Show FACTS AND misstatements since tho the general increase In creaso in build ing coati appeared to bo be reaching nn an alarming peak thero there havo have been pro pre sistena efforts orl on tho the part of uninformed statisticians careless econom ic and deliberately untruthful of substitute materials to old rp tho the climber as principally responsible for or tills this alt nation in a corent letter to mr franklin D roosevelt president of tho the american construction council mr air edward hamilton president of the now jersey Lumb ermens tho the retail prices of lumber and lumber products which outer enter into thu the construction of an ail ordinary dwelling uro are considerably lower than those of april and may alay 1920 this statement is based on tho the result of a survey which has just juat been completed in fit now jersey anti and the public should know it sixty four lumber dealers in tho the various counties in the state were requested to select a list of material for rodj rod nary Inary dwelling con struxton ton which they sold old during april hid and may lay 1920 and refigure re figure it on cit tho the present bai nf if price A tabulation or of the result that it Is possible to purchase the same bill today on an average of 27 4 per cent loss less than that at which it was sold during tho the same period in 1920 |