The Marshall republican., 1914-02-13

Britain ctSld employ, IL Necessity.
compulsory powers to purchase land
IN considerable blocks. erecting cot.
tagos, four to an acre. thereon and
mako the scheme profitable at IS
cents n week. This estimate included,
In addition to $3.50 for the cost Of the
cottage, $3.50 for the land. After due
allowance was added for loan charges,
repairs, insurance, and supervisioa,
the total annual cost to be met was
set down at $tG0 por group OF four.
which works out about as cents a
week for each.
Model Cottage for 81 Cents Weekly.
The model was shown OF a cottage
Ia Surrey, England. actually built and
rented 20 three young women earning
their living. This cottage has three
bedrooms, parlor, kitchen, pantry,
bathroom, cOalcellar. A framework
II block weathor.boasding was used
for tho external walls. Between this
and the plaster interior 81 an air space
which b. said 10 make the house warn
and dry and perfectly wealth. proof
II cost, land included, 5000 aGl -cnis
Tor o. cents a week.
Better housing on the farm may not,
q COurse, check The movement Of pop
Iiat.or to the city. Perhaps II Is
neither necessary nor desirable 70 ro
tain upon the soil, under todays con
clifton. 10 largo n proportion " thr
population as yesterday. Tho more
rural conditions arc improved. the bet
ter the wages and the housing. th,
higher The education at tao school
the icrJ will the f~arm.labofor De tat.e
hCd with tho country as q e.. So
bottcr farm conditions, through Hcui
Ing Reform aud IN other ways. bring
an Increased bottormoBt Of Gi rufa
lifa conditions for those who remain
and, with better conditions, fewer
hands arc needed. II was not a Ia
cry. therefore, when the Town Plan
ming COnErCgg heard ono speaker en-
pha5izc the need for Il moro comforta
bio rural life ond for a moro intensive
agriculture.
a Slum Life stefy.
over against the proErCB5 Of tht
now attack upon the old Blum. M
shown by tho Client Congress, may b,
uut q story told o Few evenings bulorf
at "a London club. Mas D.. an old
maid with much money aud nothing e
do. became interested IN Stun work
She rented rooms In a London Dlum
district, gave tea and cake-tho Brit
ish climax OF afternoon hospitality
10 children who camc and presented
material FOR any garments they wOulC
make. ono little girl worried MigB -
She looked M poor and III and mis-
cradle. Finally tho Good Samaritan
decided 20 invite the child to her coun
try homo for n weeks holiday. an in
yitation accepted with delight. Tho
good woman made every provision for
her comfort. n pretty bedroom. toys
and playmatog and books, food aud
flowers. Tho child OF the Blums could
stand II only four days. She wanted
90 30 back 20 London tho second day.
sho cried all tho third day and neither
food nor fruit nor flowers could tempt
her on tho fourth. Sho invented OK.
ouscs TO induce hor b%enofactor 10 take
her back 10 her tenement dwelling
sho dreamt her mother was dead, she
had aprainod her foot. her father had
written that her baby brother vas III.
The truth was that her small Cockney
soul fairly Bickoned for the sights and
smells Of the slums and that n happen.
worth OF chips eaten from n scrap
OF newspaper tasted to her swooter
than a wollcookod omelctto served IN
n china plate. "They arc all tho
same" said he who told the story 40
argument against the new crusade
against tho Stun. town.plannlns for all
tho people, they are all the same;
you a do nothing with t~hom--dros5
them. feed thom, pamper them. II Is
all tho same, they will fall back into
the gutter and regard you as an enemy
for trying 10 lift them out"
1t Is not an effort to lift men from
the slums," quietly replied the 81. An.
drew's professor. at ia an effort 10
abolish tho Stun, 80 that no one Will
be born therein. For II there 81 no
hog.wallow. even the swine cannot TO-
turn TO It."
Heaven, IL the town plans Of John
the Beloved are realized, Is to be n
SUNLESS city-not u country-place-a
city In which there will be neither 0
row o crying nor pain, for the for
mer things OF yesterday will have
passed away. And this city. near at
hand on earth, the jealous, optimistic
town-planners OF Client all SEQ. ut
least in their minds eye. Horatio!"
Copyright. 1914. by Joseph n. Bowles.)