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Contempk^fef Ifome* for *fee QccupaaU, Not the Specdatory By B. F. BEASLEl - , - The deep set purpose of seeing that the people o* America have better homes to live In is well on the |v.lV t0 accomplishment. This is one of . the three ihinsrs which is nearest the heart of the President— L(,nies. jobs and social insurance, comprising the trinity of measures necessary to make the men, women and children of America safe. S v ; - ; Siuc e he came into office Mr. Roogevelt hag been („iuc:ntd with the two primary steps necessary to m;iUe a start upon a permanent and ultimate hous program. The first was to stimulate, employ? mHlt in the building trade and industries, which with its many sides have four millions of workers de pendent upon it. . • * The second was to get out of the way the burden of mortgage indebtedness on homes in order to re lime great distress, restore the real* estate market !lU,l rental values. Hi : All the plans so far put into execution have had those purposes in mind and are preliminary to- the real work of creating a great system of housing throughout the country. The first move which got ,well under, way was the IV irml Farm Credit Administration, bring relief tp the farmers. From June first, 1933, to May first, :»*3,r>00 loans were made, aggregating $730,000, ooo. At first calls for help ran in at the crate of three to four hundred every day. Many of the loans mndo for replacing farm mortgages secured a sub stantial reduction in amounts of interest and princi pal. and all government loans were at a lower rate of interest. Loans ran out through the country at the rate of six million dollars a-day and carried re lief in cash which stimulated 'every farm community throughout the country." The Home Owners Loan Corporation, designed to do for urban home owners what had been done for farm owners, got under way next. When it got go ing the sad fact \Vas that more than two million homes had already been sold under foreclosure pro ceedings. Foreclosures were going on at the rate of L’a.000 a month and the mortgage companies were going bankrupt as fast as the home owners. rt should be borne in mind that all this was werely relieving the distressing situation brought on by the crash of the depression. AJ1 these debts had lioi-n contracted in the period of wild speculation aiidl represented the speculative value of land so high that no people could ever pay out or carry their homes under the conditions imposed,—These loans had not beeu made primarily to buj&d h.o,mQsfor their owners to live in, that was a secondary,pWPgS&'They had been stimulated by the land, speculation and easy money which had flowed into the hands of capi talists who lent it in the expectation .of forever capi-. tali/ing the enormous hind values upon which they were based. Now the decks are clear for real action, \arious - plans are being carried out and the President, gives notice of more perfect ones and a set determination to have them carried on through a period of years till the American people can live in homes such as they are entitled to live in. The plans coptetuplate both public and private financing, or rather a co operation of these two meilutds. Not only are the fismeia] plans being provided as never before, but the practical side of building is to be .observed- Archi tecture has been called in, which with its allied sciences relating to habitation, sanitation ami com fort. are of primary and permanent consideratios. For the first time in the history of the country we have begun to approach the subject of housing from the standpoint of shelter. Never before has there Fen such a thing. .Never before has-there l?een an understanding that this was a .vital sopial problem 'vim-h could not solve itself, JUpretotorepeopie wpo "ere able to build houses for tbpfnseKves -when tbey. ?(,t ready, had the n^ney. an,<L wanted to buiULffigm, ('Derated 0n the idea bni&ag 4.wellipgs fqtppni- , fort and protection of the dsce^rg. of these comparatively few, the people of the country have been forced to dwell in Uog#e* or pretensions . cf bmiss, which were built for something else alto gether. They were built to squeeze..the. last dollar of rent out of the users, to speculate qn, to capitalize ‘ tid values and for other reasons than the comCort. - and security of the dwellers. V ._ f’lie next great discovery which ip due to-cOme ln this matter is that land speculation a,nd high priced land are the greatest deterrent to jiome construction and home ownership known to man* We must,.sepa r,r'te the problem of building d bouse froip the ppnb Kin of the land upon