Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-06-02
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ment attempted sy the United states
secretary OF labor, IS no new thing. inc
| best the secretary can do Is to arouse
| the class he represents to the thrift
an advantage of owning It's homes
and to stir up civic interest and as
sistancc for those who desire and are
wiling TO save Ivy paying for IA ''oHic
| on the installment plan. However
that Is enough. IL the family desires
TO own it's own home end is willing TO
work and save for it there Is net the
slightest reason why any man ana
woman in ordinary health may not
own and occupy their own home IN
time. Better yet they can occupy 1t
while they are paying for II and put
the rent money into the savings bank
of their own property
There is a certain thriftless"ess IN
living from one house to another,
lack of solidarity In the home, & loss
in more ways than the mere loss OF
savings that might have been accumu-
lated for old age When the first pur-
pose of a pair was 10 own their own
home. however humble, nobody spoke
trippingly of ''proletariats. "Proie-
tariat" refers TO those who do not own
their own homes. 1t is another word
for 'nomad" in the modern sense, for
loose connection with the community.
1t is being in but not precisely OF. The
man without a home of his own lacks
locality. In time he comes to realize
that much better than tnosc among
whom he lives.
Buying a home isn't just like build
ing il. So much of the builders go into
a home. There is no greater pleasure
than Of building a home. There is no
greater satisfaction than comes when
the last pa, rIisIIt hiss:; been made ana
none can move or make afraid those
who builded and paid FOR it. a home
where a family has lived and grown is
a written history. Epochs date from
this Improvement or that loss. rhe APP
pie tree in the back yard is u historian
and a. date. And every room whispers
and repeats of the 'old familiar faces,
"All houses wherein men have lived
and died
Are haunted houses; thru the open
doors
The harmless phantoms on their err
rands glide
| With feet that leave no sound upon
the floors"
The children Of those who own their
| own home depart with such flood OF
| happy memories from the house where
they were born and lived and grew. 1t
| is a sacred spot to them. They see it.
| the old familiar rooms, the old familiar
| fireside and the old familiar faces UNI
| changed and as they were when they
themselves have grown bent and gray
and their children go forth like the
branches that always grow away from
the stem, to make homes of their own
and leave the old nest lonely.
There is more than thrift In own
ing ones own home" infinitely Ioore
than the JOY Of possession and the
| sense Of safety that possession gives
| It Is living. The scars on the wood
work are palimpsests more precious
than Egypt ever knew. the life history
of home.
Own your own home. Strive for it,
fight for it. live in it. 1t Is little re-
public within a common country and
seed bed Of love and hope and pa
triotism and the better citizenship.
And it Is yours.
The building and loan associations
have for many years offered this OPP
portunity and urged it upon those to
whom it IS opportunity. If The homes
which have been builded and owned
| thru building and loan organizations
during the past thirty-fiv years might
| be assembled the great cities Of tho
earth would look like villages in COM
parison. And the best Of 1t all Is that
every house Is an independent unit. a
| little government with its shelter and
! protection to those who live under it's
roof.