Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1919 — Home Town Helps [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Home Town Helps

HOME NOT MERELY SHELTER Problem by No Means Met When Dwellings Are Provided for the Population of a City. And what is a home? It Is not a mere place of shelter, in modern democracy ; it must provide conditions that will promote efficiency in labor and strength of character in citizenship. The home connotes the family, and the family, and not the individual. Is the unit of the civic structure. A true housing policy most go' further than improving or providing dwellings; it must be part of a comprehensive policy of town and country development. We tnust apply more thought to the theories and practical tendencies of urban and rural growth, and fit in our housing policies as part of a comprehensive scheme of urban and rural organization. In its bronder and more general social aspect it .is a problem of national proportions and importance, in to which past failure is written large in every community, and success can only be achieved, first, by humble admission of our defects, and second, by building upon nation-wide organization capable of dealing with It on business and scientific principles.—Thomas Adams, advisor of the Canadian commission on conservation in 'Landscape Architecture.