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Show j YOUR HOME. A great many unexpected things have happened in your life Suppose that, unexpectedly, you were Introduced Intro-duced to President Harding and It were up lo you to take liim to dinner. din-ner. What then 7 Well, your first impulse would be, to take him to the finest hotel in tow n. However, if your wife happened to be a maker of good waffies and you put the choice up in Warren G . be probably would prefer a waffle dinner to anything the chef could furnish at the leading local hotel. He thinks Mrs. Harding is the best waflle maker I I on earth. President Harding is a great home man. He loves his own home. He loves his home town. Anything connected con-nected with home, he is "strong for" Detroit recently held a "Better Homes W eek ' President Harding heard about it and wrote to William Tl. Wreford ol" the Detroit Board of Commerce: ' If gives me especial pleasure' to I record my endorsement and approval of the Better Homes Week which you are planning in Detroit. It may be trite, but it is everlastingly true that the home is the cornerstone of our civilization. Better homes, more at-1 tractive homes, homes whose occu- j pants will find true refreshment and real Inspiration to increased efforts for pducatlon and culture such homes are ihe ones which assure greatest I stability to our institution, greatest security se-curity of our society. I cannot but feel that the effort you are making In De-j troit is one which deserves a wider projection, and would be glad If your! i sample might presently be an inspiration inspi-ration to a nation wide enterprise ot the same kind." We talk of "great national prob lems " But. in the last analysis the home i.s the greatest national problpm When our young lolks seem to go astray, ihe real (rouble Is In then i homps. And. too. any "national problem" ui ' : tmatelj resolve I sell iow n into a? straight proposition of how it will af feci our homes. Home is the fundamental thing, li is thp core of life, the generator of j inspiration, our comfort during depres Bion, our haven during slors. Given a good home, it Is a mighty poor stick Of a man or woman who doesn't come I out on top. Wherefore, home-life is the barom-eter barom-eter ol national conditions the straw that shows ihe way the wind is blow ing. . The things men do are of secondary importance, What counts most is in the home and thai is up to women, the real makers of America |