Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-03-02
Social Crime
Wrecks P eopIe
Poverty and Disease, Are Prices Paid
for Great Wealth.

Milwaukee, Apples at $1.0r
a barrel will do more to overcome the
abnormal appetite for liquor than the
prohibition party ever did, said c. B
Whitnall, city treasurer of Milwaukee,
speaking on the subject City Plan
ming" under the auspices of the Insti-
tute of Municipal and Social Service
Thursday evening.
How Disease is Lurbed.
In his preamble Mr.. Whitnall includ-
ed the following succinct sketch of the
use and purpose of planning cities for
the people:
1--WE have arrived at stage or our
social strife called civilization, where
certain unnatural conditions, called
diseases, are recognized as dangerous.
and the influential citizens, through
personal fear, have drawn on public
sympathy enough to establish few
hospitals, asylums or institutions for
social defense.
"Why do we not remove the influ-
ences which lower the victims vitality
to the degree of decay, called tubercu-
-losis or typhoid? A healthy person
within natural environment is immune.
Protection Unavailing.
"Without natural environment no
amount of hospital service can protect
us. A comparatively few people can
manage hospital and save more or
less victims from death, but by none
less than the power and authority of
the city as a whole can the causes OF
these diseases be removed.
''This is the fundamental object of
city planning. We must also insist that
the livelihood of labor should not be
hewn down below the level of efficient
citizenship.
Must Disclose Wrong.
1--WE must determine how much of
poverty is the result of social neglect.
We must decipher the realtion of eco
nomic wrong to restitution.
1.-THE solution consists in making the
city humanized entity"
Continuing, Mr.. Whitnall cited the
fact that every human being is to a
great extent the product of his environ
ment.
Like the father who whipped his
daughter for disobedience and after
ward found that she was deaf the city
is furnishing it's citizens for being what
it compels them to be by the environ
ment in which it compels them to live.
The city is, therefore. as unreasonable
as the father who did not know that
his child was deaf.
Poor Are Helpless,
poverty in Milwaukee means help
lessness." 1t also pays the highest
rates for it's miserable existence in foo
and shelter.
"The slum dwelling is connected
with the palatial residence by the
tariff which the citizens who dwell in
the latter impose on the vice of the
Sums. What is known as vice in the
slums, becomes by touch of hypocrisy
art in the select regions.
Legal Pocket-Picking.
Last year we officially picked the
pockets of our criminal court victims
Of $4,000 and we call it fen sytem.
''The REAL criminal class in Mil
waukee today is composed of those
who have been the dominating power.
Those we CALL criminals are the
inevitable results Of conditions which
we tolerate
every child born inherits the right
to requisite amount of three forces,
which, if withheld, or diverted from
universal use, causes pestilence.
''They are clean water, sunlight and
a normal atmosphere. A city that does
not administer its trust, insuring to
each and every person this inheritance,
is guilty. Milwaukee has been indict-
ed by nature years ago.
Must Look to Future.
Looking to the future of Milwaukee
actuated by a desire to make it bet
ter Milwaukee. the following projects.
are being carefully considered and pre-