Then he traced the development of machinery and social organization so that to-day the producing power of civilized man was a thousand times greater than that of the savage.
"Five men," he said, "can produce bread for a thousand.

One man can produce cotton cloth for two hundred and fifty people, woollens for three hundred, and boots and shoes for a thousand.

One would conclude from this that under a capable management of society modern civilized man would be a great deal better off than the cave-man.

But is he?
Let us see.

In the United States to-day there are fifteen million* people living in poverty; and by poverty is meant that condition in life in which, through lack of food and adequate shelter, the mere standard of working efficiency cannot be maintained.