wpicb it is built. ^Building a h 'Use is a simple problem in the nilcs of supply and demand apply*. M^terfe} can. pe„ multiplied over and over and jyhenpne ~ •no high others ean be substituted. Npt SP. JjTJh V1^ The supply -never changes, never jn^reapgs px bh<ts. it was here before the owpr canie .and wi.IV A: ? n - It Is impossible for The 'State’s Voice to report or aopwent upon the deaths of eirea all his acquaint ances. In fact, the paper is not a newspaper at a& Therefore this little item is not a news item, but just a Ward of tribute to an eject lady, whom I hare known half a century. fifty ^ears ago, though Miss Lillian Wright -was a little less than three, years older than the writer, she was a grown young lady and be a gawky boy. Soon she married Jeff, I). Johnson, and a #pe couple were they. *lve children blessed this TOW, all mature* men and wojtnen now—one of the SODS a lawyer, Jeff, J). Junior, a Clinton attorney; Dy. Aj»os Js'eiU, of iinc(dtoh;. J4r. James, the eldest, ot Atebama and for quite a period a resident of Rus sia. Also two, fine daughters, ifesdames Elliott and mn&c. . Death came suddenly, to this daughter of two of the great old families of the Coharie section—the Boy kins and the JVrights. Time was not so long ago when practically the whole of the borderlands of Big Coharie from Clinton to Ingold was possessed fey the Boykins, Wrights, and Petersons. Mrs. Wright' was a first cousin of the late Dr- R H. Wfcight and his notable brothers. The outpouring from Sampson and Bladen for her funeral indicated the high esteem in which both Mrs. Johnson and her husband are held. An elect lady, as Paul designated a friend of his, is gone. b,e here when he is gone. lie did nothing to create it, He simply- controls it toy reason of a rule of law and custom which allows him to do. so for his owu profit. The time wijl come whep. laipj,; for private homes will be subject to the lpw of pjpjjpeut dpjpaiu, just like land for public purposes today. And lapp speculation which depends uppp holding lapd opt pf use, must be controlled. "T’W' ■ Thi ! jvpt W& f boge bean crop. Tn addition to that encouragement to an, i oversupply and to ruinous prices, . some people-wfio had m pmm 'torn. m former c#tW pr *<pr<$ge # th§t crpp and thus helped dWSterte the peofite^rho had > torn*#*-Jsm the crop as em$f ^ stays. The writer has had two men to state that that was the case—one ffcwn New Hanover cotmiy and the other from Wayne. Such a procedure Is ate? solutely pnjufit. When thfe goYernmant pays a man handsomely to leave ,oJE jart;j£ his cpt^pn ggreage in order that he may secure a better price for the prod* pf thg rer^indpt o^ h^ %C^fP, & is a&|?pap,a» a dog to. go and ruhi the othfcr n^’s.cibapce^ ■■v a Ept w^at is ,pne man's ppison to sa&tfeer m®#’* medicUie. Thirteen tty.ggand bn$$p $g»gg b#y$ ? Hu$bf by Mrs. O’Beyry, hefcd ,p| $h£ j$&K' for pop?;. B$H is* mighty popisfapily that cannot ya&e iJ$ p^.ljfcg&g & it a sn*a$ bat^^d. 4 t0$i<)f>p #MM i the writer’s Jmckyard is proving an ^tpinjtymje -$£ beans for a small family. Two more rQ$s. along ahonl^ provide §o^e fQjr paftpipg. ^ut the^^et weather has been mighty fine op that jjUjjjg#.. Swapping Compliments for Subscriptions. I found with Chester BeH in the Highway building at Raleigh the other day that handsome genial L. G; Whitley of Wilson* but one of the denizens of thal hive of highway and prison administration force. I was asking about the relationship to the Wendell dnd Zehulon Whitleys and particularly to former Editor Whitiey of Siler City, remarking that he was about the best-looking Whitley I had seen. And lo he turned in and gave me a subscription right otf-hand. There is no charge for the ode above. / /• KNOW you’re pretty square with L ypspr empJLqypps and give them the highest eonsi'd.eratiq'n in things. Of course they in turn pro$uc§ ipore! Now, come on, be honest with ypur^elf ap^i .take stock of your wife's “workshop” aid forking hours. Has she the best of labor hn4 hour saving pqippmeht ? Does it make any difference to ypu that your employees jyork only eight hours a day while your Wife has to put in an average of twelve hours? Has it occurred to yop th$t ip the home, as well as the factory or office, the little things mount up as feat as the lug hpejB?. ;(for example insufficient electric hutleta. Never thought of that, did you?}’ 1 eight, then, give your wife a break! m out what she really needs in the elec* lJ line, We’ll take care of the rest. r^QUUM CLEANSE ^ “PMHWAfHIR IRON ELECTRIC WASHER .< ,T ELECTRIC RANGE ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR
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