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NATIONAL FOUNDATION.
control the
legislature would use t.
lut- leinMiumre
get wuuv,
control of
oi and
unii destroy
uestroy every acri
acre
of unreserved timlier land In those
territories. ’ The country
_____ , owes a debt
of gratitude to Senator Burroughs of
your State for his aid in preventing
that bill from passing the Senate.
It seems incredible that
___
these
things should be done by Congress,
but there are reasons for it.
In the first place the people at
large take no interest In the preserva­
tion of their own property.
“What is everybody's business is
nobody’s business.”
I lands reclaimed, as required by the
the great tide of population that has
; National Irrigation Act
been drifting from the country to the
cities. We must decentralize industry
I’.ITRIOTISM IN TIME OF PEACE
■ SAVE THE PUBLIC LANDS FOR
and trade as well ns population. The
HOMEMAKERS.
NEEDED TO SOLVE OUR
pariotism that is latent In every
NATIONAL PROBLEMS.
6 That not another acre of the pv*»
heart must find an outlet In every
lie lands shall ever hereafter be
country town and village in the work
We Must Plant Forests, Organize
granted
to any state or territory for
of village improvement, of creating an
Better Schools, Make Homes tor
any purpose whatsoever, or to any one
environment
for
human
life
where
Workers and Rear the Children
ollie.- than an actual settler who lias
the highest utility and beauty will
Close to Nature.-Menace of Great
built his home ou the land and lived
surround the entire community, and
Cities.
on it for Ove years, and that no more
where a local civic loyalty will prevail
Inii 1 scrip of any kind shall ever be
THB SLOGAN OF TH3 HOMECROFTERS IS
that will anchor the people to their
At the commencement exercises of
issued, ami that the Desert Land Law
own hearthstone and where they will “ Every Child in a Garden—Every Mother in u Homeeron. nod 'ndi- and
the Michigan Agricultural College on
the Commutation Clause of the
live content under their own vine and
June 20th, 1006. an address was de­
Homestead Law shall be made to con­
viduul. Industrial Independence fur Every Worker iu a
In tlie second place we have not fig tree.
livered by George H. Maxwell, Dean
form
to the recommendations of tho
Home of bis Own ou the Laud.”
This local pride and love of home
of the Homecrofters Gild of the Talis­ 1 yet. as a iieople, risen far enough
Public Lands Commission apitointed
above
the
mere
worship
of
Mammon
to
and
the
home
town
Is
one
of
the
man and Executive Chairman of the
by President Roosevelt and of the
realize that we are deliberately sac­ strongest of human feelings when
National Irrigation Association.
Message of the President to Congress.
"A little eroft w, owned a plot cf com.
rificing
to
the
Golden
Calf
the
re
­
once
it
is
deeply
planted.
It
should
The key-note of the address of Mr.
A garden stored with peas and mint and thyme.
PLANT FORESTS AND CREATE
sources
without
which
we
cannot
ex-
cultivated
in
every
possible
way.
be
And
flowers
for
posies,
oft
on
Sunday
morn.
Maxwell was the Idea that we should ist as a nation.
Plucked while the church bells rang their surliest chimes."
Nothing should be left undone to
FOREST PLANTATIONS.
bring to the constructive work of
—
W
‘
orttnwrtk.
And worse than this, we are crowd­ stimulate or cement it Every member
7. That the Timber and Stone Law
our social and commercial life In time
"The Citizen standing in the door"sy of his home—contented on his threshold, his family
shall be repented, and that all pub­
of peace, the same fervent patriot­ ing our working people, both native of such a community should cultivate
gathered stout his hearthstone, while the evening ot a well spent day closes in scenes and
lic timber lands shall be included In
ism and devotion to the public serv­ and foreign born, into an environment a spirit of comradeship and co-operate
sounds that are dearest he shall save the Republic when tho drum-up is futile and tha
barracks are exhausted."— Htnry n . uraJy.
|H>rmnncnt Forest Reserves, the title
ice that would Inspire the whole na­ where congestion of population is de­ to advance the general welfare of all.
to tho land to lie forever retained by
tion If we were in the throes of a generating our workers and rotting The merchant, the small tradesman,
“The slums and tenements of the our fast Increasing population in in- the National Government stumpage
moral fibre. the country editor, the Church, should
bloody conflict with the people of their physical and
dividual
homes
on
the land—home- only of matured timber to be sold,
Where will you find any citizenship all work together to that end. great cities are social dynamite, cer­
some other couqgry.
