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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 u 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 seIf-sacriic-
ing national herosm that led the
HomecrofterS of Japan to 20 into bat
tie with their lives in their hands, like
hand grcnadeS, to throw at the enemy
that sought TO crush out their ma
tional life
Let us catch the inspiration of the
slogan of the Homccroftcrs' Move
ment i'm this Country, and never cease
our work until we have
"Every child in Il garden-Every
Mother in a HomeCroft--and Individ-
ual Industrial Independence for
Every Worker in Il Home of his own
on the Land"
The Greed and Platform of the
Homecrofter tells how it may be done
and anyone who wants copy of it
can get it without charge by sending a
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-
ton 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 Gre
ate and upbuild them. Let every
student who goes out from this
splendid institution 90 with the spirit
of soldier to fight the great battles
of peace for higher national ideals,
for purer public service, for the
preservation of our national resources,
for better educational system, and
above and beyond all for the multiple
cation of Homes on the Land where
fine 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 It 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
fer roads are to be built, better
schools TO he established, telephones
and trolley lines constructed, and all
the influences put to work that will
soclalize the country, and drive away
the Isolation and hardships that We're
formerly its dra wbacks
We must not only stop and reverse
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BENEFICIAL TSE
4 HomeeroH Gardcn.

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 \ reader of maxwell 5
HOMEMAKER MAGAZINE i'm
Westbranch, Iowa sends MS the fol-
lowing editorial clipped from the Des
MoneS 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:
4 little garden, if properly cared
for, will save the city dwelee 8u}
dollar.
But that is by MS the 81
good. Even if Is s more money
than he knows VIII, 90 DO with he
will stiu find rich profit in Gazing
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 ut work in the earth, to
battle our bodies in the sunshine and
to open our souls in devotion to things
that are not gross, but sweet aud
pure
To be pitied is e man who Goes
not drink in with delight t. e fragrance
of the dowers after having breathed
IAN day the stencil of city, and who
does not learn a lesson from the noise
less, orderly, beneicent processes of
nature that are constantly going on
around him.
Every city dweller who has a bit OF
ground ought to have a garden.
1t may be only five feet square. but
he can plant it in green peas, Succulent
onions, radiShes or lettuce, and still
find room for flower or two to throw
little color and a little fragrance int
his life
There are any reasons, economical
physical, esthetic and moral VIII!
every man should be his own gar
dener, if he can
, Thousands of dwellors in hotels
flats and tenements can't be. Thei
existence is as duh and cheerless |
the season when all nature is gay a
is Tint of q bird thal is Gagged
They may laugh--and so does tn
Gagged bird sing. But ii is not tru
= living, for all that,
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FOR THE TOWN BEAUTIFUL.
Missouri Women Begin Campaign
for Cleaner Cities and Villages
Columbia HeraldA

columbia Herald.)
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
illness and are planning more. In Ma
con a women's organization virtually
manages the street cleaning depart
ment, collects the money from mer-
chants, superintends the work and
diSburseS the funds. The members of
the club at Trenton, women'S club,
have started Il campaign that is being
watched with interest and Initiated in
other towns. At the annual meeting
ut the home of their president, Mrs.
T. n. Witten, the club discussed plans
for the promotion of 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: "The Towns Experimentation
Can 1t Do More Than the City for q
Beautiful merican Life?" One OF
the plans decided upon was to Offer
cash prizes to children in the variou,
wards of Trenton for the best show
ings under. prescribed conditions, il
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 t,
issue a proclamation for nera
cleaning-up day, asking citizens TO de
vote few hours Systematically to dis
posing of the accumulated rubbish.
What the women are doing in som,
Missouri towns the school children
have been urged to undertake In others
At various ward schools of Joplin tn,
pupils assisted in the cleaning up o.
the grounds in readiness f, the LIANT
ing of shrubs and flowers. At Perry
in Rails County, where Professor !
f. Osborne has the prettiest publ,
school campus in the state the schoo
children helped in the good work. A
Joplin Principal S. A. Baker has beer
a leader in the, observance of Arbo
day and the incubation of the senti
ment for the civic beauty.
A town must first be built in
wilderness and then made beautiful
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nowned than war. "
EDUCATION
COOP GRAFTON
OPPORTUNITY
HOMEGROFTS


we peIleNe lhat the fatrlotlc Slogan
Oh tne w hoie feopig OF TINS Nation
shoulu ne Every NllIu ID Garden
Every Mother III u iloIhecrolt-ald IN
ulNluual lnuustrlal independence Ior
Every YORKER III Home OF ms own
uil llle , Iahu' anu l'I'l ull,ll ne owns
SuVii lioille' tne concentrated purpose
anu ciiel INSPIRATION TO a3or IN the ne
VI eNcia MuSe "oLhet Snouiu ne ulS
Ic'eilllli'a l,on u Iel an Acre ana
-i,c oii IT.
