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DAILY MEDITATIONS
: Beloved helleQ{ not
every spirit, but try the
spirits whether they are of
God, because many false
prophets are gone out
into the world.
~ Hereby know ye the Spirit of God, Every
Spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come
in the flesh is of God.~First John 4:1-2,
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Home Building Record Is Good,
ome Building Record Is Good,
But There's a Long Way so Go
BY S. BURTON HEATH
Somewhere in the United States the two mil
lionth post-war home is being completed about
now. Melvin H. Baker, spokesman for the con
struetion industry, considers this *“‘a truly remark
able performance in view of the dislocated and
shut-down condition of the industry at the end
of the war,”
In 1947, the Construction Industry Information
Committee says, 849,000 homes were started and
831,700 were completed. Completions were only
- 17,000 under the number for 1926.
- We share in Mr. Baker’s pride in that achieve
ment. It is distinctly to the credit of an industry
that has been harassed by many obstacles. So we
are not casting asparagus or hurling scallions
wher® we suggest that, big a§ it is, the achievement
\‘w does not meet the nation’s pressing needs.
¥'Go right along building a million new homes
’e\:e.r};' year, and it will be tifteen or twenty years
" helwre we get one home for each American fam
il
+ The basic ligures are inadequate and to some
. emtent arsumentative. Ploughing down the mid
@fe it is possible to make some fairly sound esti
jates based on a blending of governmental and
. §adustry figu Jes. :
" At the end of 1947 there probably were around
4,000,000 families for which there was no separate
housing. American Builder, highly respected in
_the industry, estimated some time ‘ago that the
number of non-farm families needing homes
would grow by almost 4,700,000 from 1946 to
1‘?56. Experts say that between three and four
hundred thousand housing units a year are lost
from fire, storm, flood and other casualty, in
cluding those torn down to make way for busi
ness and industrial construction. >
Add 470,000 and 300,000, and you get a mini
thum of 770,000 houses and apartments needed
iflérely to care for growth and replacement. That
feaves 230,000—if we build only a million a year
' _toward housing tHe 4,000,000 already without
homes at the end of 1947. :
. Divide 230,000 into 4,000,000, and it would take
17 years and almost five months to get enough
homes. : :
It should be noted that these figures have to
do only with providing each family with a sep~
Qflte roof, They take no account of whether that
roof keeps out the rain—whether it covers mini
mum sanitation and other living requirements. I
other words, they ignore entirely the fact that
miliions are living in substandard quarters.
Nobody knows how much - more construction
would be needed to provide every family with a
~decent home, because there is no generally ac
\cepted‘definition of what goes to make a decent
_home.
_~Today hundreds of thousands of families are
*‘Eml in slum and semi-slum homes not because
’ ey can’t pay for decent quarters, but because
(fir great nation does not possess enough pass
able housing for all who, some say, would man-
age to pay for it.
"By all means let’s take pride and give credit to
builders for reaching the million home a year
pace. But let's remember that even that isn't
énough to give every family a home to which
children not yet in school will be able to take
their brides, i A e
- Because of its numerous waterways, Stockholm
has an unusually high percentage of families who
‘own motorboats.
‘Ten percent electrification “'of French railroads
has cut needed coal imports an estimated two mil
lion tons anhually
Tarsus, birthplace of St. Paul, still retains its an
cient name, although many. other cities known in
ancient history have had their names changed by
modern inhabitants.
At Adak in the Aleutian Islands the sky is
completely overcast 66 percent of the time.
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_ The borough of Queens in New York City is
gholt three times +he &ize of Boston,
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‘&:'”‘f Upper Engiodine s@“@ in Bwitzerland
&% i rghve W, zerlan has
A € JHomap times for its mineral
Efierijand invigerating dlimate. ‘
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Dictionary On Aiphabetical
Organizations Needed
Several centuries back Dr. Samuel
Johnson, the great English scholar, gave
to the wrold his fanious Dictionary, which
was probably his greatest contribution .as
a scholar. It is difficult to see how the
world could well get along without dic
tionaries, |
Just now there is a distinct need for a
new kind of dictionary. It has become the
accepted rule in all publications now to
refer to different organizations, commit
tees and important movements by alpha
betical abbreviation. This practice began
during the administration of the late
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and has
grown by leaps and bounds from year toi
year.
Now those especially interested in giv-.
en organizations and given movements
understand all about it, but these alpha
betical abbreviations are to the great
masses of the people nothing more than
Latin or Greek. They see them in the
newspapers, read them, and half the&ime
know nothing about what they stand for.
A dictionary of these hundreds of hie
rogliphics would come in handy with mil
lions of people, nop only in America but
throughout the world. Another Samuel
Johnson appears to be needed.
Exchange Of American And
Foreign Students
The international student movement
is now begining to get under way and hun
dreds of American students are leaving
for their assignments to European col
leges, while many of the foreign students
assigned to American institutions under
the exchange plan are now arriving in this
country.
It is believed that this plan is destined
to contribute very largely to a better un
derstanding among the several nations
that are taking advantage of it and that
in the end it will result in a much better
understanding among the peoples of both
America and Europe.
The Institute of International Educa
tion, with headquarters in New York, is
acting as parent, guardian, counselor and
guide to these students. It is estimated
that more than five thousand Americans
will visit European countries this year.
In this exchange of students quite a
number of nations are participating, Bel
gium, England, Scotland, Norway, S“.'e
den, The Netherlands, Denmark, Spain,
Switzerland, Italy, Luxemburg, Czecho
slovakia, Eire, Germany and the United
States. It would be well if Russia were
participating, but ‘evidently the Soviets
wish no information about this country
and do not wish for us in the United
States to know anything about them.
Since the beginning the Institute has
arranged for the exchange of almost ten
thousand persons on scholarships and fel
lowships. Its plans are on a global scale. It
will require years for the full effects of
this interchange movement to become
fully apparent, but its supporters are
fully confident that it will contribute
much to a Dbetter understanding among
the people of the several nations partici
pating. z 4
It would be the most auspicious com
mencement of discussions for an under
standing between the United States and
the USSR if the full text of the U. S. note
were made public to the Russian people.
— Bernard M. Baruch.
American business is being harassed,
bled, and even blackjacked under a pre
posterous, crazy-quilt system of laws,
many of which are unintelligible, -unen
forceable, and unfair.—Lowell B. Mason,
member of the Federal Trade Commis-
I've endeavored during the last three
vears to mobilize the moral forces of the
world. We have a code of eithics in which
we try to preach and act the Sermon on
the Mount.—President Truman.
The argument that an attempt to im
prove the United Nations, if unsuccessful,
will destroy that body, is the worst con
demnation of its usefulness that I have
heard.—Noriman Thomas, U. S. Socialist
eader. > :
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MOSCOW PLANS MONUMENTS
MOSCOW —(AP)—Three new{
monuments to outetanding Rus
sians have been epproved by the
Committee on Art for eregtion in
Moscow. A monument to Sergei‘
Kirov, politbureau member and
Communist leacer who was as
sasinated in the 19305, will go up
at the Paveletski Station Square.
A monument to A. P, Chekhov,
famous short-story writer and
dramatist, will be erected on Na-
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