to atrophy. Yet when a man becomes an employee, he
does not forfeit any right of citizenship, nor does being an employee
relieve him from the duties of citizenship. In too many cases it has
been overlooked that a worker's carelessness about habits of health, as
well as about his machinery, causes accidents and increases industrial
diseases. Too often the worker himself is responsible for uncleanliness
and lack of ventilation and his own consequent lack of vitality. A
study into the conditions of ventilation and cleanliness of workers'
homes will prove this.

Knowing that a light, well-aired, clean, safe factory would not of
itself insure healthy men, many employers have built and supplied
houses for their workmen at low rents. Just as these employers failed
to see that they could reach more people and secure more permanent
results if they demanded that tenement laws and the sanitary code be
enforced as well as the laws for the instruction of children in
hygiene, so the employee has failed to see that he is a part of the
public that passes laws and determines the efficiency of factory
inspection. The enforcement of state legislation for working hours,
proper water and milk supply, proper teaching of children, proper
tenement conditions, efficient health administration, is dependent upon
the interest and activity of the public, of which the working class is
no small or uninfluential part.

[Illustration: COUNTRY CLUB HOUSE FOR NEW YORK SOCIAL WORKERS
Given by the founder of Caroline Rest Educational Fund]

The first and most important step in securing hygienic rights for
workingmen is to make sure that they know the rights that the law
already gives them. Men still throw out their chests when talking of
their rights. The posting of the game laws in a club last summer, and
the instruction of all the natives of the countryside in regard to
their rights as against those of outsiders, meant that for the first
time in their history the game laws were enforced. All the natives,
instead of poaching as has been their wont, joined together in
protecting club property from intruding outside sportsmen. Poachers
were caught and served with the full penalties of the law. Over winter
fires these people's heroism will grow, but their respect for law will
grow also, and it is doubtful if the game laws can be violated in that
section so long as the tradition of this summer's work lives. And so
it would be in a factory, if empl