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Show THE BULLETIN "SLUMS MUST GO!" says Straus fi REAL ESTATE fiuk VOU enn sell, or trad your farm or a homo or apartment In Salt Lakat lor Housing Authority Chief Opens Washington Office, Ready to Fight Squalor IS Waal 1. twelve-year-ol- This recognition is one sign of a more common-sens- e attitude toward the housing problem. PWAs projects in New York, Chicago and other metropolitan points were successful in wiping out parts of the blighted area, but they failed because the intended tenants couldn't afford rents of 312 a month per room. Frills Are Nice, Cut Another good sign is Nathan Straus determination to give sensible housing without the frills that went with PWA projects. PWA sought ideal living conditions, incorporating cross ventilation, no walk-up- s more than three or four no room entered stories and through another." Straus also likes these frills, but he realizes the necessity is to remove Americas low-slum-clearan- projects was Williamsburg Bouses In New York, costing $13,459,000, covering 12 city blocks and providing homes for 1,022. The government expects to get half its investment back. Economists now regard a large volume of new construction as the keystone to further recovery. The small improvement in building evidenced last spring was hit on the head by rising costs, strikes, an armament boom and growing uncertainty about the future. Drastic action must be taken immediately, for America faces the worst housing shortage in its history. 'Speaking conservatively, we need 900,000 new dwelling units every year. Actually we built only 57,000 in 1935, 250,000 in 1936 and about 400,000 this year. Although Mr. Straus building activity will be confined to helping those who cannot help themselves, it does not mean that business will not profit. The history of slum clearance projects, in which Europe leads America to a shameful degree, is that government building always stimulates private construction. The Wagner Steagall bill was passed by congress last spring after a stormy three-yelegislative trip. Briefly, it creates the United States Housing authority which Mr. Straus heads. It provides half a billion dollars to be loaned state and municipal housing authorities during the next three years, for use solely in creating new dwelling units for the tenement population. Between 100,000 and 120,000 units is its three-yegoal. In addition to the loans, annual appropriations subsidy will be made to state and local authorities for making up the difference between the economic rent" on houses built and what the renter can afford to pay. For 1938 this subsidy appropriation toar non sec" stand for? d 3. How does a dog correspond to age in a human being? 4. What is wind? 5. Who was the Greek cynic philosopher who lived in a tub? 6. What is the procedure when a bank certifies a check? 7. What was the last federal territory to be admitted into tho Union as a state? 8. What states have women as NATHAN STRAUS ce sion. IIow many bachelor Presi- dents has the United States had? 2. What does the abbreviation successful that the conservative administration continued it. Economic Factor Paramount. Although the social aspect of slum clearance has long been stressed in the United States, it was an economic development that led to establishment of the Housing Authority. Juvenile delinquency and physical deterioration of slum dwellers have been mourned for years but the government is tackling its present job as a business proposition. It goes deeper than the current Recession. Blighted areas affect both the tenement occupant and the more fortunate (in some respects) n cities require taxpayer. fire and hospitalization large police, appropriations. Moreover, dilapidated residential areas spread like a plague, destroying neighboring property. When these things happen the city is apt to get in serious financial difficulty. Look at statistics a moment, from both social and economic viewpoints. Twenty - one per cent of Clevelands murders are committed in a slum district covering less than 1 per cent of the citys area and housing 2tt per cent of the population. In Harlem, tuberculosis is three times as prevalent as hi the rest of New York city. A third city e finds its police protection costs $4.37 per capita, but in the slums it is $11.50. Similar convincing figures can be produced in any city of the nation. Unlike PWA, Mr. Straus does not plan to build apartments in the midst of yesterday's ruins. New sites will be chosen in unblighted areas and tenants will be lifted away from the slums completely. In due time, if the Housing Authority is successful, all present slum sites will be evacuated. The property will then be open for commercial development. New Homes, New People. Mr. Straus does not believe that slum dwellers will create slum conditions wherever they go. PWAs experience has been good in this respect, proving that underprivileged classes are largely victims of circumstance, ready to reform if given an opportunity. n The present dollar apis hardly more than a propriation drop in the bucket, Mr. Straus add mits. To rehouse the needy of our population would require 10,000,000 new dwelling units, compared with 120,000 units possible