The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-05-30

Are you aware Cnat a cessation or
building houses or remodeling old
ones puts check on business activ-
ity in any city? Don't you know
that it deprives the mechanic of his
natural channel of revenue? All
this has a tendency to create a spirit
of unrest ,swith the cost of living 80
greatly increased and the prospects
of an increase lessened by over
cautious builders. 1t is hard to hold
in check a growing desire to do
something that will at least afford a
life-sustaining income. However we
do not believe that this is the right
time for men of money to gobble up
building materials and labor and de-
vote them to the erection of pomp-
Gus private estates. We do not be-
lieNe that this is the time for indi-
viduals with money TO spend their
money for their own selfish pur-
poses; even cities aadzCommGnities
with a surplus of money on hand
should not at present spend it Law
ishly on unnecessary building ope-
rationS but we do believe that indi
viduaIs and communities that have
surplus after spending their quota
for Liberty bonds and other govern
ment securities, should devote some
of that surplus toward improving the
public health and morale.
This is all war work, a spoke in
the wheel of American liberty and
cannot be overlooked with indiffer-
ence. What are the boys doing.
'over there?" Fighting for Ameri-
can liberty, a tie that binds, chain
that oppression cannot sever. The
watchword of our independence is
liberty now and forever. Along these
lines of reasoning therefore we feel
that in these days of stress and con-
servatIon our people must not neg
Iect to keep up the high standard of
loyalty and patriotism which has
been SO firmly rooted and grounded
into our lives. During the period of
the war while material and skilled
labor are 80 scarce and expensive it
perhaps is not wise to build expens-
i've buildings, but the operations
should not cease entirely. There is
always demand for moderate priced
homes, the construction of which
would benefit not only the builder
but would be source of revenue to
the mechanics.
All this is written on the scope of
possibilities of any progressive city
and can be and is done often to
stimulate the desire to do something
to add to the prosperity of the COM
munity. No city will ever grow by
forced developmen'-:t must come
through a spirit of progress and a
desire to reach high standard of
proficiency. No one or two men
can do it. There must be co-opera-
tion of effort and an application of
something tangible to get anything
out of it. Talking about It won't do
it. There must be no lost motion
and no waste of money to get re-
suits either at home or abroad,
whether in building up city in the
GOOD old U. S. A. or taking care of
the boys over there it is a mans
job. =
1t is deplorable but true that our
people at large have failed to be inn
pressed with the fact that we are
not fighting for France, England, Ser
bia or any other of our allies. past or
present, but are literally and abso-
lutely fighting for ourselves and Lib
erty. Germany must be conquered.
There is no alternative and nothing
on the face of the earth but uncon'
ditional surrender seems able to con-
vince the kaiser that he is not only
unable but unfit to dominate the
earth. This rascal has cot to be con-