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HIGH COST OF POORLY BUILT HOMES 1 i c in n onstruct,
detail, or rather, the first far out- I
have te
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ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS
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By H. AUGUSTUS O'DELL, Architect.
1925
nd an architecture
n
that
tod;
has
of contem- 1
I Wish All My Friends
the
as
fillt abreath
will
not
stultify its real'
travagance and sooner or later 'a e porary life
A Happy and Prosperous New Year.
1
More and more it is becoming ap-
achievements
by
attempting
the
im-
I
must stop this form of extravagance
parent even to the layman that the if we are to check the ever-increasing possible.
building material of the future, espe-
Finally, when a building is intelli•
cost of living.
cially for residences, must be brick.
"I ant firmly convinced that if our gently wrought as a simple arrange- I ,
Many of the larger cities are already people could be educated to the con- ment of voids and solids it does not •
requiring tire-safe construction. More struction of permanent dwelling' 'leis' even the enrichment of inosiac,
will demand it within the next dec-
houses that future generations would , tiles or painting. Bentley's West-
ade. Even the ordinary citizen, with- find it possible to live at considerable • minster Cathedral, for example, is an
its
official
regulation,
is
of
out the spur
less than we are now paying. It I impressive building now with
. all
.
coming to appreciate the wisdom of sometimes seems, how-ever, that many I Interior bricks exposed;
se.
It
means
greater
safety,
less
its u for maintenance, better appear- have lost their interest in posterity L gain a whit in dignity when the walls
cost
veneers
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wish to build as cheaply as pot- and columns are covered with ,
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ante, longer life and higher rcsa
Bible for their own needs regardless of precious stone and
went may add to the beauty of such
values.
Within the next half-century the of dangers and deterioration and let a building, as a smile may add to the
the future
lumber supply will have become so their children worry about er will be attraction of a well-modeled face;
b
ear su y of l lum
de-
.
diminished
that Their
frame cost
houses
t at all.
will will
be ab- exhausted and it will cost more to but it is not even in a secondery
build a good building than it does gree the source of its beauty. In one
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be bully prohibitive.
sense, therefore, such buildings may
we are entering the first now."
be very quickly completed; in another
Already
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stages of a timber shortage. Since'
sense they need never be regarded as
1906 there has been a continual de-
completed, Unit there may always be
--
dine in the annual average output ,
of the lumber mills. Today we arc' To the famous Rabbi Saul of Tiktin the
opportunity
for the
some
or group
to enrich
floor individual
with ape-
' ' ere came
two women holding a five - cial tiles, to dilape a pillar with finely
millions of feet short of the figure of there
Every
succeeding
year
ruble
note,
each
claiming
it.
„it
is
that day.
Mel" cried one. "It's mine, it's wrought mosaic, or to add, under the
this decrease emphasized. The
direction of t h e architect, a panel o
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min
I situation is becoming so ominous
, .. I se, exclaimed the other.
a band of ornament. The difference
All the questioning of the rabbi between a poor and a rich congrega-
that the President at the recent Na- I
tional Conference on Timber Utilize- , elicited no information to guide him tion would be a difference merely in
lion sounded a serious note of warn- , in making a decision.
degree, not in kind; in essentials both
Rabbi Saul went into the next might enjoy an appropriate and dig-
ing.
There is only one eventual answer I room, leaving the door slightly ajar, nified architecture, instead of the
to this condition: Brick must inevit - i w hile, he spoke to his rabetzin (wife): architecture of the first being illiter-
ably become the building material of „I have a difficult problem before ate and ugly, and that of the second
the future. And once the trend to' me, to solve this question about the being pretentious and flatulent. Such
brick becomes general, the frame ownership of this five-ruble note. buildings should, moreover, foster a
house will speedily become passe.
permanent local interest in that they
Folks will not want them; they will. There
is no the
evidence
to the
enable
me al-
to would offer the prospect of further
truth of
matter,
ascertain
bs old, time-worn, age-ravaged and though there is a good 'siman' (sign internal development and improve-
I of dentification) on the note, for as ment. A building that is finished at
altogether out of date and fashion.
WILLIAM SANDLER, REUBEN SANDLER, Proprs.
