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SUNDAY. JUNE 15 “6 ur _ -tb f T c..i Make the Dream Come True. Own Your Own Home in Augusta! T. G. BAILIE & CO. AWNINGS, SHADES, WALL PAPER. 712 Broad Street. Wm. F. BOWE, Jr. CONTRACTOR. Cement Work and I’roducta a Specialty 541 Broad Bt. Phono 1577-J A. H. M’DANIEL All Kinds Of Builders' Supplies 434 Eighth St., Phone 1«. We Can Help You Beat the “HIGH COST OF BUILDING” Lawrence Construction Company AUGUSTA. F. M. BARRETT Plumbing and Heating Contractor. 684 Broad St. Phone 881. C. B. HOLLEY General Contractor. Get our Estimates. 1810 Walton Way. Phone 1119-J. WHITNEY-M’NEIL ELECTRICAL CO. Electrical Contract ing and Supplies. 1033 Broad. Phone 1316. Philander P. Scroggs ARCHITECT 610-11 l.amar Building. Phone 3281. BEFORE YOU SHOP In the store* of Augusta SHOP FIRST IN THE HERALD It will pay you to read carefully the store news and business announce ments in this issue of the Herald and to say, when shopping in Au gusta. "I saw it in the Herald” WHAT YOU NEED-WHERE TO BUY IT You Own Part of Lar m Model City-Get Acquainted With !t! BY W. AIRD MACDONALD. Va lift jo, Cal.—You probably do not know It. but you and every purchaser of lberty bonds own a model < ity near the Mare Inland navy yard; ;i city which ohowH what Mcientifte planning and manaKo/rtent ran do with the un iversal lioukluk and renting problem. Thi* story Im to tell you how it whh built and bow It 1h being run by your MtewardM, the I nitrd Hlutfes Housing Corporation. Here hofur-H Hiirh ae you'll find on the Noli IIIJI of your town rent for not much more than the meanest houeeH in your town. The rent.s pay you and your fellow Iherty bond buyer© the four and one half per rent Intercut. The town coat about a million dol l*irn. part of th< $3,000,000 set a»lde for tbi* housing of Hhipya.nl workers throughout the rountry. It •ordains 12 r* buildings modern, attmrtlve rottageaf apartment, dorrnl torieM, community hot**! and cafeteria, wtoro and school arrornmodatlon for 227 fatnilUleM and 400 Hinglo men. Kent* range from $22.50 to $37.50 per month. These figures were determined on a basis of fairness both to the tenant and to projarty interests In the neigh, boring city of Vallejo. They pay the I 1-2 per rent Interest on the Liberty bonds and 1-2 per cent to cover ail operating costs. Accommodations consist of I. 5 and 0 room apartments, and 10 dormitory buildings for single men, each having a social or club room. Tb© homes Imw Voncrete basements, oak floors In living rooms, gas ranges and heaters, stationary wash tubs, built-in cabinets and linen closets, latest type lighting fixtures and the best plumbing. The three room apar nients have wall beds. In tin* dormi tories are an adequate number of tub and shower hatha, together with wash rooms. All linen Is provided by the t'orporution, and regular hotel service Is maintained in th** dormitories, where rooms rent for $3.00 to $3.50 per week. . ' Hik Slut.r of the Hoy Scouts" Is the title conferred upon Anita Stewart, film heroine, by the California young sters lor her aid In the mcmh.mhtp drive. The lucky guys In the picture live In Los Angeles. Tht Holy Teeroe.—Lady—They say Father Hooley advanced to the attack with a prayer hook In one hand and a bomb In the other. Returned Soldier They’re always try- IV to' belittle a rood 'man, mum. \ I July— W hy. Isn't It trues Soldier—No, lady; he had bombs In both bands.—Life. Sell It! Is that lot of yours appreciating in value as rapidly as the same money might be earning profits for you? If for any reason you who have vacant lots desire to sell them tell those who are looking for just such lots about it in a Herald Want Ad. It may be that the man you want to meet lives in your block or he may live over on the west side of town or the oast side, but there's a man some where here in Augusta who w ants to buy your lot and build a house on it. Try a Herald Want Ad and see if it won’t find the man for you.> 296—PHONES—207. Special 3 and 7-Day Kates, * Parking and landscape gardening make this model town a place of beau ty as well as utility. A school house and a store help serve the nefeds of the town. And community garages are being erected for the convenience of the workers who haw* autos. These are some of the physical fea tures of your towm for the shipyard workers who build and keep in repair the vessels of the navy. To promote community interest find that constructive nelghborlinoss With out which the most beautiful city is ugly, the worker tenants have a big part in the town’s management. Com plaints or suggestions are carried to the city manager, It. A. Petit, and air* taken up by one or another of the cit izens' three committees, Sanitation, 1 «iw and Order and Community Bet terment. ' Your model town is a thoroughly YOUR AGENT City Manager R. A. Petit, of the U, S. Housing Corporation. * -Rv. >J9.. _Pe ~i ■ < GOOD SCOUTS! A Question of Tait*.—On* morning Mr Smith was heard talking to hlm ►clf while making Id, morning toilet In a manner that denoted much per turbation. "I wonder" said Mr». Smith, "what's provoked father now?" "Oh. It's nothing much, mother," answered little William. “I Just put a tube of sister's oil-paints In place of hia tube of tooth pasi#."