A NATURE CREED IN THE CONCRETE 



M. LOUISE GREENE 



Such might be a terse description of a recent event in the 

 history of a large publishing house. 



Except as a mere item of news of interest to booklovers, 

 the transfer of the offices, printery and bindery of Doubleday, 

 Page & Company to Garden City, Long Island, finds no place 

 in an educational journal. Yet the recent house-warming of the 

 Country Life Press and the outing — the third of a series — on 

 May 23, of some fifteen hundred people to Garden City as the 

 guests of Doubleday, Page & Company revealed a novel and 

 distinctively educative feature in their new home,— one that 

 should be of interest to teachers and to all who care for outdoor 

 life. 



In these days, nearly every home, store, office or even shop 

 has its credo posted in full view. Suppose we consider some of 

 the thirteen articles of the Country Life creed as illustrated by, 

 or exemplified in, the recent migration from New York. 



At the close of their tenth year of successful business life, 

 Doubleday, Page & Company began to look about for a new 

 home. It must have space, air, sunlight, possible homes, — not 

 houses, only, — for employees, easy access to New York and 

 quick output for rail and freight. Such a business as theirs, if 

 properly located, would with reference to nearly a thousand 

 employees tend to "draw people from crozvded cities into open 

 spaces" ; woidd "foster a love of the wide outdoors, the home of 

 health and broad horizons." Such a home was found in Garden 

 City, thirty-five minutes from the new Pennsylvania Station, 

 New. York City, and on an electrified branch of the Long Island 

 Railroad running into that station. The fine old town of Hem- 

 stead, Mineo.a, and a dozen small towns, with their lower cost 

 of living for workingmen, were within easy trolley distance. 

 Moreover, such a location would practically add about 20% to 

 the leisure time of an operative's day. For the office force, travel 

 under the river and across Long Island would replace in part 

 the crowded subway and elevated train. Truck, freight and mail 

 matter actually moves faster, leaving New York more quickly 

 than when passing through their congested agencies in the 

 metropolis. 



Thus is shown the possibi'ities and here are answered some 

 of the objections to a large business concern locating in the 

 country under conditions that "keep active the love of all things 

 that live and grow, of birds and animals in free and unendangered 