What Detroit needs is a real awak- I you see, one corner is a little torn, a stroke is already on its way to di-
ening to the present and future men-
lapidation.
ace of poorly constructed home build- I Lt
neither
of what
them I'm
have
it.
don't
know
to noticed
do." One
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ings not only from an economic io f the women overheard the rabbi's
I put all these discriminations and
standpoint, but from the standpoint , : talk to the rabetzin and when he re- recommendations forward more con-
That is desirable, 'away. call the
turned exlaimed:
fidently, because more than one mod-
of safety.
""holy rabbi, the five-ruble note is ern synagogue gives an indication of
In this connection, Frank Burton, 1
commissioner of the Department of , mine, and I just now remember a groping towards the same end; I
Buildings and Safety Engineering of , good 'siman' it has; I can prove to have mentioned a few of the better
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you that it is mine!"
Detroit, makes this statement:
buildings, and am conscious of having
A Good Name for 16 Years.
By what?" inquired the rabbi.
left out a number of others equally
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Look at one of the corners of the deserving of praise and encourage-
light frame houses, which is so preva-
lent at this time, is most regrettable, note," she replied, "and you will find ment. What is necessary, at present,
because of the great ultimate cost to . that it is a little torn on one corner." is that the end should be aimed at a
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the community. In Europe, where „ Is that so?" said Rabbi Saul "You little more consciously; that it should
homes are more permanently built, must have good ears . . ." and turn- have the understanding and aid of
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they are handed down from genera- ing to the other woman, he said: the congregation itself. Architectur-
sre, madam,
adam, is your money. As ally I think we have answered the
tion to generation and used often for „ i -
hundreds of years, with the result ' , there is no torn corner on the note, question: How can the Jew remain a
that any one man during his life time it
surely
does not be
belong
to her and S. Jew and yet be a member of a mod- gamm,
must
therefore
yours."—Rabbi
needs only to pay out enough to de- '
ern community? But of course it is I _
fray a portion of the expense of I M. Neches.
one thing for the critic to lay down
building the house, while in America
the conditions of an architectural re-
where houses are built so light and I
vival—and quite another to make
flimsy that they must be rebuilt with-
such a revival real. In architecture,
the overhead charge
as surely as in organic life, soul and
in
on a house must be made large
While my Christian brethren are so body are one. There can be no wide
enough to pay for the entire building' divided as to the correct view that return to fundamentals in buliding
within the period of a generation or should be held of Jesus, my Jewish unless it is accompanied by a return
brethren ought to come forward and to fundamentals in culture and re-
less.
"Not only is this construction light instruct them. No one is more corn- ligion. To some people it seems that
and lacking in durability, but the petent than an intelligently informed Judaism is on the bring of such a re-
losses from fire in this type are so Jew to interpret the life and teac h- turn. If that is so, we need not
great that if we were to stopbuild- ings of the Founder of Christianity. worry if the newer architectural
ing homes it would only be a few He was a spiritual son of Judaism.' forms seem harsh and bare.
generations before all of those
would be hope for architecture, John
1 No one should be able to
class and character now existing I understand a child better than its Ruskin once wisely said, if we could
In mother. Instead of Christians per- exchange palsy and puerility.—Menor-
would have been burned down.
other words, we are wasting our I sisting in the folly of trying to con- ah Journal.
good Jews to Christianity,
wealth in the construction of what vest
even
really only temporary buildings, I Jews ought to try to convert bad
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacri-
are
a
Christians to a correct knowledge and fice other people without blushing.
while the peo
in Europf
economicc I
ple
surplus
o
corresponding
emulation
of
Jesus.
ing up a great
wealth in their permanent, fireproof a —Dr. Alexander Lyons.
To be in hell is to drift; to be in
and timeproof dwelling houses. This ,
Heaven is to steer.
is only one of America's forms of ex-
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work of the Creek and Gothic build-
ors strictly depended; and since upon
no ordinary building can we afford
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by wretched detail; for when an
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York Public Library, the slovenliness
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or artistican capa ,
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commercialism of the workmen who
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way or another to make a botch of it.
I The synagogue is no exception to
this rule. No matter how lavishly its
carving and stone work may be done,
it is useless to expect any genuine •
successes in this line. The principal
form of decoration that remains is
flat decoration—tempera, mosaic, or
tile. Here we have a reasonably
good chance of producing decent.
work, as in the chaste interior of the
Euclid Avenue Temple in Cleveland,
and in the hands of a first-rate artist
we may even get something positively
exhilarating. Moreover, the small
number of forms that can be used
for Jewish carving or sculpture puts
too great a restriction upon the orig-
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would help bring into me the superb
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