VOL. LI
ONLY BY FITNESS
IS "COLD" AVOIDED
Well Person Is Not Suscep
tible to Affliction.
The "cold" season is here. Ask any
doctor and he will tell you that two
thirds of his patients are suffering
from them In greater or lesser degree,
and yet, whether we fall victim or not
is largely our own affair.
It 1> not a bit of use glaring at all
the unfortunate persons who cough
and sneeze in your direction, "A Doc
tor' writes, in-the Continental Edition
of the London liail. Of course they
are discharging cold germs in tlie mil
lion, but then millions of them are
floating about in the air anyhow, and
you probably are quite immune to their
attacks for months together. If a
bacteriologist were to take a specimen
of the dnst in the corner of your coat
pocket, and were to smear it over a
plate of gelatin, and then to keep the
culture at a certain temperature for a
few hours, at the end of that time lie
would be able to show you a pattern
traced on the gelatin which looks rath- j
er like a Chinese monogram, and would
In fact be made by billions of "cold"
bacilli. So it cannot be just that on a
certain occasion one of the invading
germs attacks us.
No, the whole truth is that they are j
attacking us every single minute, but i
we happen to be healthy enough at the
time to throw them off and they retire
without doing us any damage. Then ;
one day we are overtired, or a little be- j
lfw par or worried about something, !
and the next thing we know is that our j
throat feels dry and our head is heavy,
and we know we are "in for it"
The moral of all this Is to take regu
lar exercise and to keep yourself'at
the top notch of general fitness. Then
you can laugh at the cold bogey. Once
attacked, however, the first thing to do
1> to tackle the place where you know
the "cold" bacilli are gathering In their
millions, and as'these are the nose and
the throat, immediate gargling and
sniffing up some antiseptic lotion —It j
does not matter much what kind, pro-
Tided it is warm and alkaline—is the
first step.
Then have a hot bath with a good ,
handful of mustard In it, so hot that j
you come out in a bath of perspiration,
take ten grains of aspirin, and when
you get into bed between rough, well- j
warmed blankets, let someone bring
you a pint of boiling hot lemonade
with plenty of sugar or honey in it.
Taken at the beginning, a good many
colds can be absolutely stopped.by
these methods, but once they have got
a bold it is too late to do anything but
grin and bear it.
Navy Radio Communication
There will be increased Interest in
the radio and sound competition to
take place on the battle fleet shortly, j
With the development of this means
of communication the Importance of
its efficiency as part of the fleet's
work is being emphasised. It will be
regarded as one of the major compe
titions to take place on the fleet, says
the Army and Navy Journal.
In, arranging for the competition
the commander in chief of the United
States fleet has fixed the basis upon
which the competition will be rated.
Ten per cent is the credit to be given
to efficiency of radio transmission. The
same per cent is to be given to the
operations of radio compasses. Thlr- j
ty per cen» is to be allowed for gen- ;
eral communications while at battle
stations and 10 per cent for the opera
tions of sound apparatus. The bal
ance Is to be allotted for miscellane
ous items of efficiency In communica
tions.
According to reports received at the
Navy department communications by
the Bellevlew laboratory were main
tained with the Shenandoah up to the
time she reached San Diego. This is
a remarkable record in vlew*W the un
favorable conditions.
New "Collecting" Hobby
And here comes a hobbyist who col
lects bricks. His home is in Dor
chester, Mass.. and he has an array of
800 bricks which he started to col
lect in 1872. Churches, school houses,
residences and public buildings have
yielded their bricks. Many of these
are intimately associated with Dor
• Chester's earliest history, and conse
quently hare been photographed afld
pictured for posterity. This collection
of bricks is remarkable, but more re
markable is the fact, that upon one of
the broad sides of each brick has been
paintLt in oil, true In detail and color,
• * picture of the building from which
It *aa taken «
For Revenue Only
' "Dsium of tl«— " all." "My dearest,
my oSTown." "How I adore you,"
•*£fefer« to 'no wtfcer half so sweet."
are the tae glrifor me," "I lore
Saw many hundreds of times be had
i sji'satful those T«ry words! * Ah, bow
■Brtijf thousands of times! And yet he
liad been perfectly sincere each time.
