Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, March 26, 1920, Page 6

ellie 3 COTTONWOOD CHRONICLE) eee ec ee U ULLAL AMAA ULLAL = GEORGE MEDVED | Auto Supplies Gas and Oils Expert Attention Given to all branches of garage work at this shop. Being espe- cially equipped for such work we can handle all jobs with dispatch Come Here WITH YOUR Car Troubles Let our Trouble Fixer do the worrying -- It’s his business Everything for the motorist COTTONWOOD GARAGE STEWART & JASPER, Proprietors Have just received a new shipment of furniture and we.invite you to inspect the new line The Prices are Right Nau’s Furniture Store COTTONW OOD - 7 - IDAHO Complete line of Funeral Furnishings carried Both Phones. Calls answered day or night The Place To Get Those FRESH ROASTED PEANUTS and that ie ane BUTTERKIST POP CORN Simon Bros. Wholesale and Retail BUTCHERS Dealers in Hides, Pelts, and all kinds of Poultry COTTONWOOD, IDAHO COTTONWOOD ‘Sad AND TRANSFER LINE CAMPBELL & ROBBINS, PROPS. Light and Heavy Hauling Done on Short Notice | wages ;sume the 1 Issued Every Friday and entered at Postoffice in Cottonwood; Maho as second-class mail mare: Subscription one oer Six months ......... (aerictly in ‘sdvance) INDEPE NDENT IN POLIT ICS oer for change of vail must be aid: ed in a “Wednesday to insure enenae FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1920. GET INTO DEBT. One hears on every side talk | about the “housing problem”. Are people not making more of a problem out of this than it really is? Are not nine people out of ten sidestepping the real issue? If the country is short of houses why do not the people build instead of paying exorbi-| tant rents about which they all) complain? While building costs are high are high in proportion and it is no harder to build to- }day than it was ten years ago { under a lower seale of wages and prices. The truth of the matter seems to be that there are too many people who do not wish to as- responsibilities of home owning. Instead of put- ting their money into a home their fathers did they are buy- ing all manners of luxuries which they try to make them- selves believe are necessities. Lewis Swift of Swift & Com- pany advised healthy working men of all classes to “get into debt”, possibly as a panacea for the present hectic condition of mind obtaining among the gen- eral public, which seems to dic- tate that all earnings should be| spent in a wild delirium of pleasure. The head of a family who must look to next month’s sal-| ary for a payment of an install-| ment due on a home is a far better citizen than the one who} is mortgaging that same cope for fleeting comforts and idle diversions. Home owning is among the! first principals of our form of | | government and is the very bul-| = Let the wants a home, wark of our nation. individual who instead of complaining about the | shortage of houses, get busy and arrange to build one. GIVE CREDIT WHERE DUE. Banks are slow to give credit and the people are as proverbi- ally slow to give bankers credit | In the universal | for anything. complaint over advanced prices of everything, there is one busi- ness that has not taken advan- tage of the trend of the times. Banks have not raised prices to keep pace with every other line of business or professional | of the} activity. The banks United States are charging prac- tically the same rates for money as they did before the war. Banks themselves probably feel the advanced prices as much as any other one line of business Without doubt it costs any bank that does any volume of business at all twice as much to conduct its affairs as it did be- fore the upward tendency set in. Federal and state taxes are greater for them in proportion than for others and in most states their assessed valuation on assets is higher than other classes of property. With all these added burdens it seems a wonder that they have not followed the natural course and advanced their rates to the limit permitted by law. And yet the fact stands out clearly that they have not and have shown no tendency to de so. But how little credit is given them? CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank our friends for the many kindness and words of sympathy during the loss of our dear son and brother. Also his school mates for the beautiful wreath “lof flowers. Mr. and Mrs. James I. John- son and Family. CLEANING AND PRESSING. If you want your suit in first class shape have it cleaned and pressed at the Modern Tailoring Shop, Ferde Nacke, proprietor. shown us; | ei HLS HT It Is Always Necessary —WHEN BUYING LUMBER AND BUILDING MATERAL —TO USE COMMON SENSE: —JUST GOOD, ORDINARY, EVERYDAY COMMON SENSE. —THAT’S ALL. —IT IS THE SAME WITH LUMBER AS WITH EVERY OTHER COM- MODITY ; QUALITY DIFFERS, RADICALLY, OFTEN IN MATERIAL OFFERED UNDER THE SAME GRADE DESIGNATION. —THE CAREFUL, DISCRIMINATING BUYER PREFERS TO BUY HIS LUMBER HERE, BECAUSE OF THE REPUTATION OF THIS YARD FOR HANDLING ONLY THE BEST IN EVERY CLASSIFICATION. —YOU, AT TIMES, HAVE OCCASION TO BUY LUMBER, —MAKE YOUR NEXT PURCHASE AT— Hussman Lumber Co. “Home Builders” STOUUHNIUUEAANULGAEUUGONUGOOUAREUOELOSEOASONANUOAAOAGEOAARUGE SUERTE AEA Free Free Free WNT With Every Sack of PRINCESS rLOUR A Flour Sifter At the Leggett Mercantile Co.