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Page Four BADIN BULLETD Permanent Construction Since the Company inaugurated its plan of selling lots, the above topic should be gone into thoroly by every prospective builder. The advantage of brick or concrete over wooden construc tion is not in appearance alone. The merchant—be he grocer, butcher, or baker—must ask himself whether he shall build a fireproof or a non-fireproof structure, a sanitary or an insanitary structure, a vermin- and ratproof struc ture or a vermin- and rat-harboring structure. As to fire risk, the classification given by insurance companies on brick or con crete and on wooden structures makes argument unnecessary. While the For ests Products Laboratory has made con siderable progress towards making wood a better building material, until the fol lowing requirements are fulfilled, it is unsuitable for business structures. Un til it is made several degrees harder than slate, until a preservative is discovered which is better and more agreeable than creosote, none of the above requisites are possible. We may live to see each one fulfilled, but until they are fulfilled let us use materials which we know meet the most exacting requirements, namely: brick or concrete. Wooden construction, for anything but residences, belongs to the town that was being built fifty years ago. Badin is a new town, and will be just as new twen ty-five years from now if the proper kind of structures are built. But if the town is filled with wooden stores, it will soon take on the appearance of one of the older, out-of-date towns of which there are too many now. Measures should be taken to prevent Badin being filled with buildings that within a few years will become eyesores; and this should not be construed as restricting a man’s personal liberty, but rather as a protection to the town of Badin, Nor is it fair to the Company to build such structures. The Company has spent a considerable sum of money on the build ings it has felt itself called upon to construct. These buildings—the Hos pital, School, and Theater—would be a credit to any city in this or any other State. Then, is it unjust to ask that the business houses that are to be erected conform to the high standard set by the Company? So much for appearances. Now let’s get at the business end of it. The only thing in favor of wooden construction is the initial cost. However, there are many things that in a score of years will more than offset this. The mer chant who erects a brick or concrete building is merely using his good busi ness sense. He builds for himself a fireproof, ratproof, and sanitary struc ture. Such a building should have a concrete floor, with no dead space be neath. If a wooden floor is desired, it should lay flat on top of the concrete. When he builds such a structure, he has insured himself against the ravages of rats, mice, and vermin, and this too often is not given a thought. If he builds a harboring place for these pests, he must board them, and he will soon discover that it is not the small item he thought it was. His competitor on the same street has a sanitary, rat- and vermin-proof structure. He does not have the ever-growing family to feed that the merchant who does business in the wooden structure has. What is to happen? He of the wooden structure, altho he may conduct his business along approved business lines, will find him self unable to compete with the merchant who does business in a sanitary building. One merchant has a serious leak in his business while the other has not. As previously stated, Badin is a new town, practically free from rats and ver min. However, where human beings go, these pests will follow, unless provision is made to prevent their having harbor ing places with a convenient food supply. Men gathered to fight a war, and it was not many months until the rat popu lation exceeded the human population. Experts tell us their food bill in the United States is over one hundred mil lion dollars per annum. The best way to get rid of rodents is never to have them. The only way not to have them is not to build harboring places for them. This can easily and inexpensively be done in a new town that is in course of construction. Indeed, some of our main progressive cities have incorporated into their city ordinances measures which make it im possible to erect any structure in any part of the city that is not ratproof and sanitary. Not only do rats cut into the merchants’ profit, but they are the most filthy of all animals. They have cost several cities in the United States a toll in human life and millions of dollars because they are the carriers of that dreaded bubonic plague. The most conclusive argument in favor of brick or concrete is given by the man who has conducted his business in a wooden structure, and later in a brick or concrete structure. Ask him if h would ever go back to the old woode structure. Ask him if it is worth th difference in the initial cost, to be fre from rats, mice, and vermin, and enjo a sanitary place thruout. The writer happens to know two mei chants in Badin who have during th past three years conducted their busines under the above conditions. They ar Mr. J. W. Frazier, Manager Badin Sup ply Company, and Mr. Peter Endres owner of the Badin Bakery. To thes' two gentlemen I would respectfully r® fer any prospective merchant builder. L. G. Daniels Relief Department Report for April, 1919 Balance on hand, April 1 $1,364-3® Dues from employees for the month 338.5« Amount paid by the Tallassee . Power Company 33»-^ Total assets Disbursements White Colored Tot»' Claims paid for sickness and accident $98.69 $351.45 $450-^^ Miscellaneous expense Balance on hand, April 30 $ltS^'' J. H. DEVEREAt'X Relief Ag«” Build Now "Thrift Turns Savings into a United States Department of W. B. Wilson, Sccret»0^„ The American Home Owner is who has discovered that thrift ' .y, thing more than the hoarding of^ The family “sock” and the old pot may be chuck full of dimes ters, or five- and ten-dollar Jtold P and yet thrift may be unknown t head of the house. He may miser! *iv. Thrift not only saves intelHlt*" i* it puts savings to work; not only save a dollar, but it puts where it will thrive, where it and labor for the welfare sn*! of its owner. ..me On account of suspended \ rations during the war, the P* now needs alrooct a million bo*’’*
The Badin Bulletin (Albemarle, N.C.)
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