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Clinton, S. C., Thursday, October 18, 1951
Number 43
SOME WORKMEN GYP YOU:
OTHERS TAKE PRIDE IN WORK
Babson Recites Some of
the Pains In Remodeling
Large House.
Babson Park, Mass., Oct. 16.—A
friend of mine has recently pur
chased an old eighteen-room man
sion which he is converting into
apartments. Some very interesting
observations can be made on that
job concerning present-day work
men. As he tells me his troubles,
I wonder if this is the time to do
remodeling jobs on old houses, es
pecially as the best of houses al
ways deteriorate even though the
land increases in value.
Use Contracts And Read Them
My friend’s house is in an area
.where skilled craftsmen should be
vailable. Some of his jobs have
been let under con
tract ; some have
been done at an
hourly rate. All
the workmen were
highly r e c o m-
mended. But. al
though price was
not the important
factor, few really
took pnde in the
job they did. Cer
tainly, don’t start
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a remodeling job today except by
contracts; then read your contracts
before signing or else employ an
architect. ,
The card of the painter which
my friend employed read: Neat
rraftsmanlike workmanship Before
the job had gone far, the owner had
to remind the pointer that neither
pottered floors or cadeaiooaty
drawn sashes were acceptable
While the plumber spent constrict-
able time talking about hts fine
workmanship, his joints and pipes
leaked and he carelessly chipped
porcelain fixtures. Therefore, you
must be hardboiled and insist on
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good work even after you have read
and signed your contracts.
Are Crafstmetf Gone?
The paper hanger said: “Choose
plain paper, particularly for the
hall; it’s easier to match and more
economical,” Plain paper, for that
particular! paper hanger, meant he
could slap it on as fast as possible—
butt it or lap it, depending on the
wall! This-may be good advice. One
should always' consult the paper
hanger before buying the paper;
but be on the job when it is be
ing hung. The selection of wall
paper is almost as important as
the selection of a wife.
It may be unwise to take the
lowest bidder for roof work. Better
contract with a roofer who has
been in business many years. Too
many roofers think that the owner
will never climb up on the roof to
fails to oil the gutters and seal the
fails to oil hte guters and seal the
joints as per his contract. But the
one who really took my friend for
a ride was the electrician. He used
more BX. BC. and Rom ex cable,
connectors, plates, cutouts and dips
than you’d suspect it takes to build
a batletship As electricians get a
big profit on the material they sup
ply you, they are tempted to use
the partitions only the electricians
mort than they should. What's in
and the mice will ever know I
TnsUl On Good Reputations
But my friend s carpenter was
one in a hundred. He was careful
and proud of his work He acted
almost as If the house were his
own. He was painstaking, whether
he was laying a course of shingles
or mitering a door-casing or put
ting on hardware To him there was
a right and a wrong way. and he
could be trusted to do the job right
even though he was working by
contract.
Not enough individuals or com
panies today render good crafts
manship Wars, government con
tracts. sellers’ markets, and mater
•a! »Portages tend to bring qua lit v
standards doom When buying hard
ware today ask for goods made be
fore June I, 1*50 The quality state
thenjiiuibemj : nir.g rmurwi
Apartments are in demand. Old
houses can still be bought cheap
Many can be made over Into four
or more apartments You can make
a contract so as to know just what
the remodeling will coat ..you can
also learn from real estate agenU
how much rent you can expect.
Then figure what you will get on
your investment Thu should be
over ten per cent annually to cover
taxes, insumace and repairs and to
have six per cent left for yourself
even with full occupancy To be
on the safe side, you should allow
for some vacancies. Remodeling of
proporly located old houses may be
a good investment; but investigate
before you invest.
As Washington Sees ..
THE NATIONAL SCENE ~
For instance in the cane sugar
states, farmers in Florida received
$932,000 in sugar act subsidies or
two per cent of their income and
Louisiana cane growers received
$6,160,000 or 14.7 per cent of in
come. In the larger beet sugar pro
ducing states, Colorado farmers re
ceived $8,048,000 in subsidies or
six per cent of their total farm in
come; California farmers, $7,355,000
or two per cent; Montana, $2,411,-
000 or 2.6 per cent; Idaho, $1,927,-
000 or 4.8 per cent; Michigan, $1,-
964,000 or two per cent of income.
Only dissent on the sujfar act
came from industrial users and
molasses importers.
* *. •
Continuation of the ouster hear
ings on Senator McCarthy of Wis
consin on the bill of particulars
drawm up by Senator Benton of
Connecticut continued. One of the
most sensational pieces of news
which obtained but few headlines
was the announcement by the
Canadian government that the
Canadians w'ould build, on their
own, the St. Lawrence river sea
way. which since the early 1930’s
has been before congress. President
Truman has given his approval to
the Canadians* move after state
department consultation, if con
gress still refutes to take action-
Chief opponents of the proposal to
provide a deep-sea waterway from
the Atlantic to the Great Lakes
are. of course, the railroads and the
Atlantic seaboard port facilities,
many of which are owned by the
railroads.
Huge utilities also have opposed
this cheap freight avenue and also
a new source «f bpdro-elertric en
ergy. Govern* Dewey of New
York has previously offered to
build the hydro-electric plant, but
has never received the green light,
since because of the international
aspect, it seems to be a federal in
stead of a state job.
• * *
Although a conference committee
had not met, a compromise was ex-
' pected to be worked out this week
] on the two postal rate increase
measures passed by each house. '
Odd
The senate agricultural commit
tee held hearings on steel shortages
for agricultural machinery. Indus- j
try representatives, on the short
end of steel allocations, of epurse,
criticized those allocations as en- j
dangering the nation’s food supply.
Also shortages will be apparent in
phosphates and superphosphate
fertilizer, due largely to the sulphur
shortages. Hearings were held on
this shortage by national produc
tion authority.
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Special to The Chronicle.
Washington, Oct. 16.—It begins to
appear unlikely that this congress
will see an early adjournment date,
although the time has again been
moved up to about November 1.
However, if the members get
away by Christmas many of them
will consider themselves lucky. In
the meantime the senate has passed
the tax bill, considerably under the
house-passed measure in total taxes
and in income brackets for collec
tion. Some declare the senate bill
again is a “rich man’s” tax bill with
the big majority of the taxes com
ing from lower income brackets.
And the sponsors say that most of
the money is iji the smaller income
brackets, although that is only be
cause there are so many more mil
lions of Americans in those brack
ets.
• • •
Mention has been made in these
columns before of the sugar sub
sidy act and that it applies to only
a few, possibly three, real big cane
sugar growers in Florida and
Louisiana. As a matter of fact,
however, the subsidy applies to
beet sugar farmers also, in 30
states, although these, too, are rel
atively few as compared to all
farmers. ?-
Ordinarily farmers buck over the
traces at the mention of the word
“subsidies” or “controls,” either of
prices or marketing quotas. And
yet the cane and beet sugar farmers
were a unit in demanding rigid
governmental controls, and the bill
sailed through congress with little
or no opposition and without
creating a ripple.
The sugar controls act which re
ceived united support included
strict marketing quotas set by the
agriculture department, subsidy
payments to farmers, special excise
taxes on sugar processing and im
porting, import quotas, indirect
price control and minimum labor
standards on sugar cane or beet
farms.
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