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Show IUUL1GN DESERET EVENING NEWS M'.VVS, MJttS NOCILTY SECTION TIIIIKK SATURDAY MAIJCII lU-'- O SALT MlMC. THU DRAMA. AMI UTERATtUi: LAKE CITV UTAH ky scrapers F or London U res Englishman Sir Martin Conway, Enamored of Great Heights Became He tt Earnout Mountaineer, Advocates Lofty " Communal Dwelling t" Otherwlte Brltlth Metropolis Will Sprawl All Over the Place in Horrid Carden Citiet and Clutter Up Lovely Countrywide Dreadfully Movie" Showt at Home, Fieldt Within Your Walls For Sportt, and Gymnasiums, and Placet to Leave Babies When Mothers Go Shopping Cautious Americans Took Special Paint to Assure Londoners They Had No Intention of Building Natty Skyscrapers, But Nouf Londoner Himself Favors Them. - r" i t , V'' tf A A ' ... . mfL- 'J&l - , Il(j A . 'A 7 , v tit 4. " ; t-- - "e ,A;r5SjrfV" i DOS! LOW IHT.UIE. Cl r. UMmI Daaaikl UalM IrUn Toward Kal a Kbiarraarr la 1 lalbla aa4 Elfff I barrb an cilia (aa4a BOX HOT LIKE TRIKITT ft. rian rxMnl, I.4m, Tafto( Dm f Mi irfrO kr "am and na Mritnllap IJkt Martin Fab. 25--Conway, F. S. A., K. R. G. S., M.P. ia a gruff, pray Englishman with buithy eyebrows, who knowa all about politico, literature, mountaineering, early Tuacan art and the Britibh imperial war museum, kich Ijf. .U'tctUlXiim'arsl. Just now, bt baa i to the list of hia hobbies. At a "' added f, 4 recent dinner of the London Society, he pounced .,f onto hia, latest hobby 'with all the freiuled vigor of J 1 one of H. G. Wells. . I Garden citifa! he said at the societys dinner. Spare ns from the horrors of garden cities! They are neither fish, flesh nor good red herring, neither city or country. They are ruining Ixtndona beautiful countryside. If London must grow, let it soar into the air. Let us knock down the East End of London by acres, and erect on the ruins gigantic communal dwellings, 30 or 40 stories high, housing thousands of people, with moving picture shows, cricket fields, club rooms, schools, gymnasiums, canteens and baby creches all in the same building. London sniffed at the idea. For London knows itself. It .remembered that Sir Martin, whose name is a household synonym for mountaineering, has scaled the Himalayas, the Alps the Bolivian Andes and the glaciers of Terra del Fuego and Spitsbooks which bergen: that ten of the twenty-thre- e have flowed from hia tireless typewriter have dealt with the, joys of great heights, and that he is. the most famous president the London Alpine club has ever had. t London was quick to see the origin of the latest bat to flutter out of Sir Martins belfry the New York sky scraper. London views the New York skyLondon has scraper with an almost physical horror. of index-- f intention ..ever had, and has not now, any d -- in beetling, Ing its population away cliffs of concrete, .in order that Sir Martin may skis and go to his bed on the fiftieth floor with butler. his to alpenstock, roped securely TerIrving T. Bush, - famous through the Bush 'the of Bowman McKee John and Brooklyn, minal, Biltmore Hotel, New .York, may, however, perk up at the news of Sir Martins latest hobby. BoWryan came to London recently to buy Devonshire House In Piccadilly for the purpose of building a huge American hotel on its site, and Bush has taken over the famous island site in the Strand for the pur-- -, pose of shooting up an American trade building there. London suspected both of them of American skyscraper afnhitions, appoint dn which both of them were exceedingly touchy.. Both of them lost no time in disclaiming any intention of interrupting That honor has been Teft London's low' sky-linf for centuries to such monuments as St. Paul s Cathedral, --Westminster Abbey and the House of ParBoth Bush and Bowman insisted that liament. was , as sky-lin- e and Londons five-stor-y sacred to them as to Londoners themselves. It has remained for an Englishman not only to come out openly as an advocate of 'soaring buildings In London, but to announce his intention of bringing his mountaineers dream before the housing committee of the British House of Commons. EXPLAINS HIS HOBBY. SIR MARTI . Today I have spent an hour with Sir Martin and his bushy, eyebrows and his pipe and his pipe-dreaON DON. Sir town-planni- - ultra-socialist- a. ala A cloud-cappe- IX them into the waste-bask- et usually. One came this morning, however, which contained the suggestion that working people never favor model dwellings unless they are compelled to, Of course they dont favor these model tenements. There are never any elevators in them and no house-wif- e wants to carry her scuttle of coal up three flight of stairs. But wait till they see my 'communal 'dwellings Is a working mans wife going to leave a house in which every room has hot and cpid water, in which there are no grates, but radiators into which the heat can be turned on and off at will, in which