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THE year 1943 promises to be the grimmest, hardest
year this country has ever faced. Every effort, and
every dollar of national income not absolutely needed
for existence, should go into war work and War Bonds.

In the Pay Roll Savings Plan, America finds a potent
weapon for the winning of the war — and one of the
soundest guarantees of the preservation of the Amer-
ican way of life !

Today about 30,000,000 wage earners, in 175,000
plants, are buying AVar Bonds at the rate of nearly half
a billion dollars a month. Grea^ as this sum is, it is 7iot
enoughl For the more dollars made available now, the
fewer the lives laid down on the bloody roads to Berlin
and Tokio !

You've undoubtedly got a Pay Roll Savings Plan in
your own plant. But how long is it since you last checked
up on its progress? // it now shows only about 10% of the
gross payroll going into liar Bonds, it needs jacking up!

This is a continuing effort — and it needs continual at-

tention and continual stimulation to get fullest results.

You can well afford to give this matter your close
personal attention! The actual case histories of thou-
sands of plants prove that the successful working out of
a Pay Roll Savings Plan gives labor and management a
common interest that almost inevitably results in better
mutual understanding and better labor relations.

IMinnr misunderstandings and wage disputes become
fewer. Production usually increases, and company spirit
soars. And it goes without saying that workers with sub-
stantial savings are usually far more satisfied and jnore
dependable.

And one thing more, these War Bonds are not only
going to helj) win the war, they are also going to do much
to close the dangerous inflationary gap, antl help prevent
post-war depression. The time and effort you now put jn
in selling War Bonds and teaching your workers to save,
rather than to spend, will be richly repaid many times
over — now and when the war is won.

•

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You've done your bit £ Now do your best!

This space is a conlribulion to victory today and sound business tomorrow by Architect and Engineer

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

JULY, I 943

Vol. 154 No. I

V\in-2.S- 546647

FRED W. JONES
Editor

MARK DANIELS
Associate Editor

HOWARD MOISE
Post-War Planning

N. KIERULFF*
Ass't Editor

COVER DESrGN: Wayne S. Mertika-MIchae! Goodn

PHOTOGRAPHY: Adkins (Housing Projects)

CONTENTS

RHnning Fire 3

Mark Daniels, A.I.A.

News and Comment on Art 4

Paintings of Jan Schreuder 6

Douglas MacAgy

Millions for War Housing 17

Fred'k W. Jones

Engineers Plan Pacific Air Terminal 29

Unique Design for Two-in-One Airport 32

Home Building After the War 37

Wilson Compton

English Tavern at Santa Maria inn 40

What Would Happen Were the War to End Tomorrow? . 41

Architects' Bulletin — The Impending Crisis 43

William C. Ambrose, AJ.A.

Producers' Council Page 45

Illustrations

Sacramento Airport Housing Project 16-19

Wm. W. Wurster and Charles F. Dean, Architects

Permanent Family Apartment Units, Richmond 32

Will G. Corlett and Arthur W. Anderson,
Architects and Engineers

4,000-Unit War Housing Project, Richmond 20-23

Prefabricated Houses for War Workers, Chabot Acres, Vallejo 25

Wm. W. Wurster and Franklin and Kump, Architects

Apartments for Federal Public Housing Authority, Alameda 27

Francis E. Lloyd, Carl F. Gromme and
Hervey Parke Clark, Architects

Proposed Trans-Pacific Air Base 28

Donald R. Warren Co., Engineers

Proposed Airport at Keehi Lagoon, Honolulu 32

Hart Wood, Architect; Alfred Preis, Associated Architect

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NEXT MONTH

The late exposition at
Treasure Island is having its
influence on recent industrial
architecture. An office build-
ing at Sunnyvale, for the Sun-
nyvale Packing Company, is
an illustration in point. It is a
three-story structure, built of
redwood and equipped with
fluorescent lighting. Wurster
is the architect. You'll like the
pictures.

The city of Burbank, Cali-
fornia, after five years agita-
tion for a new City Hall, has
finally realized its hopes and
has moved into its new home,
planned to meet present and
future needs of a fast growing
community. The structural
features are reinforced con-
crete with some unusually in-
teresting ornamental details,
sculptured panels cast in waste
moulds and mural paintings
ol historical significance in the
entrance hallway and council
chamber.

For those interested in post-
war plans, George Pampel of
the I. F. Laucks Company
will contribute an article on
"Planned Housing for the
Future."

Development in modern
aircraft as it interests the struc-
tural engineer will be dis-
cussed by Howard D. Eber-
hart, assistant professor of civil
engineering at the University
of California. He will cite
some of the structural prob-
lems of aircraft design. Albert
C. I'allasetus, formerly chief
engineer of the North Ameri-
can Aircraft, Inc., will discuss
some of the significant devel-
opments that are taking place
in aircraft manufacture and
which are expected to lead to
larger, heavier and faster
planes in the future.

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ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

RunninG fire

by MARK DANIELS

• WH.IT IS .1 PREF.UiRlC.nED HOUSE?

There seems to be a great deal of misunder-
standing of the meaning of prefabrication, and,
until it is defined and thoroughly understood, a
clear picture of the part it is to play in the next
few decades will be difficult to develop.

Intrinsic or fundamental prefabrication is not
new. In fact, it is probably as old as the ax or
the saw and dates from the first purchase of a
piece of worked structural wood that a man took
home to use in place of the piece he would other-
wise have to work up himself. From the begin-
ning of building we have been employing the
principal of prefabrication until today a very
large proportion of all our structures are pre-
fabricated.

Our doors and windows, many floors, furniture,
fixtures and even the bricks in our walls are all
prefabricated. So, the question is not whether a
house is prefabricated or not, but how much of
it is? We might say "my house has prefabricated
windows, doors, partitions and roof but the rest
was done on the job." A strictly prefabricated
house would be one in which everything was pre-
fabricated but the foundations and, probably, in-
so-far as is practical, that is what we are coming
to.

And why not? What is wrong with the system?
We started out having every timber made by
hand, every element of the structure, and have
grown to ordering our mill work, fixtures and
furniture made elsewhere.

As time goes on the amount and variety of
these will increase with the only limit established
by practicability and individual taste.

There are many advantages to be reaped from
this expansion of the field and extent of prefabri-
cation, not the least of which is the elimination
of non-uniform workmanship on the part of in-
dividual craftsmen. Quality will undoubtedly be-
come more and more the hall-mark of those pre-
fabricators who stay in business and if they prove
their superiority we may yet see a small but en-
tirely prefabricated house set on a prepared
foundation.

• POST WAR ARCHITECTURE

Perhaps our Joseph Hudnut, Dean of the Harv-
ard School of Design, is right in saying that the
future world will pursue its thought "in halls un-
shadowed by majestic towers," that, "Great Tudor,
Colonial and Etalianate homes will be used only
as refuges for superannuated policemen." Meb-
be so, mebbe so, but I do not believe that the end
of this war, or the next, that we claim is not to
come, will usher in a time when there will be no
big shots who must have great homes — not if I
know my merchant princes.

• POST WAR REWARDS

We are taught that we should be good not for
the hope of reward but because it is the right
thing to do. By the same token I suppose we

should do right not for the purpose of avoiding
punishment. Never-the-less many people work
hard for mere applause and pay rent to avoid
eviction. So, we may be excused for indulging
in a few pleasant speculations on possible post
war rewards.

Of course, we are fighting this war for freedom
and we shall win it and the liberation of man-
kind, but when the inescapable rewards are
passed out we may be permitted a slight chuckle
when post war construction materials eliminate
certain union labor, such as the plumber and his
assistant, when plastic pipes and other bathroom
accessories have been introduced.

• OTHER FIELDS

For those who find no solace in the repeated
predictions of the architects who see a rosy future
of the possibilities in foreign countries. Perhaps
the added feature of a bit of travel may be all
that is needed to perk up their imaginations.

Foremost of the countries who need and lack
the services of architects and engineers is China.
The Chinese not only need new structures to re-
place those destroyed by war but they are an an-
cient people developing for them, a new civiliza-
tion. They are quick to recognize improvements
and courageous enough to install them. Contrary
to a general misconception they excel in me-
chanics and craftsmen.

But it must not be assumed that they will take
on anything that is advocated by high-powered
salesmanship. They have been through all that
sort of thing during the past three thousand years.
The low arch open spandrel bridge at Ch'iao Hsin,
first and still the most beautiful of its type in the
world, built nearly a thousand years before the
first similar type in Europe, is a mute testimonial
to the progressive Chinese mind.

You will not find it necessary to speak 40 or
50 Chinese dialects but you will find that you must
know your work, particularly in architecture and
engineering, to do as well in China.

• ALBERT KAHN'S GIFT

Void of literary or verbal pyrotechnics, the an-
nouncement of Albert Kahn's gift to the Architects
of America, through the American Institute of
Architects, boils down to just what Mr. Kahn in-
tended it to be — a good, practical method of re-
warding merit.

The paucity of such gifts is a sad commentary
on the architectural profession, for if the profession
does not carry sufficient remuneration to allow
more than one or two in a generation to make
such bequests we had better not urge others to
join it. On the other hand, if the money made is
sufficient to justify more such gifts it looks as if
some of our better situated practitioners are out of
that class of the philanthropically inclined.

Although neither of these conditions is entirely
true, Mr. Kahn is the first in recent times to step
forth with anything like this fine, thoughtful and
helpful gesture.

NEWS AND COMMENT ON ART

UNUSUALLY GOOD COLLECTION OF
PAINTINGS AT LINCOLN PARK PALACE
Three exhibitions at the California Palace of the
Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park, San Francisco, are
the center of much public interest this month. The
showing includes "Watercolors," by Rex Brandt;
"Paintings," consisting of 20 pastels of flowers,
landscapes and portraits, a delightful exhibition
by the gifted San Francisco artist, Helen Salz, and
"Tobacconist's Figures and Stop Signs." The lat-
ter, from the Index of American Design, Metropoli-
tan Museum, New York, includes 50 watercolor
drawings, a varied selection of carved and
painted figures and signs, including cigar-store
Indians, tavern signs of the 18th and early 19th
Century, and shop signs for the butcher, the bar-
ber, the carpenter.

The Rex. Brandt exhibition has been called "an
exciting show," because it reveals a "young
artist sensitive to the main currents of American
thought." As an outstanding member of the
group of younger California painters, and one of
those who especially has made a strong bid for
national prominence, Brandt paints the everyday,
intimate subjects of characteristic American life,
with a strong emphasis on natural surroundings.
First exhibiting in 1933 at the old Riverside County
Fair, Brandt came into national prominence with
his series on the Metropolitan Aqueduct, pub-
lished in Fortune magazine.

Other July showings at the Palace of the Legion
of Honor include Bronzes by Arthur Putnam, gift
of Mrs. Alma Spreckels Awl, from the Museum's
permanent collection; "Prints from Children's

Blocks" in the Children's Museum, and an ex-
hibition entitled "Road to Victory": a procession
of photographs of the nation at war, which was
originally assembled for the Museum of Modern
Art, New York, by Lieutenant-Commander Ed-
ward Steichen, U.S.N.R. It was held in New York
for four months during the summer and drew more
than 103,000 visitors. The present tour was made
possible by the United States Government Office
of War Information. After leaving San Francisco,
it will be shown in Portland, Oregon, and thence
will return East.

AUGUST ATTRACTIONS AT DE YOUNG'S
SELF-PORTRAITS BY AMERICAN ARTISTS
The big show of the year at De Young's comes next
month — an exhibition of self-portraits by American
artists. The show promises to be a major exhibition
of works by leading contemporary painters and
cartoonists who have responded with interest to
the "Meet the Artist" program planned by Dr.
Walter Heil.

Popular interest in seeing others as they see
themselves is expected to make the exhibition a
welcome opportunity for San Franciscans to be-
come acquainted, through these self-portraits, with
many outstanding artists creating the American art
of today.

ALBERT M. BENDER GRANTS-IN-AID ARE
AWARDED BY ART ASSOCIATION JURY
The San Francisco Art Association has announced
this year's winners of the Albert M. Bender grants-
in-aid. Only residents of the San Francisco Bay
area were eligible and the jury named Clay Spohn

AMUSEMENT PARK
by COPELAND C. BURG

San Francisco Art Association
Purchase Prixe, 1943, Wafer Color Annual

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

IN AN EVER CHANGING WORLD

of 2507 Jones Street, San Francisco, winner of the
award in art for his paintings of "Modern Engines
of War," and Rosalie Moore, 3038 Fuhon Street,
winner of the award in Literature for her "Modern
Verse."

NOTES FROM THE SAN FRANCISCO
ART ASSOCIATION

The San Francisco Art Association announces
September 22 through October 17 as the dates for
its annual exhibition of painting and sculpture.
Besides the usual prizes for outstanding exhibits
an additional prize has been established by Miss
Julia Klumpkey, in memory of her sister, Anna
Elizabeth Klumpkey. This prize, which is for $250,
is to be awarded for the first time this year,
and every year hereafter, for an outstanding oil
portrait or figure painting. The award may be
made to any exhibiting artist.

At the seventh annual water color exhibition of
the Association, the following prizes were award-
ed: The San Francisco Art Association Purchase
Prize, to George Alois Laisner for his gouache
"Ricochets," and the Artists' Fund Prize, to Cope-
land C. Burg for his casein painting "Amusement
Park."

Dorothy W. Liebes, Director of the Association,
is directing the arts and skills project of the Ameri-
can Red Cross.

AMERICAN INDIAN WATERCOLORS FEATURED
THIS MONTH AT DE YOUNG MUSEUM
During July the De Young Museum featured an
interesting exhibit of American Indian paintings
representative of recent work done by the tribes
of the Southwest. These paintings, done in the
flat pure color traditional in the art of these peoples
are notable for their bold color and graceful design
in which rhythm, repetition, symmetry and sym-
bolism are employed in the conventionalizing of
motifs from nature and in the depiction of native
customs and ceremonies. Indian art of today is
characterized as it has been in the past by the
decorative quality of its design.

The exhibition material from the Riverside Mu-
seum, New York, is augmented by related works
loaned by Mrs. Charles de Young Elkus and Mrs.
William Denman, whose collections of Indian art
include many excellent examples.

Mrs. M. C. Sloss has collected over a period of
years many works of art based on the "Mother
and Child" theme. Part of her large collection is
being shown at the De Young this month. It is
composed of Staffordshire figurines and Currier
and Ives prints presenting the subject as it was
treated in the Victorian period.

WINNING SOAP SCULPTORS NAMED
IN PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPETITION
Winners of $1,120 cash prizes in the 19th an-
nual national competition for small sculptures in
Ivory soap, for the Procter & Gamble prizes, were:
First prize in the Junior Class, for children under
15 years of age, awarded to Ruthy Brown, of La
Mesa, California, for the piece entitled "Horse and
Boy." Gioconda Oresti, of 316 Belonda Street,

Pittsburgh, Pa., won the $100 first prize in the
Senior Class, for those over 15 and under 21,
with her carving "Symphony in Soap." Winner
of first prize of $150 in the Advanced Amateur
Class, for those over 21, was "The Toy," by Mabel
V. Mustonen, of 18449 Gruebner Avenue, Detroit,
Michigan.

MRS. ALMA SPRECKELS ROSEKRANS
SUCCEEDS PAUL SHOUP AS TRUSTEE

The Board of Trustees of the California Palace
of the Legion of Honor have announced the elec-
tion of Mrs. Alma Spreckels Rosekrans as trustee.
Mrs. Rosekrans, who is the daughter of the
late Adolph B. Spreckels and his wife. Alma de
Bretteville Spreckels, donors of the Palace of the
Legion of Honor to the city of San Francisco in
1924, fills a vacancy on the board through the
resignation of Paul Shoup, now a resident of
Southern California. (Turn to Next Page)

DRAWING BY HENRY MOORE

San Francisco Museum of Art

JULY, 1 043

PAINTINGS OF JAN SCHREUDER,
EXPRESSIONIST
By Douglas MacAgy

"Cubism, Dadaism, Futurism, Impressionism and
the rest have nothing in common with our German
people. For all these notions ore neither old, nor
are they modern; they are simply the artificial
stammering of people whom God has denied the
boon of genuine artistic talent and given instead
the gift of prating and deception. . ."

Continuing, the speaker had observed artists
"who, as a matter of principle, see, or as they
would perhaps say, experience meadows blue,
the sky green, and clouds sulphur yellow. I do not
wish to enter into an argument as to whether the
gentlemen in question really do see and experi-
ence things in this way or not but I wish, in the
name of the German people, to forbid such lament-
able unfortunates, who plainly suffer from defec-
tive sight, to try and talk the world about them
into accepting the results of their false observation
as reality, or to represent them to it as 'art'."

A dictatorship of taste is not new in the history
of occidental art. By means of his academies Louis
XIV was able to exercise a fairly effective control
of what would be countenanced in the arts. But
the means of Louis' control took the form of eco-
nomic security and social prestige. If an artist was
willing to sacrifice such favors of the court he was
not prevented from further work. It was Hitler who
placed the artists whose work he disliked beyond
the pale of the law. His statements quoted above
proscribe a whole epoch of art.

We know very well that his censorship was
addressed not only to the international movements
of Cubism, Impressionism, and the rest, but also to
movements of this age which were peculiar to the
Germanic peoples. These movements, known best
by the far too inclusive term Expressionism, make
up a substantial body of the creative work of this
century. And that, of course, was the point. It rep-
resents a vital creative spirit which is by nature
experimental, and by result wayward. While Ex-
pressionism was the form of modem art in Ger-
many, and contains many elements which dis-
tinguish it, certain aspects of it appeared in com-
mon with contemporary movements in other parts
of the world. Of these the most profound is its rest-
less vitality, its adventurous search for form.

Sometimes this search took a similar path to
those which were being travelled, for example, by
artists in Paris. One such way was directed toward
the exotic. Men like Max Pechstein and Otto Muller
found material for their art in the South Seas. Jan
Schreuder finds his in Ecuador.

Schreuder is not a German, but a Hollander.
Yet his work, as the rather large exhibition of his
paintings recently exhibited at the San Francisco
Museum of Art showed, falls well within the Ex-
pressionist tradition. In the presence of his work
it is easy to think of Pechstein, Muller, Nolde, even
Munch, Gauguin and Van Gogh.

Pechstein belongs, of course, to a generation
younger than that of Gauguin and Van Gogh, and
his work shows a change of attitude. On the other
hand Schreuder, who is twenty-three years the
junior of Pechstein, keeps close to the tradition of

his immediate senior. In his work one finds the
crude and vigorous brushwork, the figures which
fill the canvas, the vague backgrounds stirred by
the shapes of the figures like the wake of a ship,
which we associate with early Expressionism.

It is a strenuous and moody art. While it is
sombre, it has nothing of the quiet gloom of much
nineteenth century Romanticism. Like Van Gogh's,
the lines in Schreuder's canvases are massed into
thickets that move through space in swirls and
diagonals. But Van Gogh's rhythms are quicker,
more energetic and at times strident. Schreuder's
passages are slow and heavy. It is as if the odds
against motion were high, but by sheer will they
were forced to yield. The directions which these
movements take have more ample scope than in
Van Gogh. Contours of limbs and bodies expand
into great arcs that surge through the picture space.
The gigantic character of the figures is matched by
the physical energy which each mighty stroke of
the brush seems to have consumed.

Schreuder works within a close range of color,
and within extremely simple and close ranges of
value at each end of the scale. The most predom-
inant hues used are dark browns and purples of
earth, yet within these the painter achieves a
variety of remarkable subtlety in the face of the
apparent crudeness of its handling. A good deal of
this comes of an awareness of color in relation to
space. The same hue rendered opaque in one
place and transparent in another not only con-
tributes to variety in the color composition but
makes for a movement and a location in space.
Much of the drama which at first sight is associated
with color, actually comes from strong contrasts
of light against dark. But even here the effects of
value are intensified by the glow and the gleam of
color. The large dark areas glow whereas the sud-
den rifts of light gleam. In this Schreuder is a mas-
ter indeed, and makes an original contribution to
his tradition.

Jan Schreuder has lived in various parts of
Latin America since 1926. Most of that time has
been spent in painting landscape and native life
in the Ecuadoran sierra and Guatamala. He has
impressed many painters in Ecuador with his style.
Recently the San Francisco Museum exhibited the
works of Oswaldo Guoyasamin Calero, a native
of Ecuador. It would seem that Guayasamin has
fallen under Expressionist influence. He too paints
huge canvases in ribbons of thick paint. He too
paints enormous figures in dramatic contrasts of
light and dark. But as yet his essays on such a
grand scale lack the conviction of Schreuder's.

Guayasamin is a very young man, and, as
Lincoln Kirstein and Rene d'Harnoncourt have
stated, he is a gifted artist. That his work does not
bear the mark of maturity to be found in Schreuder
is neither here nor there. What is of significance is
that he feels the strength and character of the Ex-
pressionist tradition in his personal interpretations
of his own people and his own land. This is sig-
nificant because such art is a profound manifesta-
tion of the temperamental desires of a people, and
also because artists of Ecuador are turning for ex-
pression towards a form of art which has been
publicly denounced by Hitler.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

War Housing Projects Built- by Robert McCarthy Co.

Sub-Contractors and Material Houses Listed

Type of Work

Contracfor's Name

Address

Page

Cement Walks

General Floors Co.

Los Angeles

Grading and Filling

E. P. Linquist & Bro.

Berkeley

Lumber

Moore & Garlick

Sacramento

Lathing and Plastering

Lee Merrill

Redwood City

Insulation and Sheathing

Kazon, Inc.

San Anselmo .

Insulation Material

Gunn, Carle Co.

San Francisco

2nd Cover

Gypsum Board
Interior Electrical Work

San Francisco

B. J. Doherty

San Francisco

Painting

Eddy Paint Co.

Porterville

Floor Covering

Kenyon Bros.

San Francisco

Plumbing and Heating

Lohman Bros.

Berkeley

Stairs
Roofing

J di Cristina & Son

San Francisco

Roofing Surface & Supply

Co.

San Anselmo

California Stucco Co.

San Francisco

Landscaping
Heating

Co, Inr.

San Jose

Atlas Heating and Ventilating Co.

San Francisco-

Oakland

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ALADDIN Heating Corporation 56

AMERICAN Rubber Mfg. Co 53

ANDERSON & Ringrose 54

BASALT Rock Company.- 51

BAXTER & Company, J. H 14

BILTMORE Hotel - *

CASSARETTO. John 54

CELOTEX Corp. Back Cover

CLARK, N., & Son *

CLINTON Construction Company 50

COATES, Leonard, Nurseries...... i I

COLUMBIA Steel Company *

CROCKER First National Bank 55

CROCKER, H. S., Company, Inc 51

DINWIDDIE Construction Company.. 54

EL ENCANTO Hotel : 52

FORDERER Cornice Works 50

FULLER, W. P., Co 13

GUNN, Carle & Company 2d Cover

HANKS, Inc., Abbot A 56

HAWS Drinking Faucet Company 2

HERRICK Iron Works.. 54

HOGAN Lumber Company 50

HUNT, Robert W., Company 55

HUNTER, Thos. B 55

IMPERIAL Brass Mfg. Co *

INCANDESCENT Supply Co'. 54

INDEPENDENT Iron Company 54

JENSEN & Son, G. P. W

JOHNSON Company, S. T *

JUDSON Pacific Company 50

KRAFTILE Company 12

McCarthy Co., Robert... *

MULLEN Mfg. Co... 55

NORTHERN California Electrical Bureau 15

PACIFIC Coast Gas Association II

PACIFIC Foundry Company, Ltd 14

PACIFIC Manufacturing Company 52

PACIFIC Paint and Varnish Company 44

PACIFIC Portland Cement Company 53

PARAMOUNT Built-in Fixture Company I I

REPUBLIC Steel Corporation 52

SANTA Maria Inn 52

SALL Mountain Company . 15

SCOTT Company 56

SIMONDS Machinery Company 52

SISALKRAFT Company 51

STANLEY Works, The 12

TORMEY Company, The 55

U. S. STEEL Company *

VERMONT Marble Company.. .- 51

WAR Bonds 3rd Cover

WASHINGTON-Eljer Company 45

WESTERN Asbestos Company 14

WOOD, E, K., Company 14

JULY, 1943

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ON ALL THE 4,000 UNITS,
U.S. MARITIME WAR APART-
MENT HOUSING PROJECT,
RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA.

