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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS. SPANISH FORK. UTAH liM VK OSBORNE mm, JLkfc LEADS PRISON REFORM Lieutenant Commander Thomas Mott Ooborne, commandant of the N. 8. navnl prison at Portsmouth, N, II., and prison reformer, has sturted a nationwide enmpnign to put each of the 59 stute prisons and five federal penitentiaries upon a humane husls. The fortune of a wealthy "known from one end of the country to the other, a mun of Influence In Washington, but who for the present Is mentioned only as the "Gray Brother, Is said to have been placed at the disposal of Mr. Osborne, Sixteen hundred fanner prison Inmates In New York city, ull of whom are with reputable firms and living straight, are assisting the crusade. Incidentally, this noted prison reformer before the Hamilton club In Chicago denounced Joliet penitentiary ns a "disgrace to the state of Illinois. John L. Whitman Illinois state superintendent of prisons, protested. "I reiterate that Joliet prison Is an Infamous place, and If you will Induce Governor Lowden to appoint a fair committee to Investigate my charges I'll prove It, retorted Osborne. '0 RETURN By WILLIAM A. RADFORD, in Chief American Builder OF DR. ALEXIS CARREL Surgeons and medical men the world over are stirred by the significance of two Items In the current news: John D. Rockefellers additional gift of $10,000, 0(H) to the Institute for Medical Research in New York, which bears hls nume, and tho return of Dr. Alexis Carrel from France to resume hls research work at the Institute. Since Its foundation, lu 1901, the Rockefeller Institute has made much medical nnd surgical history. In this work Doctor Carrel has been the lending figure. The crowning glory of hi career, however, came through the great war, where hls method of treat Ing war wounds prevented thousands upon thousands of amputations and restored to full vigor countless men w lu and Mechanics, Chicago.) HEN the people of the United StntoH begun to take Block of wbat the war had cost, one of the greatest losses discovered was In homes. Not that any of those we had at the beginning of our participation In the conflict had been destroyed by shells, but for two years we hud not built any. Normully there are about half a million homes constructed each year to replace those lost by Are, or through decay, and to take care of the Increase In population. Consequently we found ourselves about a million homes short of our requirements. This situation was met, or, rather, the government attempted to meet It, by Inaugurating the Everyone "Own Your Own Home Campaign. was urged to build homes, because homes were needed and because It was necessary ta supply work for the many thousands of workers who were released from the war activities. But, for reasons that many were at a loss to explain, there were not and have not been as many homes built as It was confidently expected there would be. The real reason for this fact, to my mind, Is that while everyone was urged to build a home no method of financing the home building projects was devised, nor even suggested, by the government. ' To meet this deficiency In the governments dtlsens In a number of campaign, public-spirite- d cltlet clubbed together and furnished limited amounts of money to be loaned to home builders. ,The response to this offer was so great that the funds available did not reach half way. There were several applicants for loans to every loan that could be made. Thus after nearly a year of campaigning on the part of the federal government, the state governments, chambers of commerce In thousands of cities and by organizations made up of public spirited citizens little has been accomplished. Every man of family wants a home of his own. He knows that he can build a home for himself and his family and pay for It while he Is living In It. But he also knows that before he can build tho home and move Into It he must hnve a certain sum of money, small In comparison with the cost of the home, but large enough so that It Is rather dttllcult to get It together. Its that first payment that has balked the desire of thousands upon thousands of families to hnve homes of their . own. It Is to make It possible for everyone to get together In any easy mnnner a sum sufficient to build a home that I have suggested to builders, bankers and the public generally the formation In every community of Own a Home Savings clubs, and these clubs are alrendy springing up In many localities. The Initiation fee In an "Own a noroe Savings club Is the desire to own a home. The dues, payable either weekly or monthly, are what the one who desires a home feels that he can spare from his Income. The benefits that the member derives from his club are many. First, he will have a home of his own. Second, he will save money. Third, he will have a comfortable place In which to live; It will cost no more monthly than be pays In rent, and after a term of years he will have the greatest of assets a home of his own, all paid for and readily convertible Into cash. The Inauguration of a "Own a nome Savings club Is simide. All It requires Is Initiative on the pnrt of the bankers of the country. They are the ones who must start these dubs. And after they are started I predict that being a member of an "Own a Home Savings club will be as popular as owning a Liberty bond or two was during the war. Before considering the reasons why "Own a name Savings clubs will be popular, let me more fully how the plan Is conducted. A bank that Inaugurates a club should make It a separate department, Just as the Christmas Savings clubs are. Special pass books calling for the deposit of a certain sum at stated Intervals should be given the members. Tables showing exactly how long It will require the depositor to accumulate the sura he needs to secure a home of his own should be prepared. And knowing what that sum must be Is the vital part of this plan, for It gives the dub member a definite objective. Tuke away this objective and make It Just a plan