in
the next chapter (p. 145), may be taken as a type, and (ii) new villages
established, or old villages extended in places which are easily
accessible, and not too remote from facilities for the education of
children and from the attractions of a town. In these villages organised
cultivation will be carried on.

Co-operative farming is already being tried. A very interesting and
hopeful experiment in working a farm on co-operative lines under the
management of a skilled director has been made near Maidstone, where a
farm has been acquired by private effort. It has received a name of good
omen--the Vanguard Farm.

Another proposal which may lead to very valuable results is the
establishment of nurseries for forest trees on land reclaimed from the
sea, or in other places where the soil is light and can be acquired at
moderate cost. These and similar schemes, though intended in the first
instance specially for partially disabled men, should be permanent. When
fairly started they are expected to be self-supporting.

It is obviously impossible to treat of all the questions in the long
list given above, and also impossible to deal with any of them
completely. All that can be done is to give a general idea of the kind
of thing that is wanted; then to select a few subjects as furnishing
rather fuller indications of possible lines of action; and then--just as
examples--work out one or two in more detail.

Two subjects, namely, Housing and Agricultural Development, must be
selected, because their vital importance demands attention from all who
care about the welfare of the nation. Another subject, namely, Law
Reform, is selected because it is comparatively easy to say what ought
to be done and to frame Acts embodying the required reforms.

CHAPTER XIX

HOUSING

_Owing to house shortage in Sheffield, two wooden
pigsties are being inhabited, one by a man and his wife
and two children, and the other by a man and his wife.
Both men are discharged soldiers._--DAILY PAPER.

There will be no rest, and should be none, until every industrious man
or woman who wishes to have a real home can have one, where everyone who
has children can bring them up under conditions where decency can be
maintained and healthy life be possible. It is a question of urgency in
rural as well as in urban districts, in the most remote places equally
with the great cities. In this matter it is no case of having to create
o