The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1922-03-02
OWN YOUR home
EXHIBITION TO Be
HELD MAY 8-13TH
Atlanta Real Estate Board to Put
On Novel Exhibition at the
Auditorium-Armory

Atlanta, Calf you work with
your hands, buy home. If you ara
4 stakeholder or an executive in
manufacturing or industrial corpor-
alton, encourage its laborers to buy
homes. The home-owner is the best
citizen. The home owner is the
best provider for his family and him
self The state that has the largest
number of home-owners is bound to
break all records in production and
wealth.
"Get into this game. If you are
mechanic, buy home. 1t will make
you better man and a higher type
Of citizen. If you control the politi-
cy of plant, see that its men buy
their homes. Do this for your own
interests, for the workers, for the
enrichment and uplift of the Empire
State of the South, and the other |
States of the prosperous and growing
South. The South stands today a |
wonder for progress and a gold mine
for wealth. Give her laboring pop
ulation of such high type that she
viii be lodestone to any American |
seeking a location for his plant The |
South has thousands of manufactur-
ing and mechanical workers. See to
it that they buy and pay for just that
MANY homes"
VINO said that, or something like
it? Forrest Adair, ST., one of the
and president of the Adair Realty
and Trust company of Atlanta, one
of the oldest real estate firms in Am
erica.
Mr.. Adair and Ward Wight, of the
Adair firm, who is president of the
Atlanta Real Estate Board, assisted
by practically every real estate man
in Atlanta, is behind the Gown Your
Home" campaign which will be
brought to a climax with mammoth
exhibition at the Auditorium-Armory
for the week of May to Is.
The exhibition will be unique and
win be held by the Atlanta Real Es-
tate Board. 1t will be novel for At
lanta, for Georgia and the South. All
real estate dealers in the city will
cooperate to make it the most COM
plete exposition of everything that
goes into the building of home, ev-
en- the furnishings, and displays will
be designed to show every sort of
home to fit every pocketbook.
The cooperation of some of the
best and most substantial business
houses of the city has been assured,
and they will have displays of every |
kind of material, equipment and ser
vice which goes into the building and
furnishing of homes. Real estate
dealers will have displays illustrat-
ing real estate transactions in gener-
al, and all displays will be in charge
of experts, who will be prepared to
give information to visitors to the
exposition about every phase Of the
building and furnishing Of home.
The educational campaign, in which
the whole State and South will be
will explain IS Prospect
tive homebuilders the various and
best ways of financing, building,
equiping and furnishing home.
The object of the campaign, it was
announced here today, is the relief
Of the actue shortage of homes in
Atlanta, estimated as between 5000
and 1000 and to provide jobs for the
thousands Of unemployed of the city.
possibly millions of dol
lars, will be put into circulation, not
only in Georgia but throughout the
South, if the plans Of the Real Estate
Board are successfully carried out,
thus stimulating every line of bust
ness and benefiting practically every
resident of Atlanta and other south
ern cities, towns and communities.
the aim of the Real Estate Board,
it is stated, is primarily to show the
average salary and wage-earner how
he can own his own home. A group |
of banking experts is at work on new
for financing home build
ing, that those behind the movement |
say will put home within reach of |
everyone.