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The Dolores star., 1906-05-18

Ifws til etef to have hood fosds III
the irsigAted pifts Of C6l6fsd1 II WIN
have to BE- done through the individual
effdfts 81. the iafmsfs aided Is they
should be BY the gshetpts instl6cts d
the county coinmiisidners. We are
|interedted in an experiment described
by the Mohttose Pres Ia which 1
stretch Of highway has been improved
over which : jiniicky could not have
passed In safety.. The agitation there
was begun ~ ! farmer who graded up
! small tlecs Il fioad about thirty feet
wide near bis place. The success Of the
scheme dsrnonstrsted to The surround.
ing nichmsn that Il could Be con;
tlnded st ! small expense ALONG the
niaiil Travelled roSd and furnish 4
splendid driveway thit would not
necdssitats 80 many visits to the repair
shop. The county commissioner
agreed 70 divide expenses with the
ranchmsn and ! subscription was
taken rp both la MONEY and work,
The road is now finished and Il q Joy
forever. Heavily loaded wagons hsve
passed without making any .percepti'
BILE cut In the road sren after hard
rain. Thls work costs between $i2E
and }i5os mile and The latter f,gG;rie
Is 1 very llbersl one with which tc
estimate the cost Of grading roads. VIZ
have ! s9od deal 81 fsith Ia the Kinl
drag which will .soine day be taken VI
and unigersjlly used in this country =
Denver Field And Farm.
The Dolores star., 1906-05-18

Ethyl Ito Gladys, who has witnessed
. game Of football for the first time
Was Reggie on the eleven?
Gladys-Well, dear, from where
sat it lb6ked y though the eleven were
bn him.
The Dolores star., 1906-05-18
BORROWED wtr:

Ethel-That Mrs. Gossip has : motor
car tongue.
Gtace-A what?
Ethel One that's always running
people down.
The Dolores star., 1906-05-18

~ any one sending five or ted ceits
to raypostkSe win send good reading
hatter. Miss Coadslf Att -
Iowa Center, Iowa.
The Dolores star., 1906-05-18

Phil& l&qRhy haf long been trying 10
Give essulAnce of jmports3ity From
the bSotnning tks world his BGSn III.
Ing r. teachen, ~ !, man dleSlili be
ilIvs iGSEA7s And though taftidseIhy
hAe done IL bests aiid has laalsas3llkd
,steighty 4fgfhituts ID fav6t 81 snns
tinned iIfs Il has titled r. sAtiSfy ths
aphing. anxious, qpestioning hesft of
Iananity Tho s6oth1t s1pty
assas I'D ! little ~ ~ - ~ a ~
dreems the AZ End wSoze helper Anti
The Dolores star., 1906-05-18

strawberiy Pie; Make ddits i tich
pie crust and cover the plate with It
(roll y out very thin). Make . little
rim Ill around the top Of the plate to
hold in the jnlegs, hil the center with
bfead crusts and bake In : Quick oven;
when done. remove the crusts and All
klth lttawhsr5its which have bess,
rUiled in sagat. Beat the whites b
thres en- very stiG,I adding thres
tablsap pUdhhils ~ powdered s6safI
spfead this dsyt the bstfiess return i
The oven and ,leavs II Only long endngh
to Brown slikhtly. Serve c6ld and with
creAmfI Il pteferfed.
The Dolores star., 1906-05-18

An old English recipe fot rhubstt
jam reads as follows: To six pounds ol
rhubarb add six pounds Of sugar and
six lasge Lemons. Tut the rhubArb-in
small pieces, Slice the lemons very
thin. Put the fruit III large bowl,
coyer with the sugar and let stand
twenty-four hours. Boil f6t about
three-quartefs n an hour. Do mot stil
moro than h necessary, as Its gfeai
beauty n In NOT being all broken up
Put IN glasses Ahd cover with brandy
papet.
The Dolores star., 1906-05-18
REL1G1obs.
E~p<EKW

frie0d . easter Loaf than found,
and wheh We have one worth loxing'
do. mot .aet y be slow 70 show bur Il.
fectiqn fot him. How many times do
We hear; ''Ehs was good friend tonne;
I wish ! had Been - good 4 one to
her." Il We conld only let cur friends
know tklb good that We think Of them
now while .thsx sge with " 70 hear
what world q 6onsolatl6n Il would
afIbrd them:
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-07-13

