Show I P R ES DE NT IS SPOKESMAN AT CEREMONIALS Better Roads and Better I Homes Homez Movements Given Praise I R ROMANS OMANS LAUDED I I Improved Highways In I DeI Rural America De- De De Declared I dared Needed I W WASHINGTON June Junt Two 4 4 T I modern movements one design n 1 to bring about Improved highway 1 I Ito and the other for better homes I ere as for tor t belter I better America by President Hard Hard- HardIng Harding Hard ing Ing today In id irr ses at cere cere- ceremonies cere- cere ceremonies ceremonies monies Incident to the Shrine con con- conen con convention m en Speaking at the ded cation ot or a azero zero milestone a granite mono mono- monument ment bent cre erected ted on the time Mall to ser sere e I as a II base for tor measuring d the president declared the nation developed a o s stem of or mal maim now must mut recognize th thi obligation to modern ze the mor moe- moe remote mor-remote i remote sections ot or the system to t I Ithe the extent justified by econ econ- economic econ econ- economic conditions I In his ls 8 address made sti t I the opening of o a reproduction ls l's Potomac park of 0 1 tho 0 hoot homo home of or John Homard Homar Payne com corn composer composer poser of Home Sweet Home the tho pre asserted n that wo no 0 aro arll going to havo have such In the mechanical appurtenances of time the home as JS ms will III Ill represent i I real for women H to I-to added that with that ss women omen omen would bf bp seen taking n a new a larger and vastly mo s mo-s mo significant part In the great ac- ac ac activities tl of or life ALLUDES TO IO nn L The monument representIng Ih tho zero ero milestone was compared by PresIdent Harding to 10 the golden I milestone erected In the old noman itoman forum from which was as measured and nd m the R system o of high highways mansho ways through which tho the no mans ho he said the I he course of oC I oCI all history since mince Ince their time Our Our country has lias been more de- de de dependent penitent pendent upon the development of C Internal highways he continued than any other in mu ill history be- be be because cause causo of our vast ast continental are area is 11 so supplied ill with lIh those arm arms of the sea which have base kept ept the countries of or western estern Eu- Eu Europ rop Eu-rop Cop rop In close touch with that great I universal and common high road the open ocean On the whole hole we e I Ithe have made a wonderful progress but In the matter of oC rural road roadS we have until very er recent yea years s made a far less Impressive lv ad- ad advance adVance ad advance vance PROGRESS It PID PID Within two decades ho how eve eve- marking the time beginning of the mo- mo mo tor motor metor age ago our advance In this tiia reo re- spec re-spec spec has hns been phenomenal mak mak- mak ing making it most that a recognized center o of the tho highway system should at this time bo ho set up golden It Is appropriate that our gold gold- gold en mie stone has been placed here In hereIn spiritual the nation il ii I capital the spirit spIrit- ual and Institutional center of the nation It marks the approximate meeting place ot of the Lincoln high high- highway highway way ay and the Lee Lea highway ay of o the northern and southern system of l road roads 1 rom room It we 0 may mayvie mayview mayview vie view the memorial to Lincoln and the home of Lee It marks the tho meeting g p point ot of n o f those th ose sect U i ons which once grappled In conflict but are now happily united for tor alt all time In the bonds of national fra- fra fraternity fraternity fra fraternity or of o a single patriotism and ando of a common destiny As we e shall extend aid al a l tm- tm Im Improve proe prove our highways as an and l more and moro more adapt them to the methods or of Ir which this age has hIlS hasso hasso so developed for us ue we shall strengthen year by ear earthe the tits ties of mutual Interest and In- In interdependence In Interdependence tt which alt aIr allour our sections But lying beyond this system of modern highways are more than 2 mites miles of oC roads who whose Is though of gr great at mi- mi Importance Im Importance essentially local wo we must I mustI recognize the Iho obligation to modern modern- modernize las ize these hose moro more remote sections or of orthe orthe the system to the fullest extent by economic conditions condition 1 ery form of oC transport by wa va a water ter by rail roil by highway ay or by air air- airway air airway way ay must be he drawn up for a max maC maximum mx of oC the particular kind of oC sen ser lee foi rOI which It Is best fitted FOR n S I The The Importance of a perfected hl IlaI ay ay system as s a matter of mia mia- na national I 1 defense hiss has been profoundly impressed anti and must not ot be overlooked The amazing mob mob- mob of oC the forces only yesterday yester yester- day were fighting for or civilization civil was as possible In no small part bp- bp because be because cause causo the roads built by the limo Caes Cats Caesars ars at were still available for tor such movements if 1 1 the tho I time Limo comes when hen oui oum 0 own n country hu has need for tor a like In Inthe inthe Inthe the national derell o a 1 pm rr 1 system of highways will bl b one or of our most moat powerful bulwarks Continued on p Puse Fage Two HARDING LAUDS SEITER IDER I DER HOMES OOS I Continued from Page gC One Speaking at nt the better homes I ceremony the president declared that tho the movement for better homes is a n mo movement ement for tor a D better America I It is la not so much the problem of he said as as It Is ls the problem of Increasing the home comforts of devising new conven conven- conveniences conveniences of ot expanding that J under under- understanding understanding understanding standing of domestic science which must make for tor the Improvement ot of American homes We have de- de devoted de devoted voted much thought to the lm- lm Im Improvement provement pros ement In the production trans trans- transportation transportation tM n and to a 0 thousand things thIng that make for the advance of civi civilization Wo Vo ha have hate e too often over over- overlooked overlooked looked the fact that after atter all the greatest single industry in Amer Amer- America ica tea I Is the management of the American home where women toil every day of the he ye yc r of these women doing their 0 own n work without help HOl HOME I is C CENTER CENTEK J The Tho home homo Is h at nt last h t not mere mere- merely merely merely ly the center but truly the aim the object and tho the purpose of all ail human organization We do not Dot seek to improve society In order that from better homes we wo may bring forth better bottor servants of ot the state slate more efficient cannon tod- tod fodder fod fodder der for its armed forces rather we seek to make better homes In or- or order order or order der that's that we e may avoid the necessity necessity necessity sity for Cor conflict and turmoil in our world The home Is the apex the apex and the aim the end rather than the moans of our whole social socIa S system stem So far as aa this world knows or can vision there is no attainment more desirable than the hl happy py and con con- contented con contented tented home lJ I IA V LI IA FE 1 M U 0 The common man of yesterday was a n serf a peasant bound to o tasks whose whoso significance he did not know and for tor whose results he had small care The common manof man manof of today Is a citizen a voter soter a sovereign truly a II participant In determining the ends and destiny of ot the state It Is the purpose or of orthe the better homes movement o make possible a like advance i in inthe Inthe the status of womankind We are going to have such advancement In the mechanical appurtenances s sot ot of the home as will represent a areal areal areal real emancipation for tor women With that emancipation v we se e shall see women taking a ne nest new a larger and vastly more significant part In those great determining lUes ot of life liCe which henceforth must mark marlc our way realizing the best bOllt ambitions of social organization |