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New-York tribune., 1915-03-28
By LAYTON MACKALL.

ONHE secret of punctuality has always eluded
me. Try as | may, can never be on time
Whether my appointment is with hostess
or dentist or train, am sure to be late. So
the hostess fumes, the dentist looks down in the
mouth and the train taunting rear flags
at me as | sprint breathlessly and uselessy down
the platform.
Yet the fact that | am invariably behindhand
does not mean that l am Indifferent to my tardi-
ness. Far from it, l continually mortlhed.
The reproachful eyes of my entertainer burn into
my soul; my throat chokes with the chicken that
has hardened to a crisp while delayed, and my
spirit melts with the ice cream that has waited
too long for me-
There are men with whom hours and minutes
arc fixed quantities like dollars and cents-human
chronometers, specially gifted beings who can
measure off time as if it were tape. For them
five minutes is always five minutes, always
definite amount. l not one of them. For
me time is as mysterious and huctuatng as the
weather Half an hour in a crowded pew in
church, half an hour in bed in the morning, half
an hour in a doctors waiting room, half an hour
almost alone on a sofa-what have these theo-
retically identical periods in common? The phi
osophers tell us that time is merely conven-
lent system for ordering experience. Per-
New-York tribune., 1915-03-28

enter the United States. If they are equipped
with the necessary funds they go to the farm,
but unaided they are obliged to look for work
in one of the large cities.
If the plans of the league do not miscarry
a large exodus of New York City farmers to
the soil will begin early in the fall To sum
up the organization plans:
First-To assemble all information fur
nshed by government, by the state or private
organizations, by individuals and publications
covering land opportunities. 1t would con-
dense, print and circulate essential facts and
give proper guidance to inquirers.
Second-It would conduct an educational
campaign, giving lectures among workingmen
at their halls, churches clubs, Young Mems
Christian Association and Salvation Army.
For this campaign the Salvation Army has
placed number of its halls at the disposal
of the league.
Third-It would organize those interested
into study groups. 1t would open night
classes in agriculture, to be under the general
direction of the department at Washington
or of the agricultural departments of the
states in which the league operates. To
make this effective, 1t has invited the co-opera-
ton of the boards of education all over the
country.
Fourth-It would endeavor, through legis-
lation,. to differentate between the willing
worker and the loafer having in mind the
problem of how to control the non-worker,
and compel him to contribute to his own sup
port and to that of the community. In this
connection it might be well to say that the
league regards the American nomad or bum
as federal charge He has no state; he is
a resident Of no town or county, and there
fore, it is for Uncle Sam to regulate and feed
him, not for the state governments.
Fifth-It would heartily support the move
ment looking to the establishment of rural
credit banks, and would urge upon financial
philanthropists the business wisdom of invest
ment in such institutions in order to finance
the man of small means
New-York tribune., 1915-03-28

profitable in the aggregate, is largely joke.
1t is conducted in haphazard manner. The
surface is simply scraped. Intensive farming
is unknown. In Minnesota a man who hasn't
a thousand acres is poor, and in very few sec
tons of the country will a farm of one hun
dred acres produce more than fair living.
This is because the farmers are unwilling to
test the full capabilities of the soil.
They ignorantly plunge into the soil just
as a tyro takes jump into the pit in Wall
Street. They know nothing of the qualities
of the SOIL and they only avoid sowing wheat
in land that is adapted only for corn because
their neighbors have told them of some sad
experiences they had in early days. The Amer
lean farmer succeeds because of the vast
quantity OF land at his disposal, not because
he has mastered the science of agriculture"
Mrs. Lund said if the Jersey meadows,
swamps and miasmatc fields could be carried
across the Atlantic to Holland enough food
would be raised on them to nourish a COM
munity of a million souls.
Alabama is the first state in the Union to
cooperate officially, earnestly and substan-
TALLY with the league. A substantial contri-
button was recently authorized by the gov
ernment This will be expended through the
Labor Department of the state. Alabama is
described by Mrs. Lund as a state better
adapted for stock raising than any other sec
ton of the country, and yet hundreds of thou
sands Of dollars worth of dairy products are
imported every year.
Mrs. Thomas M. Owen, daughter Of Sen
ator Bankhead and one Of the leaders in Mont
gomery society, is the leagues representative
in Alabama. 1t was through Mrs. Owens
representations that the state government Of
ficially recognized the organization and agreed
to cooperate with it.
1t is planned, as soon as capital is available,
to establish dairying communities in Ala
bama. Enough educated dairymen and stock
raisers are said to live in New York City to
supply all the needs Of the state in that line
I'VE can raise stock less expensvely and
bring them to earlier and more productive
New-York tribune., 1915-03-28
FORWARD TO LAND !"