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Branches at 51 and Potrero, Richmond, Cali-
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GENERAL PAINT CONTRACTORS

SHEATHING

INSULATION

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installed on Richmond War Housing
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(Interior and Exterior) — by

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IT'S McCarthy again -

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Richmond, California

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U. S. MARITIME COMMISSION 4,000 UNIT WAR
APARTMENT PROJECT, RICHMOND, CALIF.

ROBERT McCarthy co., general contractors

Photo shows typical family units

All exterior wall areas and boiler rooms plastered with
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Exterior plastering, interior lathing and plastering and exterior cement

painting by

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JULY, 1943

INTERIOR ELECTRIC WORK
AND FIXTURES

War Housing Projects at

Richmond, Vallejo and

Sacramento, by

B. J. DOHERTY CO.

Elecfrical Confracfors
1725 Church Street

San Francisco Mission 2624

War workers occupying the
4,000 units of apartment hous-
ing (now being completed by
Robert McCarthy Co. at Rich-
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of good heating this winter.

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ON SACRAMENTO AND

RICHMOND

WAR HOUSING PROJECTS

Robert McCarthy Co.
General Contractors

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1716 Alhambra Blvd.
SACRAMENTO, CALIF.

All kinds of Mill and Cabinet Work

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WAR HOUSING PROJECT

Richmond, California

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San Francisco

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on the 4,000-unit Apartment Housing
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ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

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Genera/ Confraefors

4000 units, U. S. Maritime

Commission, Richmond

1900 units, U. S. Maritime

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1000 houses, Chabot Acres, Vallejo

Miscellaneous Army buildings,

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San Francisco

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UNITS (Zone B) at

RICHMOND, completed

in record time by

E. P. Lindquist & Bro.

1329 Albino Avenue
Berkeley, California

Phone AShberry 5119

LANDSCAPING
and PLANTING

Richmond 4000
Family Units
Apartment Hous-
ing Project for
U. S. Maritime
Commission, by

LEONARD COATES
NURSERIES, INC.

Ray D. Harlman, President-Manager

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RICHMOND, CALIF.

30 Miles of Sidewalks

Ins'falled by

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To provide proper hospital facili-
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centers now stand ready to serve.
with mnre being built.

The hardware for doors, win-
dows, cabinets in these vast pmjecu

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THE lIVEABIllTf FACTOR
II k HOME

Homemakers today, forced by war
conditions to do their own housework,
are learning more than ever the value of
electrical service in the home.

They are learning, too, the mistakes
that were made in the wiring of their
present homes — the awkward placing of
switches and outlets — the inadequate
wiring, resulting in blown fuses and in'
efficient operation of outlets.

People living in rented quarters
blame the shortsighted policy of the
owner in neglecting to provide proper
electrical service. But those living in
homes they have had built are, some'
times unfairly, blaming the architects.

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the electrical service at the top of the
list of important considerations. What'
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the electrical service will be the key to
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THREE VIEWS OF HOUSING PROJECT FOR U. S. AIRPORT EMPLOYEES.
SACRAMENTO. CALIFORNIA

There are 332 prefabricated units designed and built as permanent dwellings for
Sacramento airport employees. Architects. William W. Wurster and Charles F. Dean.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

MILLIONS FOR WAR HOUSING

Robert McCarthy's rise from a carpenter to one of
Nation's outstanding contractors.

by FRED'K W. JONES

ROBERT McCarthy

has war contracts that
total millions

THIS story was not written to laud the achievements of the architect. Not that the work
illustrated is void of architectural interest, albeit the buildings are of a nnore or less
standard type of design. One could not hope to find much beauty in the average war
dormitory or apartment building. For speed and economy there must be mass production, and
mass production means simplification of design. Certain provisions must be observed, as for
example, flat roofs and wide cornices, features that lend a monotonous sameness to most gov-
ernment housing projects. So when these peremptory "musts" have been taken care of there's
not much left for the architect to do.

We were reviewing in our mind the many different housing projects that have been de-
scribed in this and other publications the past two or three years, wondering if any interesting
angles had been overlooked. There were the San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles proj-
ects started before the war and Intended as slum clearance betterments for the low income
group. Some of these municipally financed endeavors are today helping materially to relieve a
housing congestion in critical areas, although they were not originally intended to serve that
purpose. Other projects described have included those handled by the FPHA, which are

models of well planned and improved community dwellings.

While we were ruminating our 'phone jingled. A sub-
scriber wished to know why we never give the contractor a
"break." Meaning what? we asked. "Well," he replied, "I
have in mind at least one contractor in San Francisco who
is doing a whale of a job building houses for war workers.
He has completed enough houses to shelter the population
of a fair-sized city, and soon he will have doubled that
number. For ten years before the war his biggest contracts
were small town postofflces. Today this builder — his name
is Robert McCarthy — is completing the largest single con-
tract awarded by the Government for war apartments in
the nation. The project is for the U. S. Maritime Commis-
sion, located in Richmond, and consists of 4,000 family
units and 74 utility buildings. The approximate cost is more
than $6,000,000."

TED JOHANNS

Project manager pointing to

McCarthy's achievements

332 Prefabricated Dwellings

Learning that this was only one of nnany
large housing jobs successfully handled by this
man McCarthy, we decided his work justified
a better than average review of his achleve-
nnents. So we are, in this issue, illustrating six
of his more important housing contracts:

VALLEJO (a) Carquinez hieights, 700 pre-
fabricated units; (b) Chabot Acres, 1 ,000 pre-
fabricated units.

SACRAMENTO: 332 prefabricated units.

RICHMOND: (a) 1,800 permanent apart-
ment units; (b) 4,000 apartment units; different
design but similar type of construction.

ALAMEDA: 500 housing units, different
design but somewhat the same type of con-
struction as Richmond.

The last job which the McCarthy organi-
zation has been working on is at Richmond
and scheduled to be completed the current
month, 120 days after breaking ground for
the initial unit. The first of these buildings was
occupied May I 7. Since then additional struc-
tures have been completed almost daily.
$13,000,000 RICHMOND PROJECT DESCRIBED

It was to meet the need for additional
housing facilities near Henry J. Kaiser's ship-
yards at Richmond that a plan was evolved
whereby, instead of selecting a new site and
carrying out thereon a mass housing project,
the additional facilities required were dis-
persed throughout a conveniently located ex-
isting residential district. This program was
adopted when it was found that in this dis-
trict, within walking distance of the yards, were
enough vacant lots which could be condemned
as separate sites for permanent, two-story
apartment buildings of nine- and thirteen-
apartment-size to provide a total of 6,000
apartments. Funds made available for carry-
ing out this project total $13,000,000.

The buildings are all 38 feet wide; and the
length is 84 feet for eight apartments and 108
feet for twelve apartments. The policy was
to design and construct to a standard and a
quality in materials and appearance that will
not cause any depreciation in the value of ad-
joining property.

More views of the Sacramento Housing Project.
Houses are occupied by employees of near-by
airport. All shown on this page are single 4-room
dwellings with open garage space.

at Sacramento Federal Airport

Prior to initiation of this project, tennpo-
rary housing facilities, intended for use during
war expansion only, had already been built
in selected "sites." In contrast, this project in
the residential district provides permanent
housing that will continue to be attractive to
peace-time shipyard workers after the war.
This is in accord with the plan of the U. S.
Maritime Commission to continue the building
of ships of greater speed that will be needed
for world trade after the war.

McCarthy devised a program to suit this
particular job. There was advantage in start-
ing work where streets were paved and all
utilities were in; there was disadvantage in
having to work close to occupied residential
property with a minimum of space for mate-
rials and equipment. To compensate for the
lack of storage space, plans were laid for ex-
tensive precutting of lumber and deliveries of
just the right quantities of materials of exact-
ly the right size only a few hours in advance of
the time they would be needed. In this way
stockpiles of materials and mill setups at the
site were reduced to a minimum.

At convenient central locations special
mills were set up for (I) precutting and pre-
fabricating material for wall sections, (b) as-
sembling warm-air heating ducts of plywood,
(3) making redwood eaves troughs and down-
spouts and (4) cutting molding, glazing window
sashes and putting on the first paint coat on
door frames, sashes, etc.

The saws and small cutting mills were lo-
cated long in advance of the first erection
operations. While foundations were still being
laid out, batteries of saws precut lumber to
standard sizes, then stockpiled ready for de-
livery to special crews at the site.

Of the 169 buildings in the McCarthy con-
tract, 97 were laid out for thirteen apartments
and 72 for nine apartments. Whether of
nine- or thirteen-unit size, all structures have
the same general plan, being long, narrow
buildings with each apartment extending trans-
versely across the structure. This arrange-

Row of two-story apartment buildings at Sacra-
mento is shown at the top of the page. The two
center pictures are 4-room single dwellings of
the two-floor type. Community building on the
right.

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4.000-UNIT RICHMOND HOUSING PROJECT

From top down: (1) Nailing 1x8-in. pine boards over
which were laid heavy tor paper, then linoleum; (2) Pre-
fobrication of warm-air heating ducts; (3) Stockpiles of
heating ducts ready for delivery to each building; (4) The
usual roof construction was used. However, all pieces
were mill cut, trucked to the building and erected.

ment gives each apartment a I 2x I 8-foot living
room with a folding dining table in an alcove
and a centrally located kitchen and bathroom
on opposite sides of a passageway leading
from living room to bedroom. Living room
and bedroom have windows. At each end of
the building a "lean-to" roof provides a second
bedroom for the end apartment. The laundry
includes double trays, ironing boards, etc., and
the furnace room has a warming furnace and
an automatic water heater serving the entire
building.

CHABOT ACRES DRAWS NATIONAL INTEREST

This would not be a complete story of Rob-
ert McCarthy's achievements if we neglected
to tell of his success as builder of the William
Wurster prefabricated houses at Chabot
Acres, and of which there are 1,000, all built
to government specifications down to the
minutest detail. The architect left nothing to
the builder's imagination. From electrical out-
lets and their quality, to glass mirrors built
into the bathroom wails, the specifications
were plain as daylight. It is said that some of
the carpenters even joked about the exacting
number of nails that were required to go Into
a prefabricated section.

Soon after starting the Chabot Acres
project McCarthy got himself into print by
turning out sections for a complete home In
19 1-5 minutes. Allowing an additional 15
minutes for erection, he was building homes at
the average rate of one every 34 minutes.

Mr. McCarthy predicts that out of the
Chabot Acres project will develop an honest-
to-goodness postwar housing plan with pre-
fabricated houses built to suit the most dis-
criminating owner. In fact, preliminary plans
are already under way for prefabricated homes
designed along ultra modern lines with exte-
riors to please the builder. On page 24 is
shown a suggestion for a summer home devel-
oped by William Wilson Wurster in response
to many requests to the McCarthy organiza-
tion for a design and plan of a prefabricated
house.

In this design, notice that the floor plans
are crossed with squares. Three of these

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

4.000-UNIT RICHMOND HOUSING PROJECT
Af right is a close-up showing removable wooden
scaffold hooked into window openings. Fireproof
gypsum board is nailed over tar paper which, in
turn, is covered with California stucco.

Left is another view showing outside finishing of
buildings with stock piles of gypsum board on
ground ready for erection. Crews specializing
in this type of work are moved from building to
building to facilitate speed.

THREE OF 285 FOURTEEN-APARTMENT BUILDINGS AT RICHMOND,
ALL OF WHICH WILL BE COMPLETED THIS MONTH— A 4,000-UNIT
PROJECT FOR THE U. S. MARITIME COMMISSION

TYPE OF PERMANENT APARTMENT UNITS FIRST TO BE BUILT IN RICHMOND
BY THE ROBERT McCARTHY COMPANY FOR U. S. MARITIME COMMISSION

A THIRTEEN-APARTMENT BUILDING, OF WHICH THERE ARE 6.000 UNITS DESIGNED BY
WILL G. CORLETT AND ARTHUR W. ANDERSON. ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS

McCarthy-built barracks for housing alien evacuees at
Tanforan Race Track. 170 barracks were built in 7 days
against a time limit of 1 5 days.

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View shows prefabricated house erection in Vallejo with
one roof section on the ground ready to be placed on the
building.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

LATE PHOTO SHOWING LARGE GROUP OF THE 4.000-UNIT RICHMOND PROJECT
ONLY THE PAVING REMAINS TO BE LAID

DETAIL OF 14-APARTMENT BUILDING OF THE 4.000-UNIT PROJECT,
RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA

09?tf HOMEof ihcFUTURE-

The first of a series of homes planned for individuals, prefabricated to save money and
to assure sound construction. Drawing shows how standard sections can be used. The
upper floor plan shows a large living room. Each floor section is made up of three of
the squares shown on the plans and measures 4x12 feet. Both floor plans were adapted
from the Chabot Acres government homes. Wm. W. Wurster, architect.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

GROUP OF PREFABRICATED HOUSES. CHABOT ACRES. VALLEJO. CALIFORNIA

Altogether, the Robert McCarthy Company built 1.700 of these prefabricated dwellings
and at the time of completion, summer of 1 942, the buildings
were said to offer the most livability per dollar of cost.

ANOTHER VIEW OF CHABOT ACRES PREFABRICATED HOUSES

William W. Wurster. architect of buildings, and Franklin and Kump. architects of site plans.

squares make up one prefabricated floor sec-
tion of 4x12 feet. As long as an architect
plans in floor sections of 4x12 feet he can de-
sign a home of any size, with rooms of any size,
made up of a given number of these standard
units. Wall sections, likewise, are built to fol-
low these standard floor sections.

The method of building this summer home
would be not unlike the process followed at
Chabot Acres. The floor stringers are cut to
exact length right to the fraction of an inch.
Then they are placed on a table which is
equipped with metal jigs that hold the string-
ers in position. There is not even a slim chance
that the stringers can be knocked out of
"plum" while being nailed. In this way each
floor section is square and of the exact size.
When the stringers are firmly nailed, the
tongue-and-groove flooring is toe-nailed to
the stringers.

First-grade lumber only is used, assuring
that such standard sections are of the finest
materials. Wall sections, likewise, are built in
a similar manner and are complete with elec-
tric wiring between the walls where required,
windows and doors cut out, casements added
and even small holes are cut for light switch
receptacles. Now in the future, should one
order such a home, these prefabricated parts
will simply be loaded onto a truck and carted
to the building site for erection. Any exte-
rior finish or style Is possible at little added ex-
pense.

HOW McCarthy sot his start

In conclusion the reader Is probably ask-
ing himself how this man McCarthy happened
to get into the contracting business.

According to the builder's own story he
got his start while working as a carpenter for
a man who didn't care to be told how to save
time and labor on his jobs. Because this young
carpenter persisted in offering advice he was
fired. Ambitious and unafraid of work, Mc-
Carthy started In for himself. The first job he
figured was a $5,000 home, hie got the con-

tract, built the house and made a few dollars.
The next eight years were tough going. Then
one day he was given an opportunity to figure
a government postoffice. That marked the be-
ginning of a successful association with Uncle
Sam. Following completion of a $100,000
postoffice he was asked to figure some army
work. Successful In bidding, he was called in
by the commanding officer for his instructions.

"This job," bawled the colonel, "must be
completed In 90 days or else . . ."

The contract called for the erection of a
54-room office building of lelnforced con-
crete, complete with heating, wiring and
plumbing. At that time 90 days were consid-
ered fast for such a job, but McCarthy assured
the commandant he could meet the require-
ments. And he did. In just 29 days the com-
pleted building was turned over to the army!

Other government jobs followed, on the
Coast and in Alaska and when the war clouds
began to gather and housing needs became
urgent McCarthy was In demand. No project
was too big for the six-foot contractor.

FLOYD B. COMSTOCK

Technical Director for Housing Authority

of the City of Alameda.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

500 APARTMENT UNITS FOR THE FEDERAL PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY, ALAMEDA

Upper picture shows interior court, Contractor McCarthy in the foreground. . . . Below
is a view of the first 100 apartment units completed.

In the space in the left center of the middle picture provision has been made for an
office and community building. The 500 units will be managed upon completion by Curtis
Anderson, director of the Housing Authority, City of Alameda. Architects of this project
were Francis E. Lloyd, Carl F. Gromme and Hervey Parke Clark.

PROPOSED TRANS-PACIFIC AIR BASE. EAST SHORE OF SAN FRANCISCO BAY
Donald R. Warren Co., Engineers

PLANS. TRANS-PACIFIC AIR BASE. SAN FRANCISCO BAY

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

ENGINEERS PLAN PACIFIC AIR TERMINAL

Huge air base to accommodate every type of flying craft proposed for
east shore of San Francisco Bay. ... A sixty million dollar post-war project.

In the March issue of Architect and Engineer,
under the title of "Wings Over Architecture,"
H. S. Maas discussed the future of avia-
tion and its probable effect on architecture,
prophesying changes in the design of build-
ings and the erection of structures that
would provide convenient landings for inter-
urban passenger and cargo traffic. Naturally
there are those with less vision who disagree
with this writer, although they believe the end
of the war will see vastly increased use of the
plane. Some 250,000 men are being trained in
this war to fly airplanes. It's natural to assume
that In peace time many of them will still want
to fly.

Before the war this country had a maximum
number of 352 airplanes in the entire air trans-
port industry. A lot of noise for a very few
planes, one expert has commented. That our
plane production facilities after the war are
going to be taxed to the utmost, is the pre-
diction of another expert who visualises the
building of thousands of new planes for pas-
senger and cargo needs. To convert our military
planes into commercial planes would be dis-
astrous, In the opinion of experts. Aside from
using the motors from these planes, new bodies
and equipment will be needed and this means
the conversion of many manufacturing plants
Into peacetime airplane factories. According
to William A. Patterson, president of the
United Air Lines, the transport plane industry
will be needing 5250 planes after the war, a
tremendous development when one considers
that the prewar volume was only 350.

As to possible changes in the lay-out of our
cities, the location and construction of build-
ings, etc., Mr. Patterson made this statement
In a round table broadcast, sponsored by the
University of Chicago, and released over the
National Network:

"Our cities will have to be rebuilt. I grant
you that a great city like New York, or Chicago,

or San Francisco, or Paris or London cannot be
rebuilt so easily. On the other hand, the small
town, which for economic reasons is bound to
become an international airport. Is going to
have a flying field which will be the center of
community activities — just as the old city
square was in medieval times. This airport will
be the heart of the city, with hotels and business
offices around it. That's where the life of the
town will be concentrated.

"The public's use of the helicopter must not
be overlooked. Some people say that within
a few years we're going to land on our office
buildings and possibly take an elevator down
to our floor."

To this assertion Waldemar Kaempffert,
science editor of the New York Times, opines:

"And why not? That's not a wild-eyed dream
to me. I see no reason why the top floors of
a properly constructed office building should
not be given over to housing the helicopters.
You could fly off to work in the morning from
your home and back yard and land on the roof
of your office building; and from that roof
back to your home in the evening."

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At least the end of the war is going to see un-
paralleled activity in airport construction with
airports built much closer into our business dis-
tricts than at present. And this leads us to a
description of a proposed new air base to
serve the San Francisco-Oakland metropolitan
area, offering a centrally located west coast
terminus for trans-Pacific and western hemi-
sphere air lines. The Bay region airports are
handling passengers at the rate of 1000 per
day and it has been estimated that in normal
times the volume will be twenty-five times that
number.

Location of the proposed new air base is
north of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge,
on the east side of the bay. It would be within
ten minutes of the downtown districts of San

Francisco and Oakland, 35 nnlnutes nearer than
now, to these metropolitan city centers.

The Trans-Pacific air base is being sponsored
by a non-profit, non-political organization
known as the Metropolitan Developers, fornned
for the scientific analysis of problems of local
metropolitan concern, and has no connection
with the Parr Terminal project bordering Emery-
ville and Berkeley. The group includes Major-
General Walter Sweeney, Attorney Ray C.
hiackley, Jr., Major Ernie Smith, and Engineer
Donald R. Warren.

The total cost of the development is esti-
mated at $60,000,000. In addition to a Class
4-A airport, with eight runways, varying in
length from 8,500 ft. to 10,000 ft., the project
includes a base for seaplanes, ten docks for
ocean-going vessels, facilities for servicing
lighter-than-air-craft, and provision for a heli-
copter taxi service to nearby population cen-
ters. This class of airport design will accom-
modate the heaviest and largest of planes. An
extensive manufacturing area has also been
provided for in the filled area.

To be of commercial value the complete
development need not be made all at the same
time. For $35,000,000 the area could be com-
pletely filled in, four of the runways and a dock
constructed with rail and building facilities,
and hangars and important buildings erected.
Further expansion could then be made as
needed.

HUGE FILL OFF OAKLAND WATERFRONT

The 3200-acre fill will require 88,000,000 cu-
bic yards of material, which will be obtained
by dredging in the seaplane harbor, ship
turning basin and channel. The fill will ex-
tend northerly as far as the present Berkeley
Yacht Harbor, and the abandoned Berkeley
pier will be removed to give a larger seaplane
harbor. Treasure Island, built of dredged ma-
terial as a site for the Golden Gate Interna-
tional Exposition, and now used as a Navy sea-
plane base, embraced an area of a little over
400 acres.

The fill would be placed to an elevation of
plus 13 ft. above mean low water, while the
seaplane harbor will be dredged to a depth of

25 ft. and the ship harbor to a 35 ft. depth.

Ten docks, each 200 x 800 ft. with a slip
space of 250 ft. between, are provided for in
the ultimate plan. The turning basin is to be
6250 ft. wide at the docks, tapering to a 1000
ft. channel north of Treasure Island.

A rock face around the fill will be required
for protection against tidal action. This rock
will be quarried from nearby sources. Quay
walls on the dock front will be a part of the
harbor development.

A large area on the north has been reserved
for a future manufacturing expansion. This area
is designed for those industries requiring close
proximity to such an airport for testing pur-
poses, rapid transportation, etc.

The seaplane harbor is to be I 500 x 6800 ft.
to allow adequate space for taxiing and take-
off for the huge seaplane transports. It is
located on the seaward side of the develop-
ment, but is protected from rough water by
the dock structures.

Commercial facilities only will be provided,
since private planes would hinder the efficient
use of such a great shipping center. Smaller
airports in the vicinity will be entirely adequate
to accommodate private planes.

