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section OF the country, including In
ulana, In which section over two-thirds
| OF the nations population live, one
the large contracting firms reports
that contracts for $4,000, 900 worth
or residential construction were award
ed last month. The figure was the
same for January. These figures com.
pare with monthly average for TIE
year 1919 of ST., 100000 and for 1921,
of $4,000, 900.
i Showing Remarkable.
The showing which has been made
so far this year is considered remark
able, as normally January and Febru.
airy are the months which rank the
lowest in building activities. In view
OF general business conditions it is not
believed that there will be any gen.
eral increase in building material
prices or building trade wages. The
commerce department regards the
present large demand for building
construction as lasting and healthy.
Residential buildings have account
ed for Al per cent of all new con-
struction the past two months, where
as during the years 1919 to 1921 res
idential construction was only 81 er
cent of the total. Home builders are
having first call on the resources Of
the construction industry in all parts
of the country.
Political parties are necessary to
maintain American institutions of gov
eminent, according to Enos Porter of
Shelbyville, Ind. Mr.. Porter is a man.
ufacturer and is well known through
out the sixth congressional district of
Indiana. He has been very active in
Republican politics for a number of
years. This week he was in Wash
fngton looking over the situation, and
he Is firmly convinced that one of the
principal reasons congress has been
delayed In disposing of number of
important measures on its legislative
program Is because many members of
both branches consider themselves
above their party, making party team
work" difficult
Every man should belong to one
of the two major parties and work
through his organization for such laws
and policies as he thinks best" said
Mr.. Porter. But If the majority OF
his party decides upon a policy that
he does not favor he should submit to
the majority opinion in the interests of
good government and party harmony
The leaders of the majority party
should have some method of exerting
pressure upon recalcitrant members in
order to hold the latter in line, for,
after all, it is the party, not any in
dividual member, which is responsible
TO the people for the carrying out OF
It's pledges. This was founded as a
government by political parties, not
by disorganized mob of individuals"
Surveyed Situation
Mr.. Porter gave vent to his opinions
after a survey of the situation in the
senate, where he witnessed several
senators of the majority party work
Ing sturdily in the ranks of the Dem
ocratic opposition to the four-power
Pacific treaty, which is the keystone
pact on which the Republican party
has built the foundation of it's most
important campaign pledge, namely,
the safeguarding of the peace of the
world through limitation of interna-
nonal ornaments and satisfactory
method for adjustment of questions
likely to disturb the peace.
Harvard university has added the
study of the Chinese language to its