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6 how to handle, sanely, almost any municipal housekeeping problem "which affects the health of the com munity. Under the present condi tions; a- wholeTgrQup of partypoliti cians go poking along doing one dull thing after another and accomplish ing little or "nothing! The remedy for the housing prob lem for wage earners in big cities has been discovered and successfully tried out in Europe the municipality builds and sells or rents the houses to those who would otherwise be ob liged to live in tenements. The sales are made on long time payments, 1 sufficiently small so that they can be paid without bankrupting the small purse, as is done in Ulm, Germany, where the death rate for children dropped from 40 in 100 to 18 in 100 after the experiment. While in Liver pool, where the city destroyed a slum and built houses for rent deaths from, tuberculosis were cut in half! Here is the unvarnished, practical advice to communities throughout J the country that are struggling to prevent rather than to cure disease, from a woman who has spent 19 years among the people of the crowd ed stockyard district here in Chicago! She is at the head of the Univer sity of Chicago settlement work and speaks out of a long, varied expe rience among tenement dwellers. "What shall we do to increase the health of our communities, especially of the children in, our crowded city sections?" a representative of The Day Book asked her. And her answer was: "It is not so much whaf shall we do as why don't we do it?" "Every time the question of pre venting disease among the children and bettering their health and condi tions of living is mentioned, someone says, 'Teach the mothers.' Yes, that is all right. We must teach the moth ers. But the whole burden is being Reaped" on these poor mothers :wh already have had and "will have to bear the children. '"Mothers are being instructed and; instructed and instructed while com-j munities stand idly by neglecting the. responsibility which they should shoulder! "The garbage question, the hous-s-ing question, the playground ques tion are all problems which the mu, nicipality should solve. " "The mother can do her level best, -but ft the wage of the father is not sufficient to make it possible for the' little family to live in anything bat a crowded tenement, what is she to do? "The mother can Instruct her child ' and bring it up carefully, but if there ' is no place L it the street for it to" play, how can she alter the condi tion? "The answer to the housing ques-J tion has been successfully answered abroad, where the death vrate has been wonderfully lowered among chlldren4n the cities which have tried' the experiment of building and selling or renting houses to earners of very3 small wages. That does away with the tenement And it is th'e sane way; of preventing disease among children0 as well as grown people. It's the way to help children to be-bornwell. , "The playground question has been, partially solved In the cities in this1 country. -But I have a word to say, about it. I believe that each city, block should have a small space re-1 served for small children to play in. Make the streets narrower, if need be, but give the - little children a breathing spot for themselves. r "The garbage disposal in a city is a far more important health measure. than most people consider it.. But if is not such a difficult 'matter to set tle. Yet "we .find men and women talking and-' talking .and doing this thing, and the other thing, and ac complishing nothing, we might say.? And why? Well, chiefly because of . the existence of party politics in mur njcipal.affairs. sife..iM L-" -i" -.r-N' t j,uait-ijf A. $. kijtfSwKSgoksl