Tm see he was a writer of sentimental
THE ALAMANCE GLEANER
j Explorer Will Seek
Treasures Under Sea
j In recent years Hans Hartiuan has
made extensive, explorations in the
Mediterranean, which lie believes to
be the richest field for submarine
| archeology research. and for the re
! coytry of the treasures of antiquity.
Count d«i Prorok, he is of tlie
op%on this sea. which was tlie thea-
▼ r "°* undent world rivalry—and be
yond whose Pillars of Hercules only
J the boldest adventurers dared to ven
ture— holds secrets that will fill in
, vvide gaps in the human story, and
art treasures that will excel the col
lections in all of existing museums
j combined.
He is confident that both tasks will
be facilitated by the remarkable clear- i
; ness of the water in Mediter
ranean. in many places one can dis
tinguish everything in depths of 100
j f#et. This, he points out, is the ideal
j condition for submarine motion pio
| tures.
Hut if necessary," he explains,
i "conditions can be improved for un
| derwater photography by tin* creation
| of an artificial screen .or background
j formed by a chemical filtering fluid
| let down from the surface. The chem
ical screen tends tq reflect the tight
j -Naturally, the objects between it and
camera, with Its illuminator,
I would be thrown into sharper relief."
But even this device, according to
| Mr. Hartman's scientifically founded
hope, will be discarded when subnia-
I line archeology places deep-sea stu
-1 dios at the disposul of enterprising
| producers, by salvaging the forgotten
| grandeur of vanished civilizations.
Workday in Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia was the first Indus
| trial state among tlie European coun
! tries to ratify tlie eight-hour conven-
I tlon and Introduce a statutory eight
| hour day.
A report on hours of labor In
| Czechoslovakia has Just been Issued
j through a bulletin by the internation
i al labor office, Washington.
The first part of the monograph is
j devoted to an account of the scope
J and provisions of the Czechoslovakia
[. republic act of 1918 by which the
I eight-hour day or forty-eight-liour
week was introduced In the republic.
| The monograph devotes special at
] tention to the methods of applying the
I act in railway undertakings and the
> provisions for permanent or tempor
! ary exemptions. This Is followed by
data concerning the administration of
! the act. Tl)e third part of the study
j deals in some detail with collective
1 agreements regarding hours of work.
Determining Currents
About twenty-four years ago the
j Geographical society of Philadelphia
i set 34 casks afloat In the Arctic ocean
| north of Alaska. The purpose was to
determine If possible the course of t?»
Arctic current, says the Bulletin of
j that city.
Members of the society at that time
i were of the opinion that a strong cur
rent flowed westerly from Bering strait
across the polar areas and into the
north Atlantic between Greenland and
Spltzbergen.
Seven of the thirty-four have been
picked up. A note In the last cask
! found was sent to H. M. Bryant presl
| dent of the Philadelphia society, by S.
T. Wood, ah inspector in the Boval
Canadian Mounted police stationed In
the Yukon. Wood said the cask was
found by Eskimo l'apsok in 1023 at
i Iluskey Inlet which is south of Cape
; Bathurst.
Watte in Oil and Coal
"Under present methods of produc
tion," says Director Bain of the Unite*!,
States bureau of mines, "not more
than a quarter of the oil In the ground
is brought to the surface. \\ is often
less and very rarely more. ' In the
case of our coal mining Industry,
which is always held up as an example
of great wastefulness, the ratio Is Just
the reverse. In other words, a quar
ter of the coal Is left underground
while three-quarters are brought to
the surface*— Comprised Air Maga
zine.
German Marks Worthless
German paper marks are only good
as Junk now. The paper mark went
out of business a year ago, when the
rentenmark came in use. There was
then so much of this kind of currency j
on hand that In numerous Instances
-banks and other institutions turned j
tfee marks over to Junk dealers by the
ton. Most of these notes, which to
ward the end of the inflation period
were not worth used in their
manufacture, have been destroyed or i
made into pasteboard boxes and the
like. .
