Morris tribune., 1907-08-03
SOCIOLOGICAL
Would Keep Children Nude.

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Would Keep Children Nude.
Professor Frederick Starr of the
University of Chicago has, openly, tax
EN- the stand that children would be
better of if they wore no clothing un-
I'll they were ten years old, and several
other members Of the faculty, together
with few wealthy neighbors in the
exclusive south side section of Chicago,
have joined in the movement to estab-
lish residential Utopia at cost Of
$50, 900 or more for the purpose Of put
ting this theory into practice. The
group includes Professor q. e. Sparks.
historical lecturer; Professor Harry A.
Biglow and Professor Charles B. Whit
tier Of the law school and others. The
families will be housed in separate
apartments, but the children will have
wide common playground in the rear.
Professor Starr says that nudity for
children is right both from physio-
logical and moral grounds
American Railroads Most Deadly. .
Herr CUTLERY, prominent official
of the Prussian railway administra-
ton, has prepared comparative table
of statistics of persons killed and in
jured by railways in various coun-
tries. This shows that the railroads
Of the United States, making allow
ance for the fact that they have great
er mileage than all the railways Of
Europe, are pre-eminent in the num-
Der Of fatalities and casualties. The
ratio Of employees injured out of every
thousand is 1875 In this country, 25.3
in Switzerland, 11.S In England, II in
Belgium and "a in Germany The
number killed is 26.1 in the United
States, 1913 in England, 80 in Switzer-
land, 7.S in Russia and Al in Belgium.
The fewest travellers were injured in
France
Strikes Fewer In 1905.
The twenty-first annual report Of the
bureau of labor of the department of
commerce and labor shows that Ameri-
can industries suffered from fewer
strikes during 1905 than in any year
since 1892, the criterion being the num-
Der Of employees thrown out Of work
and the duration of strikes. There
were POI $3.50 employees thrown out Of
work during that year in connection
with 2,O77 strikes, lasting the average
Of twenty-three days each. The re-
port finds that out Of the total number
Of strikes in twenty-five years, from
1881 to 1905, SO per cent were ordered
by labor unions and that the greatest
number of strikes in any one industry
was in the building trades. Strikers
succeeded in winning their demands in
48 per cent Of the establishments con-
cernad and partly in Is per cent more.
Locl,ou resulted in favor of the en-
ployers in over 81 per cent of the es
tab: sh:"Ho1ts. During the quarter GEN.
tuT7 period Al per cent of all strikes
were undertaken for increased wages
alone or in combination with other
causes, % per cent for union recogni-
ton end 10 per cent to enforce de-
mani for reduction of hours. Since
1901 per cent of all strikes and IL
per cent of all lockouts were settled by
joint agreement and 2 per cent of both
by arbitration.
Report on City Ownership.
The investigation of public ownership
Of public utilities in Europe and this
country by the National Civic fedora
TONS commission has resulted In two
reports, one by Professor John r. Com
mons of Wisconsin university favora-
III To 3ho hn hry
J. w. Sullivan of the Clothing Trades
Bulletin disappearing. Professor Com
mons says they found the privately
owned utilities in England dividing
surplus for civic betterments because
Of the prevailing tendency toward pub
lie ownership and it's example in cities
where it had been adopted. Many have
shrewdly arranged copartnership plans
and have recognized the labor unions.
He is convinced that the recognition of
the unions is the safeguard against po-
litical corruption in public ownership
and that private ownership offers no
escape from politics.
Editor Sullivan says that in all but
the most poorly paid forms Of labor
public ownership has not raised wages
or improved conditions of work. He
contends that in England no street car
business has ever been a private enter
prise in the sense that the word is
used In this country, thus making COM
parison with American conditions I'M
fair. Taking Syracuse, Allegheny and
Wheeling as the best samples of Amer
lean mmicipalizadon offered, they
found conclusive evidence Of political
rottenness in each case He regards it
as ga project to restrict men in their
activities by methods foreign to the
American genius"