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Li;:: ns Arc We!! Pa Pigments Use I Fa infers Are IN'DiC ATI ON OF THRIFT Concern Abv.i ;c#s go- P<*r Cent. ' ~ . .■„ ' ■ C • ♦. - ■ ' M*>re if Repair.iin'y Is Ccmj e _ Every Five Years. preservation ofvj?.va Crude but Effective Prcc'iSscr, F.mp!oy t. '» ed by'the Egyptians and Creeks of JF*Iiny/’s Day—Noah Prudently Waterproofed the Ark. I It pay Id.p ahit carefully farm bio dings? farV^s it urM to tin* soiling .':rliip r>f a farm when buildings hi** properly kept lift om! regularly paint ed? A careful inquiry of a number of loading bankers In ffle Mississippi yj/l- Thy,. including such states-as Iywn* llti- .Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Mis souri, reveals tho fart that In nearly every rase the bankers did not hesl- tat- to say that tli**y would haul all tin* wav froni f> to f.o per o**nt. more on land where farm buildings were, wefl painted and kept in good condition. They maintain that well kept-up ami well painted bjilhhngs .and- fences are an indication of thrift and that the thrifty farmer Is u good client, and to him money can be safely loaned. An average of the returns from these bankers shows that the Increased loan value because of painted building* ia • round 22 per cent. Some of these bankers make Inter- osHng comment. A Michigan concern says that, while not especially pre pared to advise definitely In response to this Inquiry, the officers would loan more money on farms wiiere buildings were painted thun where they were not so treated. This bank also finds that where houses, barns and fences are well taken rare of the farm Is a profitable proposition, and blinkers In general consider the farmer a good client. Another Michigan^ bank says “farm buildings out of repair and needing paint Indicate that the owner Is slow pay." Such farms nre rated at about one-third of the assessed vain* for loans' .Mirks or war to tire ways of pence. Km’ploymeiit hiu-t be found, in lite (.icaiiwhite,, for “those wliieV* occupy- ionilias been, inter rupted. There is no eal surplus of labor in the L’nifed states. Hather There is a shortage, vlileli would be acute If normal /•ondi- litlons Were already restored, and one >f»qi towards restoring Ihein will come vlth resumption of repair work. Government restrictions, imposed tiy tin* neeesijltjrs yf_ tbe war program, oa.ve for*many months' past retarded »r altogether prevented, construction,, improvement and repairs. These re strictions ure now off, and there Is scarcely a town, a city, n factory, a .Jueiling or a farm that does not reveal a crying need for prompt attention. Nothing delays sueh instant action ex cept the feeling that, prices ara high for the time being and may be lowfcr. That Is not'loglcai. No matter what / ICCTll Whether paint was Invented In aw® aw or to a heed for a preservative or to meet a desire for beauty is a question fully us knotty as the ancient one aboqt the relative time of arrival of the ■•chicken, or the egg. It was invented, though, and it serves both- purposes equally; so whether it is an offspring of mother necessity or an adopted soil j of beauty remains forever u disputed Question. ‘ The first men, cowering under thi iflerce and glaring suns of the biblical countries, constructed rude huts of •wood to sliefler them. The fierlshab!* nature of these structures caused rapid Ldecay. and It Is probable that the oc- ;cupants, seeding some artificial mean* Jof presorvution, hit upon the pigment* lof tiie earth in their search. It Is par- thapi-natural to suppose that It vu the Instinct of preservation that led linen to the search, although the glories of the sunsets and fhe_beautles of the ■"jrainlftiw may have created a desire to j Imitate those wonders in their, own • dwellings 't he earliest record of the applica tion of a preservative to a wooden iBtructure dates from the ark, which ,wn«, according to the Bible, “pitched within and without." The pitch was p triumph of preservation whatever It lacked ns a thing of beauty. lH*coratlon applied to buildings Aral iconics to light witli anefent Babylon, whose walls were covered with repre •eolations of hunting scenes and ol combat. Those wen* done iu red «n< the method followed was to paint th< seem* on the brick* nt the time ot manufacture, assuring permanence hj talking. Strictly speaking, this wui not painting so much ns it was tits earliest manifestation of our own fa’ nnlinr kalnoiniiiltig. The first Hebrew to mention paint Ing Is Moses. In the thirty-third chap ter. of the book of Numbers lie In struct* the Israelites. “When ye hav* passed over the Jordan Into the land of (’ananii. then shall ye drive out all the Inhahlluiils of the land from be fore you and destroy all their pic tores. ...” At later periods the Jews adopted many customs of the people* who sue cesnlvely obtained [tower over then snd In the apocryphal book of the Maccabees Is found this allusion tt i the *rt of decorating, “For as the mss ter builder of a new house must car* for the whole building, but he that undertaker)! to set It out and paint It must s**ek out thlugs for the adornlni thereof." Although Homer gives credit ta • Greek for the discovery of pnlnt, the allusion* to It in the hooks of Moses the painted mummy cases of the Kgyp flans and the decorated walls of Baby Ion and Thebes fix Its origin' at I period long antecedent to the Groclas era The walls of Thebes were paint ed 1,000 years before the coming o f'hrist and 900 years before “ T)mei smote his bloomin’ lyTe." The Greeks recognized the value o1 pnlnt ns a preservative und made usi of something akin to It on their ships Pliny writes of the u)ode of boiling wax and painting ships with It, aftei which, he continues, “neither the sea nor