In Illustration of this he re- in the slum and tenement districts Home Industry should be encouraged tain to explode sooner or later. The crofts, however small, owned by the and young timber to be preserved for
occupant,
where
every
worker aiid Ids future cutting, so that the forests will
ferred to our forest resources, of our cities to whom yon can effect­ In every possible way. The whole only safeguard against such dangers family can enjoy individual
Industrial
The wasteful Improvidence with ively appeal for help to stop the waste community should co-operate to pro­ is to plaut the multiplying millions of Independence.”—George II. Maxwell. lie perpetuated by right use; and
that the National Government shall,
which we have swept the for- of our forests? They know nothing tect and stimulate the trade of the
town.
by the reservation or purchase of ex­
ests out of existence was contrasted about It and care less. The first need
isting forest lands, and the planting
The
home
paper
should
be
liberally
with the elaborate care with which of any nation Is an intelligent citizen­ patronized. There is no one thing
1
of new forests, create in every state
we have built fortifications and na­ ship, and the alums and tenements of capable of more far reaching and en­
National Forest Plantations from
vies and equipped our armies. And our great cities are maelstroms into during Influence for good than the
HOMECROFTS
EDUCATION
which, through till the years to come,
yet. said Mr. Maxwell, we have little ■which the citizenship of the country country press. One of the most un­
OPPORTUNITY
COOPERATION
a sufficient supply of wood and timber
to fear from any foreign foe. But Is being drawn to its destruction in a fortunate of modern influences has
can be annually harvested to supply
we have much to fear from the steadily increasing volume.
the needs of the ptsiple of each state
1
been the trend of commercial evolu­
wreck and ruin that will Inevitably
from .lie Forest Plantations In that
We are suffering Just now from a tion that has borne so heavily on the
follow the destruction of our forests. spasm of national hysteria because country editor by the development of
state.
Destroy the forests and over im­ what everybody who ever took tlie the metropolitan family monthly and I
CONTROL AND USE OF THE
mense areas flood and drouth will trouble to go and look knew long ago mail order papers, tilled with tempt­
GRAZING LANDS.
destroy the farms.
—tho
revolting conditions under ation for the rural people to stimulate
HAS JUST BEEN PUBLISHED AND AMONG ITS CONTENTS ARE
8. That all unlocated public lands
Destroy the forests and you will at which tlie great packers of Chicago the centralization of wealth and trade
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES OF ABSORBING INTEREST BY
not otherwise reserved shall be re­
the same time destroy many of our have been operating their plants, and in the cities by supplying their ordin­
served from location or entry under
most Important industries by the ex­ because diseased meat has been sold ary needs from far distant and prac­ The Brotherhood of Man
any law except the Homestead Law,
haustion of our supply of wood or for food.
tically unknown sources. This trend
and shall lie embraced 111 Grazing Re­
Charity that is Everlasting
timber.
But you may draw the worst pict­ toward the centralization ot trade
serves under tlie control of the Secre­
Destroy a city by bombardment or ure that your imagination can paint and industry In the great cities walks
The Secret of Nippon's Power
tary of Agriculture, who shall be era-
fire and It can be rebuilt In a few of the horrors of the slaughtering and side by side with the centralization of
powered to Issue annual Licenses to
Lesson of a Great Calamity
yean more beautiful than ever,
packing of meat in those establish­ wealth and population as a menace to
graze stock in said Grazing Reserves,
Destroy a forest on the plains and ments , and nothing you can imagine our national future. The danger It
The Sign of a Thought l but such licenses «bail never be Issued
it may take more than a generation equals the horror of blighting the threatens can only be obviated by
for a longer period than one year on
to restore it
lives of thousands of children who awakening tlie people at large to a re­
agricultural lands or five years on
Money,
and
should
pay
more
heed
to
This
book
Is
the
first
of
n
Series
Destroy a forest on the _________
mountains. are condemned to live and grow up In alization of it.
