The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-12-07

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. Q Makers OF The clothes We Sell.
generation ns na nts re ns e rsee
depends. RAPID development in wealth
and Industrial leadership Is a good thing,
but only ( II goes hand III hand with I'm.
and moral. THE overcrowding OF cities
and the draining of country districts are
unhealthy and even dangerous synlpIo,niss
op Sdnrn e s, 1o eert nGl psfm.
pean cities It is provided by law that the
population of towns shall not be allowed
10 exceed q very limited density for a
must be continually pushed back into a
broad zone around the centre of the town,
this zone having great avenues or parks
wlt II The sno o%
especially In infant mortality, IN over
crowded tenements. The poorest families
in tenement houses live In one roonl., and
it appears that in these one -roon, tene-
mcnts the average death rate for n num-
bcr of given cities at home and abroad Is
about twice what 1t IS IN a two-room tene-
mcnt. four times what Ills in three
in a tenement consisting Of four3roonls or
over. These figures vary somewhat for;
different cities, but they approximate IN
cases the Increase Of mortality and espe-
cia.lly Of infant mortality. with the de-
crease the number Of rooms used by tho
family and With the n, eyer
heavy total of death from those who dwell
therein and this Is the case not merely
in the crowded sums of high buildings In
New York and Chicago, but in.th i, alley
people cannot afford to ignore the harm
that this causes. No Christian and civi-;
lized community. can afford to show a.
youth of to-day; for. IL SO, the community,
will have to pay n terrible penalty of
financial burden and social degradation
In the tomorrow. There should be severe
tits very desirable that married women
should not work in factories. The prime
duty. of the man Is. to work, to be the
bread winner; the prime duty Of the wo-
All questions of tariff and finance sink
into utter insignificanco when compared
with the tremendous, the vial Importance
Of trying to shape conditions so that these
two duties Q the man and Of the woman
can be fulfilled under asonably Bfavora Bile
circum stances..IIfs a race does not have
plenty OF children; OF, II the children do
not grow up or IL when they grow up
they are unhealthy In body and stunted or
vicious in mind, then that race is deca-
dent, and no heaping up of wealth., no
splcndor of momentary material pros
peflty, can 4aVall IN any degree as Offsets.
Systematic Investigation. !
Several considera lions suggest the need
for a systematic investigation Into and
hbGIgpS ans
disease, and should be opened into minor
streets. For number Of years lnflu 1,G
strictfcommissioners IN the vain endeavor
to secure laws permitting the condemna-
ton Of insanitary. dwellings,. Tho LOCAL
diseases. are SO 5undulyl high as to sug-
Of Washlngton's better sections IS OFFSET
hoods. a special :.Commission on Hous-
Ing and. Health Conditions in the Ma
tIonal Capital" would not only bring
but would also formulate an appropriate
building code to protect the city from
mammoth brick tenements and other evils
which threa ten to develop here as they.
have in other cities. That the. nations
capital should be made q model for other
munieIpnlitiess q; an ideal which appealSs
such special commission might map out
and organize the city's future development
In lines Of CIVIC social service. just as
Major L'Enfant and the recent Park
Commission planned the arrangement Of
her streets and parks.
ington has no Compulsory. school attend
ance law, and that careful inquiries 1ndl-
cate the habitual absence from school Of
some twenty per cent. of all children
It must be evident to all who consider
the problems Of neglected child life or the
cities that, one OF tie most urgent needs
of the national capital Is q law requiring
the school attendance Of all children, this
directed BY tho board Of education '
Public Fairgrounds arc necessary means
for The development Of wholesome citizen--
lnr 10 linn
lintary, efforts should be, taken up and
extended through congressional appropria-
grounds upon land which can be secured
withopt or rental Is also so
Fairgrounds in densely settled sections. Of
the city, which nov have no public open q, I1
NJ sG mmsdiateiy AsTs $sas them s Would
aoad ee ade b soppng a
ing OF streets and levclIng OF ground for
purposes largely speculative in outlying
There arc certain offenders whose GRIM
inalty takes the shape Of brutality and
cruelty towards the weak, WHO need a
special type of punishment The WIFE
heater. for example, Is inadeauately pun-
lshcd by Imprisonment, for Imprisonment
may often mean nothing TO him, while It
may cause 5HuHHcT ana WHlll W flHc vic
and children who have been the Victims
Of his brutality. Proha bly, some form OF
corporal punishment would be the most
adequate way Of meeting this kind of
crime s
Agriculture. 81
The Department OF Agriculture has
grown into an educational institution,
with faculty OF two thousand special
lists making research Into all the SCI
cnccs Of production. The Congress APP
propriates,, directly and Indirectly, six
millions Of dollars annually to carry on
Territory In the Union and the Islands
Of the sea lately come under our flag.
t'o.opcrauon Is had with, tho State OK
Institutions and individuals Tho world
Is carefully searched for new varieties
trees and shrubs suitable to various local
| ltcs In onr country. und marked benefit