Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-05-09
SOCIAL ENGINEERING.
Y Profession Growing Out o.
Movements In Europe.

4 New Profession Growing Out of
Movements In Europe.
Social engineering is new profess
sion. 1t is engineering for the benefit
Of the people. The business Of the So
cial engineer, according to the New
York News, is the initiation and super
vision of all sorts Of movements that
will improve the condition of the wage
Garner. The need for such profession
came with the increasing movements
for industrial betterment.
Large Industrial establishments are
being forced to knowledge that it is
to their mutual advantage to better the
condition Of their employees. These
welfare movements are not done as
charity, but because it is just and
right. In order to carry out such a
work, however, they must have 1.-The
man who knows"
William H. Lever, the proprietor Of
the great industrial plant at Port Sun
light, England, considers that he is not
morally entitled to the entire profits of
his business. Some Of them, he thinks,
belong to the workmen. His method of
sharing his prosperity is expressed in
the creation Of the village Of Sunlight,
consisting of 900 houses and the beauti-
full groups of buildings devoted to edu-
cation and recreation.
Mr.. Levers first idea was to provide
better houses for his workingmen. He
built houses containing parlor, kitchen,
pantry, four bedrooms and bath for
rent of u cents a week. This rent COW
ers the cost of taxes, repairs and main
tenance and is about half the ordinary
rental for a workingman's cottage in
England.
All the houses are detached and are
made in quaint and attractive forms Of
architecture. The schoolhouse. great
building Of cream stone, smacks of the
ecclesiastical in it's architecture. A
thoroughly practical education is given
here, from kindergarten, through do
nestle science, manual training and
the ordinary branches up to scholar
ships founded by Mr.. Lever which ad-
NIT the winner to a university educa-
ton.
The village inn is handsome build
ing, inclosing club and smoking rooms
| and other conveniences, but no liquor
is sold in the village.
There is summer theater where the
families may see plays in the open air
| in summer. There are a llotment gar
dens, rented at $1.25 a year, for rails
ing flowers and vegetables, and annual
shows, with prizes, which arouse COM
| petition.
The village community built up by
the Cadburys near Birmingham is an
other example. Mr.. Cadbury has been
specially mindful Of means for recrea-
| ton. There are fine swimming pools
! for both the men and women employ
ees.
The eight hour day prevails through
out the works, and all the vast enter
prises for social, industrial and educa-
honal betterment are under the control
Of the Bonneville village trust," a
unique organization, which manages
the features described and many 9TH
ers.
At Amin, France, under the presi-
dency Of Casimir-Perier, ex-president
Of the French republic, we find coal
miners owning cooperative store
with nineteen branches. There pen
sion system established in the sixties
has been so successful that it was TAX
en- as model by the French govern
ment. %r
The company has built 1854 cottages,
with a garden of eight square rods at
tached to each for employees and also
advances money for workmen to build
their own.