Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-06-09
HOMES FOR
THE TEACHERS
Dover Lumberman, R. H. Horribly, is
Ardent Advocate Of Great Scheme
For Social Service
WILL Be TRIED IN IDAHO FIRST
Propose To Build Homes For Every
Rural Teacher

The biggest, most universal Scheme
for social service in the history of
America, one affecting every hamlet
in the land, has been instituted by the
National Lumber Manufacturers as
ISOLATION, in the proposal to build a
home for every rural school teacher
in America.
Idaho will be one of the first states
where the plan will be carried into
effect, and a thorough investigation
of the conditions in that state pre-
ceded the announcement of the social
service plans of the lumber manufac
turers. The association has not as
yet formulated its plans for pushing
this new department of public serv-
ice by actually assisting the schools
of the nation to build homes for
teachers, but work on their philan-
thropic enterprise is already under
way and the association plans to have
its plans ready for announcement in
a few weeks.
R. H. Horribly, of Dover, Idaho, a
leader in the National Lumber Man
ufacturers' association, was one of
the most ardent advocates of the pro-
ject, and the success of the building
of such structures in a few isolated
portions of his home state has con-
WINGED him that it is a good social
movement for the entire nation, as
well as for his home state.
The plan to spread the gospel Of
homes for school teachers over the
land was first preached only few
weeks ago at a conference of the di-
rectors of the association. 1t proved
instantly popular. The idea was ia
ken up by the United States Bureau
of Education, and the first result of
this cooperation between the lumber
men of the nation and the govern
ment itself is in the issuance of
brochure entitled Teachers Cot
tages," by R. S. Kellogg, of Chicago,
secretary of the National Lumber
Manufacturers association, in cooper
alton with the United States Bureau
of Education, and which is being sent
to every county superintendent of
schools in America. The Rockefeller
Foundation has already approved Of
the plan and is giving $4,000 to fos-
ter this work with more money to
come.
The proposal to build these cot
tages all over the land follows out
the idea that has already been car
ried into extensive success by the
state of Washington.
The national association has taken
up this social service work in the be-
lief that the education of the nation
will be immensely advanced if the
teachers of the nations young are
properly housed The theory is that
if teachers are provided with proper
homes, the country districts will be
able to secure better teachers, avoid
the constant changes by which the
schools are always in a torn-up con-
dition. AS Secretary Kellogg phrases
it in his work, which constitutes a
surrey of the movement and its pos
sibilities:
"Under the present circumstances
the teaching of country school often
becomes simply a temporary expe-
dent for the teacher the first term
after getting a certificate, and ambi-
tious teachers who are anxious tc
grow in their profession, and make
something of themselves, go to the
city schools just as soon as possible
where living conditions are better
The country schools are always left
with the largest proportion of young
inexperienced, poorly trained teach
ers."
Mr.. Kellogg urges also that the
teachers cottages, or as he calll
them, teacherages, should be models
of sanitation, artistic, though mex
pensive, and so constructed that the.
may be not only homes, but real so
cial centers for the rural neighbor
hoods.
In order to further this plan o
properly caring for the teachers, tn
lumbermen's organization is ready t
prepare plans to assist rural commu
mites in providing their teachers wit
the kinds of homes which hav
proved satisfactory in Washington
and in the other more scattered 10
calities where they have been bull
Idaho is selected as one of the frs
states for the general introduction 0
this new idea of a teachers cottag
for every rural school, because thong