The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-21

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only honest that they should be made
aware OF tho true conditions here. When
ever We attempt 20 inaugurate a real re-
FORM. 20 cut out an existing graft we
are confronted by these little tin god ar
ticleS from the American magazines It
is Unfair to the American public and TN
Just 10 those OF US who are working TO
remedy present abuses I'm our municipal
services. to secure better housing con
oitions for the working classes and 10
reduce our extravagant tax rate.
a NATIONAL DISGRACE.
More than 10000 families in Glasgow
are living in one room tenemeuts. The
Royal Commission on Housing stated thst
thousands Of these houses are a national
disgrace. Dr Russell has told US that IN
many ~ tho single apartments in Gias-
gov families OF six. seven and eight
, persons OF both sexes Ait sleep and per
form every family function
1T is these houses that give the enor-
nous death rate Of children under five
years OF age. The exhausted air and roo-
feeding MI our streets with bandy-leERed
'nliurcn- ~ the children who die before
they are i've wears Of age thirr,--ty-,
per cent de IN houses OF one apartment
and not two per cent "a houses OF five
rooms
There they die and their little Fam
lshed bodies are laid on a table or ores
i 80 as TO De out OF the way of their
NIUE brothers and sisters who Mas.
eat and sleep ia their rhastiv eo5,-
paAE- From the beginning TO the end
oi tneir lives these children are short
parts In % wretched Tragedy"
'o-nciior Gibson has been striving
Tor s-veral months to secure q re,f.ioD
! or the system OF trarnwav fares thar
VIII enable the working classes 70 live
in the suburbs and work in the husf
ness district The system OF charging
/ penny for each han mile makes tho
! rates 10 the suburbs even higher than
! tncy arc I'm Los Angeles
40 DEVELOPMENT
My Investigations here have convinced
me that this discrimination in favor
| or short rides and the failure OF cit,.
! lines 10 issue transfers are largely re-
/ sponslole fOr the CouRested condition
/ in the slum districts. There is no ex-
/ tension OF lines q DEVELOPMENT OF
new suburban districts. the WORKING
people are huddled together in th,
manufacturing centres they cannot ar
iora 70 60 out into the suburDs-fares
/ are too high.
/ The following extract from The Baltic.
( q Glasgow publication devoted -aiehv 10
municipal affairs reflects the public'-
opinion az Councillor Gibson 8 campatgn.
What a change has come over the
face OF the Council I'm recent months
3 20 70 November last IL was the most
stald and straight-laced OF municipal
! bodies Everything went by rule and
/ precedent So many people pulled the
| wires and so many other people danced.
! Certain events might take place from
/ time 20 time behind the scenes: but
these events never came - the ears OF
the public or. II they did So IL was only
10y vague rumO-s or whispers made in
bated breath. since N0yembe- all this
i has been altered.
'The drv bones rave De u stirred 10 some
purpose. The mask OF dignity has been
torn from the hoary numbo- jumbo. and
. The public has been invited TO look upon
+ it as 70 really is. And all this has been
the work ~ single member. Truly.
Councillor Scott Gibson IS a marvel Ia
the cary days OF his municipal career
he was frowned upon by every BODY. Even
the 'Sta-warts' avoided him When he
got up to speak lis neighbors talked
loudly TO one another, interspersing their
talk with sarcastic srirs. a weakNng
would have quickly succumbed 10 the
treatment ne received. But Mr. Scott
Gibson did not succumb. he insisted on
being listened TO. and listened to by and
by be was To-day be is m acknowledged
force 10 the city Council He has ex-
Cellent material in him lie has grit
ana grasp FOR so young a man. the IN
fuence he ready exercises over the
Town Council IS simply astonishing"
SEES THE WANE-
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EgesSiFe young c0unclor is ne veteran
'ep'-'" %" 'i7' H0o'-n So''.''o, VIZ
mas oe'lnieA " place. on tne legal stan
~ The city OF GLASGOW for thirty years
. Mr. Bowers official tito Is first assist
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