YOUR GARAGE 



A Word to the Wise. 



If you were about to put money into a bank, even a small amount, 

 you would want to be sure that the bank was a well-managed, conserva- 

 tively operated one. If the bank building itself was a strong-looking, 

 imposing structure it would impress you with the financial worth of the 

 institution. Now, in garaging a car, remember that instead of the bank, 

 the garage holds your investment of, for instance, a thousand dollars. 

 This amount is a great deal more than the balance carried in the bank 

 by the average car owner. Is it not a sane plan to provide adequate 

 housing for an investment of this amount? Every dollar that you put 

 into a garage is investment. Your property gets the benefit of it every 

 time, and in a quick or forced sale a garage-equipped property is usually 

 a ready seller. 



One nowadays sees many alluring advertisements in the magazines 

 about all metal garages, portable garages and what not. In the majority 

 of instances the statements made in these advertisements are correct as 

 far as they go. For instance, I have before me a well written, attractive 

 advertisement, which informs in big bold type, ''This Beautiful Metal 

 Garage Complete $69.75." Then under this caption follows the descrip- 

 tion in very small type. Of course this price does not include the floor, 

 of either plank or cement, nor does it include the two men's time for two 

 days to erect, nor does it include a good many other things that have to 

 be bought and paid for before the garage is tenable, neither is it large 

 enough for an average sized car. I have figured out the total cost of this 

 advertised garage and really tried to be very conservative and find that 

 this $69.75 garage plus freight to your destination, if you please would 

 cost at least $135 when completed. 



Then look what you would have on your lot. An unsightly building 

 in the first place, entirely out of harmony with everything else in the 

 neighborhood. An intensely warm building in the hot summer sun; an 

 intensely cold building when winter's heavy hand falls upon it. Why, 

 your contractor and lumberman can put up a garage for you that will 

 adorn your lot and at the same time give you a good serviceable building 

 one you may well be proud of for many dollars less than the mail- 

 order-house-all-metal-price. Further, you will have put money into circu- 

 lation in your home town instead of sending it to another town where 

 it is possibly not needed half as badly as at home. Even were the cost 

 the same it pays to patronize your own townsmen, but why oh why- 

 send away for an inferior article when you can buy cheaper and better 

 at home? fiJI 



Did you ever stop to consider that your contractor can build as good 

 a permanent or portable garage as you can buy from a mail order 

 house? It will be a better building, too. Why? Because you can see the 

 lumber you are going to have in your building before you pay for it. Your 

 lumber dealer is figuring on selling you further building material. Doesn't 

 it seem reasonable that he is at least going to try and hold your business 

 and your faith in him by selling you good material at only the fair margin 

 of profit to which he is justly entitled? 



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