Those War-Made Millions
A man who built ships for the government a few years ago and was supposed to have been piling up wealth at an extraordinary rate killed himself at Seattle yesterday. After his body was found, it was discovered that he was absolutely destitute. He was not, it may be, a typical war contractor, but great numbers of men who helped the government in time of necessity a few years ago suffered much as he did. The government cancelled his contracts after he had put all his money and credit into his work and then neglected to pay him what it owed him. If we check up on the war-made millionaires, we find that there is a widespread popular delusion about the profits that were made. Not many men who have dealings with the government, in war or peace, find doing business with it either profitable or satisfactory.—Yakima Daily Republic.

He who owns a home rarely breaks his neighbor's window; national respect for property rights has a cornerstone in individual home ownership, says and exchange. Rooted to the soil, in this way, the average home owner is more likely to become the defender rather than the enemy of law and order and, as an upholder of his own rights, to be a law-abiding respecter of the rights of others. An Index of the extent of this fundamental assurance of our national stability is afforded by the statement of the census bureau that more than 10,800,000 persons in the United States own the homes they occupy. In other words, more than 45 percent of the families in this county live in homes of their own.  Ownership and possess a vested right which makes for good citizenship and insures their permanent self-interest in the maintenance of a government of law. 