Arizona republican., 1908-05-28
SINCLAIR'S NEW BOOK
 PICTURE OF ONE SIDE
The New Association Country and Town Growing Worcestershire and Fresh Air.

New York. May Special Corre-
 spondence of The Republiean.)-Upton
 Sinclair's new book "The Metropolis"
 may be a truthful picture of a. cer-
 tain phase of New York society, but
 it is not only one fact of many sided
 prism that he has here presented. There is surely enough leaven, even in the uEra fashionable set. to save the banking and people are not so much callous as carSess. Nothing more aptly proves this than the movement recently inaugurated by the elect of the fashionable contingent to inquire into and remedy the conditions of the lower class wage earners.
 The Congested Exhibit.
 The Charity Organization Society and allied organizations inaugurated definite and systematic campaign aginst the spread of tubercular di- seases among the poor in the congest- ed tenement districts which disgrace New York and other large cities of the country. They are very difficult to combat, owing largely to the ignorance of the dwellers in such places
 Probably the most effective move ment in this campaign was the Con gested Exhibit" made at the American Museum of Natural History Here were shown reproductions of "Old Law tenements with their dark rooms and terribly unsanitary condi- tions, and, in juXtaposition with these, New Law" tenements with inner courts and other Improvements mak- inging for decent living conditions.
 Flats were shown that were actual copies of some of the worst places ex- isting in the crowded districts, and model flat within the means of the very poor where surroundings were comparatively attractive and sanitary as well as other object lessons to edu- cate the people.
 The Listeners Interested.
 The exhibition was crowded con stantly, so that on Sundays and holi- days the people had to be allowed to enter in sections. The most interest ing feature to a student of sociology was the character of these audiences. They consisted mainly of the people who live in the crowded districts to whom the lesson inculcated was of vi- tai importance, and of people who came to the museum in automobiles and carriages that were evidence of the fact that their owners belonged to the plutocratic sections of the town while the names reported of those seen at this exhibit were among those best known in the smart set that Mir. Sin clair has reported or caricatured, as you like to regard it.
 The New Association.
 There can be no doubt that the eX- hibit did good work in educating the people regarding the necessity for fresh air. cleanliness, and sunlight, the God-given remedies and preventives of disease. The demand for new law tenements has been greatly increased by the lesson thus inculcated. On the other hand, body of women repre- senting the core of the fashionable elect has formed an association for aiding the small wage earners, and this body together with women who represent other cities, is now meeting in Washington to consider means and ways. to relieve conditions which-in New York at least-were investigated by the women of the association. A fashionable fad perhaps but it's not a bad fashion to inaugurate, and many are hoping that there is sufficient strength and sheer ity in the movement to bring about better conditions for the very poor and to place a social stigma upon wealth derived from the ownership of death dealing tenements and sweat shops conditions that coin money from the life of the poor.
 Cleanliness and Surgical Cleanliness.
 It is not only the tenement dwellers, forced by their poverty into terrible conditions, who suffer because of pre- ventable unsanitary surroundings. Great numbers of intelligent people are more afraid of a draught than of foul air more anxious to keep the sun from fading out carpets or furni- ture than to let it disinfect and purify as it can and will do if freely admit