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STEEL HOUSES.

NEW DWELLINGS BUILT WITHOUT BRICK.

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Numerous plans are being form. ed all over the country in an endeavour to solve, the critical problem of housing.

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FORD'S BIG BONUS.

10 MILLION DOLLARS

FOR WORKERS.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MAKING DIVORLE EASIER,

JUDGES ANTICIPATING

LEGAL CHANGES.

Even the most casual reader of the newspapers recently must have been struck with the facility and rapidity with which divorces have been granted in the High Court.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14. 1920.

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FRIENDS ON THE OTHER SIDE.

SIR O. LODGE ON SPIRITUALISM.

Io a long article contributed to the January number of the Hilbert Journ, Sir Oliver Lodge deals with the relation of the Church to the "phenomens known as spiritualistic," and criticizes the We see happening over again debate on the subject at the Lei- cester Church Congress. He says what has happened before in the

that the Church has now cast its history of England--the ad- minstrators of the law are finding medieval shell of doctrine re- ways of going ahead of the law,garding the future state. It no which can no longer be a ministered in the letter or the spirit without offending the public conscience.

M Henry Ford announces the details of a profit sharing scheme. Employees outside the United States are excluded, but 94,000 The Dely News has already American workers participate. drawn attention to the need for a Apparently Mr. Ford hesitated as to the date of the scheme. revision of policy, and on the constructional side it has ex-wishing first to pay off the loans pressed the view that any pra.by which he recently brought out ticable alternative to the system minority interests in the business, of building with bricks should ho decided to adopt a bold course and the concessions took effect receive the most serious consi-

on New Year's Day. The cost of deration at the hands of local

the new bonus is ten million authorities.

No addition The need for the speedy con-dollars annually.

This has always been a sure struction of houses is so pressing will be made to the price of the

of an impending that new methods and materials cars. Indeed, a margin of profit indication

remains either for reinvestment change in the law itself, and we are always welcome.

Below will be found descriptions in the business or for further conneed not be surprised if Parlia- of two original methods of build-ressions to the workers or the ment finds an early opportunity of harmonising the laws of ing which have been approved by purchasing public. the Ministry of Health and have The scale of the bonus is grad-divorce in England and Scotland been successfully put into opera-uated according to the existing

as to make it an equaily tion. In a way they are typical

simple matter in bath countries of other

to dissolve marriages which may of a large number

be said to have already dissolved schemes which have been sub- mitted to the Standardisation and

themselves. Construction Committee of the Ministry.

wage and length of service. Thus a six dollar a day man hired be- fore October. 1914, receives 150 dollars, and the ten dollar man gets 250 dollars. If hired in 1919 such men receive 50 and 150 dollars respectively.

SO

What we see in the High Court cases is the determination of the judges.. so far as they can, to CONCRETE HOMES.

In addition to the above wagemake the incidence of the present The Waller system of rein- forced concrete house construc- and bonus, the workers continue unfair divorce law as fair as may

to receive their former share of be to both sexes. tion, which is the invention of Major J. H. de W. Waller, the profit, amounting! I believe. manager of the housing depart-to at least a dollar or two daily. ment of Messrs. Hill, Richards, They are now given the right to and Co. Ltd., public works con- invest, from current income only, tractors. of 16. Albemarle-street, in Ford certificates carrying in- earnings and repayable at death

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INEQUALITY OF THE LAW. law gives the man divorce if his wife has been guilty of misconduct; the wife can prove something more on the either cruelty or desertion:

longer believes in the Sxity of eternal fate at death, nor in the two extremes of future life. "bliss unending "or "eternity of woe." But it has not yet devised any form of words or creed of equal strength, and is acutely sensitive when made by "outsiders." To such feeling he attributes the half-humorous, half-contemptu- ous references made at the Church Congress to the pictures of extra- terrestrial activities of young

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On account of recent large arrivals at favourable exchange we are able to offer our well-known

to any attempts at such a doctrine U. S. CHAIN TYRES at greatly reduced rates from 1st February as follows:-

officers as revealed by books like "Raymond."

