The Washington times., 1937-08-07
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BOake Carter
You Cant Revamp People
Wife Rebels on Trailer
The Mighty Fallen
7 am amused

W BONeI IL OCCUPANCY VA OAAS AN"
standardization apartments in
Cleveland.
The Government put up the
flats to relieve squalor, conges-
ton and unhealthy living condi.
tions. In word. the flats are
supposed to be an official monu-
ment to human kindness.
This is how the Government
is being human:
No dogs or cats allowed. A
wife and six kids are one too
many. If your home of squalor
has either electricity. an inside
toilet or a window in each room,
any one of these three things
bars you from occupancy. If
you are lucky enough to be
picked as one of the chosen
tenants, you must not use nails
or tacks to put down the carpet.
You may not use cement to keep
down the linoleum. You may
not put up a radio aerial and
you may not leave the baby
carriage in the hallway.
In other words, you can be
everything but a human being
and behave naturally and try to
enjoy the little human things
which make home life a warm
and personable thing.
The Federal planners don't
stop at the point Of making en-
vironment better, but they bland
ly demand that the people them
selves be revamped, that they
no longer may live as individu-
ais, but as the Government in
forms them they must live.
I sympathize-
With Mrs. Clarice Orgel,
young Cleveland housewife, who
went to the courts to ask for a.
divorce, on the grounds that liv-
ing with her small son in a
trailer on parking lots and NOV.
ing from city to city, is "impoS-
sible."
1t seems to me that any right
thinking mother would feel the
same way. No child yanked
around in a trailer from place
to place can live normal life.
1t can find no steady schools to
attend, no steady companion
ship with other children, no en-
couragement Of a sense Of re-
SponSibility, no roots formed
anywhere-just an aimless, no
madic life-almost what might
be termed a Notwithstanding
gypsy life.
1t is an ironical fact that in a
restless, material, discontenteo
world where so many women
want to dump their family re-
Sponsibilities, obligations an d
their home, to go out and make
merry in the belief they are en-
joying life, here is one woman
who wants home and roots to
rear her child in community,
but has to live life in a trailer.
A vignette of Life:
A stopped, heavy set man,
with snowy hair, rudy features,
blinks from behind his spec
tacles, as he walks past the
doorman at the Reform Club in
London.
Once he ruled one of the
worlds greatest industrial EN-.
pires. A snap of his fingers
conjured forth millions Of dol
lars, changed the lives of hun
dreds Of thousands of people.
But eventually his golden pyra-
mid collapsed. His fortune van
ished. A nation chased him.
Now, still comparatively
wealthy, although millions Of
people were ruined by the crash
of his empire. he Shuffles alone
into the seclusion Of a London
club.
Less than 300 miles away. an.
other man. tall, handsome,
white-haired. with a withered
arm, potters amid the blooms Of
his estate, alone for the most
part Of this summer, occasion.
ally acknowledging salutes Of
passing pedestrians. Once he
ruled an empire, and for time
was held responsible by the
world for the loss Of 10000. 1000
lives.
The lonely clubman-Samuel
insult. late Of Chicago. The