. Beauty for ashes. ble as Ifound it, in plain speech, for there was no need foreloquence. They could see, those clear-eyed women,that not education, not culture, not music or art, noteven home economics, could ever penetrate to thosedarkened places, where cleanliness was difficult, andsanitation was impossible, where decency was oftenbarred, and life was too frequently bestial. Theygrasped at once the lesson in race solidarity, thedanger to their own children in the schools, the neu-tralising of the best endeavours of their clubs, incivic work, by the demoralising influence of thoseclasses to
. Beauty for ashes. ble as Ifound it, in plain speech, for there was no need foreloquence. They could see, those clear-eyed women,that not education, not culture, not music or art, noteven home economics, could ever penetrate to thosedarkened places, where cleanliness was difficult, andsanitation was impossible, where decency was oftenbarred, and life was too frequently bestial. Theygrasped at once the lesson in race solidarity, thedanger to their own children in the schools, the neu-tralising of the best endeavours of their clubs, incivic work, by the demoralising influence of thoseclasses to whom their culture could never filterdown. They had gone to great lengths and amplebreadths of endeavour; now they were ready to goto the depths, in a massive effort for human-ity. I had noticed that the home and the child werethe two great themes about which most of theirthought centred. The contrast of their homes andtheir children with the unsanctified homes of theslums and the children of the poor was more than. DEFENDERS OF THE HOMES OF IXDIANx\ Grace Julian Clarke Dr. J. N. Hurty,Becy. Indiana State Boai^dof Health Senator Charles Senator Edward Durre THE HOMES OF INDIANA 265 their mother hearts could bear, and they sat hushedfor a moment, when I closed. I remember then with what quiet dignity arose, and with one skilful touch swept thegolden harp so that it seemed as if one great chord— now with its lowest note vibrating — shook theroom, as the women rose and pledged support to thehousing movement. I wish I might linger on those radiant June days,full of colour and beauty, when a circlet of friend-ships was formed that holds my life now in its another experience was waiting for me, amongthose hills, that demands its place in this story. The State Bar Association was in session thereat the same time, and my good friends in that associ-ation had planned that I should address their con-vention on the subject of the housing law. Ofcourse, no
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