THE BOURN VI LIME VILLAGE TRUST 
By LON A BARTLETT 
T HE question of properly hous 
ing the poor of large cities by 
placing them in an environ 
ment that will tend to de¬ 
velop their higher faculties 
and to enable them to enjoy 
some of the comforts of 
clean living is one of the 
most important problems 
that confronts mankind 
today. It .can no longer 
be put aside, for upon its 
solution depends in a great 
measure the stamina and 
morality of generations to 
come. Fay but one visit to 
the slums of any large city ; 
witness the filth, the squalor, the 
misery of life under such condi¬ 
tions, and immediately theie comes george cadbury,esq. 
to mind the question, why, in such The Founder of Boumviiu 
an enlightened age, must this be ? 
This question is answered: it need not 
be. Vile conditions of living need not be 
tolerated by the poor because of their lack 
of funds to purchase those things necessary 
for healthful living, nor is it necessary for 
crowded tenements to exist. And in order to 
obtain wholesome conditions and normal lives 
they must be done away with. From bad 
sanitary arrangements and miserable homes it 
is oidv possible 
for a diseased i 
people to 
s p r i n g—d i s - 
eased in mind 
and dwarfed in 
physical attain¬ 
ments. 
To overcome 
this problem, 
which presents 
itself in a great¬ 
er or less degree 
in every city in 
the world, there 
has been but 
one solution— 
A VIEW OF LINDEN ROAD 
get the people back to the soil. 
By this is not meant to de¬ 
populate the city for the pur¬ 
pose of making thousands of 
small farmers, but to take 
portions of the congested 
areas of large cities and 
move the people into the 
country where manufac¬ 
turers would have estab¬ 
lished plants that would 
enable the workers to con¬ 
tinue their occupations un¬ 
der happier and more san¬ 
itary conditions; the space 
selected for the new towns 
being so arranged that there 
could never be any possibility 
of overcrowding by reason of any 
increase in population. 
Naturally the countries that are 
most urgently confronted by this 
difficulty are those older than America, and 
where natural resources have been exhausted 
and the limit of human endurance reached, 
where the deterioration ot the national phy¬ 
sique has become apparent even to those 
classes which have not themselves suffered. 
England, with her usual regard for the hu¬ 
manities, has done more than any other 
nation toward the solution of the housing 
problem. And 
the observer 
may easily see 
a future when 
our own con¬ 
ditions here 
may become 
like those in 
Great Britain, 
when the con¬ 
gestion of New 
York or Chi¬ 
cago will differ 
little from that 
of London, 
Birmingham or 
Manchester. 