under the present fund. But half a billion dollars will help get the ball rolling and should demonstrate for all time the possibilities in slum clearance work. Aided by the experience of PWA, which did not establish such a bad housing record as many people would believe, the new Housing Authority can start its work without pioneering. Business Man, Idealist. The newest of the New Deals administrators, Mr. Straus is probably one of the most capable. His experience with Hillside and other private housing projects equips him from the practical point of view, while his gives Run-dow- city-wid- slum-clearan- A General Quia O be-fo- re Greatest of PWA'S Bert C. Palmer Salt Lake ONr lad So. "llicoya m RtpruetUtf Jlsk Me Jlnother By JOSEPH W. LaBINE Maybe, in the snugness of your living room, you thought American living standards were pretty high. But that was a fellow named Nathan Straus became director of the United States Housing Authority. After less than two months on the job, during which hes talked freely, Nathan Straus has made Americans hang their heads in shame. Our housing conditions, he explains, are deplorable. ' Mr. Straus is not connected with the Federal Housing administration, which has been insuring loans on private dwellings and is now attempting to stimulate business through a housing boom. Although hes interested in FIIA, the monumental task facing Straus is to clean out the slums. He is administrator act. for the new Wagner-Steaga-ll For the present, all United States housing activities are aimed at the spectre of Recession, a severe dip in business which threatens to wipe out many of the past three years gains. President Roosevelt seeks to stimulate Americas financial pulse with a housing boom through liberalization of existing laws, as outlined in his special message to congress on November 29. Through this program he forecasts construction of 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 new houses in the next five years. The Key to Recovery. Though slum clearance and private housing are two separate enterprises, both can help avoid Reces- - Wrlla or wire d est from the slums into decent living quarters, not to place them in ideal" houses. Homes built under the new Housing Authority will rent for $5 to $5.50 per room per month, if possible. They will be plain, but they will also be modem and sanitary. Such economical housing will not conflict with private interests, Mr. Straus claims, and with reason. No private builder can erect suitable housing in New York or Chicago to rent at much less than $12 to $14 a room per month. At least, he cant do it at a profit. Straus knows, because he sponsored Hillside, a New York private housing project with 1,416 apartments renting at an average of $11 a room. Although Hillside is ideal, its not made for people in the lowest income brackets. Bow United States nousing Ranks. Americas slum conditions are the worst in the Western world. Nowhere outside the Orient can more squalor be found than in our ovpi metropolitan centers. Take indoor one-thir- half-billio- one-thir- social-mindedne- ss ar secretaries of state? 9. In what year did the first financial panic in the United States occur? 10. What proportion of the adult population of the United States has gone to college? Answers Two James Buchanan and 1. "Forgive?- Why, Ellen dear, it Grover Cleveland, but Cleveland certainly did look bad for me, no was married while he was in tho wonder. If Id not been a stubborn fool I'd have gone on and explained Presidential office. 2. Non sequitur (it does not folmyself. You see, darling, on the low). street today I found a packet of 3. A dog twelve years old is as bonds and when J returned them to their owner, he gave me twenty dol- old as a man at eighty-fou-r. lars as a reward and after he found 4. Air naturally and horizontally out I was unemployed, he offered in motion with a certain degree' me a beginners job in his office!" of velocity. Even an old grouch would have 5. Diogenes. had to grin had he seen Jack and 6. It withdraws the amount ol Ellen then join hands and dance the check from the drawers about in their joy for a merry, lucky and holds it for the purpose Christmas! of paying the check which 18 Union. C Writirn - ao-cou- Newspaper and Ellen Dyson couldnt JACK a thing for which they could thankful and merry this Christmas Jack out of work and Custom of Burning Yule Ellen with so little in the house left Log From Scandinavians for meals. But to make matters worse, shortly after Jack left, Ellen "pHE Christmas custom of burning the Yule log originated missed the emerald setting out of her ring. She hadn't worn it for a among the ancient Scandinavians. long time but it had been her great- - During the period of winter solstice, they kindled great bonfires honoring the god Thor. This was at the feast of Juul. The Saxons and the Goths also celebrated a winter festival which they called Jul, and so we derive our expression of for the Christmas season. In the time of the feudal lords, the cutting down and bringing in of the huge Yule log, or clog" as it was then called, was a ceremony of great importance. One old writer tells us that the Yule clog was to be lighted with a brand of the last year's log, which had been