Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-20
"oWN YOUR own
HOME" T0DAY'S
THRIFT SLOGAN
BozeII Plan Adopted All Over
Country-W. Edwin Brown
Speaks at Chamber
Of Commerce.

Gown Your Own Home" is the
slogan for today of the national
thrift committee, and the doctrine of
every man in his own house" is be-
ing spread from the Atlantic to the
Pacific.
A national plan by which every
man wage-earner can make a start
on owning the house in which he
lives has been evolved by Leo Be-
zell. executive secretary of the Oma-
ha Real Estate board, and is being
utilized today all over the country.
The plan has the backing of various
civic organizations in Omaha as we'll
as in other cities and is attracting
widespread attention.
Pushing Home" Plan.
The Home Fund plan, briefly. is
that an account be opened with an
Omaha bank, trust company or
building and loan association for the
expressed purpose of being used as
start for the purchase of home.
Any amount from 81 up will start
the fund. 1t can be added to every
week, or every month, or every day.
Any amount can be added. The f.
nancial institution with which the ac-
count is opened will pay interest on
the amount of the deposit. A spe-
cial deposit book will be issued the
deposition. The account will be kept
separate in the bank and will always
be known as the Home Fund &C
count.
Omaha bankers believe this plan
should appeal to the women particu-
larry.
Every Omaha bank, savings insti-
tuition, building and loan and trust
company has made arrangements to
open these accounts today. In fact,
today is the very first day the Home
Fund" account has been opened.
within six months or year
these Home Fund accounts will
have become so large that some of
them will be turned into homes"
said Mr.. Bozell. That will depend
on the amount deposited each week
A Home Fund will grow mighty
rapidly and the desire to make it
grow increases as the account gets
larger"
Address at Noon.
Another feature of "Own-Your-
Own-Home dayin Omaha is an
address at noon today at the Cham
Der of Commerce of w. Edwin
Brown of Minneapolis, past director
of the American Institute Of Ar
chitects, and chairman of the small |
house committee of the institute.
Mr.. Brown is head of the Archi- |
tects' Service Bureau Of Minnesota.
The purpose of this bureau is to |
furnish at minimum cost to peo-
pie who could not otherwise af-
ford it, the services of an architect
in the building of small houses. The !
idea as carried out compares with |
that of the free medical clinic sup
ported by the best physicians, sur
yeons and dentists in the different |
cities. Mr.. Browns experience in
LiC oIidlI HOuSC kdllC mas DccT
extensive and he will speak along
that line today at the Chamber Of |
commerce.
Every one acknowledges the ad-
lantages of homecoming" said D.
{. Buell., chairman of the thrift
for Omaha. about all
hats necessary to get a thirsty
horse to drink is to show him the
water trough. All that should be
necessary to get any fellow to own
lis home is to show him how to go
about it.
"The Home Fund points the way.
And every financial institution in
Omaha is today ready and anxious
% start one of these Home Funds
With any man who wants to get
started. I
"The Home Fund campaign is
,ne that will be continued from day
% day, week to week, month to
month and year to year. The fund
IAN be started any day. but the
quicker it is started the quicker the
lone can be purchased"