Ipswich High School - Tiger Yearbook (Ipswich, MA)

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IEUEKIEBEEQEBEIEK fabricated house. Construction is a matter of minutes. If l were to drive through the outskirts of Rowley one day and come back the next a huge city of such houses spreading from end to end over this now small town could be constructed within the few hours of my trip. VVith the introduction of the prefabricated house how fast the now speeding earth will spin. Manufactured on mass production the walls, ceilings, and partitions will be uniform and complete with heating systems and water pipes, insulation, and electric lighting. Of course the homes will be copy-cattish. but this allows the talents of the modern house- wife to show up. Pop won't have to drag out of bed in zero weather to shove coal in the old block furnace. There won 't be any. A vestpocket fur- nace hung from a rafter in the ceiling will be available after the war accord- ,ng to its present promise in drying aoldiers' laundry. In cold weather I ahould think it would be possible to 'arry this H 'tby Sl heater in one's woeliet. No more cold feet - or eold loses. Another amazing advantage of our luture home is its semi-porous walls. vhieh absorb all sound. lVhat a bless-- ng will be the peaceful sleep undis- urbed by eternal cat tights, a fretful Kjunior'l, and even the rooster's fa- miliar cock-a-doodle-doo. These very same porous walls will Ie the answer to the picture hanger 's irayers. Many enjoyable hours will I-Blllllllllil be spent moving pictures and nails from one end of the wall to the other since all holes disappear when the nail is removed. lf in a fit of rage, you bang your head against the wall the only dent will be in your head. You see such walls do have their advan- tages. From the prefabricated house with its vest pocket walls and semi-porous furnace we turn to the solar homes, the revolutionizer of the heating sys- tem. lts walls of sheer glass will allow the sun to till its interior with heat and Eaves built out from a flat roof regu- late are warm in the winter and eool in the summer. And with the introduc- tion of the solar home that old proverb people who live in glass houses light from morning 'til night. the sun rays so that the rooms shouldn 't throw stones will come true. This type of dwelling also has its sanitary and economical advantages. first. sinee abundance of light aids the eyes. and the sun 's healthful rays are shining constantly through the panes of glassg and. secondly, sinee the coal bill is discarded and the eleetrie light bill is cut in half. However, the solar house will have its greatest sueeess in regions nearer the 'South where the sun is in a more favorable position. The third type of future dwelling, then, is the collapsible home - an amazing contraption that can be put up and pulled down as neatly and quickly as a tent. Constructed along the lines of the prefabricated house it

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lllllil-IEKK KEGG!-BE!-llEllG!69E!E laughter and more' flutfy heaps of whipped cream topped with brown roasted pecans. 'llhen from the yel- lowed pages of the past, we skim over the dark present to the blank and empty pages of the future, eager to he filled by our plans, yes, yours and mine, for a once upon a peacetime for tomorrow. Change is inevitable! A startling example of such change is reflected in once comfortably crowded cities, now overflowing with an influx of popula- tion bursting thc seams of hotels, boarding houses, private homes, and even more private park benches. The negro and poor white from the South, the towering lusty cowboy from the western range, thc pink-cheeked milk maid fresh from the countryside, the blustering small town business man, - all have flocked to the city, already congested, and to war plants, ship yards, and ammunition factories, scratching like ill-fed hens at the tempting golden grains of war time wages and the pulsing adventure of the big town. XVork, food, and housing problems have sprouted and grown like ugly weeds to strangle the very breath of life from our people, who water and cultivate them. Defense workers crowded into one room apartments and dumpy little flats throughout the cities, containing four hard beds and twice as many men, sleep in shifts to solve the bed problem. Lack of time and home-cooked meals U!-HBE!!-IBBEHEUEHE I 5 have pushed millions into dingy hash houses to eat improper and unwhole- some foods. The well-known black market has sapped dry food supplies controlled by rationing and price regu- lation, while easy getting and free spending have boosted inflationary prices upon many commodities. Small towns, too, have suffered. The services have drawn manpower from the farm, and migration to boom towns has left more than one ghost village from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon, from 'Frisco to Miami. New slum districts rearing their ugly heads to join the old, unsanitary con- ditions increasing at unbelievable rates, youth rapidly becoming delin- quents, - these are the deadly toll of war time living. There is too much getting spending, spending and getting. From the mumblings and confusion of post war plans flowing into the and capital on swift moving tides - plans for unemployment, housing, reconstruc- tion, and readjustment - have risen the unfamiliar words prefabricated housesf? ffsolaru homes, and collapsi- ble dwellings. During the coming period of recon- struction and beyond, these three types of homes will represent the fifth free- dom - freedom from inconvenience, high costs, Icllld inadequacies - free- dom to live. NVhat a tedious job was the pioneer's to stock up his log cabin as compared with the simple task of erecting a pre-

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IEVIRIEKEBIEE- contains a heating and water system and is completely furnished with im- mobile furniture, which I'm sure will please the Mr., whose back has had more than one ache pushing heavy sofas and ten ton pianos here and there. This tiny box of a house is sure to increase the trend of nomadic living already becoming more and more popular. Even the poorest of us will be able to spend our vacations in Florida or California, thanks to this amazing creation. As the collapsible home becomes more popular through- out the states, renting grounds will be established at which these homes for the footloose may be set up. Tomor- row 's homeowner will no longer worry when the house rent falls due - ground rent will be his problem. How different, too, will be the school of tomorrow. Each light-flooded room will contain a television set and radio bringing to students current events, operas, or art exhibitions on the hour and within the hour. These latest in- ventions will supplement hooks in the instruction of pupils. Finally, let us preview one day in the life of tomorrow 's family. I shall choose a family well-known to all - the Jones family. The time is 19605 the scene, the Jonses' kitchen, an expanse of white porcelain and shining glass. The characters - just Mrs. Jones. She is preparing breakfast while humming the 1960 version of 'tlllairzy Doatsf' Ham and eggs are literally cooking themselves on a regulated stove while QEIEBEIE-E-NIUE! P 9 coffee is bubbling merrily in a plastic percolator. Fortunate Mrs. Jones is peeling oranges with a knife whose edge will never dull Cimagine itll. Then into the garbage pail drop the peelings where they are automatically washed, disinfected, and ground up The mice are certainly worried abou1 that pail. Then through a television set Mrs Jones discovers that her husband has rolled over and is fast asleep. Of neces sity she calls him again with a -lusty voice that neither time nor science if able to change. NVhile Friend Husband showers in 1 plastic bath empty of steam since con densation units have been inserted i1 walls and shaves with a never dulling razor blade Clucky fellowj before a non-steamed mirror behind which a low voltage unit has been installed his wife is taking the butter from he new model refrigerator. She smiles tl 1944 ant the riddle a duck behind two ducks two ducks in front of a duck and 4 duck between two ducks that had ti be solved before finding the butter i1 her old crowded ice box. Her presen refrigerator has a glass door and is . revolving unit which she spins arounl with the touch of a finger. No prob lems here. NVhen the golden butte Cyes, butterj appears behind the glass the door is opened. herself as she thinks back to After themorning meal the dishe placed in a device that washes, di: infects, and air-dries them. Scientist 30