Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-08-06
Owning the Home. ...... .......s.

| SwNAAE t1lC 11C1NG. ,s.r,u,-,
A blessing it is to have asireal
home, and greater blessing to own
ones home. Thousands of families
in the State have no home that they
call their own. They live in houses
that belong to some one else. They
cultivate land that belongs to some
else. They have no fixed place of
abode. ls it not a wonder that
they can call their souls their own?
When so much, too, depends upon
environment, what chance have the
children for the rich childhood
which makes ready for well-round-
ed citizenship? These matters are
the concern of every good man and
woman; but especially are they Wit
ally of interest at this time to all
who will take part in the Confer
ence for the Common Good. If it
is possible, all in the conference
would secure home, owned at
home, to all workers who are not
at home in the houses in which they
are dwelling, but who are only ex-
listing in place more or less limit
ed in extent. To the children,
shall the spot of ground upon which
they are making frog houses and
baking mud pies remain as their
little world of love-they can know
no other except vaguely just now
or as a. world owned by outsiders
prone to swoop down and dispossess
them?
Homes, child welfare, citizenship
these will be considered at the
conference. A plan will be discuss
ed for helping mill workers to pur-
chase homes, and for tenant farm
ers to acquire the land they cult
vate. Education, attendance, health
and child labor are down as topics
upon which practical educators and
others will speak. Nor will other
momentus problems Of citizenship
be neglected.
Every landlord and every tenant
in, South Carolina should read Ham
lin Garland's Under the Lions
Paw" in his.Rook 81 stories EMIT
led, ''Main Travelled Roads" With
a short term lease and vague
promise 70 sell at price from his
landlord as security, the tenant
tolls miserably, heroically, trium-
phantly at last, and seeks then to
buy the land he has made proftable:
be finds the price doubled as the re-
suit of his toll. He finally buys
the land, and says to the landlord
words that should not be said in
South Carolina. In case Of this
Kind can the individual take care of
himself? 1t is matter of the
Common Good. Landlords and
;enants can get valuable assistance
n their problems and be mutually
if they will attend the
for the Common Good.
At this meeting, w. w. Long will
how the relationship between farm
ownership and good f,rming; DR..
:. A. Hines, of Seneca will speak
IN home ownership and health;.
Rev. E. o. Watson and Supt. J. E..
Carroll will show the effects Of
lone ownership in mill village.
These are but part of the prob.
ems, vitally affecting the welfare
If every human being in the State
which will be taken up for solution
II amelioration of evils when the
Conference meets ia Columbia,
August 81. In the program ample
ime has been allowed for discus
ions. All in attendance are invit-,
d and solicited to speak, vent, or
,romulgate their ideas and to swap
IL unexpressed views with their
leighbors. Leaders in the move
nent regard this feature of free iu-
exchange of opinions as perhape
he best part of the program.
W. X. Tate.