ad OUR HOME TOWN. A Department Devoted to Village Betterment. RICHARD HAMILTON BYRD. J 9 He dnd yy Rg y $\ LALLA can, i Wi / | The editor of this departnent the active members ivic and and ever village life. What is being done in for home employment 7? ment and the beautifying of private one interested in the improvement and the protection of rura your town to encourage small industries and t is doing slong the line of street improve desires to keep in touch with Local Improvement Associations lawns and public parks? | type, { breeds of eattle, the mut on and wool ——_— It had been organized only three or four weeks, and yet the interest min. ifested and the readiness with whieh the boys and girls described the beef the dairy type, and various types of sheep, the principal breeds of draft horses, and sore of the stand ard-bred roadsters and trotters, were indeed surprising. At the close of the recitation the class was taken to a barn in the village were © vere. tine roadsters were owned, The owner was not ut home, but the teacher had standing permission to take t, - horses from the barn in order that the class PERNICIOUS PHILOSOPHY OF JOHN J. INGALLYS FAMOUS POEM. ~~ HOW HOME OPPORTUNI- TIES HAVE BEEN OVERLOOKED, Splution of the Labor Question to be | “ound in the Development of Hone Industries. Many a beautiful thing is pernicious in its effect. There is no telling how {** Every Child ia u Carden Learn by Doing. OPRRTUNITES AT HOKE. BE A HOMECROFTER Work Together. Give every Nan a Chance. THE SLOGAN OF 1 “Learn by Doing very HE H A LCROFTE} ] Work Together— Give Every Maun a Chaace,”’ Mother in a Homeeroft, and Indi. vidual, Industrial Independence for Every Worker in a Home of bis Own on the Lad,” Are your local merchants receiving the support of the local trade? Experience, plans and suggestions will be welcomed by the editor of this department and so far as possible given place in these columns, might examine them. A fine Hamble. | many men have given up a good fight tontan mare was led into the yard and | ing chance and have literally laid examined eritieally by the pupils and | down in harness because they had ab criticised by them, the different points | sorbed from John J. Ingalls’ poem being brought out by skillful question- | OPPORTUNITY the idea that they ing on the part of the tea had had their chance, and that for Fom this place the class went to a! them at least opportunity would not livery barn where a sploadid black | return, Here is the poem: Percheron stallion was stabled for the | “Muster of human destinies am I, day. A member of the class had dis Fame. love and fortune on my covered the he was .eing wait, : driven in from another town 14 miles | Cites and fields 1 walk. away, and following the driver to the Deserts and seas remote. barn had got permission for the class ing hy to examine him. When the livery and mart barn was reached the driver brought ute “A little crof A parder Ang fiowers for fPiucked + while t ost chimes " THE AGRICULTURAL HIGHSCHOOL jo vias: ities sanding An the doorway’ of i gathered about h s t Ww the sounds thet are barracks are exhausted THE INDEPENDENT TOWN. Make Fach Rural Center Dependent | Successful Examples Described by Upon Itself and [ts Own Resources. | Lrosby of Department of Agricul There has lately developed a strong | ture of Local improvement gentiment looking to the fmprovement | | hrough Rural Education of the home town-—making each) In the new Year Book the De community, much possible, | partment of Agriculture, just issued, | dependent itselt own | Is a description by D. J. Crosby, of the resources those SUr- | office of Experiment Stations, which rounding country, and Independ- { shows, in a number of instances, what ent of the great centres are | gplendid results are being attained stalllon out Into the street, pul I knock constantly striving to secure a portion | through the introduction of common | im through his paces, mid helped the gate, of the local wealth. This local self) agricultural stiidies in some of teacher in calling attention to his good sufficiency may be fostered by an in-| the country village and how and the contrasts between 1 : : & ¢ dividual and rative determi-| they directly affect and benefit their type and the roadster type of I turn away: it is th wour of fate AS 1 ! EEN | ! D ANI WNC PERSE ARE nation to bring the town up to towns There Is and allowed us to take several what appears And those who follow me 0 every THE | GA LES OF ABSORBED INTEREST highest possi of comfort, ge an almost ideal to be, Pennsylvania photographs, #t was an instructive 1: eral use fulne 48. 1 to Its 1 | Hage high ii wi ich the . tha ae ue Ty Mortals desi The Brotherhood of Man Nents SA ioe a eveient | Visited, seer] on What he kcore of farmers iM Charity that is Everlasting The accumulation of considerable | a good general farmi vnsmen who collected around ' The Secret of Nippon's Power wealth in many American villages and | Lesson of a Great Calamity The Sign of a Thought Henry ¥ foot horse ns steps I penetrate And pass EDUCATION OPPORTUNITY of Whi aid of ins upon and is its and palace, soon or Hovel which his unbidden once at every OF sense sleeping wake; If feasting rise THE THE FIRST BOOK -. HOMECROFTERS points before : draft PUR 0D AMO? \ horses schools co-ope J is | home oie plane 1g nd beauty described only for agricultural or more school, Ww not wWery re conquer be as surro Nave those wio doubt or is of Conden to failure, penury and ng at ! ol by hesitate country, the village 4 stable. In much the | | ned towns, during the last ten or twenty |on the outskirts of which Is