.1 Electric Invalid Carriage
An electric automobile especially de
' jigned for Invalids Is now being made
! in England. It carries but a single
passenger and runs so smoothly that
1 the invalid is not Jounced or Jarred
r while riding in it. It is especially
* designed for those invsllds who tad
•! t |,e usual types of mechjfnicaliy pro
-1 pel led vehicles unpleasant by .rasoa
i «f noise or Jar.
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GRAHAM. N. C.. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 12, 1925
important Spot in Eye
The circular yellow spot called "ma
cula lutea" and known, aftqr its dis
coverer, as "the yellow spot of Som
merung," is about one-twentieth cf an
Inch In diameter. The only mam
mals In which It exists are man and
tlncrTlsion, a circumstance which may
partly be accounted for by the fact
that It is singularly free from blood
vessels, which curve around It and ap
parently avoid It.
From a Stude's Essay
A mirror Is a popular subject, for
there are lots of people who are al
ways looking into it. Most mirrors
are square, yet everywhere we go we
I see them round. Often, like a waiter,
a mirror hrfs to be tipped or It won't
give good service. Most of us see
something to like in a mirror, yet it
Is always casting reflections on our
personal appearance.—Boston Tran
script.
Butterfly Table Delicacy
The Bugong moth or butterfly Is a
delicacy which epicures among cer
tain aboriginal peoples of
will travel long distances to obtain.
The butterflies gather every year on
the slopes of the Bugong mountains,
in New South Wales, where they are
caught by being suffocated by the
smoke of wood fires lighted under the
trees. *
Mozart
It Is doubtful if anybody knows the
exact spot where Mozart is buried. A
violent storm was raging at the time of
the funeral, and the hearse went Its
way unaccompanied to the churchyard,
and his body was committed in the
paupers' corner. In 1859 the city of
Vienna erected on the probable spot a
monument to his memory.
States With Indian Names
Twenty-two of the states have
names of Indian origin. They are:
Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut,
Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas,
Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Mis
sissippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North
and South Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma,
Tennessee, Utah, Wisconsin and Wyo
ming.
Gathering Diamonds
The fact - that diamonds cling to
lubricating grease In water, while peb
bles and seral-preclous stones roll off,
has been made the basis for a new
machine called the "pulsator," which
picks diamonds out of materials in
which they cannot be seen by human
eyes.—Populhr Science Monthly.
Mark Proved Worth
Real silver is said to be "hall
marked." The term comes from the
company hall of the guild of gold and
silversmiths of London, where, 600
years ago gold and silver articles be
gan to be assayed and marked with
a stamp that vouched for their being
genuine.
Politeness Akin to Gilt
It Is because gold Is rare that gilding
has been invented, which, without hav
ing Its solidity, has all Its brilliancy.
Thus, to replace the kindness we lack,
we have devised politeness which has
all Its appearance.—De Levis.
Introduced Flower Language
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu,
whose husband was for a time British
ambassador to Turkey, is suid to
have loarned the language of flaw era
among the Turks and to
duced it into western Europe.
Early French Reformers
The Waldenslans, early reformers,
were organized about 1170, by I'eter j
Waldo or Valdo, a merchant of Lyons.
France. Thelj principal centers were
In the Piedmont, Provence and Dan- i
phlne Alps.
Strength in Adversity
Occasions of adversity l>est discover
how great virtue or strength each one
hath—For occasions do not make a
man frail, but show what he la —
Thomas a Keropis.
Ancient Carvings Discovered
Carvings on rocks recently discov
ered In the Libyan desert of Africa
1 Indicate that the Eskimos and South
African bush men met In Europe 30,000
j years ago.
Avoid Accidents
It'is a foolish woman who does sat
j insist upon every bottle In her medi
cine cabinet being plainly marked as
to Its contents.
Something to Count On
Cheer up! If you don't get what
you go after, you are sure to get
what's coming to you.—Boston Tran
script.
Blindness of Riches
Nothing is so hsrd for those who
abound in .riches as to conceive bow
others can be in want —Swift.
