Meanwhile, before the machinery of a full legislative program can be set to work, the field is open for voluntary philanthropic endeavor.  Welfare work in stores and factories that is done by some one who acts, not as a detective with condescending side interests in welfare, but whole-heartedly and sympathetically can avail much.  Real social work in business establishments should be profitable to employers as well as to employees.  The aim of all public and private effort should be to make industry not the occasion of stumbling, but what it should be, the universal means of progress.

FOOTNOTES: 

[2] Statistical Abstract of U.S., p. 163. (1911.)

[3] Woman and Child Wage-Earners in U.S., vol.  IX, p. 20; “History of Women in Industry.”

[4] A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil, chap.  I.

[5] A Trade School for Girls, U.S.  Bureau of Education, Bulletin no. 17, pp. 52 ff.(1913.)

[6] Portland, Oregon, Vice Commission, Report, p. 188. (1913.)

[7] Social Basis of Religion.

[8] Social Survey Committee of Consumers’ League of Oregon, Report, pp. 21, 22.

[9] Ibid., p. 24.

[10] Massachusetts Commission on Minimum Wage Boards, Report, pp. 51, 114, 157.

[11] Ibid., p. 191.

[12] Report of Massachusetts Commission, as above cited, p. 188.

[13] Ibid., p. 114.

[14] Woman and Child Wage-Earners, vol.  V. The cities included were Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and St. Louis.

[15] By “adrift” is meant the condition of a self-supporting woman who is alone or of a widow with children to support.

[16] Report of Massachusetts Commission, p. 213.

[17] Ibid., p. 222.

[18] Report of Portland Vice Commission, p. 165.

[19] Morning Oregonian, July 24, 1913.

[20] Referred to on p. 211 of the Report of the Massachusetts Commission on Minimum Wage Boards.

[21] Woman and Child Wage-Earners, vol.  XV, pp. 81, ff.; “Relation of Occupation and Criminality of Women.”

[22] Report of Portland Vice Commission, p. 176.

[23] Report of Portland Vice Commission, p. 176.

[24] Scott Nearing, Wages in the United States, pp. 208, ff.

[25] American Labor Legislation Review, vol.  III, no. 1, p. 88.

[26] Social Diseases, vol.  III, no. 3, p. 9.

[27] See Portland Vice Commission Report, p. 193; also Woman and Child Wage-Earners, vol.  XV.

[28] Portland Vice Commission Report, p. 192.

[29] E.R.  Seligman, The Social Evil, Introduction.

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