90 



are the eight-hour periods spent? Is the recreation time spent at home in 

 the suburbs making garden or in outdoor air ; or is the time spent in the 

 heart of a dirty city, in a saloon, pool rooms, or loafing on the dusty street 

 corners? The five-cent theater habit is only too often accompanied by 

 the bad habit of "going ont to see a man" and chewing a clove after it. 

 In short, the time spent in recreation under bad air may be the real factor 

 for inefficiency and premature breakdown and not the work in a clean 

 and well-ventilated shop. 



Eight hours of sleep : In what sort of bedroom ? With good air, free 

 ventilation? Or closely housed and with perhaps no daylight coming into 

 the room at any time? 



The slum dweller of course represents the worst conditions in all re- 

 spects. Naturally the weeding out process is actively at work. To see the 

 end results at their best one must turn to the overcrowded cities of China 

 and India — with bodily adaptation at the expense of mentality. Our un- 

 sanitary cities in time produce a class of people little different from John 

 Chinaman, with all that that implies, including the use of narcotics and 

 sedatives, if not opium then tobacco and alcohol, or cheaper coal tar prep- 

 arations. 



The Where, When, Why of Drinking. 



A question, or rather several questions, a student must constantly- 

 ask is, Why do men drink? Why does an apparently sensible, decent sort 

 of man have a craving for strong drink? Why do some demand it more 

 or less constantly, some periodically? Under what conditions is the crav- 

 ing most marked? In short, Where, When, and Why do men drink? 



Here are a few representative cases. The figures are of course only 

 relative; one can not express the complex life of a man mathematically, 

 there are too many exceptions. 



GOOD AND BAD AIR AND THE DESIRE FOR DRINK. 



Mr. W., farmer 0/24 0/7 4/365 (4 times a year to town = sick) 



Mr. H., farmer 0/24 1/7 75/365 (visits to church and town) 



Mr. X., professional 8/24 6/7 290/365 (15 days in wildwoods) 



Mr. X., businessman 8/24 6/7 300/365 (300X8 = 2400 out of 8760 hours) 



Mrs. X., the wife x/24 1/7 75/365 (75X2 = 150 out of 8760 hours) 



Mr. B., mechanic 24/24 7/7 365/365 ("Always thirsty") 



Explanations of the chart (table) must be brief. 