I
| HOW |
* IT HAS BEEN PLANNED TO *
1 L'JE BOTTLED SUNLIGHT. — J
* There is an old Joke about a *
sample fellow wlio remarked that *
* It was n great pity the sun didn't *
* shine at when It ivj;s re.:l- *
* l.v needed. Kecen; news from *
* Egypt «Iwl:irc-fc; t'.iat is "exn 'tly
J what the people >f Cairo have #
* succeeded in uuiking it U>. The \i
J city is actually lighted at night *
* by bottled sunlight, so to sp ak. *#
|Jf To be sure, this bottling is done -jj
* in a rather roundabout manner, *
$ for the bottles' in question are j
* merely electric, li„iit bullis.
* The sun's energy, in tile form ij:
* of heat —and you know that the* ;i:
* sun's rays are very hot. indeed
jjj in that part of the world—is 
$ captured by means of huge re- J
J Hectors. These are made of con- * |
* cave and brightly polished met- %
2 al, forming a mirror which Ims ♦ j
X the power. Just us a byrning- Jj
* glass has, of bringing the sun's *
rays to a focus and therefore *
J greatly intensifying the heat at *
that particular point. But heat, *
* as you know, can always be *
* transformed into other'foruis of %
* energy, thus producing power of *
111 one sort or another. For exam- *
* pie, it can be made to produce ,jjj
steam, and the steam in turn *
* may drive a dynamo, so as to J.
produce electricity, which is #
j stored up in batteries or accu- £
* roulators, to be used as needed. &
It said that Cairo is the
* only city in the world which do- *
1 rives the power required to run J
* its illumination system in this *
$ manner. .But then 'there are *
* very few cities, of course, so ♦
2 favorably situated with regard *
jF both to the number of sunshiny j
* hours and the intensity of the *
* sunlight.—M. Tevls, in St. Nlch
% olas. * ■*
* »mmni * k »*
How Bantaland Natives
Reverse Order of Things
Everything Is upside down in Bantu
land, in the Belgian Congo. If mis
sionaries free a slave, his llrst desire
is to own a slave. If a missionary
cures a sick man, he demands that lie
be given food and clothing to prfove
that the gifts of medicine were not
superficial.
A Bantuland baby is named before
birth, and an expected girl child often
is betrothed to an aged man even be
fore she is born. If the baby is a
boy, then the parents hastily Ind a
wife for him.
Cattle often are sold before they are
born, and If they die after birth law
suits follow. A BantUland lawsuit Is
a battle to death with bare lists.
If a man is 111, a relative sits on
bis chest and takes medicine. Men,
women, and children wear thick skins
and blankets during the day, when It
is hot, and go stark naked at nlgtrt,
when It Is extremely chilly.— Grit.
How "Yankee" Originated
The word Yankee is said to be a
corruption of English or Anglais, pro
nounced Yengldes, Yanghles, Yan
kees, by the Massachusetts Indians,
ftnd bestowed by them up>>n the New
England colonists. It was derisively
applied by th* British soldiers to
New Englanders, during the Revolu
tionary war, and later by the Cmifed
era'rs to the federals, during Che.
Civil war. ,
} "It was In use In Boston about
17C. r >, but Is claimed to have clrcu
lated In Cambridge slang as early as
1713, with the sense nf 'excellent.*
If ?»o. It Is the same word we meet
In Scotch yankin, 'active,' - yank, "a
sharp stroke.'" — Chamber's En'-yclo
j pedla.
How Towns Cot Name
The name "Cinque Ports" w|>* ori
gtntlly given to five senjMjrt towns on |
| the south coast of England (In Sis
sex and Kent). They are Has'ngs
( Koniney. Hythe, Dover anil Sand vlcli.
' Wlachelsea and Bye were added after
ward. The original Cinque Ports w4-re
J created l»y William the f'onqm-rer
(lOOR-Wi) and s|>eclal privileges were
I granted to them In conslderati m of
' th»lr providing a certain nuni!n/r of
; ships of war when requlr I. Tlielr
control was placed in the hands of cer
tain barons called "wardens." The
governor was titled lord warden This,
however, Is at present only uv. !./.n:>r
ary dignity. Its peculiar Jurisdiction
having been abolished In 1855.
