THOMAS WILLIAM LAWSON, ESQ. Financier, writer, public speaker. Author of the well-known book entitled "Frenzied Finance." HON. HENRY GEORGE, JR.- Member of Congress from the State of New Son of the author of "Progress and Poverty," and himself an advocate of the single tax theory. HON. VICTOR L. BERGER Member of Congress from the State of Wiscon sin. The first man ever elected to the Congress of the HON. SAMUEL WALKER MCCALL, A. B.______ Member of Congress from the State of Massachusetts. Who declined the Presidency of Dartmouth College in order to continue, in Congress and outside, the fight for true representative institutions. POPLAR LAWN SCHOOL, VA. "Before and After." (Courtesy of General Education Board.) DR. JAMES CARROLL, U. S. ARMY. To prove the mosquito bite origin of yellow fever, Dr. Carroll, Surgeon in the U. S. Army, and Dr. Aristides Agramonte of Cuba caused themselves, during the Spanish War, to be bitten by malignant mosquitoes. Both took the fever with fatal consequences, Agramonte dying presently. Carroll languished a few years and then died. Both deserve immortality as martyrs to science and to philanthropy. DR. ARISTIDES AGRAMONTE See "Dr. James Carroll," above. Page 249 278 290 315 329 342 357 The Call of the Land CHAPTER I THE FARMSTEAD BEAUTIFUL HE entire nation is interested in keep TH ing its agricultural population on a high plane of life. The result will not be secured without care. In all lands rural folk tend to become mere peasants, hewers of wood and drawers of water to those better off. Can we in the United States stem this tendency? I believe we can. Already many innovations are coming to our relief. The telephone, free rural postal service and good roads conspire to bring remote farms into close connection with the living world. Up-to-date scientific farming, making the business pay, supplies the farmer and his family with the means for reading matter and for wide education and travel. These are all first rate civilizing influences. There is, however, one additional appliance with |