The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-05-07

bureau education of the department of the interior enlss
federal state city and local association agencies in the work The
following actively represented the movement for
grdens United States Department Of the Interior
education through the commissioner and assistant in home
and school gardens; city of Chattanooga department education
health
Grafton OF Of school improvement leagues through its PRESIDENT
presidents OF district leagues representing the eleven DISTRICTS
directors OF home gardening principals teachers parents pupils
the newspaper. Ed
Similar work to that Of Chattanooga though in most cases
not SO carefully organized being done in thrwo cities this
year through special appropriation by Congress
sng the movement for home gardening directed by the school,
Dr. p. Claxton commissioner OF education declares:
After the school day finished and during helong vacation
PERIOD millions of American children idle Without proper
occupation these future citizens Of the United States thrown
OF their for amusement until school begins
1T manesy the duty of the public schools furnish
employment these millions of idle young people, The schools
are established and maintained for the purpose of educating chill
drn into manhood and womahood and for preparing them for
citizenship a44..
THE bureau Of education after much careful thought
search work. has evolved system of home gardening done under
tho direction of the schools that to offer opportunities
for s sort of instruction and for filling satisfactorily the chds
The bureau of education after much careful thought and
throughout the country at least teacher who knows garden
ing both scientifically and practically This teacher should be
the school during the school hours and should out of school,
direct the home gardening of the children between the of 10
Of possible should have the assistance of an ex
pert gardener that the may be done the practical
ana profitable way The teacher and the gardener should help the
children find the plots of ground their homes best suitable
for garden work aid them by some cooperative method in having
inc o properly powed and prepared for cultivation help them
select seed and show them how to plant cultivate and harvest
to obtain the best results The teacher should spend the after
and Saturdays of winter spring and fall when school
session. and all Of the vacation days Of summer visiting the
children in their homes directing their work. and giving each
child such help most needs Once week ofener during
the vacation MONTHS the teacher should assemble the children
for discussion of their work and of the principles and
methods involved.
Vegetables berries and fruits grown should be used first
food for the children and their families then the surplus should
be marketed the best advantage Through the help of the
teacher this be done cooperative way Ten fifteen
cents worth of vegetables each y from the gardens of 200
children would amount to $50 $780, In and fall when
the surplus large and cannot be marketed to advantage the
teacher should direct and help the children canning and
serving for the winter home for SALE The canning and to-
ato clubs have already shown what be done in this
1T Is difficult to estimate all the results of this plan it
IN full operation throughout the country For the children it
will mean health strength joy in work. habits of industry
Outstanding of the value of money measured in labor
and such knowledge of the phenomena
must be had for understanding Of most of their school lessons
This plan in full operation would offer a valuable supple
ment to the child labor laws proper substitute hurtfu
child labor only less desirable than its prohibition boy
IL DID, with small plot of land working under careful
direction produce for the support of the family than
be purchased with the boys working in factory
ship CT mill
Everyone geves to children ground in the mills
strength and ruin their health by forcing them toll in the heat
and turmoil of indoor industries Yet there isn't doubt in the
mind of the serious social and economic worker that all children
should learn to work. Work good for them and they enjoy it.
And what work could be more ideal than work in garden