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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 2, 1906)
m$M u ome town. i4m liu i A Deparlmrnt Devoted to Vllln0c 'CtyWV 3JVT'' Betterment Tha edit" ' thle denartmant rtaelrra to I. rep In t....ch with the active jnml,rr. f 1 11,. .t lH-al Improvr-manl Aaa... -tan.,,,,, a" I - , nS lif Improvement, protection and " rami village nn mini lowil In ltc-olirM( amntl ln.1n.trl.. .nt fur humi iimiI I WIim U 1..Imk along lhli ,,r Itr!? iI!T .l .u. II.. l..Uf,llt of p.hr.i. .Sw.-,?.Iartw.T Mfk.i 1 fc. I - A . ...... rt-tviTipv ma aupport if tha lot a I i KM MrlMlPji plana, amcKcatlixia ami phiitok-ranlia will lM w,i,.n, JJUJ' ' Uai.-riw.Mi ... fV . p7,..7i,i; given plc 7S - " """""" rrtciTipif ina aupport of th local truila JTie cnl Handicap. The Propliot ! without honor In his own country. Ho the villus nud small town arc without confidence In their u'ii resources. W'v eel no familiar with tlx thing about un tlmt we r apt to underrate thi-lr value. It In f tin nccesmiry for n total Ninuiei-r to come along and show us the nrgircted opportunities tlmt have Inm ii under our inc uiiMccn for years. Tln writer wlillt pursuing minn In dutrlal lnvi"tl(.'Mtlc.im iiiui iHiimioii to vMt li thrifty little city In the South M t. It Is nn old town tlmt has titer iilly Iwen forced to the front ly the iremrc "f development nml iiiir'tlicrn cmTgy. Hie place liriM live riillitmds. I imputation or .'WMNNi mid a iiuitilH-r of modern building. Kllll the unlives Itth a- 3m m 1 ''v-'ii t-- .rnii -f i. i i.i in'- " i i ii .iimi. Ml,., i--- Mj IIOUSU AND HAIJN TOIt IIoMKCKOl-T VILLAGER WuHTlown, Mana. lmr not yet fully rcnllziM the chunk' I hey Htlll nro doubtful mill iiHieotiH. Aluiiit four yearn aco, he fore the tide of IiiiiiiIkT.'II li.n Mini i nil till xet In toward the Sotilliwct, a at tn II. 'er fl'iilil tht North dlifled luto IhU ixirtlcular city. lie wn Junt ' looliluK nroiiud with no hm-cu pur JMe In view. A ciirlistoiie real enlati liroker had on hi IWt a tnn-t of bottom land, timbered, but worthleHM on n count of the it nu Hi I HomN. TIiIn lain lif had hawked llboiit the Htreet for 7fc per noie, but found no tukem atuoiiir the home upeiiilutorx. Tin tract wiia "no khI." It wan offered to thin Htrimuer fur fl.tx) per acre. Would he look nt It? Yen. lleliMik.il It over, examined every ncre of li ritnio back to town and handed over SlO.iNM) for the worthh'HM tract, (irent wim the Joy of the nntlven who wore Haul up Ht the vurloux bar, to drink to the health of the "nuiker. Hut tin' Htiekcr returned In alx.iit a inoiiili w llh n not her cnpltullHt from the North nnd "old thU worthies tract for $10. tMN). Itut thU wax not all. Within ninety daN Hip aeimd Hticker broimht a third nod mild lit lit the IIiiiImt alone for $.V.iK). And then tho local bnnker and oonervntlvc cnpltnllMt kicked thetuKclvcrt for not thinking of It For years people Imvo Itoon lenvln ArkniiNiia and MlMHourl Kolnu went looklnjr for iipiNirttinltlett. Today Htrnnk'iT lire takliiR their places nnd llndlnif money on every IjuhIi. The iiew-i-oiuerN are nlinply developing the reNoiitrea which the natives foiled to recognize. ThU prlncl holds true of n mi Jorltv of Individual In every com munity. We nre t'o near to rco the opportunity nt our feet We p them over nnd leave theni for Bouie-i one to pick tip. Tho twentieth century for the Tnlted StiitcN nt leant will Im a time of con centration rather than cxpuiiMlon. A eintury of rural development nnd liotne-biillilltijj. A Iimh been Indicated the people mil"! tret buck to t'i In', li ml IndtiKtrhil liiMtitutloii to reach tl lr best development inut Klve the nker a chnnce for a home. The Value of it Good Gtmlcn. Many people fall to realize the Krent value of n thrifty, well kept Harden. Kven nn Inferior one I much better thnn none. 