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Show The Gains of Easl km By O. F. Hershey Thoy do many notable things in East Aurora, "Tho Homo of The Roy-crofters," Roy-crofters," but the host thing thoy do thoy have forgotten to talk about. Thoy keep gardens. Not fancy lltt o o'osH stitch r fairs ln which Mllndl putters daintily, nor yet flumboyrnt gardens of the licit, wherein tho own-ors own-ors thomoolves toll not nor dig; but big, whn.xicme, brend nnd butter back lots and side lots of nn ncro or so, In which the homoly corn and cabbage light with turnips and potu-' toes for breathing spaco. Thero may bo n thousand houses In ''ost Aurora or thero mny bo Iobs; but bo they more or less or big or tttlo. each ono has n garden, nnd by the samo token each ono Is u home. How enn any house be a home without with-out a garden? It might ns we'll be a flat. Interesting, say yon, but not significant. sig-nificant. Why not? Is not hero n hint for modern Industrialism? Horo Is mntorlol for social reformers and living testimony that makes the noisy hiborlngs of Industrial Commissions superfluous. For note well that In East Aiuorn all work In Ihelr card- elm. Most of tho citizens of this llttlo Industrial suburb of HuafTlii nro skilled skill-ed ortlsnns or olljco workors with only tho mirinnl wngo, yet most of tiiom own tholr homes and thel-gardens thel-gardens pay for them. And because of this ownership,, socialism and syndicalism syn-dicalism and revolution aro mostly academic issues. In East Aurora, pooplo work irt thoir gnnlons In tho cool of tho day and think of groat things. Tho rlso of industrialism ns flio dominant force in niodern life has been go sudden that It is only now becoming conscious of Hs human rs-pects. rs-pects. v Utterly materialistic in Jtr. nlillosnniiy. It hns feared to become humanitarian In lt practise. The outgrowth of machinery it bos looked upon rami as simply an tirees-sory tirees-sory of the piaelilne. Looking tipor economic prlnoip'n as if thoy ha the rigidity of natural law, It has believed Jl law of --- to he mors. nnorl than any Iw f life, u sttll 'hlnk pt social Justice, human - wel-foio wel-foio and lndlvlddal "IT ns rlehterus enough Issues, but a" outside off business. lVueitisss Is business, Says the obi school ; lnislnas 'Is only s maiindr of life, sjvye tho newend ho new la winning. Industrialism grows steadily more ronrclous that if U Is not to go to swash It must begin to think of lab, or as n human and not a raoehantrnl factor. Labor must be restored to Us nnolont oetote and shown how lo 'tumttplto Itself; nnd what so offcot-tvo offcot-tvo na n Harden by the side of a homo? Tho real nroh'em of modem Industrialism In-dustrialism ig not that of production nor of distribution, hut of liumnnlza- i tlou how to fit mnchlno to man, nnd rH net man to mnchlno. H Is only too H 'rue that much of your Industrialism ( H s merely a specie of Will to slavory H Wcrk without Joy In the working Is H lnory, nud modern labor" IJoy1os.i ,H This Is lint so mucii duo Ul'tliO paturn '.H cf the work as to the kind llvln'? jH thnt Industrialism has ilave'ojtcfl ' in s tlio workors. Indeed, it ban lutr.dly !sbHHh '.liotiKht about labor outside the ilto-P ill st rt! aud It Is prucUely tills t' ouftit jH vlilch l8 urwconllils t'ppcr-r.rBt ln Il the mind of society. I.nber li re- H yarded att-1 regards itsolf ns purely oH a commodity. Tho farmer, the Phy- fl slclnit, the teacher, tholawyor, whono ( rl responsibilities nnd hours cf , labor ; ,H are tin imitcd, do their work for Its isl own sake. Tiicy work ns do'os the " Jl worker In his garden. Thoyhnvo not ncqulrod tho commodity ' h!i- jiil tholr labor bus not bison iloliitmtinlz-; , IbH ..i (JBBBH 'v.i bIHH How shall we humnntro IndustryT ' 1 )'LbbH Unw restore to the worker his ono a iil tliuc nrdcr for Ills work? How rovlvo 4 bbbiLh '-.Is Individuality? ,How load him lo H hava an luturest in what he pn due- - H es? Ask oi tho gardens of 'East Aur- ' iH If modern Industrial labor tnkes nn jH Joy In its work, it Is not entirely the :H fault of the worker. It Is not that 'H ho hates work as work, but he dls- 'H likes the conditions under which he !H works, nnd he doesn't know how to J improvo them. Industrialism mint bbLh siiow him or go under, ft must give him a higher Incentive than either a H minimum or a maximum wage. 11 H must lend him bnck to life. , Labor is not really In rebellion ngnlust capital. It ktiow's thnt it H could not administer capital on nny large scale, but It knows also thnt J capitalism Is giving no adequate re- . j wards In terms of life. . ' What better Incentive than wages , 'JIbbh rind good factory conditions can In- jH dustrlnlism nrfcr? Justice, kindness, 'H service,, charity these are stronger H In tho henrts of capitalists than la- H bor