South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-02-22

ment--and along with H. the better homes"
campaign. for temporary expediency. Incl
dent 70 the home building agitation,-comes after
four years IN natural sequence OF the Every Home
Iis Own Health Resort" advocacy in which The
Tevs-TIres INDUCED 20 long ago. takes about
four years for the average community TO to
IS senses; large armies move slowly" Napoleon
aid they on their bellies" maybe South
Send would not have awakened the better
homes" idea, yet. but for the less
selfish motive behind It OF seeking TO altruize what
has become a business necessity. More homes.
homeB-3,oO0 IN demand-will naturally mean
many better homes that f. II the agitation
for weakening OF the building code fails TO evolve
is wanted reality. It f. interesting 70 see so many
people who sneared at warning in those some
what ancient" days. quite prophetic Of what is
taking place. AL net up" because the public IS
ioathe TO respond
People who lived IN South Bend at the time VIII
remember the efforts OF Miss Clinor Wolf (now
Mrs F. p. Mulcahy. Fredericksburg. Va who
through the columns OF this paper. backed by
undertook to interest the public-ncludlng pub
lie oficials-in living conditions working
men. She sought 10 encourage home improvements
first for their welfare but for the purpose
OF aiding the public health and encouraging the
public morality. Those days. however, when
there were more workingmen in South Bend than
there Jobs. carelessness with reference to
their welfare, that they might have decent places
live fresh air breath, and cIeanIy surround
ings. rampant among the business inter
ests and in official life the pros
pect before Of Jobs than men-even a pres
atuation.-necessitating every possible effort in
those directions, in order get here
and TO stay here
However. let II pass: let by-gones be by-gones
Necessity only the mother invention.
Oft-tmes the step-mOther Of action. Billy Sunday
had to get down into the gutter so deep that
best girl wouldn't recognize him. before he to
his senses and turned evangelist. It a
thing among we nerve-strung cynical. easy-going
yet knov-it-an Americans. o blind every
thing until something serious jolts and opens
eyes. We do best under pressure; too. gen.
orally. the pressure OF selfish interests. Men to
whom the better homes movement four years
ago was a "Meddlesorne Mattiness." are ever so
strong today with the growing demands for
worSngmen. and their avalanche OF vacant
lots newly buft homes for sale; mammon, the
fourth dimension OF the holy trfnty-thanks for the
inspiration. or. correctly. devolution.
We merely mention II in passing that the stranger
within the gates may be carried Off by the ap-
rarent spontaniety OF II; the seeming atruism Let
us get together now-since evidently we haven't Il
in us 20 DO merely public spirited about IT, and be
seihshiy so.-permittng the ends justify the
Putting Il into the language of craftsmanship.
having old around with nobody willing TO
lit hand Improve II; this even motive
Improvement has had to be mammonized We need
better hOrnea- yes Just badly needed
than four years asO-Vsry little elimination OF the
bad spots then In evidence having taken place.
and the newer homes" to shine beside the
old sores. they may improve themselves TO
rstAln any existence Down IN the gutter where the
promise OF enormous Industrial expansion
thrust %. necessity forces 90 senses-better
late Chan never
When South Bend has come % be that city OF
~oe4tsr hornes.- wfr1a the requisite number
homes" and our promised Industrial expansion has
fuily rnstertalzed. there VIII be little question about
the attitude city itself: OF the people
toward Ehe community m which they live They viii
baVe bought II, and simultaneously, you may de-
pend uron ~ IT'S giortes its fame will spread
me citizenship travels Indeed. yes push the slogan
sen South 20 South Bend first and push
% The limit. Push II because any other program
- doomed failure Yo= can South
90 the outside world * has faith in itself: un-
III Shat which you put the market back It
self up.
Any other process Is IKE trying sell blue
sly Neither IS the problem vested alone in the
ouarty OF homes In the making Of a city there is
also tho question OF public morals Of cleanliness,
parks. Fairgrounds. schools. bathing places and
these efficiently maintained a q minimum Of expen-
dfure Going 20 the outside world without these
things. eItoIed by people because they have
them; we'll tvould be 20 deserve. and probably get
something like the chastisement that the lowly
Nazarene hurled the scrfbes lawyers. pharisees
Observation-Disclosures them as "whited sepulchers
outwardly beautiful inwardIy fun Of dead mems
bones"
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