The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-12-11
ARCHBISHOP GLENNoN ON
CONTESTED HOMES
His Grace Deprecates the Existence
Of Apartment and Tenement Houses
and Urges the People to Spread Out
and Make Real Homes.

In his lecture in Convention hall OIL
Nov. u. Archbishop Glennon spoke al
follows Of apartment and tenement
houses. where the Lights of Home
are obscured:
The modern city dweller has come tc
be something like the cliff dweller out
in the pueblos of the west. Like them
our modern citizens build one above an
other and instead of houses of Their
own. live in apartments that bear some
body else's name. There used to be in
dependence. but those who live in apart
ments are dependent in their comings
and goings, dependent for their light
and heat, dependent for body and soul
upon the elevator boy and janitor.
q know you will say this is all quite
unnecessary. that the modern apartment
has come to stay, and that no criticism
viii prevent its growing popularity
You will say that the citizen of today Is
driven TO accept it because he cannot
procure sufficient help, or the help he
procures won't help him; that there is
independence enough to be found in the
apartments, and time and money and
responsibility demand it. / will admit
much OF this-still the apartment house,
whatever its advantage, is not, and can
not become a home. Dependence is still
your lifc's legend. with distractions and
restrictions Of all kinds around it. 1t is
humilating to anyone who would claim
TO be the head of the house to find that
his head must be bowed all the time,
and as for the family, the rules of the
up-to-date apartment do not suppose
that you have family. A wife, yes,
she is permitted, and possibly a parrot,
but wife and parrot do not const-
tute a family no more than an apart
ment house constitutes a home.
Some cities, because of their ge-
ography, like unto New York, where
population and space to live are of the
inverse ratio. may demand such condi-
tons as these. If they cannot spread
out they may be compelled to burrow
IN the earth as the Chinese do. or go up
IN the air as the Americans do; but for
cities ike unto this beautiful city Of
yours or St. Louis, or any other west
eIn town around which lies the limitless
pTairies / would say to the family: Fol-
low the earth call, for it is call to life
and Independence. Go out, extend your
city limits as far as you may, make
Your city a city of homes and you will
then have your every citizen king and
Your every home castle and the wife
oren strong in the strength of homes
stability and virtue that finding place
there for every member of the house
hold.
But there are not only impediments
10 The homes development in the form
OF the fat and apartment where the
wealthy reside, there is also at the
other end Of the line the tenement house,
Where are crowded together the poor
ana lowly. Quite impossible is it where
people are huddled together to preserve
even The outward form of domestic life;
ana almost impossible for children in
<eeh conditions to ever develop either in
me physical or moral order, and yet our
eIues, progressive and anxious to pro-
'ect the lives Of all the people, permit
ana even protect this congestion by al
rowing the owners to rent, and the poor
f" occupy, houses that are unfit for hu-
man beings to live in, and least of all
there