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Show HOME-BUILDING BOOM The home-building boom now in evidence is stimulated by abnormal ab-normal rents, made still more adnormal by renters' demands for expense in construction, ornamentation and conveniences not asked for a generation ago. While landlords, like everybody else, will get the highest price possible for what they have to sell, just as tenants, when things are their way, pay the least they can, there is no reason to think that landlords are extortioners. But overcrowding in apartment houses makes a certainty of racial degeneration. It means childless families, which is one evidence evi-dence of degeneracy. It destroys the habit of physical performance of homely tasks, which, when cheerfully done within reason, promotes health, comfort com-fort and happiness. Whoever can pay rent and has saved anything can have a home, a family and a happy life. Starting planning one now. |