Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-02-12
PLAN TO BEGIN
BUILDING WORK
WITHOUT DELAY
Campaign to Be Launched at Meet
ing Feb. % to Bring About
Renewed Construction.
BUSINESS MEN BACK MOVE
Useless to Wait for Decrease In
Material, Costs Expected to
Remain the Same

Thursday. Feb. 20, viii! witness
the launching of a great campaign
in Rock Island and the tri-cities
fer the purpose of boosting build
ing construction work of every de-
scription, public and otherwise, &C
cording to an announcement made
today by J. ". Weishar, a member
OF the firm of Leithner & Weisha-
and a representative of the Quad
City Builders exchange.
- On the aforementioned date a
meeting and banquet will be held
at the Rock Island club to be at
tended by all interested in such
movement. The meeting will be
held at 2 o'clock in the afternoon
and the banquet at 1880 in the
evening Invitations have been ex-
tended to all contractors. builders,
construction company representa-
tives and business men.
That the movement has the
backing of the business men and
those planning building work in
the near future, is the assurance
that has been given Mr. Weishar.
There is no better time than the
present for the immediate start of
all building work" Mr. Weishar
said. We will have thousands of
unemployed men in the country be
fore many months unless such
movements are, started to give
them work The men viii benefit
as well as the contractors and the
men who are having the work
done.
Prices for building materials
swill never go back to former low
levels, and it is useless to delay
construction in the hope that costs
of lumber and other things will
fall to levels that prevailed sew
erai years ago" he continued
Davenport contractors, builders
and business men met today for
the purpose of formulating plans
TO be submitted TO the Rock Island
meeting next week. Moline is soon
to conduct a like meeting. The
quad-cities will be represented at
the Rock Island meeting and ban
quet
The campaign is being under
taken not only to bring about an
immediate start of the construction
of private dwellings, but to have
steps taken towards ordering the
erection of public buildings, which
are known to be contemplated by
private and civic organizations.
Waiting is Useless.
There is a general tendency on
the part of the people to await a
drop in the prices and costs of
building material" Mr.. Weishar
said. That waiting is practically
useless because there is no indi-
cation that the costs of material
will drop and other cities where
like movements have been started
have found this out and are losing
no time in beginning their con-
struction work"
Announcements of the coming
injecting as issued by the commit
,tse in charge, composed Of John A.
Nelson, Oscar Ohlweiler and Mr.
Weishar, point out the following:
I'VE desire to state that at this
meeting and banquet will be repre-
scented bankers, business men, ar
chitects, material men, builders
and contractors Of the tri-cities.
and big campaign is to be
launched for the boosting of build
ing construction of every descrip-
ton, public and otherwise, and to
make the campaign a success we
must have the cooperation OF
every business man in the tri-
cities. We have the cooperation of
the business interests and they are
backing our movement.
when our country went to war
the building industry was the first
to suffer, and now that the war Is
over, it is one of the first chat must
provide employment for thousands
of our men who were otherwise
engaged during the war"