The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-05-14
WHY EVERYBODY SHOULD OWN
A HOME >
Noween Adele Faul, Sd PRICE

Essay No. 16
Home is really big word that has
lot of meaning, it interprets heaven
to most people. Moral character and
citizenship come from the home, but
how can they come from family who
haven't place they can call home?
That is one reason every family should
own home-their character and
American citizenship call for it and
they must answer. the CALL =
When family own the home they
live in they take more pride in it, and
want to keep it in good condition,
while the renter cares not, how he
knocks and batters the house he is
renting. The owner of a home feels
as il he. could atfQrd to Aaiptser Mas
ter 4Or build on, to his home, but one
in the renters position doesn't care.
He feels as.if 1t isn't his business If
the house Jocks shabby on the inside
as we'll as the outside. He thinks that
probably he won't be there long any
way and that he need not take good
care to preserve the walls or paint as
long as possible Then too, the family
who own their home take pleasure in
inviting company to come to visit
them. They take pride in having them
comment on the new paint or paper
or how convenient everything is ar
ranged, while the family who rents
would rather go out than have COM
pany for they always have to make
excuses TO the Inconvenience or
what bad condition the house is in. \
The family who own their home
have the comfort of storm doors and
windows which is also saving on the
fuel bill. The renter on the other hand
generally is not supplied with these
comforts when he moves in a house
and the landlord does not trouble him
self to provide them, for it is not to
his good that the renters will save fuel
by the storm doors and windows, con-
sequently he makes no provision for
them. Hs &E
Owning ones home brings advant-
ages to the children of the family as
we'll as the grown folks, for they
know that they are permanently set
tied in the town, and have the adj
vantage of attending the schools,
without fear of a change, while the
CHlluICu VI " ldhily WIN iChIo hoSS
not this advantage, for sometimes it
is hard to get a house to rent and then
the family must needs go to some 9th
er town or city where they can secure
dwelling place. This continual lov-
ing is hard on the children's education,
for as soon as they are nicely settled
in one school they are taken out to
begin all over again in some other
school which is new and strange.
When a family rents they are more
than likely to come in contact with
contagious diseases or other pests
which the former renter may have left
when he moved. These disagreeable
things the renter has always to con-
tend with, while the family who own
their home is never bothered with
something someone else discarded or
left when they moved out.
: Even if the family budget is not
large the house can be bought on the
installment plan and even if the in
terest on the principal seems large, in
the end it will not amount to any
more than the rent would and one has
their home in the bargain because
they can always save little to pay
on the principal beside the money for
the interest.
The renter is continually complain.
ing of the high rent and yet each
month he has to lay aside certain
sum from the daily earnings to pay
the rent, and that money might go to-
ward movies or entertainment of some
other sort or for something useful for
the children.
Our. soldier boys could be counted
in on this too. Those who went from
families, who rented homes here no
doubt wondered how the folks at home
were managing the rent and wishing
they could have owned their own
home. When it was cold and rainy
and generally disagreeable and he was
not feeling altogether comfortable he
could just see the folks shivering
around because the house was so in
convenient and hard to keep warm.
He knew how things were when. hA