PREVENT FLOODS
Prevent Floods THE WORK of rehabilitating the flood-swept regions of Ohio and Indiana is well under way. Meanwhile the progress of the unbridled waters toward the Gulf is menacing the states on the...
...It is an indication of progress when citizens give heed to the conditions under which the workers are forced to live as well as to the conditions under which they must toil...
...It would have been belter national economy and higher national morals to have acted in advance of these disasters...
...It appears that there are ways of successfully regulating the flow of the waters that run their course from the hillsides to the sea...
...But when...
...IN A RECENT comparison between pupils in a closed-window schoolroom and those in an open-window room in Philadelphia, it was found that the open-window class surpassed the others in almost every test...
...The total deposits of out-of-town banks with these 32 institutions on that date were no less than $483,373,000...
...Striking at Greedy Landlordism AN APPEAL has been made by the Massachusetts Civic League on behalf of the bill now in the legislature known as "The Tenement House Act for Cities...
...Every American dollar and every American life in Mexico is there subject to the risk of the possessor...
...The desolated homes, the wrecked cities, the drowned farms of the Ohio valley appeal for the answer...
...It is not too soon to ask ourselves this question...
...Frustrating the Spoilsmen THERE is cause for gratification in the announcement that President Wilson will retain Miss Julia C. Lathrop at the head of the Children's Bureau...
...The Children's Bureau has a most important work to perform...
...there to be loaned at high rates to stock exchange operators instead of to merchants and manufacturers at home, is primarily due (the letter continues) 'to the operation of our antiquated banking system, which automatically requires interior banks to concentrate hundreds of millions of reserve funds in New York.' To this the committee makes the rather effective answer that, on November 1 last, 32 of the New York banks had $240,480,000 outstanding in stock exchange loans that were placed by them directly for their out-of-town correspondents independently of the deposits of these correspondents...
...Here is his letter: "Dear Mr...
...It is fortunate for the country that this playing of party polities was unsuccessful...
...If I would not myself go to Mexico to risk my life in defense of my property interests, I would be no less than a murderer to ask that the men in our army should assume such a risk...
...Some time it will...
...A determined and well-organized effort was made by Democratic "wheel horses" to include this office among the spoils...
...We have Engineering at our service...
...Are floods like this avoidable...
...Referring to notorious conditions of overcrowding in such tenements, the League says: "Such conditions of living issue in disease, vice, crime, degeneration, drunkenness, poverty, and are the cause of enormous public expense...
...Everywhere there is tense hope that the channels will prove equal to the tremendous strain...
...SEVENTEEN HUNDRED children in Dayton, Ohio, tilled backyard gardens, each 10 by 25 feet, last year, under the supervision of the Dayton Parks and Playgrounds Association, and not only provided fresh vegetables for home use, but in many cases sold the produce for enough to buy textbooks and other school supplies...
...Taft...
...P. Morgan & Co., and four of the largest national banks and two trust companies in New York controls $1,300.000,000 of banking resources, and in addition to that controls, by means of 180 interlocking directors, railroad and industrial corporations having aggregate resources of 25 billion dollars...
...A nation that has built the Panama Canal and irrigated the arid West can harness the waters...
...This business house takes issue with J. P. Morgan & Co...
...It says in this bulletin to its patrons: "The firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., in a letter to the committee, admits the concentration of which the committee complains, and also admits that 'such ills as exist are neither few nor trifling.' The responsibility for them rests, however, according to this great banking house, 'on a clumsy and outworn banking system rather than on the schemes of men,' and the accumulation of the funds of out-of-town banks in New York...
...The fact that they have been allowed to occur repeatedly points both a reproach and a duly...
...And Engineering says it can do the job...
...Meanwhile the progress of the unbridled waters toward the Gulf is menacing the states on the lower Mississippi...
...The committee is apparently quite justified in its inference that the existing law as to reserves has no appreciable effect in the concentration of funds in New York...
...Miss Lathrop is conspicuously fitted to direct it...
...A way must be found, if there is a way, to prevent their recurrence...
...The Titanic horror roused the government to action looking toward safety at sea...
...of New York and Pittsburgh, dealers in investment securities, discusses the "Pujo Report and Money Monopoly...
...The country owes it to itself, and to every single individual, to inquire deeply into the causes of happenings such as these...
...Disasters like this demand an accounting...
...it is almost impossible to cure them...
...Let us not wait for another terrible flood to impress its lesson upon us...
...Her removal, under such circumstances, would have been nothing less than a betrayal of public interest...
...P. Taylor & Co...
...TWO YEARS ago Congressman Kent of California wrote President Taft a letter regarding Mexican intervention which applies just as forcibly to the present situation as it did to the Madero-Diaz imbroglio...
...and other Wall Street bankers...
...This bill aims to prevent the further building of "wooden three deckers"—tenements that are very flimsily constructed, dangerous to the occupants, and for the most part unfit for human occupancy...
...And H. P. Taylor & Co...
...Chief Ilydrographer Leigliton says that floods may be controlled by systems of reservoirs...
...Secretary of the Interior Lank suggests that we deepen and widen the channels of all streams liable to floods...
...They are unjust, dangerous, inhuman...
...And it is recommended that action be taken at once because "it is comparatively easy to prevent bad conditions...
...Wall Street, Please Copy...
...The bill also contains provisions to insure that in the future new buildings shall be erected with due regard for light and ventilation, proper sanitary conveniences, and easy escape in case of fire...
...It concedes that the Pujo report "fairly demonstrates" that a "community of interests" formed by .J...
...concludes that "it is reasonable to believe that many of the Pujo committee's suggestions will find their way to the federal statute books, and that the security and confidence of investors will, in the end, be increased in consequence...
...Experts agree that forests at the headwaters, especially in precipitous regions, help in regulating the run-off...
...A Sign of the Times THE LAST monthly bulletin of II...
...The temperature of the closed schoolroom averaged 68 degrees, while for the open-window room it was 47 degrees...
...AN INDIANA PHYSICIAN commenting upon a recent editorial in La Follette's urging legislation for the prevention of lead poisoning in lead-using industries writes: "By the way on that lead poison story let it be known that nine-tenths of the subjects are tobacco users and carry the lead into the system from lead covered hands that held the tobacco and carried it to the mouth...
...As one interested in Mexican investments, I wish to commend in the highest terms your policy of noninterference...
...The Triangle holocaust burned into the public mind the necessity for strict regulation of factory conditions...
...The Iroquois tragedy shocked the nation into providing fire protection for theatres...
Vol. 5 • April 1913 • No. 15
