The herald., 1922-03-23

foremost man III the world in his line Of work
And what is that line Of work?
specifically II Is pant-breeding, but fundamen
tally, II Is infinitely more than that II goes to
the heart of the problem of human life upon this
planet. 1t affects first. and most papably the food
supply of the people. Here alone its influence
is not only in the highest degree creative but rev.
dictionary Ii means not only more food. and more
food per square foot of ground but also better
food. Follow this a step farther and you see Gov
the common standard of living must rise with the
growing abundance and quality Of the products
of the earth. Go farther STILL and you will see
how better living means better people: how larger
and more profitable production mean that less land
will serve the individual or family-hence. smaller
holdings; how this. in turn. means more neigh
bors. better housed, fed and Clad and how that
condition tends toward closer and higher social
relationships.
The HOmelanderl
The man with a little home of his on the
land, where he may work lovingly for himself
without wage, yet for higher compensatoa
than he gets in town; and where, In the course
of the patient years. he may rear holy temple Tor
his wife and babies, from which no landlord may
turn him out
That is the Homelanderl
Every feature of his life has been demonstrated,
and Is now i'm successful operation. True. not all
exclusively dedicated to the cause; still less N
a thousand garden cities throughout the land
with millions of garden homes. That Is some
thing that waits upon the future. But every sep
arate wheel and cog that is to enter into '~
complete mechanism of the garden city has been
tested and found to be good And there are com
munities now i'm state of thriving exsten~
where the whole plan is approximated
/ am thinking of 1t now as great department
of our national life, under national Leadership
l think in time quite half of the population Of
urban centers will be dispersed in garden homes
surrounding the city, within thirty to sixty min
utes' ride of their places of employment. and o.
the theaters art galleries. department stores ana
other great attractions which they will frequenW
patrOnize. This would mean that tens OF tnous
ands and in many cases, hundreds OF thohsa"
of families would be so situated. We do not. no"
ever, wish to create another great city on inc eA
terror of one now In existence since that wou'a
nuify the social principles we are trying 10 y
tablish. There should be series OF cOInmuniies
often closely contiguous. but each with It's sepa
rate social life. and the facilities that woulo
required for its service. community of 500 iam
lilies, representing total population of from lIov
to 1900. would be about right TO secure the oes'
results in a social way In such community
addition to their own personal friends and acquar
tances. the people would enjoy the beDents
highly-organized social life, such Is by no meaa'
now enjoyed by the vast majority of our peops
either In town or country.
The world has come to the Age Of the Ent'r
eer-when engineering is craftsmanship ana Sa'.s
manship is engineering. The demand Is for 'ass
for exact Information, and then for the appicauv'
Of the facts by genuinely scientific methods ivy
end sought is efficiency not merely. but some'hns
infinitely more impOrtant-the extension OF n'aD
promised dominion over the earth. with an unu
agined increase in the security, the prosperity a'
the happiness of mankind.