Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-02-16 | Page 33 | Thoughts About Family Chief Factor in Trend to Get 'Own Home'

Thoughts About F Family am y Chief Factor F actor in in Trend To T o 0 Get Own Home Hoine I Analysis of Letters Taken i As Indicating Motive F For o Aspiration J L Love Le e family and peace pece are arc the tireo words that come como first to the minds of ot people thinking about home Ownership at t least this was the re result re- re sult of ot a a. study of or COO people made mado I by the National Association of ot Real Estate Estate- Boards In an m effort to tabulate t. what t the public thinks about home ownership and to as ascertain If there are any Ideas In common on this subject the association analyzed 1000 of oC the letters submitted d in its KB homo home definition deft contest that closed on January Jan Jan- tJ uary J fi The association received l loiters from froni eve every part of ot the countr country coun- coun tr try and on February 2 awarded a n 50 prize to Miss F. F L. L Williams a n. Mass school teacher THOUSAND TABULATED Ono th thousand usand of these letters from eastern stales states including allor all of or those submitted from Now York state were put through a tabulation tabulation tion that recorded the number of OC times certain ideas were emphasized emphasized sized b by tho tim writers Tho Tim subjects mentioned tho the least often orten were ere then tien dropped from tim the list and fifteen fit fit- 1 teen leen en repeated oft Interpretations of ot homo home lOmo remained on the final poll poU And the word mentioned most often oHen by these 1000 people including jn IriS ing all alt c cf the contestants from New NewYork NewYork NewYork York state is Love Is-Love Love Before making making mak mak- ing the unique analysis the association association asso asso- elation officers wondered if It modern life might not have havo produced some sophisticated Ideas on the meaning meaning- of or home but people writing atthe at at- tho the close close- of ot 19 1929 9 described home first as asa a a. place where love abides I Next In Importance came camo the idea of oc the home being the tho family unit found Sound in of ot the tho 1000 definitions These writers spoke polee of tho home lionie as s tho the center of or family life and the place Ilace lace in which tho the family Interests converge PEACE ADDED FACTOR But close on the heels beets O of ot tho the family tarn tarn- tho tIto in ily IY idea is word wOld Peace third place on the list with 18 plo pie describing home as a place of or reace or a place in which to seek peace Curiously enough 1 Peace comes before Happiness In the tabulatIon tabulation tabulation tion of r Important elements clements Pea Peace co coalso also comes be before foro Comfort and long before the contestants reached a a. word tho tabulators expected to toce see ce often tho the word Mother dother Joy and sorrow usually companion com corn panion words for such use as this ate c separated b by these thousand definers ef SO BO that jo Joy Is mentioned 74 times and sorrow v Js is at tho the very er bolt bottom m of the list 1st with a scant total of It 20 O appearances Thus instead of saying ing Home is a place where the family shares jo Joys s 's and sorrows sorrows sorrows sor sor- rows 74 people only mentioned Joy This looks rooks very ery cheerful sa say the therea thereal thereal rea real I estate association officers Home means Mother or Moth Mothers roth ers er's Influence to 56 of or the 1000 but it only means Father to 26 G. G Father Is Js next to tho the last on the tabulation The idea of friends be beinS' beinS being being be- be ing inS a part palt of tho homo borne and home life lICo is low Jow on the list with only 36 peo people lo considering them important in this connection