Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1910 — PARADISE, $12.30 A MONTH. [ARTICLE]

PARADISE, $12.30 A MONTH.

Suburb of Ulndnshun, Eugbwf, Declared m Perfect City. "The most perfect city I have ever seen or heard of is the famous ■ gar den city of Bournville, a suburb, of Birmingham, England,” says a writer in Country Life in America “I was simply transported by the healthfulness, happiness and beauty of the place, and I believe it gives the people more for their money than any other city on earth. Any one who has cherished some noble vision of a glorified humanity would he intensely interested to see Bournville, for part of Bellamy’s ‘Looking Backward’ is here realized. “Can you imagine yourself living four miles from a city the size of lighting or • sewers? Wouldn’t you 5,000 inhabitants, where there are no saloons and never can be any alums, noise, dirt, crowding, factory smells, billboards or streets torn up for gas, lighting or sewers? Woudn’t you like a chance to play golf, tennis, cricket, bowls or hockey under ideal circumstances at a cost of a few cents a day? * “Would you be satisfied with the social life of a community that has splendid schools, churches, baths, gymnasium, meeting house and one-tenth of Its whole area given up to parks and playground? Wouldn’t you feel safer In a city where the national birth rate has been doubled and the death rate cut In two? And what would you say to a handsome brick house of seven rooms and a bath, and an eighth of an acre already planted with fruit trees, vines and lawn, at the rental of $12.30 a month?

‘How can such superb opportunities be given at so low a cost? ‘The city’s chief source of Income is r»nt. Everybody pays $ per cent on the investment actually made in his house and lot. The city’s income doubles every five year (It is now 15 years old) and In 50 years at this rate it will nave an annual income of about $5,000,000. And since It will never have to pay back Mr. Cadbury’s gift of about $775,000, the city will have a large sum available for building other cities like Bournville.”