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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-17
IN THE SUBURBS.
FOSTER.


Foster, May 16-The beautiful wealth
er is being improved by the farmers
and many are planting corn.
The fruit in this immediate section
does not seem to be injured by the
frosts of the last week.
Rev. and Mrs. ]. X. Spiller and chill
dren and Mrs. F. p. Gillett went to
Andalusia Thursday, where they attend
ed the society dinner. They remained
over night and spent Friday visiting
friends. Mrs Gillett visited at the
home of her sister, Mrs. James Britton.
They returned home Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Foster spent Sur
day at the home of their daughter. Mrs.
Joe Bowser. near Muscatine. returning
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Byron Drury of near
Sweetland, Iowa, spent Sunday at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. John Bowser.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. A. Kleist, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed Feldman, and Mrs. Mary Kreu-
gar drove to the home of their broth
er, Charles Kleist, six miles below Mus
catine, where they spent Sunday. They
report Mrs. Kleist, who is i'll, as being
in a critical condition.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Foster. of Beat
rice, Neb.. arrived in Foster Saturday
and will take up their residence with
their father, j. III. Foster.
Mrs. w. P. DOwney spent Sunday at
the home of her mother, Mrs. August
KranZ
Mr.. and Mrs. J. l.. Warman and SON
Edward were Sunday guests at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. ID. A. Kleist.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Freyermuth and
Mrs. Thomas Watson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Meyer attended the funeral of
their uncle, Fred Huttig, in Muscatine
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Briars OF ST.
Louis. who attended the funeral of the
latter's father, Mr. Huttig, at Musca-
tine Sunday, came to the home of
Thomas Watson Monday, where they
spent the day. They returned to ST.
Louis Monday evening.
There were 20 young people in at
tendance at the banquet given by the
F. F. F. club Saturday night at the
home of the Misses Gillett.
George Workman began the work of
remodeling his house Tuesday of this
week.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-17
THE MARKETS.

Chicago. May 17.-Following are I'll
market quotations today:
Wheat.
May, "a, S47s. "a. S4&.
July. Sly, SO, Sly. SO.
September, 1855, 81, 1855. SOS.
Corn.
May. 1917, 491a. 40, 1895.
July. 47h. 4S1s, 47A, 477s.
September, 47H, 4Sk. 47A. 47A.
May, 3414, SAY. 331a, "a.
July. 32A, 1914. 1885. 33as.
September, Boss. 81 ss. 3O1s. 319s.
Pork.
May, closed 1870.
July, 1862. 1877, 1852, 1876.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-17

The western storm Is central over
eastern south Dakota and thunder
storms have occurred from the DakOfas
and Minnesota eastward through the
northern portion of the lake region To
New England. while showers have
again fallen in the northern Rocky
mountain states and on the north Pa
cIhc coast. High temperatures con-
ffnue from the central valleys to the
Atlantic coast. The western high pres
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-17
YUMA.

Yuma, May 16-Mr. and Mrs Cas-
sius Wake of Moline, after spending a
week in this vicinity visiting friends
and relatives, returned home last
Thursday.
The heavy frost last week did not
do much damage to the fruit.
E. McMurphy made a business trip
to Moline last Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Wake visited
last week with Mr. and Mrs. William
Donahoo near Hillsdale.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Schafer of Wa
tertown visited one day last week in
this vicinity.
duty last week
Mrs Samuel Wainwright of Kewa-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-17

stow were callers in this vicinity last
Friday.
Ned Wells of South Moline spent
Sunday with his father. Ira Wells.
d. w. Mumma was in Erie and Hills
dale Monday and Tuesday of this week.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-17
FOR La TOILETTE
Milwaukee Newspaper Suggests
Him as Democratic Candi.
date for President.
READ OUT OF HIS OWN PARTY
Shows Where He is Supporting Demo-
cratic PrincipIes-At Least Con-
sistent.

