Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-03-19
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eau IN the DIVISION OF Public " OrkS
and Construction Development will
serve as an advisory board to the
arrangements of these local CAM
paigns, where requested, and will OK
tend the fullest cooperation to every
city in the country which undertakes
Il campaign.
Rr1ctly, the campaign plan con-
templates Il General Committee made
up of civic and industrial leaders,
with someone whose standing in the
community justifes his selection, as
the chief executive official
Under the general committee as
arc such subcommittee as have been
found essential. The manual sug-
acsts the prudence of having vigor-
cas- committees on Finance, Public
ity, and Campaign Methods, Mcrcan-
tie Institutions, Public Service Cor
poraton, Education, Religious Activi-
ties, Industrial Workers and Labor
| Unions, Hotels and Restaurants, En-
h,bits and Management of Head
quarters, Womcn's Clubs, Speakers
and Meetings, Poster Contests, Civic
bodies, Theatres and Amuscmcnts,
transportation and Automobiles, In-
dastiial Plants, Music, Printing and
Supple; and Donations.
The function of each committee is
explained in detail in the Depart
ment's manual together with suggc3-
tons on handling specific problems
which invariably result in the Gown
Your Own Honc' campaign.
In the Department of Labol's plan
of campaign the women, churchc,
and labor organizations play an inn
portant part. The entire campaign
IS pitched on Il civic bctterment plane
rather than on a purely commercial
basis ana the appeal is more on the
line Of what each business group can
put "in," rather han what it can get
out" Of the movement. 1t is Il one
hundred per cent Greater City move
mcnt, having in mind only the meal
culablc permanent benefits to the
community and the immediate help
fulness to the nation during the
transition from war mobilization to
peace production. The Department
Of Labor emphasizes these benefit.
which may be expected from the Own
Your Own Home Movement.
/. 1t will provide better living
conditions, increase efficiency, en-
couragcs thrift, give greater comfort
and happiness and create individual
reserves for misfortune and old age.
Every house owner with his family,
whether rich, poor, OF well-to-do, be-
comes thereby better citizen, with
increased sclf-respect, independence
and responsibility to the city and ma
ton and arc more vitality interested
in the welfare and prosperity of both.
2. That during the readjustmcnt
period, such q movement hastens the
return Of normal conditions; results
in much needed construction for home
and industrial purposes; provides
work for returning soldiers and sail
ors and for labor changing from
war to peace industries; stimulates
all lines of business in each commun-
ity, creates general prosperity.
The fact that all these are patrio-
tic in purpose does not eliminate the
certainty of their being materially
profitable to the local communities
and, in the long run, the community
which makes it easiest to build and
cheapest to build, will reap the great
est material benefits.
Not only has the Department of
Labor set out in detail the plan for a
successful GOWN Your Own Home"
1t is preparing publicity
matter which is to be placed at the
disposal of the local committees ana
will, where communities can show
such action is necessary to the inau-
guration of the campaign, send an
expert to assist in the organizing and
getting the movement under way.
The Gown Your Own Home"
as outlined by the Depart
mcnt of Labor was one of the pro-
positions submitted to- the recent
conference of Governors and May
ors in Washington where it met with
encouragement and sup
port, many of the Governors and
Mayors expressing the determination
% return to their districts and inter-
,st themselves in getting such CAM
,aigns under way.
Among the national organizations
which have pledged support and CO.
operation for the "Own Your Home"
work are the general federation of
Womcn's Clubs, through its prcsi-
lent, Mrs. Josiah Evans Cowles of
Los Angeles, Cal, the National As
Of Real Estate Boards and
he National Federation of Construc-
ion Industries.
Requests for GOWN Your Own
lone" campaign literature Ilould
,e made to the Division of Public