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Last September, believing that the time had come to find out how fully the seven counties realized the measure of their improvement, Dr. Pritchard sent to 80,000 voters a report and a ballot. The ballot asked voters whether they were willing to tax themselves 25? per capita to continue their health departments, relieving the Foundation of part of its burden. Last week the votes were counted...
Arithmetic by the ton constituted the anesthetic "prologue" of the investigation. Dr. Isidor Lubin, the dark, bird-like Commissioner of Labor Statistics, presented a bale of charts to show the growth of U. S. population, industrial production (total and per capita), national income ($432 per capita in the U. S. for 1934-35), employment. Biggest headlines were accorded his estimate that between 1929 and now the country "lost 133 billion dollars of potential income," including 119 billions in workers' wages for 43 million man-years of work...
...campaign got under way with a handsomely printed 42-page booklet entitled Out of the Red Into the Black, The Truth About Chicago's Municipal Government. Embellished with photographs of Chicago's wonders (including five of Ed Kelly), tables purporting to show that Chicago's per-capita government cost was $53.57 compared to New York's $91.78, Boston's $88.26, it concluded that Chicago "stands in the front rank for economic administration of governmental affairs and for high calibre of public service." Most effective thing about The Truth was its sponsor, a high-sounding something...
...return for running their government, supporting their welfare center, fulfilling all their obligations to local charities, providing over forty deserving students with scholarships, and defraying all expenses incurred in the interests of the student body as a whole, undergraduates last year contributed only slightly more than one dollar per capita to the Student Council...
...Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. (the Northern body) issued a bit of pleasant warm-weather reading for its 1,953,734 communicant members. During its last fiscal year the church took in $40,551,108, an increase of $1,523,303 over the year before. Per capita donations rose $1.04, to $21.24. Presbyterian membership dropped 21,112 souls, but only on paper. At Eastertime 25,000 people usually join the church, and the past fiscal year, ending last March 31, did not include Easter...