Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-26
BUILD HOMES FIRST;
INDUSTRIES FOLLOW
Expert Declares Past Policy
in L. S. Has Been
Wrong
WORKERS ARE GOUGED
Factories Will Go Where Skilled
Labor Is Contented and Happy,
His Contention

attract industrial workers 10 one
MODEL community and the industry will
iolioW them. This. briefly. is the plan
auNocateu ny Thomas Adams. chief ad-
VISOR OF the Canadian Commission on
conservation. who spoke before the Sec
Qua meeting of the American city Plan
lunS institute this afternoon at the
Be'IcNuc-Stratford
The plan Of deyelopiur Industrial
, communities In the United states in the
past he said, has been all wrong. lie
asserted that the plan of building a
factory or large industrial plant in Il
place ana attracting tho workers after
ward was serious mistake In such
( cases, he said. experience has shown
| that owners Of land near the factory
would greatly boost the price. adding
great burdens to the workers who went
to the place to live.
Mr.. Adams suggested that the Govera-
meht buy agricultural or manufacturing
lana which was reasonably cheap. build
Hooel h'!n"s with plenty of ground and
get the workers mo them lhtN. he
sand the manufacturing plants would
come To the place. There would nr good
ihducemeut for doing SO, ,ol There, al
rtaiN established and happy, are the
trained workers. ana one r. the most
serious problems Is alreaI.. solved in
sdrance
Ferlnany was forty years ahead OF
england in the matter of housing and
. dcNclopment of model communities ne.
lore the war according to Andrew
Nrle"t crawford, but now. he said
. England has passed Germany in this
direction. fIe urged that the United
states follow similar plans.
Frederick l.. Apk,rnnap , D,iti.l
housing expert. shove pictures oi
wei liall Gretna.' "A munitiou manu-
tactultng community which was bull
in England in niue months The place
Waa filed with model homes. inter
sected with wcll-paved streets, and haC
any other up-to-the minute improve
mcntS.
John {. Olmsted. who. with ltiS broth
or, Frederick l.. Omsted. is iandscs p,
gardener of Brookline. Mass, talked ol
the subject of city planning, aud told o
how he and his brother had planned
ana built the model city of NaudcrGrift
which Is thirty-nine miles from PITTS
burgh and about two miles from tn
town of Apollo, where is located the b;i
steel plant OF the Apollo Iron and Stee
Company.
Vt the luncheon following tho morn
ms session there were 40 regular speak
eIs. but the subject or cummuuit
building was discussed in general III
main thought Of this being that thi
work should be done in those comnunj
ties that have either sprung up OF ice
greatly enlarged through the war com
munities such as Bridgeport Bisto
Newport News, Hog Island and chcste
W"i" mentioned. 1t was agreed that thi
Wurl, should be permanent. 80 that laUo
t,I ,,I, %,
stay there. Among those who talhe
on these subjects were ANDREW Wricl
crawford. John Ihlder. secretary Of til
Pennsylvania Housing Association, AN
John Nolen and Arthur g. Comey. bot
, OF Cambridge, Mass.
Mrs. Edward W. Biddle. president
the civic club, made II plea for Il
abolition Of slums. She said, You me
, when planning cities hereafter. bear
mind that SlumS must 20 eliminated
She spoke OF the lack of sanitation, ba
, lighting. small rooms and the fact tn;
. II half dozen families use one hydrau
, ana declared that only few are etror
enough to Withstand these conditions.
! In speaking Of transportation in lice
;, ing with making model towns for woiI
men, clinton Rogers Woodruff insist,
that it transportation could not
=, handled properly by local companies
these communities they should be turn,
+ over 70 the Government for manageme
and control
convenient and pleasant transport
ton should bc the thought instead
stockholders dividends said Mr.. Woo
ruff.
At the afternoon session Laws,
-, Purdy, of New York city. acted as ciIai
. man. lie introduced Frederick l.. Oh
: stead, Of Br9okline, Mass. who 81
= gested the APPOINTMENT Of an inNestig
tion board before sites Of model tow
are selected.