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Home, Sweet Prefab Home
By PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON—Housing expediter Wilson W.
Wyatt made a two-day plea for his emergency
program before the Senate Banking and Currency
Committee after the House got through knocking
the foundations out from under it. But how much
reconstruction the Senate can do is a bit uncertain.
One of Wyatt’s key points is a provision for
guarantees to the manufacturers of prefabricated
houses. It’'s a new industry, bucking all sorts of
obstacles, and housing people in Wyatt's executive
end of the government feel that the builders need
all the encouragement they can get.
There are now 33 manufacturers of prefabs in
business, and this is their big opportunity to sur
vive or perish. Wyatt estimates the present capacity
of the industry at 100,000 units a year, but his new
program calls for 250,000 this year and 600,000
next.
TOO REVOLUTIONARY,
PERHAPS, FOR THE PUBLIC |
Popular taste is a funny thing. All the ]ogical‘
arguments in the world can be presented on the
advantages of living in a streamlined, dustproof,‘
mothproof, 20th Century efficiency domicile with
built-in bath and garbage disposal. But if it looks
like a squashed pile of something Junior created,
blindfolded, with his blocks, it just isn't the con-i
ventional white clapboard, red brick, or chicken
wire and plaster California bungalow with green
shutters that people are used to living in. |
Round houses still don’t have corners for érand
pappy to sit in or for standing the broom in andi
no place for corner cupboards. And it's still im
nossible to ‘buy carpets shaped like a slab of pie,?
or concave pictures to hang on the inside of ihe
outside walls. Maybe that's why they say the in-;
dustry needs protecting. \
If these prefabs catch on in rural areas, how
ever, watch for a revolution in the U. S. Christmas
calendar art which illustrates scenes to go with
“Over the river and through the wood, to grand
mother’s dwelling we go.” The horse may know
the way to carry the sleigh, but look for him to
rear back and run away if the old homestead is
converted into something that looks like an en
larged incubator. Maybe they’ve got something
there, though, if the prospective buyer is interest
ed in raising a family.
But, seriously, the need for all the emphasis on
prefabs is that there simply aren’t going to be
enough standard building-materials to make pos
sible the construction of 2,700,000 conventional
type houses in the next two years. That’s why
Wyatt is leaning on 850,000 prefabs—to keep that
many families in out of the rain and out of the
hair of relatives they might otherwise have to
double up with.
Senators listening to Wyatt's program didn’t
seem to be too well sold. Senator Robert A. Taft
thinks 150,000 prefabs is all the market will ab
sorb. Senator Homer Capeheart, the big radio man
from Indiana, says he would go along with grant
ing the prefab makers RFC loans for factories and
machinery, but he’s not so sure about the wisdom
of having the government guarantee them a mar
ket. If the government does that, Capeheart said
in summing up his opposition, “I'm in the wrong
business.”
Senator Alben W, Barkley of Kentucky, acting
chairman in the absence of the ill Senator Wag
ner, didn’'t stop to think how “My old Kentucky
prefabricated home” would sound if set to music,
He turned to Capehart quickly. “Well,” he said,
“you could build ’em a radio set for each house and
make up for all your other losses.”
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The sun has about one-half as much pull on the
tides as' dogs the moon.
A half million baby chicks flew from the U. S.
to other American countries during 1943, in air
planes, ;
Bees can make honey without flowers or pollen.
They can get nectar from the base of patridge pea
leaves,
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Training Athenians To
- Earn A Living
Superintendent of Schools B. M. Grier, speaking
before the Kiwanis club a few days ago, declared
the Board of Education is planning a program
which is designed to help train young Athenians,
as well as adults, to successfully pursue various
vocations. This is constructive. Our observation is
that when persons are trained to do certain things
they usually create the opportunity to do them, if
the opportunity does not create itself.
The other day one of Athens’ best cabinet mak
ers remarked that if he were young again he
iwould open a new industry here: reproduction of
antique furniture. He pointed out that it is diffi
cult now to find genuine antiques. The attics have
been ransacked and most families that had more
antique furniture than they had ready cash have
sold out the furniture and perhaps spent the cash.
This cabinet maker we are quoting pointed to the
success of a Virginia cabinet maker who has been
reproducing antiques at high prices for many years.
He has five or six cabinet maKers employed to
turn out his product and he sells the reproductions
for fancy prices.
‘ Perhaps here in Athens there is an opening for
just such an industry as this Athens cabinet
‘maker says he would establish if he were younger.
