El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-01-27
TO DO AWAY WITH OUR CRIME AND
DISEASE. FURNISH CLEAN HOUSING

THERE two ways Of looking at profit The short
sighted way to expect to get immediate dollar and
benefit from everything which lays his hand
There who look at every business proposition ike
hahtusl dEunkErd looks At drink In either instance
tie moving passion e to acquire possession Of something
that vii give immediate satisfaction sizeabe profit re-
CARELESS OF consequences win do the and wood alcohol
VIII do the othsr-for the moment
There peculiar difference between housing eonoilens
and other elements that enter into dtys civic HE Win
every considerable increase N the general rent iefe u
city osraiu class Of people grading from the family n
average Circumstances down 70 the utterly poor IS pusne
down the scale Of Ewing The standard Of living lowered
houses tenements that less commodious less SAM
ry and less capable protection from the elements It
useless 20 argns that these people are themselves 10
blame because they not better off, The fact remains
they not It from this class Of people that most o.
the doctors derive their incomes 1s It Is TO 6e supposed
Is 1t should BE- for doctors have 10 1--we Unceasefs
also thrive from this and that too IS proper for We
must not disturb anybody's profit.
From the homes Of this class Of people however come
the workers into tie stores Offices and homes o the rich
They bring their coughs their colds, ther Sores ther dis
and their dirt into the homes Of the oPuent and en-
danger lives and comfort and Of proportion Of
these people and sometimes even annoy the pet poooes
And It remarkable but true that every time servant
communicates desPeabls habit OF some dirty disease
TO the child Of some prosperous parsonage OF the community
It makes him wIathy Once IN millennium this parsonage
stumbles onto the cause behind 1t.
Now and then Stunning parties 60 out IN other cities
where thew have Door people and look over the dumps Of
the unvashed without the aid Of a loTgnette can
sometimes detect certain objectionable features Fer n
dozsn-ving in one OF rooms This would be all right
didn't have to ds past suck places Thsn too these
people cook msas wash our clothes sneeze and cough
around the premises and otherwise health AID
happiness.
Unfortunately-for us-it there IS only way
remedy this condition Of affairs That way to pro-
vide homes that fit to live in at prices the people
afford Occasionally working does not have much
as $4,000 5000 hand at any one given time. Banks
have hnncy habit Of refusing to lend such without
at least preencs Of security Perhaps IN view Of this
body with money who prefers clean sanitary servants
and clerks to dirty sy ones, would invest money
homes for what the Socialist calls the proetarst
and let the proeys pay for the dwellings the install
ent plan covering Of course an such matters taxes
interest, insurance and upkeep.
There two things to Be said about the com
psoplethe kind that politicians appeal to for Tstes
When gets cold and hungry and has place to 90
10 have good time be usually starts something. He has
booze in the cellar He can't play golf get IN sub
urban poker game put in the weekend anywhere except
maybe uarez It fashionable for TO ympathzs
with him We might be called Socialists. If It were not
for thing might pass his plight by saying: oh
let him climb Mount Franklin; that VIII give him Tecre
alton That thing referred to is that such
we discussing has a habit Of committing crime.
In many large cities II discovered that man when
he gets cold and hungry and has nothing to do goes out
and crawls into some residential window store