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Show B HOMEBUILDING. H This is a mobile and shifting age. People move around H j from town to town. Not so many people own their own H homes as formerly. Workmen dislike to tie themselves H to any one town. They wish to be free to change em-H em-H 1 ployers over night and if they own their own homes they H j feel anchored to the spot. Whether they gain by this H freedom of location is another question. H The old saying was that three, move's were equal toi H one fire. Trucking and freightage cost heavily nowadays. H They eat up the advances in pay that look alluring. H ' Then the workman has to pay higher rent than he used to. Building costs good money and the landlord charges it up to rent. It is not advisable to rent unsani-iff-f tary quarters at any price. A clean, neat house in which one can bring up a family respectably costs good money. H People who set out to own their own homes make no H mistakes. For the time being they may have to get along B with lower wages than the shifters and rolling stones. H, But by working in one community they gain an acquainting, acquaint-ing, ance that makes them valuable. At the end of a period m of years the fare well in a money way. Chances to go B into profitable business open up to those who locate in H one town and identify themselves with the people. ' It does not take a large cauital for a man to own his B own home. He can pay the bulk of the cost on mortgage. 1 His interest charges, taxes, renairs, and insurance will not Hl- equal the ordinary rental. Many of the repairs he can V learn to do himself. There is satisfaction in working B about a place when it is your own home nest. B A double house proposition often works well. Manv M men buv such homes on mortgage for a small amount of m -cash. They rent a flat and the charge left to them is a 1 -very low rental indeed. There is some incentive to im-H im-H ' prove and beautify a place when you own it yourself. 1 ' |