Show RACE IMPROVEMENT I I It Will Come But Not In These Days DaysI I of Starvation and Congested Slums If It society In its own defense has a aright aright right to imprison a man for life or orto orto to take talC his life lIro why wh has it not a right to benefit him for tho the same end u May not society in its on own defence derence undertake undertake to extirpate ice If the state ma may mav build a hospital and anil forcibly take people to 1 It why wh not a sanitarium m If f tho the state slate may ma prescribe building laws specify air space and light space pace and sanitary conveniences coincidences why wh may mar it not go to fur fui further further I ther specify a minimum of health and antI comfort to be provided for In every eer j I 1 house and make malce that minimum com coin compulsory I The state slate Is the people sure surely surely ly I and Dud the people have hare a right to improve as soon as they the J know how No personal preference nu no individual liberty can be bc allowed to lo stand against the will of the com corn community We Wc e will not have hac nakedness nal among amon us We 0 forbid it by b law and enforce the thc law We Wc have hae as much right to forbid for id hunger If We e choose We re only pi prevent event nakedness because we object to ii If is indecent Some day we shall object c to lo hunger too Our sense sen o of decency v wil Ill widen Wi We Ve do donot donot donot not know now yet jot ct all the conditions re ie rei i to make bettor people but v we wa e know some of or them And we c e know now many of those that make worse peo pen people people pie We do llo definitely know that certain thin tain quarters of great clUes cities corrupt and degenerate the human stock which Is forced to 10 In them no matter what is was before Consider Com that hideous dictum concerning the effect of the slums slum of London on the tho new l residents come como from tho rho The second generation is weaker and less competent than the first the tho third generation Is stunted crippled sick degenerate and there is no fourth 1 That shows what conditions can do to make worse people If society has hns the right to build a n slum to force people to live lire there thereby thereby by br the simple process of not allowing allotting them to live an anywhere where else and so soto j i to lo degrade anil exterminate them why wh has not society the right t to Lo build b exquisite garden cities force people to lire lic Ii 0 there and so elevate and Im tin Improve prove proc thom them That would bo be too loo expensive ex expensive expensive pensive the defendant may mav gravely remark He Is wrong It would not be nearly so expensive as the slum In our Infinitesimal egotistical egoL peep peephole peephole peephole hole view of humanity we quite over oer overlook overlook look the value of the people to lo the tho people p the wealth producing joy jo producing beauty producing value alue of the human stock This ruined stock stockIs Is dead loss to us being saved savel and made Into Info good stock It would be great gain to us Moreover us III includes them The whole level leol of our right rightful ful pride lies lid not at aL nar narrow narrow narrow row shifting top lOI but hut at its Us broad dark base so little lifted for all the thc years rears Is water clean that is dirty Humanity is one a 1 living tissue tissue tissue sue and our need nee to make better holler peo pea people pies pie Is the most vital Ital the most personal need d that can gc go shown to lo any an human BOHl Charlotte Perkins Gilman Oilman Vii n the Independent |