American Glass Review (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...no good in unions unless they get a raise in wages every few weeks. They do not reflect that the union preserves every advance that is gained and makes it perpetual. The defensive value of unions in holding what we have is entirely underestimated. Were it not for unions labor would probably be receiving less than 50 per cent, of its present wage, and this regardless of living expenses, which would only operate to increase the immediate necessities of the workers and compel them the more readily to accept ever decreasing wages. Let us not forget that while the union puts us in position to secure adjustment of present and future grievances it also preserves to us the advantages gained in the past.--Exchange. PNEUMONIA PREVENTION The end of the winter, far from bringing a termination to the danger from pneumonia, in reality marks the beginning of the season when this disease becomes an extremely serious cause of increase of mortality. This is true particularly in large cities. In recent years this increase has become more and more marked and is all the more striking because of the decrease in deaths from other infectious diseases. Pneumonia has been aptly termed the "Captain of the Men of Death," displacing tuberculosis which for so long occupied that "bad eminence." The most important problem before the medical profession at present is the reduction of the death rate from pneumonia. Considering the nature of the disease and the intense strain which it imposes on the heart, it is probable that the only hopeful outlook for any considerable reduction in pneumonia mortality is through the prevention of the disease. The prospect of a cure for it, in the popular sense of that term, according to The Journal of the American Medical Association, ha...