—'Tit-Hits. '' h——«—■———— ''' ' »WWPMWW " WHAT RENTER IN MODEL TOWN GETS. Four-rcom apartment - $25.00 to $32.50 Five-room cottage $30.00 to $35.00 Large sunny, modern, landscaped homes, equipped wfth five-burn er gas range, water heater, stationary wash tubs, high grade lighting and plumbing fixtures, oak floors in living rooms. No crowding of houses. Lawns and gardens. A “view” from every house. American community, since only American citizens can become tenants. The majority rules, in everything. If Hill Jones has a (log and the dog digs up Tom Smith’s turnips, the two neighbors don't call names over the tiack fence. They take the matter of doers and turnips up with the propor committee, and then the whole town declares which it wants most, pets or garden truck. That's the spirit of the place. It’s the spirit which builds ships, which begets constructive co-operation and makes contented workmen and happy families, as Uncle Sam's record its landlord here shows. Your model city near the Mare Is land navy yard was built to supply the serious housing need when the cry for shins became desperate during the war. Where thousands were employ- He's On Trail Of Bomb Throwers tvz ULiAM rz.ttj&r*— Flynn, for » years bead ot the U. S. ed, hundreds only* could find adequate accommodations. The IT. S. Housing Corporation, or ganized under the U. S. Department of Libor, sent R. A. Pietit and a corps of workers to Vallejo. A 150-acre tract of land was secured and the model town sprang up. i’lans called for a community four times the size, but the armistice made this unnecessary. “We plan,” says the Housing Cor poration, “to malfle this a town-site of the highest stype, a place where the average citizen and workman can have a real home for his family and where he can have a voice in the con duct of his town far greater than he does in the average town where he is a mere renter.” As such it is a place to think about, this model town in which you have the interest of part owner. secret service, has been engaged to di rect Ih<- ferreting out of anarchists re sponsible for recent bomb plots in many cities. Diuing the war Flynn aided the department of justice in running down spies atfhd disloyalists. Wanted His Dough!—Judge—l under stand that you prefer charges against this man? Baker —No. sir. I prefer cash, and that's what I had hhn brought here for. —Pearson's Weekly. “What sort of a honeymoon did you have ?" "Government controlled.”—Life. Awnings Porch Shades Wall Paper T. G. Bailie & CO. 712 Broad St. OWN YOUR OWN HOME! The U. S. Department of Labor Information and Educational Service writes: Oeorge M. Reynolds. President of the Continental and Commercial National Bank of Chicago, has sent to the IT. S. Department of Labor a letter giving assurance of his support of the Own Tour Own Home campaign. Me. Reynolds says: 'lt should be every man s abmitton to own his home. In reall sing that ambition he will be provid ing for the future of his family and himself. He will be doing far more than merely furnishing a, nxrf over the heads of those he loves; 'he will be laying the foundation upon which his children will build firm ness and nobtttty of charade “A permanent resident In tfte !.ome you own means the develop ment of a higher type of cftizenshlp, for the home owners have prtefe in the'communlty. Tl\ey know that the general standard of the commu nity will be raised or lowered by the Interest or lack of interest they take in civic affaire “Patriotic Impulse prompts the desire to own a home, and parti ctio duty calls for the building of homes now. when the employment of labor in that manner will do m uch toward providing work for the boys who are returning from the front. Apparently not much is to be gained by waiting for a decline in prices of budding materials, for authoriUes tell us it la impossible for prices to recede to any considerable extent In the face of costs of production, which are likely to continue without much change for at least a year or two longer. In the meantime, refits are advancing and homes are becoming very scarce. Nothing Is more sum to encourage th rift than the act of acquiring a home. Thousands ot men have had the ex perience will vouch for the co rrectneaa of this statement." "BUILD WITH BRICK.” % Large Stock. Quick Shipment. Correspondence Invited. GEORGIA-CAROLINA BRICK CO. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. Lombard Iron Works and Supply Co. All Kinds of Supplies for Builders and Contractors. 631 Eleventh Street. Phone 26. F. P. BRANCH General Contractor. 334 Walker Street. Phone 2811. E. J. Boris Real Estate, Loans, Fire Insurance. Room 204 Union Savings Bank Building. Phone 276. New Home Electrical Contracting Company ELECTRIC CHANDEUERS Beautiful Display. Newest Designs. Best Prices in the City. 857Vfe Broad St. Phone 1000. LEE PLUMBING & HEATING CO. /. Contractors for Plumbing and Heating. 1250 BROAD. PHONE 3222. PALMER-SPIVEY CONSTRUCTION CO. General Contractors. Estimates furnished on all kinds of Building Contracts. Office Campbell Building. Phone 826.* SUNDAY, JUNE IB 1 ' ■ 'lia,.. JBI.BBHI J IIP® I.T »-«# / nu—,-r tjV^ MM • r>r r Ulo&flr- - * ■ —j jMtjr' % .L * Just arrived and is on display soma of the prettiest electrical fixtures ALFRED L. BRILL ELECTRIC COMPANY It would pay you to call aad see these fixtures at the 412 JACKSON STREET. Opposite the First Baptist Church. W. B. TOOLE WARM AIR I JENACES. SHEET METAL WORK. Tol. 264 934 Broad St. T. 0. Brown & Son Inc. General Contractors and Builders. <# All Work Given our Personal Attention. Telephones 3580-W and 293-J. P. O. Box 818. STOUGHTON’S MANUFACTURING AGENCY BOILERS and ENGINES Figures on all sorts of machinery and Build ing Castings. Gas Engines and Pumps Blue Printing, Drawing • and Estimating Done. 521 Leonard Building. T.G. * BRITTINGHAM CONTRACTOR Plumbing, Heating and Drainage. No. 651 Broad Street. Augusta, Georgia.