How to Hear the Truth
It Is an excellent rul»- not to believe
all yon hear, but it is an even better
| rule to make ail the word* that others
bear from yon l»ellevable. People who
tell the troth sre the most likely to be
told It
, How He Learned It
"I notice that when your baby v *rlM
for a thing he usually gets It."
"Yes; be has got on to that by watch
lac Ills mother."—Boston Transcript.
1
Title He Gave Himself
Stuck to Great Showman
Probably the greatest showman the
world has ever known was Sanger,
famous for Sanger's circus. He even
went jo far as to give himself a title,
and the title stuck so firmly that
I many people thought he really bad
| been elevated to the peerage! Every
i one knew him as "Lord" George
j Sanger.
j In bis book, "Studio and Stage," Mr.
j Joseph Harker. the famous scene
I painter, tells how this "title" came
j about. It was the outcome of a deal
in horses with William Cody, other
wise known as Buffalo Bill. Accord
ing to Sanger, Cody thought himself
by far the more Important showman.
In the course of the preliminaries to ■
the deal, 15:11 sent a representative to
, Sanger with a message to the effect
that "The Honorable William F. Cody" j
refused to take a penny less than so
much for the horses.
Sanger, who .had the gift of giving j
neat replies, and who also was not'
going to be outdope, without more
ado sent back this terse message:
"if you are the Hon. W. F. Cody, !
then, bang it, I'm Lord George Sanger
and I won't give a ha'penny nuye j
than I stipulated for the horses."
And from that day on "Lord"
George Sanger be remained.
Elcphcnt Noted for
Keen Sense of Smell
What the elephant lacks in vision
is more than compensated-for by the'
animal's keen sense of smell. His
trunk is probably the best smelling
apparatus In the world, and he de
peads first of all on bis sense of smell.
When be Is at all suspicious be 1
moves his trunk round In every di
rect.on. so that the slightest taint in
the air will reach him. In many other
ways the elephant's trunk Is the most
extraordinary part of that most ex- |
traordlnary animal, the Providence
Journal says.
It Is entirely flexible at every point |
und It can turn In any direction and
has tremendous strength. There Is
no bone in It, but It Is constructed of
Interwoven muscles and sinew so
that you can scarcely cut It
, with a knife.
From It an elephant can shoot a
stream of water that will put out a
lire, and with It he can lift a tree
trunk weighing a ton or pull a deli
cate blade of grass, lie drinks with
it. feeds himself with 1U smells with
It works with It and fights with It
Relations to Nature
In general one may say tl«t the hus
bandman's Is the oldest and most uni
versal profession, and that, where a
man does not yet discover in himself
any fitness for one work more than an
other, this ;uay be preferred. But the
doctrine of the farm is merely this,
that every man ought to stand In pri
mary relations with the work of the
I world; out to do It himself, and not to
suffer the accident of his having a
purse in his pocket, or his having been
bred to some dishonest and injufious
craft, to sever him from those duties;
and for this reason, that labor Is God's
education; that he only is a sincere
learner, he only can become a master,
■ who barns the seere'.s of labor, and
who by real running extorts from Na
ture its scepter.— Emerson.
Cheap Emergency Cement
A cement for filling corner crevices,
cracks and rat holes, as well as for re
pairing wall break*, can be made
cheaply by mixing one part sand with
two parts ordinary wheat"flour and one
j part sifted coal ashes, says Popular
I Science Monthly.' These are stirred
thoroughly and wet with water to a
putty-like consistency. The cement
; mixture Is applied with a trowel.
StrictfCollege Rules
1 Amherst college as recently as
had a very strict code which the stu
i; dent lis i to follow. It riot only regu-
Inrcd th« hours be must study, but
likewise hi* visits to the taverns,
shops and stores. He was not allowed
to piny cards, even for mere enjoy
nic.it.
