| Show i THE VACANT 14ir 11I1111 t Living Issues suggests an ordinance requiring owners of vacant lots In this city to keep them clear of weeds for the purpose of compelling land speculators specu-lators to cultivate the lots or allow others to do no The alleged object of this Is I to abolish poverty In the city The paper claims I that I th < re la vacant > land enough within the corporate t limits Ito I-to feed every needy family In the cltj 4 and that there consequently Is no need for those without employment to go I I out Into the country and take up land 1 Without dlscurslng the question of the propriety of compelling people to I J plant potatoes or tow wheat on their vacant Jots It may be asked of vmt real benent would that bo to tho claw of people referred to except 03 r temporary tem-porary means of budging them over ft deep place What they need la an opportunity op-portunity to establish themselves tome where not In a vacant lotthe price of which may be bound their reach I but In the country where there IB I all i opportunity for energy and bruins to build it home secure 0 permanent Ih I Ing und Independence The Ilngm 1 potato patch plan may have much to recommend It Irom a charitable I point I i itwirom charitabla of view but when tho question la of It devising n scheme by which the cm t plojment question la to be nettled per i mnently the vacant city lots are not to bo depended on The argument In behalf of the unemployed un-employed U I significant as showing the hollowness of come modern propositions s tions to rtmcJ a terlous conJ con-J dition minI claiming to La radical they touch only the surface While Professing V > remove evils they ag ctavatothembynVra class against clan suit preparing the way perhaps for a destructive combat |
