farin of one hun has been turned , The land 15 aising vege tiie 1 Phoenix, Arizona, n red and sixty aces much cure Provision in nl i ioinecroft [ tonthin per thousand The garden features planned with most cases being | flowers, vegetables an | To return to the Homecrof i Bourn in Bourn town, has heen purchased and con in verted Into a Gildhall and shops fo handierafrt work, The land around the | houses for the workmen, Mr house has practically all been appro | Cadbury, from long observition and priated to the use of a garden school | experience, concluded that the only and ald ont In children's gardens, | practical way to solve the problem was | The director of the gardens is Miss | to take the factory worker out on the | there | distinetive Blizabeth X, Hill of Groton, who last | land where he might pursue the na I Mr, Maxwell's plan i year conducted the school gardens in| tural and healthy recreation of g irden- | to attach to énch home ena y Malt Brookline and Groton. Over a hun-| ing. Bays Mr, W. Alexander Harvey | make It a feature and dred children are already at work and! in hig book on Bournville, “It was lm- | 1 ident in the lite of | 4 nna of many more, almost two hundred in ail, | possible for working men to be healthy he has added the crafis wor or X unt i i hve applied for spaces, It is an inter avd have healthy children, when after | men and for bows pth tg To These undertakings, while practioal esting sight, and a poor commentary being confined all day In fac the) abot lid onl By in ¥ Vilg qun3n 4 { ont rac ive SOHSS. Are on our publie BySRtem, {to institute y BETAINE od, I 5 i 1 i" ! ! Fate I els to show the wistful look the ehildren “nol unity in it" as they wateh the fort and Inquire of the Inst how long they will have to vit. | Many children not connected wi school watch the workers ¢ the grounds, =o that children’s center for th | ’ | Birmingham to a point four miles from {th Fo HOP city and erected twenty-four OUR HOME TOWN, A Department Devoted to Village Betterment, RICHARD HAMILTON BYRD, Le COrRe front d fruiis, tab RTT ¢ under one of Oe al : The Hew River Prog 13 The editor of thia department desires to keep in toch with the active members of Civic and Local Improvement Associations, god every one interested in the improvement, protection and upbuilding of rural village fe. What is being done in your town to encourage small industries and for home employment ¥ What 18 dping along the line of street improves ment and the beautifying of private laws, roadways and public parks Are your local tuereBants receiving the support of the local trade? Experience, plahs, suggestions and blhotograpis will be welcomed hy the editor of this department and so far as possible given place in these columns. nnd f waiter for irriga therctore ng of {Oe pent thelr in an Ih room or publichouse, If i wry for their he nH | ens fas AFG 80 A o| doubtedly was, tha Of space and | evening school NEN of $ 10 1" unnte one netors ——— THE HOMECROFTERS' ILD. To Enable People to Live in Their Own Home and on a Piece of Their Owa Laad, The Lecal Handicap. The Prophet is without honor in his own country, Bo the village and small town are without confidence ini thelr own resources, We get so familiar with the things about us that we re apt to underrate their value, It Is often necessary for a total stranger to come along and shiow us the neglected opportunities that have been under our nose unseen for Years, The writer while pursuing some Ih dustrial investigations had occasion to viglt a thrifty little city in the Routh west, It is an old town that has liter ally been forced to the front by the pressure of development and northern energy. The place has five railroads, a population of 20,000 and a number of modern bulldings. Still the natives town. hool ha \ r+ other The opening of the garden se Arousged an Interest amon vite organizations In the nel I and the Women's kia established another higo under Miss Hs « In ktill another opened by Bocial Belence Club of { garden is on Jackson toa futum, On the onter hot the old Emerson I'l changed and set gchool for boys nh