The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-04-16
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Entered at the Postofice at New
berry, S. c., as End class matter.
E. H. AULL, EDITOR.
Friday, April 16, 1920.
E. H. AULL, EDITOR.
A NEED OF REAL HOMES.

A NEED OF REAL HOMES.
Apartment houses are all right, OF
course, and in many ways are boon
to humanity, but there is about as
much difference between an apart
rnent and real, honest-lndian, sure
enough, separate home as there is be-
tween a modern, high-speed automo-
bile and wheelbarrow.
This has long been our view OF the
matter and it is pleasing to note that
The Record is in company with such
eminent civic uplift newspapers as
the esteemed Ohio State Journal,
Columbus. What the Journal says in
this hone-building editorial is apt
and true and applies just as we'll to
Columbia and other Carolina towns
and cities as it does to Ohio's capital
city.
In part, the Journal says:
But it is far better for city to
have a hundred new separate homes
erected than to have a hundred
family apartment houses constructed.
The proper and natural way of living
lis FOR one family to have a house.
with the little grass plot in the yard
a BIT of; garden in the back part OF
the lot. with the freedom and conven-
fences and privacy that separate
homes provide. Columbus has a
housing demand now that calls for
some more apartment houses, those
with proper conveniences and rent
al not too great. But it has greater
need for more separate homes. There
are hundreds of vacant lots, in every
section of the city. Homes should
be built on these lots, the cost of the
building being suited to the neigh
borhood. There is a great need Tor
the homes that will care for small
families, homes within the purchasing
power of the man of limited means,
who has saved some money, is we'll
employed and wants to pay out for
his home during the coming years.
Every man is better citizen when
he becomes a home owner.
The corporation which makes it
possible for a working man to es-
tabIish a home of his own is genu-
inc benefactor. The Record hopes
that the day is not far distant when
a mammoth program Of this sort will
be flaring all over the Carolinas.-
Columbia Record.
The above is so much in keeping
with the contention Of The Herald
and News in it's advocacy of the es-
tablishment of a real building and
loan company in Newberry that we
desire to give it to our readers. The
idea here contained, as we under
stand it, shall be the main purpose of
the building and loan recently organ
lied in Newberry. Real homes is what
the community needs to develop the
very best citizens. There is nothing
that so much helps in the making of
patriots and men and women willing
to stand up and defend their town
and community and to love it with
that love which makes for the highest
type of citizens, as to own the house
in which you live. You have a feel
ing then that you have something for
which to fight and something to de-
fend.
This is our idea of real building
and loan that is going to be of help
and benefit to the community. Help
young men and older ones too own
their homes. And we mean b, that
the character and integrity of the
man who desires to own his home be
a part of the collateral required. If
you are going to demand as much
margin and as much collateral as the
bank or the regular money lender
and not count the character of the
prospective home owner as worth
anything, then the building and loan
Will not meet the requirements that
we feel a real building and loan
should meet. We do not mean that
the company should be reckless and
throw away the money Of the stock
holders, not that at all, but the COM
pany can be prudent and do safe
business and at the same time trust
the people. Personally, we freely
admit that we are too trustful and
confiding to make a safe and success
full business man, because we always
trust the other fellow until he proves
unworthy of the trust, and then it is