Show MOTORS t INSTEAD OF residences RESI DENGES americans americana who yielded to nomadic instincts row now puy pay the piper although most americans did not heo bee it there was one absolutely certain per cent investment open to them as lato late as 1916 it was to buy or build a home the climbing cost of materials the striking and slacking in the building trades the spiral ascent of rents the exactions of landlords and all the other troubles of the housing shortage means nothing to the man nho ovens his own home nor has the satisfaction which is his due anything purse proud about it among the unfortunates who are desperately hunting flabb and besieging the legislature and courts for relief lie he sees multitudes who could buy him out several times but who preferred to put their money in automobiles and mining stocks instead of a roof there is a nomadic streak in the american character and being footloose has certain advantages but just now people are paying the piper out of the four million americans who drive their own automobiles it is a reasonable guess that not halt half own their homes surplus money has been used to buy the means to move from state to state on holiday jaunts instead of to buy the right to remain in one spot tho the first instinct of the first man was to fill his stomach the next net instinct was to have a roof of his own the hearthstone vas as the primitive altar for it iti i o own ii good and the states every family should have its roots in ili the earth even the nomad tribes had their onn tents Is tho the american fair to hini belf or hib children when his impulse i to surround himself with every comfort and luxury except the one thing thin that embraces all the tour four aalfs ot ota a L home homec ew york mail |