| Show mm ONCE five hundred thousand new houes hou es nee led at once within the boundaries of the united states so S the department of labor cells us and it if we study the conditions at home and realize that they are a similar throughout the country W we re shall be trach inclined ned to trust to the accuracy at braly of its statement houses uses are not to be had in guari quinea a for them either for pur chase or rent meet with disappoint ment T the h a restriction of building during the war has of course placed a great part in an producing this scarcity of homes A shortage of houses is to be for several reasons reason it means mean a congestion where two form families I 1 its a are living in quarters quarter which aureba are by rights right only italy sufficient boram for one iberians Ibe there rians IB inevitably crowd me ing an enough 0 nab to affect the conditions of life more or less lesa unfavorably also alao if a small town has only houles an enough t ugh for its present in an ila habitants t there here is IB no possibility of further growth new residents however il satisfactory 0 t factory they might be as citizens s cannot be accommodated cco car dated men who have capital or can arrange for the use of it should wake up to conditions and ad realize axia that the 1 resent present is an excellent time me for building |