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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. 



