The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-03-16
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foremost man in the world In his l1rs Of work.
And what Is that line of work?
Specifically 1t is plant-breeding, but fundamen-
tally, 1T is infinitely more than that. It goes to
the heart Of the problem Of human life upon this
planet. 1t affects first, and most ~palpably, the food
supply Of the people. Here, alone, its influence
is not only in the highest degree creative. but rev.
dictionary. 1t 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 how
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 own on the
land, where he may work lovingly for himself
without a wage, yet for a higher compensation
than he gets In town; and where, in the course
of the patient years, he may rear a holy temple for
his wife and babies, from which no landlord may
turn him out. =. '. IN,
That Is the Homelander! s&s.
- Every feature of his life has been demonstrated,
and Is now in successful operation. True, not all
Of it has been demonstrated in one garden city
exclusively dedicated to the cause still less In
a 601 S1LISS NHS Ioh0s
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 the
complete mechanism of the garden city has been
tested and found to be good. And there are COM
munities, now In a state Of thriving existence
where the whole plan is appropriated. >'~
= I am thinking Of 1t now as a great department
of our national life, under national leadership,
I 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 Of
the theaters, art galleries, department stores, and
patronize. This would mean that tens of thous-
ands. and In many cases, hundreds OF thousands
of families would be so situated. We do not, how
ever, wish to create another great city on the ex-
terror OF one now In existence, since that would
nullify the social principles we are trying to es-
tablish. There should be a series Of communities,
often closely contiguous. but each with Its sepa-
rate social life, and the facilities TINT would be
required for its service. Al community OF 500 fam
lilies. representing q total population OF from 1900
to 1900, would be about right to secure the best
results IN q social way. In such q community. in
addition to their own personal friends and acquain-
tances. the people. would enjoy the benefits of q
highly-organixed social life, such as Is BY no means
now enjoyed by the vast majority OF our people,
either In town or country.
The world has come to the Age of the Engin-
eer-when engineering - statesnanship and states
manship is engineering. The demand fs for facts,
for exact information. and then for the application
OF the facts by genuinely scientific methods. The
end sought n efficiency not merely. but something
infinitely more important-thes extension of mans
promised dominion over the earth, with an unIm-
agined increase Id the security, the prosperity and
the happiness of mankind.