Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1919 — Home Town Helps [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Home Town Helps

HOMES MAKE GOOD CITIZENS To Own One's Own Home Means Acquirement of a Certain Standing in the Community. "He’s a home owner and a taxpayer,” is the best recommendation any man can have in his own community. It gives him a standing forthwith, not so much as a person of some financial Importance, bjjt as a dependable, substantial frtidself-respecting citizen, wisely Regardful of his own and his family’s happiness and best interests, and at the same time an asset to the neighborhood in which he lives. So universal is the home-loving instinct that it might almost be said there is something wrong morally with the man or woman who does not care to own a home; and that is why the malcontents, the habitual industrial disturbers and the socially restive that inflict themselves on all countries are of the element that is very largely without home ties. Unless all signs fall, this is to be the great American home-building year. «> Stimulated by the government’s urgent advice to “own a home for your children’s sake,” and by the injunction that during the war It was patriotic not to build, now we can best show our patriotism by building, there has been a tremendous revival in the sentiment for home ownership. The indications are that the unhappy classes of renters and boarders will be greatly depleted before the end of 1919, and that there will be many thousands of additional families entered upon the life of happiness and contentment to be found only in the home. The price of building materials today is not high, as compared with prices of other commodities, and the community that does not add materially to its total of homes this year is likely to be rated as lacking in patriotism as well as good business judgment.