Show t. t Pursuit of Happiness G. G I. I Students Make Grade 1 Amid Cardboard Walls L By B Hubbard Hoover and Isabelle Isabella Macrae Hoover cr I f I spent today in Cardboard village Hubbard It was fun I Where In the world is that abelle I You ought to know you know you know you pass Cardboard Cardboard Card Card- there once or twice a week board village Is the name the I. I G 3 G. I. I students have given their emergency emergency housing units They slay say the partitions are so thin you youcan youn ou oun can n hear party much everything your neighbors are doing But hey they all love these homes frail frails as s s they seem I 1 I Jeanie Goltz invited me up to have ave a look around She showed me cr apartment with great pride Its It's ts t's the last word in convenience everything very thing planned with scientific scientific care and precision A large living iving room and a well organized kitchen citchen make up half the place No o 0 door between just between just a wide archway Two bedrooms one large and nd the other small and a bath i make up the other half An oil I burner urner that looks something like I Ia a i stove supplies plenty of oC heat F J Same on Outside I There are eight apartments in each unit and the layout is the thc same ame in every everyone one Yet inside they look ook different Jeanie took me around to several Each person supplements the basic furniture supplied with the apartment and these personal additions make each home lome unique This is a very interesting in- in cresting experiment in living living- Just young oung people together hanling hanling handling han han- ling their own problems in their own ion wn way No oldsters butting inith in with ith their disruptive prejudices k Are families with children al- al owed there Isabelle l f Oh yes Several of the families have lave ave children Jeanie says that children beside you or 01 above you create reate a special problem But most couples accept a child next door doors as s an act of God and without resentment move to the smaller bedroom and use the larger room tor or dressing and study And last It winter when oil was short families families fam fam- without children voluntarily wore coats and ana sweaters in their homes and loaned oil to the homes I where there were babies Live and help live that's live that's how everybody feels who has spent a year in Cardboard village Need Breaking In Newcomers sometimes have to tobe tobe tobe be broken in When a major fresh from the arm army arrives he assumes that his family rates first crack I at the electric washers and the clothes lines Jines But he soon learns that a former private has first right if he is first in line In a couple of months the majors major's habit of preferential treatment gives a way to democracy and good citizenship citi citi- And these married veterans make good grades Jeanie says her husband nd won high honors and many in their house are way above c average a The wives study right along with ith them and that seems to help But the nicest thing tiling I r heard about was the easy equality of their social life All religions live together under the same ame roof in happy tolerance A few months ago Jeanie's house gave a farewell farewell fare fare- fare I well party to a Jewish couple who were cre leaving Each home conI contributed contributed con con- I and from this modest sum a feast was assembled Some Sonic of it conformed to Jewish dietary laws The party time had to be set for Friday night so they Uley made it very late That was out of deference to Catholic members who couldn't eat meat until mid mid- night They danced and played char char- ades Toward dawn they took rugs out on the hillside and sat there singing Down by the Old MillStream Mill MillStream Stream and other familiar tunes many of them favorites of an older generation These young citizens of Cardboard Cardboard Cardboard Card Card- board village are working hard for a good future but the they are having a wonderful time right now Copyright 1949 1919 Hubbard Hoover |