realizes, but they aro not yet jH strong lu the heart of capital. Short- . ,H or hours and higher wages still leave, H labor discontented, perhaps even H more tut for without a garden tho la- 'ibII borer, hns too largo an unified lets- H nro open to tlio devil and nil his H Tho two most ftindanicnfnl inccu- 'bbbbbbI tlvcs animating the normal man nft- 'H er tho fires, of youth cool down aro H tlio lovo of prlvnto ownership and tho jH lovo of a homo. Satisfy these In- 'ILbbbb! , stlncts and contentment la .not fstr ll off. And they nro not so hard to iH i satisfy. Tlio gardens of East Aur- , H orn point tho way. ':bbbbbbI I Wo hear much about back to tho jH ;fnrm. Such it movement has Its ob-' 'il Ivlous limitation:!, but if only a fow nan go back to tho farm, many can iH go back to tho hack yards. Manufne-, ''bH furors rush to tlio city, becniiso they '.' H 1 can thoro find labor; nnd labor goe.'i H thoro to find work, with tlio result M thnt wo havo congestion, yith ' Us M 1 gruesome nnd utterly unnoensmrr 'M ovils, njid a constantly 'growing pro- ;l lettirlst that Is both hopeless and 1- ' M nthutlc and that knows no liberty M savo to work or to stnrvo or to go to 'M tho M 'hy should not all largo Industries M migrate to the open country nnd H thoro study labor ns n purely human M j problem; its bousing,- It3 hygiene, s M education, lta pleasures. Its liomo life, H its social life, ns factors not only of M Industrial olllclcncy hut of Ufo uml M living? H Wo nro Just licglnning to realize H tlint tho world wido exodus of point- fl I lntlon from rural to urban, with Us M disastrous couseqitcnccg to our piiys- H leal and moral well being, Is both a M product and n problem of industrial-' M Ism. It Is n business, not a human-' M Itarlnn, qtiostlou, and Imslnogp must H so'Vo It. Labor living from hand to M mouth, depcudent almost entirely on J tho outerprlso nnd will of the. em- M player, and subject to nil the vlcls- M plttrlns mil uticortaliitUs of trade, $ H an easy victim of Its'owij delilslons H and those of demagogues. H The Industrial problem It can nt H too often be said. Is. how to freeby, H bor, ljow to liHitvnufio it, how to ttoii- H (ContlnuscV-on page S) Ti H P THE GARDENS i , OF EAST III AURORA II V ! f I (Continued from page seven) ' V ' ' v I ' itua'izo It. To bo sure, theso must Hi conjefi'om tho Individual, from with- It 'in niid not from without, hut Indus- B'j trlauhm controls the conditions. B UI8 men u homo nml a Burden, ho KW , , lf eVor ,o humble, mid you appeal B J lo elemental Instincts. Thoy are B ilmwn out under tho Infliionco of tho ' ftifn nnd tho nkv nnd of growing B ! v lhln. Shorter hours and higher B i whros menu greater lclsuro to dig B and to plant. And ho who p1ants in B J'' r"'i Pardon 'ronpn not only food B i for his table, hut food for hls'Boul. B(' "' t uHU-titoa hoponnd faith and l'a- itlonco, tho Krcat garden trinity. Hope i ' springs external In tho pinion. If hi our corn and tomatoes nro not fine BU: thU year, watch us,noxt joar. In a Bji word, tho garden humanizes. It feeds BJi 'lat crcatlvo spontaneity in tho hu- Bj J--' man soul, without which llfo Is H naught. BJ In tho gardens of East Aurora H tlu'y (1 ,,ot .tnl, strikes and boycots. B ' With forty bushels of potatoes in tho B cellar ond your pantry filled, social- B ,sm 's nn "endemic quostlon. And H let us not forget also that your gar- BJ - den of growing things Is something B' of a university for young and old. B If education falls, it is for tho samo H reason that industrialism falls. It K docs not properly rolato itself to ac- B, tual llfo. Schools put tho emphasis B on tho wrong spots. Text hooks and Ut museums aro not half so instructive BJi as living things he they but beets B .r potatoes. If vou doubt it, go B forth to tho field for a week with a B fresh air child. All children nro in- I forested In growing things, so that every garden becomes a school, an educator of hand and head, a missionary mis-sionary of the freo spirit, and an ap-ostlo ap-ostlo of tho humanities. So It Is In tho gardens of East Auroraso Au-roraso It has been In the history mH of nil1 great peoples. In tho pristine B: days of omo ovcry citizen had his B', homestead of two and ono half acres. B ' ClnclnnntUB left ".lis unyoked plow to B assume the leadership of the Hepub. Bj , lie. Tho Hritish Empire was built BJi not by Industrial laborers, but by tho B jeomen who tU'cd Its Holds. Prussl- BJ I nn ofTlclency begins not with Us fac- BJ' J torles but with Its ngrarian reforms. Hit Tho abiding nehlovcment of tho Re- B.rM volution was tho division of Franco B ! into Its gardens. Bh ' In tho gardens of East Aurora, Mr,' without revolution or conscious re- BJ form, but simply with watering pot BE ' and hoe, they nro restoring the past BJ i and assuring the future |