The Church, segs Sir Oliver Lodge, is not free to explore new regions of thought, but it is the duty of science to do so so un- trammelled either by religious tradition or by dogmatic preju dice. There are only two opion- lons among men of science with

mena-the opinions of those who! regard to spiritualistic pheno have investigated them and of

without investigation. He advises

represents a determined effort to terest based on the company's cannot get a divorce unless she those who have condemned them materials and methods of can- with accumulations. The amount part of her husband-namely, the Church to adopt a wait- |

get away from the use of ordinary

straction. It employs reinforced concrete for the floors, walls, and roofs. Two of these houses, cone structed at Parkston for the Poole (Dorse:) Corporation. have boen in occupation since the first week of September, and not only are they pleasant to look upon but the test of winter has proved that they are comfortable to live,

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of investment allowed is limited to one-third of the wages, plus The expany reserves the right to repay certificates for rash at any time.

bon 15.

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WOMEN AS CRUELTY TO CHILDREN INSPECTORS.

It puts a premium not only upon unfaithfulness, but upon cruelty as well, and wang, a man has not only relucta aly com mitted (pre ended to commit! an offer on but has consented to assault his wife in order to on- able then both be escape frun = distastefdā marriage.

On the other hand, there ar

attitude. but to investi- zate cautiously so long as clergy- men remember that ohly skilled

avestigators are competent to Reside 29. 10 the truth of a hyro hesis. He quotes a state-

in a leader in The Times to he effect that he and Sir Arthur Goan Drie "proclaim the exist ence of people with two powers, of foretelling the perverse men who will neither as power of raising spirits and Sault ner Ersin their infared wives, whom the law then leavesature," and adds that this was without remedy for conjugal "Ta- knows nothing of necromancy or

It was mentioned at Margie bone Police Court recently that One important feature of this the Society for the Prevention method is that the various parts of Cruelty to Children is em of the houses are made at central playing woman inspectors. A depots. The parts are of a size woman, who applied for process convenient for handling by a case, said that we and about specially designed cranes, and

women bad ben en- $7 when they are sent but they gaged. Their day was to take

are ready to be lifted straight children to hospitals and else have votes and may sit in Parliament, and that consequente into their places.

where for treatment where the mothers were unablely the law is not likely to con-

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A small amount of in situ con- crate unites the whole into a monolit-ic-framed structure. this way the work ng the site is greatly reduced, and as the cen tra! depots are roofed in there is less delay through bad weather than with systems where the work is executed almost entirely on the site.

CANNOT BURN. Among the claims which Major Waller makes for his system are

the following:

The buildings are everlasting and upkeep is reduced to an absolute minimun.

They are absolutely sanitary and verminproof.

They cannot burn. The use of unskilled labour is nilised to the fullest extent.

To

motherless.

elviren

is available. A recent heavy gale made practically no impression on them, but contiewon- brick built structures already showed signs of dampness.

The first floor is upheld by steal transverse beams, the floor itself bain const zete on lines similar

to the outer wall.

The of

covering may also be wrought in the same way. with breeze con- crete on the upper surface.

ROOF BEFORE WALLS. One great advantage of this system is that the steel frame can

#deity.

The High Court, taking not the important facts that women

tinues unfair to them, is getting found the invidious distinction by accepting much slighter evidence of cruelty on the part of the hus

band than was required until quite lately.