control the legislature would use to
get control of and destroy every acre
of unreserved timber land in those
territories. The country owes debt
of gratitude to Senator Burroughs of
your State for his aid in preventing
that bill from passing the Senate.
1t 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-
ton of their own property.
What is everybody's business is
nobody's business
In the second place we have not
yet, as people, risen far enough
above the mere worship of Mammon to
realize that we are deliberately sac
rificing to the Golden Calf the re-
sources without which we cannot ex-
ist as a nation.
And worse than this, we are crowd
ing our working people, both native
and foreign born, into an environment
where congestion of population is de-
generating our workers and rotting
their physical and moral fibre.
Where will you find any citizenship
in the slum and tenement districts
of our cities to whom you can effect
lively appeal for help to stop the waste
of our forests? They know nothing
about it and care less. The first need
of any nation is an intelligent citizen
ship, and the slums and tenements of
our great cities are maelstroms into
which the citizenship of the country
is being drawn to its destruction in a
steadily increasing volume.
We are suffering just now from a
spasm of national hysteria because
what everybody who ever took the
trouble to go and look knew long ago
the revolving conditions under
which the great packers of Chicago
have been operating their plants, and
because diseased meat has been sold
for food.
But you may draw the worst pict-
ure that your imagination can paint
of the horrors of the slaughtering and
packing of meat in those establish
ments and nothing you can imagine
equals the horror of blighting the
lives of thousands of children who
are condemned to live and grow up in
the foul physical, social and moral
miasma that permeates the whole
slum district of Packingtown. 1t is
a national disgrace and is bound to
prove national curse.
There is only one remedy for those
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horrible conditions of life for the
children, and that is to get the work
ing people and their children out of
the slums, and into the suburbs
where they can have sunshine and
fresh air and pure and nourishing
food from home garden.
Let us realize once for all that this
problem of the children of our work
ing people is our greatest national
problem and go at its solution with
the same patriotic and self-sacrific-
ing national heroism that led the
Homecrofters of Japan to go into bat
tie with their lives in their hands, like
hand grenades, to throw at the enemy
that sought to crush out their ma
tional life
Let us catch the inspiration of the
slogan of the Homecrofters' Move
ment in this Country, and never cease
our work until we have
"Every child in a garden-Every
Mother in a Homecroft-and Individ-
ual Industrial Independence for
Every Worker in Home of his own
on the Land"
The Creed and Platform of the
Homecrofter tells how it may be done
and anyone who wants n copy of it
postal card addressed to me, at the
Fisher Building in Chicago.
The Great Cities are our most
serious menace in this Country. Our
greatest national danger lies in the
Capitalization of wealth and popula-
tion and trade and industry. The
hope of the nation is in the farm and
suburban home and in the country
and suburban town and village.
Let us go seriously to work to ere
ate and upbuild them. Let every
student who goes out from this
splendid institution go with the spirit
of a soldier to fight the great battles
| of peace for higher national ideals,
for purer public service, for the
preservation of our national resources,
| for n better educational system, and
above and beyond all for the multiple
cation of Homes on the Land where
the children can grow to manhood
and womanhood in the uplifting en-
vironment of rural community
where the evil influences of the cities
can be forever kept at bay. In such
an environment children can be
reared to citizenship next to Nature
from whence they can draw health
and vigor both moral and physical for
the discharge of all the duties of life.
| 1t is not in the cities that this country
now needs the service of the flower of
its patriotic manhood. 1t is in the
country where the great national
problem of the Improvement of the
rural life Is to be solved, where more
beautiful towns and villages and bet
ter roads are to be built better
schools to be established. telephones
and trolley lines constructed. and all
the influences put to work that will
socialize the country. and drive away
the isolation and hardships that were
formerly Its drawbacks.
We must not only stop and reverse
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-07-13
FOR THE TOWN BEAUTIFUL.
Missouri Women Begin CampaiGn
for Cleaner Cities and Villages
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The club women of Missouri have
taken up in earnest the campaign for
cleaner cities and towns. In ST.
Joseph and other large towns organ
izations of women have done much TO
promote a general sentiment for clean
liness and are planning more. In Ma
con a women's organization virtually
manages the street cleaning depart
ment. collects the money from mcr-
chants, superintends the work and
disburses the funds. The members Of
the club at Trenton, a women's club.
have started a campaign that is being
watched with interest and initiated in
other towns. At the annual meeting
at the home of their president, Mrs
T. \. Witten, the club discussed plans
for the promotion of a sentiment for
better care of lawns and gardens.
cleaner streets and alleys and general
improvements. The subject of the
opening paper of the meeting, read by
Mrs. ]. A. Asher, was this appropriate
one: 1.-THE Towns Opportunity-IIow
Can 1t Do More Than the City for a
Beautiful merican Life?" One OF
| the plans decided upon was to offer
cash prizes to children in the various
| wards of Trenton for the best show
ings under prescribed conditions in
the growing of flowers and care of
premises. Seeds for the competitor
are to be furnished practically free by
the club. The mayor was asked to
issue a proclamation for a neral
cleaning-up day, asking citizens to de-
vote few hours systematically to dis
posing of the accumulated rubbish.
What the women are doing in some
Missouri towns the school children
have been urged to undertake in others
At various ward schools of Joplin the
pupils assisted in the cleaning up OF
the grounds in readiness f. the liant.
ing of shrubs and flowers. At Perry
in Rails County, where Professor !
#. Osborne has the prettiest public
school campus in the state, the school
children helped in the good work, Al
Joplin Principal S. A. Baker has been
a leader I'm the observance of ArboI
day and the incubation of the senti
ment for the civic beauty.
| A town must first be built In t 2
wilderness and then made beautiful
The Missouri wilderness has gone, the
towns are here and are now being
made beautiful.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-07-13
EDUCATION
COOPERATION
OPPORTUNITY
HOMECROFTS