‘The shop-training program of the Board of Educa
tion will undoubtedly result in turning out poten
tial industrialists, cabinet makers who will estab
lish their own small industries which later may
grow into larger ones. The training that can be
given to boys with a mechanical bent should in
crease the supply of skilled machinists. There are
two or three machine shops in Athens now, estab
lished in recent years by young men trained here.
The Board’s program which, of course, can be
considerably broadened when the new High School
building is erected, will result in teaching many
young Athenians how to earn a living with their
hands as well as with their heads. It should have
a noticeable effect on the future economic growth
of Athens.
Politicians’ Opportunity
The House Banking and Currency Committee has
a chance to bring our confused economic picture
into better focus during its hearings on the pro
posed one-year extension of OPA. Whether the
members will grasp that opportunity depends on
their inclination and ability to rise above politics
;and consider the question with responsible states
‘manship.
- The country doesn’t need any more accusations
and recriminations. There havg been enough of
those already. OPA on the one hand and manu
facturers and retailers on the other have charged
each other with desiring and promoting inflation.
The result has been a great deal of heat, but little
light. It is time to weigh the facts and strike a
balance.
Federal Reserve experts reported that produc
tion and income are above previous peacetime re
cords;that employment, except in agriculture, min
ing, construction and a couple of other fields, is
above average; that unemployment is well below
the busy year of 1941.
Yet Bernard M. Baruch, a brilliant and respon
sible elder statesman, told the House committee
that his principal message in our present domestic
crisis was, “Incrgased production.” And any con
sumer knows that, no matter what the experts
say, there are appalling shortages im the three
fundamentals: food, clothing and shelter.
One doesn’t need to be a professional economist
to recognize that values are inflated, or that some
types of clothing, such as men’s suits, shirts and
underwear, aren’t to be had except in the most ex
pensive styles, and that many foods remain scarce
while, in some cities, the black market flourishes
as it never did during the war.
Each side has its explanations. Businessmen say
that OPA won’t grant them relief, refuses to hear
their complaints, denies them a reasonable profit,
discriminates against established firms in favor of
newcomers, and either forces manufacturers out of
business or into new fields where they have no ex
perience, but which offer a profitable price ceiling.
OPA charges many manufacturers and specula
tors with staging a ‘production sitdown, or using
labor costs as an excuse for asking exorbitant
price increases, or indulging in other selfish prac
tices which would rush the country into uncon
trolled inflation.
Obviously, neither side is entirely right. And a
continuation of the argument’ isn’t going to move
us forward to production which will meet the
country’s needs at prices natural to our competi
tive economy. |
The House Banking Committee might make a
start toward providing the reason and the remedy.
But its members must first make up their minds
not to use these hearings simply for the purpose
of attacking or defeating administration policies,
And perhaps that’s asking too much of politicians
handling a red-hot political issue in a congressional
election year.
Nationalistic differences have not divided the
tribunal. So far not one judge has noted public
dissent to any decision.—~Supreme Court Justice
Robert H. Jackson, chief Nuernberg prosecutor,
Not everyone realizes so clearly that the advance
of modern science depends also upon the existence
and exploitation of a large body of subtle, highly
ingenious mathematics, which 1s contifually ex
panding, thanks to the persistent efforts of pro
fessional mathematicians,—Dr. Marshall Stone of
Harvard.
In business, in labor, in agriculture, many of the
old familiar forces of selfishness are again on the
march. And to make matters worse, we find gov
ernment allying itself first with this pressure
group, and then with that, for political advan
tage.—Former Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio, 1944
nominee for vice president.
Because the scientific spirit is so completely op
posite to the military spirit, science simply will
not go forward under military domination—Dr. E.
U. Condon, National Bureau of Standards director.
The activities of labor organizations should be
limited and supervised and their responsibilities
appropriately defined to assume equality of status
before the law, for labor and management.—Robert
R. Wason, president National Association of Manu
facturers. Lo . _jscndmsimsas e
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XXI.
It was cold qutside, and Ann
pulled her fur coat close about
her. The sky was gray and threat
ening ahead. Ann hoped it wozld
snow. A few miles farther on, her
wish was granted and big lazy
flakes plastered themselves
against the windshield. Then it
began to snow in earnest.
It was a small blizzard by the
time she drove up to the house,
and Colin came out looking a lit
tle anxious. “I was hoping you'd
get here — I didn’t want you
snowbound in Seattle—with me
in Port Drake.”