'eKetable nre In dlHpentiable to a family, ho far as Iieulth Is conccrttc.i, to nii.v notliliik' of the money Hnved by not lui vlnf to buy so much flour nnd ho ninny Mi-occrlcM. It would seem that every man riiould nmnnKe to obtain n piece of K'rouiid find nee that It become well fcrtllircd and enriched nud then put unilcr a thorough Mtate of cultivation before trying to plant the Need. It only coNtN a little to buy enough nei)du for quite a Kod-Hl.ed Ki'i'deu. THE HOMECROFT From Sk Paul rreMi By way of affording a practical ob Jact leason In the "Ilomecroft" Idea, ieorge H. Maxwell has acquired fifty acres ot ground at Wutei town, Mass, -less thi n thirty minutes by rail road or forty-flva minutes by trolley from the center of Boston which will be broken up Into small "crofta" for city workers. There, It la to be presumed, will be Illustrated, by de grees, all tht different phases of bet tirmmt which character'ze the bom-1 ift at compared with the te . t.ter.t-house idea, in its applica tion to th Ufa of the avarage Amerl en r g- arner; especially he whose "--kl" u'pend comes from work In I ity ,r atora or factory. Among iml hf iiicm THE HOMECROFTERS' GILD. To Enable People to live in Their Own Home mul on h Piece of Their Own Land. CI1AKCR FOn FA CTnR V ivnvtrrva I Tvcry Child In a Garden and Every Mother In a Ilomecroft" la the Motto of the Organliatlon-A Hun dred Children at Work In the Hrat bthool GarUcn at VVutir town, Mas. UIAVARI) T. IIAItTMAN HecrrUr Muwhumu rule (.eatfue. At Wiitertown. .MiiNMiiehuMettN, tLero In being (Hit under way what aeeniN to bo one of the inont sane and practical solutions of mnny of the problems of modern city life ever attempted In thl country. It I In Hue with the bet euterprUi-N for NolvlliK the qileHtlou of IioiihIiic, Nanltatlon, iilncatlon mid moral. A Kilch It Hhoiild command the attention and co-operation of nil coiiHtructlve nodal worker. The ifnmef rofters (5lld offers pnrden work and craftHiiiiinhlp ns n Miilmtl lute for the Htreet corner, the chenp hh.iw and the km loon. And It offers In addition health, contentment and a miliHtniitliil IncrciiMe In Income to tho worker. The liu-rciiKo take n prod I oil form In the kIimm of health from work In the n lr. from freh vegetable mid fruit, from n cleuu environment and from itlmeiice of bad habits; from money Hiivctt from imele i)iiHtlme from iiIihciicc of din'tor' bills nnd from n direct return In the wny or coin iiiodlticM for ue lu the home or for Hale. The founder nnd mnln supporter of the movement I Mr. licorKO II. Mux well, editor of Maxwell's TallHinan nnd founder of the National Irrigation Movement. A n Htudelit of noclnl con dition, Mr. Maxwell has concluded that college Hettlemeiit and Hliullar movement merely Hcratch the upper Mtirface of the problem and fail utterly to get under It null crowd It out with a better condition. Ill creed 1. "ICvery child lu u garden, every mother lu n hoiiiccroft, nnd Individual, lu dUHtrlal ludcH-iiilfuco for every worker lu a home of hi owu on the laud." MEANING OF IIOMLCUOFT. The word "Ilomecroft" has been coined by Mr. Maxwell to tit the thing he ha In mind. Tha Scotch word "croft" mean a very' small piece of land farmed Intensively by Its occu pant but not large enough to yield him a living nud constitute him a farmer. The Iloinecrofter, therefore, under the condition being developed Is a labor lug man, clerk, skilled artisan or what not, who supplements tils regular lu come by, and spends bis spare time In. work on the Intnl. Ills children may likewise be employed out of school hours and at other time when they would otherwise be on the street or forced Into some one of tho street trades to help maintain the home. For the children the advantage are ob vious. Healthy exercise In the open air for n purpose, fresh vegetables nud other products, and occupation, are substituted for spasmodic exercise under bad condition, stale vegetables or none ut ull, mid the gang. It enn be demonstrated that the ordinary factory worker on from one half acre to nn ncre of laud can earn actually more In tho odd time given to his garden than he does from hi regular work, taking it hour for hour. The other advantages are evident. Till: tlll.IMfAU, AND SHOPS. A a foundation for the Olid the Wilson estate at 1 l.'t Main St. Water- VS. THE TENEMENT. such betterments, either already demonstrated or anticipated, are ineae: 1. Healthier home surroundings. air, sunlight, trees, fl vers; room ror children to grow up without con tact with the contaminating In- nuences oz crowded city streets and tenements. 