n6 On the Campus 



Wilson talking to thousands of people, men, women, and 

 children. In his address there was a tone of evident 

 alarm of dangers from without. The President shall be 

 our watchman there. But to-day we are confronted by 

 perils at home in which men and women and children 

 are concerned; and in these the organized associations 

 of women can, I think, accomplish much. 



The first problem cited a little while ago concerns the 

 right training and employment of our children. It is 

 trite that women are confessedly specialists in this field. 

 The direct individual influence is here so great that we 

 are apt to esteem association, organization, unnecessary, 

 or at least of small importance. Furthermore, women 

 are by nature conservative and very keen discerners of 

 moral and esthetic values. They realize that an electric 

 light, beautiful as it is, owes its whole value to the 

 circumstance that it enables us to SEE: vision is better 

 than electric light! The touring-car is valuable only as 

 it enables us to journey in the open air; but its value 

 fades immensely if we KNOW nothing of where we are 

 going or what we shall see or where we shall arrive. For 

 all these reasons the problem stated lies with women. 



In the latest biography of Lincoln, a conversation is 

 cited in which Lincoln tells what his mother did for 

 him. Did she show him the kingdoms of this earth and 

 their tinsel glory ? Oh, no ; she was poor and lived amid 

 the cabin-housed pioneers of the prairie, and died be- 

 fore the lad was ten years old; no; she read to him the 

 ancient stories of the Bible, stories whose style came out 

 later in the Gettysburg address and the second inaugural, 

 to the astonishment of the world, classics in the litera- 

 ture of the race ! 