to save systematically and the club will full, it was having such an objective that made the pnrtlul payment plan of buying Liberty bonds a success. The purchaser of a bond knew Just how much be was required to save and exactly how long It would take to accumulate that amount. By first helping the members of the club to select the type of home he wants, and knowing the cost of that home, the bank can fix upon the aurn required as the first payment. For Instance, If a ( ex-pla- cm t Ion of those who do not own their homes are member has fixed In his mind a home thnt will cost $5,000, be must hnve at least $500 for the first payment Split $500 up Into weekly payments of an amount the club member knows he con save, and the goal, and the length of time It will require to reach that goal, will be known. Then the objective of the member Is fixed. The next move In forming a successful club la to place before the people of the community the advantages of owning a home and to stimulate the desire to own a home thnt every normal man has. To diverge a bit and to Illustrate how astute merchants capitalize a Intent desire, consider for a minute the methods of the makers of garments for women. They deppnd almost entirely In marketing their goods on Illustrations. There Is not a magazine In which Is not displayed pictures that show the beauties of womens clothes. Women study these pictures, and ns they study them the desire to possess attractive clothes grows. Thus Is this desire crystallized Into sates. This Is equally true of pictures of fine homes. There Is not a woman and there are few men who wilt not glvq more than a passing glance to a home design. They may not know It, but It Is that Inherent desire to possess a home that causes them to take more than a casual Interest In this picture. Mentally they consider the advantages and disadvantages, the heuuty or lack of beauty of the home they are looking at. Judging It, of course, from their own Ideus of what a home should be. This dissertation on how the banker and builder can successfully Inaugurate an "Own a Home Savings dub is made to take those who will be approached on this subject Into their confidence. It Is a "peep behind the scenes. But If Ithus the effect of bringing to the minds of persons who do not own ihelr homes some of their mental processes, thereby ghlng them nn opportunity to analyze their feelings on the subject of home owning, the revelation will be worth while. Owning a home brings more happiness than the possession of any other one thing, or several things. We all have homes. It Is true, and take We furnish them to pride In our possessions. the best of our ability and In accordance with our tastes. But this Is ns far ns the man goes who lives In a house he rents. He has nothing to any about how the exter'or looks; neither did he have anything to do with the planning of the Interior. Just now. too, he Is unable to muke much of a choice In exterior nppcurunce uud Interior arrangement; he takes what he cun get, and Is thankful for four walls and a roof. How different Is the home of the man who has planned and built his residence. The exterior of his home approximates his Ideas of what is attractive; the Interior arrangement conforms to hls Ideas of comfort and convenience. But the greatest satisfaction of all Is hls pride of possession. The plcusue thnt comes from owning the home Is not Its only advantage. Owulng a home Is a business asset thnt brings many opiuirtunltles for financial advancement. To the sulitrled man, owning a home means Hint he Is a more stable employee than the man who rents and has no ties. All other tlijngs being even, advancement Is offered to the. home owner every time In preference to the renter. And when the time comes that the home owner has an opportunity that requires an Investment, he has the best asset In the world on which to borrow money. In this rapidly growing country there are thousands of men who huve saved their money and bought homes for no other reason than to have homes. Aud In a few yenra they have been surprised by the rwdlzatlon that their properties have greatly Increased In vulue. 1 met one such man only a few days ago. He proudly told me that he had built a home a few years ago and paid all but $1,400 of the cost $3,400. Now. he said, ho had been offered $0,000 for the place. Hls determination to have a home of hls own had not ouly caused him to save $2,000, but he had more than doubled Ids money. Not all home builders do this, It Is true, but a majority do. The Ideas I hnve presented here for the consld- - not merely theories they hnve been proven so many thousands of times that no one con dispute them. The only reason that the average man does not own hls' home is that he has never made the start. He has not fixed In hls mind a home as an objective, has lived In houses ow ned by others. But he must remember that he has paid for those houses Just the same, and something besides. House owners are not philanthropists. They do not rent houses to tenants from any altruistic motive. They are In the game to make money. And the renter paya the profit they make. Own a nome Savings clubs point the way for the wage earners and salaried men to have homes of their own. They provide an easy method far everyone to save for a home. Bankers will provide rae machinery by Inaugurating clubs. And within the next few years thousands upon thousands of persons will have realized the greatest of all ambitions owning the homes in which they live. treatment would have become legless or armless. Only In avlntlon and surgery did the world struggle produce result which Inured to the advantage of hu manity. Thus the Rockefeller Institute aud Its research sufgeons made strides far faster than was expected by the founder. Methods of treatment of disease were perfected. Improved surgical appliances were devised. Doctor Carrel was born In Lyon, France, June 28, 1873. Hls mother was Anne RIcard and hls father Alexis Carrel. lie. was graduated from the Uni- erslty of Lyons In 1891, gaining hls M. D. In 