A DREAM.

White Ribbon, Volume 31, Issue 368, 18 February 1926, Page 11

A DREAM.

A site is selected well out In the country, and a number of unemployed married men, who have had some experience in carpentry and structural work, to whom the scheme has been explained, and who have pledged themselves to work it through, are brought o the spot. After creating a shelter for them<elv s, they proceed, on a well-arranged plan, with the construction of small cottages, mostly of wood, detached, an I each with its garden plou As soon as these lire ready for the accommodation of their families, they begin the erection of an open-air school house, on a lan which provides for future harmonious extension. When the school is ready, children are brought from crowded one-room and two-room city homes, the aim being not only to give elected children*better conditions for physical development and a more wholesome moral atmosphere, but to lee sen the crowding in these homes. HxI'rienced teachers are put in charge, but the stuff is made up mainly from the most suitable womt n that can be found amongst the unemployed; the:-* being given a short training. The men continue the work of finishing improving, and extending the school, completing thtir homes and making their gardens, and begin to work the plots of land which in the future "ill be the chief food supply of the immunity. And thus, working on, Viy after day, month after month, the uvomniodation is improved and the community grows. More unemployed rn«n are taken to other suitable spots to establish similar school communities •>nd more children are brought out of crowded homes. Where will it. end? How is it done? Simply by paying the unemployed for a period to make this effort to help themselves and bent At the community, instead of making Hem s a condition of jayment; and by Providing the land, the materials, and the tools, the cost of which will bo ampb i paid in the future. RADNOR H. HOT XT SON. From “Brotherhood," November, 1925.