grazing lands, anil all lands ilassltled
that
will
Chronicle
the
Progress
of
the
raising
up
and
training
Men
who
will
where the soil is thin and poor, and the foul physical, social and moral
The great central and controlling
be Law-Abiding Citizens; that the wel­ iis grazing lands shall be subject to
HOMECROFT MOVEMENT
It may take centuries to restore the miasma that permeates the whole thought that must rise above all
and
inform
all
who
wish
to
co-operate
fare of our Workers is of more con­ reclassification at the end of every live
forest if it can ever be done at alL slum district of Packingtown. It is others as a national Ideal is the con-
years; that no lenses of the public
The destruction of the forest cover a national disgrace and is bound to viction that the real bulwarks of the with it how they may do so through sequence than the mere accumulation grazing lands shall ever be made by
leaves the mountain sides so exposed prove n national curse.
nation are the Homes of its Citizens the formation of local Homecrofters’ of Wealth; and that Stability of Na­ the National Government, and that
Circles, Clubs or Gilds to promote tional Character and of Social and
to erosion that the rocks are washed
There Is only one remedy for those and that the first thought and highest
the area of tho homestead entry shnll
ambition of every young man should Town and Village Betterment, stimu­ Business Conditions is of greater im­ never under nn.v circumstances be en­
be to establish a HOME, a self-sus­ late home civic pride and loyalty to portance to the people of this country larged to exceed 100 acres.
taining Home on the Land, where he home Institutions, industries and trade, us a whole than any other one ques­ RESERVE STATE LANDS FOR
can be Independent and enjoy the real improve methods and facilities of edu­ tion that is now before them; and we
that the only way to Preserve
HOMESTEAD SETTLERS.
happiness of a well spent life and not cation In the local public schools, and believe
such Stability, and to -Permanently
9. That the public bind states shall
make the mistake that brings dissap- create new opportunities “At Home”
National Prosperity,, is
polntment and misery to so many, of that will go far to check the drift of Maintain our Immediate effect and administer the Btate lands under a
to carry Into
system similar to and In harmony
setting up the accumulation of a for­ trade and population to the cities.
operation the Platform of the Talls- with tho national public land system
tune as the goal of his life's ambition!
The first Gild of the Homecrofters man, which is as follows:
above outlined, and that each state
It is a lure which of necessity must has been established ut Watertown,
wreck thousands In order that a few Massachusetts. The Gildhall, Shops EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND shall enact n State Homestead Law
for the settlement of lands owned by
HOMES ON THE LAND.
may succeed. The man who earns and Gardens are located at 143 Main
1. That children shall be taught the state, and that state lands shall
enough to live comfortably without Street, where the Garden School Is
luxury, as every intelligent and In­ now fully organized and over one gardening and homecraft In the public he dliqiosed of only to actual settlers
dustrious man can who has sufficient hundred children are at work in the schools, and that Homecraft and under such law, and that all state
practical education, and who does Gardens. The departments for train­ Garden Training Schools ahull be lands shall at all times remain open
ills duty to himself, his family, his ing In Homecraft and Village Indus­ established by county, municipal, to Homestead Entry.
state, and national governments, UNITED OWNERSHIP OF LAND
friends, his country and to humanity.
Is the man who really succeeds In life tries are being installed. The Weavers where every boy and every man out
AND WATER.
are
already
at
work
at
the
looms.
of work who wants employment where
and who gets the greatest happiness
10.
