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Show NOME MNG PRACTICAL JOB; ;S GENERAL INFLUENCE IMPORTANT Good Home Is the Buttress and Support of the School the Community, State and Nation : r a Place of Family Refuge w and Recreation Hom ! practical thing and lome-maklng Is a practical job. all entlment aside Health Is made o-lestroycd o-lestroycd In the home. In. the home he basis of character Is laid Habits f thought ns well an of action aro 1 ormd there. Views of human re-atlonshlps re-atlonshlps ftre ltormlned by the lorn environment, says the American Ameri-can Lumberman. I Good men and women come- from rood homes and good men and won-n won-n make good homes An endless , shaln of healthy Influences starts In I ho (food home, the Rood homo Is 7) he leaven that ieavenetn tne wnoio ump of 60cloty. It is tho butU3 Igp ud support of tho school, the com- ' nunlty. tho state and the nation FAMILY REFUGE. 3$ The home Is no longer a factory; t Is the family refuge, a placo of 'creation nnd refreshment In It the lee.ls of the soul as well as of tho Kdy must be satisfied In largo part, tiove of borne Is a composite of re-ipect re-ipect for parents and brothers and list, rs nnd of satisfaction and con-cntinent con-cntinent dun to a wholesome and eatful environment. Much that Is disturbing in the pres- : )nt situation is directly tradable to ;he lark of borne Influences The home must be made more potent in baractcr building If America Is to re-naln re-naln American. The home must be! J bore than four walls and a bed. It' bust afford more of the .satisfaction mat now Is sought In vain elsewhero. K program designed to make better tmerlcan homes ought to have and k will have the active support of j jjvery good citizen Tt is a practical leans of establishing American Standards In 1he home. (Demonstrate Is a long word which ' n simpler terms means to show by ixample the best o! all ways to (aach. Folks who want to build a lew homo like to sec homes of oth- srs already built I r islt to the lome of another I ' a suggestion and ' in inspiration to Imitate and Ittiprb 0 ne's own home. A single fn mod-irn mod-irn home in a nun in unity is seui. ' alked of and used as an eainple all the people nnd to that extent t is a demonstration of home mak-i ng a showing l example STANDARDS MENACED. American standards of living average aver-age higher than those of any other people, but tho congestion caused ly ' the atoppage of home building due to I the war has menaced those Standards. " 3onatructlon has not et overtake n demand de-mand and the longer the building f homes Is delayed the greater the lanpcr that Americans will get tho 1 jablt of accepting lower standards I If the home of one citizen Is a model and example to others of what ? it home should be, so the home of each r.-m.i'y . i n! and per- jfcianent Influence upon its Inmate. WShow me the k'.nd of n bono- vo 1 live In and 1 what kind of, fnan J on are " HOME-MKIN. SCIENCE. Making a horn Is n Bi Hi e and in t" art tha requir s a taste and abi Iti not possessed u rybody upon ' ! rhom nre Imposed the dut) '.ind re-1 1 iponsiblllty of making a home Tl t fi bonsecjuence is that many homes bar 1- !y deserve the name when mm pared with what they might as well be. !n fact, what the highest public Interest Inter-est requires thai they shall be Most famlllos could have and many of them would have better homes If they were only shown that better homes for them are possible and practicable prac-ticable They need a 'Better Homes Demonstration " BETTER HOMES WEEK. As part of a nation-wide program for "getting good Americans back into in-to good homes." plans have been made for a Demonstration Week. Oct. 9-14, in every community where there are enough public spirited citizens to put It on This program is under the auspices of Vice President Cool-idge. Cool-idge. Secretaries Hoover. Wallace and Davis, Surgeon (.oneral H S. Cum- ming: Dr. J J Tigert. commissioner commission-er of education, .1 M cries director building and bousing, department of1 'commerce John Ihlder. dlrectir' housing conditions, chamber of com- mere of the United States Donn Barber, fellow American Institute of 'Architects: Livingston Farrand, chair-'' man National Health Council: Mrs. T ;. Winter president General Federation Feder-ation of Women's clubs, and Mrs Lena Lake Forrest, president National Nation-al Federation of Business & Professional Profes-sional Women's clubs. Many governors gover-nors of states also hao signified their purpose to co-operate The secretary to tho ad-.isorv council fur the Better Bet-ter Homes Campaign is M r-- Willla"-! Brown Meloney editor 0 fthe Delineator. Delin-eator. ?23 Spring Street, New York City. . LI Mill RMEN MD. T i mViHurn , , r KavA .l,n.. n n A arfi doing splendid service in Inducing people to build better homes. Tho Better Homes Campaign Is designed to enlist all public spirited citizens and organizations in . mUi .immunity; In a local demonstration of a bet-ter bet-ter home 'completely equipped, fur- j nlshed and decorated in accordance with approved modern, practice" placed on exhibition for a week I 1 OIII i'l I vol. I -T W 1 . Already women in these communities communi-ties who were leaders In the v, ir activities have been asked to lead, as this Is work for which women aro pre-eminently fitted. Making Ihe individual in-dividual home is the task of tbo woman wom-an or tlo- family, maljig the model demonstration home is a task that has been allotted to the women leaders lead-ers of the community. A plan for organization or-ganization and detailed suggestions' for furnishing and equipping the dem- ; onstratlon home are contained In a Plan Book, copies of which mnv ho I obtained from the Bureau of Infor-mat Infor-mat Ion, 223 Spring street. New York City. MANY (SUGGESTIONS The demonstration home will be replete with suggestions for remodeling, remod-eling, renovating, enlarging and improving im-proving m?n homes that need not be rebuilt in order to make them "better homes for Americans." This Campaign is one that should appeal especially to the smaller communities in which not enough thought lias been given to the matter of homo improvement, im-provement, hottie comforts and other factors thut make homes attractive. Time for preparation is short and' immediate action Is essential to make the Home Demonstration Week a success. Lumbermen should at once Investigate to seo what has been done in theli communlUes toward organizing organiz-ing for it. and then get behind the program anil push it through to suc-i suc-i ess It will be of Incalculable bene-1 tit to a community to have a practical prac-tical demonstration of the moduli home, Including architecture, sanitation, sanita-tion, furnishings, equipment and ev-erythlhg ev-erythlhg that constitutes the kind of . a home In which Americans and Americanism can thrive oo |