The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-05-14
THE CITY OF HOMES.

Kenosha, City of Homes, is what the enthus-
iastic local recorder of material progress gives
us for new Kenosha slogan. One hundred
and thirty-nine new homes in the first four
months of 1925, with a building cost of more
than three quarters of a million dollars seems
to justify the slogan. This represents an aver
age of about FIVE thousand dollars home, for
the building Improvement only. The real
estate value will bring the four month invest
ment in money up to more than million and
a quarter, and probably nearer to million and
half.
1t is prosperous city in which such invest
ment can be made in homes 1t is a perrna-
nent prosperity when the home is selected for
such substantial investment The average
amount indicates conclusively that these are
for the most part homes of those whose in
dustry is the backbone of Kenosha prosperity.
This argues more conclusively the permanence
Of Kenosha prosperity and her continued growth
than would the same gross investment in an
average of $4,000 homes. A man does not
build a $4,000 home till he has built his founda-
tion so he knows it will last; he does not build
it till he knows he is fixed. Such home is a
badge of industry, thrift and pernanence. We
like to see the $4,000 homes-they are a
larger translation of the success of the COM
munity But the $4,000 home is typical of the
CLASS WITHOUT WHICH uO COIll4luI1Cy Gail POc-
sibly exist and prosper
But these homes mean much more to Ke-
nosha and their owners than the physical in
vestment They mean Preside about which
centers all the hopes and aspirations that make
life worth living and that make a community
worth living in. They mean children-home
reared children-upon which the future of
society depends. They mean the solution of
the most perplexing problems of society, for
it is not out of the prosperous and happy homes
that the real problems of society conle-lt is
from them that the solution comes
These figures and the conclusions they lead
to are all the more important just as the at
tention of the community is focused on the
building and loan association drive. From the
standpoint of investment, they indicate that
there is an ample market in Kenosha for the
money of the building and loan association.
This insures a full earning capacity to the
money that is put in. Those who have al
ready got their homes have here profitable
field for investment of their savings where
they will produce dividends other than the in
terest for their USE Every home those saw
ings help to build increases to some extent the
value of every other home in Kenosha. Every
home owner in Kenosha adds to the industrial
stability of the city. Every added home in
creases the permanence of all our future
plans, and hastens their realization
1t is therefore of the utmost Importance to
sll of us that the building and loan association
be amply provided with the funds that these
rapidly increasing homes increasingly require.
We are rapidly becoming city of homes-let
us see to it that every family in Kenosha that
wants to build home has the facilities for
readily securing the funds required. There
should be more than five million dollars in
value added to the aggregate of Kenosha
homes in 1925. Let US see that the building
and loan association investors do their share
in providing the finances this will require.