That
It
shall be the law of every
It
Is
not
designed
to
build
here
an
he can gain that knowledge, can learn
and satisfaction out of It
Isolated Institution, but to make a bow to make u home and till the soil state and of the United States, that
To create a human character of the model
which can be duplicated In any and get his living straight from the beneficial use Is the basis, the meas­
highest type with everything that town or village In the country.
ground, and where every boy would ure, and the limit of ull rights to
implies, is the most admirable of all
water, Inc.uding riparian rights, and
human achlevmenta and that every Copies of “THE FIRST BOOK OF be taught that ills first nlm In life tliat the right to the use of water for
should
be
to
get
a
home
of
liis
own
man and woman must and can do for THE HOMECROFTERS” can be
Irrigation shall Inhere In and be ap­
themselves.
obtained by «ending twelve two- on the land.
purtenant to the land Irrigated, so that
“A time like this demnnils strong men, cent stamps with your name and BUILD IIOMECROFTS AS NATION­ the ownership of tho land and the
Great hearts, true faith anil ready hands; address (carefully and plainly
AL SAFEGUARDS.
water shall be united, and no right to
Men whom the lust of office does not kill, written) to The Homecrofters’Clld
2.
That
the New Zealand system of water as a speculative commodity
Men
whom
the
spoils
of
office
ennnot
buy.
"DESTROY THE FORESTS AX’D FLOOD AND DROUTH
of tho Talisman 143. Main St., Land Taxation and Lund l’urchuae ever bo acquired, held or owned.
Men who possess opinion nn<l a will,
WILL DESTROY THE FARMS."
and Subdivision, and Advances to Set­ RIGHT OF APPROPRIATION FOR
Men who have honor, men who will not Watertown, Massachusetts.
He.
hare of soil, and reforestation becomes horrible conditions of
There Is New Hope and Inspiration tlers Act, shall be adopted in this
BENEFICIAL USE.
children, and that is to get the work­ Men who can stand before a demagogue, for every Worker who wants a Home country, to the end thut land shall lie
impossible
11.
Tlint
It sluill he the law of every
And
damn
hla
treacherous
flatteries
with
smull
holdings
In
tho
subdivided
into
ing
people
and
their
children
out
of
of ills own on the I .a nd in the
We are told by experts, and no one
out winking;
CREED AND PLATFORM OF THE hands of those who will till It for n stute and of the United States, that
contradicts the statement, that nt the the slums, and into the suburbs
men,
sun-crowned,
who
live
abovs
the
IIOMECROFTER8’ which is as fol­ livelihood, and labor find occupation all unused and unappropriated waters
present rate of consumption, our en­ where they ean have sunshine and Tall fog.
In the creation of homecrofts, which are public property, subject to appro­
lows:
tire forest resources will be exhausted fresh air and pure and nourishing
Io public duty and In private thinking.
“Peace has her victories no les* re­ will be perpetual safeguards against priation for a beneflcla« use, first In
in less than forty years. I have re­ food from a home garden.
the political evils and soclnl discontent time being first In right, and that on
Let us realize once for all that this
cently seen it stated at thirty-five
nowned than war.”
FOR THE TOWN BEAUTIFUL.
resulting from the overgrowth of all Interstate.streams, priority of use
years. If we are to guard against problem of the children of our work­
EDUCATION
cities and the sufferings of unem­ shall give priority of right, through­
this national danger the Timber and ing people Is our greatest national
CO-OPERATION
out tlie entire course of tho stream,
ployed wage-eu rners.
Stone Law must be repealed, and all problem and go at Its solution with Missouri Women Begin Campaign
OPPORTUNITY
without regard to state lines, and
for Cleaner Cities and Villages
PROTECTION
FOR
THE
AMER
­
public timber lands Included In perm­ the same patriotic and self-sacrific­
HOMEOROFT*
Hint In each drainage basin the Irri­
ICAN HOMECROFT.
anent Forest Reserves, the title to the ing national heroism that led the
(Columbia Herald.)
gators therein shall control the dlatr!
