The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-03-03
IN INVESTMENT WITH DIVIDENDS
FINER THAN G0LD--A HOME
Of YOUR OWN
By ROBERT A. LONG
BY ROBERT A. LONG.

Upon the home rests our moral
baracter; our civic and political lib
ties are grounded there; virtue, man
bod, citizenship grow there. Amer,
an citizenship in the long run will be,
ust be, what the American home is.
Jacob Riis.
Jacob Riis was right and there never
as a time in America when we so
eeded return to that sane and sober
hing, first engendered in the old
pme and meant to be perpetuated in
lie homes that come after. BY home,
mean, not the borrowed house"
hat the renter uses today and moves
Fom tomorrow, but the permanent
Xbode where we rear and teach our
Amilies-a Home that memory will
yer cling to as the sweetest, dearest
pot on earth.
1t is claimed that there is an eco
homie side to home owning; that one
Ian build cheaper than he can pay
TENT. Careful figures have been pre-
barred emphasizing the truth of this
$tatement. Whether correct or not,
] prefer to emphasize rather the SEN
ximental; the moral side of home own
ing; that the best dividends are de-
ived in contentment, happiness and
lean living. Hence, not in dollars
Ind cents but dividends that are finer
han gold.
Home, Sweet HomeH
Can we find an expression that
brings to the human heart a greater
thrill? A real home is not temper
ry place to be hired, hotel, or a
BOARDING house. Our conception is
hat permanent shrine that father
blaced over our heads; dwelling
blace so carefully thought out, SO low
ngly planned, SO pridefully watched
Is it was fashioned. Do you remem-
Der the day when we moved in; the
10y in the hearts of US all-the song
I'VE felt. 1t was our home a ROOT
*over our heads that would be sacred
#refuge because il was ours. We were
Emasters of a castle. Two rooms
*three rooms, five,-who cared. 1t wa!
&oursl
Such home, be it cottage or man
sion, cannot be lightly parted with
4 for who has not felt the pang in thu
heart when it came to leaving the ole
home? Listen-are we of this mod
ern day building homes and making
home so livable and lovable that GU
children will look back to it the las
n day of their lives as the most preciou
spot on earth?
n Home of our chidhoodl How al
lection clingsp
Home interprets Heaven"
> Sentiment, yesl But what woul
a life be without sentiment? Americ
Il needs today more sentiment to touc
q the heart and bring back the lesson
learned in the home-our childhoo
abode of love, propriety, genial fellow
ship and happy associations. The ii
e fluence of the old home can hardl
die, but often, it burns with flicke
ing spark. Let us fan it into flan
freight the altar in the home-a re
q home, not house, where once aga
noble ambitions may be engendere
E Mr.. Riis spoke of the truer citize
ship being formulated in the HON
would amplify that by saying tn
s. we look for the most serviceable eli
zens as one who owns his own hon
By reason of his investment in pro
erty we know he has faith in the cor
munity. Because he has taken 70
q in the town we look upon him as
permanent citizen. Because it is
home we can expect him to keep
4 the property; to maintain it and
surroundings so that the place will
a credit to the neighborhood. VIII
l see man in the spring time, shi
sleeved and over-alled, spading up
garden and his flower bed, ! am &C
WINGED that it is his place that he
identifying and | put him down