The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-03-13

bI1ta1n could employ, II necessary
compulsory powers to purchase land
In considerable blocks, erecting cot
tages. four to an acre, thereon and
make the scheme profitable at rs
cents 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 supervision.
the total annual cost to be met was
set down at $3.50 per group of four.
which works out about rs cents a
week for each.
Model Cottage for So Cents Weekly.
The model was shown of q cottage
in Surrey, England, actually built and
rented to three young women earning
their living. This cottage has three
bedrooms, parlor, kitchen, pantry,
bathroom, coal-cellar A framework
OF block weather boarding was used
for the external walls Between this
and the plaster interior is an air space
which is said to make the house warm
and dry and perfectly weatherproof.
1t cost, land included. 5000 and rents
| for 62 cents a week.
Better housing on the farm may not.
OF course check the movement of pop
ulat1on to the city. Perhaps 1t IL
neither necessary nor desirable to re-
tain upon the SOIL under todays con-
dition. so large proportion Of the
population as yesterday. The more
rural conditions are improved, the bet
ter the wages and the housing. the
higher the education at the school.
the less will the farm-laborer be salts
ned with the country as it Is. So
better farm conditions, through Hous-
Ing Reform and In other ways, brings
an increased betterment OF all rural
life conditions for those who remain
and, with better conditions. fewer
hands are needed. 1t was not a far
cry, therefore, when the Town Plan
ming Congress heard one speaker en-
phasize the need for more comforta-
bic rural life and for a more intensive
agriculture.
A Stun Life Story.
over against the progress of the
new attack upon the old slum az
shown by the Client Congress, may be
put story told few evenings before
at a London club. Miss B., an old
maid with much money and nothing to
do, became interested in slum work.
she rented rooms in a London slum
district, gave tea and cake-the Brit
lsh climax Of afternoon hospitality
to children who came and presented
material for any garments they would |
make. One little girl worried Miss B. |
She looked so poor and i'll and mis-
cradle. Finally the Good Samaritan
decided to invite the child to her coun-
try home for weeks holiday, an in
vitation accepted with delight. The |
good woman made every provision for |
her comfort, pretty bedroom toys |
and playmates and books, food and |
flowers. The child Of the slums could |
stand 1t only four days. She wanted |
to go back to London the second day,
she cried all the third day and neither
1000 nor fruit nor flowers could tempt |
her on the fourth She invented ex-
cuses to induce her benefactor to take
her back to her tenement dwelling
she dreamt her mother was dead, she
had sprained her foot, her father had
written that her baby brother was i'll.
The truth was that her small Cockney
soul fairly sickened for the sights and
smells of the slums and that a hapen.
ny worth OF chips eaten from a scrap
OF newspaper tasted to her sweeter
than well-cooked omelette served in
a china plate. They are all the
same" said he who told the story as
argument against the new crusade
against the Sum- town-planning for all
the people, they are all the same;
you can do nothing with them-dress
them, feed them, pamper them, it is
all the same, they will fall back into
the gutter and regard you as an enemy
for trying to lift them outs
1T is not an effort to lift men from
the slums," quietly replied the st. An.
drew's professor, at Is an effort to
abolish the slum, so that no one will
be born therein. For If there is no
hog-wallow, even the swine cannot re-
turn to It."
Heaven, If the town plans Of John
he Beloved are realized, is to be
SUNLESS city-not a country-place-a
city in which there will be neither sor.
'ow nor crying nor pain, for the for
ner things of yesterday will have
passed away. And this city, near at
land ON earth, the Jealous, optimistic
own-planners of Client all see, at
east Gin their minds eve. Horatioi"