4. 1917.
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Real Estate Activities Increase
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE
ASK CONTINUANCE
OF BUILDING WORK
Contractor and Material Men
Say Construction Is One of
Fundamental Industries.
Nttional orgsniistions of building
contractor! and material men have
sent out for distribution the following
pointed remarks about the building
situation:
"There should be no curtailment in
building and road construction. Let
both public and private useful con
struction proceed. Production and
handling of building materials and
public and private construction work
are fundamental industries of the
country. Any tendency to suspend or
postpone building projects is incon
sistent with maintaining our pros
perity. The country is prosperous.
Building investors should not hesitate
to go ahead with their plans. Rail
Vjr. roads should spare no effort to supply
f the building industry with the cars
needed to transport materials. Gov
ernment, state, county and municipal
authorities should encourage the con
tinuance of all kinds of building. Road
and street improvements in particular
should go on unabated. Bad roads
and streets are factors of first impor
tance in the present high cost of food
stuffs. Never before was the im
provement of highways so essential.
Basic Industries.
"The lumber, brick, cement, lime,
sand, gravel, stone and other building
materials industries are basic Neither
government regulations nor railroad
restrictions should be imposed un
necessarily to interfere with them. If
any action is taken which results in
the prostration of so fundamentally
important industries, there is real
danger of a surplus of unemployed
labor, a surplus of railroad cars and
a crippling of business that will seri
ously embarrass the government in
financing the war.
"If we are railroading, let us rail
road for all we are worth. If we are
farmers, put the same speed in our
farming. If we are mining, let us
mine as never before. Let us do the
same with making shoes, making
clothes, building houses, building
factories, warehouses, skyscrapers,
roads or whatever it may be.
"Keep on building."
Boy Scouts to Picnic
At Nashwood Wednesday
Through the kindness of Ward
Burgess, the Boy Scouts' of the city
will be given a picnic at Nashwood,
near Cotfman, the country home of
Louis C. Nash, Wednesday afternoon.
Mr. Burgess said, in commenting
on the ploposed outing: "The Boy
Scouts have worked so earnestly and
faithfully during the last week in the
Red Cross campaign and accom
plished so much that I thought noth
ing would be more appropriate or
more pleasing to them than an outing
at one of the parks or some place in
the country nearby.
"When '.mentioned my plan to
Mr. Nash he immediately offered me
Nashwood, his country home, and told
me to tell the boys to go as far as
the1' liked.
"Every Boy Scout is invited to go
as well as every scout master. Auto
mobiles will be furnished for the
transportation and everything possible
will be done to give them a good
time."
In order that th epropcr transpor
tation may be provided as well as to
know how many it will be necessary
to have supper and refreshments for,
tlte boys will be required to report at
scout headquarters in the Patterson
block, where they will be given a
ticket entitling them to one big gen
eral good time.
Each scout master is requester to
call Scout Master English at head
quarters or Mr. Green, care Burgess
Nash, for information and plans for
the outing.
Gaines and Baum Add One
More Apartment to List
Dan Gaines and D. A. Baum have
just purchased the Harold apartments
at Twenty-seventh and Jackson
streets. This was purchased of the
Riggs Investment company, through
George & Co. This adds to the
already heavy holdings of apartment
houses by these two men, who have
but recently sprung extensively into
the teal estate market.
FAULTS IN TITLES
DUE TOJGNORANCE
Follow Mistakes in Deeds,
Mortgages and Other Instru
ments Caused by Limited
Knowledge of Methods.
Many of the faults in titles and
often those most difficult to correct
are those which come through mis
takes in deeds, mortgages, leases, or
other instruments. Some are due to
carelessness and many to ignorance
Members of the Omaha Real Estate
board had a discussion of some
phases of this difficulty at the meet
ing last Wednesday noon. L. R.
Slonecker read a comprehenive pa
per on the subject, and considerable
discussion followed.
The real estate board took steps
to start a nation-wide movement in
reforms in conveyancing, particularly
in securing uniformity. In some
states witnesses are not required, in
other slates two witnesses are called
for, while in Nebraska only one. In
some cases husbands and wives must
sign deed separately and in separate
rooms. In some other states private
seals are required, and until recently
New Jersey would not recognize the
acknowledgements of notary publics
under certain conditions. Efforts
have been made in recent Nebraska
legislation-to provide for these dif
ferences, but the question is still open
whether it has been done or not. The
real estate men believe that if their
leading men over the country would
get together on some form and then
ask co-operation of the American Bar
association, the National Organization
of Savings and Loan Associations and
similar bodies, it could be brought
about to a great saving to the people
and would add much to the conven
ience of real estate transfers.
Cheap Money Prevails
At Insurance Centers
"What effect will the growth of
Omaha as an insurance center have
on real estate," asked a realtor on the
street the other day of an insurance
expert who is now busy establishing
a new company. . The answer was to
the effect that where the headquarters
of insurance companies of all descrip
tions gather that there cheap money
and plenty of it usually prevails. He
mentioned a recent trip to Des
Moines, and looking over the first
mortgage security in the vaults of the
state capitol bulding and held in ac
cordance with the state insurance
laws and stating that there were many
millions of them and that Des Moines'
standing as an insurance center had
not only been adding largely to the
working capital of the city, but had
added greatly to the prosperity of the
state 'of Iowa. Omaha and Lincoln
are both growing in that direction and
some financiers think that leading
business men, including those inter
ested in real estate, should go into
this line of investment more than
they do. Everything can be insured
now-a-days from automobiles to ant
hills. Real estate would be benefited
by the plentyfulness and cheapness of
money, the largely increasing number
of office buildings for headquarters
which such companies usually re
quire. Already steps have been taken
to secure headquarter sites by several
of the Omaha companies.