wire to do practi Wot this garden are large « of practical experiments and { i a ie i Eupply quite & quanti Parking for the Ls ar a AE I = 3 i lab of CHANCE FOR FACTORY WORKERS a % Ng “Every Child in a Garden and Every Mother in a Homecroft" is she Motto of the Organization—A Hun- | dred Children at Work in the First SchoolGarden at Watertown, Mass, | EDWARD T, HARTMAN Secretary Massachusetts Clvie League, At Watertown; Massachusetts, there Is belug put under way what secs to be one of the most suue and practical ——— - Town. Which each gardener is ¢ {1 t propriate to his own u requirement Is that eacl vide | own tools ni giflicient attention te antl to his work to kes Col t { In h garden as ¢ ie garden plent) of space n It offer unique and va tunity any one desi The garden 8 superyise man practical mirket irdening i m— ny BC TY SE LG th (GC) = ce. : 139 57.7% 4A yyy FOUSE AND BARN FOR HOMECROFT VILLAGE, Watertown, Mass ns of many of the problema of ! attempted in th with the best | have not change le ity life ever ry It line nterprises for solving the quest eduention and it should operation of worker | ¢ ra Giid offers garden | be forced : ad. 4 " il craft PAS KB AUDA | bo biorh ctor nditions y ; i . : ’ : nd Mi "mt for tha #tProe vO ff " Vey i "n " : ‘ : bP 2 ¢ . his land hy or an 11) 4 a And the n in | be ed whereby looms wil i the j§ i ' street for] oa E Dip tanta al | *upplied by and the produ 80k | | be 1 les i I « ‘ wed ‘ : + a addition health, contentmetit and A genucen the Gild ' . . %0e per acre, but found no taker | .... 00010] Increase in Income to the sol a will be kept at ' among the home speculators. The! yw opera. The increase takes a practi. he Ligh gfe Blinds tract was “no good.” It was offered! Sat" fori tn the shape of Health from | se hig host profits to this stranger for $1.00 per acte.| work in the nir, from fresh vegetables | oo Would he look at it? Yes. He looked! 100 fruits. from a clean environment | HOME it over, examined every ae and from absence of bad habita: from came back to town and hands ghey saved from useless pastimes ! sre fart ng and £10,000 for the worthless tract. Great ¢, ls and from | was the joy of the natives who Were! 5 girect return in the way of limed up at the wi us bars, to drink| , lities for use In the bome or for to the health of the “su } . purpose as ont . eno) rn h FORT silos | ihe Sues al Phe : and main supporter of vith anothe apitalist | Hitchin, Port Bus nd sold this worthless tract yr ran is Mr. George IL Max | > ; 000 "Rut 1 ™ was not all. With We litor of Maxwell's Talisman and | ni oty days the second sucker broug National Irrigation | Looking Across 4 1 ird 1 sold him the timber alone Merits 4 a student of socihl con Tract at 0 000 i and t i 1 o ; tions, r. axwell has concluded | © for a Me bd letnents and similar | bankers and conservative oa) | 4 serateh the upper | Raised This Ye kicked themselves for not thin nd fail utterly | it. For years people hs Arkansas and Missour Jooking for of gtrangers are taking finding n newcomers re = resonrees whic h recognize, This principe holds true of jority of Individuals in ry munity. We too near to see the opportunities at our foot We # : them over and leave them for mi all netitute \ Kl Co one to piek up crofter. therefore. under the The twentieth eontury for the Tnited ditions being developed, 14 a labor Rtates at least will be a time of con. | clerk, skilled artisan or what centration rather than expansion, A 0 supplements his regulat in century of rural development and and spends his spare time in home-bullding. As has been indicated | work on the land, His ehildren way the people must get back to the hand | prowise be employed out of school and Industrial institations to reach hours and nt other times when thes thelr best development must give the y would otherwise be on the street or worker a chance for a home. forced into some one of the | f des to help 1 \ ] children the advantages af Healthy etoreian in the r fof a purpose, frosh yoreln! low other products nnd substitdtied for spasmdie under bad condit ons, Male or hohe at all, and the gang. i In ous of | _ | Immigrants and cout i lalion. particula . : u ist nittention and all yt " y ound with 1 Phere i Ir ‘ <tr si n more of the rogrR- 1 he nn- ’ i $ . 