Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-30

DETROIT, Mich, June 29-HouseS
and home conditions will be very differ
ent in the not-distant future, Henry
Ford believes.
Fashions in houses will change as
rapidly as fashions in clothing have
changed, and the art of housekeeping
will also undergo a shaking up Mr..
Ford said.
ut has been slow coming, but now
that 1t is here the progress will be rapid
our houses are not much different
from those in ancient Ur, but at least
we have improved sanitation.
House development was not possible
hitherto because habitations have been
built so strongly that remodeling has
been impossible, and population in
creased so slowly that new houses were
little needed.
But nowadays our methods of con-
struction are so flexible and the demand
Tor new houses Is so great that changes
Tor the better are possible The building
business in the United States runs to
about seven billions of dollars a year,
the greater part of which is for resi-
dences. Ten years ago commercial and
industrial construction just about
equaled residence construction. Today
there is twice as much money spent in
or commercial buildings.
House Becomes a Home.
you see, this puts the dwelling
house among the biggest businesses of
the country and is consequently at
tracing brains to its improvement. Not
only in outward design but in interior
utility the modern dwelling house will
De as different as the modern automo-
pile is from the old stage coach.
The old American custom of own
ing your own home is on the upgrade
again. Houses are mostly built for sale
rather than for rent. 1t is this home
ownership that forms the basis for the
increase in home improvement which
We see taking place"
What new conditions inspired and
made possible this improvements" Mr..
Ford was asked.
For some of this you will have to
thank the factory" he replied 81 don't
mean wages just now-that comes
later. But the first thing the factory
did for the home was to take the work.
bench out of it. The old-time home
was factory. Trades were carried on
in it. To listen to some people talk
today you would think this was very
fine custom. It merely looks quaint by
distance. Try to reinstate it today and
see what would happen.
1.-THE factory took laborious task
work out of the dwelling and gave the
house a chance to become home. Let
us give the factory credit for that
much. And, of course, industry sup
ports the better homes which indus
try thus helped to create.
Electricity to Front.
when inventive genius turns its
light in every nook and corner Of the
home wonders are bound to happen.
They are happening already. Look at
what electricity has done. We get heat
and cold, light and music, telephone
communication and cooking, all from
one discovery. You see, then, the pos
sibilities.
What the house of the future will be
we shall try to illustrate in our mu-
scum at Dearborn. We shall have a Sc
ries of houses illustrating the develop
ment right up to today-and beyond.
We shall have house showing what
we think the houses OF the future
will be-
Electricity will play much larger
part in the operation of the home of
the future than it now does. And I
am speaking of the home of the family
of average circumstances. We will get