The plans have been prepared so that there
will be no interference with existing traffic in
the region. One overpass structure will be
required over the Bay bridge east approach for
the eastbound traffic from the base, to elim-
inate a traffic crossing. Traffic from San Fran-
cisco will leave the bridge west of the present
toll plaza, and double back under the bridge.
All other lanes of traffic to and from the base
can be handled by direct feeder lanes together
with extra acceleration lanes.

PROVISION FOR HELICOPTER TAXIS

A service road entirely borde-'ing the fill is
planned. Next to this will be hard-standing areas
for taxiways and parking aprons. The eight
runways, each 250 ft. wide, are arranged to
accommodate a large traffic volume regardless
of the direction of existing air currents. There
will be two runways north and south and two
east and west, each 8500 ft. long. One of the
two pairs of diagonal runways will be 9500 ft.
and the other 10,000 ft. long.

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On the south side of the air base will be
located the hangars for the planes. Toward the
west will be repair shops and fuel service areas.

Looking toward the not-too-distant future,
a provision is made in the plans for a helicopter
taxi service to serve the air base. This addi-
tional space will be made available north of
the administration building and adjacent to
the seaplane harbor. On the opposite, or south-
east side, mooring masts will be available for
llghter-than-air craft.

Railroad facilities can easily be provided
into the base, since both the Santa Fe and

Southern Pacific railroads have lines paralleling
the east shore of the bay.

An administration building of the most
modern design Is contemplated, to cost ap-
proximately $2,000,000. It will embody features
enabling express and mail to be handled with
the greatest efficiency. Passenger traffic will
be expedited by a curved system of ramps
whereby passengers can walk directly to their
plane without setting foot on the airfield.

Preliminary plans for the project have been
prepared In the engineering offices of Donald
R. Warren Co., to which we are indebted for
Information embodied In this article. — F. W. J.

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Hart Wood, Architect; Alfred Preis, Associated Architect.

UNIQUE DESIGN FOR TWO -IN -ONE AIRPORT

From distant Honolulu comes an announce-
ment from the office of Hart Wood, architect,
of postwar plans for an airport of unique de-
sign— unique because it combines two airports
of major size in one project, both functioning
through one building and both handling local,
domestic and foreign traffic.

Construction of the Keehi Lagoon Airport
is scheduled to start immediately after the war,
according to Mr. Wood, who laments the
scarcity of up-to-date material on the subject
of airport terminals, due, he thinks, to the phe-
nomenal development of aeronautics and air
transport, coupled with a marked uncertainty
in regard to future developments. For exam-
ple, he writes that in answer to a questionnaire
regarding plane sizes, etc., one factory gave
70 feet as the possible height of tail fin. This,

if it materializes, may necessitate a radical
change in hangar design. Projected plane sizes
vary considerably.

Again, Mr. Wood points out, there is un-
certainty about the proper accommodations
for docking, loading, etc., of sea planes. Also
the development of land planes, particularly
the freight carriers, will surely be such as to
require the invention, or at least development,
of facilities and accommodations for loading
and unloading to meet new conditions.

Referring to the plans it will be noted that
the scheme permits of (a) introducing vehicu-
lar traffic into the middle of an airfield, even
though the field consists of a combined land
and seaplane unit; (b) is capable of almost un-
limited expansion.

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parently overlooked in making the reproduc-
tions.

The control tower shown on the perspec-
tive to be at the end of the passenger con-
course has been moved to the top of the main
building, although future expansion needs may
require that it be moved back again.

While accommodations for airline compa-
nies are provided on the third floor it is planned
that in the future such accommodations may
be in the arms of the Y extending out in front
of the building.

THE PLANE OF TOMORROW

Since the war began statesmen, business men
and just "planners," recognizing the dislocation
of the normal economy that has been caused
by the war, have been busy evolving plans that
will soften the change-over from war to peace.

Many of the plans have been extremely
visionary. And their accompanying publicity
has been such that the people, instead of being
enlightened have been confused. The post
war plan of Chicago and Southern Air Lines
for a Polar Great Circle Air Route that will
connect the East Indies with the West Indies,
has a really definite aspect, although it must
be admitted it smacks of bold pioneering com-
parable to that of the early explorers and navi-
gators.

What we may expect of the aviation indus-
try after the war may be gathered from the
following views of President Carleton Putnam
of the Chicago and Southern Air Lines:

"Twice in modern times new kinds of trans-
portation have re-shaped the world. First there
was the steamboat which made every navi-
gable river a highway of commerce and quick-
ened trade on the oceans. The hey-day of the
steamboat was a prosperous and romantic era.
On the seas steamships tied nations closer to-
gether, stimulated the exchange and produc-
tion of goods and went far to build mighty
nations.

"Next the railroad appeared, shortening
land distances and opening the Interiors of
continents to development. It moved people
inland from coasts and rivers where the steam-

boat was centering population and built cities
far from any water route.

"Now comes the airplane, which is making
enormous progress in speed and carrying
capacity under the stimulus of the war. Un-
doubtedly this swifter means of transport is
blue printing another series of far-reaching
changes.

"Freight planes carrying more valuable sort
of goods will ply the air routes, opening wider
opportunities for business and manufacturers.

"Architects of tomorrow would draw air
routes in straight lines, but only those that tap
important trade centers and fuel depots are
likely to become commercial possibilities."

What all of this will mean to the Pacific
Coast, only time can tell. But certainly the
after-war development of flying will bring new
opportunities to our State and nation. Several
cities in the Midwest have already started
programs to secure facilities to accommodate
international air travel and cargo. Many cities,
because of the extent of federal war-time ex-
penditure for airports, have so much that would
be needed that it would be tragic Indeed if
they allowed this advantage to disappear be-
cause of lack of Interest.

Chicago and Southern's recent application
to the Civil Aeronautics Board to operate a
post-war trans-Alaskan air service from Chi-
cago to Singapore and Batavia, establishes the
shortest proposed route between the East
Indies and the West Indies. This Is a dramatic
step in presenting the practical side In which
the plane of post-war days will change things.

In a recent speech delivered before the
American Society of Planning Officials In New
York City, Bror Dahlberg, President of the
Celotex Corporation, predicted that "Cities
and suburbs of the post-war era will be planned
and built along aerial highways, instead of be-
ing dependent upon earthbound transportation
as in the past. The suburbanite who now dashes
breathlessly to catch the 5:15 train for home
at night will find his future counterpart in the
man hurrying to catch an aerial bus or to take
off for home in his own private helicopter.
Cities may be spread over a radius of 75 or
100 miles.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

LARGE SCALE POST-WAR PLANNING

Old concepts of cl+y planning must be dis-
carded after the war, declares a report of the
Committee on Post-War Reconstruction of the
American Institute of Architects, which held
Its seventy-fifth annual meeting In Cincinnati,
May 26 to 28.

"Americans will not be able to afford to
have their ways of living and working ham-
pered by city patterns that have outlived their
usefulness," says the committee, of which Dean
Walter R. MacCornack of Massachusetts In-
stitute of Technology Is chairman. "The nation
Is beginning to realize that large-scale design
and large-scale rebuilding must be employed
to bring the depreciated and decaying central
areas of our cities up to a modern state of
efficiency.

"Large-scale replanning in America does not
mean planning by a dictator who knows how
to give the people what Is good for them.
Planning In America means fundamentally the
establishing of harmonious relationships be-
tween the individual and the community of
which he Is a part. Democratic planning means
individual initiative attuned to the responsive-
ness of the group.

"It seems apparent that any comprehensive
scheme for replanning and redevelopment must
recognize the necessity for changing the point
of view in planning from the basis of the indi-
vidual property to the basis of the locality and
to planning for groups of properties and groups
of buildings, instead of for the Individual build-
ing and the individual plot."

The advent of the automobile, the creation
of good roads and express highways. It Is
pointed out, have accelerated the revolution
In our concepts of the use of land — urban,
suburban, and rural.

"Improvements In transportation during the
past forty years, the report continues, "have
stimulated two distinct trends: (a) concentra-
tion and Intensive use of land at strategic
points in the city; (b) a movement for decen-

tralization and dispersion. These trends have
produced over-concentration and congestion
surrounded by rings of neglected and decaying
properties.

"All types of cities have experienced some
phase of these trends, and in all types of cities
and towns will be found the neglected and
blighted areas close to the business centers. In
addition, all cities where growth has taken
place have witnessed a rapid growth around
the perimeter, often unregulated and fre-
quently of a type which creates blight and
many difficult problems occasioned by the
transfer of land from rural and agricultural
uses Into suburban residential or industrial uses.

"Unregulated urban growth has created
economic and financial problems which de-
mand attention. A cause which has contrib-
uted to the chaotic growth has been the fact
that the development of real estate has pro-
ceeded almost entirely on the basis of the
development of single plots of property for
Individual ownership. Only In rare cases has
effective planning been done on a group or
locality basis.

"Expert opinion Is now pretty well agreed
that growth by small units, unrelated to the
larger whole of district, neighborhood, and the
city, Is responsible for the present condition
of great areas of blighted properties which
are found In nearly all American cities."

Owners of property, the committee holds,
must realize that they cannot plan their own
properties without recognizing their relation to
other properties. "Movement of pedestrians
and vehicles within the city depends on plans
made by the Incorporated municipality," the
report adds. "It Is the established task of the
municipality to maintain the streets and public
services that are needed.

"Originally, cities took over and maintained
as streets such paths and rights of way as the
public found It necessary to utilize, or such
street areas as the property owners found It

convenient to turn over to the city for public
communication. In early stages of develop-
ment, most communities establish relationships
as a result of habit or instinct.

"In our great modern cities, these services
are so intricate that their details must be
worked out by experts long in advance. Proj-
ects for water supply, sewers, rapid transit,
have become an important part of the munici-
pal task. In some cities the distribution of gas
and electricity is a municipal service, although
in most cases gas, electricity, telephone and
telegraph communication, and often rapid
transit, are services performed by public utility
companies under charter from the city.

"Until recently the common councils or gov-
erning bodies in American cities have been
responsible for the establishment and main-
tenance of the public services. As the compli-
cations of cities have increased, it has been
found necessary to create professional planning
commissions composed of trained technicians.

"To these commissions have fallen not only
the responsibility for planning for the expan-
sion and growth of modern cities, but the even
more delicate resDonsibility for replanning the
older sections of the cities to provide the
improved facilities needed for modern life.
We have learned that there is more to this
than working out procedures for street widen-
ings.

"Although a struggle was necessary to prove
the need for city planning commissions, their
usefulness is now generally accepted.

"Actually, the master plan made by the
commission is the pattern within which the
public and private interests must operate. It
establishes the framework; others must act to
fill in the details which concern them.

"There is tendency, nevertheless, on the part
of some, especially owners of property, to feel
that all needed planning is the responsibility
of the official city planning commission. Where
the size of a municipality is great, it should be
obvious that to do a complete job of planning,
including the replanning and reconstruction of
whole areas of private properties, would re-
quire a staff so large as to be unwieldly and
destructive to initiate.

"It is accordingly becoming evident that in
order to maintain initiative and in order to
provide for the details of the city plan, some
technique must be developed which will permit
local groups of property owners and the local
citizenry to undertake the task of analysis of
their own districts, with which they are familiar,
and enable them to suggest plans to their plan-
ning commission for the redevelopment of
these localities.

"This is necessary, on the one hand, to bring
all neighborhoods into conformity with modern
standards of life, and on the other hand, to
restore them as useful parts of the city as a
whole. The city planning commission can then
coordinate these district plans into a pattern
for the matured city plan."

CHINA'S PLANS FOR POST-WAR
STANDARDIZATION

The reconstruction of war-torn nations "will
be a task unprecedented in the annals of man-
kind," but China will be faced with an even
more burdensome problem than that of other
countries, the Chinese Institute of Engineers in
America points out in a Forum on Post-War
Industrialization of China, just published. In
addition to the rehabilitation work, China "must
further seek to raise herself far above the indus-
trially backward position she occupied before
the outbreak of the war."

The engineers who are members of the Chi-
nese Institute are now in the United States
studying industry here and working on plans
for the industrial development of China. They
have just started publication of a technical
journal, the first number of which features the
Forum on Post-War Industrialization, with in-
dustrial standardization as one of the important
subjects under discussion. The publication will
Introduce Chinese technical developments to
American readers and bring American techni-
cal information to engineers in China.

One of the problems of greatest interest in
connection with the industrialization of China
is the adoption of industrial standards, declares
T. Y. Lu, author of the section on Industrial
Standardization. Standards for the things
China is going to manufacture or to buy must
be defined not after the war but right now, he
states. "The writer's bitter experiences in the
past in supplying the spare parts for vehicles
used both on rails and on highways in China
make him realize how important and urgent the
problem of standardization is."

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

HOME BUILDING AFTER THE WAR

By WILSON COMPTON*

A Man whose chores include reading every-
thing which postwar planners write, told me
recently that he thought he was wasting his
time. "All that these forward-lookers do," he
said, "Is rewrite each other." That, of course,
is not quite true, although it does have a germ
of fact. Economists, who in good faith are
looking for facts and not for proof, do find
much the same basic prospects. But a sharp
cleavage splits postwar thinking into two dis-
tinct channels. On the right is the postwar
planning designed to restore our enterprise to
Its creative strength through freedom of pri-
vate initiative. To the left Is the prospecting for
continuing, expanding, and intensifying govern-
ment controls and government ownership in
our national economy.

In the popular mind great wars are followed
eventually by great depressions. Usually they
have been. But most economists say and I think
most of them believe that this is not necessary.
Wars in fact are usually followed immediately
by booms, and what is done In the boom is
more likely to determine what will happen In
the depression, — or possibly even whether
there will be a depression. The Brookings In-
stitute has made an Interesting analysis of eco-
nomic developments following previous wars
about as follows:

1. A few months of business hesitancy;

2. A year or more of active business;

3. A period of trade and financial downward
readjustment; and

4. Finally a considerable period of general
activity.

This In Itself is not a terrifying pattern.

BUILDING "CYCLE"

The building industry has been particularly
sensitive to the ups and downs which the Brook-
ings report summarizes. It has always been
"cycle" conscious. By its scars we know that
It flies high and falls low. Everyone knows that
a pentup demand for new domestic construc-
tion will be ripe for another "cycle" as soon as

"Secretary and manager, National Lumber Manufacturers' Corporation.

the war ends. Everyone knows too, or at least
strongly suspects, that we will have to help
rehabilitate other nations. The war may be
"over" by degrees, but before it ends a large
part of the plant and equipment for production,
transportation, trade, public utilities and pub-
lic services in many sections of many counties
will have been destroyed. We hope it will not
happen here. No one can be sure. We assume
it will not. Probably it will be our facilities for
production which largely will be expected to
"replace" and "restore." Whether this reserve
of demand, both domestic and foreign, will
mean another exaggerated cycle of building
inflation and deflation depends in part on what
the Government does and in part on what
we do.

In March, Secretary of the Treasury Morgen-
thau reported that even then there were 50
million war bond buyers, and 25 million In
payroll savings. This is potential and, after the
war, will be Immediately available purchasing
power. Government may be expected, under
pressure, to make It and keep It liquid. Keeping
war bonds in sideboard or sock or safety de-
posit box will not then be "patriotic."

It may take as long to restock the stores as
it took to restore the stocks two years ago.
Perhaps six months or longer — a year maybe.
But how about a house! Can a home be built
forthwith? The home-building industry isn't so
mechanized. It does not have to re-tool so
much. There will be building tradesmen eager
for jobs. A dwelling requires much the same
kind of materials as a barracks or a warehouse.
The spending rush might convert a postwar
replacement into a speculative prelude to an-
other Inflation. Construction business under
such conditions can be "good," — so good that
its pay might turn out to be fool's gold. Uncon-
trolled inflation can impede a war; also It can
wreck a peace.

The recent nation-wide survey by the United
States Chamber of Commerce Indicates that
over 1,000,000 families plan to build or buy
new homes within six months after the war. In-

JULY, 1943

tended prices range from 33 per cent by own-
ers who expect to pay $3000 or less to 7 per
cent who say they will pay $10,000 or more
for dwellings. Half of the million-odd expec-
tant purchasers plan to pay less than $5000.
Home and farm building repairs and improve-
ments planned for the same half year total an
additional 6 billion dollars; and these potential
owners have the money or expect to have the
money with which to do it.

POSTWAR HOUSING

We are so accustomed in late years to
the use of ciphers in our national budget
that It Is difficult to realize what I I bil-
lion dollars for housing may mean In our
national economy. A year ago the Department
of Commerce estimated the dollar volume of
transactions In each major division of American
business in the first postwar year necessary to
maintain the national production, at a level of
$132 billion, a figure which It estimated would
be the amount of "gross national expenditure"
In I 943. For construction the goal, it said, must
be $10.2 billion; for residential construction
alone, $5.2 billion. The Chamber of Commerce
survey shows Intention already of record of that
much expenditure for new residential construc-
tion for the first six months, and enough reha-
bilitation expenditure to bring the six-months
total to twice the year's entire quota.

Perhaps the exigencies and uncertainties of
war-end will sweat down these impressive in-
tentions. Even so, housing demand will remain
enormous. Many estimates have been made
public. The National Resources Board estimates
that the number of new houses which the coun-
try will require will run from 900,000 to 1 ,200,-

000 a year for the decade after the war. Esti-
mates of the Department of Commerce and
the Committee for Economic Development are
not much different. National Lumber Manu-
facturers Association statisticians have esti-
mated, under reasonably favorable attainable
conditions," a million homes a year for ten
years," mostly at costs less than $5,000.

The United States now has about 37,000,000
dwellings. Of these a fifth "or something over
7,000,000," says the National Resources Board,
"are ripe for replacement." That estimate may,

1 think, be on the high side. But there may be

little doubt that the Board is correct in its
estimate that "nearly bfilf of our existing hous-
ing Is badly in need of repair or lacking in equip-
ment * * * essential to health and conven-
ience," or that at least $10,000,000 urban
dwellings need "major rehabilitation." This,
of course, is secondary construction. But It Is
part of the building prospect.

LOW COST SMALL HOMES

On what price ranges will the housing de-
mand be focused? What will the postwar house
look like? Will It plunge existing dwellings Into
obsolescence? Will prefabrlcation substan-
tially occupy the residence construction field?
Will new materials displace old ones or merely
improve them? Will the technological ad-
vances in wood-working, encouraged by war
uses, dominate the home building industry?
Such are the questions which are asked lumber
Industry statisticians and engineers every day.

In the widest open new home market Is the
forty per cent of American families with the
so-called "lower incomes." Generally hereto-
fore they have not been able to own their
homes. Nearly always they have had Inferior
housing. But financially and comparatively they
are faring better now than is any other group.
In 1940, 42 per cent of the privately financed
single-family houses built in the United States
were financed on FHA-insured loans. By 1941,
13,000,000 families were living In dwellings
built, purchased, or improved with the aid of
such loans. Without FHA insured mortgage
financing most of these houses probably would
not have been built. In 1940 more than half, —
56.8 per cent — of the new houses built for
owner occupancy on FHA insured loans was by
families with incomes of less than $2500; 28.5
per cent with family incomes of less than $2000.
After the war there will be millions of such
families with more money than homes.

Financing vogues are, of course, only one of
the limitations upon the realization of the po-
tential housing market. Arbitrary building
codes, extravagant zoning, restrictive labor
rules, and the esthetic lag of public tastes, will
retard the conversion of any blueprint Into
practice. But that Is no reason for not having
a blueprint. People are said to be generally
sensitive to the so-called "House of Tomor-

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

row." Many of the putative postwar house ideas
sketched In popular print seem to be mostly
for propaganda. They seem for the most part
to have been designed neither by household-
ers, architects, engineers, builders, nor by per-
sons who know what kind of houses people will
buy, — but by functionalists gone to extremes.
They remind one of the "battleship of the
future" pictured by a sketch artist recently in
a national magazine. Naval designers saw it
and laughed. The vessel was so weighted with
armaments and armor that it would not float.
Or the "automobile of the future" sketched
In another magazine which, automotive en-
gineers pointed out, would fry anyone who tried
to ride in it.

HOUSING ECONOMICS

The postwar house will be compact; will
have fewer rooms. The rooms will be function-
ally more convenient. They will not be revolu-
tionary in design. People who have or can find
the money will, by great preference, build
single-family dwellings. Three out of four houses
built in 1940 had a garage; and one In five had
a two-car garage. But the proportion of houses
without garages was Increasing, and the pro-
portion with multi-car garages was decreasing
year by year. More people were buying homes
before cars.

Many suppliers of building materials and
equipment will prefabricate or preassemble
parts which the builder can Incorporate at sub-
stantial job savings; kitchens complete with
standing equipment; bathrooms containing
fixtures, and plumbing ready to button up, like
mill-made doors and windows; recreation
porches which can be attached or detached.

Factory produced panels, including movable
interior walls, so that one room may be con-
verted into two, or several rooms into one, are
obvious prospects; as are floor section assem-
blies and prefabricated wall units for exteriors.
It will be no more difficult to fit them Into struc-
tures of distinctive dimensions and design than
it is now to fit Individual boards, — perhaps not
as difficult; and it may mean substantial sav-
ings.

We will see less promiscuous use of the ham-
mer and the saw on the job. Gradually, we will
use fewer nails and more glue. We may likely

see wood-built houses without shrinkage or
warping, water-proof, resin-bonded, with many
laminated parts, and fire resistant. Wood air-
plane bodies, like the British Mosquit® fighter-
bomber, declared by our allies to be the most
durable plane used in this war, are already
showing the way to do this.

The problem in the postwar years, however,
Is more than to provide homes which more
people can afford to buy. It Is also to provide its
share of the national employment necessary
to maintain the peace which may have been
won by war. The Committee for Economic De-
velopment tells us that, in peacetime goods
and services, when war Is over, in order to pro-
vide a needed 25 per cent expansion In employ-
ment, American Industry must produce 35 per
cent more than it produced In 1940.

If, after the war, as I believe, we shall need
new homes a million a year for ten years, the
lumber industry can do its part, and It expects
to. In number the home building needs will be
greater than in 1940, by 60 per cent. The aver-
age house will be smaller. Improved engineer-
ing will reduce by 20 per cent the amount of
lumber necessary to build a house. The lumber
itself will be more largely refined, fabricated,
treated and assembled. It will provide more
labor in the mills and factories. It wlR require
less labor on the job. This probably will mean
a volume of lumber and timber products In
home building nearly one-third more than in
1940 and at least a comparable increase in
employment in the woods and In the mills.

The war has forced lumber Into many uses,
both old and new. It has speeded the conver-
sion of wood from a simple carpentry to a
modern engineering material and lumber from
a timber-using to also a timber-growing in-
dustry. Also it has accelerated the develop-
ment of new metals, alloys, compositions and
plastics which after the war will seek a per-
manent place In construction uses. The com-
petition between materials, I anticipate, will be
more severe than ever. Lumber will lose some
of the uses multiplied during the past few years,
— but not all. In Its various forms, both old and
new, it will, I think, continue to provide the
backbone of an expanding home building in-
dustry.

INTERIOR OF TAVERN, LOOKING TOWARD BAR, SANTA MARIA. CALIFORNIA
Designed by Cheesewright, Mason & Company.

ENGLISH TAVERN AT SANTA MARIA INN

Reminiscent of the old English tavern, the
new tap room illustrated here, is one of the
nnore recent improvements completed at
Frank McCoy's Santa Maria Inn. It dominates
a one-story frame and stucco building, which
has been erected at the north end of the Inn,
and is accessible from the main lobby, as well
as from the street. Design and erection of the
tavern was supervised by Cheesewright,
Mason & Company of Beverly hHills.

