Show W ItE NEED FOR I t IETTER ETTER HOMES HOl i A welcome move in the i on on n of authentic as opposed to 1 toilette recovery is the evi- evi nt disposition on the part of ministration leaders business men and even a lethargic Congress Congress Con Con- ConI I gress to pull together in giving the nation better and cheaper homes through amendments to the present Federal Housing Act A According cording to the President we need new homes a avear year vear ear for five years With STith liberalized liberalized libera libera- financing arrangements a famil family wishing S to build a home can do so with around O. O cash and pay for the balance balance balance bal bal- ance in twenty years at 5 51 a interest Eight hundred thousand thousand and alid times is a lot of dol dol- ors lars and such a huge sum spent for raw materials labor machinery machinery machinery ma ma- chinery and incidental consumer products would do more to speed recovery than all the governmental governmental govern govern- mental pump priming s sin since i n c e 1933 Such a program would require for instance six billion board feet cf lumber 37 million barrels of cement 27 million gallons of paint and varnish bathroom kitchen and heating installations more thana than r a billion dollars in wages for labor If building material costs can be kept within reason and l labor bor stabilized to a point where it is reasonable over a term long-term program am indi indications point to a great boom in the Spring Every American family wants a home of its own and should have it I |