Arizona republican., 1919-05-11
HOUSING IS SCARCE. BETTER BUILD NOW SIG CONCERNS COUNTRY OVER PLANNING ON
 T3TTGF RTTTTDING PROJECTS
BY RICHARD sPlLLANE Americas Foremost Writer on Economics. Written for the Arizona Republican,

will be higher than today and what We consider dear today will appear cheaE then
 It has been so from the beginning of time. It will be so to the end.
 This summer and fall will see building boom greater probably than the nation ever has had From all sections of the country come plans o. reports Of contracts closed for ware houses, store buildings, schools hos pitals sanitariums, railway station ] banks, churches. apartm.nt house. i theaters, couTthouses. dwellings. WOod working plants. water works, teNtil mills, shipbuiding plants, road anC l street work, factories. mine buildings metal working plants, iron and stce mills, ice and cold storage plants, gas and oil mills, electric light plants, fer tilizer factories, machinery estabisN ments. hydro electric plants. irrigatio systems, lumber mills, canning anC packing plants, airplane stations, con crete and cement plants. cotton com presses and gins. bridges, ViadUcts art multitude of other enterprises.
 One ProJect Se,000o0o
 One man in Baltimore has started or the construction of 2400 dwellings. II. 5 operation means an expenditure oi $9,000.000
 r The Studebakers of South Bend, lnG. = are planning 10 build several hUndg 9 new houses. e New York reports a shortage ui 25.000 dwellings Philadelphia needs 10000 new homes. Birmingham nevoi S was so overcrowded. Chicago. Pitts ? burg, Boston-every city awaits the builder.
 The Dodge Brothers contemplat- spending $1,000000 on homes for then employees at Niles. Mich.
 State and nation will expend half billion on good roads within the ncT twelve months.
 East. west, north and south the sto.- is the same Everywhere there is nee of more homes more factories mo. structures of every kind and character
 And yet there are men who hesitat- because they expect prices of waces or of materials. or both, to come down They punish the public by their pre- crastination or timidity. Prices maH come down a little but THEY CAN NOT COME DOWN MUCH. The cos of many materials and probably Of la bor are likely to advance with the Ver' large measure of activity natural an' necessary 10 eaten up WlLil litC SIi'i age occasioned by the three or fOu years in which. owing to the war ther was little or no construction work.
 A nation is but a group of individ9 als
 Nation Cramped for Housing
 No one can work freely or well
 cramped quarters.
 The nation is cramped today
 %Cto1 in mill in
 office structure, in roads, in transpc- tation lines.
 BUILD.
 But build we'll when you do build
 The average house built for th
 American family is moi what it shoul
 be-
 The man who puts up shoddy hou. is not citizen of whom to he prou The man who builds a factory witt out plenty of light and air for tho. | who work within iniures himself. h | workers and the community. | A bad plumber is Q bad citizen. ! \ dishonest contractor robs not on 1 the man with whom he makes the col | tract but al who have 10 utilize wh he builds.
 X house 9 factory road should an enduring monument to it's archite' it's builder and it's owner 1 One way to make the world "a bett
 place to live in is te build bett
 homes.
 X good house is conducive to go
 citizenship
 BUILD,
 BUILD NOW, - It will cost more to build later h "A t costs nov.