The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1908-08-12
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assA IN Environment Thst aas
atsaae Felix's WIN Rsusain Thsre.
.3sefge III. Maxwell, who believes IN
ssal and small town life as greatly
Sssfsrab,s to the city. offers this cen
EaaeAg Argument In kAxwelfs Tails
AnA:
Thls nation today il enjoying q pasth-
psa Of prosperity and figures that dsa-
Mo tia Imagination.
Da4 there ID another aids to thin fruit
p3 natsrisa wealth which now seems 90
fesseprn that some day, uhea bitten
ka. II may prove Dead sea apple.
n n the abnormal concentration Of
sEada industry and population in ths
ssaa6 cities, where all the Influences
hat degenerate humanity, rich a. weA
As poor, have fall sway and grew
npale.
And when We study seriously and
sSherly the effects Of this unnatural
sny HE On the mental and physical
ehasaetor Of our people Il II serious
9nastioa whether the sigantis strides
80 Tn fkA lat tom n
material wealth h NOT at the expense
"a human wealth and whether It may
nsa turn out In the end to have been
toe dearly bought.
II has been strikingly sah Of the civ
hamtions Of ancient times, which were
destroyed by the degeneracy Of their
people, that they grew rotten and
rlpe for destruction not In the fields,
Bnt IN the narrow lanes and crowded
city streets and in the palaces Of their
1lshality."
1f any one will walk through the
eisasng of the east side Of New York or
line shacks of Pittsburg or the tene-
sseats OF Chicago and see the swarm
RR& myYfads Of children that are grow
fng to manhood and wsmanhood in
tAOse evil environments, he will be
startled by the revelation that not q
few only but the great majority Of our
WORKING people In the great centers OF
population hive in surroundings that
sac unfit for children to be reared in
zsma must inevitably deteriorate the
naes. From every life lived under such
aaaasSitions something Is taken that can
not be replaced by any figures showing
only human activity that has not con-
tsibutsd 10 the improvement Of human
1bae.
The saddest and most depressing
Thought that can ind a place in the
aaind when contemplating the wretched
conditions under which SO many mil
mons Of lives are lived In this country
as the realization Of the fact that If a
greater proportion Of human industry,
me same laborious work Of human
Aands that builds the palaces OF the
aaillionaires and the millions of fats,
aenements and shacks that are occu-
pied by the working people, could be
suburban Or rural homes for those
aanoe workers, what different nation
shis would be generation or 20 hence.
While the people are crowding into
the cities, the villages and small towns
are being depleted not only Of their
population, but their trade as well. In
stead of working together to realize
the real joys Of village life, with all its
possibilities Of human sympathy, Gloss
fz1endghips, love Of natures beauties
and the inspiration Of the ideal home
life that is possible In such an environ
aaent, the spirit of unrest possesses
many, and as soon as opportunity Of
fers they plunge into the maelstrom Of
the city life.
Those who stay In the village, in the
majority of cases, do not work together
as they might to create an environ
aaent 80 attractive that the city would
Aave no temptations to offer thai
would lure any human worker away
from the safe anchorage Of rura
Aenae to the artificial life of the tene
aaent or fat ~ f.. =..=.... S.
The people OF other nations are fal
ahead of Us in the realization OF ths
joys of life next to nature and "fa1
fsom the madding crowds ignoble
strife" In the orient both the Chinese
and the Japanese have for 5,0Ot
years realized for the great ma
jority Of their people the pleasure Of
a life In a homecroft, in an environ
nnent that developed the dignity, tn.
mental and physical strength and thu
sareless and patient energy which arr
tte underlying motive forces that are
lifting those nations forward and up
ward today in the great contest fol
national superiority i'll which they arr
engaged.
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