1900. Columbia made him a doctor of science In 1913. He Is a commander of the legion of Honor and a member of many medical and surgical societies. DID AMERICAN TROOPS MUTINY? Col. Raymond Robins of Chicago, a former member of the American Red Cross mission to Russia, who Is lecturTENANTS OUTNUMBER OWNERS. ing on soviet Russia, Is the center of a The United States has fought all her wars to controversy regarding the conduct of "preserve the home, and yet probably 60 per cent American troops In Russia. At Madison, who had of her people are tenants. This was the text se- Wis., a group of challenged lected the other day by United States Senator served at Archangel, Robins statement that, as an Indirect William M. Calder of New York in an address before the New York Real Estate associations con- result of the allies policy in falling to vention urging the necessity of a national cam- recognize the bolshevik government, American soldiers In Russia hud paign for the creation of homes. He said : "The object of each of our wars has been, in the mutinied. "We demand to know the authority lust annlysls, to preserve the home. Yet we find that to the. majority of people In this country for that statement, declared Cnpt. home means little more than a dwelling for John Commons, son of Frof. John It. which they are paying rent. W'hut Is worse In the Commons. "We served at Archangel and there was no mutiny. s situation Is that the percentage of these rent "I huve It In the affidavit of three Is growing. American soldiers. Including an offIn 18SK) we were advised that 52 per cent of the Robins. people In America lived under the rentnl system, icer, replied Colonel The audience demanded the name in 11)10 that the percentage had Increased to 55, mill probably the census of 1920 will show that of Ihnse making affidavits and the charged with mutiny. fully 00 per cent of the people will be classed as organizations pay-er- tenants. Taxation on the Home. The necessity for giving proper attention to real estate taxation was brought to notice In a paper by Harrison B. ltlley, president of the Chicago Title and Trust company, which was read at the recent convention of the Real Estute Association of the State of Illinois In Champaign. In hls paper Mr. Kilcy said: "It Is undenluhlo that real estate and, therefore, the homo keeper, pays an Increasingly unfulr amount for the support of the government and the convenience of the people. A lazy Indifference nnd a stupid lack of Intelligence In the levy and collection of taxes must he corrected, so thnt real estate bears only on equal proportion of the expenses of government and of civilization with other classes of property. "Heretofore real estate has furnished over 80 per cent of the revenue needed by the state, the several counties nnd the unnumbered municipal and quaslmunlcipal corporations. Personal proiterty, which equals or very likely exceeds the value of real estate, has escaped paying any fair proportion of governmental expenses. I suggest that tho new state constitution shut! hnve only two restrictions on the power of the general assembly to levy and collect taxes viz.: That all taxes shall be equal and uniform. "The provisions for taxation nnd special assessment in the new constitution should be ao flexible that property nnd earning cupneity cun be reached and an Income tax used ns a substitute for specific taxes upon classes of property difficult to to dereach or the value of which It Is Impossible too much assesslve Bn body by termine except In character to be too dangerous and heavy CHRISTMAS DAY. "It's Just what I wanted, dear! I always smoke thH kind. Yes, 1 bought John a perfectly lovely Jar I dlnlere for the hallway. It s useful "Mn. ctn 1 go out and pluy with Willie Smith! Hes got a new sled I "Oh, mal I traded my sled to Johnny Jones for a pair o skates an a air rifle I Colonel Robins said he could not divulge this Information, since it would involve other persons and federal proceeding which had not been concluded. "We have five men here who served through the whole period of American occupation In Russia, were on the ground at the time, and will swear there was no mutiny of Amerlenn troops on the Archangel front, Insisted the soldiers spokesmen. In New York Lieut. A. W. Klelfoth, assistant Amerlenn military attach In Russia, who wrote the official report for the war department, in a public address denied that the mutiny took place. SCHURMAN BOOKS TO LOUVAIN Jacob Gould Schurman, president of Cornell university, has offered to Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, chairman of the committee for the restoration of the library of the University of Louvain, hls entire philosophical library of several hundred volumes for shipment Immediately to the Belgian university. The library of Doctor Sehurmau I rated by scholars us one of tho best of Its kind In this country, being especial ly rich In books on philosophy, many of them rare first editions that coihl he replaced only at great cost, ever, la Europe. In hls letter of acceptance Do tor Butler pointed out that the destruction r the Germans of the priceless manuscripts In the archives of thejtelgln university had only one parallel InTo' tory. That was In 643 A. D., wht Caliph Omar caused the destruction of the library at Alexandria, wifi, t'.mes of earliest Egypt ; the from countless manuscripts dating When the library was destroyed by C'a Germans In 1914 It contained aboo'; 800,000 volumes. A new catalogue then be,ng made by the llhrarlun, Frofesso' Deldunor, was dally bringing to light treusures among the manuscripts, sources of Information upon the history of the of them being first-hanAll these countries manuscripts were destroyed, Including a rare collection, I of virtually every edition of the Bible from the earliest times of printing. rebulk' It Is announced by the committee that offers of assistance In the f I log of the library had been made by hundreds of professors and scholars American universities, many of whom studied In the Belgian university. mt l, d k f 1 so Hil Dx lai |