Show NOT YET NATION OF RENTERS Home 1 Owning Is by No Means a Lost I y r Ambition Among People of the United States Is home own owning In a lost ambition Are we becoming a nation of cliff clift dwellers and renters Not if we put faith In the figures compiled complIed by the lately established bureau of housing of the Department of Commerce observes ob oh- serves the Nations Nation's Business Of 68 cities of more than population but 20 show a n loss in percentage of homes owned between between be be- tween 1910 1010 and IO 1920 O the figures are from- from the census bureau bureau bureau- and the losses are more than offset by the gains of the time other 48 Of Ot the 20 where losses were recorded four Detroit Detroit Detroit De De- troit Cleveland St. St Louis an and Los Angeles are in the first ten cities In point of population Although In New York more homes are owned than In any other city the percentage Is the lowest but yet even here the percentage has grown from In 1010 1910 and In 1900 Manhattan presents the most striking situation With m more re than half hatt a mil mil- n IK-n homes less than were owned little more than 2 per cent If U home owning g be a form of civic virtue then Des Ds Moines may gather her chaste skirts about her as painted Manhattan passes pass J for the Iowa paragon paragon para para- gon among mong cities shows a percentage of home ownership of 51 a growth from per coot cent In 1910 and in 1900 In only one other community of ot more than Inhabitants are half the homes owned and that Is Grand Rapids Mich |