2. Diversity In employment and healthful recreation for the wage earner himself, nd wholesome op portunity for his w..e and c dren to contribute to tha family In come, In the cultivation of an acre, more or less, of ground. This would enable him, especially, to keep his girls at home, instead of sending town, tins i wen purchased and con verted into a tllldhnil and shops for handicraft work. The land around the house has practically all been appro 4'rlated to the use of a garden school and lu Id out In children's gardens. The director of the gardens Is MIsh i;il.s belli H. Hill of Groton, who hist year conducted the school gardens In Iirookline and Oroton. Over a bun dred children are already ot work and tunny more, almost two hundred In all, linve applied for space. It Is an Inter csimg sight, nml n Ksr commentary on onr piiiuie nool system, to we the wistful look of the children "not In It" ns they watch the fortunate one and Impure of the Instructors as to how long Ihey will have to wait. Many children not connected with the school watch tho workers and play on t ne groiiini, no that It has become children's center for the town. The opening or the garden school has aroused a n interest among other pri vate organizations In the iiclgbttorhood mid the Women's Club of Wstertown has established another garden school, also under Ml Hill's suts-rvlslou, as 1 Is still another opened by the Women's Social Science Club of Newton, whose garden Is on Jackson Itond near Nou untuin. On the outer botindry of tho town, the old lOmersoii I 'hoe has Is-cn pur chased and set aside as a garden school for boys and even men who de sire to do practical work. The plots In this garden are largo enough to js-rtult of practical experiments nnd to even supply ipilte a quantity of vegetables, which each gardener Is allowed to ap propriate to his own use. The only requirement Is that each gardener pro vide hi own tools and seed and pay Nufllclerit attention to tho Instruction and to his work to keep his plot In fair condition nnd In harmony with the garden as a whole. There Is In this garden plenty of space not taken nnd It offers a unliiu and valuable opior tiinlty for any ou desiring such work. The garden Is sumtv1hh! by a young man with practical ezierlence In market gardening. WKAVK I'.KAt'TirTL TITINCS. The weaving department, the only handicraft department un yet de veloped In the filld. Is miitcrvlsed by .Mi J. A. Turner, formerly with the experiment station for the blind in Cambridge. Mis Turner, assisted by her Klster. ha several lisitus already In working order and Inst ruction Iimh Imh-ij taken up. The aim of the work In weaving, a It will le In other borne craft work. I not to have a wenv lug establishment for the production of goods, but to couduct a school In weaving mid design where women In the comaiunlty muy learn to do work which timy be curried on In their homes. This, as In the case of the erort work, will enable them to occupy spare time, which would be otherwise wasted or Improperly spent. In con genial, healthy and remunerative em ployment. It I hos-d and believed that such work will enable manv women who have to supplement their income to do It In their homes and not bo forced Into factories and other un satisfactory conditions. A system will Is? develoiNHl whereby looms will tie supplied by nnd the product sold through the Olid. Ity this method ex- IHnes will lie kept at a minimum and the highest protlts accrue to tho workers. HOME LANDS IX SMALL I'AItCELS. Tho more far-reaching and substan tial feature of the movement Is the acquisition and subdivision of hind Into small tracts for actuul croft purpose as outlined alove. This close ly resembles the scheme develoed In Iiltchlo, Tort Sunlight. Hournvllle and Looking Across Tract, SbuwliiK Growth of Barluy iuied This Year. IrrleatloD Canal Furnlahlng Water for Tract ii aMMaw!ij.A j.aiV-a44 iVSVsf ..av.nmiwjg SCENES IN OUTSKIRTS OP PHOENIX. ARIZONA. SHOWING FIRST ARIZONA HOMECROFT VILLAGE. elsewhere In England. It will not be out of place to outline the Itournvllle plan which Is Identical lu many re spects and has been carried out to an assured success. This model village was started In 1H71) when Messrs. Cad bury ltros. removed their works from them to tli ntetory or shop. 3. Reliable occuDation ari sud- port for the wage-ear it himself, In ease of a temporary loss of his regu lar employment. An acre of ground, intensively cultivated and Irrigated, will support a lamiiy, 4. Opportunity to set up, In the homecraft, little handicrafts for the products of which there Is a constant demand; such