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Show THIS BUSINESS fa 1 j Ufa? liii LS SUSAN THAYER J7 " NfUl 1 trades. But jobs too in all the factories, fac-tories, big and little, in every town in the land, where they make the things that go into a house. Down to the very nails that hoi dit together to-gether and the grass seed planted out in front! i . It seems to me that a plan that the lumbering industry is working lt indicates the inteligent, cooperative coop-erative way in which the manufacturers manufac-turers and we consumers must k together, if we are going to make this country the busy, prosperous pros-perous place we want it toa be after af-ter all our wars are ended. The lumbermen are going on the assumption to which most of us will say amen that a home Is a wonderful, desirable thing to have, thing to dream about and work (or. They are working through lumber dealers, and showing these dealers how to form a local "home planners' institute" that can serve as town headquarters for information informa-tion on building. Then they are giving these institutes in-stitutes full instructions on how to conduct a lecture course for prospective pros-pective builders on all phases on all phases of home planning and construction. A tremendous wave of home building is going to come as a result re-sult of this and similar educational education-al efforts on the part of manufacturers. manufac-turers. And you can't even begin to calculate how many jobs these houses will provide. Jobs, of course, for artisans in the building |