they
should know, when they have homes
of their own, how their breakfatet
bacon has been cured, how their eve
ning paper has been printed, and why
the wholesale houses make large pro
fits, as well as "the butter-and-egg
lady." A successful woman is suc
cessful only because she has made
the most of her opportunity. It la
not because she has made scholarly
records alone or mastered the do
mestic and economic problems of the
day, it is the combination of the two.
Let us not sit idly by, but be wide
awake and alert, ready to become
really "educated women."
Breaks Down Barriers
The Y. W. C. A. organizes the self
governing club in a factory which
helps to break down the barriers be
tween girls in different departments,
for there are many cliques and much
social distinction. "They are false bar
riers but very real," said Miss Taylor,
and she told of one factory where the
girls on one side of the room never
went on the other side of the room
except once a year at Christmas time,
for the factory's Christmas tree. The
club puts real responsibilities upon the
girls and developes Initiative and the
sense of responsibility.
Sometimes the barriers are not
false. Where the work Is clean girls
of much refinement are found and the
factory with the most rigid discipline
attracts the girls of higher ideals.
The council of each Industrial club
is composed of the president and vice
president who plan the educational
work for the year. Miss Taylor said
that it was rather staggering to realize
that the girls from the Munsing under
wear factory sent 200 baby shirts to
the visiting nurses' association last
Christmas; the North Star blanket fac
tory girls made bed socks and scarfs
from the worn ends of blankets for
the aged poor in the city; and in De
troit the club has a $1,000 loan fund
for girls out of employment, or those
who are 11L In many cities there are
hospital funds and the girls who are
members of this federation have the
privilege of the hospital beds at a
small price. For the girls wanting
more education there are scholarship
funds in business colleges.
"We often condemn the working
girl because of her dress, but it is
the only way girls have of expressing
themselves and their love of beauty,"
said Miss Taylor. "Many times they
come from unlovely homes, and should
have the privilege of dressing beauti
fully." Budget System New
The handling of budgets Is new to
many girls and savings accounts are
almost unknown- No girl has a right
to a savings account If ate Is making
less than $7 a week. On investigation
in St Paul It was found that a girl
could not buy clothes In the height of
season and she could not afford to be
ill at all. If she were making 7 a
week. These girls will soon be the
great spenders in homes of their own.
and the budget system Is a very im
portant item in their education.
DAILY HE B HAS
It Is very hard to learn practical
things after running a power machine
eight or nine hours a day, so, the fed
eration of clubs does its educational
work in three ways:" by vitalizing it,
visualizing it, and dramatizing it. In
one factory, it had an expert from a
shoe factory demonstrate the different
kinds of shoes and the impracticabil
ity of the white kid shoes and the high
French heels of this season. Thrift
In spending is more necessary than
thrift in saving. A milliner lectured
to the girls in another factory on per
ishability of hat material, utility, and
the style and harmony in millinery.
"We realize that we must build up
the physical and mental efficiency of
the girls if we are to realize our am
bitions," concluded Miss Taylor. "In
the evolution of the commercial life
the working girl is absolutely indis
pensable. She will play a great part
in legislative and social reform in the
future."
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