We believe that the Patriotic Rtognn
3. That Rural Settlement shall be button of the water
land forever retained by the National Homecrofters of Japan to go Into bat­
The club women of Missouri have of the Whole People of this Nation
Government, stumpage only of ma­ tle with their lives In their bands, like taken up In earnest the campaign for should be "Every Child In a Garden— encouraged and the principle of Pro­
tection for the American Wageworker
tured timber sold, and young timber hand grenades, to throw at the enemy
towns.
In St. Every Mother in a Homecroft—and In­ and his Home applied directly to tlie
A Homecroft Garden.
preserved for future cutting, so that that sought to crush out their na­ cleaner cities and
dividual
Industrial
Independence
for
Joseph and other large towns organ­ Every Worker In a Home of bls Own Home by the Exemption from Taxa­
the forests will be perpetuated by tional life
The Homecroft Movement Is grow-
Let
us
catch
the
Inspiration
of
the
tion
of
nil
Improvements
upon,
and
right use: and the National Govern­
izations of women have done much to on the Land,” and that until he owns
Ing In strength nml many leading
ment must, by the reservation or pur­ slogan of the Homecrofters' Move­ promote a general sentiment for clean­ such a Home, the concentrated purpose also of all personal property, not ex- | newspapers are editorially advocating
reeding
$2.500
In
value,
used
on
und
ment
in
this
Country,
and
never
cease
chase of existing forest lands, and the
liness and are planning more. In Ma­ and chief inspiration to labor In the Ilf« In connection with, every Homecroft the idea that every family, though
planting of now forests, create in our work until we have
living in the city, ought to have a
every wage worker should be his
con a women's organization virtually of
“
Every
child
in
a
garden
—
Every
every state National Forest Planta­
determination to “Get an Acre an 1 or Rural Homestead of not mote than garden. A reader of MAXWELL’S
ten
acres
in
extent,
which
the
owner
Mother
In
a
Homecroft
—
and
Individ
­
manages
the
street
cleaning
depart
­
HOMEMAKER
MAGAZINE,
In
tion« from
which, through all the
Live on It.”
as a permanent home and Westbnmcb, lown, sends tia the fol­
Industrial Independence for ment, collects the money from mer­
years to come, a sufficient supply of ual
We believe that the Slums and occupies
cultivates
with
his
own
labor
ami
so
Every
Worker
in
a
Home
of
his
own
lowing
editorial
clipped
from
the
Des
wood and timber can be annually
chants, superintends the work and Tenements and Congested Centers of provides therefrom all or part of the
Moines Dally News, which is so fully
harvested to supply the needs of the on the Land.”
population in the Cities are a savagely
The Creed and Platform of the disburses the funds. The member« of deteriorating social, moral and polit­ support for a family.
In harmony with what this magazine
people of each state from the Forest
Homecrofter tells how it may lie done the club at Trenton, a women'« club, ical influence, and that a great public ENLARGEMENT OF AREA AVAIL­ stands for that we take pleasure In
Plantations in that state.
ABLE FOR HOMEMAKING.
reproducing the same. The editor of
Unless we take time by the fore­ and anyone who wants a copy of it have started a campaign that Is lielng movement should be organized, and
4. Thut the National Government, the News suys:
lock the next generation will see the can get It without charge by sending a watched with Interest and Imitated In the whole power of the nation and
A little garden. If properly cared
United States practically a treeless postal card addressed to me. at the other towns. At the annual meeting the states exerted for the betterment as part of a comprehensive nation­
of all the conditions of Rural Life, and al policy of Internal Improvements for, will save the city dweller many a
nation, without wood or timber for Fisher Building in Chicago.
at
the
home
of
their
president,
Mrs.
