Show THE FLAT FLA T AS A FLA FLATTENER FLATTENED A Chicago architect has lias discovered co the tite genuine enuine basic cause of thc moral social and political degeneracy degen emcy prevalent lent in our large arge cities He lie gives i es it as as- as Flats Many leop people Q in every eQ American j city live in what real estate agents term terl l apartments but which our Ul common speech ch calls flats Mats It is therefore of interest interest in in- terest to the people of Salt Lake to lo know lalOW the arguments ments u a. a advanced by hj the Chicago architect in support q of his theory out that in the first filst place the Hat flat h has hs s a 1 deleterious effect on the modern American Amer Ainer- ican l housewife So long as this important and indispensable indispensable in in- dispensable sable clement element in our social system lived H in a ahouse house where the work york properly devolving on herself could not be transferred to the janitor or 01 some other creature of operative co life she performed her household duties dulies 1 thoroughly ll assiduously and con con- tente l But Hut tb Hat fiat with Its hot water supplied rUh its it its dumb b waiters to 10 remove its ashes and bring things s to her hel very hand with its gas as stove sto for light cooking and without its lire fire to light in the thc morning morning morn in ing she lapses into nto a life of such ease casc and hl luxury but mt she he now refuses refu-es to do the thc mending Flat life i is be besides ides it noxious its effect on individual existence our population Applicants for Hats flats are lre in most inot cases asked askel if they the have hac children Children dire are are a disqualification cation for hi high classed fashionable flats Dogs are arc bad enough h hut but children are in the opinion of man ninny many property owners worse at least in flats v The crabbed old od people upstairs do o not like ike children neither do the crabbed old people downstairs and the these e crabbed ci-abbed old people are better rent payers than people pelle who have shoes pinafores dolls bus and aIll toys to buy for little ones not to speak at cit all of doctors' doctors bills t to pay for them The Chicago architect cites the of case the interesting young man luau who earns a month lie He marries and instead of r taking a u small house rents a flat lint There is a room or 01 two more than need in they the that flat so a ah al l h arder is soon taken talen en in This This boarder is te beginning he be g ginning 0 of all kinds s of trouble which upsets home life As the Ke New York Po Post lot t puts it evils C of every C description are arc traceable to the of Iii the home Df 1 Danger gl lurks in the lie decorated parlor the room fining g with buffet the thc super o of the thc steam heat the Jack of privacy ac 9 The I Chicago architect thinks s tl that at there will be a n reaction tion thin when people realize that there can be bc no true development in ill dark and amI ill ventilated thiS flats He lIe is in favor of stringent ent building laws law's and a n strict enforcement enforcement en en- enforcement of oC them The result he thinks s would be beto beto beto to make hats flats so expensive e that men and women omen of moderate means would have e to look elsewhere and this is what he lie desires in n the interest t of morality und and social progress Whatever may be thought of the Chicago o architects architect's special arraignment of tints flats there is little doubt that the condition of life surrounding stir sur rounding so 10 many individuals and families in cities are arc responsible for much of or the misfortune vice and deterioration so very evident ident in almost every wa walk k of the social organization More home life every everyman's everyman's mans man's house his ca castle tlc would no doubt contribute to an increase of happiness and a diminution of vice ice and sorrow operation Co-operation has hos much to o offer l' l that appeals to human reason and human fellowship It makes for economy comfort cleanliness health and find security But as ns carried out in the modern apartment apartment apart apart- ment house or flats it has hns it its objectionable fea tures Can not architectural skill remove many man manof of these objectionable aspects and surroundings of flat life by ly making the flats more like separate houses and houses and can not higher ideals dals alike on the part of tenants and landlords lead to better brighter lives among flat dwellers dwellers' As it is however howe flats must be we fear considered lIa flatteners I |