maturity than can be accomplished in any
Northern or Western state" writes Mrs.
Owen. Therefore, why should it be necessary
for us to depend upon other states for our
milk. our butter, our cheese and our beef?
We are simply suffering from dearth of
workers, and if the league can give US the
producers, we will be able to find the land
upon which to place them"
Among the leaders in this movement none
could be found who could see in it anything
of visionary or chimerical character. On
the contrary, they all insist that it is eminent
ly practical, logical, substantial and enduring.
Associations to cooperate with the league
have either been formed or are in process OF
organization in North and South Carolina,
Missouri, New Jersey and Illinois. Some of
these have actually received and agreed to
finance farmers who have been taken out of
the congested parts of New York City.
The system of financing is very much like
that which obtains in South Australia. where
the state government has in recent years put
thousands of men on the soil. Two crops will
be raised before the beginner is required to
pay the first instalment on his loan Money is
advanced at the lowest possible rate of in
terest to buy the necessary implements. The
first year he is relieved of all embarrassment
because no demand is made upon him for any
portion OF the product Of his labor. When
the second crop is gathered, however, he is
presumed to be in position to make small
initial payment.
so, you see" said Darwin J. Meserole, who
has presided at all recent meetings of the
committee on direction, this is not some
thing that is in the air. II is no mere expert
ment."
The league, it is now constituted is an
organization of organizations These include
ST. Bartholomew's Church, Of which the Rev.
Mr.. Ackly is pastor; the Labor Temple, pre-
sided over by the Rev. Jonathan C. Day, and
the Salvation Army. The organization will
have its headquarters in New York because
it is at this port that most of the immigrants
New-York tribune., 1915-03-28

but the man to be appointed to superintend
each plot will be allowed to work out his own
ideas, so that diversity in beautiful effects
will result. Perhaps fountains will be es-
tablished in the centre of some of the gar
dens, and there may be benches provided for
tired mothers and their babies, and the school
concerts, which have been SO attractive a
feature of life at Patri's school, may be trans
ferred to the outdoor places of recreation.
Mr. Patri says he and his gardening assist
ants will have to take chances, in starting their
gardens, on the possibility of the ground being
New-York tribune., 1915-03-28

practically all my available capital II was up
10 me to find some work to do l chose wait
ing am now trying TO save enough money
to buy farm"
This ingenious citizen declared that he de-
posts so percent OF his tips in "a New York
bank. He said the tips are growing amazingly
and soon he will be able to realize his ambi-
ton to obtain a substantial slice of good Amer
lean soil.
The National Forward-to-the Land League
leaders are not idle dreamers. They ARE not
going to attempt to make farmers overnight
out Of men who find temporary accommoda-
ton at the Municipal Lodging House or OBJ
tain a meal ticket from the Salvation Army.
They insist that farming is a science, not
merely an art or an occupation, and before
men ioin the ranks of the bucolics they must
have special training, coupled with decided in
clination, for country life and its response
bilites.
The ambitious and comprehensive scheme
OF the league includes the establishment OF
night schools in every important city in the
United States, where the art of farming will
be taught by competent instructors. To re-
dliZc TINS pndSe OF tHc CHlClP PlloC, HAio A"44N
and her associates have decided to invite the
co-operation of the national and state govern
ments The schools will be under the general
direction of the Secretary Of Agriculture, if
Congress, by appropriate legislation, will sane
ton the movement.
1t is said that at least half the sailors who
are interned with the German merchant feet
are competent farmers. Some Of these have
written to Mrs. Lund begging her to obtain
farms for them, so that they can become pro-
ducers.
81 am good farmer, though I have been
sailor for number of years" writes a man
who serves before the mast" on the Water
land. Il don't want to return to Germany
except to fight and as they won't let me get
home I want TO stay here and farm" The
man uses excellent English and appears to be
generally well educated.
Farming in the United States. although
New-York tribune., 1915-03-28
Continued from NTH page,

