Better Homes in America

Better Homes in America, by Mrs W.B. Meloney

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BETTER HOMES IN AMERICA
Plan Book
for Demonstration Week October 9 to 14, 1922

THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON
July 21, 1922.
My dear Mrs. Meloney:
I am directed by the President to assure you of his earnest endorsement of the Better Homes Campaign which has been launched by the Advisory Council and is being carried on by representative women of America. He regards the campaign as of particular importance, because it places emphasis not only upon home ownership, which he regards as absolutely elemental in the development of the best citizenship, but upon furnishing, sanitation and equipment of the home.
The President feels that as many millions of dollars and the best minds of this generation have been devoted to improve factory conditions, the home is deserving of its share of the same intensive consideration. There are twenty millions of house-keepers in America. For them, the home is their industrial center as well as their place of abode, and it is felt that altogether too little attention has been paid to lightening the labors and bettering the working conditions of these women.
The President feels that the women, who are so successfully conducting this campaign are entitled to all consideration and recognition, and he hopes that every community in America will exhibit a model home.
Your sincerely,
Secretary to the President.
Mrs. W. B. Meloney, Sec'y., Advisory Council for Better Homes Campaign, 223 Spring Street, New York City, N. Y.

BETTER HOMES DEMONSTRATION WEEK
Advisory Council
CALVIN COOLIDGE Vice-President of the United States
HERBERT HOOVER Secretary of Commerce
HENRY C. WALLACE Secretary of Agriculture
JAMES JOHN DAVIS Secretary of Labor
Dr. HUGH S. CUMMING Surgeon-General United States Public Health Service
Dr. JOHN JAMES TIGERT U. S. Commissioner of Education
C. W. PUGSLEY Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
JOHN M. GRIES Director Division of Building and Housing, Dept. of Commerce
JULIUS H. BARNES President Chamber of Commerce of the United States
JOHN IHLDER Director Housing Conditions, Chamber of Commerce of the United States
DONN BARBER Fellow American Institute of Architects
JOHN BARTON PAYNE Chairman Central Committee American Red Cross
LIVINGSTON FARRAND Chairman National Health Council
Mrs. THOMAS G. WINTER President General Federation of Women's Clubs
MRS. LENA LAKE FORREST President National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs
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Bureau of Information, THE DELINEATOR, 223 Spring Street

IN AMERICA--October Ninth to Fourteenth
Co-operating Governors
ALASKA SCOTT C. BONE, Governor ARIZONA THOS. E. CAMPBELL, Governor ARKANSAS T. C. McRAE, Governor COLORADO O. H. SHOUP, Governor FLORIDA CARY A. HARDEE, Governor IDAHO D. W. DAVIS, Governor INDIANA W. T. McCRAY, Governor KANSAS HENRY J. ALLEN, Governor KENTUCKY E. P. MORROW, Governor MARYLAND A. C. RITCHIE, Governor MASSACHUSETTS C. H. COX, Governor MISSISSIPPI LEE M. RUSSELL, Governor MISSOURI A. M. HYDE, Governor NEBRASKA S. R. McKELVlE, Governor NEVADA E. D. BOYLE, Governor OHIO H. L. DAVIS, Governor OREGON B. W. OLCOTT, Governor PENNSYLVANIA W. C. SPROUL, Governor SOUTH CAROLINA WILSON G. HARVEY, Governor SOUTH DAKOTA W. H. McMASTER, Governor TENNESSEE ALFRED A. TAYLOR, Governor UTAH CHAS. R. MABEY, Governor VERMONT JAMES HARTNESS, Governor VIRGINIA E. L. TRINKLE, Governor WYOMING ROBERT D. CAREY, Governor
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New York City Secretary, Mrs. William Brown Meloney

Better Homes
By CALVIN COOLIDGE
We spend too much time in longing for the things that are far off and too little in the enjoyment of the things that are near at hand. We live too much in dreams and too little in realities. We cherish too many impossible projects of setting worlds in order, which are bound to fail. We consider too little plans for putting our own households in order, which might easily be made to succeed. A large part of our seeming ills would be dispelled if we could but turn from the visionary