The tap room covers an approximate area
of 900 square feet with bar extending the full

length of one side of the room, and a huge
stone fireplace directly opposite Plank floors,
half timber ceiling, worm-eaten chestnut wood,
waxed and treated to give it mellowness, lan-
tern lights, rare English prints, and mildewed
copper utensils, all make for an atmosphere
reminiscent of the late sixteenth and early sev-
enteenth centuries.

An interesting feature of the tap room
lighting is the original lamp used by the early
California gold miners in Sutro Tunnel.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN WERE THE WAR
TO END TOMORROW

Before you say you cannot answer this one, stop a
moment to consider some significant findings of the
U. S. Chamber of Commerce's latest Post-war Con-
sumer Survey, just released.

First, look at the results from the standpoint of your
competition.

2,590,000 families Intend to buy automobiles — an Im-
mediate post-war market of $2,331,000,000.

The major household appliance immediate sales po-
tential Is $860, 185,000— with:

1 ,71 5,000 families buying mechanical refrigerators,

1 ,260,000 families buying washing machines,

1,435,000 families buying stoves,

1 ,050.000 families buying vacuum cleaners,

1 ,330.000 families buying radios,

525,000 families buying sewing machines,
1.015,000 families buying electric irons,

385,000 families buying electric kitchen mixers.
The immediate post-war market for home furnishings
will be approximately $709,905,000— with:

1 ,365,000 families buying living room furniture,
735,000 families buying dining room furniture,
1 ,260,000 families buying bedroom furniture,
1.610,000 families buying rugs and carpets,
1 ,435.000 families buying linoleum.

A $5,000,000,000 post-war home building boom Is in
sight, with 1,015.000 families intending to build or buy
a new home within six months after the war Is over.
33 per cent say they will spend $3,000 or less,
26 per cent say they will spend $3,001 to $5,000,
24 per cent say they will spend $5,001 to $10,000,
10 per cent are not certain how much they will spend.

7 per cent say they will spend more than $10,000,

Never mind the exact price figures — it's the per-
centages in low (59 per cent), medium (24 per cent)
and high (17 per cent) brackets that count, let prices
be what they may after the war.

Thirty-four per cent of all home owners in America
say they would almost certainly make some sort of im-
provements or repairs In their properties within six
months.

2,670,000 will paint exteriors,
1,150,000 will re-roof.
1,040,000 will redecorate,

592,000 will modernize kitchens,

512,000 will add rooms,

496.000 will add bathrooms,

464,000 will add porches,

416,000 will install new heating,

416,000 will Improve bathrooms,

272,000 will make repairs,

240,000 will install new plumbing,

144.000 will reflnlsh floors,
96,000 will remodel outside,
48,000 will finish attic or basement,
1,400,000 will do miscellaneous jobs.

Fifty-eight per cent of owning farmers would make
farm Improvements.

452,000
386,000
338,000
266,000
1 6 1 ,000
147,000
105,000
87,000
2,800,000

buildings.

II add servl

II repair barns,

II repair service buildings,

II add new barns.

II make other repairs.

II repair tenant homes,

II paint buildings,

II build new tenant houses,

II make miscellaneous improvements.

Thirty per cent of the I 3 per cent of families who
own property other than that on which they live will
Improve such property.

Expenditures likely to be made for home improve-
ments are reported as follows:

28 per cent to spend $100 or less,
18 per cent to spend $101 to $200,
14 per cent to spend $201 to $300,
20 per cent to spend $301 to $500,

6 per cent to spend $501 to $750,

6 per cent to spend $751 to $1,000,

3 per cent to spend $1,001 to $1,500,

2 per cent to spend $1,50! to $2,000.

3 per cent to spend more than $2,000.

This all means an immediate post-war home and farm
improvement market potential of $6,000,000,000.

Many details are given In the survey on saving hab-
its and other indices of post-war purchasing power, but
they all add up to one important fact. People who in-
tend to spend these sums will, by and large, have what
it takes when the war is over. Incidentally, only one
person in five Is saving with a specific post-war pur-
chase in mind.

ARCHITECTURE NOT A DECADENT PROFESSION

Writing to hiarlan Thomas of Seattle, Regional Di-
rector, Western Mountain District, A. I. A., A. W. Mc-

Iver, President of the Mountain Chapter, A. I. A., says:

"I have a chip on my shoulder and I might as well
get it off now. I have been reading in the A. I. A. Bul-
letins from Washington, D. C, the "Washington Situ-
ation" In the Octagon, and articles In the architectural
magazines with no satisfaction and with some concern.
It seems that, from these articles, architecture as a pro-
fession is in a sad plight and must soon fade out of the
picture. To all of this I do not subscribe. At last comes
a ray of hope in the "Message from the President" in
the January Octagon, except that he did not make it
strong enough. I refer to his sixth paragraph. If we keep
moaning and groaning it won't take the public long to
think that we really are sick and are in dire need of a
period of convalescence. I do not look forward to that
period.

"I hear so often of the old bugaboo about the engi-
neers being the chosen people and that nobody wants

JULY, 1943

the architects. If that be true, and I doubt It, whose
fault is it? It would mean that sonnewhere we have
fallen down. Having taken a combined course In civil
engineering and architecture and having practiced In
both fields, perhaps I view the situation in a different
light. The government has treated the architect with
some degree of fairness in keeping the word 'architect'
before the public and In giving the major projects of
the war program to architects. The firms doing profes-
sional work are known as architect-engineers, even if the
work Is strictly engineering. The contracts themselves
are known as architect-engineer contracts and all the
documents are signed as such. The Important and com-
plicated projects have all been under the direction of
architects. I have recently looked over the plans of the
Pentagon at Washington and fully realize the handicaps
under which It was designed. Still, I duck when I have
questions thrown at me relative to Its merits. The chance
of a grand solution to such an Important building was
muffed, and sad to say the tenant, being the War De-
partment, is the boss at the moment. Architecture cer-
tainly didn't gain anything In Its building. Are we sure
we have lived up to our opportunities?

"As you know, I have until recently been connected
with the Corps of Engineers, doing special work with
architect-engineers. I came to know many architects
from all over the country. The great majority of them
were' splendid and fully realized the problem. Some
werfe still living In the good old days,' with flares of
temperament, demanding comfortable quarters and of-
fices, and with utter disregard for procedure, speed,
substitution of materials, standardization, etc., and
some had a distinct loathing for their presence on the
projects. Unfortunately, these few cried longer and
louder than the rest and created a bad impression on
those in charge. Others stayed at home and practiced
wishful thinking. Any architect who has the right to use
the word after his name can find gainful occupation in
the war program. Maybe It won't be in the sanctum of
his own office and perhaps he won't be the boss, but at
least he can earn a comfortable living. Who wants more
under these conditions?

"Those who cry that architecture is a decadent pro-
fession are 100 per cent wrong. It Isn't possible for one
generation to have such an ill effect on the oldest of
the arts. As an art and a science it Is the symbol of life,
as we understand life, and the forerunner of culture.
Out of the embers of this holocaust will come a new
culture tried by fire and fasting. The wounds have been
too deep for civilization to regain its balance and poise
without a specialist. Such a specialist must needs be an
architect, hiis training entitles him to the task. The pro-
fession should take stock of itself, broaden Its field of
knowledge, feel the surge of the new freedom of Iffe
Itself, and then take Its rightful place and lead- — not
'just go along.'

"I realize that the average architect does not have
the opportunity to perform the grand opus. Some o'^ us

haven't the background, the education, the vision nor
the will, but we can all adhere to the eternal fitness of
things. The profession as a whole can slowly blend from
a palette of politics, economics, religion, science and
art an understandable picture of life. I believe this is
possible.

"Now that the chip is gone and I have delivered my
diatribe, I must apologize for its length and discon-
nected thoughts.

"Allow me to report to you that the Montana Chap-
ter is scattered to the four winds, doing its bit in the
war program. There are only four architects left In the
State. Most are on a salary basis and getting by In good
order, and they all report of the splendid opportunity
It has been to learn new methods and new ideas. We,
as a Chapter, look forward to a profitable post-war
era."

PRIORITY ON LIGHTING INSTALLATIONS

Engineers, architects and building consultants are
advised by the Conservation Division of the War Pro-
duction Board to check all lighting specifications for
construction or conversion projects which are now being
drawn up, to make sure that they comply with the policy
outlined In the "Design Guide for Interior Electric
Lighting and Wiring of Wartime Construction."

Prepared by the Conservation Division, the Guide,
although not an official order or directive of WPB,
presents the conservation policy followed by WPB
when considering applications for priority assistance
to obtain fixtures and other materials required In light-
ing Installations.

Use of critical materials in lighting installations has
for some time been controlled by WPB limitation
orders. Limitation Order L-78 controls the production
of fluorescent lighting fixtures, in some cases calling
for non-critical substitutes for the critical materials
formerly used, and in others reducing the amount which
may be used in production. An over-all saving of 70
per cent of the steel content In fluorescent lighting
fixtures resulted from these restrictions.

Incandescent, fluorescent and other electrical dis-
charge lamps were standardized under the terms of
Limitation Orders L-28 and L-28-a.

The Guide, which covers the end use of various types
of lighting Installations, Is a major step In the over-all
conservation program to conserve critical materials In
electric lighting installations without the sacrifice of
effective seeing conditions.

In all instances before completing designs for light-
ing Installations, the Guide should be consulted. Devi-
ations from the policy outlined In the Guide may cause
delay or possible denial of priority assistance when
applications are reviewed by WPB analysts.

Copies of the Guide may be obtained upon request
from the WPB Conservation Division, I Ith and H
Streets, N. W., Washington I, D. C.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

ARCHITECTS* BULLETIN

Issued For
THE STATE ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTS

Northern Section

STATE ASSOCIATION MEMBER

OF THE

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS

Editor

William C. Ambrose
Address all communication for publication in
the Bulletin to W. C. Ambrose, 369 Pine
Street, San Francisco, California. Office of
the Northern Section, 369 Pine Street, San
Francisco.

STATE ASSOCIATION OFFICERS

Pres Norman K. Blanchard, San Francisco

Vice-Pres., Walter R. Hagedohm. Los Angeles

Sec'y Rowland H. Crawford, Beverly Hills

Treasurer David H. Horn, Fresno

Regional Director — Southern Section

Gordon B. Kaufmann

Regional Director — Northern Section

Henry H. Gutterson

Executive Board — Northern Section

Pres Norman K. Blanchard. San Francisco

Vice-Pres Russell G. de Lappe, Modesto

Secretary Hervey P. Clark, San Francisco

Treasurer David H. Horn, Fresno

Board of Directors

Frederick H. Reimers, Francis Ward, Malcolm
D. Reynolds, John S. Bolles, Andrew T.
Hass, Henry H. Gutterson, Vincent G.
Raney, Alfred C. Williams.

Northern Section Advisory Council

Sen Francisco District # I :

Clarence W. Mayhew, President

Elizabeth Boyter Henry Collins

Francis Chinn Edmund de Martini

Rudolph Igaz Mark Daniels

Charles W. Masten Vincent G. Raney

Noble Newsom
East Bay District #2:

Theo N. Thompson, Chairman

A. C. Williams

Loy Chamberlain
Berkeley District #3:

Gwynn Officer, Berkeley
North Bay District #4:

William F. Herbert, Santa Rosa
Marin District #5:

John S. Bolles, Ross
Lower San Joaquin District #6:

Russell G. de Lappe, Modesto
Upper San Joaquin District #7:

David H. Horn, Fresno
Santa Clara District #8:

Gifford E. Sobey, San Jose
Palo Alto District #9:

William F. Hempel. Palo Alto
San Mateo District #10

Leo J. Sharps, Burilngame
Sacramento District #11:

Herbert E. Goodpastor, Sacramento
Upper Sacramento District #12:

Clarence C. Dakin, Redding
Lassen District #13:

Ralph D. Taylor, Susanvllle
Monterey District #14:

Thomas B. Mulvln, Del Monte
Redwood Empire District #15:

F. T. Georgeson, Eureka

JULY, 1943

THE IMPENDING CRISIS

Some few years before the first shots crashed at Fort Sumpter, a book was
published in this country outlining the struggle already taking place and
warning of the Civil War. The title of the book was "The In-ipending Crisis."

Borrowing fronn the words of those days, we are now engaged in a great
war, in addition to our world war. We shall have to decide soon after the
close of our world war whether this country can long endure in its tradition
of free enterprise, or whether "the State" shall direct all of our activities. This
impending crisis has been hastened by the necessary assumption of strong
authority by the national government in order to successfully prosecute the
war.

Ordinarily our process of government is an adjunct of, and is financially
supported by the people of the country who follow such paths as they please.
There are only occasional "stop" signals installed by government in order to
protect the weak from the strong. Through depression and war, our various
governments have gone a considerable distance in the direction of assuming
the ability to conduct all business, with a consequent squeeze on the oppor-
tunities of the individual, and with the increased burden on private business
of the support of an enlarged governmental structure. Unless the trend is
halted, the inevitable next steps are for private enterprise to be unable to
support the too heavy governmental structure, and for government to take
over.

No group of Americans has experienced the trend of events more vividly
than has the architectural profession. Its members have seen the great as-
sumptions of power by the huge offices set up, first in the Treasury Depart-
ment in Washington, then in the various "Authorities," "Services," "Bureaus,"
and "Administrations" of the national government and in the "Departments
of Public Works," in the "Engineering Bureaus," "Departments," etc., of the
states, counties, and cities, and in local "Authorities."

The postwar planning now in progress will. If not redirected, accentuate
the pattern, which, for the architect, indicates: "Work for the government,
or starve!" The recently enacted Senate Bill 807, for instance, which creates
a State Economic Planning Commission, will be directed by a board of office
holders. It is more than human to expect a board of that composition to sur-
render any considerable part of the power conferred upon it, and to expect
its members to call upon private enterprise to carry out the work placed under
their jurisdiction.

,c .0 Recent events have made clear that it is not im-

I The Remedy | possible to halt the trend toward bureaucratic con-
°' °* trol. We have, fortunately in most cases, reserved

to the delegates in our councils and congresses the right of levying taxes and
of making appropriations of money. Our delegates are Immediately respon-
sive to the votes, and therefore, to the will of the people. But the congress-

men and council members must be told what the
will of the people is. There are always job holders
who have the time and the interest to tell legislators
why their departments should have more money and
why they should be enlarged. The citizens in private
business must take the time and take the interest to
make themselves and their ideas known to their elected
representatives. If the citizens do not, then there
will be no private business.

If the architects want to survive, they must individ-
ually and collectively, make personal contact with
their legislators, national, state, and local, a part of
their business routine. They must impress upon those
legislators the viewpoint of the architect as a factor
of private industry and as representative of a large
section of the voting population. Meetings with legis-
lators at times of crisis are not enough. The govern-
ment is the most powerful client in the country. It must
be kept on the beam. And the beam must be started
in the right direction in the minds of the elected law
makers in each individual city, county, congressional
district and state. We must control our public servants,
or our public servants will control us. The choice is up
to us. The crisis impends.

^ ,^ That the sub-

I State Planning and Housing | jects of plan-
°* °* ning and hous-

ing are buzzing around in the mindb of the elected
representatives of the people of California is shown
by a resume of the bills introduced on those subjects
at the recent session of the state legislature.

The record shows that of the fifteen measures on
planning which were introduced, three, only, became
law. These were AB 306 establishing a postwar re-
construction fund, S. R. 459 which eliminates plan-
ning commissions from acting as advisory boards on
the making of site plans for subdivisions, and S. B. 807
which repealed the State Planning Act and established
a State Economic Planning Commission.

On the subject of housing, ten bills were intro-
duced. The one measure emerging from the legislative
mill and receiving the governor's signature was SB 37,
which permits local control of Federal war houslrg
through housing authorities.

Not one of the six bills introduced relating to state
shore line development became law.

lay out some years ago. For a number of years Mr.
Cheney practiced architecture in San Francisco al-
though he spent most of his time in city planning work
here and in the east. He was author of several excel-
lent articles on city planning and was considered by
the profession an authority on the subject. His work
was shown in Architect and Engineer on a number of
occasions. He was a member of San Francisco Chap-
ter, A. I. A., and later joined the Southern California
Chapter, which has contributed to a shelf of books on
architecture and city planning established in his mem-
ory at the Palos Verdes public library. Mr. Cheney is
survived by two brothers, one a noted sculptor and the
other, Dr. Marshall Cheney of Berkeley.

CHARLES H. CHENEY

Charles H. Cheney, architect and city planner, died
the past month 'at his home in Palos Verdes, a beauti-
ful residence community which he himself helped to

MR. HAYS' RETIREMENT

The recent retirement of William C. Hays from
the faculty of the University of California, School of
Architecture, noted in the Architect's Bulletin last
month, marked the close of a long and useful service
as a teacher of architecture dating back to 1904. The
banquet given him by I 50 of his colleagues and friends,
was a fitting tribute, indeed, to his outstanding record
as a pedagogue, architect and writer.

Not the least of his literary efforts were the series
of editorial comments which he wrote regularly some
years ago for Architect and Engineer, and later his
summaries of the work of the late John Galen Howard
with whom he was at one time associated as junior
partner.

Mr. Hays was the architect for Siannini Hall on the
Berkeley Campus and has been supervising architect
for the Davis Campus since 1918. He is also supervis-
ing architect for the University Medical Center in
San Francisco.

Other structures for which Mr. Hays was architect
include the First Presbyterian Church of Oakland, the
Oakland Y. M. C. A., and the First Presbyterian
Church of San Francisco.

After the San Francisco fire in 1906, Mr. Hays, with
John Galen Howard and the late John D. Galloway
supervised much of the reconstruction of the destroyed
city. Mr. Hays was also one of the architects for the
Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition in Seattle in 1907.

Mr. Hays is a Fellow of the American Institute of
Architects, a charter member of the Beaux Arts In-
stitute of Design, a member of the Society of Beaux
Arts Architects and the American Academy of Rome.
He also holds memberships in Delta Sigma Chi, Tau
Sigma Delta, T-Square of Philadelphia and Bohemian
Club of San Francisco.

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ROBERT B. TELFER
He's an early bird

When Robert Brown Tel-

fer was serving with the
Canadian Army in World
War I, Mary Pickford was
the pin-up girl. After four
long years of soldiering,
Bob left his British birth-
place and migrated to
Canada. A little later he
moved to the States
where he joined the Way-
land Company. When
that organization merged
with the Western Asbestos Company — (the right place
for Bob's red-hot abilities) — he was named to represent
Western Asbestos among architects and engineers, and
in all general activities. Bob is married and lives so
high up on San Francisco's Twin Peaks that he watches
the sun rise half an hour before the rest of the city sees
it. Bob ably handles the job of Program Committee
Chairman.

Bob Telfer will preside over the next regular chapter
meeting of the Council, August 2, at noon, at the Pal-
ace hHotel. It's sure to be packed with interest. Coun-
cil members participating will give short talks on their
firms and products. Present will be J. Wilson Peelle
of the Peelle Co., and the Dahlstrom Metallic Door
Co., and Norman Brown, representing Bell & Gossett.
Both these new members will discuss the war produc-
tion phases of their firm's activities.

Prexy Gets a Bid! The Building Industry Conference
Board invited our prexy, Chuck Kraft, to address
their July 14th meeting . . . Prexy Chuck points out
that the Producers' Council doesn't claim for itself top
role in the scheme of things, but has a plan worked out
for participation in the swell job being done by the
Committee for Economic Development, National As-
sociation of Manufacturers and the United States
Chamber of Commerce.

Our job, as laid out by the Postwar Planning Com-
mittee of the Producers' Council, is to act as a repre-
sentative cross-section of the entire building products
manufacturing industry, to give a picture of those

phases of the postwar state of the industry that will
interest all building products manufacturers.
Trade Associations are plenty important in such a pic-
ture! The Producers' Council would give them the
job of coordinating their programs with the complete
industry program. Because we know how important
concerted action in the building Industry is to put
this plan over with a bang, the Producers' Council
has dropped the dues of Trade Association members
to a puny $100 yearly, as well as inviting non-member
groups to march right along with us on this.
You Won't Need a Crystal Ball to realize how im-
portant the Trade Associations are in our scheme of
things. The new president of the Producers' Council,
Inc., is Douglas Whitlock, general counsel for the
Structural Clay Products Institute.
Throw Away Your Tin Cup! At the joint annual meet-
ing of the AIA and the Producers' Council in Cincin-
nati, AIA Vice-President Walter R. MacCornack said
it was about time to "take our tin cup and get out of
Washington." This idea was seconded by everyone
there. There'll be lots less Government in business
after the war, if we stop running to Washington with
our problems and for our finances. When we start
standing on our own number I2's, things will be much
better all around!

Thinking in Private! All our fancy planning won't be
worth the powder to blow it to Tokyo if the member
companies fail to make definite plans as to what they're
going to do after V-Day — or more practically, any day
previous when our war work is completed. The individ-
ual company is the unit to take action on problems
involving reconversion, reemployment and the reln-
troduction of peace-time products on the world mar-
ket.

Program Powwows! A series of meetings to work the
program out at the top were held last month by the
Executive Committee and Postwar Steering Commit-
tee in Washington, D. C, meeting with top Govern-
ment officials and later with a group from the U. S. C.
of C.

U. S. C. of C. Beckons! At the invitation of the U. S.
Chamber of Commerce Construction Department
Committee, the Producers' Council presented our
postwar program to the entire committee which has
members in all branches of the construction industry.

USE QUALITY PRODUCTS

JULY, 1943

CONSULT AN ARCHITECT

SAN FRANCISCO ARCHITECTURAL CLUB

Architectural Club members gathered at the Troca-
dero Restaurant in San Francisco, Wednesday evening,
July 7, for their pre-meeting dinner. Immediately after-
wards they journeyed to the club rooms at the Build-
ers' Exechange, 666 Mission Street, for their regular
monthly meeting.

The new treasurer, John Wasley, and directors, John
Arndt and Hans Schickele, were officially installed.

John Webb of the Telesis Group gave an interesting
talk on the purpose and functions of that organization.

Refreshments were served following adjournment.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER

Southern California Chapter members, at their June
15 meeting, heard interesting convention reports by
the Chapter's delegates; also a report on the National
Planning and Housing officials' meeting by Sumner
Spaulding. Among those attending the Cincinnati
convention was General Henry Newton, a Chapter
member, who made the trip from his headquarters in
a B-25 bomber. Southern California Chapter was
further recognized when Member Van Marston was
raised to fellowship — one of fifteen so honored.

New members were introduced as follows: Walter
R. Hagedohn, Richard C. Farrell and J. Duncan
Forsyth.

ENGINEERS AND ARCHITECTS ASSOCIATION

Members of the Engineers and Architects Associa-
tion of Los Angeles enjoyed a talk on "France — Fallen
But Not Defeated," by Miss Kathleen Lovelock at its
June 24 dinner meeting. Miss Lovelock was a pro-
fessor at the University of Caen and when the invasion
came she fled by bicycle but twelve miles ahead of
the German army. In her talk she recounted many
exciting incidents which marked her escape to America.

Another feature of the June dinner was a talk on
metals by Durand Beam.

The Association has a new treasurer, Wendell S.
Thompson, who is also auditor for the Western District,
U. S. Army Air Corps.