the al but her be the In ' vears, the development popular | Fort le Boeuf, of French and ey Hed ool Ihe cl Beek we | vain, education and the increase of leisure, | war fame At Waterford tl beef ype 4 has an opportunity for the per-| school in Erie County was estab sheep. oF Me forma of public duties, such as| in 1800, and here far ba Lad not omed to exist to the A to the but oung | was erected tone acade man or of the onstration A MA il ation, Ww the effort livelihood establish a to the gocinl responsi of and uselessly {studying the mu Coples of “THE FIRST BOOK OF THE HOMECROFTERS" c- | con be obtained by sendinC twelve two-cent stamps with your e or the | name and address (carefully and plainly written) to to The Home- If oppor- | crofter’ Cild of'the Talisman, 143 Main St., Watertown, Mass > the Tl book is the first of a S« i “ PP of the will Chronicle th ro} { HOMECR( cat 1 ote or given * not more, is CK | swine Is taken ‘ and given d poem -—-yes, bu le its an helr relative val of fat 1 which the bree nr IY » Win ten ) estination and 1 return no nee hoy shop i used to-day as the main S200 ON ¢ teary high-school building. The township of Waterford has a tion of 1.400 and side in the borough borough lu school, but the hig! ed and ough and 3 former ners which to home duties | NK, part of the at gecure ha 0 won ho in in and thought and produce tl or nuts, which 1 ! is om nce, where | } a | better qt { y | Us striving hat about one haw re + | ' ot ol} * | I'resident Jar Water! =d, Thr» h . of lllinois during the Thus this little village high scl elem nom A 1 ¢ f ' 100! of in | the University recent commence- bilities! of \ hit | » O50) N { though | iy only *<,e0U0 a youl comparatively Is hd pays v 4 ; study” has the publie school Rl own ry | controlled towns! his toi ch ml tl “x1 i pap ' $< Is In . . ‘ . eu SCHOOL CO nnd te nprove nt lea has n le onrse fire the ordinary | 0 Se headway, although there has been | course Is the pro given to t . ha greater difficulty in obtaining popular laboratory work and the outdoor pra figs Hf approval and support, possibly, than in| ticum. For the laboratory work there | in illustrative any other section of the country, owing is no elaborate apparatos. The pupils | o nr ht to the fact, perhaps, that the Lone! make much thelr own apparatus al thesh hil Star State has vast areas of unoe | furnish their own reagent bottles, and A a a pnp fly do crpled land, and the 1 that the! or then In the pl elaine oh lure went 3 orits Lon) Stan ot elabo inf i has but alcourse the pupils i i ; 4 . short time removed from the cattle and carefully prepa 4 ’ x- { ment reise refer “Pence has her victories no less re nowned than war.” EDUCATION CO-OPERATION OPPORTUNITY nenee p ’ : i Of ET i . } Lain Lik : ~ and misleading, uit eros inlists and an equ ! Is false material such as few schools com affory trained nid wue the far ‘ ae Lai proein sald Mr. James FL it “It is not a single op portunity which comes to a man; it inia train ‘ atraln. It is a HOMECROFTS { sion, some small, i o that the triotie o n I perh APS nore smn 10d 1 ! } nit . “ . Wear i ut n the village! cant as the 3 po y and Always His is of i wirect on fro applied Exempt ’ being neverending proces So os lare ys » tet Oreo Le oun SOI arge, growing | ’ 1 red drawings, too £1 > Homccoroll and Crafl, referred to bs odas his address he ny tion the | They the rani eConm nd revival dustries deemed Poss ‘ of New | ere left wnght that HUOOORE are recels tive the were 4 Ie 1808 of PENDULUM IS SWINGING BACK For a full half century the American h seetns to ople have been 1 mad Evers and | thing has been sacrificed to the o idea of accumulation. The dollar became the sole badge of honor man's SNCCesE was me not by "| what he made of himself. not by what omplished for his fellows or t) world at large, but by the size of his pile This standard of suneces: h w {ed the Imagination of the whole ple The merchant and professional man bend every energy to the pil ing up of gold bricks. And the farmer public parks, not to be outdone, lies awake nights playgrounds | thinking how he may get more land : Nothing | We has now more than he til de. | but the land lust has seized him and ve lopment than the interference ofl home comforts and a quiet life are sold politics Party responsibility, as a in the market in order that the line remedy for municipal mismanagement, fence may be removed has beem prove! a “delusion and a This has been the snare.” Such methods have raised to] MANY years, and It requires eareful heportant places bigoted, Incompetent observation to detect any change. But | and sometimes dishonest men, who, by | 8 reaction bas set In. The pendulum Is reason of thelr weaknesses or mis. | Winging back. A growing sentiment management, have disgraced what In favor of a moderate success, a quiet should be honorable and respected | life and home surroundings Is appar | positions, Our citizens should insist | nt With this comes a desire to get nbsolutely that no political consider back to original principles: to abandon | ations be allowed to interfer with the eltles and seek the healthful life park affairs, and should visit with|of the farm and the village, marked censure and disapproval all The growth of our cities has been city officials who prostitute their trusts abnormal-the direct reanlt of ab. | for mere political gain, normal transportation conditions, “To — li — him that hath shall be given, and to Fresh Air Playgrounds, him that hath not even that which he American eoltles are far behind ath “hal be taken away,’ has baeh European cities In making provision Be hing policy ub