Used in Piano Industry
"Burning In" is a term used to d*-
»cri,.' the tinUhlng process used on
pianos and furniture. A polish Is ap
plied and burned In by of heat
ed d'-vices This not only serves to
f'sf tlie article a highly j>o!lshed ap
i p am nee. but fills up all the holes and
p-.res In the wood.
f'ailonal Capital's Beauty
! t True beauty combined with utility
' I :!e;.es time and forms a basis of real
' "state values. Washington's wide
' streets and sensible building regula
tions prevent any part of the city
from choking to death with conges
tion. Moreover, those wide streets
i.Bd numerous little squares and cir
i cies which are such an attractive
adornment are also valuable checks to
j) e •'v • 4 ! i; fire and are contrlbo-j
J I I. the foptii i.f f-esb air
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TIMELY TRIFLES
But of course the old bachelor
doesn't hold bis own.
Mistletoe famines never worry the
girl who is pretty.
Hugging by any other name would
l>e squeezing just the same.
Tlie more a woman tries to look
young the more she doesn't.
A woman just lias to love some man
—even if it's only her husband.
Tlie consciousness of being loved
softens the keenest pang.
Man is not an organism; he Is an
intelligence served by organs.
Did you never bore anyone? Then
be merciful.
The busiest thing on earth is an Idle
rumor.
Culpability Is about the only ability
some men possess.
A wise man looks Into things In or
der to size up the outlook.
Sometimes you find two people each
with a pain, quarreling over which j
pain Is the most painful.
Making mistakes is part of a man'e '
education; and Be It Knacteds are j
trying to prevent that.
Trying to please others and succeed
ing Is as gratifying as being pleused
yourself.
-
Even If a man Is a howling success
there, is no excuse for his howling '
about It
The trouble with the man who
knows nothing Is that he Is always the
last to find It out
The willingness of a new office boy
Is often more annoying than the un- ,
willingness of an old one. .
A soft answer may not always turn
away wrath, but It saves a lot of time.
It's a poor policy to Judge a man's
worth by the arnouht of Insurance he
carries.
Our Idea of a real genius Is one who
Invents a way to make a good living
for Ids family.
If people knew what the future had
In store for them the chief charm of
existence would be lost.
Artificial Wood May
Save Country's Forests
Wood made of discarded sugar cane
stalks was demonstrated to David
Lynn, architect of the capltol.
Celotex, as the man-made wood Is
called. Is said to be much more dur
able than "regular" wood. It was in
vented by a northwestern lumberman,
who, realizing the forests of the North
west were being rapidly depleted,, un
dertook to find a substitute. The sugar
cane wood Is said to be almost ideal
for acoustical purposes.
Capt. John I. Pierce, acoustical en
gineer of the Celotex company, dem
onstrated the wo>d to Mr. Lynn for
* the purpose of Inducing blin to Install
it In the new music room It Is pro
posed to place in the Congressional
library.
On the Trail of Crime
The detective made bis way up the
stairs of the office building and pre
sented himself at the door of the mu
sic academy.
"Kxcr. e me," he said to the young
ladj wi i opened thedoor, "but I hope
you'll give me what information you
have and not make a fuss."
"Wlirt do you mean?" was the Indig
nant qtestlon.
"Why, tliM'. little affair—you know,"
said the det'-ctlve.
"1 don't understand you at all," re
plied the young lady, freezlngly.
"Why, we got a tip from the house
next door that somebody here has been
murdering Wagner and I've been sent
ab*ng to look Into the cas*."
White Swans Come Bach
J nek Miner's bird sanctuary at
Kingston, Ont.. was the calling place
recently of a flock of about 200 wild
native white swans on tlmir way
south for the winter. White swans In
their wild state were almost extinct In
Canada a few years sgo. Ijitely. bow
ever, numbers of them have been mak
ing the sanctuary a port of call on
their way north In the spring, but sel
dom stop ou tlielr "ay down south.
A Question '
Her Father—l do not require that
the man who marries my daughter
shall be rich. All I ask fs that he be
able to keep ont of debt ,
Her Suitor—Would you consider a
man In debt who bommn money from
his father in law!
