The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-11
ADVANTAGES OF
 OWNING A HOME Spend the Money Among Your NeighbOrs MEANS BETTER TIMES Stimulates Sale of Building Materials and Will Put Much Money
 Now Idle Into Cir
 culation
MEANS BETTER TIMES
From the Spokane twash) Tribune.

] From the Spokane lWash.) Tribune.
 Lumb bermen, merchants, business men, investors and the press through out the country are being interested i in a commendabl movement inaugur- ated by the American Lumberman jour- nal, which they are styling cam paign for home development. or There | is no place like home" Editorial mat ter on investment versus speculation the opportunity of today, the extraya- gance of idle capital, building and loan associations. etc. has been sent broadcast throughout the country in the effort to make the campaign of na- tional importance.
 l One of the chief features of the cam pain is to be united protest against speculation in doubtful land schemes and other projects of a questionable chara cter which take money out of the community and interfere with needed ! Improvements at home. Commenting upon the American Lumberman's cam paign. one prominent eastern newspa- per says editorially:
 Business Should Be Good
 
 There isn't a single reason, eXcpet the intangible reason of misguided sentiment, why business should not be booming in every line in this country as it is today in Europe. The crop out look never was brighter; billions ot new wealth are germinatlng in the SOIL. The country has passed through Tour years of scrimping, during which there has been an enormous accumulation or carital which eagerly seeks employ ment. During most of these four years production has been curtailed more than consumption, so that the point where production must be resumed 10 meet actual needs is at hand. In snort every condition favors an immediate re- sumption of activity all along the line.
 Maybe business has been waiting for the supreme court to decide the status of the trusts. Business ought to know that this is beyond the power oi the supreme court vast though its powers are The trusts are here. and though decision may change their form, 1t can not abolish these great business enter prises. any more than a court decision | cOulQ nave dDOllSiied lehpOi vices when, once upon time, laoor would have been glad to have that done because it mistakenly feared that labor | saving devices meant a less employ | ment of labor. Notwithstanding the de- | cislon of the court, the oil business will be conducted pretty much under one organization and pretty much as l it is now until regulation takes the | place of the misguided effort to revive | by statute law a competition, that eco , | homie law has destroyed beyond the | possibility of revival The prevailing "get rich quick fever Is discouraged by the new campaign packers, who put forth arguments show ing how much better it is to put ones money into the home town where it will help the town and enhance other interests owned by the investor. Tie building or a home, if not through ones own cap ital, through that of d building loan as | sociation, is urged-anything to combdt l the golden promises of smooth promoters which usually fade with tbe days
 | Development at home, says the Ameri- can Lumberman, means the sale of build
 ing materials, keeping money In contin- uous circulation, employment Of labor,
 the livening up of the community and
 prosperity for all.
 | In the circular sent out to the press | and trade journals, retail lumbermen, etc.,
 the American Lumberman prints the fol- | paign more fully: