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Show THE PROBLEM OF CHEAP RENTS Tho man who reads many newspapers newspa-pers finds frequent items headed Houses Scarce, or More Tenements Needed. Tiiero aro many towns wiioro tho lack of houses for work lng peoplo Is a real problem. It often of-ten checks town growth. This has resulted from increased building costs. Materials cost 25 to CO per cent moro than ten years ago. Carpenters, masons, plumbers, nnd painters nto better Paid. Capitalists say thero is no profit In putting up houses for rent. Of cuurso there nro often old houses hous-es lacking modern conveniences that can bo hnd cheaply enough, nut It hi constantly getting harder to rent places without modern plumbing and tho like. Peoplo will not go Into dirty and unsanitary neighborhoods. Somo social workers havo bocomo convinced that In towns of much slzo tho working peoplo must expect to live In blocks of houses all Joined together. This gives HRht only at front and bnck. It scorns to take uway from Uto homollko character of r. neighborhood and tho Individual homo Is moro njtt to dovolop a feeling feel-ing of ownership and prldo In tho appearance of tho property. As building costs lncreaso, tho Ben. eral result Is that peoplo live In Mualler space, or go out farther Into tho outskirts. Tho working man of todny commonly lives In much smaller small-er quarters than wero occupied by his father on tho old farm. Tn largo cities people manago to adjust them-pelves them-pelves to a cramped tonemont apart-mont apart-mont houso Hfo. Thero Is commonly common-ly a total lack of tho room required to awing tho traditional cat. If peoplo will learn to Ilvo with less tumlturo, with few bulky belongings, belong-ings, and pursuo tho simple life, thoy fan bo happy In Bmall quarters. Much can bo said for tlio old fash ioned love In n cottage, philosophy, only It seems to be only one floor In the cottage for a good many. Hut It is largely n matter of stylo and exnmplo. One does not feel so cramped. cramp-ed. If nil tho neighbors nnd one's friends llvo the samo way. Tho hard working peoplo In moderate sized siz-ed places may havo moro room than Iho fashionables of New York and Chicago, ' |