NEW SALES MANAGER

J. A. McCarthy, president of Pacific Portland
Cement Company, has announced the appointment
of J. E. Jellick as sales manager. Mr. Jellick was for-
merly manager of the Portland Cement Information
Bureau in San Francisco. Prior to that he was district
engineer of the Los Angeles and San Francisco offices
of the Portland Cement Association, and for three
years was manager of the Pacific Coast offices of the
Association.

Mr. Jellick is a registered civil engineer. He served
with the Los Angeles County Road Department and
the Wyoming State Highway Department.

N. Y. TIMES PRAISES "BUTTERFLY MAP"

Some years ago while practicing the profession of
architecture, B. J. S. Cahill, retired, and now residing
in Alameda, designed a map of the globe which he
appropriately titled "Cahill's Butterfly Map of the
World." Since Pearl Harbor and the advent of this
second world war the map has come into great de-
mand and public interest has reached the stage where
leading newspapers of the country are devoting col-
umns of space to describing the invention. Recently
the New York Times printed a lengthy article by
its science editor, Waldemar Kaempfferf, describing
the Cahill map as "the best of all by far." The Times
writer gives eight reasons why the Cahill map is supe-
rior. In connection with the subject it is interesting to
note that Wendell Wlllkie in his new book refers to
one world and not two hemispheres, exactly as the
butterfly map showed 30 years ago.

SHIP NAMED AFTER NOTED ARCHITECT

Named after the late Stanford White, distinguished
New York architect, another 1 0,500-ton Liberty ship was
launched at the California Shipbuilding Yards at Wil-
mington, April 3. White was a member of the firm
of McKim, Mead and White, architects of Madison
Square Garden, Columbia University Library, and the
New York University group.

PHOTOSTAT, BLUEPRINT OPERATORS
SOUGHT FOR FEDERAL REPLACEMENTS

To have readily available photostat and hluepriiit
operators to replace those being indueteil into armed
services, the United States Civil Service Conniiission
is accepting applications for Federal employment
from persons with appropriate experience or training.
Women are being placed.

Positions are in Washington, D. C. only and pay
$1,752 a year, including overtime pay for the present
48-hour week. At least 3 months' experience or 80
hours' training in photostat or blueprint work are re-
(juired. Those receiving training in such work may
apply and receive provisional appointments prior to
completion of the course.

There are no age limits. No written test is re-
quired. Full information and application form 60 are
available at first- and second-class post offices. Civil
Service regional offices, or the Commission in Wash-
ington, D. C. Applications should be sent to the
Commission's Washington office, and will be aicepted
until the needs of the service are met.

Persons using their highest skills in war »ork
should not apply. Appointments to Federal positions
are made in conformance with War Manpower Com-
mission policies and stabilization and controlled hir-
ing plans.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

Estimator's Guide

Giving Cost of Building Materials, Wage Scale, Etc.

Amounts given are figuring prices and are made up from average quotations furnished by material
houses to San Francisco contractors. 3% Sales Tax on all materials but not labor.

All prices and wages quoted are for San
Francisco and the Bay District. There may be
slight fluctuation of prices in the interior and
southern part of the state. Freight cartage,
at least, must be added in figuring country
work.

Bond — 1'/2% amount of contract.
Government work %%.

Brickwork —

Common, $43 to $45 per 1000 laid, (ac-
cording to class of work).

Face, $125 to $150 per 1000 laid, (accord-
ing to class of work) .

Brick Steps, using pressed brick, $1.50 lln.
ft.

Brick Veneer on frame buildings, $1.10 sq.
ft.

Common f.o.b. cars, $16.00 a yard. Cart-
age extra. $2.50 per 1000.

Face, f.o.b. cars, $55.00 to $80.00 per
1000, carload lots.

Building Paper —

1 ply per 1000 ft. roll J3.50

2 ply por 1000 ft. roll 5.00

3 ply per 1000 ft. roll

Brownskin. Standard, 500 ft. roll 5.00

Sisalkraft, 500 ft. roll 5.00

Sash cord com. No. 7 $1.20 per 100 ft.

Sash cord com. No. 8 1.50 per 100 ft.

Sa«h cord spot No. 7 I. ?0 per 100 ft.

Sash cord spot No. S — 2.25 per 100 ft.

Sash weights, cast iron, tSO.OO ton.

Nails, $3.50 base.

Sash weights, $45.00 per ton.

Concrete Aggregates —

GRAVEL (all sizes) $1.95 per ton at bunker; de-
livered, $2.50. All quotations less 10% to con-
tractors.

Bunker Delivered

Top sand ..._ _ _..... $1.90 $2.50

Concrete mix ..._ 1.90 2.45

Crushed rock, Va to % 1.90 2.50

Crushed rock, % to Wi 1.90 2.50

Roofing gravel 2.25 2.80

River sand 2.25 2.70

SAND— Bunker Delivered

River sand $2.25 $2.70

Lapis (Nos. 2 & 4) 2.85 3.15

Olympia Nos. I & 2... 2.85 3.10

Del Monte white _..84c per sack

Common cement (all brands, paper sacks) car-
load lots $2.42 per bbl. f.o.b. car; delivered
$2.60.

Cash discount on carload lots, lOc a barrel,
I 0th Prox.

Atlas White ( I to 100 sacks, $2.70 sack.

Calaveras White -J warehouse or delivery; $7.65

Medusa White ( bbl. carload lots.

Forms, Labors average $40.00 per M.

Average cost of concrete in place, exclu-
sive of forms, 35c per cu. ft.;
with forms, 60c.

4-inch concrete basement floor

I2I/2C to 14c per sq. ft.

Rat-proofing 7'/2C

Concrete Steps $1.25 per lin. ft.

Dampproofing and Waterproofing —

Two-coat work, 20c to 30c per yard.

Membrane waterproofing — 4 layers of sat-
urated felt, $4.50 per square.

Hot coating work, $2.00 per square.

Medusa Waterproofing, 15c per lb., San
Francisco Warehouse.

Tricocel waterproofing.

(See representative.)

Electric Wiring— $12.00 to $15.00 per outlet
for conduit work (including switches).
Knob and tube average $3.00 per outlet.
(Available only for priority work.)

Elevators —

Prices vary according to capacity, speed
and type. Consult elevator companies.
Average cost of installing a slow speed
automatic passenger elevator in small
four story apartment building. Including
entrance doors, about $6500.00.

Excavation —

Sand, 60 cents; clay or shale $1 per yard.

Teams, $12.00 per day.

Trucks, $22 to $27.50 per day.

Above figures are an average without
water. Steam shovel work in large quan-
tities, less; hard material, such as rock,
will run considerably more.

Fire Escapes —

Ten-foot galvanized iron balcony, with
stairs, $150 Installed on new buildings;
$160 on old buildings.

Floors —

Composition Floors — 22c to 40c per sq. ft.
In large quantities, 18c per sq. ft. laid.
Mosaic Floors — 80c per sq. ft.
Duraflex Floor— 23c to 30c sq. ft.
Rubber Tile — 50c to 75c per sq. ft.
Teraizo Floors — 45c to 60c per sq. ft.
Terano Steps — $1.60 lln. ft.

Hardwood Flooring (delivered to building) —
Hx2iA' Vixl" Ax2-
TiG TiG Sq.Ed.

CIr. Qtd. Oak $144.00 M $122.00 M $141.00 M

Sel. gtd. Oak II9.00M lOI.OOM 114.00 M

CIr. Pla. Oak 120.00 M 102.00 M 115.00 M

Sel. Pla. Oak 113.00 M 92.00 M 107.00 M

CIr. Maple . _..I25.00M 113.00 M

Wage— Floor layers, $12.00.

Note — Above quotations^ are all board measure

except last column which is sq. ft.

Glass (consult with manufacturers) —

Double strength window glass, 20c per

square foot.

Plate 80c per square foot (unglazad) In

place, $1.00.
Art, $1.00 up per square foot.
Wire (for skylights), glazed, 40c per sq.

foot.
Obscure glass, 30c to 50c square foot.
Glass bricks, $2.50 per sq. ft. In place.
Note — If not stipulated add extra for sot-

ting.

Heating —

Average, $I.9C per sq. ft. of radiation,
according to conditions.

Warm air (gravity) average $48 per regis-
ter.

Forced air, average $68 per register.

Iron — Cost of ornamental Iron, cast Iron,
etc., depends on designs.

Lumber (prices delivered to bidg. site) —

No. I common _ $45.00 per M

No. 2 common <3.00 per M

Select O. P. Common 48.00 per M

1x4 No. 2 flooring VS 80.00 per M

1x4 No. 3 flooring VG /5.00 per M

1x6 No. 2 flooring VG 90.00 per M

1 1/^x4 No. 2 flooring 85.00 per M

Slash grain —

1x4 No. 2 flooring .„„ $45.00 per M

1x4 No. 3 flooring 62.00 par M

No. I common run T. & G 50.00 per M

Lath 7.50 per M

Shingles (add cartage to price quoted) —

Redwood, No. I $1.20 por bdle.

Redwood, No. 2 1.00 per bdle.

Red Cedar 1.40 per bdle.

Plywood — Douglas Fir (add cartage) —

"Plyscord" sheathing (unsanded)
A" 3-ply and 48''x96'' $39.75 per M

"Plywall" (wallboard grade)—
'A" 3ply 48"x?6» $43.70 per M

"Piyform" (concrete form grade) —
Hi" 5-ply 48"x96" $11 7.30 per M

Exterior Plywood Siding —

A' 5-ply Fir _ $132.00 per M

Redwood (Rustic) I'x8* clear heart..$ 95.00 per M
$5 less per M tor A grade.

Mlllworit — Standard.

O. P. $100 per 1000. R. W. rustic $100.00

per 1000 (delivered).
Double hung box window frames, average

with trim, $6.50 and up, each.
Complete door unit, $10.00.
Screen doors, $3.50 each.
Patent screen windows, 25c a sq. ft.
Cases for kitchen pantries seven ft. high,

per lineal ft., $8.00 each.
Dining room cases, $8.00 per lineal foot.

Rough and finish about 75c per sq. ft.
Labor — Rough carpentry, warehouse heavy

framing (average), $17.50 per M.
For smaller work average, $35.00 to $4S.OO

per 1000.

Marble — (See Dealers)

Painting —

Two-coat work _ por yard 50c

Three-coat work per yard 70e

Cold water painting per yard lOc

Whitewashing per yard 4c

Turpentine, $1.08 per gal., in 5 gal. cans,

and 95c per gal. in drums.
Raw Linseed Oil — $1.32 gal. in light drunns.
Boiled Linseed Oil — $1.35 gal. in drums

and $1.48 in 5 gal. cans.

White Lead !n oil

Per Lb.

I ton lots, 100 lbs. net weight I l'/2C

500 lbs. and less than I ton IZ'Ac

Less than 500 lb. lots I23/4C

Red Lead and litharge

I ton lots, 100 lbs. net weight ll'Ac

500 lbs. and less than I ton l2iAc

Less than 500 lb. lots I23/4C

Red Lead in oil

I ton lots, 100 lbs. net weight I2I/2C

500 lbs. and less than I ton l3'Ac

Less than 500 lb. lots \3%c

Note — Accessibility and conditions cause
some variance in costs.

Patent Chimneys —

6-inch $ 1 .25 lineal foot

8-inch 1.50 lineal foot

10-inch 2.25 lineal foot

12-inch 3.00 lineal foot

Plaster

Neat wall, per ton delivered in S. F. In
paper bags, $1 7.60.

Plastering — Interior —

Yard

1 coat, brown mortar only, wood lath $0.70

2 coats, lime motar hard finish, wood lath .90

2 coats, hard wall plaster, wood lath 80

3 coats, metal lath and plaster 1.50

Keene cement on metal lath 1.40

Ceilings with % hot roll channels metal lath

(lathed only) _ 1. 10

Ceilings with % hot roll channels metal lath

plastered 2.00

Single partition % channel lath I side (lath

only _ - 1 .10

Single partition % channel lath 2 inches

thick plastered _ $2.90

4-inch double partition % channel lath 2

sides (lath only) - 2.00

4-inch double partition % channel lath 2

sides plastered ......_ 3.50

Thermax single partition; I" channels: 21/4"

overall partition width. Plastered both

sides - _ 3 .00

Thermax double partition; I" channels; 4%"

overall partition width. Plastered both

sides •4.00

3 coats over I" Thermax nailed to one side

wood studs or ioists 1.50

3 coats over I" Tnermax suspended to one
side wood studs with spring sound isola-
tion clip ...._ _ 1.75

Plastering — Exterior — "^ard

2 coats cement finish, brick or concrete
wall $1.00

3 coats cement finish, No. 16 gauge wire
mesh 1 .75

Wood lath, $5.50 to $6.50 per 1000 (not

available)
2.5-lb. metal lath (dipped) (not available).. .19

2.5-lb. metal lath (galvanized) (not avail.) 2!

3.4-lb. metal lath (dipped) (not available).. .22

3.4. lb. metal lath (galvanized) (not avail.) 24

y^-inch hot roll channels, $72 per ton.
Finish plaster, $18.90 ton; In paper sacks.
Dealer's commission, $1.00 off above quotations.

$13.85 (rebate 10c sack).
Lime, f.o.b. warehouse, $2.25 bbl.; cars, $2.15
Lime, bulk (ton 2000 lbs.), $14.00 ton.
Wall Board 5 piv. $50.00 per M.
Hydrate Lime, $25.00 ton.

Plasterers Wage Scale $1.75 per hour

Lathers Wage Scale 1.75 per hour

Hod Carriers Wage Scale 1.50 per hour

Composition Stucco — $1.80 +0 $2.00 sq. yard
(applied).

Plumbing —

From $100.00 per fixture up, according to
grade, quantity and runs.

Roofing —

"Standard" tar and gravel, $7.00 per sq.

for 30 sqs. or over.
Less than 30 sqs. $7.50 per sq.
Tile, $20.00 to $35.00 per square.
Redwood Shingles, $7.50 per square in

place.
Copper. $16.50 to $18.00 per sq. in place.

5/2 #1-16" Cedar Shingles,

4'/2" Exposure 8.00 Square

5/8 X 16" — # I Cedar

Shingles, 5" Exposure 9.00 Square

4/2 #1-24" Royal Shingles,

7I/2" Exposure 9.50 Square

Re-coat with Gravel, $3 per sq.

Asbestos Shingles, $15 to $25 per sq.

laid.
Slate, from $25.00 per sq., according to

color and thickness.
1/2 X 25" Resawn Cedar Shakes,

10" Exposure 10.50

3/4 X 25" Resawn Cedar Shakes,

10" Exposure 11.50

I X 25" Resawn Cedar Shakes,

10" Exposure I2.S0

Above prices are for shakes in place.
Sheet Metal—

Windows— Ivtetal, $1.75 a sq. ft.

Fire doors (average), including hardware.

$1.75 per sq. ft.

Skylights— (not glazed)
Copper, 90c sq. ft. (flat).
Galvanized iron, 40c sq. ft. (flat).
Vented hip skylights 60c sq. ft.
Steel — Structural (None available except for
defense work)
$150 ton (erected), this quotation is an
average for comparatively small quan-
tities. Light truss work higher. Plain
beams and column work in large quan-
tities $140 per ton.
Steel Reinforcing (None available except for
defense work) .
$150 to $200 per ton, set.

Stone —

Granite, average, $6.50 cu. foot in place.
Sandstone, average Blue, $4.00. Boise.

$3.00 sq. ft. in place.
Indiana Limestone, $2.80 per sq. ft. in

place.

Store Fronts —

Copper sash bars for store fronts, corner.

center and around sides, will average

$1.00 per lineal foot.
Note — Consult with agents.

Tile — Floor, Wainscot, etc. — (See Dealers)
Asphalt Tile — 18c to 28c per sq. ft. in-
stalled.
Wall Tile-
Glazed Terra Cotta Wall Units (single faced)
laid in place — approximate prices:

2 X 4 X 12 $1.00 sq.ft.

4 X 6 X 12 1.15 sq.ft.

2x61 14 I.IO sq.ft.

4 X 8 X 14 1.30 sq.ft.

Venetian Blinds —

40c per square foot and up. Installation
extra.

Windows— Steel

Factory type sash 30c ft.
Ventilators for steel sash $5.00 each.

1943 BUILDING TRADES WAGE SCALES FOR NORTHERN CALI-FORNIA

All crafts, except plasterers, are now working 8 hours a day. Plasterers' time is 6 hours.

.. $1.50

$1.25

$1,371/2

$1.12/2

$I.2S

$1.25

BRICKLAYERS

_ 1.871/2

1.87/2

1.50

1.87/2

2.00

1.87/2

1.871/2

2.00

BRICKLAYERS' HODCARRIERS ..

1.40

1.05

1.40

CARPENTERS

1 43

1.43

1.25

1.43

CEMENT FINISHERS -

.. i.:-7'/2

1.371/2

1.25

1.50

1.25

ELECTRICIANS

1.5.1

1.50

1.37/2

1.50

1.371/4

ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS _

1.41

1.54

1.50

1.41

1.50

1.54

ENGINEERS: Material Hoist

1.50

1.371/2

1.25

1.50

1.37/2

1.42/2

1.371/2

1.25

Piledriver

1.75
1.75

1.40
1.40

1.75
1.75

1.42/2

1.75
1.40

Structural Steel

1.40

6LASS WORKERS

1 .25

1.25

1.12/2

1.25

1.12/2

1.21

1.25

1 .50

l.3l'A

1.371/2

1.31/4

1.371/2

1.31/4

1.25

1.31/4

Reinf. Rodmen ...

1.50

1.31 'A

1.31/4

l.3l'/4

1.31/4

1.40

1.31/4

I.2S

1.75
.85

1.40

.87/2

1.40
.82/2

1.40

.8 1/4

1.40
.85

1.75
•8M/4

1.50
.81/4

1.40

.81/4

l.37</.

LABORERS: Building

.80

Concrete

.. .87i/i

.93%

.90

.81/4

.92/2

.85

.90

LATHERS

. 1.75

1.75

1.50

1.75

1.40

1.75

1.50

MARBLE SETTERS

.. 1.433/4

1.25

1.31/4

1.371/2

1.25

1.31/4

MOSAIC t TERRAZZO _....

_ 1.00

1.25

1.12/2

1.15-5/8

PAINTERS

.. 1.371/2

1.50

1.28-4/7

1.37/2

1.25

1.35-5/7

1.42-4/7

1.50

I.2S

PILEDRIVERS

.. 1.47

1.40

1.50

1.40

1.47

1.40

PLASTERERS

.. 1.44-2/3

1.44-2/3

1.75

1.44-2/3

1.75

2.00

1.75

1.83-1/3

PLASTERERS' HODCARRIERS

1.50

1.45

1.40

1.18%

1.35

1.75

1.40

1.50

PLUMBERS

.. 1.521/2
„ 1.371/2

1.50
1.371/2

1.53-1/8
1.121/2

1.50
1.25

1.54/4
1.25

1.42/2
1.371/2

1.50
1.25

1.371/a

ROOFERS _

1.25

SHEET METAL WORKERS

.. 1.371/2

1.371/2

1.43%

1.371/2

1.50

1.37/2

1.25

1.371/,

SPRINKLER FIHERS

.. 1.50

1.371/2

1.25

1.42/2

1.50

STEAMFITTERS

1.50

1.531/,

1.50

1.541/4

1.421/2

1.50

STONESEHERS (Masons)

.. 1.50

1.75

1.50

1.75

1.50

1.75

I.SO

TILESETTERS

1.50

1.371/2

1.37/2

1.371/2

1.50

1.371/2

Prepared and compiled by

CENTRAL CALIFORNIA CHAPTER. ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF AMERICA

ivith the assistance and cooperation of secretaries of General Contractors Associations and Builders Exchanges of Northern California.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO OUR WAR PLANTS
AFTER THE WAR?

By LADISLAS SEGOE, Planning Consultant

It has been estimated that the industrial growth of
the United States during the past few years, to meet
the demands of the war has been at least as great as
would have likely occurred in twenty years to meet
peacetime needs. What is to become of the many
huge new plants that have been built all over the
country as well as those that have been converted to
war needs after the war?

One thing is certain, we like to believe: few of them
should be needed to turn out implements of war. Most
of them will be converted or reconverted to produce
what the people of our country and other countries will
need and want.

Some of the war plants we just built will likely replace
obsolete or inefficient older plants of the same concern
or an industry already established in the community.
Other new plants may be taken over by an industry
from outside the community or one making an entirely
new product. Some may be reconverted to produce
something or other quite different from what they made
prior to conversion to war production.

The sum total of these conversions, reconversions and
Industrial shifts, attendant upon the changeover from a
war to a peace economy, is likely to change materially
the Industrial make-up of our cities and Industrial areas.
Should the shaping of the resulting Industrial structure —
the soundness and stability or the weakness and vulner-
ability that will result and determine for many years to
come the welfare of the community as well as of the
industries — be left to chance? Or Is there something
we could and ought to do for both the community and
industry to profit from these changes?

My thesis is that by intelligent planning and with the
collaboration of all concerned, — industry, labor, gov-
ernment and the public, all of whom have much to gain
by the success of the attempt, — we could direct this
change in each community guided by selective pro-
grams of industrial development, so as to cure or at
least ameliorate many of the baneful consequences of
a haphazard, catch as catch can Industrial development
In the past.

More specifically, the ends sought by such programs
of selective development would be these: (I) a fuller
and more effective use of labor resources and through
this the maximizing of the family annual Income; (2) the
reduction to a minimum of seasonal and cyclical un-
employment; (3) increased industrial efficiency through
Integration among Industries; (4) the reduction of vul-
nerability to technological changes and to depressions;
and (5) a better balance between the cost to the com-
munity of services to its Industries and the income of

Society of Detroit.

before the Affiliate Council of the Engine

the community from its Industries.

In the past the community and industry have typi-
cally approached the mutual problem of Industrial
location without intelligent attention to the factors
involved. On Its part, the community has considered
industrial enterprise, both actual and prospective, on
a quantitative rather than a qualitative basis, and has
sought to attract and has even subsidized Industries
with little understanding of their effects on the com-
munity. These policies It has pursued blindly, ordinarily
through private or semi-public agencies. Inadequately
equipped in training, experience, and financial support
to collect and Interpret the facts necessary for sound
judgment. On its part. Industry has sought natural ad-
vantages, without references to its probable effects on
the industries already established or on the community,
and has at times sold out to the highest bidders. In
either case. It has often found Itself caught in an un-
favorable local industrial structure.

The results of a poorly balanced community Industrial
pattern are as readily appraised as they are uniformly
undesirable. From the point of view of the community,
such a structure works havoc on public finances, upsets
the public services, complicates social problems many-
fold, and throws the whole economic and Industrial
front out of joint. On the worker, the effects are
equally unfortunate. He suffers from unemployment
which does not make full use of his skill and experience
or which Is irregular and unstable, and from lower wages
than he Is capable of earning. The net result is that he
is forced to accept a lower standard of living than
would otherwise be his, to rely upon the community for
indirect subsidization and on the State for direct sup-
port, and ultimately to face partial or complete de-
pendence. The effects on Industry are largely comple-
mentary to those experienced by the community and
the worker. The consequence of an inefficient commu-
nity and a discontented body of workers is that an
Industry, which suffers from such handicaps. Is thrown
into competition, which It cannot meet, with plants
which are more favorably located. Such competition
ultimately must lead to removal or ruin.