-, we uei'eNe tnat ule Sums anu
lole,ne'i,N 'i.u NUuscs'eu Nell'elo VI
loi'uiol'ol, III 'iie N,''cN ''I "a '"s1iS
uot i ,oa ".iis soeial NV a. auu PM
,e',i IilnueieI' 1il1 ill"' ~ p"ol.S
. .I vl1 ni Silouiu pe EISou,4 t' "nI I
tho statnS avortnd FOR tho hnttermnnt
of nh the conditions of Rurol life and
TO create ana upbnild Centers of So
ciol and civic life in Country and
suburban Towns and Villages. where
Trade and Industry can ne so firmly
anchored that tbpy cannot he drawn
into fine Commercial Naelstrom that
is now steadily sucking Industry and
Humanity into fine Vortex of the
Great cities.
We believe that every Citizen in
this Country has an inherent ant
Fundamental RIGHT to nm Education
which will train him to Earn n Lly
ing. and if need be TO ret his Twin.
| e+roii,4 e,o,,, ATott,o,. L,,th. ,,,d tho.
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"DESTROY THE FORESTS AND FLOOD AND DROUrH
MILL DESTROY rlLE EARMS.n
bare of soil, and reforestation becomes I

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 have re.
Gently seen it stated Mt thirty-fve
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 Stummgc only Of ma
tured timber sold, and young timber
preserved for future cutting, SO that
the forests will be perpemated 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
neonIo of eoob etnto from fine Forest
Plantations in that state
UnloSs wo take timn Inv fine fore.
,oek tbo pevt gonorotion viii see the
TnIted stotes nrocticallv treeless
nation without wood or timber for
+ho ,,so,, ne onr roonlc and devastated
vaor aftor vcar Inv rninous GODS. AL.
roodv +be scarcity of timber is being
feIt and every man who builds a
homo mrst nav the increased cost In
Nfich,gan 7 understand that some of
vour most imnortont industries are
crinn,ed nv tbe shortage of timber.
Apd vet in the face of this con
dition which is nothing more than Q
crisis threatening the complete de
struction of one of our greatest re
sources as nation, Congress busie'
itself with a multitude of matters o.
infinitely less Importance and refuses
to repeal the Timber and Stone Act
under which the last remnants of OIL
unreserved national forest lands arr
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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-
llyered 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 feryent patriot
ism and devotion to the public serv-
ice that would inspire the whole ma
tion if we We're in the throes Of a
bloody conflict with the people of
some other country.
In illustration of this he re-
forred to our forest resources.
The wasteful imprOvidence with
which we have swept the for
csts 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
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the great tide Of population that has
been drifting from the country to the
cities. We must decentraliZe industry
and trade as well as population. The
patriotism that is latent in every
heart must find an outlet in every
country town and village in the work
of village Improvement, of creating an
environment for human life where
the highest utility and beauty will
surround the entire community and
where local civic loyalty will prevail
that will anchor the people to their
own hearthstone and where they will
| live content under their own vine and
fig tree.
This local pride and love Of home
and the home town is one of the
strongest Of human feelings when
once it is deeply planted. It should
be cultivated in every possible way.
Nothing should be left undone to
stimulate or cement it, Every member
Of such a community should cultivate
a spirit Of comradeship and cooperate
to advance the general welfare Of all.
The merchant the small tradesman,
the country editor, the Church, should
all work together to that end
Home industry should be encouraged
in every possible way. The whole
commodity elould cooperate to pro
ard stimulate the trade Of the
Town.
