Detroit evening times., 1945-11-20
FAIR
ENOUGH
BY Westbrook
Peeler


COME of the young men an,V
~ their brides tell me that
they look for day, real soon,
when they will own pretty little
homes on the edge of town. with
grass TO NOW and roses round
the door and a room for the
baby with nursery pictures on
the walls.
Well, they can dream.
After the other war we fall
tered a little while and then,
all of a sudden. down on Long
Island, out in Westchester and
over on the Jersey side, promo
ters bought up old. no-account
acreage which had been just ly-
ing there and the big scoops
moved in and pretty soon there
were streets and sewers, gas
mains and wires and row on
row OF real nice little love-
bowers.
Up toward the Bronx there
were acres and acres of land
that had waited all that time
for the people 10 come out and
now big companies, banks and
N d iV dualS s with enterprise,
vision and the willingness 10
RISK a dollar 10 make dollar
spat on their hands and nom
chalantly whipped up d new
city
| could tool YOU around mile
after mile IN that part OF town
and point out buildings six.
eight, 10 stories tall. housing
thousands Of US now, where,
Just after the other war il was
all dead land with an occa-
Sional truck garden almost in
the shadow Of the Il.
II THOSE DAY. with the.
L amount Of capital for a dow
payment that many thousand J
OF our ScryIce~mCn have got
today a fellow could get
. possession OF a right NICE
Al.-r+a ~ h r. ~ ff-444A aaA,-+-----4
mortgages AZ a selling price Of
around 5000 or S6 600
Then they worked tho mort
cages off. he and She. and
meanwhile. Il fhe Job didn't
blow up and YOU remember We
sailed right INTO good timcs
under the dirty Republicans.
They got car on time pay
mcn'S and new roads were
pushed ou' into the country and
y WAS such times and CON
= teF4----t-r4+ii- sttr-rr1 ff-CT1-Cy and
surroundings tnat uary a.
these now Veterans ~ the Sec
ond World War were born
But this time l Just don't
soc how
You speak Of housing and YOU
arc speaking oi project a
] government u II q - = king.
financed by some mysterious au-
? thor!ty which eventually gets
1he money from the taxpayers
and reserves the right 10 boost
Nou out OF y3M apartment Il
y0I have the mlSWdgTcnt 10
pass certain pllmsoll mark IN
Your pay and bother. bother and
You're dizzy fascist and
you're q CommunI and
meetings and spec @ n cS -
WrangIc whether democracy
IS gong 10 be observed IN rcnt-
ing the apartments
TliEN you 'urn 20 tho country
L and no powcr-shoyc.s DO you
soc nor those Vhltc stakes 50
feet apart on OLD pastures and
rocky hills. although there IS
S'lll pie " e. that Old land
available between the old sub
DIVISION, of the tWcot.cS and
The golf courses u
| hcsr some half-bralc tax
hH' HethBg e9rpfne iHg heeau~e
when YOU g. 'he pencil and
'h" 'abic-Cloth and pu, down
Just tho preliminary figures. YOU
scratch = out arc start playing
tI'-'at-'Oc.
On So q week. minus social
sce'ifitN art taTcs on S75. oven.
or $50 II n cones 20 That how
much house VIII those boys
and the i''lc brides be able 10
buy these dayS AZ these prices a.?
do SEQ Wheg some develop
montS Of comc-apart houses arc
being talked up IN PRINT and
they were a ,narc and A de-
lg>ion = Years ago but | am
told that they arc very sturdy
and efficient now
But my old friend Thurman
Arnold a New Dealer with con-
fuSionS and abraSlonS. Vho had
charge Of the anti-truSt C'ViSicn
Of the = of J long ago warned
US thar We couldn't expect pre-
fab houses under our present
laws. and those laws haven
been changed aS much a. a
cnrup-4--
TVlE unions wort lci YOU put
fngt,, mn grd IN -gr1q ularcS