Senator Wagner sums up:—Infant mortality in
the worst slums is three times greater than in
prosperous neighborhoods. Three of very four babies
have rickets. Tuberculosis danger is thirty times
as great, crime is two and a half times as great,
juvenile delinquency four times as great. And four
times as many women are arrested. Insanity is
seven times as great. Weakened bodies increase
industrial and other diseases. Fires are more
frequent.
We believe that Senator Wagner's facts show the
time has come for Congress, cities and the American
people to treat housing not simply as a human
right, or even or the economic necessity w'hich it
is, or even as a bulwark against dictatorship; it
must be treated as a minimum and urgent essential
to halt the fast demoralization of the character
of millions of American people.
United States Steel may continue to interest some
folks, but the quotation we’d like to read most just
about now is: "New England Mercury, up to 80."—Bos
ton Herald.
A number of politicians are hiring gag men to write
their speeches, but we still think a political speech is
funnier when its humor is unpremeditated.—Thomas
ton (Ga.) Times.
Mussolini says he's willing to negotiate with Eth
iopian government officials on a give-and-take basis.
Yeah—give 'em the dickens and take their country.
