Show LITTLE TALKS US ON THRIFT cm by S W STRAUS president Pr edn american society for thrift I 1 IT T IS gratifying to note that the current year ha has proved to be the greatest era of homebuilding home horne building and home h m e in the he history of our ur country A this Is important tant because these activities signify wide spread sp ad I 1 cices of thrift homes omes means the creation oil of new wealth weal tb 1 minx c riter iier directly or framl ina W STRAUS the a savinia Bavi ners of the statisticians tell su that t durinzi durin the year 1922 1022 nore ore ault one bit bil lion dollare dollars will have been utilized ia in the erection of homes for our people a considerable portion of ekich represents rew homeowner home homp owner ship it is a splendid commentary en the ti ta nd encie in american life it shows right thinking and right living 40 in 10 1921 were home h ome owners in the united states i and this number has been greatly increased during the intervening two years it would probably be sate safe to estimate that there are home hone ownes in the united tales states today A nation which spends more than a billion collars dollars a year for new bolies ones and which numbers home homeowners owners among its population scant comfort for the alarmist the bolshevist or this th pessimist T in many we as a deop people of the va lutt that tome from thrift but the unaa mental are bound sound and no better proof of this can be found than in the extent of home ownership la in and the rapid development cf 0 this phase of our national life |