Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 233, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1932 — Page 14

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HOME IN SMALL TOWN IS BELOW GENERAL LEVEL Water, Sewage Facilities Are Found Inadequate; Farms No Better. Thl If the fifth of a series of articles on housing conditions in this country It is published by permission of Fortune Masasine. In Friday’s installment a vivid picture of housing conditions in the slums of the great cities was presented. What ol the small town and village? The typical American community, however, Is neither the metropolis nor the middle-class residential area circling the metropolis, but the small city. Mr. Babbitt’s Zenith was a small city; the small cities should show a different situation. For example, Zanesville, 0., a city of 40,000 lying in pleasant farming and industrial country on the Muskingum river was selected by the Literary Digest as the typical American small city for an advertising survey conducted in 1927. It follows that Zanesville was not below the average of similar communities in comfort, civic pride and general prosperity. Nevertheless, of the 68 per cent of its families “surveyed" almost 40 per cent had no baths and only 61 per cent had “plumbing systems.’’ Des Moines Is Surveyed Asa commentary on the realism of the Babbit portrait of America, Zanesville is more eloquent than Mulberry road. And so is Des Moines. Des Moines is the “City of Homes,’’ and perhaps for that reason its housing commission made the most thorough survey of an American town to date. The commission found that of the 18,694 dwellings in the city, 5,000 were entirely without sewers or city water; 1,500 houses in the East Court avenue slum district had no running water of any kind and their families carried pails as much as a block and a half. So it runs from one end of the country to the other. Prejudices of fact die hard. If it were proved to the average American that town housing was below standard he still would fall back on the farm. No political speech ever was complete without a reference to our happy country homes. The facts, therefore, fall with a peculiar weight. Farm Homes No Better In 1926 the department of agriculture published a bulletin entitled “The Farmer’s Standard of Living." It was based on a study of 2,886 selected, white, farm families in eleven states, including New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Kentucky, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Kansas, lowa and Ohio. The department’s summary as to housing conditions is interesting: “Slightly more than a twentieth of all the homes reporting were completely modern; that is, fitted with central heating and central lighting systems, running water, kitchen sink and bathroom (equipped with a stationary tub and bowl), indoor toilet and sewage disposal. About a fifth of the homes were partially modern; that is, fitted with a part of the improvements named. Almost three-fourths of the homes have none of the modern improvements mentioned above.” The effect of the application of a minimum standard of decency, requiring such fundamental essentials as privacy, an inside sanitary toilet, light and ventilation, and dry walls to regions such as these is obvious. High Standard a Myth Authoritative estimates put something up to 90 per cent of farm houses, 80 per cent of village homes and 35 per cent of town homes beyond the pale for lack of a sanitary toilet within the house, and almost as many for lack of running water. To these inadequate homes must be added homes inadequate for lack of light and air (say a third of the homes in the greater ci' .es), homes inadequate for reasons of overcrowding, toilets in common, dampness, etc., etc. The total most certainly exceeds half the homes of the country. This conclusion will outrage the convictions of most Americans. They will feel that the picture of America which it presents is very remote from the picture of America their own observations have presented to them. But it must be remembered again that the inadequate houses of America are not only the slum houses and the tenant fanner shacks, but the apparently respectable buildings of the subsuburban areas in the small towns and the farming country. Elwood Widow Dies By Times Special ' ELWOOD. Ind., Feb. 6.—Funeral services were held Saturday for Mrs. Alice Lamm, 67, widow of William G. Lamm, who died after a long illness. She leaves a son, Charles, and two brothers, William Dean, near Atlanta, and James Dean, Elwood. Mayor's Brother Dies Sit United Trees EVANSVILLE, Ind., Feb. 6,,-Uohn F. Griese. brother of Mayor Frank Grlese, died Friday of pneumonia after a brief illness.

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BETTER HOMES MADE POSSIBLE BY STREET GARS Cheap, Fast Rail Service Serves to Eliminate Need for Slums. BY J. J. BEDLOW Many of the more serious problems of city life directly are connected with means of transportation. When these are inadequate or too expensive, the poorer people of the community are compelled to live near their work. In practically every case, as cities have been built in this country, this means living in what generally is considered a factory district, and therefore results in slums. While people forced to live in slums may have high ideals originally, the conditions of living tend to result in a degeneration of ideals and morale. The wretchedness of j existence warps men and women. It confuses their judgment, and with some measure of justice on their side makes them rebels against the existing order. Such sporadic manifestations of disorders as . show themselves from time to time in city life arise frequently from unpleasant living conditions. Build Self-Respect The remedy, naturally, is the provision of better homes, homes that build up a self-respect and a better idea of the maintenance of property rights. Give a man opportunity to better himself, supply him with a sufficient incentive to realize some of these ideals, and he is a citizen worth having. Better homes are not possible unless the means of transportation to and from these homes is provided at a cost that can be borne without deprivation. Given such a system, dependable and inexpensive, and the American family will gravitate toward the outskirts of the city, where home life can be enjoyed to the utmost. Nor js this limited to families of American origin. The ownership of a parcel of land is bred into the very existence of most European immigrants. Once located on their own property, they become Americanized. Allowed to live in slums, there is no love of nation, no desire to become a part of the community life. Busses Substituted So far, the best possible means of transportation for the people of a community is the street railway. What the future may bring forth is uncertain. In some places busses have taken the place of the street cars advantageously from the financial standpoint, but perhaps not so from either comfort or cultural value. Probably the cities, in the course of their rapid growth, will “muddle through.” But it would seem that in a problem of the amplitude of city transportation there is demand for constructive thinking, for fair treatment of existing institutions, and perhaps, for the community good, of greater inducement to make the home in the suburbs more attractive to the people who can not afford other means of transportation.

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