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GENERAL SCIENCE 



7. If an annual inventory be made by the wage earner and by the farmer, 

 even as by the business man, what in each case would constitute a showing 

 of profits? 



8. Upon what besides taxable property does the wealth of any community 

 depend? 



SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS AFFECTING 

 THE WAGE EARNER 



Incident to the rapidity with which changes in industrial 

 life have been brought about in this country have come many 



FIG. 93. Thriftlessness and poverty. 



evils. Enlightened citizenship demands that provision be 

 made for sanitary conditions of life everywhere, especially 

 in the over-crowded sections of great cities. Ordinary 

 prudence demands such thrift that when periods of depres- 

 sion come to the business and industrial world, even as crop 

 failures come to the farmer, no extreme poverty and distress 

 will be experienced. Poverty is a common accompaniment 



