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WORRY 
March 31, 1916. No. 13 
AMERICA Has ENJoyep such a wealth of paper-mak- 
ing materials that it has been much more economical for 
the manufacturers to use raw materials and not depend 
upon the renovation of second hand stuffs. In the early 
days of the industry a regular publicity campaign was 
conducted and every housewife was accustomed to saving 
old rags and other paper-making materials. ‘The present 
war has made it necessary for “the paper manufacturers 
to seek for any and all kinds of materials for paper-mak- 
ing. The United States government has investigated the 
problem and has found it advisable to issue a public bul- 
letin. Business men and householders will do well to 
conserve all the waste paper and destroy none by fire. If 
the business men do not care to make a profit on this 
part of their business there are philanthropic agencies that 
will be glad to remove paper and rags. In this way in- 
dividuals may be spared the trouble “of selling the paper 
waste and yet feel that they are doing their part to con- 
serve the supply of paper- making materials. America has 
been extravagant and the war ns checked many of its 
wastes by increased prices. 
It ts ANNouNCED that Brazil has been able to make 
a vegetable dye that stands the severe tests to which man- 
ufacturers have subjected it. If the announcement prove 
true and the supply of plants is unlimited, the world will 
be free from its copecee upon Germany. None the 
less considerable, it will eliminate the prosperity of dye 
manufacturing plants of the old type which were and are 
for all intents rand purposes auxiliary plants for the manu- 
facture of munitions of war in times of stress. 
In SoME oF THE Evropran Coun‘rigs at war today 
people are arrested for burning or otherwise destroying 
waste paper. Rags are so scarce because of their use by 
munitions manufacturers that the cost of raw materials 
for paper has advanced tremendously. If people in Amer- 
ica do not use more care in conserving the supply of 
waste rags and paper it many be necessary before the 
War is Over to use strenuous measures to stop the awful 
Waste. 
Ture Drericuyry with which business men obtain 
freight cars for their shipments is an indication of the 
wonderful strides that have been made in the business of 
the country in the last eighteen months. ‘he cars are 
moving, and that means that someone in America is mak- 
ing money and fortunately enough it is not all in ammuni- 
tion industries. 
A Bitz Has Been Reporrep which permits women 
to serve on the Board of Health of any community within 
the Commonwealth. The bill has gone to its third read- 
ing in the Senate and may become law. This is an office 
W hich a woman could fill to advantage to the city. 
March 31,1916, 
THe Massacuusetts Civic Leacug has attacked 
now a serious housing problem and has submitted to the 
legislature a bill that provides for the regulation of small 
houses. These small houses have already become a seri- 
ous menace to the health of the community. The lack of 
air, sunlight, proper location and improper construction 
make them a prolific source of sickness, crime, immorality, 
poverty and unemployment. “Now this country and this 
Commonwealth are made up of families, and families live 
in houses. ‘The spiritual aspects of the house which we 
call the home, have been too little considered. The 
character of the home, the most important factor of the 
social order, and of the citizens who come out of it, 
depends largely upon the kind of house in which the 
family lives. Miserable shacks, dark, wretched and over- 
crowded rooms, filthy sanitation, dirty streets and alleys 
breed vice, crime, disease and death, faster than we can 
care for them. Bad living conditions are probably respon- 
sible for two-thirds of the cost of our hospitals and jails 
and for an appalling loss through physical inefficiency and 
personal degeneracy. These costs add largely to the burden 
of public expense and so touch the pocket of every taxpay- 
feiss 2 Re Dill proposed will eliminate the old shacks familiar 
“built-of odds and ends of lumber, tin, sheet 
and rags.” The bill should be- 
to everyone 
iron, boxes, paper, felt 
core law and every interested citizen can help by writing 
to his representative. This bill will regulate such struc. 
tures as are to be seen on the Lynn Beach and Revere 
marshes and in labor camps found all over the state. 
Tue L&cis,ative CoMMITrEE- on metropolitan af- 
fairs has decided to grant a public hearing upon the bill 
which it had previously ‘ ‘given leave to withdraw.” There 
is no reason why any changes or exceptions should be 
made in the building laws for the “Billy Sunday” taber- 
nacle. It would appear altogether desirable to have such 
a great religious campaign begun honorably and safely. 
ip ‘there is to be such a tabernacle constructed it ought to 
conform to all of the laws of safe construction known. 
The slight expense required to satisfy the building laws 
of Boston ougat not to embarrass the treasury of a “Billy 
Sunday” movement. 
THE PLANS FoR THE NAvAL PLarrsBurG have been 
made and the plan will be tried out this summer. It is 
certain to be successful. No small credit is due to John 
I. Saltonstall for his energetic interest in the matter. 
The course presents an excellent opportunity for young 
men who have six months’ training in any of the trades 
to spend a pleasant vacation and learn something about a 
~odern battleship and become an intelligent fect for 
America’s third line of defence. Plattsburg was success- 
ful; so will be the naval plan. 
Up ro tue Mippie of last week more building and 
engineering contracts were awarded in New England than 
in any corresponding period from the first of the year in 
the history of the country. From January 1 to March 22 
the total value of the contracts let amounted to $36,833,- 
000, a record by more than $3,000,000. The building trade 
is one of the business barometers by which conditions of 
prosperity or depression are guaged. Without these baro- 
meters, however, we should know that at present New 
England is enjoying unusual prosperity. 
Prans ArE Betnc Mane for the dedication of the 
new Institute of Technology buildings. The construction 
of this great technical institute is a wonderful asset to the 
Com™onwealth of Massachusetts. In educational advan- 
tages Boston still is in the lead. 