We believe that the Patriotic Slogan
of the Whole People of this Nation
should be Every Child in "A Garden
Every Mother in n Homecroft-and In
dividual Industrial Independence for
Every Worker in a Home of his Own
on the Land and that until he owns
such a Home, the concentrated purpose
md chief inspiration to labor in the HE
Of every wage worker should be his
determination to Get an Acre ani
Live on it,"
We believe that the Slums and
Tenements and Congested Centers of
population in the Cities are a savagely
deteriorating social, moral and polit-
ical influence, and that great public
movement should be organized, and
the whole power of the nation and
the states cxerted for the betterment
of all the conditions of Rural Life, and
to create and upbuild Centers of So
clal and Civic Life in Country and
Suburban Towns and Villages, where
Trade and Industry can be so hrmly
anchored that they cannot be drawn
into the Commercial MaelstrOm that
is now steadily sucking Industry and
Humanity into the Vortex of the
Great Cities.
We believe that every Citizen in
this Country has an inherent and
Fundamental Right to an Education
which will train him to Earn a Liv-
ing, and, if need be, to get his living
straight from Mother Earth: and that
he has the same right to the Opportun-
ity to have the Work to Do which Will
afford him that living, and to earn not
only q cor sortable livelihood, but
enough more to enable him to be a
Homecrofter and to have Home OF
his Own, with ground around 1t
sufficient to yield him and his FAMILY
Living from the Land as the reward
for his own labor.
We believe that the Public Domain
Is the most precious heritage of the
people, and the surest safeguard the
nation has against Social Unrest. Dis
turbance or Upheaval, and that the
Cause of Humanity and the Preserva'
tion of Social Stability and of our Free
| Institutions demand that the absorb
| tion of the public lands into specula'
| tive private ownership, without settle
ment, he forthwith stopped; and that
the nation should create opportunities
| for Homecrofters by building irriga
| ton and drainage works to reclaim
| land as fast as it Is needed to give
every man who wants Home on the
Land n chance to get it.
We believe that, as a Nation, we
| should be less absorbed with Making
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-07-13
4 Homecron Garden.

