Show dul 1 cultivation OF VACANT LOTS work scientifically undertaken in alt city has proved beneficial and profitable in 1800 charles 0 06 grout ot of tho the indianapolis diana di polls charity organization so BO cloty clety thought gardening a good thing and from that time until it was um token taken over by the th patriotic gardere Gr dere association Q cia tion tho the first year of the world worl war a period of 18 years yearb tho the plan was kept in operation as a branch of the charity organization work being designated as va vacant cant lot cultivation ond and nonie home decoration the homo home decoration part of it meant cleaning up and beautifying of yards by whatever means would accomplish tho the purpose franklin Yonn vonnegut egit was long tho the chairman of the vacant lots iota committee end and to him and mr air grout in particular was largely due the good that was accomplished in those 18 years tho dource of support was an annual campaign for subscriptions these rarely it if over ran over MO the returns us As far as the money value could be figured were estimated at from 1500 to 2000 2500 while the improvement of surroundings and the effects upon character were not to be estimated in dollars at all many schools especially in parts of tho the city whee land could be easily obtained took up the work with zeal in his report of 1010 mr vonnegut on says saya that the neighborhood a about b Chris settlement was transformed by tho the work of as many ns as forty families that had painted or whitewashed their fences and turned their yards into gardens and that the most direct benefit had accrued to families that had been depending on charity the land thus cultivated that year amounted to full sized lots that would otherwise have been waste and many of them dumping grounds for trash the first plowing and the seeds were furnished free and tho the gardeners did the rest indianapolis news ADVICE FOR HOME BUILDER young people may be too enthuse enthusiastic aa but blit the project la Is a profitable one to tho the young couple just starting out in life a homo home of their own means in the first paco a definite goal boal towards which to work without which people are apt not to get anywhere in particular a hunker banker in n the e kansas ansas city still statistics will allow that where a family Is to be located permanently in a city it Is cheaper clie apor to own a modest home than it Is to pay present day rentals the homo home builder will tod find plenty of money offered him by banks and loan companies at a very nominal interest rate providing he to Is able to furnish nt at least one half of the amount needed to buy his lot and erect his residence any banker or reliable loan company would be glad to discuss ss plans and methods of financing with the prospective homeowner home owner it to Is a good idea to use caution in attempting to buy a home be beyond ill on ond ones means sometimes the monetary enthusiasm occasioned by the chance to obtain a beautiful homo home nt at a bargain will cause the buyer to assume contracts which will bo be impossible for him to meet later garage should conform to home architects and builders as well as developers of subdivisions of 0 class are giving serious consideration to the problem of the garage now that we are anro rapidly becoming a nation of IN anto automobile to owners rising costs have simplified building design oud and people have awakened to the fact that the simpler this design and the freer from gewgaws gew gaws the prettier it Is in this improvement it Is imperative that the garage shall conform to the architecture of 0 the t e house bouse find and that nn an owner who puts real money into his hie homo home Is very foolish it if he permits the unsightly woodshed type ot of garage to bo be built it Is as much out of place as the practice of some builders who use spanish alleon tile on a colonial house the owner should see to it that if his hie house Is dutch colonial lils his garage shall be dutch colonial too and if spanish that lie he gets a spanish type garage but whatever the type it Is to bo hoped there will be a rapid disappearance of tho the |