The home paper should be literally
patronized There is no one thing
capable of more far reaching and en-,
during influence for good than the
country press. One of the most UNI
fortunate of modern influences has
been the trend Of commercial evolu-
ton that has borne so heavily on the
, country editor by the development OF
; the metropolitan family monthly and
} mail order papers. filled with tempt
T alton for the rural people to stimulate
} the Capitalization Of wealth and trade
| in the cities by supplying their Ordin
| airy needs from far distant and prac
tically unknown sources. This trenC
. toward the Capitalization Of trade
{ and industry in the great cities walk'
4 side by side with the Capitalization Of
l. wealth and population as a menace tt
a orr national future The danger /
a threatens can only be obyiated b,
= awokening fine Deople at large to a re
n oIizotion of IT,
! The ornot central and controlin,
y +horoht FIAT must rise above al
. others ne national ideal is the con
- yiction that tbe real bulwarks of tn
oro fine Homes of its Citizen
that the first thought and highes
... ',l aas-rs.zs -. ,nr,- yorlng man shout
00 'iiO - aaaacATE n snlf.su,
alhpllloh OF er~rs4a -,ro h
ne to establish HUT11
tanning Home on the Land WINS,
can be independent and enjoy fine re
hanpiness Of vol snant ito md ~,
mako tba mietol,o +I,o+ h,t,,l,,, II
nnint,,,n,,+ nn,1 I,i .n"' u 'l'Es u'NS"
po'.is''l'li' anu liise'S ~ 80 many
N'u"E up INC accumulation OF 10
tune as the goal of his llfe's ambition
\ IN IS lure which of necessity mus
u WfeeA 'h0nsands in order that a fc,
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control the legislature would use to
get control of and destroy every acre
of unreseryed timber 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
II 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 preserya-
ton of their own property.
What is everybody's business is
nobody's business
In the second place we have not
yet as a people, risen far enough
above the mere worship of Mammon TO
realize that we are deliberately sac
rifcing to the Golden Calf the re-
sources without which we cannot ex-
list 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 Stun 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 60 and look knew long age
the revolving conditions under
which the great packers Of Chicago
have been operating their plants an(
because diseased meat has been sole
for food.
But You may draw the worst pict
urc that your imagination can pain
of the horrors Of the Strengthening AM
packing Of meat in those establish
ments and nothing you can imagin
equals the horror of blighting tn
lives Of thousands of children VIII
are condemned to live and grow up i
the foul G,.Ssimsssss sal and mora
TTfeaecal, SOcGN.the Who'll
,ST1liasma that permeates VT
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THE slums and tcnements of the
great cities are social dynamite, GER
tain to explode sooner or later. The
only safeguard against such dangers
is to plant the multiplying millions of
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our fast increasing population in in
diyidual 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.
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Maintain our NGtlOrr~4--Aa4s-s
to carry into immediate effect ITu
operation the Platform of the Tails.
man, which is as follows:
EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND
HOMES on THE LAND.
l. That children shall be taught
gardening and homecraft in the public
schools, and that Homecraft and
Garden Training Schools shall be
established by county, municipal,
state, and national governments.
where every boy and every man out
Of work who wants employment where
can gain that knowledge can learn
ard rot Its a. home and till the soil
,.ronEd aa1 ,rboS, er0'ght from the
le taught that his FIRST 10y '9 !s
should he 20 get q home of BIZ ~.
on the land
BUILD IIOMECRUI 8 AS NATION
AL SAFEGUARDS
.. That the New Zealand system q,
Land Taxation and Land Purchase
and Subdivision, and Advances to Set
tiers Act, shall be adopted in this
country, to the end that land shall be
15 iucu 'l''o S,iIl" HUIuItIS III lne
livelihood and lohor find occnnotion
in fine crootion Of bon,ncrofts which
win be nernetioI soro,uords oroinst
the political evils and social discomfort
resulting from the oyergrowth of
cities and the SulferingS Of unem-
nportCor1o>, 1,o, MN, .,,,,r
i>N ~ ~, Il ~ NN4IN'
>.-''' u y, W. y i'Or
.. mat rural settlement shall be
encouraged ana the principle of Pro-
lecton Ior the American NageWorker
ana MS Home applled directly TO the
liolne ny me exemption from TAXA
llon OF an improvements upon ana
alSo OF an personal properly, not eN-
teedlhg H20oO III value, used ON ana
IN connection with, every Homecroit
OF Nural homestead OF not more IMAM
occunies MS n nprmorInnt home and
cultNates with his own labor and so
PROVIDES tnereIroln all OF part OF the
ENLARGEMENT OF AREA AVAIL
ABLE FOR NOMINATING.
4. That the National Government,
as part of a comprehensive nation
al policy Of internal improvements
for river control and regulation.
and for the enlargement to the
utmost possible extent of the
area of the country available for agri.
culture and Homes on the Land. and
for the protection of those Homes from
either food or drouth, shall build not
only leyees and revetments where
needed, and drainage works for the
reclamation of swamp and oyerdowed
lands, but shall also preserve existing
forests, reforest denuded areas, plan
new forests, and build the great reser
yoirs and other engineering work.
necessary to safeguard against over
flow and save for beneficial use tn,
flood waters that now run to waste
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lands reclaimed, as required by the
National Irrigation Act.
SAVE THE PUBLIC LANDS FOR
HOMEMAkERS.
