Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-04-16
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GETTING THINGS STARTED

Reports from all over the country show that building is ON the IN
crease. As the government contracts are being completed private IN
terests are entering the field and there is every reason to believe that
activities soon will be resumed ON a scale equal to that OF before the
war.
People r adjusting themselves to the new order of things. They
are beginning to realize that labor must be paid a wage sufficient TO
meet the present cost of living. Experience in past wars has shown
that it takes several years for things to straighten out after peace
has been declared and then they never return to the same level as
before.
Thus it has been that the world has advanced. Mankind In this
a has riser from serfdom to his present state. So ii IS that today
another step forward is taken. The world is entering upon a new era
and we ar all now trying to adjust ourselves to the new conditions.
The sooner we accept things a IS they ar and proceed about our
business, carrying out our plans and bring about the developments
that are SO essential for further progress the sooner al business In
general reach a normal condition and prosperity be assured.
What the world needs most today is real construction. For the
past four years there has been more destruction going on than at any
time in the worlds history. Billions of dollars worth of waste is the
awful record of this war. The one great remedy is construction on a
scale just as extensive as the war has caused destruction.
With buildings going on full blast every other industry begins to
boom. In the first place, the contractors and the building trades get
try from the making of nails to the manufacture of wall paper and the
furniture for furnishing the building after they are erected are start
ed The lumber dealers, the brick and terra Gotta manufacturers, the
sash and blind factories, the hardware men all begin to place their or
ders. The railroads get busy hauling the supplies and they, in turn,
place orders for steel rails, cars and locomotives.
There is nothing like building to get things going as usual.
And from the individuals standpoint the present time is most
propitous for starting building. Never before has there been s much
money in the hands of the people. 1t is most significant that today the
busiest industries are those dealing in what has always been known
as Injuries. What is more, the people are demanding the highest
priced articles. 1t is declared that the buyers for firms from distant
cities that crowd New York at this season of the year insist upon be-
ing shown the most expensive goods; they declare that the demand
back home, whether it be in the South, Middle West or the Far West,
is for the most expensive goods. All of which goes to show that the
people have the money.
cffavfnng tho money, what could be more sensible than to invest it
in a home? ~ - |
q Thousands Of people have always had the ambition to own their
own home. They have never felt that they could afford it, Today
with more money than ever before, is the time to build. The building
and loan associations re ready to assist in financing the proposition
Thousands of men are looking for good investments in the way of safe
mortgages. Savings banks that are holding more money than ever be-
fore are only too anxious to lend on mortgage instead of going into the
market to buy outside securities
Everything indicates a period of great prosperity; all that is
needed is to get things really started. The key to the situation is
building and there is no time when people were better able to build
than today. A genuine movement in that direction is the one thing
that is needed to get conditions back to normal, and there are indica-
tions everywhere that building is to be resumed without further de-
lay on a scale more extensive than ever before.
We are going to have the construction Of the next four years
more than make up for the vast destruction through which we have
inst passed