| Show t Children in Apartments 1 PUBLISHED PUBLISHED elsewhere in this inthis this issue of The Telegram there are ara two communications answering ya a recent editorial in in- which c certain r i apartment house owners were criticised for compelling tenants tenants' tenants tenants' to move solely because there was a child in the the family indorses The Telegrams Telegram's stand the other from the proprietor of a lodging ho house se takes an an opposite view In reality there is much to the lodging house landlady's landlady s argument and eve we vie agree with her that the average lodging house is not the proper place for children People dont don't live in lodging houses they sleep there Such places are not fitted for children or or for form m couples they are not intended to be a home and cannot b be classed as such l' l i iT s The f-The e Telegrams Telegram's editorial on on the subject published last week did riot hat not mention lodging houses It referred entirely to apartment h houses n se An apartment house is d designed signed to be a home in which p people generally families shall eat sleep sleep and be comfortable II In some some matters such as heat hot water and janitor service they offer more comforts than the ordinary bungalow or cottage They are deficient only because they are crowded and freedom of action must be curtailed for the comfort o of ot others ers dwelling in the same b building 1 i It is this crowded condition that creates the greatest argument argument argument ment ment against the presence of children But it is not an argument against which exception cannot be taken There There are all kinds of children hildren just as there are all kinds of grown grownups ups For apart apartment ment house owners to make a flat rule that families with children will not be accepted as tenants is unjust and unfair particularly in t tile le light of the existing absence of cottages 1 f. f The leading hotels do not enforce such an arbitrary rule They accept families children or no children The hotel managements managements managements manage manage- ments demand that the ch children bel behave ave themselves and conduct themselves so that other guests will not be disturbed They demand denand de de- de- de nand mand the same of grownups The scheme works perfectly and no hotel notel managers are found complaining The same condition can be made to prevail in apartment houses Naturally the apartment house manager can be expected to object to noisy children just as ashe he would object to disorderly grownups but all children are not noisy nor are all grownups disorderly The rules can be made strict and no one wilL will find fault with them But for an apartment house owner to eject a respectable able family blessed with a awell well behaved and properly trained train ci child solely because there is a child is discreditable to our city i to the religion that has has' been taught us and and economically unfair r. r |