Milwaukee. May 1.-THE Milwau
kee Journal. leading democratic news
paper of Wisconsin. has brought out
Senator r. NJ. La Toilette, who was
elected TO the senate as a republican
as a democratic candidate for presi-
dent in 1908, to run on a railroad and
low tariff rate platform. The Journal
says:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-17
Read out by Republicans.

They say that Senator La Toilette
is democrat. He has once more been
read out of the republican party. He
is not in good repute with Aldrich, and
Elkins, and Foraker. and Hale. and
other more or less important republi-
can leaders. Away with him; he is a
democrat they say
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-17
THE WEATHER

Showers and thunderstorms tonight
and Friday; cooler Friday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-17
Stands for Progress.

LA Toilette stands for the progress
i've program suggested. but not carried
out, by the president-a program, by
the way, which is said to- be democrat
ic. The president repeatedly has been
accused of stealing democratic thun-
der But the president does not stick.
That cannot be said of La Toilette"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-17

sure Is central over southern Idaho and
the Rocky mountain region. Owing to
the advance Of the western low and
high pressures, showers and thunder
storms are Indicated for this vicinity
tonight and Friday, with cooler Friday.
j. NJ. SHERIER, Local FOrecaster.
Temperature at n. ma, II; at $3.50
p. M, "a. Minimum temperature In "a
hours, g.; maximum. 81. Velocity Of
wind at 8 a. M. 10 miles.
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Parking for the Town.

The town parks. or the town or
village square are the lungs of lis
citizens.
If the town is growing. ii is lone too
Soon to start Il movement to provide
for the securing of ample town park
ing. The land is increasing; when the
town has doubled and has become Il
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; ii is not
important that Il large amount of
money should be ut once expended
upon its Identification, possibly it
needs but little, since nature may have
made ii more beautiful than can man.
1t is not necessary that it should be
transformed into carpet beds of
flowers and trinity kept lawns. II it
affords sunlight and Il green relic of
grass and trees for the eye, It becomes
Il civilizer and an equalizer, for the
poor as well aS the wealthy, "A resting
place where Il man may forget, for
the time, some of his struggles and
his anNietieS In Il contemplation of
what God has made.
The park should be kept. in fact. AZ
natural as is consistent with its use as
such. 1t is never too early, however,
to secure its site, with Il view to the
building up of the community, when
land values will necessarily Increase
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solutions of many of the problems OF
modern city life ever attempted in this
country. 1t is in line with the best
enterprises for solving the questions of
housing. sanitation, education and
morals. As such it should command
the attention and cooperation of all
constructive social workers.
The H~omecrofters Gid offers garden
work and craftsmanship as a Substi-
tute for the street corner, the cheap
show and the saloon. And 1t offers in
addition health, contentment and a
substantial increase in income to the
workers. The increase takes a practi-
cal form in the shape of health from
work In the air, from fresh vegetables
and fruits, from a clean environment
and from absence of bad habits; from
money saved from useless pastimes;
from absence of doctors bills and from
a direct return in the way Of COM
mOdities for use In the home or for
sale.
The founder and main supporter of
the movement Is Mr.. George III. Max
well. editor of MaXwells Talisman and
founder of the National Irrigation
Movement. As a student of social con
ditions, Mr.. Maxwell has concluded
that college settlements and similar
movements merely scratch the upper
surface of the problem and fail utterly
to get under it and crowd it out with
a better condition. His creed Is,
Every child in n garden, every mother
in Il homecroft, and Individual, in
dustrial independence for every worker
in Il home of his W on the land
MEANING OF HOMECROFT.
The word "Homecroft" has been
coined by Mr.. Maxwell to fit the thing
he has in mind. The Scotch word
croft means a very small piece of
land farmed intensively by its occu-
pant but not large enough to yield him
n living and constitute him a farmer.
The Homecrofter, therefore, under the
conditions being developed, is Il labor
ing man, clerk, skilled artisan or what
not, who supplements his regular in
come by, and spends his spare time in,
work on the land. His children may
likewise be employed out of school
hours and at other times when they
Would otherwise be on the street or
forced into some one of the street
trades to help maintain the home. For
the children the advantages are OBJ
viOus. Healthy exercise in the open
air for Il purpose, fresh vegetables and
other products, and occupation, are
substituted for spasmodic exercise
under bad conditions, stale vegetables
or zone at all, and the gang.
1t can be demonstrated that the
ordinary factory worker on from one
half lei to an acre of land can earn
actually more in the odd time given
to his garden than he does from his
regular work. taking it hour for hour.
The other advantages are evident.
THE GILDHALL AND SHOPS.
As a foundation for the Gid the
Wilson estate at 143 Main ST. WATER
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tenths per thousand in Bournville.
The garden features in Bournyille are
planned with much care, provision in
most cases being made for some lawn,
flowers. vegetables and fruits.
TO return to the Homecrofters Gid,
there is one distinctive advantage in
Mr.. MaXwells plan, in that he aims
to attach to each home emo =. land to
make it n feature and not merely an
incident in the life of the worker, and
he has added the crafts work for wo-
men and for men in the winter. He
already has under way plans for an
experimental group of four houses
under one roof, Il be placed at the
centre of Il square SO rs 10 secure the
greatest economy OF space and place
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-08-04

