(Headworker of the Social Service Department Massachusetts General Hospital.)
If a patient for whom a surgeon orders a back brace starves herself to pay the bill?
If a workman, cured of rheumatism, goes back to his job in the damp cellar which caused it?
If a clerk fitted to glasses, returns to the dim desk which crippled her sight?
If an unmarried girl, delivered of her child, goes from the maternity ward back to the neighborhood that ruined?
Breaking Up in Violence
By Clara E. Laughlin
There must be a check on the ever-widening inequality between the richest and the poorest, or our social structure will not endure; we shall have revolution, not evolution; cataclysm, not growth.... In some of the old world countries the inequality is of such long growth that one can hardly imagine its breaking up without violence. With us it is not yet adamantine. Pray God it never may be.