Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1927-04-07
CHILDREN SHOULD HAVE
PRACTICAL TRAINING in
HOME BUILDING HOOVER

Washington, d. C.-Training in
the problems of home making is de
sirable for children as well as fol
a.. r. ae preface to the Guide
book of Better Homes in America
campaign, Secretary Hoover states:
"CHldron, the home builders Of the
coming generation, should receive
practical training in the problems of
home making and should begin early
in life to set their minds to work on
the values of well-managed homes
through courses conducted in civics,
in manual training, and in the prac-
tice houses increasingly established
for home economies classes"
A phase of the Better Homes in
America movement which has created
no little community interest has been
the demonstration of home manage
ment houses and home economics
These home management houses con-
rsected with colleges and normal
schools. and the home economic cot
tages which belong to secondary
schools are dwelling houses where
classes in home economies practice
home making and carry on all the
work of typical home, Such houses
in all sections Of the country viii DC
opened and demonstrated during Bet
ter Homes Week, April 81 to May l.
Plans for the demonstration Of
these houses have, at this early date,
been received by Better Homes in
America headquarters at Washington
from more than so schools where |
such houses are located. 1t is proba-
bic that more than hundred of these
houses will be entered in the cam
paign by Better Homes Week. The
opening OF these home making houses /
with demonstrations, exhibits and lee
ture programs offers scientific and
up-to-date knowledge for the home
makers of the community and an OPP
portunity for these home makers to
see good planning, and interior dec
Grafton, and to observe the better
ways of carrying on household activi-
ties
I'm some communities new home
management houses and home eco
Monies cottages will be demonstrated. ,
Construction work is being hurried
along in order to have the house COM
nleted by Better Homes Week. The
Utah Agricultural College at Logan,
Utah., is to open it's beautiful new
modern home which has just been
completed. In Perkinston, Miss, a
new home economics cottage will be
furnished for the demonstration. The
State Agricultural College at Cor
wallis, Oregon, has just purchased a
second home management house
which has been extensively remodel
ed by the college, putting in all mod
ern devices and improvements. One
or both of the home management
houses at Corvallis will be used for
Better Homes demonstration houses
this year. A new cottage is also be-
ing built at Woodlawn, Va, which
will be opened during Better Homes
Week.
Among other home management
houses and home economic cottages
which will be demonstrated, some will
be repaired and remodeled, others
will be redecorated, or will add new
pieces of furniture, and some will
have the grounds replanned and
planted. In Tucumcari, New Mexico,
where a home economics cottage has
been recently acquired which will be
demonstrated during Better Homes
Week, boys have done carpentry
work, put in wis4dow panes and made
minor repairs. Girls of home eco
rGnlics classes have done all the re-
decorating, painting and refinishing
walls and reconditioning furniture
The girls also will plant tie grounds.
In many of these home making cot
tages, boys of carpentry and manual
training classes have added such
equipment as study tables, cabinets,
cupboards, built-in book shelves, kit
chen cabinets, etc. They have also
made electrical and plumbing repairs,
built cement walks, pergolas and as
sisted in repairing furniture. Much
may often be accomplished by this