Paint Rightly Claim*
to Have Double Value
The good appearance of the house
usually proves to be the strongest
point in persuading anyone to paint
| his house. The matter of preserving
; the surface does not enter into consid
eration's It should. The common de-
I sire (tT> have one's home at Its best ean-
I not be condemned, but paint means
; much more than this. Paint is not a
i luxury by uny means; It Is a necessity
and an economic one.
Wood is porous. While growing
| these [lores are filled with sap. When
the tree Is cut Into lumber the sap
dries out, leaving the pores The
protective coatings of bark are also
I removed If the wood Is allowed to
remain in this unprotected state, fungi
and moisture soon begin to rot and
destroy it. Paint penetrates the pores
und forms, when dry, a tough, elastic i
coating, which Is "anchored" to the
surface by countless little "hooks" that
| extend Into pores of the' wood, and
1 this coating or film preserves the wood
j by protecting It from those things
which would otherwise quickly and
| surely destroy It.
j The psychological value, the invigor
ating effect of clean, brightly painted
property. Is another factor we cannot
afford to disregard, and this alone
should- be sufliclent cause to warrant
painting In times of temporary business
depression.
! The price that should be paid lor,
i the paint Is another consideration—
and an Important one. The best qual
ity paint is the cheapest. The cost'
should be reckoned on the basis of
the squa-e foot and the expense as
so much per paint service year. In
this way the true value and the cheap
ness of good paint will be recognised.
General Shortage of
Building la Reported
That a national building shortage
somewhat In excess of $4,000,000,000
exists In the entire country Is Indi
cated by reports made to a leading In
vestment concern in a survey of all
cities of more than 10,000 population.
Studies were made in 528 cities. In
.'(80 of these, reitorts were made Of
building shortages amounting to $4,-
00,820,000, of which $2,102,098,300, Is
needed for residential types; $1,130,-
i 851,500 for commercial types and
■ $870,270,000 for public buildings of all
kinds. Iu 148 cities no shortage was
| reported, thus Indicating that in these
places the amount of building re
quirements now rests on the normal
demands of growth and Improvement.
That a shortage of considerable,
magnitude also exists In places bar
| Ing less'than 10,000 population was'
; Indicated by the results of the inquiry
' In 20 typical towns of this type In '
| various parts of the United States. J
I Twelve of these places showed uggre- j
1 gate shortages of more than $14,000,- j
0«», while eight revealed normal con- ,
| ditions.
The investigation also brought to
j light definitely planned expenditures 4
of nearly sßoo.fKX),(**) In the next two
years for churches, hospitals, chari
table and educational institutions, :
i these figures not being Included In '
| actual shortages now existing. • \
Architecture Important j
Tlirft architectural merit adds dol
lars to the value of a house Is con-!
vinHngly demonstrated when old
j home* possessing architectural dis
tinction tlnd a ready sale nt good
prices, while a poorly designed dwell- f
Ing is a "drug" on the market. Many
j bizarre creations are produced by de
signers who seem to think that when j
a nlultlpllclty of gables, of projecting!
rafters and sharply contrasting hues
In stucco* apd bricks are achieved, the
result Is bound to be pleasantly mod
|em and desirable. Investors are find
ing to their sorrow, however, that this
type of house i» passing out with the
in 7.7. music of which It Is symbolical,
and present builders would do well to
keep this in mind If they wish to
realize full value on their property.
Lining Them Up
h "There Is no one In the world," says
the Brunswick (Ca.) News, "that
'knows' more about raising children
than an old maid, and there is no citl-'
zeii that kicks more about public or
ganizations and their activities than
the fellow who never pays dues to
one of them, never Is the father of
any movement for tfie city's good, nor
takes an active part In the community
affairs, except to knock. The hard
est knocker and the loudest critic can
always be branded as the biggest
Shirker —he carries his 'bell' with hlm~
If you are In his cliiss, take stock or
yourself, right-alsmt-face and become J
a real citizen and a Community .i
builder."
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