these schools Of economic thought claim for
their systems.
To make substantial beginning in this en-
ternrise the league has invited the Governors
Of every state in the Union TO assemble an
exhibit in New York City early IN the ap-
preaching spring. This exhibit will consist OF
SAMPLES of the products OF the SOIL intorma-
ton regarding living conditions, maps OF the
different sections which the state authorities
deem fit places for general settlement, and
such other information as the tiller OF the soil
would require to guide him in the important
task Of seeking home and permanent means
of supporting it.
Many well meaning and, in the beginning,
we'll financed attempts at colonizing have
proved either partial or entire failures because
the fathers of these schemes have attempted to
make farmers out of mechanics and others
who are by nature and inclination totally un-
fitted for the task of tilling the soil. Il IS
the purpose Of the Forward-to o-the-Land
League 70 see that no person who is not
equipped with information coupled with love
for rural life shall be assisted to the land.
But many thousands of persons in New York
are waiting on tables, CIeIKlns III StOreS' carry
ing the hod, cleaning streets and trying to
make clothes when they are simply pining TO
get to the soil. At least these are what the
officers of the new organization declare to
be melancholy facts.
These statements find substantial support in
little experiment tried at a well known res
taurant where hyphenated Americans arc al
most exclusively employed. Picking out at ran
dom ten walters, asked each what was his
occupation in the country whence ne came.
Seven of the ten said they were farmers.
Tbre. had sold the little plots on which they
produced their living in order 10 provide iunds
necessary to bring them to the United States
but when I rad paid my fare to New York
and the fares of my family" said the most in
telligent man in the group Il had used up
New-York tribune., 1915-03-28

Vegetable Gar
dens Bordered
With Flowers
ON F fifty Tracts

Ever since he took charge OF the new schooi
MIR. Patri has been active in forming club,
and societies 10 benefit the children and the,
parents in various ways. Besides the mothers
club and the association of parents, he Ia,
started athletic, musical, dramatic and danciry
clubs savings bank, an alumni association
and repair squad composed Of ooys with
a mechanical turn OF mind Recently h.
formed an art appreciation club, and the mem.
bers are regularly taken TO the Metropo,au
Museum and to important current exhibition,
Reproductions of great paintings are TO !.
seen in the schools Railways. He also pub.
fishes school magazine, in which he writes
helpful editorials and prints Little article,
from pupils about school affairs and about Nat.
ure, flowers, birds and animals.
The other day the father OF one of hi,
pupils met him on the street and said: "T.l
me, is it true that you are going to start
farm?"
yes" replied Mr.. Patri, "a farm Of four
acres in Bronx Park, and many little farms,
too. We will raise all kinds Of good things to
eat You need have no fear OF starving mex,
summer, for you will be welcome TO the bes,
things we can grow"
But a farm! Are you going TO make farm.
ers of the boys3 l thought they came to
school to be educated"
so they do, but don't you know there are
two kinds Of INSTRUMENTATION from books
and education from life? We have been get.
ting knowledge from books only in our school
but now we are going to work for knowledge"
"A queer world, this" said the father "Firt
we take boys from farms and put them in
school, Now we take them from school and
put them on farms. Well, have seen worry.
ing over the possibility Of my boys being con-
taminated by mixing up with some Of the
pupils that might be found in public school;
but if you teach him the beauty Of landscape
gardening and the benefit OF outdoor labor
there will certainly be no danger OF contain
nation in that"
New-York tribune., 1915-03-28

sold and taken over by the new owners for
other purposes at any time. But they are will
ing to assume this risk, and they feel that
almost any buyer would consent to wait till
their crops were harvested before dispossess-
ing them One real estate dealer has gone so
far as to take half-acre lot out Of the market
in order to help the scheme.
Seeds will be donated by Mr.. Patri and his
friends, and some will be furnished by the De-
partment of Agriculture. The men and chill
dren who plant the seeds and tend the gardens
will be allowed to keep nine-tenths Of the
produce, or the money for which they sell it.
The other tenth will go to pay for fences, fer
,ilizers and other expenses and to reimburse
those who advance money to start the enter
prise.
New-York tribune., 1915-03-28

duced the thing of beauty and of wonder that
a full blown rose actually is, cannot be re-
mindful Of sordid toll; it is only remndful of
the joyful service spent in bringing it to ma
turity. And part Of the love which a child
feels for such rose is shared by the parent at
whose side, and by whose aid, it is helped to
unfold its beauty"
Every garden plot will be bordered with
Covers, and the fences that inclose the lots
Twill, in some cases, be overgrown with vines.
There will be no nAexibe rules as to the ar
rangement of any one plot to match any other,
New-York tribune., 1915-03-28
THE BEGINNING OF MISUNDER
STANDING IN HOMES OF POVERTY.

