Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-02-10 | Page 14 | "Little Landers" in California

H "LITTLE LAXDI2RS'' TX CALT- 1 FORXIA. Hj One aero of California land In the H hands of an artist an artist in fnrm- H jug Is enough to support a family, H according to "William E. Smyth of San H Diego. Mr. Smyth told tho Xatlonal H Irrigation congress at Chicago, about H a colony near San Diego, Cal., which Hl he helped to establish. H lie called the colonists "the little H landers" because they had dcinon- H stratcd how llttlo land was necessary H to furnish a family with a comfortable H H "The colony brings a new man Into H our American scheme of life," Mr. H Smyth said. "A man who shall be H nelf-sufficicnt on a llttlo land, a man H who contributes nothing to the uild- H dloman, but lives next door to the con- H sumer, a man who, if ho bo not in tho H city, is yot of tho city, with all its nt- H tractions and advantages. For this H now man there must bo a new name H with a new significance. H "Ho Is neither a farmer nor a H rancher, nor trucker. Ho Is a ccicn- H list. He knows the scienco of the toll H aa nobody has ever known it before. H He is an artist. With hb own hand H h produces the finest productions of H the land, j H "Ho Is a man with initiative. He H carves nev.- pathways for himself and H tho race. Ho is an Independent, self- H employing man. To his trees, his H plants, end his vines he gives tho in- H effablc touch of love. He is tho' splr- H itual man of the soil." , (