Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1919 — Pushing Home-Ownership Idea. [ARTICLE]

Pushing Home-Ownership Idea.

Samuel Stern, who is vice chairman of finance, in charge of building and loan associations, has been informally in touch with a large fiumber of the 1,300 associations, in New York. He reports that the solid support of the "building and loan associations is assured. “No one,” said Mr. Stern, “realizes the fact that the home-owner is one of the most decided factors in civic betterment than do the officers and directors of building and loan associations. They are dealing with homeowners constantly and they know from years of experience that the responsibilities and the prestige which come from home ownership is a tendency to make the man far more interested -in his city than is the non-home owner.”