The Homecroft Movement is grow
ing in strength and many leading
newspapers are editorially advocating
the idea that every family, though
living in the city, ought to have a
garden. A reader of MAXWEL s
HOMEMAKER MAGAZINE, in
Westbranch, Iowa, sends us the fol-
lowing editorial clipped from the Des
Moines Daily News, which is so fully
in harmony with what this magazine
stands for that we take pleasure in
reproducing the same. The editor of
the News says:
\ little garden, if properly cared
for. will save the city dweller many
dollar.
But that is by no means the chiefest
good. Even if he has more money
than he knows what TO do with he
will still find rich profit in welding
the spade and hoe for exercise. And
the rarest pleasure comes from follow
| ing the primal instincts of nature.
| 1t is not alone the plants and flowers
we long for.
An inner something impels is to put
our hands at work in tie earth, to
battle our bodies in the sunshine and
10 open our souls in devotion to things
that are not gross, but sweet aud
pure.
To be pitied is I man who does
not drink in with delight t e fragrance
of the flowers after having breathed
all day the stencil Of a city, and who
does not learn lesson from the noise
less. orderly, beneticent processes of
nature that are constantly going on
around him.
Every city dwellcr who has bit of
ground ought to have garden.
1t may be only five feet square, but
he can plant ii in green peas, succulent
onions, radishes or lettuce, and still
find room for Il flower or two to throw
a little color and little fragrance into
his life.
There are any reasons, economical
physical. esthetic and moral, why
every man should be his own gar
dener, If he can,
Thousands of dwell,rs In hotels
flats and tenements can't be. TheiI
existence is as dull and cheerless III
the season when all nature is gay as
is that of a bird that is Gagged.
They may laugh-and so does thu
Gagged bird sing, But it is not tru,
living, for all that.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-07-13

This book Is the first of Series
tlat win Chronicle the Progress of the
HOMECROFT MOVEMENT
arl inform all who wish to cooperate
with it how they may do SO through
the formation of local Homecrofters'
Circles, Clubs or Gilds to promote
Town and Village Betterment, stimu-
late home civic pride and loyalty to
home Institutions, Industries and trade,
improve methods and facilities of edu-
cation in tile local public schools, and
create new opportunities 'At Home"
that will go far to check the drift of
trade and population to the cities.
The first Gid of the Homecrofters
h been established nj Watertown,
Massachusetts,. The Glldhall, Shops
aud Gardens are located at 143 Main
Street. where the Garden School Is
nov fully organized and over one
hundred children are at work in the
Gardens. The departments for train
ing in Homecraft and Village Indus
tries are being installed The Viewers
arc already at work at the looms.
1t is not designed to build here an
Isolated institution, but to make a
model which can be duplicated in any
town or village in the country.
Copies OF" 1.-THE FIRST BOOK OF
THE hONCCR can he
obtained by sending twelve two
cent stamps with your narlo and
address (carcfully and plainly
written) to The Homecrofters' Gid
CT tho Talisman fGS. Main ST.,
Watertown, Massachusetts.
= There is New Hope and Inspiration
for every Worker who wants a Home
of his own on the Land in the
CREED AND PLATFORM OF THE
IOMECR OFFERS which is as fol-
lows:
"Peace has her victories no less re-
nowned than war"
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-07-13
"DEsTRoY FORESTS AND FLOOD AND DROUTH
WILL DESTROY THE FARMS"
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bare of soil, and reforestation becomes
impossible
We are told by experts, and no one
contradicts the statement, that at the
present rate of consumption, our en-
tire forest resources will be exhausted
in less than forty years. I have re-
Gently seen it stated at thirty-five
years. If we are to guard against
this national danger the Timber and
Stone Law must be repealed, and all
public timber lands included in perm
anent Forest Reserves, the title to the
land forever retained by the National
Government, stumpage only of ma
tured timber sold, and young timber
preserved for future cutting, so that
the forests will be perpetuated by
right use; and the National Govern
ment must by the reservation or pur-
chase of existing forest lands, and the
planting Of new forests, create in
every state National Forest Planta-
tions from which, through all the
years to come, sufficient supply of
wood and timber can be annually
harvested to supply the needs of the
people of each state from the Forest
Plantations in that state.
Unless we take time by the fore
lock the next generation will see the
United States practically treeless
nation, without wood or timber for
the uses of our people, and devastated
year after year by ruinous oods. AL
ready the scarcity of timber is being
felt and every man who builds n
home must pay the increased cost. In
Michigan I understand that some of
your most important industries are
crippled by the shortage of timber.
And yet, in the face of this con-
dition which is nothing more than n
crisis threatening the complete de-
struction of one of our greatest re-
sources as q nation, Congress busies
itself with a multitude of matters of
infinitely less Importance and refuses
to repeal the Timber and Stone Act,
under which the last remnants of our
unreserved national forest lands are
being fed into the Unsuitable NAV of
the timber spectators for less than
one-tenth of their actual value.
We are told by the men in Congress
who make Committees and shape leg
islation that the money cannot be
spared to acquire and save from de-
struction the Calaveras Big Trees in
California, or to create the White
Mountain and Appalachian Forest Re
serves, and preserve their forest re-
sources and save the water power
used in the manufacturing industries
of New England and the South; and
the same men in the same moment re
fuse to stop the most shameless waste
of nations resources that ever dis
graced a national lawmaking body by
refusing to repeal the Timber anf
Stone Act.
Not only this, but in Arizona ant
New Mexico where the forests are the
very life Of the country, the joint
Statehood Bill proposed to give float
ing grant of several million acres
which the land spectators who would
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-07-13
NATIONAL FOUNDATIONS,
PATRIOTISM IN TINE OF PEACE
NEEDED TO SOLVE OUR
NATIONAL PROBLEMS.