Ann slid over so that he could
get in behind the wheel to drive
the car into the garage. ‘Don’t
you love it, Colin? Let’s pop corn
and roast apples and toast
marshmallows in front so the fire
tonight—"
“I believe the girl’'s hungry,”
he grinned.
Inside the house, Ann changed
to warm red velvet pajamas, and
went inte the kitchen to start
dinner, only to retreat shivering
ly. “Somebody should have exaim
ined my head when I was plan
ning this house! Why didn’t any
one tell me that you need heat in
a kitchen? Why did I think of a
kitchen as a nautrally warm and
friendly place?”
Colin pulled her down beside
him on the davenport. “In alit
11z while Tl go out and bring in
the ingredients, and we can have
bacon, waffles and coffee—and of
course your popcorn and apples
and toasted marshmallows — in
here.”
Ann put her head on his shoul
der, and said, “Darlin’—"
The doorbell rang, and they
both jumped. “Who could that
be?” Colin wondered aloud as he
got up to answer it.
He opened the coor, and Nina
and Jock, all bundled up and
covered with powdered snow,
came dashing in. “Thank God for
the Drakes on a night like this!”
Nina said fervently. “Hi, Colin—
hi, Ann!”
“Hullo — won’t you come in?”
Ann replied mechanically.
That, it seemed, was their in
tention. Also they demanded to
be put up for the night. Nina had
gone along with Jock when he
drove up to Port Farrar, to in
terview a wealthy and bedridden
client, and they’d gotten - caught
in the storm, and decided it was
silly to go on when they had
good friends so close.
Colin explained that the tem
perature of their kitchen was
enough to discourage Admiral
Byrd, so if they were willing to
eat what the Drakes intended to
ecat, they were more than wel
come. He took Nina's fur coat,
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established them all comfortably
around the fire, then set himself
to making hot rum punch,
Colin was very competent, Ann
thought dreamily, as she sat with
'a mug of the warming drink in
hand and watched him stirring
up batter, and putting strips of
bacon in the waffle iron. She
roused herself, presently, enough
tc moasure the coffec and plug
in the percolator.
Somehow, the evening wasn't
so bad as she had expected. May
be the rum punch helped. Ann
didn’t taik very much, but smok
ed a great many cigarets, and
listened to the others, who seem
ed to have no difficulty carrying
on a normal polite conversation.
Jock seemed a little remote, she
thought, but Nina and Colin
talked with the easy familiarity
of old friends. It was midnight
before she knew it, and Ann
roused herself to be an excellent
imitation of Connie as the com
petent hostess. She showed them
to the bedroom, and got out pa
jamas for Jock and a nightgewn
and robe for Nina. :
“It’s a case of striking a happy
medium,”’ she laughed. “My
things will be as much too big
for Nina as Colin’s things will be
too small for Jock.”
She returned to tne living room,
and found Colin making up the
studio couches in the alcove into
beds. “Maybe we should have a
bigger house, Ann,” Colin said.
“Who wants guests?” Ann re
plied ungraciously.
“Feel that way about it?”
“Definitely.”
Later, when they were in bed,
Ann put her hands up over her
head, and clutched a - lock of
Colin’s hair. “Colin—" she said
softly.
“Um huh?” He reached up and
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“I have something to say to
you, and I can’t shout it—" She
moved over against the wall and
made room for him beside her
Then wiim his arms around her,
she merely sighed a little, and
presently murmured, ‘“Love me?”
“My dear—"" Colin’s voice was
deep wjth emotion.
“Then” — she hesitated again,
then came out with it all at once
—*“Colin, let’s have a baby.”
“I'm sorry I've begun to bore
you so soon,” Colin said rather
stiffly. :
Ann silently cursed Colin’s in
fallible memory, and her own
heady assurance of a time so far
back. “Damn and blast,” she said
heatedly, if inaudibly.
“I rather thought you might
like to. have a child. Colin,” Ann
said a littie wistfuily.
“I don’t want anything for you
that you don’t want for yourself,
Ann,”’ Colin pointed out. “You
need feel under no obligation to
provide me with a child, just be
cause I might like to have one.
You don’t owe me anything, you
know—""
“This is a nice emotional dis
cussion, isn’t it?” - Ann said
thoughtfully. “Damn it, Colin—
didn’t it. ever occur to you that
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Colin laughed softly, and his
arms tightened convulsively. “It |,
didn’t, Ann — it didn’t. But it’s
very nice to know!”
(To Be Continued).
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