| Many grown people and children have consumption without knowing | | it, and can give it to others. Therefore every person, even if | | healthy, should observe the following rules: | | | | =DON'T SPIT= on the sidewalks, playgrounds, or on the | | floors or hallways of your home or school. It spreads | | disease, and is dangerous, indecent, and unlawful. | | | | =WHEN YOU MUST SPIT=, spit in the gutters or into a spittoon | | half filled with water. | | | | =DON'T COUGH OR SNEEZE= without holding a handkerchief or | | your hand over your mouth or nose. | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ $/ This method of promoting the welfare of the worker may have been a necessary step in the development of industrial hygiene. Undoubtedly it has succeeded, in many cases, in bringing to an employer's consciousness the needs of his workmen, in accustoming employees to higher sanitary standards, and in teaching them to demand health rights from their employers. In many cases, however, "welfare work" has miseducated both employer and employee. The fact that "the so-called democratic idea, purely a fad, has never been successfully operated," is due to the interpretation given to "democratic idea." The two alternatives in the paragraph above quoted are lunch rooms, wash rooms, as gifts from employers to employees, or lunch rooms and wash rooms to be furnished by employees at their own expense. The true democratic idea, however, is that factory conditions detrimental to health shall be prohibited by factory legislation, and this legislation enforced by efficient factory inspectors, regardless of what may be given to employees above the requirement of hygiene. Until employees are more active as citizens and more sensitive to hygienic rights, it is desirable that welfare directors be employed in factories to arbitrate between employer and employee, to raise the moral standard of a factory settlement, to organize amusements.