The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1906-07-12

This book is the first OF q Series
that will Chronicle the Progress OF the
HOMEcRoFT MOVEMENT
and inform all who wish to cooperate
with IL how they may 10 SO through
the formation OF local Homecrofters'
Circles, Clubs or Gilds to promote
Town and Village BettermeDt, stfmu-
late home civic pride and loyalty 70
home institutions. industries and trade,
Improve methods and facilities OF edu-
cation In tise local public schools. n
create new opportunities AT Home
that VIII go far TO check the drift OF
trade and population TO the cities
The first Gid OF the Homecrofters
has been established at WATERFOWL.
Massachusetts, The Giidhs1- Shops
and Gardens are located at 143 Main
Street. where the Garden School Is
now fully organized and over one
hundred children are at work In the
Gardens. The departments for train
ing In Homecraft and Village Indus
tries are being Installed The weavers
are already at work at the looms
IL Is not designed TO build here an
Isolated institution. but TO make a
Atlt@l.A nAltn - &c AAIfANattA - ~h-
town. or village In the country.
Copies Of THE FIRST BOOK or
THE hoMEcRoFrERs" c,an be
obtained by sendIng twelve two
cent stamps with your name and
address Carefully and plainly
written, TO The Homecrofters' Cid
Of the raiismnn SA3- Main St.
WATERFOWL. massachusetts,.
There Is New Hope and Inspiration
for every Worker who wants a Home
OF his own on the Land In the
CREED AND PLATFORM OF THE
HOMECRoFTERS' which Is as fol-
lows:
peace has her victories no less re-
nowned than war"
EDUCATION
COOPERATION
OPPORTUNITY
nOmEoROFT8
We believe that the Patriotic Slogan
of the Whole People OF this Nation
should he Every Child in a Garden
Every Mother In a Homecroft-and In
disiduai Industrial Independence for
Every Worker In a Home OF his Own
on the Land and that until he owns
such a Home. the concentrated purpose
and chief inspiration 20 labor In the life
OF every wage worker should be his
determination TO Get an Acre ami
Live on H."
We believe that the SIums and
Tenements and Congested Centers Of
population In the Cities are a savngeiy
d~ctcriorating social. moral and polit-
icai influence. and that a great public
movement should be organized. and
the whole power of the nation n
the states cxerted for the betterment
OF all the conditions Of Rural Life. n
10 create and upbuild Centers OF So
ciai and Civic Life In Country and
Suburban Towns and Villages. where
Trade and Industry can be so firmly
anchored that they cannot be drawn
into the Commercial Maeistrom that
Is now steadily sucking Industry and
Humanity into the Vortex OF b
Great Cities.
We believe that every Citizen in
this Country has an inherent and
Fundamental Right to an Education
which win train him to Earn a Liv-
iur. and. II need be, to get his living
straight from Mother Earth, and that
he has the same right to the 0pportun-
ity to have the Work to Do which Will
aiYord him that living. and to earn no
only d cor portable livelihood. but
enough more TO enable hin to be q
Homecrofter and to have a Home OF
his own, with ground around it
sufficient to yield him and his family
a Living from the Land as the reward
for his own labor.