Languages (was Re: [Sca-cooks] globetrotting)

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Also sprach Terry Decker:
>Jacob Riis, reporter for the New York Sun, who wrote "How the Other Half
>Lives."
>
>Both were very serious social reformers who helped shape social welfare in
>America.  They are worth reading to understand the historical context of
>welfare programs in the US.

Not to mention the wave of immigration of the second half of the
nineteenth century. Riis has recently come under some fire, though,
as being both a sensationalist (it's been alleged that some of his
more tawdry photographs of tenement life were either posed or the
result of bursting in, with help from police, on families in the
middle of the night) and somewhat patronizing to those who did not
pull themselves by their bootstrings, as he had done (although Riis'
poverty was somewhat self-inflicted). He had some uncomplementary
things to say about certain immigrant groups which, today, would be
regarded as simple racism.

However, the without whom none, etc.

Adamantius