The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-01-15
FARM HOME CENTERS.

There is much merit In the Can
adam scheme reported elsewhere in
this paper, to form farm home cent
ers"' with the homes of number of
farmers in a little cluster and the
farming lands surrounding that. The
scheme is not new. That is the way
farmers live in France and in many
older countries. China has no farm
homes as we know them. The farm
ers live in villages and go out to the
farm work in the morning, return
ing at noon or in the evening. This
gives the farmers greater amount
of land to farm without being cut
up by building spots" and roads to
these. T
But the greatest benefit is that it
dispenses with the isolation Of the
farmers. They have close neighbors
and do not live 'to, by and for them
selves" as is the case where the farm
home stands long distance from any
other home. Farmers and their wives
and children have the advantages of
social life that they do not have
where a farmer lives alone with his
family on farm of several acres or
several hundred acres.
School houses and social centers can
be built in these little villages and
every farmer can have his own barn
yard, garden and orchard but can also
have near neighbors, church and
school advantages and social advant-
ages that are impossible where the
farm house stands off by itself
In France, our soldier boys tell us,
the farmers all live in little villages
and have lived SO for hundreds of
years. AS a result there is more
social life, less of selfishness and sus-
picion among the farmers where they
live in this manner with close neigh
bors, than where they live the isolated
life of the American farmer. The
scheme has many advantages over the
usual plan of building farm houses
both in the United States and Can
ada.
Pa "a. Ea
NEW YORK'S DISGRACE
Once more a bunch of hungry, vii
famous and INSCRIPTIONS lawyers in
New York are trying to get Harry
Thaw back into that state to try him |
for some small crime. Thaw is where
he belongs, in an asylum for the in
ane, in Pennsylvania. He should
have been in an asylum years ago.
He escaped from an asylum in New
York and that state spent tens of
of dollars in trying to get
him back, and the plea that he was
insane and should be returned to the
asylum.
Thaw's mother, rich and indulgent
TO her erring son, spent money freely !
and kept him from being taken back
% New York Then Thaw committed )
some other crime of minor nature ,
when on temporary visit to New Z
York after the court had decided he
.ould not be returned to the asylum.
The hungry lawyers who had forced .
Chaw's mother to spend tens of thous- :
ands of dollars before, went after .
Thaw and tried to have him returned r
o New York for trial on this charge,
hat of beating young man with
tick The state Of New York,
through crooked officials, spent vast {
ums in trying to get Thaw back for
rial, in order that New York lawyers
night mulct his mother for further
ums. There can be little doubt in
he minds of those who have studied
his noted and disgusting case, that I
he district attorney has "stood in" E
nth the other lawyers and that the
honey filched from Thaw's mother S
las been divided .
Thaw was adjudged insane and sent i
0 an asylum in Pennsylvania, and v
ow New York's district attorney is b
rying to have him extradited and y
rought back for trial on criminal T
barge This whole affair has been S
ne of many disgraceful epochs in Z
'ew York's history. = =
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