The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-04-28
ORIGINATOR OF FORWARD
TO LAND LEAGUE IN CITY
ATTENDING CONVENTION
THE IDEA SUGGESTED ITSELF
WHEN SHE WAS ENGAGED
IN WELFARE WORK.

Mrs. Haveland H. Lund, secretary
Of the National Forward To-The-Land
league, does not look at all like a
person who would be interested in
farming. She has spent a strenuous
day, but she did not show it. On the
contrary, as she turned from her
phone to talk about her work, she pre-
sented a picture of perfect poise and
ease.
Mrs. Lund is not only the secretary,
but she is the originator of the For
ward to-the-Land Movement.
The idea was suggested to me, ?
she said yesterday afternoon at the
San Carlos hotel, Hwhen was en-
gagged in welfare work in New York
City. found that much of the work
we did was breeding hatred. These
people whom we were attempting to
help did not want to be placed under
obligations to US, yet the problem of
how to help them was most diff
cult one.
Naturally, many students Of So
GEOLOGY and economics have grappled
with the same problem. Some time
ago the general education board de-
cided that the solution to the prob
lem of rural stagnation might be in
an organization service that should
carry agricultural instruction into
each county and bring order out of
chaos through the cooperation of the
people. The National Forward to-
the Land league is, so far as know,
the first organization to work out a
clear and reasonable policy for deal
ing with this problem. Such night
classes as we are conducting in the
| leagues bureau of information at
Labor Temple, New York, are under
the direction of the extension service
of the New York College of Agricul-
ture.
'The agricultural department Of the
United States government has several
times announced that the small, in
dividual farm does not pay, yet most
land companies are selling such farm
holdings to our working people,
Through the forward to the land
movement, of which | am secretary,
people of small means are advised to
buy land only where there are at least
fifty similar holdings, and where there
is an agricultural instructor and mar
i ket expert to show them how to treat
their combined properties as bust
ness unit. They own their homes In
dividually, but cooperate in the man
agement.
The league stipulates, also, that
there must be the new type of rural
school, with ten acres for a schoo
garden, and an auditorium for socia'
activities for the audits. DR.. P. P
Claxton, commissioner of education
at Washington, sends a man from
that department to organize the
school. A. E. Roberts, of the Inter
national Young Mems Christian asso
citation, sends a rural Y. M. c. A. sec
rotary. DR.. L. S. Golfer, of the For
eign and Insular Quarantine and I'm
migration, United States public healtl
. and marine hospital service, sends al
engineer from his department for th,
sanitary survey. DR.. Myron 7. Scud
der of the University of Virginia, an,
principal of the Scudder School TO
Girls, recognized authority on rura
J recreation, viii make the survey 70
t recreation grounds.
Business men IN several states hav
: announced their willingness to fnanc
colonization projects according to tn
: standard recommended by the league.
: Mrs. Lund viii speak this evenin
on the work in which she is engages