and temples are the despair of the present day artists. He tells us that man has

improved his telescope and spectacles, but that he is losing his eyesight; that

man is improving his looms, but stiffening his fingers; improving his automobile

and his locomotive, but losing his legs; improving his foods, but losing his

digestion. He adds that the modern white slave traffic, orphan asylums, and

tenement house life in factory towns, make a black page in the history of the

twentieth century.

 

Professor Wallace's views are reinforced by the report of the commission of

Parliament on the causes of the deterioration of the factory-class people. In

our own country Professor Jordan warns us against war, intemperance,

overworking, underfeeding of poor children, and disturbs our contentment with

his "Harvest of Blood." Professor Jenks is more pessimistic. He thinks that the

pace, the climate, and the stress of city life, have broken down the Puritan

stock, that in another century our old families will be extinct, and that the

flood of immigration means a Niagara of muddy waters fouling the pure springs of

American life. In his address in New Haven Professor Kellogg calls the roll of

the signs of race degeneracy and tells us that this deterioration even indicates

a trend toward race extinction.

 

--NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS.

 

From every side come warnings to the American people. Our medical journals are

filled with danger signals; new books and magazines, fresh from the press, tell

us plainly that our people are fronting a social crisis. Mr. Jefferson, who was