The Great Cities are our most
to create and upbuild Centers of So­ for river control and regulation, dollar.
the uses of our people, and devastated
But that Is by no means tho chiefent
year after year by ruinous oods. Al­ serious menace In this Country. Our T. N. Witten, the club discussed plans cial and Civic Life In Country and and for the enlargement to the
possible extent of
the good. Even If he has more • money
ready the scarcity of timber is being greatest national danger lies in the for the promotion of a sentiment for Suburban Towne and Villages, where utmost
Centralization
of
wealth
and
Reputa
­
than
he knows what to do with he
and Industry can be so firmly urea of the country available for agri­
felt and every man who builds a
better care of lawns and gardens, Trade
anchored that they cannot bs drawn culture and Homes on the Lund, and j will still find rich profit In wielding
home must pay the Increased cost. In tion and trade and industry. The
Michigan I understand that some of hope of the nation is in the farm and cleaner streets and alley« and general Into the Commercial Maelstrom that for the protection of those Homes from , tlie spade and hoc for ex rclse. And
your most important Industries are suburban home and in the country improvements. The subject of the 1s now steadily sucking Industry ami either flissl or drouth, sluill build not tlie rarest pleasure comes from follow­
and suburban town and village.
»I>ening paper of the meeting, read by Humanity Into the Vertex of the only levees and revetments where ing the primal Instincts of nature.
crippled by the shortage of timber.
It Is not alone the plants and flowers
Let us go seriously to work to cre­ Mrs. J. A. Asher, was this appropriate Great Cities.
needed, and drainage works for the
And yet, in the face of this con­
We believe that every Citizen In reclamation of swamp and overflowed we long for.
dition which Is nothing more than 'a ate and upbuild them. Let every one: "The Town's Opportunity—How
An inner something Impels us to put
crlslg threatening the complete de­ student who goes out from ths Can It Do More Than the City for a this Country Jias an Inherent and lands, but shall also preserve existing
struction of one of our greatest re­ splendid Institution go with the spirit Beautiful ' merlcan Life?” One of Fundamental Right ' to an Education forests, reforest denuded areas, plant our hands at work In tuj earth, to
sources as a nation. Congress busies of a soldier to fight the great battles the plans decided upon was to offer which will train him to Earn a Liv­ new forests, and bulk! the great reser­ bathe our I hh II cs In the sunshine ami
Itself with a multitude of matters of of peace for higher national ideals, cash prizes to children In the various ing. and, If need be, to get his living voirs and other engineering works to open our souls In devotion to thing«
Infinitely less Importance and refuses for a purer public service, for the wants of Trenton for the best show­ straight from Mother Earth; and that necessary to safeguard against over­ that are not gross, but sweet and
to repeal the Timber and Stone Act. preservation of our national resources, ings under prescribed conditions. In he has the same right to the Opjxirtun- flow and save for beneficial use the pure.
lie pltletl fa . • man who does
under which the last remnants of our for a better educational system, and the growing of flowers and «are of Ity to have the Work to Do which will flood waters that now run to waste. not To drink
In with delight t e fragrance
unreserved national forest lands are above and beyond all for the multipli­ premises. Feeds for the competitor- afford him that living, and to earn not
RECLAMATION AND SETTLE­
of the dowers after having breathed
being fed Into the Insatiable maw of cation of Homes on the Land where are to be furnished practically free by only a cor-'ortable livelihood, but
MENT OF THE ARID LANDS.
all day tlie stench of a city, and who
the timber speculators for less than the children can grow to manhood the dub. Tlte mayor was asked to enough more to enable him to be a
B. Tliat the National Government j diets not learn 11 lesson from tie« noise­
neral Homecrofter and to have a Home of
and womanhood In the uplifting en­ issue a proclamation for a
one-tenth of their actual value.
build the Irrigatton works nre* | less, orderly, beneficent processes of
We are told by the men In Congress vironment Of " rural common ty <leanlng-up flay, asking citterns to de­ his Own, with ground around it shall to
bring water within reach of ; nature that are constantly going on
who make Committees and sliais- leg- where the evil Influences of the cities vote a few hours systematically to dis­ sufficient to yield him and bls family •ary
a Living from the Land as the reward settlers on th« arid lands, the cost of I nround him.
telatton that the money cannot Is' can be forever kept at bay. In •u£“ posing of the accumulated rubbish
such works to tie repaid to the govern­
Every city dweller who han a bit of
What the women are doing in some for hl« own labor.
spared to acquire and save from de an environment children can be
We believe that the Pnblle Domain ment by such settlers in annual In­ , ground ought to have a garden.
