Hon' the Bird Sanctuary Crusade 



was Inaugurated and Promoted by 



The People's Home Journal 



\- LONG AGO as 1913, The People's Home 

 ±± Journal inaugurated, through its editorial 

 column-, the movement known as its "Little Gar- 

 dens" Campaign. In official recognition of its work 

 a- a pioneer in this held, United States Food Com- 

 missioner Herbert C. Hoover, in September, 191 7, 

 addressed a personal letter to the editor of the 

 Journal, commending its vauable work. 



Immediately after the outbreak of the World 

 W ar, in 1 9 14, the Journal, foreseeing a scarcity of 

 food in Europe, inten-iried its efforts in connection 

 with "Little Gardens," emphasizing the growing 

 necessity for cultivating every spare loot of ground. 

 On America's entrv into the war, the Journal's 

 "Little Gardens" became merged with the national 

 "W ar Gardens" crusade, an achievement in patri- 

 otism of which America may justly be proud. 

 I rom our "Little Gardens" movement emanated 

 ccond enterprise, initiated by the Journal which 

 later crystallized into a campaign for the conserva- 

 tion of the insectivorous birds of America. The 

 f '.:..;. Bird Sanctuary Crusade was instantly 

 recognized by the Pood Administration as ol equal 

 importance with, and a corollary to, the planting 



