Family Protection Through Supplemental Income

CHTT, neglect, the costliest byproduct of our industrial civilization, is largely the fault of the poor. Bernard Shaw has told us in his ironic wisdom that the real trouble with the poor is their poverty. Dr. Patten, as an economist, stated the claim even more definitely in his epigram: "Sin is misery; misery is poverty; the antidote of poverty is income." These assertions are something more than halftruths. While misery is often caused by individual defects, much of it is admittedly general, and results from our faulty institutions. In an industrial society, emphasis must be placed upon causes predominantly economic. Professor Douglas, in the preceding article on "The Family Allowance System as a Protector of Children has well summarized the evidence that for a