The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-08-31
HOW YOU CAN OWN A.
HOME; FIGURE It OUT.
If You Want a Thing Great
ly Enough You Can Get 1t
Rent the Endless Drain
r, REx GROVER WHITE

Il is said that one test used in an old
fashioned private asylum was to give a
patient a dipper and then escort him to
> hath tab and advise him - empty it,
the faucets being turned On. II he were
crazy he started 10 bail even though hrs
dinner was filed with holes. II he were
sane be FIRST turned of the water and
then pulled the plug. This may be only
a story But it has a moral.
Are you laboring to empty the tub Of
life Of its financial trouble while all the
time the rent faucet is on
Think it over.
What would YOU think Of a man who
bought a pair of shoes that did not Mt
him very we'll, had been used by others,
were not well made in the first place,
perhaps, and certainly did not look wellF
And suppose further that when he
bought those shoes he agreed TO keep
them in good order, TO allow the former
wne to take them of st any time and
examine them, to give them back to the
owner at the end of any period the ow-
uer desired without receiving back any
part Of the purchase price and further
he agreed 10 pay the value Of the shoes
over and over again?
That is just what you are doing, MI.
Renter.
Listen. If tomorrow your salary is
cut your income lowered, and you must
change your budget, what are you going
to do about that ~unehanging drain-the
rent. You ear eat less expensive foods,
wesr your clothes longer, go less often
to the theater, but your rent does not
change unless you move, If you move
You move to a cheaper place and that
means a less desirable place aud that
in turn means a lowering Of youc social
life, an ever present sense Of defeat, an
Acknowledgement to the world that you
are going backward, that you are not q
success. that You have failed. The rent
is one drain that cannot be stopped or
halted or lessened at will.
There are certain philosophers that
believe that if man wants anything
greatly enough he can get i. There may
be reservations to this, But NOT as many
as you think. If you want q home Of
your own YOU can secure it. How? There
are many agencies in this city that have
been created to answer that question. II
YOU want that home the irst step TO
prove it is to find out who those agencies
are. If you haven't enough ambition,
get-up and determination 20 discover the
first step you may as well give up right
now. You will be poor, landlord ridden,
dependent and shiftless all your life.
Did you ever stop to count Up what
you had paid in rent the past ten years.
Get out your pencil right now. Figure
it up. Add to that the cost Of moving.
Add the depreciation on your furniture
for every move. Add the time you took
to find q new place and TO move. Add 1t,
What is the result? Surprised YOU, did
mt it? Now 60 out tomorrow morning
and find out how you can " a home.
Take these rent figures with you. Keep
them in mind. When you find the firm,
or the man, or the institution that says
I'VE will show you how to own q home"
and they quote you q figure then remem-
Der those rent figures.
Is your name written in only three
books in all the world, the city direc-
tory, the telephone directory and the
corner g%rocer's debit book? Is that your
life's record?
Did you ever walk by a little home
wherein lived a man you knew and as
you walked past did you say: Il wonder
how Bill ever bought a home? He never
struck me as being worth a darn"
Is that man you judged as not being
worth a darn" any smarter, brighter,
finer than you? He did it. How? He
escaped the endless drain. You are still
paying-and paying, and paying. Think
it over. Think hard. Take yourself in
a corner and pry off the lid. What is
wrong with you? Why are you lone Of
the mob?"