The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-26
COST NOT GOING
DOWN; MAINTAIN
DELAY Is UNWISE
Tremendous Demand For
Material After the War
Will Keep Prices Up !.
BIG ARGUMENT
FOR OWNING HOME
Matter of quitting it Off,
Seemingly Slight, of
Vast Importance

war is over may be an unwise bust-
ness decision, not for the reason so Of
ten given, that a man ought for pure
patriotism to keep his money moving
no matter what the cost; but for many
reasons, any and all of which are le-
legitimate. In the first place there is no
substantial ground for the belief that
after the war building cost will come
quickly back to cost level OF 1872. 1t
may be 10 years before salaries and
wages on the one hand and the cost
of building on the other shall adjust
themselves to the comparative posi-
tions they occupied in 1912. We may
reasonably expect that years will pass
before that adjustment is reached;
and in the meantime a mans life is
passing and his home expenses are go
ing on whether peace or war condi-
tions prevail, and whether he owns
home or rents one.
Adjust Plan to Fit Prices.
In the second place the man who
does not own a home must rent a
place in which to live until he builds
taxes and fuel and labor rise in cost,
so must rents rise. Rents can no
more remain at the 1912 level while
the expenses that enter into rent, rise,
than can the cost of table living re-
main stationary when food prices rise.
| therefore the man VINO Tries 10 dfOLu
| the high cost of building Is faced by
| the high cost of rent.
The third reason for building is that
no matter how much the cost Of build
| ing may in reason advance, one can
wit no expense whatever adjust his
| ideas of a suitable home to his ability
to build. If former $500 idea costs
now $4,000 to build, one can with no
more effort than a substitution OF
ideas retreat to a $4,000 idea that
costs $500. In this house he can
abide till the wished for adjustment
on the basis of 1912 conditions is
reached. He has thus enjoyed his
shelter in the time of storm; and II
after the storm he wishes to sell this,
doubtless he can do it at a figure that
will net him the cost of building, when
| the time shall come that he can build
his hearts desire at his figures. Or
better, he may find that his war home
after all is what he wants.
Child Should Live in Fathers House.
In lightly putting off the building
OF a home one great and overshadow-
/ ing fact is too often forgotten. And
that is the comparative shortness OF
the time mans family may live to-
gether under the family roof. While
| the family is growing from babyhood
to majority it should be housed in the
home owned by the father. But this
time is brief. Twenty lone years is
short span. The first 10 OF these
! years is the most impressionable age;
and during these years particularly
the child should know that his father
| is the owner of his home. One-half or
these years may easily be lost waiting
for war conditions to pass.
The final fact that all home hopers
must keep in mind is, that men VINO
rent save little. Financiers tell us
that the average family saves less
than $50 a year; and that the family
man who puts 800 a year into the
bank is the exception. Almost the
only way for the average man to save
any property for himself is to put his
savings into home. man can ouy
a home on the same conditions ne
pays rent; and the rent man pays
might just as well be buying home
for him as the man who built 1t for
rent. The rental OF the house built
| for rent must pay for the building OF
the house and it's upkeep.
Work of preparing the Equity Pack
| ing Co.'S site for the plant is being
pushed by the contractors and about
one third of the excavation for found
ations has been made. The yard" Is
being leveled and grading for the rail-
road tracks is under way. The tracks
will be laid by the Northern Pacific
Railway company, steel now stored IN
the Dilworth yards OF the company
being used.
When the excavation is completed
the railroad spurs viii be put in so the
material to be used in constructing the
buildings may be delivered where 1t
will be used. This will cut the ex-
pense of handling and hauling, max
| ing a considerable reduction In the
cost Of the plant
The school board at Clyde has taken
the bids for the new school house un-
der Amusement, and some modification
of the plans are being made by w. D.
Gillespie, the architect. A decision on
awarding the contract will probably be
made early next week.
w. d. Gillespie will file the plans for
the Drake school house on the Build
ers' Exchange next Monday. He is all
so at work on plans for the new school
house for Mountain and expects to
complete and file them next week.
Plans for the hotel to be built at |
IAkota have been completed by w. T. /
Kurke, architect, Fargo, and blue |
prints have been sent TO contractors /
and fled at the Builders exchanges.
Bids will be opened at Lakota on /
June z.
w. F. Kurke filed plans and specih-
cations on the Builders exchange this
morning for charging and remodeling /
the +. Y. Hutchinson house on Seventh
avenue south.
The contract for a three-story fire.
proof garage at Aberdeen. s. D.. has /
been let to Mr.. Arnold of that city, for i
s35. 900. Plans for this building were i
drawn by w. w. Kurke. Fargo.
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