We Must Plant Forests, Organize
Better Schools, Make Homes For
Workers and Rear the Children
Close to Nature.-Menace of Great
Cities.
At the commencement exercises of
the Michigan Agricultural College on
June 10th, 1906, an address was de-
ivered by George II. Maxwell, Dean
Of the Homecrofters Gid of the Tails
man and Executive Chairman of the
National Irrigation Association.
The keynote Of the address of Mr..
Maxwell was the idea that we should
bring to the constructive work of
our social and commercial life in time
of peace, the same fervent patriot
ism and devotion to the public serv-
ice that would inspire the whole ma
tion If we were in the throes of a
bloody conflict with the people of
some other country.
In Illustration of this he re-
ferred to our forest resources,
The wasteful improvidence with
which we have swept the for
ests out of existence was contrasted
with the elaborate care with which
we have built Notifications and ma
vies and equipped our armies. And
yet, said Mr.. Maxwell, we have little
to fear from any foreign foe. But
we have much to fear from the
wreck and ruin that will inevitably
follow the destruction of our forests.
Destroy the forests and over i'm
mense areas flood and drouth will
destroy the farms.
Destroy the forests and you will at
the same time destroy many of our
most important industries by the eX-
haustion of our supply of wood or
timber.
Destroy a city by bombardment or
fire and it can be rebuilt in a few
years more beautiful than ever.
Destroy a forest on the plains and
it may take more than a generation
to restore it.
Destroy a forest on the mountains,
where the soil is thin and poor, and
1t may take centuries to restore the
forest IL it can ever be done at all.
The destruction of the forest cover
leaves the mountain sides so exposed
to erosion that the rocks are washed
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-07-13

'Ile slums and tenements of the
gteat cities are social dynamite, cer-
tain To explode sooner or later. The
only safeguard against such dangers
is TO plant the multiplying millions Of
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-07-13

our fast increasing population in in
dividual homes on the land-home-
crofts. however small. owned by the
occupant, where every worker and his
family can enjoy individual industrial
independence. ."-George Ii. Maxwell.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-07-13
BE A HOMECROFTER
Learn by Doing. Work Together.
Give every Man a Chance.

SLOGAN OF THs HoMEcRoFrERs
Every Child in GardcnEvcry Mother HoccroG lnd
viduaI Industrial Independence Every Horker
Tome Of o
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-07-13

The
:
.Ta-S are exhaus my GIaly
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-07-13

"A little croft we owned-a plot Of corn,
A garden stored with peas and mint and thyme
And flowers for poses, eft Sunday morn,
Plucked while the church bells rang their earliest
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-09-11

ceive some consideration from the par
ty with which they are affiliated.
The merchants who form a part of
the voters of this County and who de-
rive commercial benefits from the Por-
tuguese should, in my mind, be the
first to carefully consider the wishes of
the Portuguese and not act without
first informing themselves Of their
wishes. Reading between the lines of
the Advertisers report Of the meeting,
it seems that the action taken was
simply based on the mere say so Of a
few friends of the gentleman endorsed
as Portuguese representative; these
friends, in my mind, not being Portu-
guese, the endorsement of the gentle
man by the merchants should receive
very little consideration, If any.
The Portuguese Republican Club was
organized for the purpose of centraliz-
ing the Portuguese vote and to CO.
operate with the Republican party in
the coming election, and secure repre-
sentation of their choice and now the
question before the voters of this
County is, whether they are going to
accept the man chosen and selected by
the Portuguese Republican Club or ig-
more their wishes. Things have trans
pired in years past and are still trans
Ipiring, which places the Portuguese
voters in this Territory in quite a sus-
picious frame OF mind as regards their
political and social standing; it is now
up to the voters of this Territory to
show their appreciation OF the record
! that the Portuguese hold.
Thanking you for space allowed.
am, Sir,
NJ 6 DEPONTE