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Several charts were shown to illustrate how the tobacco habit and the 
spitting habit are related to the alcohol problem, and in turn to the race 
suicide problem, how unsanitary air conditions lead to prevalent ill health 
and to terminal infections that kill. Charts were shown based on the 
census reports, from which it appears that in our State today the rate of 
decennial increase is constantly diminishing, and likely at the next census 
there will be a deficiency, in other words, the loss will be greater than the 
gain. In Northern Indiana only a few counties have gained in population. 
those with industrial cities. 
Industrial cities, like unsanitary cities, have been compared to huge 
parasites that drain the country of its best blood. Such cities have little 
use for a man over 45 or 50. Yet such cities may point with pride to their 
low death rates. The explanation is of course simple: Worn out men go 
away to their old homes, to die. 
Some cities, really overgrown villages, have a bad water supply, and 
the brewers advertise their clean or pure beer; yet the Prohibitionists are 
making little or no effort to get good water. Is it any wonder that many 
cities vote “Wet?” The first effort of the Prohibition advocate should be 
to give the people clean water and clean air. Fresh water does not neces- 
sarily mean pure water, nor does fresh air mean clean air. Saloons flourish 
in proportion to their unsanitary surroundings and the patronage of low 
grade laboring men. 
The solution of the Alcohol Problem depends upon education and 
cleanliness—clean people, clean homes, clean cities, clean streets, clean 
water, clean air. In the light of Coniosis the greatest of these is clean air. 