as special lines of weaving, knitting, rugmaklnar. cab lnetmaklng, basket weaving, turning in wooa or Done, instrument making, manufacturers of leather, gloves, etc, etc. The distribution of power from electrio wires, or the use of lit tle gasoline engines. In village, of homecrofters, may demonstrate that til. MnfiAntvltnn Si t1.Ai,.anJ. A workers In great factories Is not, after all, In a great many lines of in-J Illrmlngbom to a point four miles from the city and erected twenty-four house for the workmen. Mr. ..porge Csdbury, from long observation and experience, concluded that the only practical way to solve the problem was to take the factory worker out on the land where he might pursue the na tural and healthy recreation of garden ing. Kays Mr. W. Alexander Harvey In his look on Itournvllle, "It was Im possible for working men to be healthy and have healthy children, when after lolng confined nil day In factories they sH-nt their evenings In an Institute, club room or public-bouse. If It were necesaary for their health, us It un doubtedly wus, that they shoold get View In Orchard, Showing Trolley Una IT Will, b Bostou la JU-acb'-d. I a Forty-Ufa Minutes. 1. LANDS AT WATEUTOW'N. MASS, THAT WILL CE SUBDIVIDED FOIt HOMECROFT VILLAGE. fresh air. It wns equally to the advant age of their moral life that they should te brought Into contact with nature. There wa nn advantage, too, In bring ing the worklngmun on to the land, for Instead of his losing money In the "amusements usually sought in the towns, he saved It lu his garden prod uce a great consideration where the poorer -I:im of workmnn wa con cerned." Ami again, "The cultivation of the soil I certainly the best anti dote to siHlentary occupation of those working lu large towns. A primitive Instinct is induged, the full value of which seems hardly yet to have been realized. Many In-lieve, indeed, that with Its encouragement the abuse of the social club nnd the public-house will bo materially lessened, and one of the greatest social evils of the time disappear. (The experience of Hourn. vllle certainly gives support to this conclusion, for nearly every house holder there spends his leisure in gard ening, and there I not a single licensed house In the vllluge.)" SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR A HOUSE. The houses of Bournvllle were built with special reference to cheapness, artistic development, sanitation and convenience. At a cost of from $700 SITE FOR to $2500 each a much higher grade of home than the workers had been ac customed to was provided. Rents range from 4s. tkl. to 12s. ier week, not including rates: nnd the death rate of nineteen per thousand In Birming ham bus been reduced to six and nlne- dustry, a necessity for the "ttalnment of the best results. R. A growth of co-operation, which will give to tha homecraft settle ment all the advantages of the cl ' in schools, libraries, hospitals, enter tainment halls, water supply, electric lights, Improved roads, etc.; while the cultivation of each separate acre or "croft" will be facilitated by the co-operative ownership of the numer ous expensive nleeas of farm ma chinerv now to be found on the best large farms, but which could not be afforded by the Individual crofter. 6. The fostering of a sturdy. Inde pendent Individualism, to ' hlch nothing- contributes so muc as the ownership of a home and a conscious ness that ona pan "mafea a Hvtncr" (regardless of any boss, Concurrently with such betterments atafaB'''.afcatatfc. tenths per thousand In Itournvllle. The garden features In Itournvllle are planned with much tare, provision lu most cases being made for some lawn, flowers, vegetables nnd fruits. , To return to the Homecroftra Olid, there Is one distinctive advantage In Mr. Maxwell's plan. In that he alms to attach to each home cno .. land to make It a feature and not merely an Incident In the life of the worker, and be has added the crafts work for wo men and for men in the winter. lie already bus under way plan for nn eiKrlujcntal group of four houses under one roof, to be placed at the centre of a square so as t. secure the greatest economy of space and place lope the worker in direct contact with his land. These plans are being prepared by Mr. Allen W. Jackson, the archi tect Something over fifty acres of land have already been purchased