Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1917 — HOME TOWN HELPS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOME TOWN HELPS

HOME-OWNING AIDS THRIFT Being Tied to One Place Is More Profitable Than Being Foot-Free and Homeless. The owning of a home, a fortune greatly desired by every man, is achievable by’ most men. And yet the proportion of Americans who- live in rented quarters grows larger year by year. One of the prime reasons for this Increasing tenancy is that an increasing proportion of earners are employees, and being employees they wish to hold themselves free to move as better employment may offer itself. To this hope of better employ’ment the hope of a home is easily sacrificed. The fear of being tied to a home is not .uncommon in those who are not employees, says the Minneapolis Journal. Some are not content to settle down permanently, being lured by the enchantment of the beyond—that beyond being the other side of the continent or the other side of the street. Moving becomes a habit, made easy by those whose business is transportation. But in the end the habit is expensive. As a matter of everyday demonstration, two facts stand forth: First, being tied to a home is vastly more profitable than being foot-free and homeless; and, second, the home-owner need never be tied to his home in an undesirable way. Few tnen ever accumulate enough to carry them through life without first being caught and tied up. Every well established business is a financial hitching post. The business of the lljfg. insurance agent i-s to catch—and tie those who will not otherwise accumulate. Buying a home while living in it is one of the surest ways on earth to persuade a man to accumulate property.