she can take the elevator , fHalrlrl. raaaaaa Oaf ( Vrarlf. to the firat floor to do her marketing, in which her the space around london, which is now beautiful d on the roof children ran play in a great country, will be networked with horrible railroads. Instead of spending their time being knocked down The morningand even crush, caused by everybody by motors in the street, where she can put in her trying to get to work, or everybody trying to get spare time at a movie show without going out of the get home from work at the same time, will be far worse than it is now, , , . , , , building, where tier children ran go to school without Thmc ahe where the leave of ran out her building, garden cities are neither gargoing a freebe tn the building when she has to dens nor rltles. The only reason a man wants to tnrby--at live in the city ia to be near the advantages which go out, where her kitchen contains ail the most modern appliances for cooking, where ahe can meet her' the city offers him. The people who live in garneighbor in a clean- - and airy canteen instead of den cities are robbed of the city 'a advantages ; . you rant go home from work to your going .out to a filthy public house on the corner, garden where her older boys ran pipy cricket in the courtcity by a ride of an hour's duration, have dinner, and yard after school, and from which her husband can spend another hour returnirg to London, attend a walk to his work at the factory without having to be theatre and spend another hour returning to your stifled for an hour each morning and evening in a - garden city for the night. The garden cities ought to be stopped at once! workman's tiain? If a few million more people have to be accommodated Arc working people going to dislike a place in London, and apparently they do, the only way to like tl at? Our only way to solve the East End problem now accommodate them is to build new houses on top of the houses we have already built, is by spattering the countryside with these wretched NEW YORK SKYSCRAPERS NOT WANTED The cities. Middlesex and Essex, garden Surrey, Kent countrysides are the most beautiful in the world,' They say that we eant build New York skyand we are ruining them with garden cities! In a scrapers in London. Who wants to? 1 dont few year. London will have a population of 10,000,-"00Im not advocating gigantic towers built along and the countryside will be so spattered with narrow streets. Our light in London is bad enough .garden cities that its beauty will be destroyed. It already, writhout adding to the gloom of fogs and will not be long before Londoners will, have to travel .smoke and the gloom of heavy shade cast by tali B0 or 75 miles to get from London into the open counbuildings. And by the way, my plan of building try. At the present rate of growth, a quarter of would all but put an end to the' nuisance of fog play-groun- ed 0, toil smoke in London. What I propose U to substitute for the thousand prate-fir- e of a thousand ' small dwellings, a singla ha tin if plant for a treat building holding a thousand families, emptying all tha smoke it cannot ef itself consume inte the tipped air through a 400-fochimney. The buildings 1 am advocating would be sepa- rated by acre of open green space, fj'o building ' Kuld cast the windows of the next building into shod. Tht next building would bo too far awsy. "They say Londons sub-so- il . wouldnt hold op buildings: Rot! W hamrt the rock to' build on that New York has, but London clay will hold anything wa want to build on H. We have a far better sub-sothan Chicago has,, and look at tho buildings they put up in Chicago? Think of tho twelve or thirteen stories of Queen Annes Mansions, probably tho tallest block of dwoilingm London hot? Suppose its ten upper stories were taken off and spread ail oves St James Tsrk would London gain or lose by it? But looked at through the other end of the telescope, that exactly the way were building now.; The trouble ia that London, like Topsy, has Just! It is time an effort waa made to meet, growred. the acute housing problem which, as a mult, it now, . has 'to face. In a higher London, room could he found for many St James Parks in miniaturs,. st Suppose an experiment were to be mads in End. Suppose a few tali buildings were w! be planted at judicious, intervals in the East End even with the number of atorics1 restricted to twenty,-a- s I hear is now the case in, New York. The East End would not only reapt the boon of far more comfortable and decent quar- ters than it now enjoyst but there would be open' green spaces around the great blocks of the new,' buildings. Furthermore, the higher the workingman lived in the building, the better would be his air and the less the din of the street traffic below. , The greatest obstacle in the way pf the com, munal buildings I advocate,-i- s sentiment. " But the' housing scandal in Britain is . so acute that ft may force even stubborn- British sentiment to give way. 