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Show if Model State gffl'v; ;- lw -m-mm Should Own j UWelling Them Bjfc By OLOA NETIIERSOLE wBw " C0,,B'dering the (Jlnckin bill, authorizing the plnte of Illinois WaW I I 0 establish hy specinl taxation n tuborculo.ois sanatorium, the Hh LVasasssJ l"08011 arises iih to whether it should end with the cstab- HRg kSfI smeu of n siuiiiloriuiu for tuberculosis only, or whether WttBL IKB&I I,roccos ' special tux should not be nlso used for HRFa InVXOnl ca'n'''8mi,t'nt f 11 sanatorium for the cure of other discuses wHE 4acM n( or '1C 'jet'(r"lt,n'' of tenement districts. ' IK&. Iffifcj J)1 The tenement house laws could work in co-operation and BK ImbmJ ',c paft. of this new law. There, could be built, with the pro- Hp'' ceeds of this tax, model tcneincntp, of which the state should HL. bo landlord. These tenements should be designed and built for the health flv?i( nnd welfare of the working classes. Hypp ' better model could be followed than the Krupp dwellings of Qcr- MK' many. These buildings arc built in squares, with open stairways, largo IjHfir central court, bathroom, kitchen, parlor and bedrooms no shutting out Ok froni the people of their natural rights God's light and air. flmjf '10 lndd dwellings should bo under state control and visited at BE lintervala by official inspectors. No overcrowding should be allowed, clean-lincss4and clean-lincss4and hygiene should be insisted upon, and the tenants of these B dwellings Bhould hnvc free medical treatment from medical oflicers of tlie. jSR fund, nmt should, in fact, be under medical supervision. If I venture to suggest that such tenements could be run by the state on a paying basis, and the benefit of the community would be so far- - reaching thnt'ii is impossible to limit it by any statement. I The effect on the health of the individual is obvi- I F ' ous, and the moral awakening would be a rcvela- W(jjjjjS? I'. tion, because, ns the tenement question now stands, jBBli P it is quite a common occurrcnco for ten families to RffljflHH f lire in a house!, originally built for one family, and IHffilHflpi iV " Ecreral people of both sexes, boys and girls, men and PC!H women, to sleep in one room. IRI The tenement house to-day breeds physical and 1 ' r JjHj r moral disease. As W. J. Ilurlbut, in his play, "Tho Writing on' tho "Wall," usscrts, "Tim tenement house Jjlmft: landlords aro n trust a combination in restriction 1rs$0z of health, of decency, of virtue." The state must J I-, fight the trust by becoming the landlord of model ofWvww! I . tenement dwellings for the people. MffllBtiMnBtmM |