Show 1 1110 TORS INSTEAD i OF HOMES AMERICANS INS WHO TO INSTINCTS NOW PAY THE PIPER although most americans did not see it there was one absolutely certain percent investment ope open n to thain as late as 1916 it was to buy or build a home the climbing cost of materials the striking and slacking in the building trades the spiral ascent of rents the exactions of landlords and all the other troubles of the housing shortage means nothing to the man who owns his own home says the new york mail nor has the satisfaction which is his due anything purse proud about it among the unfortunates who are desperately hunting flats fiats and besieging the legislature and courts for relief he sees multitudes who could buy him out several times but who preferred to put their money in automobiles and mining stocks instead of a roof there is a nomadic streak in the american character and being footloose has certain advantages but just now people are paying the piper out of the the four million americans who drive their own automobiles it is a reasonable guess that not half own their homes surplus money has been used to buy the means to move from state to state on holiday jaunts instead of to buy the right to remain in one spot the first instinct of the first man was to fill his stomach the next instinct was to have harve a roof of his own the hearthstone was the primitive altar for its own good and the states every family should have its roots in the earth even the nomad tribes had their own tents Is the american fair to himself or his children when his impulse is to surround himself with every comfort and luxury except the one thing that embraces all the four walls of ai a home |