for subdi vision, and Improvement This will be sold to worklngmen for homes for prac tically what it cost in large tra:ts, plus the ct of division and improvement A special plan is to sell homes to in dustrious working men on a long time, on the monthly instalment plan, at a rate which will Ihj no more than Is usually paid in rent, but which will create a sinking fund that will pay the purchase price and in the mean time carry what will amount to an in surance policy covering the amount of the purchase price remaining due. so that If the purchaser should die the property would go to his family with out farther payment. FOLLOWS SUCCESSFUL ENGLISH I'LAN. The movement Is not intended to be an Isolated one as the shops and gardens are open to any one who will use them In the right way. Mr. Max well feels that isolation has been the cause of failure in such attempts and that the people of the community must themselves become a part of such a movement if it Is to succeed. Here again the scheme resembles that of Bournvllle. There, though practically ill the houses have been built bv the nunagement only forty -one and two U'uths per cent of the occupants work in the village. Eighteen and six-tenths per cent, work in village within mile and forty and two-tenths per cent work in Birmingham. Fifty and seven-tenths per cent, of them are em ployed at Indoor work in factories. thirteen and three-tenths per cent are clerks and travellers, and thirty-six per cent are skilled workers and pro fessional men. By this arrangement a normal community life is main tained. The Ilomecroft Gild is being developed along the same lines. OVERCOMING PHYSICAL DEGENERACY. The Gild is not making the mistake of trving to make fanners pure and simnle out of city workers. Such hard and fast line between 'city and count rv will always lead to failure, Mr. Maxwell says: "Give the city worker a home in the suburbs, where he can have a garden and a poultry yard, nnd where his children can have Huushiue mid fresh air without stint, and you have largely done away with the terrible evils that are cursing the denizen of the congested quarters of our great cities physical degeneracy tuberculosis, and social, moral, and political dangers too numerous to le enumerated." Henry W. Grady de scribed the antithesis when he said, "The citizen staudlng In the doorway of bis home contented on this thres- hold-r-hls family gathered about his hearthstone while the evening of well-spent day closes lu sceues and sounds that are dearest he shall save the republic when the drum tap Is futile and the barracks are exhausted.' The Ilomecroft Gild hua other plans In Immediate contemplation. Near in the coadltion of the wage-earner, the general carrying out of the home craft idea would relieve tne con gestion of population In cities, and greatly assist In their development along those lines which are o much better than mere bigness. A hun dred thousand or a million people living on small tract of land, wi 1 in an hour's ride of a city would make far more business for the city, of every desirable kind, than the same number closely packed in tenements. The "homecraft" experiment not to be limited to the settlement fost ered by Mr. Maxwell near Boston. The Idea combines with its sugges tions of social betterments the prob ability of very satisfactory re-urns to tha owners of vacant lands, near cities, who may be disposed to ex periment with It i "- - -a a. i r -2 i . jrr vwaK ar i Iliocnlx, Arizona, a farm of one lain dred and sixty acres has ftcen turneo Into a homecroft village. The land 1. especially adapted to raising vege tables and Is under one of the best water-rights In the region. Five-acre tracts are here given to each workei. The new government reservoir on Halt River and driven wells on the projx-rty, insure a permanent supply of water for Irrigation and therefore unfailing croft. These undertakings, while practical and constructive In every sense, are Intended rather ns model, to show what can be done In any community' lu the country. Japan, with sixty seven per cent, of her total population working In part or entirely on the land, has become a land of gardens where hojieless poverty Is almost unknown and where tuberculosis Is a negligible quantity. America can take care of Its hopeless thousands In the same way, first by putting