Action Indeed Is The Sole Medium Of

The Settlement ... Is An Experimental Effort To Aid In The Solution Of The Social And Industrial Problems Which Are Engendered By The Modern Conditions Of Life In A Great City. It Insists That These Problems Are Not Confined To Any One Portion Of The City. It Is An Attempt To Relieve, At The Same Time, The Overaccumulation At One End Of Society And The Destitution At The Other.

Perhaps I May Record Here My Protest Against The Efforts, So Often Made, To Shield Children And Young People From All That Has To Do With Death And Sorrow, To Give Them A Good Time At All Hazards On The Assumption That The Ills Of Life Will Come Soon Enough. Young People Themselves Often Resent This Attitude On The Part Of Their Elders; They Feel Set Aside And Belittled As If They Were Denied The Common Human Experiences.

The Rich Landlord Is He Who Collects With Sternness, Who Accepts No Excuse, And Will Have His Own. There Are Moments Of Irritation And Of Real Bitterness Against Him, But There Is Still Admiration, Because He Is Rich And Successful.

A City Is In Many Respects A Great Business Corporation, But In Other Respects It Is Enlarged Housekeeping. ... May We Not Say That City Housekeeping Has Failed Partly Because Women, The Traditional Housekeepers, Have Not Been Consulted As To Its Multiform Activities?

Social Advance Depends As Much Upon The Process Through Which It Is Secured As Upon The Result Itself.