Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1950 — Page 23

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SATURDAY, SEPT. 9, 1950

~ From Home Builders Association— | |

Shadow of High Taxes Hangs Over U. S. Despite Home Gains

Nation With 7 Pct. of World Population, Produces 40 Pct. of Its Goods and Services

By FRANK W. CORTRIGHT, Executive Vice President, National Association of Home Builders - If you are getting that middle-age spread

SARI NAS aaAl Sie € history of man. :

bathing beauties, heard the first Victrolas, drove the first unpredictable automobiles, saw the first airplanes, radios, television and hundreds of other miraculous

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It means you saw the first flickering Mack Sennett cops and,

New Homes Open, Going Up

firsts . . . not to mention such with electric refrigeration, up 15,20th Century landmarks as the 799,000 or 115.3 per cent. Tele-| atom bomb, Rita phones, up 12,012,000 or 96.8 per| Hayworth and |cent. Wired homes, up 51 per cent. | canafta. | Makes you feel proud, doesn’t] Best of all] it? | you have lived] | Unfortunately, there is another | and enjoyed lite {side of the ledger. : in the The Tax Foundation estimates] that the average new car buyer pays taxes totaling more than| $450. Buy a new home and you pay taxes up to one-fourth of the {price tag. . cent of the land } | 114. Hamburger Taxes area, this coun- Mr. Cortright - That hamburger, with or withtry of ours has produced 40 per| out onions, you had for lunch cost | cent of the world's goods and oo, 114 different taxes. A cake of The facts: We have 75 per cent S0ap carries 164 taxes, an egg of the autos, half of the world’s has 100. One out of every four | steel, -half of the world’s com- gays, you work to support federal, | munication facilities, one-third of state and local governments. the railroads, a substantial part gince 1930 the cost of the fed- | of the world’s improved highways, era] government has soared from 84 per cent of the world’s bath- g¢4 pillion to $42 billion. Uncle tubs and the best homes. {Sam now has 2,100,000-on the Events Since 1940 { payroll, instead of the 60,000 back Look what's happened since in 1930. Think that over. 1940: The point of the story is this: Population, up 17,245,000. Em- We have made tremendous gains ployed civilians, up 23.6 per cent.|during the first half of this CenPeople with $3000 income or more, | tury of Progress. up 315.4 per cent. Personal con-| But we must not let our 2d) sumption buying, up 147.9 per vances in science and housing,| cent. Annual personal savings, up and our higher standard-of-living 300 per cent. Retail sales up 176 overshadow the grave danger of per cent. leaving our children a fearful] Passenger car registrations, up heritage of taxation and big gov-|

7 per cent of the world’s population and 6 per

30 per cent. Life insurance in ernment, with its-stifling btsauc force, up 75 per cent. Families racy and controls.

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Giving Way to Bright Color Floor Coverings, Wall Materials Designed. to Add Cheerfulness

The days of the wood-stove kitchen are almost ancient history now. And the hospital whiteness, common during the last few dec-| ades, is fast giving way to rainbow hues of bright reds, yellows and greens in the kitchen. , The trend in kitchen-decoration is toward colors which give the housewife a cheery place In|... = Cenience. usi which to work. Not only are walls), ;.o¢ equipment an 8 hi and floors colorful now, but Te-in ing center beside the refrig-|

trigerators, stoves and Sinks ..,r'or range and having plent spark the room with color. nf storage ge pent

Floor coverings range from inlaid linoleum to asphalt and rubber tile and laminated-vinyl Basement Can Be flooring. All these come in solid

colors .and patterns.

Materials Vary M h Wall materials vary from paint d e eer U

or wallpaper on plaster walls to ceramic tile. Others are panels| The basement is a room for and tiles with metal mouldings work, but it still can be cheerful. at the joints, interlocking tiles,! A partition separating the coal

chromite zinc panels, wall-flex, bin and furnace from the rest of

mura-tex and asbestos-cement the basement will make it a neatboards with metal mouldings. |er and homier place. It will also

Tiles and panels are adaptable leave more room for a laundry,

to modernization as well as new summer dining room, recreation

construction. -And different ma- 00m, playroom for the children terials can be mixed to add to the OT other purpgses.

color of the room and make it a storage room for garden little more unusual. tools, bicycles and sports equip-| Kitchen planning is just as im- ment will keep those articles in portant as bright: color. better condition and more acces-|

A new kitchen can be plannea sible. ! as -scientifically as a laboratory, The partitions may be of wall-| and can cut the housewife’s work-| on ' oo ok brick, tile, or con-| ing time from five to three hours Crete, depending upon the wishes

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