REALTORS CONSERVE
IN ENTERTAINMENTS
Seal Estate Men Decide to
Welcome Visitors as Here
tofore, but to Retrench
Along Certain Lines.
Real estate men of Omaha have de
cided to give only plain entertainment
this year to the real estate men of the
west and southwest who will stop
off in Omaha on their way to the na
tional convention at Milwaukee in
July.
This does not mean that the western
and southwestern visitors are not wel
come. It means the Omaha realtors Intend
to "conserve," in hwmony with the
general policy of the nation,
To be sure they want the delegates
going through here to stop over lor a
day. The secretary is to write to the
various boards and exchanges inviting
them to do so, ind the local fellows
are going to have a committee to pro
vide entertainment.
Omaha has made itself famous in
the past for the kind of entertainment
it has provided foe real estate men
who have stopped off in Omaha en
route to national conventions.
At the meeting last Wednesday the
board members voted in one breath
to invite the various delegates to stop
off, and then in the same breath voted
to make all entertainment at that time
sufficiently moderate as to cost to be
in keeping with the conservation spirit
of the times.
Real Estate Men of Omaha
Face "Old Home Problem"
A group of realtors at luncheon at
the meeting of the Real Estate board
Wednesday were discussing the "Old
Home Problem." This faces every
real estate man in Omaha, and in
other western cities as well. The
problem is to take a thoroughly good
house, built after the style of twenty
of twenty-five years ago and sell it
on the market for what it is really
worth.
Scarcely a day passes that realtors
do not have calls from people who
wish a smaller home or different loca
tion and ask that one of these old
homes be listed for a price which
seems to him fair. The demand, how
ever, too often is for something "up-to-date"
and the last idea in planning
and finishing.
The new house is often not nearly
so well built nor comfortable as the
old house, does not last to well and
always costs a great deal more. One
of this group said to the others. "The
day of the old house is returning."
Asked for his reasons he stated that
in the next two or three years the in
crease in business in Omaha would un
doubtedly bring a demand for many
more homes. "The high cdst of ma
terials and of labor," said he, "will
make the price of a new cottage, for
instance, very much higher and peo
ple will bury their pride and live
where the comfort and tl.e cost will
justify."
In this connection there is also a
returning of interest on the part of
investors who group the older houses,
which are in many cases offered cheap,
for rental.
The VJserui Auto.
The recent reference In Farm and Fire
side to the vee of automobilea for dolnf
farm work leads me to elva my own expe
rience with a belt power attachment. I
bought It last fall and put It on my twenty
horftepower car.
"We ground corn and oata with It. alio
eawed wood and It worked finely. The en
gine had power to waete. Finally our new
four-hole cornahsller arrived. We put It to
gether, put on the belt and lined it up.
"I Bald, 'John, do you think It wll pull
her?' John aald, 'I do not know! let ue
try.' I said, 'All right,' and ao we started
the engine going, slipped the belt on the
pulley of the engine and the shelter speeded
up right away. We threw In a scoopful of
corn and to our surprise It was gone. We
threw In a hopperful and In a few minutes
we bad fifty bushels of ahelled oorn. This
waa Just for a test; the angina had power
to spare.
"Since December 1 wa have shelled 49,000
bushels of corn besides doing some Jobs
of wood sawing." Farm and Fireside.
A car built to out
rank the ordinary
and confound the
commonplace that
is the National. To
drive one is to know
motor merit at its
height; to own one
is to realize elegance
at its climax.
Six, Cylinders
Obelve Cylinders
'2250
National Motor Car &
Vehicle Corn oration
Seventeenth Successful Year
Indianapolis
IllilBl
The T. G. NORTHWALL CO.
Omaha, Nebraska
LUTE H. MORSE, Lincoln, Neb. DEAN BROS, York, Neb.
Nebraska Prohibits Glaring Headlights
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P.rrin No Glar is a thin aluminum
shield in two placet that is held final
ly ia plac. on th. headlight bulb.
Cuts out all th. glar and dsflactl all
th. light out and down on th. road.
Will not break or Burn out bulbs.
Do.s not hroak in .v.ry liltl. acci
dent. Fully compli.s with th. Ne
braska H.adllht Law.
$1.00
Per Pair
Nebratka has a new state-wide law prohibiting glaring
headlight on automobile anywhere in the state. On country
road a welt a city streets you must not have glaring lights
after July tint. Get your machine ready now equip your
headlight with Perrin No Glare and you will comply with
Nebratka and all other date and city law.
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Obey the Law-Put Perrin's on
Your Headlights Now
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all the glar without reducing the driving light. Don't risk in
jury to yourelf and your machine by covering your light to
comply with law. For safe night driving you mutt have driving
light, so use Perrin No Glare'. Perrin' take the light out of
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on the road.
Approved by the Police
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1917 FARNAM STREET. TELEPHONE DOUG. 7895
A. N. Van Doren Co., Hatting, Neb.
General Distributor, Nebratka and Kansas
PferrinMfgXo.
Detroit, Mich.
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OMAHA
Phone Douglas 7940.
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