Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-02-16
HOME Owning
ISCIIIzEN'S DUTY
c. n. S. Prepares Campaign to Create
Interest in Escape From Landlord.
City, State and Nation Benefit as Well
as Individual Who Thus Finds
Freedom.

No nation is a strong nation until
it is a nation of homes.
! Every American citizen is entitled
to home-not place to live, but
a self-owned home. He is no, only en-
titled to it but its ownership is a duty
he owes to his country, to himself and
to his country, to himself and to his
family. Fifty per cent of the men who
protest high rents should be ashamed
of the fact that they are forced to pay
any rent. Every man desires to own
home-not half of those who desire
are determined to have one.
A great majority Of those who pay
rent do not know what home COST
Ihow it could be secured, and, strangest
of all, do not know why they are pay
ing rent. They are paying rent be-
cause it is habit, because they have
never sat down to figure out what they
could do, because they are afraid to
assume debt and the struggle that
will come to lift it.
The One Method.
There is one method and one method
only Of awakening to the possibilities
of home owning the untold thousands
OF American citizens who can, should
and eventually will, escape the domin-
atlng shadow Of rent day. That me-
thod is publicity The prospects for
home owners must be educated There
remains but the selection of the best
methad to do that educating, the finest
medium of publicity.
Community News Service believes
1t has found and perfected that meth
cd. It's public service branch has been
devoted to educational and constructive
publicity since the organization was
first launched.
Community News Service is primar-
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public through its newspapers the mes
sages of the greatest men in America.
leaders from every branch of Ameri-
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A Better America.
So successful was the distribution
of this service that Community News
Service turned its attention to other
means of making better, finer Ameri-
ca, a>nation of more contented citizens
and the Improvement of conditions in
home and community. To its long list
Of great newspapers it added the mo-
tion picture field and will Screen ir
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| Community News Service will add the
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producer and buyer ssould be brough
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