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Show Americans Are Slow to Take to Home Owning Just why so many persons fail to own their own hosaes is one of the inexplicable features of American life, especially when one considers how easy it is made for one to buy or build in this day. Americans, generally speaking, are a nation of chance takers. They will gamble in almost any kind of investment invest-ment that promises a profit. But in home owning, where lo chance whatever what-ever is taken, they are strangely investment in-vestment shy. The sure thing does not seem to appeal. Should the life of his wife or his child depend upon it. the average man would not hesitate a minute to obligate obli-gate himself for five or ten or fifteen lousand dollars. But with too many of us the happiness happi-ness of our loved ones and there is nothing that makes the wife and mother so sur.dy and supremely happy as the realization that at last she has a home of her own fails to command the same consideration and sacrifice. We do not seem to realize that we i. -e callously IndifTerent. We do not mean to he so and probably would resent the inference, but we are. And it is just this that makes so many of us go down through life to its last day without a roof which we may call our own. |