Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-02-03
FARM-ClTY IS
NOVEL OF
BISMARCK MAN
Would Give H. c. L. Knock
out Punch as Plank in Pro-
posed Political Party.

name the "American Political Party"
~ex-Serviceman Thomas! Jennings of
this city, in a circular letter that he
has sent broadcast over the state,
can city as one of the sure %antidotes
for the high cost of living. In put
ting this novel idea before the pub
lie the young man employs the fol-
lowing language: s
It's Slightly European. a
THE value of your earnings Is lost
somewhere in a false way of living.
But Why shouldn't be so? I believe it
is because our present city and coun-
try life is q false life. I would re-
place it with what I will call a farm
That is a city laid out, say for u start
er, in f%ve-acre lots. The site Of such
a hamlet to face a public street rum
ming along the regular section lines,
each hamlet having a frontage on the
public street of ten rods or o n hun
dred and sixty-five Fee or: SO by
eighty rods in. depth. That would
make thirty-two, hamlets per quarter
section of land.e One acre of the five
purposes and for trees. One acre for
La. poultry, yaSd, hog or q coy pasture,
planted 70 tame grass, fenced with
woven wfrec the other three heres to
be left in an open field, to be farmed
collectively with the remaining acres
of farmlets as one field. The owners
could agree to plant the same crop
in direct lines with each other so as
to cultivate it as M large field. The
field could be plowed and prepared as
one large n by tractor or horses or
any way they might agree to have
their work done. "a tractor could be
owned by the farm-city or. hired by
it to do the work. Such a farm city
would have all the advantages of city
and farm life combined. with all dis
advantages of both left out. All the
4! could be had in such a farm-city-
light, sewer and water main running
along a street supplying a home
every ten rods. There would be the
advantage of having neighbors with
out being crowded inc the farm adj
vantages of having the best milk,
eggs and vegetables.
One would not>have TO work such a
farmlet in order to live on it and en-.
could be hired by a number Of the
others to do their farming for them,
milk their cows, feed the hens. Ar
ranged in such a systematic manne
one man could care for a half dozen
or more farmlets.
Suppose such a farm-city should
be laid out adjoining the city of. Bis
marck. 1 have in mind a quarter
section of land just three blocks from
our street a line and about. sixteen
blocks from Main street. That Is an
ideal site for the birth of a farm
city. Is such q plan possible? It is
more than possible, it is q sure thing,
il you wish to cut the high cost OF
living.
We now have a state law to protect
you from SPECTATORS, II such a plan
were started and also help build and
organize such a city.
Our state home building law is the
one law that should make such a
plan a success from the start. Land
adjoining Bismarck could be bought
at the most for q hundred dollars per
acre, five acres for less than you pay
for a little lot in Bismarck that eats
up your earnings in expense OF taxes.
I believe such a farmlet with a
four or five room modern cottage and
hen house. barn or garage. built UNI
der the state home building law.
should not cost above five thousand
dollars Under the state law. you
could put in M thousand dollars and
the state four thousand, with ten or
twenty years tospay for 1t in. A taxi,
line could be operated between the.
farm-city and city Of Bismarck, to
take the citizens back and forth from
their work and-the children to school,
although 1t Is only six blocks from a
school building to where I would like
to see q farm-city given BIRTH"
Has Other PlankA
Other planks In the proposed poll
teal party " ~ the elimination OF.
all laws not one hundred per cent
american, CO the immediate ratifi-
cation of the peace treaty and the
Leagne9ok Nations. and 60 the bar
ring Of accused seditionists forever
from the public press and platform,
but not the abridging Of their icitizen-
ship rights in any other way