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Show WHa I "' TENANTHT IS AWFVI, IV TIIK t'lTlhX HH W There is no dodbt that cliange must come In HHBj S homo lownlug in this country. If the iinux of our a. I HH"a people are to lie true blue, patriotic American clli- H K Bl f' It has long been a matter of serious alarm that .Tenantry was lncTeaslng, lnthp,country.ff5jVe know that a tenant cannot havo the complete Interest wti would like him to have In the soil ho works and llu buildings hocuses. Ownershlpalone glres the ronl interest ,that makes for continued fertility of his 1-ml 1 and for upkeep and Improvement of farm house and farm buildings. It Is tho samo only with a different twist, In the cities. Wo havo not greatly agitated ourselves abot.'. thorn, however, because wb haVo carelessly frit ttat tenantry was the natut-al thing In the cities, nut '( H Is-Urn natural thing. It shouldn't bo. The man with a five room house and a lot 4012G Isa'good deal different sort of a cltlix-n of this republic to the man who rents. Ownership counts. ' ' ' Think, yo home owners, of the situation In New York City, of the 6,100,000 residents, only 300.000 own their homos, or less than 5 per cent. That 3 per cent is Intel ested In good, orderly-patriotic gnr-emment gnr-emment for obvious reasons. How many of the ot.v or 95 per cent care about those things? m as |