There" he continued, you see parents and
children working side by side, getting ac-
ouainted with each other and with Nature.
They will together plant the seeds, and to-
gether care for the ground and together watch
for the first shoots OF green springing from
the earth, and will know the creators joy II
seeing the plants grow to maturity and will
share each others pride in the creation and
will share the profits when the vegetables are
sold besides their delight in the fresh vege'
tables and fruit upon the family table. You
who have not lived among these people, noi
thought Of the many influences that tend to
disrupt homes and place barriers OF msunder-
standing between parents and children, can
hardly understand what such things will mean
TO them The children, in many cases, come
from homes OF poverty and sorddness to
schools where they the teacher we'll
dressed and well groomed and where they
meet children who are neat and well cared for
They 20 back to their homes in the evening and
observe their slovenly and often overworked
mother and their work-stained father, with his
clothes odorous Of his toll. And in their
minds is bred a contempt for home and
parents, and they are likely to be easily at
tracted TO gaudy and immoral amusement
places and to conceive snobbish ideas OF asso-
ciating only with better dressed people, simply
because they are better dressed.
"Now, the dignity of labor is best appre-
ciated by those who have known the JOY of
labor tor its own sake There is an inexpressi-
bic satisfaction in gardening work. and when
once the childish mind knows that feeling the
stains Of toll will not be thought Of except in
connection with something that has been pro-
ductive of JOY rose bush that one has
watched from its infancy, and without whose
tender ministrations it would not have pro-
New-York tribune., 1915-03-28
School Principal Sets Bronx Pupils
to Utilizing and Beautifyimg
the Vacant Lots of
That Borough

The Italians are the greatest gardeners in
aesthetic taste merely to travel in Italy and
view the magnificent lawns and terraces and
parks where art has been combined with
Nature TO beautify the landscape. Slumbering
in the soul of nearly every Italian, even the
lowliest immigrant is this love OF artistic
gardening l do not know whether any OF my
ancestors were landscape gardeners-it must
have been a good while back if they were
but l have a great desire at times to delve in
the soil and make beautiful flowers and shrubs
grow where nothing has grown before. In my
summer home in the Adirondacks l cultivate
a tract of an acre or more, not caring whether
/ reap the harvest or not, so long as have
the Joy of bringing beautiful plants into being.
Now, in The Bronx, as in some other parts
of New York, are thousands OF Italians whose
fingers itch for the touch Of the soil, whose
souls hunger for the smell of fresh earth, for the
primal Joy of helping to create plants beautiful
in form and color. In our school are many
hundreds of children who are growing away
from their parents, and who are at the same
time growing UP destitute of that knowledge
of Nature and OF Natures beauty without
which any life Is incomplete But see there"
and he pointed out Of his window, where men
and boys and girls were digging in large
vacant lot which had been fenced In, and
where there were already evidences OF the di-
rection of an artistic mind in the work they
were doing.
New-York tribune., 1915-03-28

u II is making the ash heaps bloom, Is
- Angelo Patri, school principal and
II philosopher. He is setting the Ital-
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1915-08-26
9etreiOeUer(orgung.