Hoieta Sum for public parks, especially In pro ANA yw feed to viding for the instruction and amuse. AI¢ Small town has heen sacrificed te fan h he iy Snags IONE y and n en ilizing conditions of (On factory ’ oe of ' plying the number of those « independent of both landlord ployer the American ey homecrofter and the - — Keep Dolities Gul, public minded known that he to partisan, polit management of roadside Improvement, and like town betterments | ean more detrimental to such sSVsle » 1 mod UNITIES AT HOME. yerred draw the manufacturit | he nev the | craftsman in one! backbone us ne IL | (;ive only enough Homecrofter fw! . rp. ry sufficient to yi 1 a Living from the for his own labor We believe that the Pablie Is the most precious heritag people and the surest safeguard nation has against Social Unrest, D } turb or Upheaval, and that the fresh Cause of MTumanity and the Preserva. home for that fam tion of Social Stability and of our Free everything Institutions demand that the absorp. pince for I tion of the public lands Into speculn home, and tive private ownership, without settle. W a ment, be forthw stopped: and that home, the nation should ereate opportunities he Is worth infinitel more to for Momecrofters by building lrriga. ployer than his brother laborer tion and drainage works to reclaim bas no interest other than that and as fast as It 1s needed to give finds with his saloon companion: and every man who wants a Home on the In ward politics And a chance to get It When the reformers have settled the We believe that, as a N fustrial labor questions they w not should be less abeorbed with Makht « calling for less hours of work b Money, and should pay more heed distribution of the hours of worl raising up and training Men who will Six hours In the factory or the m be Law-AbMing Citizens; that the wel. and the balance at home working on fare of our Workers Is of more con. an nacre of ground may be made a sequence than the mere accumulation solution of the whole question between of Wealth: and that Stability of Na. labor and capital. Any man with a tional Character and of Social amd home and one acre of the earth's sur sner i « Conditions Ix of greater in. foce that he ean eall his own, and ment of children In them. In modern hy Sh. rt bo Yh bond ivi to gin of this country With employment at fale wages ‘uring municipal equipment In Burope, much I NR A low rates! ns a whole than any other one ques. five of six hours of the day, nead ne ver provision made for the Instruction are given to both the In going and out: | tion that Is now before them: and we finer want for hims If or his family and Amasement ot children yu in going freight. but where thers ia but | belleve that the only way to Progere hong "ich San litlons His thw Bo most modernlzs Furapean cities Inrge N ‘ 1) , and to Permanently be reared a yl « . M ( sims of money have heen expended in nh ond, the Jammie 16 thked ail that "i buch Sutiiity National Prosperity, ia the advantages of a wholesome social procuring open spaces for them in dis ' wtiansd coluinh to carry Into Immediate effect and of yp tricts of congested population. - o citizen should 1bhsolutely ical control Every make it opposed in the mm a l his Land as the rem “ue IL L225) m— PLANT LIFR Damnain of 1] the onan 0" CLASS IN LIVE STOCK JUDGING CJ AND be workman nt Watert ! Fa High ' HOW range business However, the more | the plants themselves with reference centralized portion of society has taken | to their life history and economic uses the matter up, and it is stated that For the outdoor practicum the | the most publicspirited citizens of | school Is unfortunate In having the towns and cities, together with the | neither land nor domestic animals nor progressive teachers have made school | fowls, and yet it has a wealth of Has. gardens and rural eduention a success | trative material all around it Every | during the past two seasons and have | good farm within a radius of 3 or 4 aroused such enthusiasm among the | miles, nearly every barn and poultry pupils, that wherever It has been tried, | yard in the village, the butcher shops the school garden has become a fixture. | and the farm Implement stores furnish costly Hlastrative material and extend 1ot your child plant his own gar vastly the teaching force of the high an. eather his own harvest of feutt | hook I'he farmers and owners of and flowers, learn through his own good live stock either bring thelr ani v dF mals to the door of the school house stnll experience something of the to be studied hy the class In agrienl influence of the sun, dew and raln tare or allow the class to eo to thelr and gain thereby a remote presentl:| horns and flelds for (his purpose, It ment of the reciprocal energles of iy void to be a rare thing for n good | nature and a reverent feeling for the horse to come to the village and got divine Nfe and law expressed In| away without being examined by the nature, The child fs a plant, a vege: | high sehool class In animal husbandry table, and must live out of doors, of! The writer was fortunate In being | nearly so, ax conditions will permit.” | the guest of the school one day last | Froebel realized that health was the| October and In having an opportunity | basis and test of all our energles, and | to listen to some of the recitations in | that this was one of the morniug| agriculture. A class of 14 boys and stars of the new hygiene, 6 girls were studying animal Industry, else In dustric who Sw mis |} family : better cities condition for tl utils ith i= not only a n 1] 1 ition, we to ne in ’
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