'The trouble is that this sort of thing ha; never been done before. So. far as I know, the only precedents for great communal dwellings,' were the pueblos of the Mexican and Arizona Indiana. Once we have broken down the sentimental, L obstacle, there would have to be an act of Par-- 1 liament to authorize the new construction.' The present building regulations are exceedingly. complex, butt in general they regulate the heights of buildings by the widths of the streets on which the buildings front ' The only reason Queen Annes Mansions have been permitted to go up to twelve and thirteen stories Is bcause they front on the wide open spaces of Hyde' y il the-Ea- well-select- ed Situation Full Near-Easte- rn ojf Dynamite r v Unrest That May Burst Into FlameTrom Egypt Through Palestine to Mesopotamia and Constantinople Grum-- . Grow biings Constantly Louder Troubles Between British and Natives, Which Culminated Recently in Serious Riots, by no Means Allayed Yet Damascus Rife With Possibilities of Trouble Through Activities of Syrian Nationalists Arabs Also Far From Satisfied inhabitants Feel They Have Been Defrauded of Reward for Having Foughjt Against Germanys Turkish "Allies, and are MutteyingAbout Rebellion Against British in Bagdad and ElseW here.1 ' - Long-Smoulderi- ' ; I - pies, of cowarda Special Correspondence ) Feb. 25. The time-grow- six-sto- ry two-stor- laakl.1 M laalaa O'raaa ed Im no Socialist. I'm an indiyioaligt.lkgpeeh. and through. But there are some items of civilisation which are greatly, benefited by thorough socialisation. Railroads, for instahvv,'nt essentially socialistic" Dwellings ought to be. We lose greatly by denying complete 'socialization to' our congested working class districts. Ive had thousands of letten from people I never heard of, about my scheme for huge communal I tear them up and throw dwellings in' London , e. 1 Taaaaa Mtaalala( Uakrr, Kka Maala la Dal I 4 IMlk UM Ballllaa munal dwelling house will occupy about four acres of the original twelve, and the other right acre will be left as an open green space. You can do done, the East End will consist of a great chain of perks, enclosing iaolated thirty-stor- y communal dwellings. the LONDON, unrest throughout world Is not of recent origin. A year ago. picking my way through the tangled political situation which reigned from Cairo to Constantinople. I heard the n whisperings which have by this into a menacing rumble. I sat once with the Syrian editor of an Arabic daily newspaper, published in Cairo. I sat in his 'home in the Khedivial buildings in Cairo almost a year ago a time when the near east was waiting to see what new political regime peace would bring to it. when the Arabe from Egypt to the Taurue mountains and the Turks Trom the were .Taurus - to Constantinople a trenvulons, hopeful Sort-o- f wrapped-iquiet. Outside, In the European Section of Cairo, the empty streets lay in bitter in the Arab qtiar- silence! a mile aw-ater, the famous Mousky had been. stripped of its flags, and -in the bazaars where the dealers- sit like Buddhas in the shadow .of the Mosque half the stalls were boarded up.' In the oriental comforts of his apartment It was heavy with sombre bangings, heavily' cushioned divans the sunlitrelief of rare brae. r and "' . " work he told me how the Egyptian came about and how it It's like this, he said, tilting his pipe op and revolution end.1' And every word of what we have in the. East End of.. would his ey'ebrows down he fold me has since been written. y and three-.stor- y into Egyptian history. London whole square miles of Egyptian situation Is due to f down, say twelve - the"The dwellings. My idea is to muddling' of the British, and I .hem rebuff on top of have frequently fold them o. he said. gcres of them at a time and are not a difficult peothem built, other. When get you your big com- - "ThetoEgyptians pch have-hathe govern." ple that all over the East End, and' when the job is leputation among .They the other Arab pre to imitiiTiuimru SEW TOHKI All HilMlin Mrar It, IsaSrad 014 LaataaaKa la Haw lark. CMlBOf n top, but it wilt set back the clock in Egypt 80 years. Eventually, 'theBritish will be compelled to send some kort of a commission to Egypt, which -will have to consult with theEgyp-tian- s about the future of their coun- try. As soon as the British grant discuss the permanent political status concessions which will permit the Acof Egypt 'with the Egyptians. Egyptian leaders to save their faces, cordingly. when the armistice with the insurrection will end. Turkey was signed in October. 1918, In the meantime!