1 since It bins " ee of Dou +i Ay ht ; bo be d { answering an pocrue 10 the] ville certainly ator. to thi ruperty would go to | GTM ' 4 nd, in the case of sapiciusion, for arly every hous a ’ wii y thie t i BOTY 109, Wisa older there sponds bis Jelsure in gard Tort to Induce ning, and the + not a single Hoeensed AN, Vig it ass wagh the large use In * 3 eo)" 1 ' ROT ¢ intended to port by finding an insuring then 1 ] : 1 nt or and by Ine 8 else A curbstone r broker had on his list a tract « land, timbered, but worthless on count of the annual floods, hie had hawked about the f 1 The Homeeroft ) I wnship dev jot be LL LEE ippear. (The LANDS IN PARUELS SMALL re | anhebay 1 fi hen of doctors’ b £4 it Ehowing Growth of Batley ar heen let going portunities T their pla bush, devel Yo oney on every mnly the natives fal a home of his own on t lan MEANING OF HOMECROFI §} t | to fit the thin otéh rd YOry mi phe of ntensively h its o i rage enough to yield him him a farmer avery coh h word Wherever Are e pad anywhere inthis country Any One who has the Spirit of True Patriotism snd ng mar not, wi come by, Genuine Love of Humanity st root in his or her heart, ————— — | Ir the vious The Valae of a Good Garden. Many people fail to realise the great value Of a thrifty, well-kept) garden. Even an Inferior one Is much better than none. Vegetables are ine dispensable to a family, so far as health Is concerned, to say nothing of the money saved by not having to buy It eah be demonstrated that the so much flour and so many groceries ordinary factory worker on from on It would Reem that every man | half acre to an aere of land enn « thould manage to obtain a plece of | Actually more in the odd time given ground and see that it becotnes well | to his garden than he does from his fertilized and enriched and then put fegular work, taking It hour for hour, under a thorough state of cultivation The other advantages are evident, before trying to plant the seeds, I1t| THE GILDHALL AND BHOPE only costs a little to buy enough seeds As a foundation for the Gi the for quite a good-sized garden, Wilson estate at 143 Main St Water THE HOMECROFT VS. THE TENEMENT. From He. Pani Press By way of affording a practical ob- t lesson in the “Homeeroft" idea, rge H. Maxwell has acquired fifty acres of ground at Watertown, Mass, ~Jless th: fi thirty minutes by rail road or forty-five minutes by sralie from the center of Boston--whie - “The Coming People” ) leq our great cities tuberculosis, and political dangers too numerons to He ehtimerated.” Henry W. Grady de seribed the antithesis when he said, “The citizen standing In the doorway | {of his home—contented on this thres hold-his family gathered about his hearthatone white the evening of a wellepent day closes In scenes and | soins that are dearest hie shall save | the republic when the drum tap Is | futile and the bartacks are exhausted.” The Homeoroft Gild hae other plans immediate contemplation, Near OI By CHARL!S F. DOLE book to be resd hve occupation, 5 Physi Sy vegeinh) soinl should be the first [ thinking people future holds for ha wise soiglion problems that SCENES IN OUTEBRINTS OF PHOENIX, ARIZONA, SHOWING FIRAT ARIZONA HOMBCROPT VN.LAGE It will not he SITE FOR who see the anger the Off country unless we read of 1 eonfront us The spirit in the cons forth in this remarkable book in a way that mast be an inspires to every truly bu mane and patriotic heart fat the spirit of common sense and o mim and fundamental economic and § Gdophical trath © taken as the underlying motive #f movement, and the Creed and Prater the Homecrofters as the practionl 4 Work to, and the rest of the grew H ghestions are certain to be tightly ~ by applic to them of the sound pumane principles that willguide the act of our people upon all great national guess tons, to 220500 ench 8 much higher grade of home than the workers had been ft customed to was pros led) Renta range from 48 6d, to 12e por