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Show drive their own automobiles, it is a j reasonable guess that not half own i tlieri own 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 instineteof the first man was to fill his stomach. The next : instinct was to have a roof of his own. The hearthstone was the primitive prim-itive altar. For it's own good and the state's every family should have sit in roots in the earth. Eevn the no-! mad tribes had their own tents. Is' the American fair to himself or his ! children when his impulse is to surround sur-round himself with every comfort and luxury except the one thing that embraces all the four walls of a home? New York Mail. I I I MOTORS INSTEAD OF HOMES. Although most Americans did not see it, there was one absolute certain 100 per cent investment open to them as late as 1916. It was to buy or build a home. The climbing cost of materials, the striking ana slacking in the buld-ing buld-ing 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. Nor has the satisfaction which is his due anything any-thing purse-proud about it. Among the unfortunates who are desperately desperate-ly hunting flats and besieging the legislature and courts for relief he sees multitudes who could buy him! out several times, but who prefer-! red to put their money in automo-j biles and mining stocks instead of a roof. There is a nomadic streak in the American character and being foot-, loose he has certain advantages; but just now people are paying the piper. : out of the 4-million Americans who i |
