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Show Good Homes and Good Character Folk should find interest in an interview recently is-ued is-ued by Herbert Hoover, president of the Better Homes in vmerica association, when confronted with a report of the )epartment of Commerce in which it is shown that the Uni-ed Uni-ed States still is short nearly a billiion homes, despite the t ast building- in the past few years. This city of course, contributes to the deficiency, but it eems more interested in homes good homes today than ver before. Hence the remarks of Hoover are all the more imely. He said : .... "The character of a people is largely affected by the lomes in which they dwell. The profoundest influences of arly childhood are those of the family circle. The warmest ! nemories of later years center in the home. It is the en-'ironment en-'ironment of most of the deepest experiences of human life. Che house should always be a fittiing symbol of the ideals ,nd aspirations of the family which it shelters. 'The highest civilizations have been built not by nomadic jeoples, but by nations in which the mass of the popula-ion popula-ion are home owners and home lovers. The countless Ameri-an Ameri-an families who in the past strucck out tinto the wilderness, ireaking their old associations, have shown us the value of etting out in a practictl way to make our visions come true. ?he days when we can follow their example literally have Hissed, but there ore new fields open in applying modern nethods and the materials produced by modern industry to-vard to-vard attaining higher living standards." |