It is hardly to be doubted that these Ills, whether
suffered by the community, by the worker, or by In-
dustry, flow In large part from a condition of unbalance
both within industry itself and between industry and the
community. The facts that plants relocate with less and
less frequency and that the national industrial pattern
becomes less flexible with the passing of time are com-
mon knowledge. At the same time there is a definite,
long-pent-up tendency toward Industrial relocation
which is likely to find expression after the war. There
are also important technological advances underway

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FORDERER CORNICE WORKS

Manu/octurers of
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Metal Plaster Accessories • Sanitary Metal Base

Flat and Roll Metal Screens
Metal Cabinets • Commercial Refrigerators

269 POTRERO AVE.

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Bridges, etc.

JUDSON PACIFIC CO.

1200 SEVENTEENTH STREET
SAN FRANCISCO
= Plants: San Franeiico - Oakland =

which will tend to release industries from established
processes and locations. Finally, there are indications
that both community and industry are awakening to the
importance of an intelligent articulation of the two.
Both appear to be constantly more intent on searching
out and appraising the fundamental factors involved in
the rational location of industry. In these trends lie the
making of a more effective industrial pattern. Before
proposals can be made to harmonize them, however,
some underlying forces must be observed and some
important problems recognized.

The significant forces and factors which underlie any
effort to articulate more closely the community and its
industries are many and diverse. Only the more sig-
nificant may be observed.

(1) The trend toward larger units of manufacture,
merchandising, and direction Is Important. These larger
units, with their centralized and non-resident control,
reduce the direct and indirect support of industry to
the community. Coincidentally, industries are rational-
izing their operations; and, when necessary, their plants,
equipment, market practices, personnel, and locations
are being adjusted to meet new industrial requirements.

(2) Technological changes in industry constantly alter
the values of labor skills and so affect materially labor
requirements. In particular may be noted the develop-
ment of synthetic products, whose effects on the pre-
vailing industrial structure, as regards both labor and
location, need hardly be emphasized.

(3) To the extent to which industry Is decentralizing
and to the degree to which the industrial structure is
becoming more mature, extremely important underlying
factors are seen.

(4) In the past, water and rail routes and rates have
been controlling factors in establishing industrial enter-
prises and the communities dependent upon them. The
development in recent years of rapid and more flexible
transportation forms tends to modify the old depend-
ence on rail and water, and, consequently, the indus-
trial pattern and the communities which grow there-
from.

(5) Government supervision of rail routes and rates
has had Important effects, both beneficial and bad, on
industrial location, as have also government regulation
of wages, hours of labor, and distributing practices.

(6) An extremely significant, if indirect, factor is
seen in the slowing down of population growth. This
would not be classified as primarily an industrial trend,
but its importance for industry, especially in accentuat-
ing service rather than volume as the true goal, will be
readily apparent.

(7) Other underlying forces and factors, each im-
portant In its own right, are found in the respective
attitudes of government officials, the public, industry
and labor, the exploitation of the nation's natural re-
sources following the settling of the frontiers, the rail-
roads' desire for tonnage, the realtor's desire for
turnover, the banks' desire for new accounts, and pro-

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

nioHonjI agencies' desire for achievement.

Limitations of time do not permit a detailed ex-
amination of the effects of each of these factors on
the national industrial pattern and on the industrial
structure of communities. To enumerate them, however,
is to suggest the manifold influences which have entered
into the development of the present nondescript indus-
trial structure of communities and its relationship to
such communities.

The bjiiding of a sounder local industrial structure
involves a two-fold task: (I) integrating and articulating
the industries of the community among themselves; and
(2) Improving the relationships between industries and
the community.

The first major problem underlying the accomplish-
ment of these tasks is that of convincing all parties con-
cerned that there actually is a job to do, and that it
can be done. Industry itself may dislike the suggestion
that It should aim to improve the total industrial com-
plex of the community and the community-industry
relationships. Local officialdom may be loathe to take
action, either from lack of authority or from simple
inertia. The public may not be favorable to the pro-
gram. The first problem then is that of educating and
winning over opinion. Industrial, official, and public.

A second major problem is that of devising methods
and Instruments for the selection of industry by both
constructive restraint and intelligent promotion after
the proper support, public and private, has been built
up for the program. Here are involved questions of
principles, procedures and techniques In devising the
selective program, as well as the form, methods, func-
tions and powers of the agency to be created.

A third important problem is found when a com-
munity Is part of a large industrial area, and so Is
limited In the effectiveness of the action which It may
take alone. In such a case, there seems to be no satis-
factory alternative to regional action.

The technical problems which must be faced by any
agency for Industrial synchronization, whether on a
community or on a regional basis, are legion. From the
joint point of view of both community and a particular
Industry, there must be considered in such an effort,
with reference to the local industrial structure, such
matters as (I) the public services required by the indus-
try and the ability of the community to furnish them;
(2) the labor demands of the industry and the ability
of the community (a) to furnish the labor required or
(b) to absorb with mutual advantage new labor to be
brought in; (3) the wage scale of the industry in ques-
tion In Its effect on the community and on other Indus-
tries; and (4) the probable success of the new industry
and Its ability to bear a fair share of community costs
and burdens over a long period of time. In sum, the
problem is that of articulating industry internally and
adjusting more closely to the community and its various
industries, which are the joint ends toward which all
forces are to be turned.

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For Architectural Renderings

H. S. Crocker
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720 MISSION STREET
Marltef Street at Second • San Francisco

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Producers and Finishers

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San Francisco phone: SUtter 6747

JULY, 1943

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GENERAL OFFICES: CLEVELAND. OHIO

DENVER, COLORADO .... CONTINENTAL OIL BUILDING

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA EDISON BUILDING

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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA .... RIALTO BUILDING
SEAHLE, WASH WHITEHENRY-STUART BUILDING

PACIFIC
MANUFACTURING CO.

HIGH CLASS INTERIOR FINISH
QUALITY MILLWORK

142 SANSOME ST.. SAN FRANCISCO

GArfleld 7755

6820 McKINLEY AVE., LOS ANGELES

THornwall 4196

BUILDERS EXCHANGE, OAKLAND

"AMERICAN MARSH"

Redf-Voc Vacuum Heating Pump

SIMONDS MACHINERY CO.

San Francisco
8U Folsom St.

SAXTA MARIA IXX

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Recommendations

I. As a part of the official city or regional planning
agency, a council for industrial articulation should be
established in each industrial community or region, with
representation from industry, labor, the professions and '
other interested private enterprises. Typical of the
semi-public and private agencies to be represented
are the Chamber of Commerce, the Retail Credit
Men's Association, the Association of Manufacturers,
organized labor, etc.

2. This council should be charged with the responsi-
bility for planning and effectuating a program designed
to bring about a condition of industrial balance.

3. It should be financed through contributions by
industry, labor, and appropriations by government.

4. The local council should be authorized to retain
such staff, full-time, part-time, and consulting, as may
be required for the proper discharge of its duties.

5. Whatever information or data the council may
require should be made available by the industries,
labor, government agencies and others.

6. On the basis of such data, the local industrial
council should develop a statement of the points of
industrial strength and weakness of the community or
region, so that (I) established industries may see what
Is required for Industrial balance, and (2) prospective
enterprises may be weighed and may weigh themselves
In the light of local conditions.

7. A prospective new enterprise should be Investi-
gated with reference to ( I ) its place In Industry, (2) Its
history in Its present location, and (3) the effects which
a change In location might have upon the industrial
structure of the community, the present location, and
the enterprise in question.

8. A prospective new enterprise should be Investi-
gated especially with an eye to all possible effects
which Its coming might have upon the community.

9. The Information prepared by the local industrial
council should be made available to all interested
parties on authoritative request.

IDEAS ON STANDARDS— FOR THE ARMY

The Army wants Ideas on standards — and on many
other problems. Bridges, camouflage, construction,
photography, printing, roads, safety, sanitation, and
specifications are only a few. The Engineer School
at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, is asking for suggestions from
soldiers, from sailors, or from civilians.

A suggestion system, now more than a year old, has
been set up by the School, and all suggestions which
might be helpful to the Army Corps of Engineers are
welcomed. To date I I per cent of the suggestions
have been approved and put to use. No useful idea
is too small to report, the School declares. Every sug-
gestion is copied and submitted to the critics without
any indication of its source. Each sugcestion is treated
on its own merits.

Subjects of importance to the Corps of Engineers

ARCHITECT ANP ENGINEER

and on which Ideas are particularly Invited are: Bridges;
camouflage; construction; design; drafting; equipment;
logistics; machines; maintenance; maps; materials;
methods; packing; photography; power; printing; pub-
lications; rigging; roads; safety; sanitation; specifica-
tions; standards: storage; strategy; surveying; tactics;
traffic; training; transportation; water.

Send your suggestions on these subjects to the En-
gineer School, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

U. S. STEEL CORPORATION PROSPEROUS

Remarks of Irving S. Olds, Chairman of the Board
of Directors of United States Steel Corporation of
which Columbia Steel Company of Pittsburg, Cali-
fornia, Is a subsidiary, indicate continued prosperity
for the Corporation with a large percentage of pro-
duction centered In meeting Government needs in
the prosecution of the war. As a prelude to his talk
Mr. Olds paid tribute to two men who served the
Corporation over many years and who have passed on
since the last annual meeting of the stockholders: J. P.
Morgan and James A. Farrell, both Directors and mem-
bers of the Finance Committe.

Since the last annual meeting of stockholders, United
States Steel Corporation has sought to do everything
within its power, in cooperation with the Government,
to aid In bringing about the winning of the war
through maximum production of its products. The
story of the wartime activities of the Corporation
during 1942 Is told In the forty-first Annual Report of
the Corporation.

United States Steel's production of rolled and fin-
ished steel during 1942 was again in excess of the rated
capacity of the Corporation. Ingot production was
close to rated capacity.

Since the commencement of the national emergency,
more than 70,000 employees have left the United
States Steel family to join the Army, Navy and their
auxiliary forces. The average number of employees
during 1942 was 335,866, the highest on record for
any year. The payroll for these employees ($738,444,-
009) was more than twelve times the amount of the
total preferred and common dividends paid in 1942.
The total compensation of all executives receiving
$10,000 or more a year during 1942 represented less
than one per cent of the total payroll for that year.

DAILY NEWS PHOTOGRAPHS ARCHITECTS

The San Francisco News published a two column
group picture of architects engaged in a discussion of
post-war city development. A good likeness of Mich-
ael Goodman (except that he appeared to be in need
of a shave); also excellent pictures of William J. Bane,
architect of Seattle, and Frederick Confer, Berkeley
architect. Goodman was captioned as "chief doctor of
city Ills." The trouble with cities. Professor Goodman
contends, is that they are a medieval structure for
modern living.

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The

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General Offices: '

PARK AVENUE AND WATTS STREET. OAKLAND. CALIF.

for

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FOR SOUND CONSTRUCTION

REMIlLARD-DAilKI Co.

Brick and

Masonry Products

633 BRYANT ST.. SAN FRANCISCO

569 THIRD ST., OAKLAND

JOH]\
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—Since 1886— And Still Active—

Building Materials

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CEMENT - PLASTER - MORTAR

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Sixth and Channel. San Francisco
Phones: GArfleld 3176. GArfield 3177

HERRICK
inOlS WORKS

STRUCTURAL STEEI,
REINFORCING STEEL

IBTH AND CAMPBELL STS.
OAKLAND. CALIF.
Phone eicncoun I7i7

DINWIDDIE

CO]\STRlJCTIO]V

COMPANY

•

BUILDERS

CROCKER BUILDING
SAN FRANCISCO

STEEL WAREHOUSE SECTION

Following sixty days of pre-testing,
the first "Steel Warehouse Section"
in Annerican war production has
been acclainned an outstanding suc-
cess by the War Production Board
regional office. The new service has
set up records -f^or expediting ma-
terial deliveries of steel products to
war plants in the San Francisco Bay
area.

Established on April I, 1943, as a
national proving ground for speed-
ing up the delivery of more than
20.000 separate items in Class A
steel products in the 30 steel ware-
houses In this area, the new WPB
operation — a wartime "Steel Bank"
— has set the pace for other units of
this type, now being considered for
other production cities throughout
the nation.

"The cooperation of war plants
and steel warehouses with the WPB
Steel Warehouse section has been
responsible for the handling of more
than 1250 inquiries Involving approx-
imately 6,000,000 pounds of various
steel items in its first two months of
service operations," declared Harry
H. Fair, WPB Regional Director.

Here is an example of the SWS
operation:

"Hello — WPB Steel Warehouse
Section — this is the Blank war plant
calling — we need 1000 feet of 2^4
inch cold rolled bar steel at once.
Our warehouses are out of this steel
product — and we must have delivery
today to keep the night swing shift
rolling."

"Okay— just a minute (time lapse
for reference to card inventory of
20,000 Class A steel items). Hello—
we have two warehouses carrying

that steel Here they are — John

Doe Metals Company, phone num-
ber— etc., etc. — call them immedi-
ately and you should get delivery
before the swing shift goes on."

This simple, two-way telephone
operation of the SWS service, ac-
cording to George Broughton, man-
ager, involves the maintenance of a
perpetual 24-hour inventory made by
checking the stocks of the thirty
major steel warehouses in the San
Francisco-Oakland and East Bay In-

INCANDESCENT

SUPPLY

COMPANY

647
MISSION STREET

SAN FRANCISCO

Lighting Fixtures and
Lamps, Fireplace Fur-
nishings, Pictures and
Mirrors, Electrical Sui>-
plies and Marine Fix-
tures.

Oakland - Fresno
Los Angeles

Independent
Iron Works

Structural Steel

Ornamental Iron

Steel Service Stations

Steel Tanks

Standard Steel Mill Buildings

Bridges

821 Pine Street

Oakland

ANDERSON

&
RINGROSE

General Contractors

320 .Market Street. San Franrisro
Phone GArfield 2245

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

MULLEN MFG.
COMPANY

BANK, STORE AND OFFICE

FIXTUnES-CABINET WORK

OF GUARANTEED QUALITY

CHURCH SEATING

Offica and Factory:

tO-IS RAUSCH ST.. Bat. 7th and Bth Stt.

San Franclico

Talaphona UNdarhlll 5615

THE TORMEY
COMPANY

GENERAL PAINTERS
AND DECORATORS

Phone UNderhill 1913

563 FULTON STREEI
San Francisco

Phone GArfield 1164

Thomas B.Hunter

Consulting Engineer
DESIGNER OF HEATING
AIR CONDFTIONING
VENTILATING AND WIRING
SYSTEMS, MECHANICAL
AND ELECTRICAL EQUIP-
MENT OF BUILDINGS

41 SUTTER STREET

San Francisco

California

Robert W. Hoot Company

ENGINEERS

Inspection • Tests • Consultation

Schsols and Other Structures
Are Built as Designed

When Construction MaterMt ate

Inspected at point ol Manufacture

and during Erection by

ROBERT W. HUNT COMPANY

Cement, Concrete, Chemical, Uetallurtical,
X-Ray and Physical Laboratories

Chlcaqo - Now York - Pittiburqh

Loi Angalai All Larga Citiai

San Francisco, 251 Kearny Street

dustrlal areas. All plants are required
to check their normal warehouse
sources of supply before applying to
the WPB section for assistance.

"BILLBOARD IMMUNITY" BILL

After a careful study of the Cali-
fornia Roadside Council's report on
Senate Bill 714, the statements of
County Planning Commissions re-
garding the bad effect it would have
in their counties, and the manner in
which it had been lobbied through
the Legislature, Governor Warren
has acted in the public interest by
nullifying the bill.

The "Billboard Immunity" Bill, in-
troduced for the billboard interests
by Senator Powers, of Eagleville,
would have given general outdoor
advertising special privileges not en-
joyed by any other business, and
would have deprived counties of the
right to protect the good appear-
ance of their rural roadsides by coun-
ty zoning against signs and billboards
in many rural areas.

This was the third unsuccessful at-
tempt to foist this type of legislation
upon the State of California. Tak-
ing advantage of the public's pre-
occupation with the war, it was intro-
duced as a "sneak bill" containing
innocuous provisions which were com-
pletely rewritten as an "amendment"
and jammed through the Senate be-
fore effective opposition could be
organized. In spite of hastily sum-
moned opposition by the California
Roadside Council, County Planning
Commissions, Boards of Supervisors
and others, the bill passed the As-
sembly by one vote.

Thereupon, the CRC went into
action to inform the Governor of the
bad features of the proposal, and
to bring to his attention the wide-
spread opposition to its enactment.
Splendid support was received from
county officials, cooperating organ-
izations and CRC members through-
out the state, who sent letters and
telegrams urging the Governor to
veto the measure.

SUNDAYS OR
HOLIDAYS

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With our Mailway service, and
special envelopes and passbook, do
your banking with us by mail at
your nearest mailbox. More and
more people are opening Mailway
accounts because they can do their
banking when most convenient.
Open a Mailway account today . . .
checking or savings, business or
personal.

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4-ACRE BLACKOUT PLANT

Opening of a new four-acre black-
out plant on the East Coast to speed

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production of special type radio
equipment for the army has been an-
nounced by Walter Evans, vice-presi-
dent in charge of Westinghouse
Radio Division.

Designed to conserve critical ma-
terials, the new plant used 1,554,000
board feet of lumber, at an estimated
saving of 1920 tons of steel. It re-
quired the use of more than one
acre of pressed wood panels in place
of window glass. Westinghouse will
operate the factory for the Defense
Plant Corporation.

The plant area is divided into two
main sections, one for assembly of
parts, the other for machining and
fabricating. An innovation is the
handling of interior traffic, which
flows next to the side walls, leaving
the remaining areas clear. Lighting
and ventilation are carefully control-
led in the building which contains
nearly two miles of tubular fluorescent
lamps to simulate daylight working
conditions. Huge electric fans, effect-
ing a complete change of air every
15 minutes, provide ventilation.

JULY. 1943

ALADDIN

Heating Corp.

Specializing in

QUALITY HEATING
EQUIPMENT

2222 San Pablo Avenue

OAKLAND

TWinoaks 1022

ABBOT A. HANKS, INC.
Engineers & Chemists

INSPECTING — TESTING — CONSULTING

CONCRETE • STEEL • MATERIALS

CHEMICAL AND TESTING

LABORATORIES

• RESEARCH AND INVESTIGATION •

TESTS OF STRUCTURAL MATERIALS

DESIGN OF CONCRETE MIXES

SHOP AND ERECTION INSPECTION OF

STRUCTURES AND EQUIPMENT

INVESTIGATION OF STRUCTURES

AND MATERIALS

TESTS AND INVESTIGATION OF

FOUNDATION SOILS

FIRE RESISTANCE ANO INSULATION

TESTS

624 Sacramento Street, San Francisc

G. P. W.
JENSEN & SON

Building Construction

VZi) Market Street, San Francisco
Phone: CArfield 2444

Scot-t Company

HEATING - • PLUMBING ■ ■ TILE

243 MINNA STREET
SAN FRANCISCO

INDUSTRY ANALYSTS WANTED

More and more critical positions
in the Government service are being
vacated by men drawn into the
armed services. Qualified persons
must be recruited to replace these
men. There is a particular need now
for persons who have had executive
experience in business or industry to
do work in connection with the exten-
sion of the rationing program In
various commodity fields.

Persons are desired who have had
executive experience (involving an-
alysis in business or industry as distrib-
utors or manufacturers of such com-
modities as foods, textiles, metals,
consumer goods, or industrial equip-
ment. Specialization may have been
In sales management, factory man-
agement, procurement, market an-
alysis, traffic management, or ex-
pediting of production.

Men are needed to make analyses
with regard to distribution and pro-
duction: to analyze the needs for and
the supply of critical materials, con-
sumer goods, and industrial com-
modities; to survey the availability
of productive capacity, materials, or
commodities, and the possibilities of
substitution; to work out, after con-
sulting with government agencies and
business organizations, balances be-
tween requirements and supply.

The positions Day from $2433 to
$7128; however, few appointments
will be made to positions paying
$5228 and over. There are no age
limits for this examination and no
written tests. Persons now using their
highest skills in war work should not
apply. Appointments in Federal posi-
tions are made in accordance with
War Manpower Commission policies
and employment stabilization plans.

FLUORESCENT LIGHTING

From distant, war-mobilized Aus-
tralia comes an interesting bulletin
"Wartime Lighting," issued by the
Commonwealth Department of La-
bour and National Service, in which
cold - cathode fluorescent lighting is
dealt with extensively. "Electric dis-
charge lamps will light the future be-
cause they produce cool light for
about one-third of the electricity

consumption of incadescent lamps of
the same light output," states this
bulletin. Photographs made in Aus-
tralian plants show the effectiveness
of cold-cathode. The bulletin recom-
mends the placement of the cold-
cathode light source about 4 feet
above the task, and places great
stress on the cool operation as well
as the shadowless and glareless na-
ture of such illumination.

CURE FOR ABSENTEEISM

Despite the fact that Los Angeles
housing accommodations are lowest
In the city's history, according to a
recent report of David Barry, Jr., Of-
fice of Price Administration, rent con-
trol officer, there are 2,500 new low-
rent homes for war workers now ready
for occupancy, Nicola Glulii, chair-
man of the City hlousing Authority,
has stated.

These homes are made available
through the final completion of Aliso
Village, 802-unit development at 1401
East First Street; Wm. Mead Homes,
1 300 Cardinal, a project of 449
apartments; Wilmington Hall, 3,000-
room hotel for men, in Wilmington,
and Channel Heights Homes, 600-
family project in San Pedro. With the
exception of Channel Homes, the
projects are partially occupied.

GIulII points out that construction
of the modern war worker rental
homes near essential industries has
alleviated the acute housing shortage
to some extent and because of the
careful planning for community serv-
ices, the projects are also helping to
relieve absenteeism In certain war
Industries.

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ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

AUGUST, 1943

Vol 154 No. 2

FRED W. JONES
Editor

MARK DANIELS
Associate Editor

HOWARD MOISE
Post-War Planning

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PHOTOGRAPHY:

Left to right: Sunnyvale Cannery Office Building; Lincoln
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John Adams Junior High School, Santa Monica, California.

CONTENTS

Running Fire 3

Mark DanieU. A.I.A.

News and Comment on Art 4-7

Henry Moore, English Sculptor 4

Douglas MacAgy

Office Building for the Schucki Canning Company .13

Burbank City Hall 18

Planned Housing for the Future 24

George Pampel

Post-War Aviation 29

A. C. Ballaseyus

Post-War Gymnasium and Open Type School 33

Architect' Bulletin 37-38

The Snake Swallows Itself 37

Wm. C. Ambrose, A.I.A.

Producers' Council 39

Illustrations

Office Building for the Schucki Canning Company . 12-17

William W. Wurster, Architect

Burbank City Hall 18-25

William Allen and W. George Lutii, Architects

Post-War Gymnasium and Schools 33-36

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Hesidcs ten permanent devel-
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The story of the tough prob-
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from the beginning to the end
of the construction period is
told by Harrison Stephens, who
has compiled a fund of inter-
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the several projects will accom-
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San Francisco's downtown
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as the city's population in-
creases, due to war time influx
of workers. A possible solution
to relieve this congestion is of-
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Company, engineers, who have
designed an "El-Way" to circle
the downtown area within a
radius of one-half mile from
the intersection of Kearny and
Post Streets. The El-Way con-
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way forming a loop about the
heart of the city's business dis-
trict. Drawings show the pro-
posed course of 'the El-Way
and give details of the type of
construction.

