The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-10-04

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cent place In which to live he did not linger
long. Some factories were hiring 5000 men
II year In order to maintain force of LOCO.
Then Uncle Sam stepped in and went into the
BODYBUILDING business. An appropriation of SlOO.-
100000 was made for emergency wartime housing.
and while that only starter II was sufficient
TO provide shelter for about 10000 persons More
money has been asked and it doubtless will be
forthcoming.
In the beginning Uncle Sam made mistake.
His first idea was to provide temporary barracks,
something on the order of those at the army can
.tonments. But In the case of the ship workers he
found out that so per cent of them are married,
and their wives and children objected to living In
bunk houses. Moreover, temporary houses while
costing within 10 per cent of as much as perma-
nent ones are q total loss within few years.
So he decided to make these towns permanent.
AS a result he Is now covering whole square miles
Ut vacant countryside with pretty little houses,
boarding places, stores theaters, churches, paved
streets and ali utilities. He has at his service the
best town planners and architects In America.
And with all the haste that is being made, beauty
sad good taste are not being sacrificed. The
houses will not all be alike In color. material or
style On the contrary, throughout each of these
spacious sunless tracts will be evidence that the
thing was planned as a wh0le-that this street
was curved on purpose, because curved street Is
prettier than straight one-that yonder church
was put squarely across the end OF the park be-
eause It would look well there. The eye will un-
consciously start vain search for eyesores, blank
eide walls, billboards and disorder.
The chief benefit which accrues to the worker
from the building OF these towns is the fact that
landlordism Is to be thing unknown The bene-
fits are to go unfailingly to the workers Rents
must be based cost and not on the maximum
which the tenants can be forced to pay And
nasmuch as Uncle Sam has desire to retain
Z 80. orohi mfr a
scheme TO sell them not to individuals, but to the
communities as whole, to be held In trust as
community property
Each such town will be- at the start. at least. In
the complete possession Of local housing COM
many composed Of and partially financed by public
spirited business Of the vicinity. They put up
20 per cent Of the money and they get the other
80 per cent on first mortgage from the United
states labor department or from the shipping
hoard. each Of which has $50O00.000 given them
IN congress this spring for just this purpose.
In lending money to local housing companies In
congested communities. the government lays down
the stipulation that dividends shall be forever linn
fed 10 & per cent annually-eyen after the govern
ment's mortgage is paid OF. Any excess income
must be re-expended upon the property or else
illuminated by lowering the rents. The part of the
rent that would ordinarily go to landlords profits
win 20 to pay or the governments mortgage ut
me rate OF or per cent year. The mortgage Is
sor ten years and at the end of that time enough
sesumebly win be paid of to enable the govern
j. ga sE' 'asfs' private mortgage & pas 2
Then If th8 local housing company has not mean
,sb,le sold OF any OF the houses the town will
Substantially own itself. subject to mortgage For
~ rents viii be based purely on costs on capital
and service The private capital, limited 60 per
cent return. Is practically q second mortgage One
NJ ma arst government loans made to the new Wiz
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