Show Better ette 1 Homes I Movement Makes for or Definite Advance in Home HOlTIe Standards Standards' By HERBERT ERBERT HOOVER Secretary of Commerce Better Homes week is the time when the home and its fundamental place in the nations nation's life are brought to the foreground and the will for their advancement takes r root ot in iIi our minds It has a spiritual and practical meaning which I hope will escape no one of us More than local communities have engaged in Better Homes campaigns for their communities this year We Ve expect that the men women and children of America will take full advantage of their work and that as a result we shall shaH make a definite advance in the standards and ideals of our housing and home life The tremendous interest in bettel better better bet bet- ter tel homes demonstrations in recent years and in the improvements which have followed them has shown that the American people cherish deeply in their hearts the th values of the home and are setting about to realize them more fully The local demonstration houses exhibited each year are improving improving improving ing in architectural qualities |