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Show A CITY OF HOMES. Anyone walking or .driving about the strects-of strects-of Salt Lake City at the present time cannot help being, impressed with the large number of houses being erected. Some of these are palatial residences, resi-dences, some terraces and flats, but by far the largest number are cottages of about five rooms, intended for homes for the ordinary family. A daily paper recently stated that there were -five hundred of such homes now under construction, They arc invariably of pressed brick, and present pre-sent a very substantial appearance. Inquiries at rental agencies disclose the fact that the supply is unequal to the demand, and that the growth of the city has been such in the last few years that they arc obliged to turn away daily, people who want houses. Home ties have a powerful effect on-the moral nature of the family. A man and wife are less apt to have disagreements , when living in their own home than when wandering, around from place to place. Children, too, form early impressions, in which the moral teachings are interwoven with their material surroundings in such a way as to influence their entire lives.' A man or woman, looking look-ing back to childhood, recalling 'the old homestead and the happy tunes enjoyed in it, will necessarily recall the moral teachings of that time, and be a better man or woman for the recollection. . It is also a fact that the city of homes, is invariably in-variably a prosperous, peaceable and thrifty community. com-munity. vThe. home, owner is' interested in seeing that honest and capable men are selected to fill the offices, lie interested in seeing that the '"' -""".- : : -"'"V ' """ !'" 'M'"1" IJ'" money derived from taxation is . not wasted or stolen, that the government is economically administered, ad-ministered, that necessary improvements are made, that there shall be no rioting or destruction of property,' and that all the affairs of life shall be conducted in a proper and law-abiding manner. Each new home erected helps the rest of the community com-munity in regard to taxes, as, by increasing the amount of taxable property, the rate of taxation is made less burdensome for each individual. The man who owns his own home has -.lso the satis1 faction of knowing that in case of his death his family will have its own roof over its head and will net be in danger of being turned into the street. The owning of homes is the best solution of the local problems in Salt Lake City. It will solve them in a peaceable, natural .manner, without with-out dissension or bitterness. We trust this campaign cam-paign of home-building will continue, and thai within the next few years Salt Lake will become I distinctively a city of homes. |