- we are 'onTy'ar'' the Egyptians asked Lord Allenby to of the shooting. be permitted to send a delegation to .. the begining That was said in March, 1919. London to discuss their future with ' Dtecontcnt In Damascus. the British foreign office. It would have been a simple thing Three months later, in June, 1919, I sat in one of those wonderful homes, for the foreign office to find an hour's the squalor of whose exterior-an- d time for an Egyptian delegation- and a the richness of whose-Intericontribute house in which to afford them enter fo Damascharm of the were while they in London. enthralling tainmept been one of those small ' cus. A little wisp of a pasha, with It woufd-ha- ve white and so hair which far crisp white-hea- rd toward go Ironing things sat all but hidden in the cushions of out the wrinkle of Oriental polities. . ' a divan. The room waa vast. A low But the foreign office refused to ' divan ran around it. The walls were see an Egyptian delegation. of solemn stone, but the floor cold, "Balked by jhe foreign office, was warm, with rugs. Egyptian leaderssought to have their 1 From a- - gardened court ' by an appeal to the peace con. musical with and sunshine the plash ference. The Egyptians asked Ldrd of the fountain. It was, his son who Allenby to permit them to send a conducted me from the mud-gre- y 'delegation to Parts, basing their restreet, through a Saracenic arch, quest on the sacrifices - which the .across a corner of the courtyard and Egyptian labor corps made during the. . into the vast room, where bis father war. sacrifices as vitaj to the success stepped unobstrusively forward tq of- the campaign against the Turks as rf a me fer hand his tiny hand of -- were the services of the Hedjas army. which once pulled fingers This. too. would have been a simple the strings which brought down Sul- '. tan Abdul Hamid. thing.' A 'trip to Paris could have been mads- - a enjoyable for an EgypHe motioned . me to. seat and J fended cigarettes. He spoke In a tian delegation that the situation on whose brink Egvpt and the British" ' weary whisper, as if the rsst room now stand, might bv been averted. were,, filled with invisible forces no "But this, too, bras denied. longer under his control. His son. be ot said faintly, had had "The situation is developing at present' In the only way In which the visiting the United States in the caps- ot Washambassador Turkish at British have permitted it to develop. city , ington. It, will end with tbs British still on , The British proclaimed a protec- torate over Egypt when they declared war on Turkey, in 1914," he went on., "They assured Egyptian leaders that as soon as the war ended, they would ' - - jl i tre thtn,-transpar- ent re - - If "the British withdraw into Palestine," he said In French, "there is no way of avoiding bloodshed In Syria. We shall never accept the FrencB never, never, never) "Syria Is one country. Front Egypt to the Taurus mountains, and we ure one" people. We need help from the West" he spoke' as a man who has 'played- and lost and has no further interest In the game But' we will be led by the hand, -- not by the neck. If the Allies persist in partitioning our country and handing over our be imports to the French, possible, to control our people. '. That was said in June, 1919. In November. 1919, the British withdrew into Palestine snd the Syrian coast Park, iv s . littoral north of Palestine to the TaurM intend to bringjip the scheme in the us mountains was handed over to the housing French army of the Orient. An committee of the House of Commons as soon as from Damascus recently Parliament meets. The need is .so acute that .1 read as follows: "The Arabs attacked nnd took poaeesionuef in to press the matter until something 1; done the MerJ-Ayu- n region, and also The French lat- - about it. I for one would willingly live in one of sieged er bombarded the two villages, wherethe communal buildings and for preference on the upon the Bedouin local Inhabitants atwhere I could avoid fogs and smoke. My, tacked and completely wiped out the French force, capturing many moun- ambition has always been to live in New York In Six hundred tain machine guns. .Arabs attacked a French force east ot , the tower of the Woolworth building. Alexandretta and killed a large num.After I had spent my hour with Sir Martin and ber. There was a fresh rising In the Latakia mountains, where--number - his convincing eyebrows and pipe, I met a London, of French were killed." whom I stopped in order to relate, to him Sir ' ' er Mesopotamia' In k Ferment. ambition-t- o Martins live in New York in the tower A month later, In July. 199TI, I - with a pasha of the Arab army at of the Woolworth building. Aleppo. He was a Bagdad Arab and Londoner said the Well, had fought with the British through-ou- t abruptly, whos ' the campaign against the Turks. stopping him? , ; , He was brusque of speech, big of The home at The he Edward Marshall M Copyright. 1920, by .occupied physique. ' Syndicate, Idc.) 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