The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-22
nluln MORT HOUSES

y BUILD MORE HOUSES
xSeldom a day passes that does noJ
bring some stranger into The office
of the Dispatch where effort is made
10 locate house to occupy. This has
not long been the case, but it is true
now II impresses itself so strongly
upon one to whom such course. is new
and unheard of that it is not difficult
TO decide that more houses are need
ed There is now no fair available
house for any family, good, bad or
Indifferent in any section of the city
The Dispatch has TO advise new
corners and strangers almost daily thar
il knows of no house that can be had
1t has heem forced to this unpleasant
duty for two incoming families TINS
week and so far as we can learn Meth
er of these new corners has place
vet There is but one way of getting
around this difficulty that stands now
so much in the way of our growing
We must build more houses.
We have felt it our duty on every
occasion to speak out for the thing
that will help enlarge TIM usefulness
of 6Re commercial community but
gwe have never felt it our duty to urge
unsafe, unsound business enlarge
ment in any field. Such thing will
come back and hit hardest where we
are looking for it least. But the need
of more residences of a modern cost
vet having modern conveniences, IS
so urgent that no one makes mistake
to advise investment in the construc-
ton of such residences.
The investment is not a good one
where lots have to be bought at three
times their value. Such g mis$itake
however need not be made where
there is so much open space as there
is available in Cordele city lots. Mon
CIV invested in renting houses of mod
crate cost will be well placed and it
will net good returns to the person of
good business Judgment. II will be
safe and will earn a reasonable inter
I est on the money.
The investor need look to but one
thing. He must be sure that the mon
ey put into his modern renting houses
is well spent That will mean the
worth of the rentals to the family that
occupies the house. That will mean
. good name for the community among
lose who come here and have to
occupy rented houses, for the conven'
fence of the home the stranger has to
occupy will have much to do with max
ing the new conner a satisfied citizen
The Dispatch predicts now that the
demand for houses will not show a
decrease in the next decade, if indeed !
within, the next score of years. The |
town can hardly build fast enough to |
meet the need of new homes. Cordele |
is going TO- grow rapidly and it has |
not had in the past four years enough |
houses for the incoming families un-
der normal conditions. OF course in
depressed times things are different,
but depression is not going to get in
the way of trade development in the |
south again in many. many a day
It will be safe to build not one but /
a dozen houses for rent. They are /
needed. Men are working here now |
in the city with their families residing
in other places because there are no /
available houses. Unless new homes /
are provided. this thing vii become
a serious menace to the permanent
growth of the town. More residences
are needed. badly needed. Those who
have money idie should investigate
this suggestion. 1t is worth while.
coRDELE COTTON MARKET.