The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-25
BOSTON PHYSICIAN !. 4.
MAKES PREDICTION
Declares That Change Must Como
In Present Conditions or Re-
volution Is Sure.

BOSTON, Mar. 23.-In an inter-
view DR.. George w. Calvin, a we'll
known physician and founder of the
Emergency hospital is credited with
saying that If a change does not
take place in the existing. conditions
which will stop the rapid increase in
the number of unemployed, pre-
dict, with all sincerity, that by 1915
there will be such a revolution as
will make the millionaire afraid to
step outside his home for fear of
having his brains blown out by the
starving man who awaits him."
Speaking of the causes of crime,
Dr. Calvin says:
1T seems curious that the unfor-
tunate happens so often to persons
who have no homes or influence. II
they had had influence, however,
they would not have been discharged.
AN attic room Is what many
young woman calls home. She is dis
charged, say: She goes home to
wonder where the next weeks rent
is coming from. 1t worries her and
she fails in health because of the
mental strain.
There is no place for her to 70.
The public library is the only build
ing in Boston where a girl can spend
her evenings free of charge. She is
too tired to read or look at pictures
She longs for recreation. But that
costs money.
THE time comes when she is PEN
niless and hungry. She begins to look
shabby Her acquaintance begin to
shun her. Too often when a wo-
mans dress gets out of style or a
mans suit begins to fray around the
edges former acquaintance begin to
look askance.
AT least when a girl is out of en-
ployment and begins to look shabby
and is friendless she has indeed
much to contend with. No one seems
to care whether such an unfortunate
one is on the right road or not. Her
troubles are Of no interest to the
business men whom she seeks for en-
ployment. She is repulsed here and
there, and as the weeks pass periods
of starvation grow more frequent.
FINALLY these long spells of hunger
affect her mental outlook When a
woman is hungry the effects of wrong
doing do not have the usual weight
with her. Finally it becomes little
thing to steal in order to get some Of
the necessaries Of life. Perhaps such
a girl or young woman is clever
enough to escape the consequences Of
her first crime, but she usually gets
caught.
when she is sentenced for such a
deed, and after she has served her
first term of punishment, she comes
out resolved to do right, but here her
hardships begin again. Every en-
ployment office and every Would-be
employer asks for a recommendation.
Too often her past record is discov-
employ her and she is again forced
back to first principles in order to
live.
She steals again, perhaps this time
things of more value. Perhaps she
succeeds in this second attempt. Her
courage grows; she has saved herself
from starvation periods and so she
goes on in career of wrongdoing
which finally leads to evil companions
and the use of stimulants and opiates.
After two or three arrests she
finds herself a first class criminal.
Every effort to reform on her part
has been met with the same repulses.
No one is willing to hire woman
who has taken her first wrong step
and been found out. She is an habit
ual thief by necessity by the lack of
humanitarianism among those around
her"