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power

unintentionally untrue." He

incantations to ruise ghosts ar he devil. As for foretelling the future, this is done by astro inm- mrs, doctors, and politicians. They nik inferences from the present. and these are not infallible. But

on intelligences seem to be

able to infar about the future more than ordinarily would seem Possible, and although "com- municators ere very modest about it, some of those with whom he has been in contact seem to have

A man who wishes to assist his wife to divorce him need

of information cpan to them. longer give her a black eye or doccasionally exceptional sources anything similariy brutal: he

He thinks it absurd that the need only write her a few letters

receiving and recording of pre- He which will sufficiently hurt her feelings as to affect her health dictions should be illegal.

edmits that what appears to be ever so slightly.

trivial or stupid is often recorded by mediums, but adds that at present we have no right to decide between tares and wheat. He himself would probably have been much more reticent but for the war, "but the sclace which the facts themselves have brought to many homes amply justifies a reasonable amount of publicity." Hie prints a testimonial received

PRESUMPTION OF CRUELTY. If the judges could be relied upon to go on virtually presuming the necessary cruelty in this way. the equality of the sexes under the law of divorce would be secur-

Ection is speedy. The work men are aided by mechanical ap-struction. If necessary the roof judges, however, cannot be so

pliances, and the units of con

struction are large.

one

from &

war widow whom he assisted to spiritualistic consol- ation.

be erected independent of auyed in practice, as it is already se- other materials used in the con- cured in Seland legally. The can be put on before the walls. relied upon, and the Legislature.

cun- alone can do what is required. fours, and partitions are

But the equality of the sexes on with structed., which means that dur- The cavity walls,

a basis of conjugal infidelity will watertight outer skin and porousing had weather a greater part of

After 30 years' study, adds Sir inner skin, ensure a dry house, the labour employed tan he put not satisfy the Divorce Law re- and with equable tem to work under cover. The found-formers. They wish to get rid of Oliver Lodge, he himself has ation of the house is formed of this condition, and of deceit, per-

come to the hypothesis that the obtained khs perature, winter and suminer.

concrete, and the roof principals jury and collusion, as well as communications A the material necessary for

cruelty, from this ecclesiastically-mediums do at least partially construction is available now in are of steel.

tainted law. The marriage has come from "friends on the other unlimited quantities.

Transport is saved since the

already failed before any of these side." symptoms have arisen. and in houses are light.

many cases they would never arise at all if it were not for the law which insists upon them, Both the man and the woman may be perfectly blameless, and yet find their marriage a complete, failure, and wish to have it dis- solved.

As practically all the steel used in the building is encased in con- nrate it cannot corrode, and it is . Construction is cheaper than claimed by the inventors that this with bricks. The time of erection form of house presents a struc- and completion of one of these ture which may well be regarded dwellings is estimated at fear as indestructible. Variety of ar- weeks, and the cost will be ap-chitectural treatment is assured. proximately 70 to £815, accord- ing to the type of house and the local circumstances.

One of the most interesting experiments in housing that has yet been made is that of Messrs. Dorman, Long, and Co., the well- Known steel and iron

man-

ufacturers. In this case it was their own necessity that was the mother of the invention. for in erecting new works near Redcar. in the Middlesbrough district, they were faced with the difficulty: that there were no houses available locally for the great indux of their workers, and so they decided to build an industral village on garden city lines.

WALLS OF METAL

A steel frame encased in ex- panded metallic material; and and cement is the basis of the construction. The outer walls "are 834in. thick, and are formed by means of expanded metallic material being attached to the steel uprights. The whole is completely encased in concrete and forms the outer shell, the inger shell being formed of coke breeze concreto slabs

This leaves a capity of 4ldin. As several of these houses are alzaady completed and in occupa tion, evidence of their suitability

The metal lathing which covers the steel framing is known as "Hy-Rib." The east of one of these dwellings is estimated at from £550 to £700, and it takes about six weeks to build each house."

The law, however, forbids um- less they qualify one or other of them-by acquiring a certain measure of guilt.

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This laws responsible for most of the bizamies, for thousands of irregular unions, for the want of means of many deserted wives and children, and for the last degrada- there is complete failure the par- tion of not a few woman. Where ties ought to be set free to make a fresh start in a new home under the cherished sanction of marri- age.

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