| Show CHILDREN IN APARTMENTS if t f. f f. f f. f I OWNERS OFFER OPINIONS y Youngsters o Allowed in This Apart Apartment ent Despite Minor Minor es s f c Editor Salt Lake Telegram a Salt Salt Lake City Dear ear Sir I Sir I was Interested In the Id Ideas s 's expressed In In your our editorial con con- t In yesterdays yesterday's Telegram concerning concerning cone con con- e the taking of ot children In apartment houses I t am the owner of a a small apartmEnt apartment apart apart- ment house bouse and this question has given me considerable concern Under I 1 present conditions condItion we have any number num num- her ber of applicants for apartments We Ve can cnn practically hand pick our tenants 1 Wo wm 6 have havo six apartments three of ot oth them h m are arc occupied by families with I children At J the time of our last vacancy a aman aman man who had come tro from n Portland was ver very anxious to rent the apartment for his family which consisted of himself wife and two children aged 3 9 years and 10 0 months respectively we w we had any number of pf chances to rent the apartment to childless couples we rented it to this gentleman gentleman gentleman gentle gentle- man because we realized the difficulty cult culty in Jn getting apartments I l' l have hae been trying to get a load or two of river rl sand to put at the back of ot the apartment for the children children chil chil- dren ren to play in but up to the present time have not been able to procure it within reasonable cost You must re remember remember remember re- re member however in Justice to the apartment house owners that It Is not pot only the destruction of property which children thoughtlessly commit but consideration for other tenants In our Apartment everyone e sleeps on the sleeping porches in the back The he children especially during this weather have been very restless and peevish during some of ot the nights and if it were not that we had forbearing for tor- bearing earing tenants In other apartments where there are no children we would have l ave considerable complaint The he damage which children will Inevitably do to an apartment must be bargained for and I think can be betaken betaken betaken taken care of by an extra deposit or ora a slight rise In the rental In cases of t f families with children The other feature however Is extremely difficult difficult cult to take care of My 1 own rest has been broken a number of nights b by the crying of these children f The last part of your editorial In which you suggest that the city pass an n ordinance to take care of this I iannot cannot a agree ree with for as a legal matter I do not believe the city would have constitutional power to demand that landlords do dOnot not discriminate in inthe inthe inthe the use of their private property property- between renting to families without children hildren and renting to families with children In the supreme court of the United States a law passed by one of the stat states s which declared that employers should not discharge because because because be be- be- be cause of the affiliations of the latter with labor unions was held unconstitutional unconstitutional unconstitutional the the therea rea reason on given by the supreme court being that the freedom of contract had not been curtailed and could not be curtailed by regulations to that extent The matter of leasing your our own apartments to whomsoever you ou wish Is a matter of ot freedom of ot contract which would probably come under the same same reasoning If you are not careful someone will throw the epithet of Socialist Fra- Fra or Bolshevik at you You cannot stand having these hard words applied to you Jou It Is an Interesting fact tact that some of the decrees of the soviet government contained in the congressional library in Washington an and ana translated Into English make provisions for situations somewhat similar to the one which you Jou have commented upon in hi your our editorial In fact It Is surprising to see the extent of ct regulation which the soviet government government gov- gov has given in a a number of i tl these ese ann annoying However I that Is a different subject and I shall not dilate further upon It for tor fear I th that t someone someone may think that I am in sympathy with the soviet Idea and that tha t would be bo very veo dangerous Respectfully FAIR PLAY |
