The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-09
CONSTRUCTION OF
 ALL BUILDINGS
 IS RECOMME NDED
Ban Lifted, and Builders, Architects and Material Manufacturers Will Soon Be Flooded With Orders; Vast Quantities of Ma terial to Be Sent to Europe.

tBy Noble Foster Hoggson, President, Hoggson Brothers, Builders, New York.
 New York, Dec. 9-BuildinR,-l construction work,-has, almost over night, leaped from a non- essential classification to the greatest of all } activities. In the initial order ,f the War Industries Board lifting the oan on prohibited businesses and in- dustries, construction work was first on the list of releases, and within week all restrictions on private or public construction were removed. That really was not surprising. Every student of the problems of reconstruction has predicted in his calculations that building would be the supreme activity of early peace times.
 Every indication points to these predictions coming true. There IS serious economic need for new build ings, mainly because the building in dustry has been depressed for years. There Is an acute paucity of almost every kind of structure, ranging from small houses for workmen, increased
 
 sions, to banks, large hotels and of flee buildings. Soon there will be an unprecedented rush of building Architects will be given commissions that will flood their offices,-so long parched and dry,-and orders for plans will be numbered in the order of their receipt and taken care of in their respective turns. The manu- lecturers of building material will be utterly unable to fill the avalanche of orders, not alone for the con struction work to be done in this country, but for the rebuilding of France and Belgium. Almost every ship that sails for Europe will carry a full cargo of building material supplies and equipment.
 It is Idle to talk of awaiting lne report of this commission or that commission to proceed with the work of reconstruction. Only the indo- lent-minded individual is content tc sit back and wait for some body of men to do his thinking for him The problem of reconstruction Is ar individual problem.
 The man who has been intending to erect a new building or alter ol remodel an existing structure, bu who has deferred his work either because of the ban on construction or for certain other reasons, has ex ceptional opportunity for doing some thing definite in the matter now.
 Many of the best authorities argue that the prices on building material are not likely to make any decided change in the near future,-perhap not for some years. On the othe hand, 1t Is possible, considering tn high rentals prevailing, that a build ing erected now at present prices c material and labor will produce greater return to the owner than building erected two years hence.
 From many points of view, eco homie as well as social, it seems pro pitious to have plans for buildin made now, so that every individus will at this time put into actue practice a. bit of work that is goin 10 be a step towards the great wor to be done. Such action will hel to stabilize industry in this perio immediately preceding and which wi follow the formal declaration peace.
 Let us build,-let us create,-Iet | stage the great drama of the ci streets on every corner where a ne building should rise on a vacant lc Let us begin now our plans for r construction; our plans to provid employment for the returning wa rior and for the loyal warriors WI remained behind and helped nal possible the great success of l. brother in arms across the seas