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ausbra9. nohbsm bic @rnts in llns
sorn, aber au9 in Seiterrei9 gum
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net, iibsr cine ausrei6enbe @erforsuns
fir abfebbare 3eit fotpobl BEL ben
8rptfriihten als aud ben sbenfo ipi9s
tioen ssuttermitteln, unbebingte 9erus
bieung gu T6affen. Die f9pa9e
Wei5enernte ungarns BON nur "a
MilIionen Wetsr3entner, ferner etipo
2 Millionen Metersentner in &roatien
unb Slnponisn unb ettpa 18 MilIios
nen Metersentner in Sefterrei9 bieten
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gen. Run Fnb aber ou6 f9on Smz
porte unterpegs. Die NIT minbeifens
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fdbIa9en iinb. Sn 9foggen uno 6afer
felt ii6 bas 8erbdltnis nabeSu ebens
70. unb penn epentusn 9erfte fir
menfdIi6sn uno tierifden Sfonium
beranse5o9en pirb. mod siinftiser.
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feln, ben Mais uno bic anperen SpGts
friidte unter ben bis ieBt ausF6tspols
fen 8eoineungen bereinsubringen, mas
bic einf6ldgi9tn 8erbdltnife bonn
nod mebr erIe;btern ipiirbe.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1915-08-26
Grfparte SrOtmarfen.

Sn Berlin unb ben 8ororten Ders
BEN Die 9rotmorten, Die fpdbrenb ibrer
@iltisteitsbauer feline @erpenbung
fanben. eingeSpsen unO entpertet, boz
nit babura cine entfpre9enbe @ripar>
mis- on 9rot ersielt pirb. 0as slei9e
gsf9iebt in 9aFel. @bemnis. &6ln,
&refelb, gGberfelb, GFen, Samburs
un6 2iibed. Sn anoeren StGbten
tperbsu bogegen bic erfpartsn Marfen
on Mebrperbrau6er ober an Die minz
bsrbemittelts 8epOlterune Dbsr an
perfonen, bic ihpere t6rperli9e Dir
belt berri9ten, obsegeben. SIN @Otbd
bat Der Sausfrauendusf9uB fir pirtz
f9aftlide &rieesbilfe bic @erteiluns
iibernommsn. in 3iel cine ~Organifas
tion CUR Si9erung Der 8OlfsernGbs
runs." Sn 8ralnidpeis perben orei
@iertel Der Suriidsefhidten 8rotmarz
len bem 9eipertf9aftstartell, Elm @iers
tel Dem nationolen 4rbeitsausf9ub
sur @erteiluns iibertpiefen; in 9dnaie
irbaItsn fie Die Qrbeiter nit Ra9ts
f9i9t. in SuIIe a. 9. aGle angeitrengt
arbeitsnoen Perfonen, in Maina unb
Stuttgart bic 8ebiirftisen. in Sreis
burg |. 8r. bic 2lrbeiterb bausbaltun>
gen. Sn Grantflrt a. M. unb Siel,
Iinb bic Marfen iibertraebar.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1915-08-26
Orientierung i'm 00(O.

9ebt man burb unbefanntes 9es
biet, bur6 einen Dolb, ben man ni9t
tennt, unb peib man nibt. in ipelder
Stmmelsgegeno fib Horhsn ooer Siis
ben befiuoet, 70 barf man nur ouf
sinige 3eiden adten. Inn fi9 entfpres
9eno unterri9ten au t6nnen. Msan
betrd6te por allem bic StGmme Der
9Gume; fe iinb untriiglibe Westpeis
fer. 2ln Der Siibfeite iit bic Rinbe
bss 8aumes fets troden unb bart.
Die Sorbe lit fmmer beller, dls an Der
RoroIeite, unb bier befinoet ii9 nas
mentlid5 bei dlteren 8dumen Elm tleis
nes Moospoliter. 9os Sera. bas BEL
ben &iefern, ben Garden, Sanneu unb
ssi6ten aus Der Siibfeite berausqui[It,
ift bart uno bon bernfteingefber Sarbe,
auf Der RorbIeite bunteIerou unb mei>
items nit elmer StaubIdi9t bsbedt.
Gi9sn. Gf9en Riiifern. 8uden tra>
gen an Der HorbIeite cine Moosoede,.
bic 8lGtter in bieIer Ri6tung itnb
Idneer unb ountTer in Der 5arbe. In
Der Siibfeite iinb bic 8lGtter tleiner.
sGber unb nit einem Reb bon 4bern
our6sogen. 9tu6 bic Spinuen finb
quite Wespeiier, fie ipeben ibre Nebe
INNER an Der Siioieite Der 8dume.
Die Gteine, bic ouf bem Subboben
feitliegen. geben eleidfalIs bic Sims
melsri9tune an. 9tuf Der Rorbfeite
iinb iie nit elmer Moosbede iiber5Osen,
auf Der Siibfeite bingegen ta9l.
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