We must plant forests and reform national life in Michigan
G H Maxwell, dean of the Hore Gild of the Talis man and executive chairman of the National Irrigation Association, urges national forest restoration. He warns that destroying forests risks flood, erosion, and ruined industries, and calls for permanent forest reserves and local home-building to redeem rural life and curb urban congestion.
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Michigan Agricultural College
G. H. Maxwell
Talisman
National Irrigation Association
Maxwell
Mr. Maxwell
United States
Michigan
Congress
Calaveras
California
White Mountain
Appalachian
New England
South
Missouri Women Lead Campaign for Cleaner Towns
Club women across Missouri promote civic beautification and street cleaning. In Trenton they plan cash prizes for children in wards growing flowers and maintaining premises with free plant materials. Joplin and Perry students assist in cleanup and Arbor Day efforts as towns move toward civic beauty.
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Columbia Herald
Missouri
St. Joseph
Macon
Trenton
T. N. Witten
J. A. Asher
Joplin
Perry
Ratla County
J. F. Osborne
A. Baker
Homecrofters Movement Publishes First Book and Plan
The Brotherhood of Man presents The First Book of the Homecrofters as part of a nationwide movement. Watertown Massachusetts hosts the gild hall at 143 Main Street with gardens and craft shops. The creed calls for homes on the land, education, and large scale irrigation and land reforms to curb urban drift.
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Senate
Congress
Homecroft
Watertown
Massachusetts
Main Street
Clid
Main St
Home crafts and individual homes amid urban danger
Excerpts cite Wordsworth and Grady with Homecraft ideal. The passages praise rural self sufficiency and family gathering as antidotes to city slums. Maxwell warns slums as social dynamite and urges widespread owner occupied homes on land to ensure independence.
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George H. Maxwell
A Homecroft Garden Movement Gains Ground in City Life
A Des Moines Daily News editorial clip from Des Moines urges city residents to grow a garden even in small spaces. It extols health, economy, esthetics, and moral benefits, arguing a five-foot plot can yield peas onions radishes and flowers. It condemns urban confinement and praises nature’s restorative force.
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Japan
Homecrofters
Homecrofter
Fisher
Chicago
Homecroft
Maxwel
Homemaker Magazine
Westbranch
Iowa
Des Moines Daily News
News
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Sacramento
Colorado
Rio Grande
Secretary of the Interior
General Treasury
Reclamation Fund
Public Lands Commission
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Secretary of Agriculture
Alvo
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Henry
Grady
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