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Show Better Homes Week Big National Affair Between three and four thousand American communities, from the largest cities to the smallest hamlets, will celebrate "Better Homes Week" this year the period from April 25 to May 1, 1926. This was assured when a recent survey, disclosed that local chairmen wrho have accepted appointment ap-pointment by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, president of Better Homes in America, number a thousand thou-sand more than accepted at the same ciate a year ago. It is a conservative estimate, according ac-cording to Dr. James Ford, executive directo-r of Better Homes in America, that before the latter part of April 2.500 local chairmen will have organized or-ganized "better homes" campaigns in their communities or counties. In addition to these observances, several hundred additional communities will observe Better Homes Week through the activities of cooperating agencies. As was the case last year, hundreds and probably thousands of committees commit-tees not directly connected with the Better Homes in America movement will celebrate Better Homes Week through the activities of the American Ameri-can Home Department of the General Federation of Women's clubs, through the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, the Girl Scout organization, organiza-tion, the Camp Fire girls, and others of similar character. All of these agencies are working in cooperation with Better Homes in America to make available to al! American families, particularly those of modest incomes, the means" of securing se-curing beautiful yet economical homes for themselves, and extending the benefits of wholesome home life to all America. Last year the 12,000 local Parent-Teachers' Parent-Teachers' associations were urged by Mrs. A. H. Reeve, president of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers and a member of the advisory advis-ory council of better homes in America,' Ameri-ca,' to cooperate to the fullest extent with the Better Homes campaigns in communities where committees had been formed, and elsewhere to ob serve Better Homes Week through their own activities. This met with a very general response, and the same action will be taken this year by issuing in April a special Better Homes number of their official organ "Child Welfare." The recently formed American Home department of the General Federation of Women's clubs, which has become one of the most important branches of the activities of that powerful national organization, is closely cooperating with the Better Homes campaign in every possible way, and in hundreds of communities where chairmen have not been appointed ap-pointed dh-ectly by Better Homes in America, Better Homes Week will be : observed through the activities of ' this branch of local women's culsb. The Girl Scouts and the Camp Fire : girls in many instances last year 1 conducted Better Homes programs anions? their membership with signal success. Their activities will swell considerably the number of cities and towns observing Better Homes Week this year. Through the activities of home economics departments of the public schools, the number will be still further augmented, insuring for 1926 a record breaking number of communities deriving benefit from this educational work. |