year. This is an exceedingly social neighborhood, due in part to the fact 

 that its people are so closely inter-related, and there is in consequence a 

 great deal of social visiting. If it is true that the problem of the main- 

 tenance of a high standard of social morality is very vitally connected with 

 the problem of providing adequate recreation facilities, then one would 

 expect to find here, what is actually found, that the moral plane is 

 quite above the average. The term moral is used in a broad sense. 

 It is evident that not only are all gross violations of the accepted con- 

 ventions quite absent; but also the lesser vices of social intercourse, 

 those things which are the making of neighborhood scandals, the gos- 

 sipings and petty dishonesties are conspicuously absent. The discipline 

 of the Friends' meeting admonishes its members to observe simplicity, 

 to encourage kindness and gentle dignity and to guard against corrupt 

 conversation. The spirit of this discipline prevailing in the community 

 means the cultivation of social virtues of high order. 



The entire organization of the community, in fact, serves this same 

 end. This is not the place to discuss the characteristics of the Friends' 

 religion, other than to say that it is a religion that concerns itself vitally 

 with the affairs of common life, with the dress and conversation and the 

 daily deportment of its people. The meeting occupies a much larger 

 place in the total life of the neighborhood than a church usually fills 

 in this age. 



We have reserved the discussion of the real social impact of such 

 institutions as the Club and the Meeting for a later paragraph. The one 

 aspect of the religious life which concerns us here is the philanthropic 

 work of the Meeting. A new plan has just been adopted for carrying 

 out this philanthropic work, which a member of the Meeting, in a letter 

 to the investigators, describes as follows: 



"That the whole meeting be constituted a philanthropic committee, 

 with a call during our business proceedings in the second, fifth, eighth, 

 and eleventh months: 



"That a superintendent be appointed for each branch of our philan- 

 thropic work, to make a detailed report to the Meeting at least once a 

 year, in the eighth month, and at other periods as they deem necessary: 



"That the following branches of social service be selected: 



"Peace and arbitration. 



"Purity and Demoralizing Publications. 



"Work among Colored People, also for Women and Children. 

 . "Tobacco and Narcotics. 



"Temperance, Prisons, Asylums and Hospitals. 



"Lotteries, Gambling and Kindred Vices. 



"Equal Rights for Women." 



The variety and scope of these interests will be at once remarked. 



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