POSTLUDE 



THE NEW FRONTIER 



SINCE I made the study of homesteading for Dayton, 

 Ohio, described in Chapter X, last winter, the First Home- 

 stead Unit of Dayton has become a reality. A farm of 1 60 

 acres located about three miles from the city limits has 

 been purchased and laid out in three-acre plots; the old 

 farm buildings have been rehabilitated for use as a com- 

 munity center; thirty-five families are now developing 

 the tract, building homes, and planting crops. It is pos- 

 sible, therefore, to add to this book a detailed account 

 based upon an actual rather than a theoretical adventure 

 in homesteading by a group of families developing the 

 same idea upon which the individual adventure of the 

 Borsodi family was predicated. The Dayton project is due 

 mainly to the vision and leadership of Dr. Elizabeth H. 

 Nutting, the Executive Secretary of the Character Build- 

 ing Division of the Council of Social Agencies of Dayton. 

 If I have hope for the success of this particular experiment, 

 it is primarily due to the fact that Dr. Nutting's leadership 

 is educational in philosophy. 



But Dr. Nutting could not have developed the project 

 but for the fortunate coincidence that Dayton possessed at 

 the same time a group of social-minded men and women in 

 key positions in the city's public life. Outstanding in this 

 group are Mrs. Virginia P. Wood, Chairman of the Char- 