fresh air. it was equally to the advant-
age of their moral life that they should
be brought into contact with nature.
There was an advantage. too, in bring
ing the workingman on to the land,
for instead of his losing money in the
'amusements usually sought in the
towns, he saved it in his garden prod
uce-a great consideration where the
poorer class of workman was con
cerned." And again. The cultivation
of the soil is certainly the best anti
dote to sedentary occupation of those
working in large towns. A primitive
instinct is INDUCED, the full value of
which seems hardly yet to have been
realized. Many believe, indeed, that
with its announcement the abuse of
the social club and the public-house
will be materially lessened. and one of
the greatest social evils of the time
disappear. CThe experience of Bonrn-
Vile certainly gives support to this
conclusion, for nearly every house
holder there spends his leisure in gard
ening, and there is not Il single licensed
house in the village.)'
SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR
A HOUSE.
The houses of BournVille We're built
with special reference TO cheapness.
artistic development. sanitation and
convenience. At Il cost of from 500
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hem to the Factory or shop.

them to the factory or shop. e
3. Reliable occupation arr sup
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 family.
4. Opportunity to set up, in the
little handicrafts for the
products of which there is a constant
demand; such as special lines of
knittino, rugmaking, cab
inetmaking, basket weaving, turning
in wood OF bone, instrument making,
manufacturers of leather, gloves,
etc., etc. The distribution of power
electric wires, or the use of lit
tie gasoline engines, in village. of
.homecrofters, may demonstrate that
the concentration of thousands of
workers in great factories is not,
all, in a great many lines of in
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-08-04
Distribution Of Immigrants The
Solution.

If there were only some practicable
way of distributing immigration moro
equally among all the ports of the
country the congestion and segra-
CATION phases of this problem would h.
nearer solution. 1t can be accom-
plished in but Il small degree, since 1t
will only be done if answering NJ
economic demand, as in the case of
the Galveston Bremen service. Wise
and we'll organized effort to induce
Immigrants to pass through the large
ports 10y finding and insuring them
employment in the interior and by in
forming them of opportunities else
where, will do much to improve con-
ditions. The ~self-interest of states,
many of which maintain immigration
agencies. might also be brought more
generally into play to attract the in
dustrious and ambitious new corners
to their farms and smaller towns.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-08-04