the wind, nor the sun can destroy the wood thus protected.” The Homans, being essentially • .warlike people, never brought the dec • oration of buildings to the high .plan* it had reached with tlie Greeks Foi hII that the ruins of Pompeii show many structures whoge mural decora tions' art! In fair shape today. The. colors used were glaring. A black background was the usual one and th« combinations worked thereon red, yel low and blue. In the early Christian era the use ot mosaics for churches somewhat sup- planted m;y;i! painting. Still, during the reign off Justinian tho Church o: Suint K-q-dda was budCat Con^ttn 1 titirr- ple and its walls were, adorned will paintings. / > In modern times the uses of pain - have come to he as uumerous as it! . ♦ myriad' shades and tints. I'adnt |< *■ * • unique du that its mime .ins fio syno in in and for It there is no su’ostituti l-Vnatcrlal. Bread Is the stall of life, bu paint is the life of tin- staff, t No one thinks of the oxt'eriur of i o< den building now e\< op* in it-mf: •Nature- not by Moth There is nothing h in Nature’s methods stunts, no “hurry-up Tt coats to repair, the cost Is leas than the cost of neglect No matter what the cost of paint, the wlud and the weather will collect a higher bill lp leterloratlon oud decay. Her quiet patient way with VELVET during its two years age ing in wooden hogsheads, Brings out all the kindly comfort of fine K tucky Burley leaf. / Qu»ry —What do you think of paint an an Investment, aside from tho appearance It lends? Goes tt really PAY to paint a house regularly. Bay. every three or four yearoT ■a. 4 Answer.—Good paint properly ap plied when needed Is the main thing in making a house last long und well. A touse worth $2,500 can be painted at a •oat of about $ 125. In GO years that house will need about 15 paintings, the tolul cost of which will he I .eft without paint, such a house would lull Into complete ruin in 30 years. So '-iking GO years us a basis for our fig ures we find that with paint a home will last that time In good condition and will cost, plus paint, $4,373. With* »ut paint the house would have to he rebuilt at tlq» end of 30 years and w*»uld be ready for another complete renovation when the sixtieth year ar rived. Cost, without [taint, $5,000 for * home reudy to fall to pieces. Doe* regular painting pay? As the old Dutch iduge says: “PAINT PAYS FOR ITSELF" me quicker, less expen sive methods cannot possi bly produce the fragrance, coolness and downright pipe qualities of VELVET, cured in Nature’s way. Where the farm building! are In good shape the rating Is one half. The president of a middle west ! ern hank says that when real estut* loans.are considered, painted building! are always taken Into consideration Ic making an estimate. The general ap pen ranee of the property surrounding | the house and ham snd also the fleldi and fences would he carefully 'observ ed. He further say* that he has nc! hesitancy |n saying that he would sb solutely refuse a loan on farms where the buildings were not kept up ano { w.jll [tainted. In Ids Judgment, uu painted farm buildings-would redact the loan \alue at least 25 percent A Minnesota banker says that he li much more willing to loan ntonej where the buildings are well paluted Iu’hls particular case be believe* rha lie would loan 20 per cent more thai If the buildings were not proper!) taken care of. A farmer who wll keep his buildings painted takes' i much deeper Interest .n bis work thaa one who does nob Another Mlnoe Today it is- your privilege to enjoy, with hundreds of thousands of other smok ers, this mild and friendly VELVET tobacco. Query.—I have a quantity of old paint on hand. Can I uao It for the first coat la repainting my barat Roll a VEL VET Cigorotto Answer.—Ob no ficcoant should old pnlnt which has become fat be used for priming either old or new work. Old paiut 4n that eouijltlon Is best used on a fence, brickwork or Unwork. If j^ou vhIuo your barn sufficiently to [taint It, do It the Justice of a good Job. VKLVEra U. 8. Invents Anti-Rust "Dope." Inrldtsit to the war, the government has faced the problem that has so long proved baffling to commercial, con cerns of protecting Iron and steel from rust. In un attempt to solve this fed eral sjteclulists have perfected various forms of protective coalings. Iu this connection It may be pertinent to ask whether commercial .uses will not be found also for the so-called “dopes” which the government has Invented to lie applied to airplane wings und which ure possessed of valuable weather-re sisting and fireproof qualities. y/io all-1/( >ur -round soft drink Popular demand huili Bovo’s $rcat plant— tho most ported industrial equipment in tho world. Sciohtiiically lighted and ventil-itod,and provided with every humanitarian device possible for the protection oi the hea?1h *ind safety ot its thousands ot entpi^evi. Electrically operated. ^ ^ Capacityhohlos-daily. 1 < ANMEU3EP- BUGCH V' 1 * loci j. - rfwii -i- EFFECT OF COLOR UPON THE DURABILITY OF PAINT. Property owners who may have un dor ' consideration tlie painting of dwellings and other structures should remember, that more ,durable result- are obtained when tinted paints nr* used. Permanent coloring material? which have been ground by machine into a high grade white paint bast have the effect of preventing “chalk ur£" and ‘"checking,^ two -defect? v bi-. lt are often observed when white paints ure used. I tigs OR COMBINATIONS Stencil Color I'tose Lb-ht Gray' White Light Warin Yd km Whits t a;:d slliteraoy Gr.tv -i lutle Ua;i'4- •Jsinq Booas Avoid Light Hluvj ht Gray G v. Pill** ct ! .ife'" • U *. •; i.i-'»r*srk t b 1 ,v>. "'iVTQkL b-lxj ♦; ed. Tfir • T j? •- -• * :** , k * - % •It V( c.' 1 eu **•* '.** * JC “ 7; V. m/