hope Into them and then by putting them where they may attain it. It Is to the promoters of our great Industries that we rnut look for help In great part but public sentiment ond sympathy will move the promoters and reach the problem. The Homecrofters Gild promises a start which ought hi weld together tie country and the city Into one Inde structible whole and, supplemented by projter charity administration and sane vagrancy laws, remove entirely the possibility even of a "submerged tenth." Parking for the Town. The town parks, or the town or village square are the lungs of Its citizens. If the town Is growing, It Is none too soon to start a movement to provide for the securing of ample town park ing. The land Is increasing; when the town has doubled and has become a small city. It will not be so easy to secure sites, readily accessible to the people, without paying an exorbitant price. Secure first the land; It is not important that a large amount of money should be at once expended upon its beautlflcatkm. possibly It needs but little, since nature may have made It more beautiful than can man. It is not necessary that It should be transformed Into carpet beds of flowers and trimly kept lawns. If it aft'ords sunlight and a green relle' of irrass and trees for the eye, it becomes a clvilizer and an equalizer, for the poor as well as the wealthy, a resting place where a man may forget, for the time, some of his struggles and his anxieties In a contemplation of what God has made. The park should be kept In fact as natural as is consistent with its use as such. It Is never too early, however, to secure its site, with a view to the building up of the community, when land values will necessarily Increase. Distribution of Immigrants the Solution. If there were only some practicable way of distributing Immigration more equally among all the ports of the country the congestion and segra gation phases of this problem would be nearer solution. It can be accom plished In but a small degree, since It will only be done if answering an economic demand, as In the case of the Galveston-Bremen service. Wlsn and well organized effort to Induce immigrants to pass through the large ports by finding and Insuring thetu employment in the interior and by in forming them of opportunities else where, will do much to Improve con ditions. The self-interest of state, many of which maintain immigration agencies, might also be brought mora generally Into play to attract the In dustrious and ambitious new comers to their farms and smaller town. Improving School Grounds. In Rochester. N. Y., the school authorities gmde uud sod the school yards, while the shrubbery and other planting is by private effort in con junction with the school children. Ample land is furnished for decoratrve playground purposes, and most exemp lary results have been obtained- Wherever anywhere in this country there Is Any One who has the Spirit of True Patriotism and Genuine Love of Humanity in his or her heart, "The Coming People" By CHARLFS F. DOLE should be the first book to be read There la a multitude of thinking people who see the dangers the future holds for our country unless we reach a wise solution of the tremendous social problems that confront us. The spirit in which we should approach the consideration of these problems is set forth In this remarkable boot in a way thut must be an inspiration to every truly hu mane and patriotic heart. Let the spirit of common sense and opti mum and fundamental economic and phil osophical truth that pervade this book be taken as the underlying motive of the movement, and the Creed and Platform cf the Homecrofters as the practical plun to work to, and the rest of the treat social questions are certain to be rightly solved by application to them of the sound aud humane principles that will guidettu-action of our people upon all great national ques tions. One copy of The Coming People" post, age prepaid will be mailed to any ad dress in the United States for twenty-five cents. One copy of both "The Coming People'i and "The First PooV of the Homecrofters' and 'Maxwell's Talisman" monthly for the test of the vrar 1008 will be mulled to any address In the United States for fifty cent. Ramlt In postage stomps to The Home crofters, 143 Main street, Watcrtown, Mass. af M tn mummimmummmmmmamammmam