Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-01-21
Plans for Better
Homes Campaign
MI In America

3
In America
Washington, D. C.-Plans for the
1926 BetteI Homes in America Cam
paign in fitzgerald got under way
this week With the acceptance of Mrs.
r. E, Lee AS chairman of the local
volunteer Better Homes Committee
! for Fitzgerald.
The appointment as local chair
i man was made by Herbert Hoover,
Secretary of Commerce, who is pres
] ident of Better Homes in America.
The 1926 campaign eliminates, as
have the other annual Better Homes
campaigns, in many hundreds of dem
onstrations, of fully equipped small
| homes in cities, towns, and rural COM
| munities throughout the country.
| Starting in 1922 with a few hundred
demonstrations, this educational
movement has grown by leaps and
bounds until this year two thousand
communities celebrated Better
i Homes Week" with lecture programs,
contests and demonstrations of new
or remodeled houses. The week of
April 25-May 1, 1926, has been set
aside for the year 1926 for this pur-
pose.
Strongly endorsing and aiding the
Better Homes movement are many
departments and bureaus of the Fed
eral Government, and, more than a
score of national organizations OF
men and women of great numerical
strength and enormous influence.
President Coolidge himself is chair
man of the Advisory Council of Bet
ter Homes in America, which includes
! executives of more than a score of or
CARNATIONS of national scope which
are cooperating with the Better
Homes Movement.
This movement, entirely non-com-
mercial in character, originated in a
suggestion by the late President
Harding, who had keen interest in
it. His successor, President Cool
idge, while he was Vice-President and
in his present office as our Nations
Chief Executive, has warmly en-
dorsed the movement, and identified
his name with it. Begun as private
I enterprise, it soon reached such pro
portions that its founders realized
that it must be put upon an indipen-
dent basis. A reorganization was af-
fected, Mr.. Hoover becoming pfesi-
dent of Better Homes in America,
and DR.. James Ford, of the faculty of
Harvard University, was secured to
assume active direction of the move
ment, which post he still occupies
Briefly, the objective sought by
Better Homes in America are:
-, l. To make accessible to all citi-
zens knowledge of high standards in
house building, home furnishing and
home life.
2. To encourage the building of
sound, beautiful, single-family houses
and to encourage the reconditioning
and remodeling of old houses.
Although peculiar conditions in GER
tain places, and the circumstances of
| certain families make it necessary
| that there shall be apartments and
| tenements, it is strongly felt that the
| happiest and most wholesome home |
| life is possible for a family with
growing children only in a deached
single family house. Such house |
then should be the American ideal, |
and should be made accessible to all |
American families.
8. To encourage thrift for home |
ownership, and to spread knowledge |
of methods of financing the purchase |
or building of a home.
a. To encourage general study of
the housing problem and of problems
of family life, and to help each COM
munity to benefit from its study.
5. To encourage the furnishing of
homes economically and in good taste. |
6. To supply knowledge of the
means of eliminating drugery and
waste of effort in housekeeping, and
to spread information about public
agencies, which will assist housekeep-
ers in their problems.
z. To encourage the establishment
of courses of instruction in home eco
Monies in the public schools, and par
ticularly the construction of school
practice houses and home economics |
cottages where girls in our public |
schools and colleges may by actual
practice, learn the best methods of |
conducting household operations and |
of home-making. -, -,
8. To promote the Improvement Of
house lots, yards and neighborhoods,
and to encourage the making of home
gardens and home Fairgrounds.
o. 10 eALeAG kHOW1eOSe OIL Cne
ways of making home life happier,
through the development of home
music, home play, home arts and
crafts, and the home library.
10. To encourage special study and
discussion of the problem of charac-
ter building in the home.
These detectives are brought home
to the people of America through the
thousands of local demonstrations.
Usually, house is built or borrowed,
and under the direction of the pocal
committee there is demonstrated the
best which the community affords as
home for a family of modest in
come.