Phoenix. Arizona. a farm of n Il
bred and sixty acres has been turned
into a homecroft village. The lane is
especially adapted to raising yege-
tables and is under one of the best
Water-rightS in the region. tfYe-acre
tracts are here given to each worker.
The new government reservoir on
Salt River and driven wells ON the
property, insure "A permanent supply
of water for irrigation and therefore
unfailing crops.
These undertakings. while practical
and constructive in every sense. are
intended rather rs models to show
what can be done in any community
in the country. Japan. with sixty
seven per cent. of her total population
working in part or entirely on the land.
has become Il land Of gardens where
hopeless 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. 1t is To the promoters
of our great industries that we must
look for help in great part, but public
sentiment and sympathy will move the
promoters and reach the problem.
The Homecrofters Gid promises 4
start which ought 10 weld together the
country and the city into II indie
structible whole and. supplemented by
proper charity administration and sane
vagrancy laws, remove entirely the
possibility ever of a submerged
tenth"
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The FaIue Of Good Garden.

Many people fail to realize the
great value of a thrifty, well-kept
garden. Even an inferior one is much
better than none. Vegetables are in
dispensable to a family, so far as
health is concerned, to say nothing of
the money saved by not having to buy
so much -four and so many groceries.
1t would seem that every man
should manage to obtain a piece of
ground and see that it becomes we'll
fortified and enriched and then put
under a thorough state of cultivation
before trying to plant the seeds. 1t
only costs a little to buy enough seeds
for quite a good-sized garden.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-08-04

Birmingham to a point four miles from
the city and erected twenty-four
houses for the workmen. Mr.. George
CadburA. from long observation Il
experiences. concluded that the only
practical way to solve the problem WAS
10 take the factory worker out on the
land where he might pursue the IA
tural and healthy recreation of garden
ing. Says Mr.. W. Alexander Harvey
in his book on Bournville, 1t was I'M
possible for working men to he healthy
and have healthy children, when after
being confined all day in factories they
spent their evenings i'll an institute,
club room or public=house. II ii were
necessary for their health, as it un-
doubtedly was, that they should get
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-08-04

have not yet fully realized the
change-they still are doubtful and
suspicious. About four years Il o, be-
fore the tide of immigration and capt.
tai set in toward the Southwest, Il
stranger from the North drifted into
this particular city. He was just
cooking around" with no special pur-
pose in view. \ curbstOne real estate
broker had on his list Il tract of bottom
land, timbered, but worthless on ac-
count of the annual floods. This laad
he had hawked about the street for
75c per acre, but found no takers
among the home spectators. The
tract was mo good" 1t was offered
to this stranger for $1.OO per acre.
Would he look ut it? Yes. He looked
1t over. examined every acre of it
came back to town and handed over
$4,000 for the worthless tract. Great
was the JOY of the natives who were
lined up mt the various bars, TO drink
10 the health of the sucker But
the sucker returned in about Il month
with another capitalist from the North
and sold this worthless tract for $50
900. But this WAS not all. Within
ninety days the second sucker brought
II third and sold him the timber alone
for $4,000. And then the local
bankers and conservative capitalists
kicked themselves for not thinking OF
Ii.
For years people have been leaving
Arkansas and Missourl-going west
looking for opportunities. To-day
strangers are taking their places and
finding money on every bush. The
newcomer are simply developing the
which the natives failed TO
recognize.
This princip4e holds true of a ma
jority OF individuals in every COM
munity. We are too near to see the
opportunities at our feet. We pass
them over and leave them for some
Il TO pick up.
The twentieth century for the United
States at least will be a time of con-
centration rather than expansion. y
century Of rural development and
BODYBUILDING. As has been indicated
the people must get back to the land.
and industrial institutions to reach
their best development must give the
worker a chance for a home.
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dustry, a necessity for the ttainment
of the best results.
5. A growth of cooperation, which
will give to the homecroft settle
ment all the advantages of the CT !
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
cooperative ownership of the numer-
o,s expansive pieces of farm ma
chinerv now to be found on the best.
large farms, but which could not be
afforded by the individual crofter.
8. The fostering of a sturdy, indie
pendent individualism, to HIGH
nothing contributes so muo as the
ownership of a home and a conscious
ness that one can "make a living''
of any boss.
Concurrently with such betterments
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h LEGAL Handicap.