Some architectural uses for
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RunninG fire

by MARK DANIELS

• THE ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT

For the past seventy-five years a gap has been
widening between the engineer and the architect.
Time there was when the titles were interchange-
able and all but synonymous, but specialization
has driven in a wedge that has resulted in an all
but complete divorce. Leonardo Da Vinci was
an engineer, an architect and an artist, yet his
attainments in any one of his professions did not
detract from the fame in the others.

The history of the doctor and the surgeon is
more or less parallel with that of the engineer and
the architect, although their common ancestor, the
Midwife, may have a tendency to hold them to-
gether, for a surgeon is still a doctor, or should be.
Nevertheless, specialization here also is "making
little ones out of the big ones" for we are now
getting the eye doctor, the heart doctor and even
the corn doctor where once we had the general
practitioner who did everything.

The basic training of the medical doctor bears
about the same relation to that of the surgeon as
does that of the engineer to that of the architect
or vice versa. It is that of learning to think log-
ically along certain scientific lines. There is no
difference in the method of thought learned in
architectural training and the method learned in
engineering training. The addition of other fac-
tors in subsequent experience or further training
causes the ultimate divergence in practice.

This subject has been discussed at great length
and in a clear, masterly manner in a recent book
by Theodore J. Hoover and John C. L. Fish, en-
titled "The Engineering Profession," published by
the Stanford University Press and the Oxford Uni-
versity Press in 1941. It is one of the best and
most convincingly presented works of a profound
subject I have read in recent years and is well
worth the while of any architect oi engineer.

"The marvelous advance of the nineteenth
century science opened the doors to the practical
application of the vast fields of knowledge, and it
became impossible for one man to master more
than a few departments of the rapidly growing
technology," and "These problems are of design,
of research, etc., and are common to all the engi-
neering fields ..." the authors state early in the
book. They might well have added "and archi-
tecture." The book includes excellent treatises on
the engineer's method of attack, analysis and con-
clusion.

We are prone to think of all forms of engineer-
ing as either structural oi mechanical but prob-
lems in enameled metals, plastics, paints, hard-
ware and innumerable other elements of construc-
tion are calling for the development of a type of
engineer and architect where they were once left
to the "general practitioneer."

But get the book. This is not meant to be a
review, nor can it be. At least, you will be con-
vinced that there is only the thin line of aesthetics
dividing engineering from architecture and that
there is no reason why the qualifications for both
cannot be under one brain pan. They have been.

• GRATIFYING

It is not good form to pat one's own back, even
if it were possible, but it is difficult to refrain from
a little crowing.

In last month's issue, in this column, space was
devoted to what is becoming a bit overdone, the
"House of Tomorrow." In that issue I contended
that prefabrication was not new and that we have
been doing it on one scale or another in house
construction for many centuries. Now come
greater minds to say that they have the same
opinion.

Mr. Arthur H. Hood, of the Johns-Manville Cor-
poration, in the July issue of "Western Building,"
devotes a fine article to an effor' to present the
"House of Tomorrow" in a realistic light, and does
so, at least I think he does so in the light of last
month's RUNNING FIRE. He says, "As a matter
of fact there is nothing new about the trend to
prefabrication. This has been going on ever since
houses were built of earth and logs. Sawn lum-
ber and bricks were the first prefabrication and
this process has been going on centuries, and it
will continue to do so . . ."

Mr. Kenneth K. Stowell, Editor in Chief of
"Architectural Record," states in the first page of
editorial content in the July issue that "The house-
of-the-future will perform the same functions as the
house-of-the-past and the house-of-the-present. The
functions will be to provide shelter, privacy and
comfort for each member of the family, and for the
family as a whole."

While Mr. Stowell's article was not confined so
closely to the subject of prefabrication, by infer-
ence one is justified in considering the two articles
in the same light. Or am I exercising poetic
license?

• CENORSHIP IN REVERSE

The office of censorship inaugurated a radical
change in the censorship of publications. Without
going into details of the methods, the basic idea
was to let the censoring be done by the publishers,
having the particular publication examined only
once by the nearest censorship office for all, in-
stead of having it reviewed by every station which
might receive it before it enters the mail stream.
The former procedure slowed up deliveries and
often resulted, in condemnation of publications,
due to differences in opinion at the different sta-
tions as to what should be passed. It was cal-
culated that this would be a great help to the
publishers, which it actually has been. It was
really censorship in reverse.

But a few publishers have said, "Well, we'll
think it over." They are the type who, if they
were paid off in coin instead of cheque, would
bite the coin before signing the receipt. Perhaps
they are justified, in the light of the number of
hat-pins they have found in the bouquets they
have received from other departments of the gov-
ernment.

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AUGUST, 1943

NEWS AND COMMENT ON ARl

HENRY MOORE, ENGLISH SCULPTOR

by Douglas MacAgy

Until recently, contemporary English art was so
little known in this country that when we thought
of it at all, the conspicuous figure was Agustus
John. Indeed, even John's fame on this side of
ihe Atlantic is probably due less to a knowledge
of his painting than to Aldous Huxley's celebrated
characterization. Yet that interesting painter, if
he still commands the attention of London society,
belongs to the past in spirit. His personality has
provided us with perhaps the last flare from the
darkening embers of the British tradition of por-
traiture.

English art of contemporary spirit first ap-
peared during the Great War. At that time cer-
tain youthful artists, including Paul Nash and
Edward Wadsworth, were busy painting "war
Tecords" for the Government. The Imperial War
Museum in London, in which the products of this
activity were placed, also contains official por-
traits and retrospective paintings by lohn, Orpen,
Bone and Lavery. In this Museum the periods
meet, the old and the new.

Henry Moore, who served in the army during
the Great War, did not begin his art studies until
after he was demobilized. Before long his inter-
ests led him in a direction which has coincided at
certain points with the development of artists such
as Nash and Wadsworth. There have been occa-
sions when his efforts were explicitly linked with
theirs, but the association was formed because
they held some views in common and it was con-
venient to present them to the public in concert.

Like his fellows, Henry Moore stands apart
from the conventional line of English art. But
he is a sculptor, and because the traditions of
sculpture have been less open to change than
those of painting, he is not so dependent on the
old line as his colleagues who paint. Even
since the Rennaissance, painting has been so vari-
ous that it is possible for the most advanced mod-
ern painter to make use of some pictorial contri-
bution of the period. He might find something in
Vermeer, or Chardin, or Courbet, which will give
him a notion of how to go on with his own work.
But a sculptor like Moore cannot expect much
help from any statue which was carved in Europe
during the same period. At points which are
held by Moore to be most significant. Renaissance
sculpture takes an opposite stand to his. On the
other hand, in common with certain continental
sculptors, he holds a brief for primitive and medi-
eval carvings.

Primitive, medieval, and Renaissance sculptors
were concerned with the representation of familiar
things, of animals and people. What sets Renais-
sance sculpture apart from the others is the fact
that representation takes the form of imitation.
Stone is shaped and textured to look like a person,
although it is sometimes modified to conform with
a classical ideal of human appearance. But stone
is a hard and concentrated substance; it should
not, from Moore's point of view, be disguised to
look like human flesh. In shape and texture, the

peculiar characteristics of stone are lost or falsi-
fied in the process of imitation.

Many modern sculptors resent the notion that
shape is an abstraction which might be imposed
on any material. They believe that shape grows
out of the properties of the stuff that composes it.
Moore makes much of his studies of natural ob-
jects, of shells, bones and pebbles. "Shells," he
writes, "show Nature's hard but hollow form and
have a wonderful completeness of single shape."
On the other hand, "bones have a marvelous
structural strength and hard tenseness of form,
subtle transition of one shape into the next and
great variety in section."

His profound admiration, even affection, for
natural properties of things is partly responsible
for Moore's claims against sculpture in the Renais-
sance tradition. In the transformation of rock to
apparent flesh, the rock is, in effect, destroyed.
But if this were his sole concern, he would prob-
ably leave his pieces of stone and wood in their
natural state. A gash from his chisel might very
well spoil Nature's handiwork. Other concerns
motivate the carving. Like some Gothic and
primitive sculptors, he tries to make a representa-
tion which will retain the character of the material
out of which it is carved.

"Each carving I make takes on in my mind a
human, or occasionally animal, character and
personality, and this personality controls its de-
sign and formal qualities, and makes me satisfied
or dissatisfied with the work as it develops." This
anthropomorphism, or zoomorphism, is often not
specific. Shaped by Moore a stone is not just
granite, just a woman, or just a cat. Resemblance
to particular things is seldom easy to trace. His
shapes are ambiguous and general in their refer-
ence to familiar things. Often they look more
like human figures than anything else, but even
this resemblance is compromised by more or less
drastic shifts from normal human proportions.
These shifts lead the mind into other considera-
tions, other spheres of experience than those sug-
gested by the shape of a man or woman. At
this point one stands at the brink of conscious
and unconscious memories and desires. The
sculpture gains meaning as its shapes and tex-
tures touch off clusters of associated meanings in
this inestimable store of experience. In Moore's
words, the meaning of a shape "depends on
countless associations of man's history. For ex-
ample, rounded forms convey an idea of fruitful-
ness, maturity, probably because the earth,
women's breasts, and most fruits are rounded, and
these shapes are important because they have
this background in our habits of perception."
Combine such associations with the sense of time-
less erosion, of weather-worn. Nature-worn stone,
and you will be close to the world of Henry Moore.

But his sculpture does more than act as a kind
of magnet for memories. It is more than a meeting
place for recollected thoughts and feelings. The
act of recollection which it causes, often disquiet-
ing and obscure, is not an idle process. The very
spontaneity of the effect discounts reverie and

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suggests a response to an active, if unknown,
need in one's personality. It is this dynamic
character of a cryptic action which allies Moore
with Surrealist tenets. He is, of course, perfectly
aware of the similarity between his procedure and
Surrealist theory, but he himself takes a broader
stand. "All good art," he has said, "contains both
abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has
contained both classical and romantic elements
— order and surprise, intellect and imagination,
conscious and unconscious. Both, sides of the
artist's personality must play their part."

Sometimes he begins drawing without any
particular plan in mind, simply to make lines and
tones and colors without a con.scious aim, but
there always comes a time when some part of
the result takes on a conscious meaning, and
when this occurs he proceeds with conscious pur-
pose and control. It should be added that even
this rational development is marked by occa-
sional breaks in procedure that reason cannot
account for.

Moore makes drawings for many reasons.
Sometimes he fills page after page with amor-
phous blurs around which he draws a variety of
contours as if he were probing stone with a chisel.
In this manner he is able, on occasion, to generate
an idea for sculpture, or perhaps to sort out some

ideas before he attacks the stone directly. Or
else, because carving is a slow process when
compared with drawing, he uses drawing as an
outlet for ideas which cannot be realized in sculp-
ture for want of time. Drawing is also useful to
him when he wishes to investigate the charac-
teristics of natural form. The lineaments of human
figures, bones, shells, and pebblei' are a familiar
sight in his portfolios. In 1940 he made a series
of drawings of people in London air raid shelters
which seem to have been done ao ends in them-
selves.

About twelve years ago Moore made illusion-
istic drawings of solid objects in light and shadow.
Soon he began to feel that this method was acting
as a substitute for sculpture, that it was weakening
his desire to carve. Around 1935 he drew in flat
tones and line, without resource to light and shade.
In effect, these drawings are almost two-dimen-
sional, but to Moore they are schematic repre-
sentations of shapes conceived in the third dimen-
sion. By virtue of this style, the drawing retained
its suggestive power, without being cut-and-dried
as in the former method. Now, however, perhaps
because the original sense of finality which he
found there has been overcome, he has resumed
the practice of drawing solid shapes in light and
shadow.

"THE DRUNKEN WOMAN," by Diego Rivera

AUGUST, 1943

San Francisco Museum of Art
5

Like all good sculptors, Henry Moore is sensi-
tive to the impressive effects of size, both actual
and imaginary. Some objects, as at Stonehenge,
are awe-inspiring by their actual bulk. Others
might be small in actuality, but may strike the
imagination as colossi. Modern sculptors often
make deliberate efforts to accomplish this impres-
sion of great imaginary scale in their works of
even moderate size. Modern painters, on the
other hand, are hardly conscious of this effect.
Yet it is at least equally possible in painting. In
fact a painting is less affected by cctual size than
a sculpture, and is likely to retain its own imag-
inary scale more easily. Moore's drawings pos-
sess this imaginary power of dominating scale.
Certain other artists, notably Michelangelo, have
been able to achieve the effect on paper, but at
present Moore stands almost alone in this achieve-
ment.

Some of his drawings, among those recently
shown at the San Francisco Museum of Art, in-
clude figures placed within a definite setting. In
others the shapes are placed one above the other,
interlocking or in private compartments of shadow,
until they cover the paper. Here the shapes loom
from a pervasive chiaroscuro which provides a
common atmosphere within the pictorial space,
while the pitted surface of the paper screens in
the objects from the front. The shapes themselves
sometimes look like pebbles or bones, their sock-
ets veiled in shadow with "the mysterious fasci-
nation," as Moore once wrote, "of caves in hill-
sides and cliffs." Now they resolve themselves
into anthropomorphic figures, rather like Picasso's
anatomical studies of about 1933; again a shape
may remind one of the bony masks of the white
monkey carved by the natives of the French
Sudan. The latest drawings are devoted to more
positively recognizable features. The figures,
bandaged in their drapery, are reminiscent not
only of his past sculptures, but of the huddled
forms which Moore drew in the limbo of the shel-
ters during the raids of 1940.

"MEET THE ARTIST" AT THE
DE YOUNG MEMORIAL MUSEUM

Major event at the De Young Museum during
the current month is the self-portrai! show of Amer-
ican artists. Despite great difficulties entailed in
collecting so comprehensive an exhibition, includ-
ing most of this country's major painters and car-
toonists, the list of "celebrities" represented in this
unique show, reads like a prize-winning art roster
of pre-war days. John Stewart Curry, Reginald
Marsh, Paul Cadmus, Thomas Benton, John Car-
roll, Lyonel Feininger, Henry Varrum Poor, Rob-
ert Brackman, The Soyers, Leon KroU, Morris
Kanter, George Grosz and Henry Mattson are
among the familar faces.

A self-portrait show, on the face of it, (no pun
intended) might be a rather dull affair if the
artists were to confine themselves to the accepted
meaning of the term. But this, luckily, has by
no means occurred in the current show. Of the
almost 200 works assembled, the vast majority
of artists have either managed to find an original
approach to the self-portrait or have individual-
ized the conventional one. For instance: the paint-

ing by Guy Pene du Bois who invites the spec- ^
tator to discover him in "The Crowd" as his "self-
portrait" is fittingly entitled. What happens when
a landscape painter does a self-portrait is shown
in Constance C. Richardson's oil in which high
upon a green hill is the tiny figure of the artist
before her easel. Peppino Mangravite amuses
himself (and us) by standing before an unfinished
canvas out of which dance four female figures
carrying him all his worldly com.forts: his news-
paper, slippers, pipe and glass of "vino"; the
artist himself is holding a pomegranate, the fruit
of life, in his left hand.

Another thing which makes this self-portrait
show a unique one of its type is that when invi-
tations were extended, each artist was asked to
contribute not only a single self-portrait, but two,
so that the public might have a seldom-realized
opportunity to see for themselves the progress a
particular artist may have made during the course
of his career. Nowhere is this progress more
strikingly seen than in the three sets of "duos"
by Robert Philipp, Benjamino Kopman and Fred
Nagler. Not only are those paintings tremen-
dously interesting as separate studies, but also
as comparisons in the changing styles of three
painters who started with an almost common
technique and who today represent totally dif-
ferent schools of art. The range in time is from
about 1910 when each artist, fresh from art school,
donned his black velvet beret and took himself
extremely seriously in the rich, dark tones remi-
niscent of the old masters. Today we find Philipp
painting in a gay, semi-impressionistic manner,
Kopman borrowing from the school of German
Expressionism and Nagler developing his own
smooth realistic style. This chosen group is just
one of the many "foods for thought" which visi-
tors will want to digest.

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PAINTINGS
AT DE YOUNG G. G. PARK MUSEUM

At the De Young Museum is an excellent exhi-
bition of contemporary American works, an inter-
esting companion show to the large self-portrait
exhibit now showing. It is the group of one hun-
dred paintings — oils, watercolors, gouaches and
pastels — belonging to the University of Arizona
which was recently previewed at the Metropoli-
tan Museum of Art. The history of this collection,
though recent, is extremely notable because it
inaugurates a new trend in the "business" of art
collecting. The donor of the entire group, a former
philatelist who prefers to remain anonymous, long
felt that the acquiring of fine art need not neces-
sarily be either a strictly personal affair — or an
expensive one. Selling his stamp collection, he
has obtained enough money during the past few
years to build up a remarkable representation of
living American art which, chosen with the aid
of qualified art directors, teachers, etc., is now a
permanent part of the Arizona Gallery of Modern
American Painting.

Concerning the collection itself, although works
were purchased on merit alone regardless of the
name or fame of their creators, it is natural that
the "John Henry's" of many of the country's lead-
ing artists should appear. For instance, oils by
Arnold Blanch, Edward Hopper, John Sloan, Joe

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Jones and Doris Lee and watercolors by Charles
Burchfield, Adolph Dehn, Peggy Bacon and Walt
Kuhn, to name only a few, form an important port
of the show.

The self-portrait show of contemporary Ameri-
cans, "Meet the Artist," and the painters whose
works will be found in both exhibits, include Isabel
Bishop, David Burliuk, Waldo Pierce, John Stewart
Curry, Raphael Soyer (who, incidently, contrib-
utes a self-portrait to each show), George Grosz,
Joseph de Martini, Doris Rosenthal, Philip Ever-
good, William Gropper, Reginald Marsh, Yasuo
Kuniyoshi and Robert Philipp. So after having
seen the artist as he sees himself in one gallery, it
is a novel experience to find in another a recent
landscape, still life or abstraction done by the
same hand.

EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE SHOWN
AT LEGION OF HONOR PALACE

Now showing at the California Palace, Legion of
Honor, San Francisco, is an exhibition of Egyptian
photographs consisting of some 25 enlargements
made by Professor Hamman and his son. The
photographs were taken during an expedition to
Egypt in the spring of 1937. The first group shows
the land and the people of the Nile Valley. The
architecture is represented in the second group,
showing some of the famous buildings of ancient
Egypt, the pyramids, the best-known temples,
mortuary chapels and tombs.

The remaining group give a short survey of
Egyptian sculpture, painting, and workmanship,
having been chosen chiefly in regard to the sub-
jects depicted. The reliefs and paintings show
scenes of public and family life in Egypt thou-
sands of years ago, while the chairs and vase
from the tomb of Tut-ench-Amun give us an im-
pression of the unique skill of these early crafts-
men, and the statues include many well known
representatives of Egyptian history.

MODERN VERSE WINS MRS. MOORE
THE ALBERT BENDER GRANT-IN-AID

Mrs. Rosaline Moore, a Berkeley housewife, has
been awarded the Albert Bender Grant-in-Aid for
her contributions to literature. The poems were
first printed in The New Yorker and later one of
them, "Catalogue," was reprinted in Louis Unter-
meyer's "Stars to Steer By." The award was
made by a jury of eminent litterateurs appointed
by the San Francisco Art Association. The verses
follow:

WHAT FUN TO BE. ETC.

(First Printed in The New Yorker)
What fun to be Picasso and landscape an oh so
Formal torso! Vi^hat fun to be Picasso!

What fun to be Gris and — seated vis-a-vis —
Draw, quarter, and cube some noted portraitee.
Put a fluttering nose, an eye in the midst of him,
Interlocking jaws, and a double chin
(One, that is, that besides coming out goes in),
A tie, and limbs with a synonym!

What fun to be Braque, to shock, to paint bric-a-brac

Like bottles and guitars that say ABC!

Or Klee. What fun to be Klee, Gris, Picasso, or Braque!

Cats sleep fat and walk thin.
Cats, when they sleep, slump;
When they wake, stretch and begin
Over, pulling their ribs in.
Cats walk thin.

Cats wait in a lump.

Jump in a streak.

Cats, when they jump, are sleek

As a grape slipping its skin —

They have technique.

Oh, cats don't creak.

They sneak.

Cats sleep fat.

They spread out comfort undeineath them

Like a good mat.

As if they picked the place

And then sat;

You walk around one

As if he were the city hall

After that.

If male,

A cat is apt to sing on a major scale;

This concert is for everybody, this

Is wholesale.

For a baton he wields a tail.

(He is also found,

When happy to resound

With an enclosed and private sound.)

A cat condenses.

He pulls in his tail to go under bridges.

And himself to go under fences.

Cats fit

In any size box or kit.

And if a large pumpkin grew under one.

He could arch over it.

When everybody else is just ready to go out,
The cat is just ready to come in.
He's not where he's been.
Cats sleep fat and walk thin.

CATALOGUE

The New Yorker; Reprinted in Stars to Steer By)

RUNNING FIRE

(Continued from Page 3)

• OVERDONE

Those who are expecting a burst of new and
miraculous inventions, materials and devices to
swamp us with secrets of comfort, ease of opera-
tion and eccnomy of living after the war, had best
prepare for disappointment. We have gone too
far with the siren songs of plastics, one way glass,
electronics, radar, and yes, vitamins. Some of
these developments will be liberated to develop
after the war but it will take time. Some will go
ahead with speed and will meet with immediate
success. Many will not turn out to be what was
expected and will give way to other and newer
discoveries. But I fear that some of the best will
be fought bitterly from the beginning.

For example, prefabrication already is in the
preliminary struggle with labor. Good, bad or
indifferent, labor feels that prefabrication is going
to cut in on labor's field. It is like the struggle
that the cotton gin, the steam engine and similar
inventions went through. And as to plastics, wait
until the plumbers learn that both the rough and
finish plumbing can be installed in a bathroom
within an hour, without a helper! The Tunisian
campaign will be nothing!

AUGUST. 1941

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BASALT Rock Company

BAXTER & Company, J. H.

CASSARETTO. John

CELOTEX Corp .-.

CLARK, N., & Son

CLINTON Construction Company

COATES, Leonard, Nurseries

COLUMBIA Steel Company
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DINWIDDIE Construction Company 46

EL ENCANTO Ho!el

FORDERER Cornice Works 45

FULLER, W. P., Co *

GUNN, Carle * Company

HANKS, Inc., Abbot A 46

HAWS Drinking Faucet Company 2

HERRICK Iron Works 46

HOGAN Lumber Company - 45

HUNT, Robert W.. Company 47

HUNTER, Thos. B ■- 47

IMPERIAL Brass Mfg. Co - *

INCANDESCENT Supply Co 46

INDEPENDENT Iron Company 46

JENSEN & Son, G. P. W 48

JOHNSON Company, S. T 8

JUDSON Pacific Company 45

KRAFTILE Company

MULLEN Mfg. Co 47

NORTHERN California Electrical Bureau II

PACIFIC Coast Gas Association

PACIFIC Foundry Company, Ltd 10

PACIFIC Manufacturing Company 44

PACIFIC Paint and Varnish Company 38

PACIFIC Portland Cement Company 9

PARAMOUNT Built-in Fixture Company *

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RAYMOND Concrete Pile Co.
REPUBLIC Steel Corporation.

SALL Mountain Company

SCOTT Company

SIMONDS Machinery Company..