carefully laid aside for the purpose, and music was to be played during the ceremony of lighting." Jack and Ellen Joined Hands and Danced About in Their Joy. est consolation if the worst came to worst it could be sold. And with it gone! Five presents here and they AND aren't from the five and ten, either, Jack I I know, you took my emerald to buy these, didnt you? Ellen cried out, something she wouldt have said had her nerves and patience not been frayed to the thin edge. You honestly think that of me, Ellen? If thats the way you feel, all right, think what you please I" Neither of them realized that they were hardly accountable for their mutual lack of understanding. Tears fairly blinded Ellen as she went out to bring in the little red hen, the last member of their little flock. She kept thinking that at least this, her last offering to the holiday dinner, was honest. Then suddenly she caught sight of the familiar emerald there in the little red hens insides was hidden the gem she had thought poor Jack had taken. It took but a moment or two to wash up, snatch up the emerald and dash into the workroom where she went to her knees before her husband. Yule-tide- CHRISTMAS now guarantees. 7. Arizona. 8. There are two women who are secretaries of state, the Hon. Goldie Wells of South Dakota and the Hon. Elizabeth F. Gonzales of New Mexico. 9. In 1791, following the boom in business after the close of tho Revolutionary war. 10. Three per cent of the country's adult population has graduated from college, and four per cent more has attended some ," Path of Virtue The path of virtue is closed to. no one, it lies open to all; it admits and invites all, whether n men, slaves or they be freed-mekings or exiles; it requires no qualifications of family or property, it is satisfied with a mere man. Seneca. free-bor- n, How One Woman Lost 20 lbs of Fat Lost Her Prominent Hips Double Chin Sluggishness Gained Physical Vigor A Shapely Figure. If you're fat first remove the cause! Get on the scales today and see how much you weigh then get a 4 ox. bottle of Kruachen Salts which will last you 4 weeks. Take oneself teaspoonful of Kruscb-e- n Salts in a glasi iff hot water in the morning modify your diet and get a little regular gentle exercise-- in S weeks get on the scales end note how many pounds of fat have vanished. Notice also that you have gained in energy your skin is clearer you feel younger in body Kruachen will give any fat person a joyous surprise. But be sure its Kruachen your health comes first. You can get Kruachen Salta from any leading druggist anywhere in America (lasts 4 weeks) and the cost is but little. If foia first bottle doesnt convince you this is the easiest, SAFEST and surest way to help you lose ugly fat your money gladly returned. WNU W 51- -37 low-inco- tals SALT LAKES NEWEST HOSTELRY Onr lebby la delightfully cooled daring the sa Jtadlei $26,000,000. now It Works. The government will build no houses or apartment buildings. Thirty states have already adopted enabling acts permitting them to set up local housing authorities needed for the new program. These authorities can borrow 90 per cent of the cost of any project, to be repaid within 60 years. In addition to the 10 per cent building expense, h authorities must pay at least the difference between the low rent charged and the economic rent. The governments rent subsidy will never be more than of the difference. If a tenant cannot afford to pay the economic rent" on his apartment, why should the government and local housing authority pay the difference? The answer is that the government has at last officially recognized that many Americans can never afford to rent sanitary living quarters. one-fift- four-fift- slum-clearan- hs ce air 200 R Another slum vanished in Indianapolis to make way for Lockefield Gardens, which cost PWA $3,207,000. Rents average $22.80 per month for a three-rooapartment including ntilities. m plumbing for example. Though conon the farm, sidered a it certainly ranks as a vital health factor in crowded city life. Yet 25 per cent of American urban homes havp no bathing facilities and are without private, indoor water closets. Approximately 4,000,000 American city families are without the barest modern improvements. Since 1919 about 3,300,000 dwelling units have been erected in Great Britain through a combination of public and private effort. Of these, 1,300,000 have been built with some remainder by public assistance, the ' private interests. Although Englands housing program was started under a labor government, it was so non-essenti- al one-fif- th him enough of the idealist's vie point to forge ahead despite obsl cles. His career has been varied, stai ing with two years at Princetc two more at Heidelberg and a fi more as a department store officii lie once published the humoro magazine Puck, rose from gob ensign during the World war a was an active and liberal New Yo state senator from 1921 to 19: His chief interest, growing wi t, the years, has been lo rental housing. That, it seems, the kind of a man who should he the United States Housing Autlu ity. HOTEL Temple Square Rates o, low-cos- Western Newspaper Union. $1.50 fo S3.00 TK, Hot! 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