week hot Including rates: ind the death rite of nineteen per thousand In Birming ham has been reduced to six and nine elsewhere In Bugland, l ont of place to outline the Bournwi | plan which Is Identical In many re spects and has been carried out to an | assured success, This model village was started ln 1870 when Messrs, Cad. bury Bros. removed thelr Works from ¢ tremendous sodial which we should approach Jetation of these problems is set in hem to thy rectory oF ¥hop. Autry, a necessity for the -ttatnment|in fhe condition of the wa y 3. Reliable occupation ard Sup</of the best results. the general eartying out of the home port for the wage«sar sr Nimsslf, in] B, A growth of co-operation, whichjer fdea would relieve the cone ease of a fmporary loss of his regu- will give to the homeeroft settle. gestion of tion in cities, and such betterments, either Alre.dy lar employment. An ere of ground, ment all the advantages of the ef groatly In their development demonstrated or Antleipated, are intensively cultivated and irrigated, in schools, libraries, hospitals, enter. along those lines which are 0 much these: will support a family. tainment halls, water supply, slectric better than mere bigness. A hun 1. Healthier hotae Juraunaiugh 4. Opportunity to set in the lights, fmproved roads, ete.; while/dred thousand or a million pee) alr, sunlight, troes, wérs) roém homecroft, iiite handicrafts for the the cultivation of sich separate acre living on small tracts of land, wi “In for children to grow up without odh- Rrodusts of whith there is a constant or “oreft” will be facilitated by thean hour's ride of a city would make ut pervades this beg ation tact in. will be broken up into pmall “crofts” for city workers, There, it 1s to be presumed, will be illustrated, by de , all the different phases of bet- with the contaminating tenements, 2. Diversity In smployment and emand; such as special lines of cooperative ownetship of the numer. fluences of crowded eity streets ald weaving, knitting, rugmakine, edb sue pensivs sles of farm MA |Inetmaking, basket weaving, turning shitery now 8 be fatmd on the Hen {in wood or bons, Lr! making, large forme, but which could not be enther, far more business for the city, of every desirable Rind, han the same number closely tacked in tenements, The “homecroft’ experiment not to be limited to the settlement fost. One copy of “The Coming People” posts are prepaid Ww 1 be mailed to any all dress in the United States for twenty five cents healthful recreation for the wage manufactuters of gloves, afforded by the Individaal erofter, earner himself, snd wholssom eto, ote. The distribution of power 6 The fowter! , Infa.lered Mr. Maxwell near Boston. portunity for his w.e and ¢ Yaron! trom lectric Wires, Or the use of Mt \ ng of A sturdy, inde-le pendent Individualiem, to hich The idea combines with its sugges- to contribute to the family in- tle gasoline engines, in village Of nothine contributes so muc ax the tions of social betterments the prob. come, in the cultivation of an acts, homecrofters, may demonstrate that ownership of a home and a concious. ability of very satisfactory re.urns wait wage-earner; especially he whose| more or less, of ground. This would the concentration of thousands LT) that one can “make a living” to the owners of vacant lands, near weekly stipend comes from work injenable him, especiaily, 6 keep his workers In great factories is not, reeardless of any hom, lefties, who may be disposed ex- elty or store or factory. Among|girls at home, instead of sending after all, in a great many lines of m- Concurrently with such botterments periment with ft, Ose copy of doth “The Coming People’ and “The First Book of the Homecrofters™ And “Maxwell's Talisman” monthly for the reat of the year 1908 will be mailed to any address in the United States for fifty conta, Remit In postage stam {0 The Heme. erofters, 148 Main street, Watertows, Mas erment which character'ze the homecroft as compared with the tenement-house idea, in ta applica- tion to the life of the average Ameri.
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