Vagabond Editorials

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Therefore I believe that the reduction in lumber prices will have a variety of very beneficial effects. In the first place it will reduce the cost of building, remodeling, and repairing. In the second place it will have a useful efrect on the public mind that will amount to even more than the price reduction. If the new Housing Act proves to be really practical and directly efrective in getting building started (as we all hope and pray) there is every reason why there should be a CONSIDERABLE and not just a light improvement in building and in lumber sales. We have been hovering on the brink of improved building conditions fo'r some time. The opinion of the general public about lumber prices and the dearth of building credit have been the two things that have done most of the damage to the industry. Change those two things, and business is likely to take on a real hum.