The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-29
ANYBODY'S BUSINESS

BUSINESS
 Everyone sefns to agree that 1050 will Do another record home-build- ing year. Few, however, are in ac- cord on the number of l.oines likely to be built or the total building dole lar volume. Joseph B. Mason. east ern editor of the American Builder and Building Age predicts 250.000 new homes for the year with Q total valuation of q, 200, 100000. The New York Times quotes MT. Mason: There is in the United States to- day the greatest credit background for home building in It's history. The year l036 will be historic to building men as the year in which the long-term aEnortized mortgage was successfully put into operation and displaced the costly old form of first- and sccond-mortgage financing"
 Editor & Publisher. reporting on the findings of Media Records. Inc, tells of . 6-percent increase in daily newspaper advertising Image in 1885. Total advertising space reached Q volumo during the year of 1620, 0,000,- 900. A 6-percent increase is not c spectacular gain but the advance from the depression low in 1893 ape pears to be founded on sound and robust health. The high point in Image came in 1929, Editor & Pub- fisher reports, with volume of 4e60, ,000, 900. From that point to 1893 daily newspapers lost about 94i0. 0.000, 900. The l036 figures show the nations dailies have won back about 1eO, ,O00. 900 of that loss.
 The reward for thrift, systematic saving and iump-sum investing IS considerable, according to the United States Building & Loan League as reported by the New York Herald- Tribune. Investors in building and loan associations received Q total of SB3b, 100000 in 1895 in maturities, share repurchase, dividends, and cash loans on the security Of their shares. 4
 Whatever reactions are brought on by renewed residential construc- ton among the first to manifest tt. self will be strengthening of the ome-furnishings market. Right on time, then, is the report in the New York Times that 5000 buyers with 6 to 20 percent more money to spend than they had year ago are invad- ing the wholesale home-furnishings markets this week in New York. The Times reports these buyers will pur- chase upward of S8,b0o,0O0 worth of homewares. The money will De diS- tributed in the furniture, lamp. china, and glassware and curtain and drapery markets.
 Business is better in New Eng land. According to the New York Herald Tribune wool prices advanced from to 2 cents Q pound. depart ment store sales showed . Substan- tial increase in i036 over 1884 and perhaps the most surprising of all In view of the formidable reputation of New England winters, building jobg for the week ended January z were higher than any previous week since 1891. Building volume reached s4.066,70O compared with e, ,003. 900 for the preceding week and S2,i7O.e0O for the preceding week and e2.i70.600 for the same week in 1925.
 The Desert News of Salt Lake City, Utah. is cheered by the out- look for the current year. Expen- ditures for building of all types. It predicts, will reach about S2b.0O0,0O0 of which 9i0.00Q000 will represent private construction. Even now, In anticipation of the Spring building campaign Utah industry is getting ready at top speed. The Desert News notes renewed activity in its metal industries. best Utah baroiIi- eter.
 
 Southern California's 1885 build ing total provides the Golden State with q fine mark to shoot at iil iD56. The year just closed was dlstin- guished by building gain or ape prOxilnately 100 percent. according to . check Of 60 cities by the Los Angeles Times. The volume in ivJD reached 9Tl, ,6D3, III as compared Witn the 1884 volume of e37. .4O2, ,40e.
 Suburban Chicago boosted its l030 building total ii0 percent over iD24. Tho Chicago HeFaldsExam- finer notes that the wintry blasts 0n Lake Michigan have thus far failed to weaken the construction move ment and December came through as the tenth successive month " exceed million dollars. The iDsD suburban building figure wag els,- 732,eie, while in 1884 total was te,- 0Oo, o,lDa. Chicago itself wes ID building laggard in iD36. Its last years constructlon total was yi1,- oie.l0e, as compared with W,vvb,- 423 in i034.
 "Rlght here in Georgia let's light the torch that will drive the cofa- munists out of the White House and never let 'ega Tetiira."
 Men streamed down the alsies. leaned on the stage and Sh0uk hands with TaifnadRo. The governor