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Show fhLPhiUipr F p WW( HTM BUILDING ANYTHING. MISTER? SPAB has ruled that no new public pub-lic or private building may be start, ed unlesi it is essential to the health and safety of the country. Pop, I there goes that idea of a new two-car garage! The government must save all "critical material" for the war. Critical material is almost everything every-thing from the blueprint to the architect's bill. The man who has just dug a cellar for anything may find he is just the custodian of a hole for the duration of the war. Director Donald M. Nelson says that if you have a building partly finished he will try to take you out of your position in mid-air, but it is more than likely that the man with a house only 50 per cent finished will save himself a lot of trouble by just putting a sign "Opened By Mistake" on the whole project. This is an all-out war and it appears ap-pears to be leaving the building al) out of most everything from cellar door hinges to lightning rods. "Is the construction directly necessary nec-essary for national defense, or for the health and safety of the civilian population?" This is the test question ques-tion Washington asks. How are you going to make a new country home fit into that? In fact, how are you going to make a garage fit? Almost everything is necessary to defense, including those bronze door-knockers and the bathtub faucets. "The House That Jack Built" is becoming the Bungalow That Nelson Stopped. Mr. Nelson says the restrictions will halt "pork barrel" projects. The answer to that is "Wanna bet?" He will have his work cut out for him trying to convince a congressman congress-man that the new power dam at Corncob Valley isn't essential to the safety of the country and that the de luxe post office in Cribbage Hollow Hol-low isn't vital to the health of every politician involved. Some questions and answers issued is-sued by the SPAB to explain the situation Include: Q. If I were building a 10-story building and had four stories up could I get material to finish it? A. Very likely, yes. Q. If only an excavation existed? A. It would be a tossup. And the builder would be "He who gets tossed." AS MA GOOSE MIGHT PUT IT This is the house that Jack built. This Is the architect that planned , the house that Jack built This is the builder retained by the architect that planned the house that Jack built. I This is the stuff they needed for The cellar and the second floor. This i thA runpr inh (a kl 1 ; Who got word from S.P.A.B. He couldn't get stuff needed for The cellar and the second floor. You can go on from here. All it takes is imagination. LINES ON LONGEVITY (An average life span of 550 years is attainable if conditions in the body at the age of 10 years are retained, re-tained, according to a professor in the Columbia university school of medicine. News item.) Consider, please, the child of ten, Whose bodily condition's A miracle to learned men. Professors and physicians, Who say that if we could retain This stamina and vigor, Five hundred years we might remain. And somewhat more, they figure. But I have watched a child at play. From morning until night time, And wearily I now must say That threescore ten is quite time. Richard Armour. There is a 5 per cent tax on all railroad, plane and boat tickets now, and one hesitates to think what this must mean to Mrs. Roosevelt Commuters are excepted. This is the first instance in history where a commuter got any consideraUon whatever. Roach powders are now hit by priorities. An ingredient is needed in munitions. Well, if the insecticide man goes after Hitler we'll take care of the situation around our own kitchen sink. |