The Prophet is without honor in his
own country. So the village and small
town are without confidence in their
own resources. We get SO familiar
with the things about us that we re
apt to underrate their value. 1t is
often necessary for a total stranger to
come along and show us the neglected
opportunities that have been under our
nose unseen for years.
The writer while pursuing some i'll
dustrial Investigations had occasion to
visit a thrifty little city in the South
vest. 1t is an old town that has liter
ally been forced to the front by the
pressure of development and northern
energy. The place has five railroads,
4 population of 10000 and Il number of
modern buildings. Still the natives
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-08-04

in the condition of the wage-earner,
the general carrying out of the hone
croft idea would relieve the 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
bred thousand or a million people
living on small tracts of land, wi in
an hours 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 "homecroft" experiment not
to be limited to the settlement fost-
cred by Mr.. Maxwell near Boston.
The idea combines with it's sugges-
tons of social betterments the prob
ability of very satisfactory returns
to the n of vacant lands, near
who may be disposed to ex-
pertinent with it.
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THE HoMEcRoFT VS.. THE TENEMENT.

From st. Paul Press
By way of affording a practical OBJ
ject lesson in the "Homecroft" idea,
George II. Maxwell has acquired fifty
acres of ground at Watertown, Mass.
less tn n thirty minutes by rail-
road or forty-hve minutes by trolley
from the center of Boston-whlch
will be broken up into small "crofts"
for city workers. There, it is to be
presumed, will be illustrated, By de-
grees, all the different phases OF bet
which characterize the
homecroft as compared with the
tenement-house idea, in its appliea-
ton to the life of the average Ameri-
can wage-earner: especially he whose
weekly stipend comes from work in
city shop or store or factory. Among
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such b~etterments, either already
demonstrated or anticipated, are
these:
l. Healthier hoIle surroundings,
air, sunlight, trees, Fl wers; room
for children to grow up without con-
tact with the communicating in
fuences of crowded city streets and
tenements.
2. Diversity in employment and
healthful recreation for the wage
Garner himself, md wholesome OPP
portunity for his We and c dren
to contribute to the 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
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-08-04

There is 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 book in a way that
must BE an inspiration to every truly hu-
name and patriotic heart.
Let the spirit of common sense and opti-
mism and fundamental economic and phil
osophical truth that peryades this book be
taken as the underlying motive of the
movement, and the Creed and Platform of
the Homecrofters as the practical plan to
work to, and the rest of the great social
questions are certain To be rightly solved
by application to them of the sound and
humane principles that will guide the action
of our people upon all great national qnes-
lions.
One copy of 'The Coming People post
ACE prepaid will be mailed to any adj
dress in the United States for TWENTY-FIVE
cents.
o,e copv of both "The Coming People,
and .sThe First Book of the Homecrofters'
and "Niaxwel's Talisman" monthly for the
rect Of the wear 1906 will Dc mailed To any
address in the United States for fifty cents.
Remit in postage stamps TO The Home
c~rofters, 143 Main street, Watertown, Mass.
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Improving School Grounds.

In Rochester, n. Y, the school
authorities grade and sod the school
yards, while the shrubhery and other
planting is by private effort in on
junction with the school children.
Ample land is furnished for decorative
playground purposes, and most exemp-
larry results have beer obtained.
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HOME LANDS IN SMALL
PARCELS.

The more ~far-reaching and substan-
tial feature of the movement is
the acquisition and subdivision or
land into small tracts for actual croft
purpose as outlined above. This close
ly resembles the schemes developed in
Hitchin, Port Sunlight, B|ournville and
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elsewhere in England. 1t will not he
out of place to outline the Bournyiile
plan which is identical in many re-
spects and has been carried out to an
assured success. This model village
was started in 1879 when Messrs. Cad
bury Bros. removed their works from