The Cordova daily times., 1919-05-02
FRIDAY, MAY 2. 1919.
"OWN YOUR OWN HOME"
CAMPAIGN

The first statewide own Your own
Home campaign in the United States
is reported to the division of public
works and construction development
of the department Of labor. The cam
paign is on in the state of Indiana
and behind it as the directing force is
no less an organization than the In
diana State Chamber of Commerce.
There are eighteen cities in the
United States in which Gown Your
Own Home" campaigns are under way
or about to start, but the Indiana
State Chamber of Commerce is spon-
sor for the first movement for CAM
paign to. take in every hamlet, village,
and city in a state. 1t is understood
that this campaign may be extended
over a period of five years and it is
not improbable that the Indiana State
Chamber of Commerce finally may de-
eide to maintain as a permanent de-
partment of it's organization an "OWn
Your Own Home" bureau which will
be on the job every day of every year.
A. w. McKeand, extension director
of the Indiana organization, has writ
ten the division of public works and
construction development asking it's
cooperation in the Indiana campaign.
All the machinery of the department
of labor, insofar as It touches the
s-ffhSIx1fa field, Will be lined up to CO.
operate and assist whenever oppor-
tunity offers. A representative of the
department of labor will go to Indiana
to study the own Your Own Home"
organization there to the end that its
attractive features may be passed on
to other cities and states. The follow
ing from Mr.. Mckeands letter indi-
Gates the scale on which the Indiana
campaign will be prosecuted as we'll
as the method:
1.-THE Indiana State Chamber of
Commerce has, for the past few
months, been planning an Gown A
Home" campaign. We have held our
initial state meeting, organized our
statewide committee and secured the
cooperation of most of the CONNER
cia1 organizations in the state, and we
are now starting out to secure the CO.
operation of the rest OF the Organlza-
tioins. We have a definite plan of
procedure, and it has been adopted
by our people in the mass convention
with representatives from practically
every city in the state present.
"B riefly, our campaign is to use
$150,O0O paid space in the newspapers
and operate general publicity de-
partment for news stories, prepare
tons of posters, window dressing,
speakers bureau, travelling exhibits,
etc.
1--WE have organized statewide
committee consisting of one man from
each line of business whether directly
or indirectly interested in the own
A Home" movement. There are thirty
one organizations now actively work
ing with us, and there are number
of others that are fairly we'll organ
lied that we will have as soon as
their executive committee have
passed upon the plan. We have four
subcommittee studying the prob
lens OF finance. survey, city planning
and advertising. These committees
are made up Of well known people
from all lines Of business in all parts
OF the state, and they are actively at
work on their plans at this time. We
are then building q complement to the
statewide organization In each town
in the state. The state wide organiza-
ton passing down to the local COM
munities its plans and suggestions
and working with the local commune
ties to make such changes as are
needed to suit local conditions. From
our long experience in the commercial
organization field we know that no
plan set up in any one place will suit
all local conditions in another, so for
this reason we are going to place our