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Show TO DEVELOP "SAMPLE TOWN" No Really Great Problems to Be Solved In tha Establishment of Model Community. When we have studied our existing towns, generalizing from numbers und showing tiio best we hnvo dono so far; when we have taken hold with n will to make such improvements as we can in our Btubborn, old-established towns, a great new social Bcrvico can bo done by developing a "aamplo town." This samplo town should appear to bo a perfectly ordinary industrial town, preferably with somo now factory fac-tory with Its employees placed whero It could havo land or wntcr communication communi-cation with the rest of us. It should havo nn agricultural base In the surrounding sur-rounding country, as any town does after a fashion. Then the problem to bo, worked out would bo the economic balonco between local supplies, which save In transportation, and such imported im-ported supplies as might save In other ways. A good kindergarten nnd school ooght to have 20 children at least, properly to uso two first-class teachers. teach-ers. To keep up that average number num-ber of children requires about 200 women, since nbout ten women Is tlie average number required to supply one child n year. Two hundred families fam-ilies means nbout n thousand persons, n good numbor to base our calculations upon; nnd 200 houses, grouped about their necessary public buildings, form a very pleasant little village. One central building, economical, but beautiful, could house many of these. All should be grouped conveniently about a pleasant llttlo park. Tiio economic problem to lie worked out is something lllco this: How few persons out of our 400 adults aro sufficient suf-ficient to do work not Immediately productive, pro-ductive, such as cooking, teaching, preaching, keeping the store, nnd tho ilbrary7 How much must b'o earned by those who produce raw materials or manufactured articles for sale, In order to support tho whole group? At how llttlo expense can heat, water, light and service bo provided to such a group? Charlotte Perkins Gllmun In The Century. |