The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-23
MT. FOrd's Own Page
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have rendered confinement within the city unneces- sary for large numbers of people. And one Of the to-do once found it possible to get away from the city, now the workingman finds it not only possible but advantageous live country, and thou sands of them doing it even while they work in the city.
 numerous, this movement the country will increased.
 The problem of the city" is bundle of the most baffLng problems we know It not only m cludes problems of health, morals, administration and economics, but problems which deep into the very nature
 problem eluded best minds for decades and decades Tn spite of all the expenditure of money and thought, all the sac rifice of labor and spirit, the problem of the city, grows acute instead of easier.
 And what is the answer to this?
 Plainly, it seems of us, that the uti- mate solution will be the abolition of the city, its abandonment as blunder-
 There a number of movements all converg ing to this end-some of them in utter unconscious this end-and the least them tain theory of taxation which has seized upon the minds and imaginations of the people Nothing full grip which the city habit has taken the people, than the destruction of the fictitious land values which the city traditions have set up and maintained.
 We shall solve the City Problem by leaving the communities where a knows his neghbor where there is comn1onaIity of interest, :. .Iere life is artificial you city problem. by eliminating city City life was always artificial and canno. be anything else. An artificial form of life it's own disorders cannot solved There is nothing do but abandon the course that gives
 is nothing impossible unusual in this. in day cities spring up in Well, if people should be made free of their country, would whole cities nothing in the lengh of time.
 Nothing long exist that is self-sustan- ing. The city is not self-sustainng No American city-and the best fortified in the world in this respect-could survive, without suffering, a weeks interruption in the traffic in supplies from the farm.
 The farm self-sustaining. The city the farm wit regard conveniences, with Essentially, the farm is complete within itself.
 The city has exercised it's illicit charm to draw to very people whose devotion the agriculture depended its livelihood. As a result of this overgrowth of the city at the ex- nense of the farm the city is now finding it hard live When the city is driven out to get food it must go to the farm And this is where it is going now:
 The balance O. life-in aspects-can only be preserved by natural balance in the attention facture and Transportation-wthout which, the neglect of of which, nothing goes very far.
 And way this balance, beginning learn, is to have the people practice than of them.
 As has been previously these pages, there is sound reason whatever why inn group of men should be confined within fac- tory walls all the year round simply because they happen live in the city, and there is just little why another large group of persons should be confined to their farn-acres all the round just because they happen to be farmers
 Agriculture power of the manufacturing interests devoted to it part of time every year, nanufac- the farms could change occupation during the son when the ground is resting And the life of evervbodv the physical and economic fife would be benefited. Besides which, small manufacturing centers would dot all our countrysides and wide farming areas would encircle our present dense communities, relieving them of congested abnor- mality and the country of unnatural loneliness
 The minglng of the arts will help restore us to economic balance and racial sanity.