CHAPTER TWO 



Pitfalls of Accountancy 



NO indirect expenses that can legitimately be 

 charged to rent are included in the figures set 

 forth in the last chapter. We must have a place 

 to live. Whether we pay a lump-sum rent or a vari- 

 ety of installments called interest, taxes, insurance, 

 and upkeep on the dwelling is immaterial. The 

 important point is that if we moved to town we 

 should pay much more rent for the housing we 

 presently enjoy in the country with none of the 

 attendant production facilities. 



How rural rents here compare with those in 

 the neighborhood of other large cities I can not 

 say. My unsupported opinion is the ratio any- 

 where will be about the same as Philadelphia to 

 its environs. In the absence of other specific data 

 let me tell you what we get for how much, and 

 then make some invidious comparisons. Tavern 

 House it is so nominated in the colonial deeds- 

 is a two-and-one-half-story brick building made 

 with the same kind of brick, and in the same archi- 

 tectural school, as the State House (Independence 

 Hall) in Philadelphia. It probably antedates the 



