The Task Of Youth Is Not Only

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.

No One So Poignantly Realizes The Failures In The Social Structure As The Man At The Bottom, Who Has Been Most Directly In Contact With Those Failures And Has Suffered Most.

Must Be Grounded In A Philosophy Whose Foundation Is On The Solidarity Of The Human Race, A Philosophy Which Will Not Waver When The Race Happens To Be Represented By A Drunken Woman Or An Idiot Boy.

In A Thousand Voices Singing The Hallelujah Chorus In Handel's "messiah," It Is Possible To Distinguish The Leading Voices, But The Differences Of Training And Cultivation Between Them And The Voices In The Chorus, Are Lost In The Unity Of Purpose And In The Fact That They Are All Human Voices Lifted By A High Motive.

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.