6 That not another acre Of the pub
lie lands shall ever hereafter be
granted to any state or territory for
any purpose whatsoever, or to any one
other than an actual settler who has
built his home on the land and lived
on It for five years, and that no more
land scrip Of any kind shall ever be
issued, and that the Desert Land Law
and the Communication Clause Of the
Homestead Law shah be made to CON
form to the recommendations Of the
Public Lands Commission appointed
by President Roosevelt and of the
Message Of the President to Congress
PLANT FORESTS AND CREATE
FOREST PLANTATIONS.
Z That the Timber and Stone Law
shall be repealed. and that all pub
| ~ liluAil AntllN Nlllll DE lllflultll III
permanent Forest Reserves, the title
to the land to be forever retained by
the National Government, stumpage
only Of matured timber to be sold,
and young timber to be preserved for
| future cutting, SO that the forests will
be perpetuated by right use; and
that the National Government shall
by the reservation or purchase of ey-
listing forest lands, and the planting
Of new forests, create in every state
National Forest Plantations from
which, through all the years to come,
a sufficient supply Of wood ana timber
can be annually harvested TO supply
the needs Of the people of each state
from he Forest Plantations in that
state.
CONTROL AND USE OF THE
GRAZING LANDS
s. That al Indicated public lands
iDot Otherwise reserved shall be re
serel location or eHuv under
Hry lau EXCEPT Dee Homestead LEW,
hand snail bee amnmleG Grazing r..
serves under lbe control u thc Score
tary Of Agriculture WHO shall Ha a
powered to issue annual Ljrtu t0
Craze stock i'm said Grazing Reserves
but such licenses shall never be issued
for a longer period than one year on
agricultural lands or five years ON
grazing lands, and all lands classified
MS grazing lands shall be subject to
rcclassitiCation nj the end of every five
years; that no leases of the public
grazing lands shall ever be made by
the National Government and that
the area of the homestead entry shall
never under any circumstances be en-
larged to exceed 1870 acres,
RESERVE STATE LANDS FOR
= HOMESTEAD SETTLERS.
Q. That the public land states shall
) administer the state lands under a
'H,a-qss c,ru-- similar to and in harmon@
---sasSl public land ,sas
/ SySr~a -
win tue luti0ho--.-r-- .4s,s-,s-nass' ~ lem
above outlined, and mat e0ch state
shall enact a State Homestead Law
for the settlement Of lands owned 10y
. the state, and that state lands shall
, be disposed Of only to actual settlers
| under such law and that an state
, lands shall mt all times remain open
to Homestead Entry
UNITED OWNERSHIP OF LAND
AND WATER.
TO- That it shall be the law of every
state and of the United States. that
beneficial use is the basis. the meas
ure, and the limit of all rights TO
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BE 4 HOMECROFTER
Learn by Doing. Work Together.
Give every Man a Chance.
THE SLOGAN OF THE HoMEcRorrERs IS

Every Child Every Mother Homecron,
riduai, Industrial Independence for Every Worker in
Home of his o Land"
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m doorway o threshold,
o.
bara-k sareeyh Exhausted H.Gyl
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inns DooR Is the nrsI OF >eI .,'''
that will Chronicle the Progress Of the
HOMECROFT MOVEMENT
and inform all who wish to cooperate
with it how they may do so through
the formation Of local HomecrofterS
,r w. o'o' ,,,1 1.fnoo, rattor,nont .tin,r-
=" u "mu ,'aeu -, '' i h -
l1,e u t,ltit,+ions inJnst,i ' and trodo
i i,,,' ,'otods AMI facilitias Of edr,
lPlo'G H,1.l'J II I'.', ,, i,i,'',, LI. nnd
..le WI i ,upi,C ,Vt iTon, ,,
c5fla 40 s'-'a7s, s. y,
create nST o4s
that viii go far to check the drift Of
trade and population to the cities.
m. Co.. l,,,
me "'S' "'ii VI tIle lloihecroiters
mas oeGh 'SIi"ilSned at Watertown,
MASSACHUSETTS, Ihe GlldhaU, Shops
and Gardens are located at ll3 Main
street, where tile Garden School is
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- little croft owned plot Of
garden stored with and mint and thyme.
And flowers for posies, Off Sunday
Pucked while the church bells their earliest chimes"
Iltyy-- t7yfL
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10. That it shall be the law Of every
state and Of the United States. that
beneficial use is the basis. the meas
ure, and the limit of all rights to
water, including riparian rights, and
THAI r." right to the use of water for
irrigation shall inhere in and be mp
ibe ,.nt 10 the hand irrigated, 50 that
.ra,ar Ella, N.n Of the bal and tie
... united. and ro riehl 10
ever ao acquired be- l''e 'uiA.uo9ltS
| . Ewneu