«traction the Calaveras Big Trees in reared to citizenship next to Nature Missouri towns the school children
stallments
without
Interest,
and
that
may be only five feet nqtl ire. but
California, or to create the White from whence they can draw health have iteen urged to undertake In others. la the most precious heritage of the the construction of the great Irrigation | he It «an
It In g*en peas, succulent
Mountain and Appalachian Forest Re- and vigor both moral and physical for At various ward schools of Joplin the people, and the surest safeguard the works necsswary for the utilization of onions, plant
radishes or lettuce, and «till
aervea, and preserve their forest re the discharge of all the duties of llfe_ pupils assisted In the cleaning up of nation has against Social Unrest. Dis­ the waters of such large river« as the find room for a flower or two to throw
It is not In the cities that this country the grounds In readiness ft the tent­ turbance or Upheaval, and that the
sources and save the water power
Columbia, the Ha<T«mento, the Colo­
used In the manufacturing industries now needs the service of the flower of ing of shrubs and flowers At Perry. Cause of Humanity and the Preserva­ rado. the Rio Grande, and the Missouri. I a little color and a little fragrance Into
his life.
It Is In the In Ralls County, where Professor J. tion of Social Stability and of our Free
of New England and the South: and Its patriotic manhood
and their tributaries, shall proceed as
There are . any reasons, economical,
the same men in the same moment re­ ,-onntrv where th« great national F Osborne has the prettiest public Institutions demand that the absorp­ rapidly as the lands reclaim««! will Is-
fuse to stop the most shameless waste problem of the Improvement of the school campus In the state, the school tion of the public lands Into specula utilized In small farms by actual physical, esthetic and moral, why
of a nation’s resources that ever dis­ rural Ilf« 1« to be solved, where more children helped In the goo«] work At five private ownership without settle­ settlers and homemakers, who will re­ every man «hould be bls own gar­
If he can.
graced a national lawmaking body by beautiful towns and villages and bet­ Joplin Principal 8 A. Baker has been ment. be forthwith stopped: and that pay the government the cost of con­ dener.
Thot>«nn«!s of dwell, rs In hotels,
refusing to repeal the Timber and ter roads are to be built, hettar a leader In the observance of Arbor the nation shook! create opportunities struction of the Irrigation works, and - flats am! tenements can’t be. Their
«•bools to be ret. bl I «hert telepta-nre day and the inculcation of the senti­ for Homeetoffers by building Irriga­
Stone Act
tion and drainage work« to reclaim that the amount n«e«!«<l each year for j existence Is it« dull and cheerless in
and trolley lines constructed, and an ment for the civic beauty.
Not only this, but In Arizona and the lnflo*nce< put to wc»rk that ^111
must first be built In t • land an fast as It is needed to glvs construction, as rwotnmended by the I the season when nil nature la gay as
! New Mexico where the forests are the socialise the country. and drive away
and then made beaut Ifni everv man who wants a Home on the 8««T«tary of tha Interior, «hall tw Is that of a bird that la caged.
very life of the country, the Joint tbs Isolation and hardship« that were The Missouri wilderness has gone the Land a chance to get It.
made available by Congress as a loan
They may Inugb—and so doaa the
Statehood Bill proposed to give a float­
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towns are here and are sow beln„
We believe that as a Nation, we from the general treasury to tlte Ro- caged bird sing. But It to not true
formerly
Its
drawt.«ck«.
ing grant of several million acres
clamattou
Fund,
and
repaid
from
,llvlng, for all that
not
should bs Issa .■ foorbed with Making
We mi nut
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- only stop
* - and reverse I made beautiful.
which the land speculators who would
BE A HOMECROFTER
Learn by Doing. Work Together
Give every Man a Chance.
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