The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-10
The Cherry
I" Where with our
we tell the truth
about many things. sometimes pro-
fOundly, sometimes fippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

Not so many years ago, as time
goes, folks never thought they would
live in great apartment houses. 1t
was difficult to picture getting along
without your own back yard and
clothes line.
But the big apartment houses came
and filled up and multiplied, until now
even small towns have modified apart,
ment houses. And there are few who
know who lives next door to them.
However, thus far the apartment
hous has brought no great change in
type of construction. There is no
really new architecture about them.
They are masses of walls and rooms.
all resting on foundatins built as
they have long been built. True, new
materials have come into use and
these have modified the skill required
in building. More and more work is
done in mill and factory and less on
the building site.
Be these things as they NAV.
changes will come. Though nothing
basic has changed about buildings up
to this time, we may look for basic
changes. They are inevitable. Such
changes as there have been in mater
ials and workmanship are but lead
then we shall have really basic
changes in construction.
AT the recent meeting of the Amer
lean Institute of Architects a Chica-
goan, Buckminster Fuller, exhibited
what he called his dymaxion house
dymaxion from the words dynamic
maximum and imension and in this
| there were basic departures. Maybe
this is only false start, but there
will be a real start sooner or later
This dymaxion house has pneumatic
| floors, translucent walls made from {
milk product, with framework of in
| flated duralumin tubes and the whole
! structure hung from a duralumin tri
| pod. The house is filled with move
features, rlcluding bookcases tina
move so that the shelf desired is al
ways at eye level. Floors are insulat
! ed. Soiled clothes go into an electri
washer and come out ready to irol
when needed.
Mr. Fuller says these houses viii
cost about So 900 each on a mass pro
duction basis. Maybe this is all pip
| dream stuff, but there were man
false starts before airplanes flew. TIL
point is that finally they did fly an
now the sky is full of them.
| Nobody is today very sure he vii
have the same trade tomorrow. H
may wake up to find his trade take
away by new machine. Commits
sioner of Labor Statistics Sewar
points out what happened to the fac
tories that made the old round hos
| when the full fashioned hose came il
| They simply went out of business
Except on small orders the Owen
bottle machine has put the glas
| blower out Now paper container
are coming in for milk and pape
bags replace cotton bags for cement
Machines have long been makin
cigars and today the telepgrahper
are facing the installation of tn
printer machine.
If machines are used to tighten tn
burdens of the masses they are
blessing. If they are used to exploi
or discard the masses and to fatte
the dividends of few they are
calamity. Something serious will b
sure to happen when the masses hav
been pushed just about so far on tn
road to desperation. Strange it j
that business doesn't see that.
The human race must learn to max
a blessing out of its mechanical mar
vels. Frozen brains look with horro