SISALKRAFT Company

STANLEY Works, The

TORMEY Company, The 47

U. S. STEEL Company

VERMONT Marble Company

WASHINGTON -Eljer Company

WESTERN Asbestos Company

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AUGUST, 1943

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WHAT HE CAN'T SEE
MAY HURT HIM

Fall school opening is a critical time
for your child's eyes. It marks the begin-
ning of a long period of close application to
severe seeing tasks. Your child's eyes can
suffer irreparable damage in these next
months.

Days are increasingly shorter and
more often over-cast — more hours when
electric light is needed even for ordinary
activities. For reading and studying, abun-
dant, good quality artificial light is a neces'
sity that cannot be overlooked without
serious consequences.

School authorities recognize this need
for good light and provide suitable light
for every child. But they have no jurisdic'
tion over a child's home environment.
Home study is required of every child and
unless parents provide proper study condi'
tions at home, the child is under a severe
handicap that is bound to reflect in his
grades and in the well'being of his eyes.

Check your child's study desk now.
See that the lamp has the right size inside
frosted bulb — 100 to 500 watts is the aver'
age for study lamps. Check the shade — it
should be wide at the bottom, open at the
top, and white-lined. See that no glare is
present at the child's eye level.

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OFFICE BUILDING FOR THE SHUCKL CANNING COMPANY. SUNNYVALE. CALIFORNIA
William W. Wurster, Architect

WEST SIDE OF BUILDING. NOTE LONG CORAL COLORED AWNINGS

OFFICE BUILDING FOR THE SCHUCKL CANNING CO.

William W. Wurster has realized an ambition. He has had his work illustrated in detail
in an architectural nnagazine of national circulation. The July Forum, in its new condensed form,
with thinner paper and narrow marginal space, devotes 21 pages to Wurster designed build-
ings, including several projects shown in recent issues of Architect and Engineer. When a
magazine like the Forum will publish some 40 or more pictures of a San Francisco architect's
work there must be a good reason. And that reason, we assume, is that his work has merit.

Modestly, Wurster passes on much of the credit for his success to his associates, a staff
of capable young men, numbering 40, who have worked with him at one time or another since
1938. Ten of the forty are today in the armed service. Wurster, himself, taking advantage of
the lull in architecture, is engaged in post-graduate work at hHarvard. Only three of his
original staff are practicing in his San Francisco office. The others are scattered hither and
yon.

One of Wurster's recent buildings which the Forum illustrates and which Architect and
Engineer also pictures this month by courtesy of the owner, who supplied the photographs, is
the office building at Sunnyvale of the Schuckl Canning Company. Completed in recent
months, the building has attracted attention because of its departure from the more or less
sterotyped style and arrangement of similar type structures. The building Is constructed
largely of redwood with all floors of the mill construction type, furred below for heating
ducts and above for electric conduits.

The architecture Is contemporary, the plan functional, with offices for local operation on

AUGUST, 1943

MAIN STAIRWAY WHICH CONSTITUTES THE SOLE DECORATIVE FEATURE
OF THE INTERIOR

The stairs have oak treads and Douglas fir stringers.

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Steel columns and beams support this parking
area at street level of main building. Company
executives use space for parking, convenient in
inclement weather.

the first floor, executive work shifted from
San Francisco, placed on the second floor,
cafeteria, kitchen and women's rest room on
the third floor.

Part of the building is completely open at
the street level, this space being used by the
company executives for parking. Steel col-
umns and beams are used in this area.

Unusually wide wood awnings painted a
coral color protect working space from the
sun while the general color scheme of the ex-
terior surfaces is a dark brown. The redwood
interior boarding is treated with a lacquer
finish, keeping the wood to its natural color.
Acoustic tile ceilings provide insulation against
noise. Fluorescent lighting is used throughout.

The ultimate plan provides for a cafeteria
unit for the cannery workers near-by and a
nursery school for their children.

Thomas D. Church was the landscape archi-
tect, A. V. Saph, Jr., structural engineer and
Aladdin hHeating Corp. heating engineers.

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CITY HALL, BURBANK, CALIFORNIA
William Allen and W. Geor9e Lutzi, Architects

Illustrations courtesy Southwest Builder and Contractor.

BURBANK CITY HALL

Detail of fountain in front of main entrance.

Planned to meet future as well,
as immediate needs in one of South-
ern California's liveliest war workers
communities, the City of Burbank'
has moved into its new home — tech-
nically known as the City Hall —
culminating five years of diligent
planning. Starting as a W.P.A. proj-
ect, construction was completed by
the city with its own funds when the
Works Progress Administration was
terminated by President Roosevelt.
The new building stands on the
site of a former school house just
above San Fernando Road, principal
traffic artery through the city. Of
modern design, functional in its
J^;. treatment, the reinforced concrete
\ structure is dominated by a central
"■^ tower, equivalent to three and one-
h jif stories, and flanked on each side
by two and one story wings. Fron

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the front entrance to the roof of the tower a
vertical panel with recessed cast concrete grill
gives the exterior a decorative note and at
the same time provides light and Impressive-
ness to the main lobby and grand stair hall.

All exterior surfaces are plain cement except
the sculptured panels over the front windows
of the two one-story wings. Vertical lines are
accentuated in the treatment of the window
openings with horizontal lines in the walls of
the high basement. The set-back top of the
tower has a low pitched roof covered with
glazed shingle tiles.

Decorative features of the interior include
mural paintings by Hugo Ballin, all allegorical
presentations of historical events, political,
social and economic progress.

An emergency hospital with operating room
and wards for men and women, city jail, garage
and Civilian Defense Center are in the base-
ment while the first floor houses the police
headquarters, municipal court room and offices
of the city clerk, city treasurer, building in-
spector and superintendent of streets. Most
of these offices are finished in paneled oak,
except the court room which has walnut pan-
elling and asphalt tile floor.

The entrance lobby has a marble floor and
wainscot, lucite glass ornaments and bronze
rail and indirect lighting. Corridors on the

Upper riqht — Burbank City Hall. Grand stairway showing
mural painting by Hugo Ballin above landing.

Right^Main lobby, looking toward entrance and showing
cast concrete grill inset with glass, which contributes both
light and beauty to the grand stair hall.

AUGUST, 1943

Council Chamber with wood paneled walls and symbolical
mural over rostrum.

Detail of mural in Council Chamber — "The Four Freedoms,"
by Hugo Ballin.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

first floor also have marble floors and wain-
scot. Tennessee marble is used for the floors
and Montana rose travertine wainscot. Ceil-
ings throughout on the first and second floors
are acoustic plaster.

On the second floor are the council cham-
ber and administrative offices. The former
has teakwood panelling and built-in rails and
tables. Subject of the large mural painting in
the chamber is "The Four Freedoms." The
council conference rooms have walnut panel-
ling and asphalt tile floors.

The mayor's office has walnut panelled
walls and carpeted floor while the office of the
city manager has teakwood panelled walls
and carpeted floor. The rooms have indirect
lighting.

All lavatories, both private and public,
have full tiled walls and floors.

Heating and refrigerating equipment is
housed in the tower.

The structural design of the building is
standard concrete. Due to an alluvial soil
deposit on the site the foundation problem
was thoroughly explored and to provide ade-
quate support it was decided to drive bearing
piles for all walls and piers. A total of 256
piles were driven, ranging from 18-foot to 30-
foot penetration.

William Allen and W. George Lutzi of
Los Angeles were the architects.

Cost of the building, including furniture,
was $409,000.

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COURTROOM WITH WALNUT PANELLED WALLS AND MURAL OVER
JUDGE'S BENCH. FLOOR IS ASPHALT TILE.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

RECEPTION ROOM. TEAKWOOD PANELLING, LINOLEUM FLOOR COVERING

OFFICE OF CITY MANAGER. HERE AGAIN THE INTERIOR FINISH
IS TEAKWOOD

AUGUST, 1943

PLANNED HOUSING

by GEORGE PAMPEL*

OLD IDEAS
MUST GO
INTO THE
DISCARD

HAPHAZARD
PLANNING
SAY EXPERTS

WASTEFUL
COMPETI-
TION

SHOULD BE
AVOIDED

WHEN WE Americans are done with this war we are going to have
Sonne new concepts about our lives.

hlow we live, what we should get out ot lite, our ambitions, our
standards ... all these will have had some serious appraisal during the terrific
stresses of war. Torrid days in fox-holes, nights on freezing patrols, hours and
even months in camp or hospital, and reflection about lost buddies, are
causing much fundamental thinking among our young men at war. This same
thinking is also going on among the folks at home, whose hopes and fears rest
with these service men.

It is inevitable, therefore, that some old ideas, some old prejudices and
habits which have had nothing to recommend them but their age, are going
to be rejected . . . despite the rather ridiculous special-interest advertise-
ments that have some soldiers imploring us now, "don't change a thing."

Every intelligent person knows there is going to be change, that there is
going to be progress in the post-war world, much, if not all of it both ap-
proved and initiated by the men now at the battlefronts.

For instance, among many other things, Americans are going to go after
something better to live in. Shelter is not enough. Americans want a place
to live, not a place in which to be "housed."

This desire presents planners — technological, social, political, and eco-
nomic— with tremendous opportunities, responsibilities, and challenges.

Whether America gets what it desires depends solely on how well the
planners plan, how well they co-ordinate their work and primarily, of course,
whether they are going to get the opportunity of planning. For we aren't
going to solve the fundamental problems of providing America with the
satisfactory living accommodations that It Is possible to achieve merely by
accident, or through a free-for-all melee of conflicting Interests.

First of all, I believe that we will have to reject the idea of a proprietary
interest in housing by any special factors. The housing of I 30 million Ameri-
cans is not the private domain of 23,000 building material dealers or 120,000
contractors ... or the building material manufacturers, the financing houses,
the real estate men, or even the architect and engineer professionals. Be-
cause It Is the people's problem, to be solved in behalf of the people, first and
foremost.

Second, and It is a corollary of the first, the best results are not going
to be obtained by a chaos of embittered, expensive, wasteful competition
involving these factors and sub-divisions thereof . . . where, theoretically,
"the best man wins," but where the public Inevitably loses.

Required Is an overall strategy, the basic concept of which Is true service
to the millions to be housed, a strategy that can realize the dreams and the
needs of the people, and which can Integrate the contributions of all parties
and reward them in just measure for their work. It is a big job, the biggest
single post-war job America will have. It calls for the same kind of courage,

•Advertising Manager, I. F. Laucks. Inc.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

OR THE FUTURE

patriotism, unify and devotion to an ideal of which we have shown ourselves
capable in girding for war. Certainly this peacetime undertaking to provide
man security, serenity, d'gnify, peace and comfort is just as worthy of our best
talents and best thinking as our service to war. Indeed it is civilization's
natural complement to war; total housing should follow total war. In terms
of cost, the money spent by our country to date to rid the world of fascist
oppressors would provide a brand new $5000.00 home for every family in
America!

Does this requirement of overall strategy presuppose governmental con-
trol of the activity?

No, it needn't . . . although I don't feel that we people should allow propa-
gandists to render us panic-stricken with the thought of our government . . .
which would be, after all, only ourselves acting together in our own behalf
in a tremendous undertaking.

But there are other facilities, local and community boards and housing
authorities, which can serve as a coalition factor. If such is the will of the
people . . . only when private agencies find themselves unable to solve this prob-
lem alone need government facilities be made use of, and then only to the
extent of co-ordinating the factors in the building field, setting standards,
and perhaps in giving the necessary backbone to the financing.

Private enterprise . . . the manufacturers, the distributing structure, the
contractor firms . . . all, under controls of the people whom they are serving
primarily, would have the opportunity to prosper under such circumstances,
much as they have done in building ships, tanks, planes and armament for us
all today. Only if they do not take the opportunity would other methods
of doing the job have to be found.

This presentation here is not another plan for a post-war housing set-up;
the only point I have attempted to establish is that the people's housing
needs must be regarded as paramount, that they can not be considered a
by-product of the scramble by individuals or individual factors for the post-
war housing market, no matter what these factors or their spokesmen say. No
group has a mortgage on the future housing requirements of America.

What kind of housing would "planned housing" be?

Perhaps many envision row upon row of barracks-like structures, oppres-
sively uniform and uninviting ... or minimum housing such as the govern-
ment was forced to build for war workers in the face of material shortages
... or some of the sorry results of blitz-induced speed, or necessarily unfavor-
able location, or simply bad planning. That this kind of housing is necessarily
and always planned (or government) housing is an idea that has been pro-
moted and carefully nurtured by those who feel that they themselves would
get more of the market if "planning" were left out and they were allowed
a free hand.

TOTAL
HOUSING
SHOULD
FOLLOW
TOTAL WAR

LIMITATIONS
ON

GOVERN-
MENT AID

"PLANNED
HOUSING"—
WHAT WILL
IT BE?"

AUGUST, 1943

Because every step in the building and erection of tliis
home was planned to the nth degree before a piece of
lumber was cut, it goes up as easily as a house of
cards. This is one of the houses in a 1000-unit project
at Bremerton, Wash., which has been prefabricated in
the factory, transported by truck to site, where it is
easily erected by worlimen in a few hours' time.

Modern methods of home construction ore the result of
planning by architects to facilitate erection and te
make a better-built and more livable home for post-
war living. Here the wall sections in a flat-bed jig are
receiving glue applied by workman from a glue gun.
Construction with glue not only makes stronger walls,
but saves tons of nails which would ordinarily be used.

This is mere evidence of planning on the technological front, to expedite delivery of houses to the consumer, as well
as keep down costs of post-war homes. The model prefab ricotion plant shown here is so arranged that entire houses
may be prefabricated at one time. In the foreground wall frames are being nailed together in the first step after
the proper lengths have been cut. Wall is then glued to studding, progresses to delivery end of the plant where a
complete building — roof, ceiling, wall and floor sections are loaded onto a single truck, transported to site to be
erected.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

Architects today, for one group, know dif-
ferently. And while they have not approved
in every respect all of our country's planned
housing projects, they have themselves seen
to it that much fine coordinated, intelligent,
useful work has been done. Thev literally have
proved again on a large scale the value of
planning. The professional's service is based
on planning, after all, rather than improvisa-
tion or rule-of-thumb, or anarchy.

It doesn't take much of a prophet to say
that the post-war house, technologically, is
going to be a considerable step ahead of our
so-called "modern" house today.

The planners of the research laboratory
have been storing up many pleasant surprises
for the post-war building market.

MANY NEW AMAZING PRODUCTS

Electronics promise many new things for
the easier, safer, more efficient operation of
the coming homes. Architect? will be given
many new amazing products — plastics, ply-
wood, new glasses, new metals and alloys,
better paints, preservatives — with which they
will be able to achieve better design, easier
maintenance, greater comfort and lower costs
in the house of the future. New principles of
air conditioning and heating, new techniques
of building, including prefabrlcatlon, offer im-
mense possibilities for better and more eco-
nomical living. Entirely new concepts of what
a home should be: bringing In the outdoors,
houses of adaptability to changing require-
ments in a family from hour to hour or year
to year, suburban living with better transporta-
tion opportunities — all of these challenge the
imagination of every architect, as they have
already stirred up the dreams of Americans
working for the end of the war.

The selection and the Integration of the
materials and the techniques of the post-war
period will be the responsibility of the archi-
tect.

Additionally, he will be called upon to build
into the whole housing scheme a community
atmosphere, for while much of the new build-
ing will be individual houses, a far greater and
increasing amount of the new building will be
done in large scale projects, a study of hous-
ing tendencies reveals. This means the plan-

ning of facilities other than the home unit:
recreation centers, shops, schools, gymnasiums,
hospitals, libraries, etc. It means also the
proper layout of traffic controls.

This brings up the problem of the avail-
ability of new housing. Who is going to get
the new houses? We are solving in the labora-
tories and in the architects' offices the tech-
nological problems of post-war housing. The
"distribution" of these houses is another, and
perhaps more difficult problem: an economic
problem.

An unprecedented capacity for producing
building materials, a backlog of savings, and
the accumulated obsolesence of war years,
along with the tremendous purchasing power
In the hands of the people (presuming that we
will not suffer or permit ourselves to suffer a
complete economic collapse after the war's
end) gives indication of a building market as
great. If not greater than any year since the
all-time peak of 1928. Various estimates aver-
age between 1 ,000,000 and 1 ,600,000 houses
each year for ten years. It is expected that
755f: of these will necessarily fall In the "under
$5000" class.

It Is In this regard that the economic and
social planners will have to help.

HOUSING NOT A PUBLIC WORKS PROJECT

hlousing should not be looked upon as a
public works project concerned only with
relief measures, taking up slacks in post-war
unemployment, or merely as a continuation of
a program of economic rehabilitation. Hous-
ing for all classes of people should be on the
agenda.

The temporary housing of the war period,
said to be overhanging the market, should not
be considered a serious factor. Plans of the
government include the complete demoli-
tion of these duration type housing projects.
The materials will be salvaged but will not seri-
ously affect the new building market as they
will, no doubt, be used In rural areas or In
rehabilitation of destroyed areas abroad. This
naturally calls for controls from the top so
that the public Interest is protected in all In-
stances.

The proper utilization of all building fac-
tors, the proper acceptance of the new

AUGUST, 1941

materials and techniques will be a special obli-
gation of the manufacturer and the advertiser.
A tremendous job of bringing the information
properly to the attention of the post-war home
owner and to the architect is going to be
required. The fact that everybody would be
working within the perimeter of a plan does not
set any arbitrary limits on these legitimate
functions of the progressive manufacturer. In
fact, it enlarges his opportunities and makes
his future more secure, it would seem.

In all events, I think the necessity for overall
planning is well recognized by responsible
parties looking to the future building market.
However, unless those who believe in and
understand the importance of planning, insist
on it, and demand it, they will be inundated
soon by those who are already, before war's
end, out to fasten their special interests on
the post-war market.

Architects who are planners by profession
can well take the lead in seeing that planning
is to be done, and thereby serve not only the
nation but themselves.

POST-WAR HOUSING— THREE WAVES

Everybody writes on post-war housing. Now
comes Richard E. Saunders in Nation's Business
for July telling us how this building urge will
come by waves.

First wave will come in the higher price field.
People will be content with a 1939 model plus
refinements the building industry has contrived
in the intervening years. Volume will be some-
thing like 1,000,000 houses.

Second wave, for demobilized servicemen,
will consist almost entirely of newly formed
families. The second wave will not reach Its
crest until several years after the war. Statis-
ticians are stumped as to number of houses re-
quired. \-\e thinks the demand will fall short of
1,000,000 units. "The packaged house — the
new product prefabrlcators are getting ready
to put on the market — may be particularly at-
tractive to him. hHe won't be in a hurry."

Third wave, home of the future. The build-
ing industry must devlop a product that it can
merchandise in competition with new automo-
biles. This means shooting toward lower costs
as well as innovations in design.

Glass wool will be much more widely used
for insulation. It is constantly being made
lighter and is now available in a form weighing
only a half-pound per cubic foot. A four-inch
layer of glass wool has the heat insulating value
of a fourteen-foot concrete wall, it is claimed.

The U. S. Army has let a contract for a new
type portable shelter completely transportable
by air. Exterior surface is of impregnated cot-
ton fabric on laminated wood frame. Cross
section is a parabolic arch 8I/2 feet high, 16
feet wide. Erected in multiples of 8 feet, the
only metal used is the hardware. — Monthly Bul-
letin, Illinois Society of Architects.

THE 57 LAMPS OF ARCHITECTURE

By John L. Skinner

When I decided fo build me a house

I felf just a llf+le afraid

That plan and design

Were not quite In my line

So I sought architectural aid.

And I said, "Give me, pray,

Something quite recherche

For I am tired of hanging my hat

In an early Victorian, pre-Montessorlan

Old two-by-fourian flat."

The Architect puffed on his period pipe

As he sat In his Renaissance chair,

And he gave me a smile in the pure Gothic style

Though he spoke with a Romanesque air.

Said he, "If your taste Is not wholly debased

The best you are certain to find

Is the early Colonial,

Nearly Baronial,

George Washingtonlal kind."

I thanked him politltely and paid him his fee
But friends and acquaintances cried,
That stuff you should shun,
It hasn't been done
Since Benjamin Harrison died."
And they sent me direct to a new Architect
Who argued with logic compelling
For a Gropius-Raus mit'em
Let's go Bauhaus wit'em
Hud-nuts to you and them-dwelling.
My downfall had started,

I groped in a maze of traces, transitions and trends,
As I labored anew over prints that were blue
With the aid of my numerous friends.
But I don't knit my brow
Over building plans now
For all my money Is spent
And my home's an Arcadian,
Second Crusadlan,
G. I. first aldlan tent.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

POST-WAR AVIATION

by A. C. BALLASEYUS

Af a recent meeHng of the Structural Engineers Association of
Northern California, sonne interesting opinions were voiced concern-
ing present and future developments in nnodern aircraft and their
effect upon the structural engineer.

One of the speakers was Albert C. Ballaseyus, Supervising Re-
search Engineer, National Defense Research Committee Project,
University of California. Readers will find some enlightening facts in
Mr. Ballaseyus' discussion of significant developments taking place
in aircraft manufacture.

Also contributing to the general topic of the meeting was
Howard D. Eberhart, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the
University of California, who spoke on "Structural Problems of Air-
craft Design."

It !s the opinion of some engineers that the structural design of
the modern airplane may have an important bearing upon the
engineering conception of the skyscraper of tomorrow. ^ q BALLASEYUS

The subject of "Post-War Aviation" is one ner. The war itself will have a great effect

that must be approached with circumspection, upon post-war aviation in many respects. Two

for notwithstanding the frequently astound- of these effects which are often discussed are

ing predictions made by various experts as the anticipated presence of many thousands

to the shape of things to come, it is im- of bombers and transports, available for

possible to trace its expected step-by-step civilian use after the war; and the technical

development. The pattern will be conditioned
by many circumstances not nov/ discernible.

The length of time necessary to make the
cargo-carrying airplane an important competi-

advances in aircraft design and production
brought on by the pressure of war.

It may be thought that the availability of
arge numbers of military aircraft which can

tor to the other forms of transportation would be used for or converted into cargo-carriers
seem to be as dependent upon politics, eco- presents attractive possibilities. Converted
nomics and sound business promotion as it is military transports will have possibilities, pro-
upon technical advances. Granting that we ^-^-^^ ^^at obsolescence has not made their
are upon the threshold of a large expansion of operating cost too high. The low cost at
the air transport of passengers and other valu- ^^ich these aircraft may be available may not
able cargo, the utilization of the freight-carry- ^e very important from the standpoint of their
ing airplane upon a large scale is primarily economic use, for it has been shown that with
dependent upon the rate structure set-up, the airplanes of the present design ton-mile costs
provision of airports and service facilities, and ^.^ ^nuch more dependent upon operating
the availability or not of subsidies. Similarly, ^^an initial costs. This matter of economic
the technical problems of the light privately operating costs will rule out the converted
owned airplane may be said to have been bomber for use on an efficiently operated air-
solved by the helicopter; but it is probable that transport line. Any efficient airplane must be
the real mass production and use of such a designed for the job it has to do. The bomber
vehicle will develop concurrently with a shift airplane is designed for a very special-
of population away from the large cities. j.^^ cargo-carrying function— that of hauling
There are some factors, however, which highly concentrated load over long distances
can be discussed in a reasonably sound man- at high speed. The percentage of commer-

AUGUST, 1943

cial express or freight that could be econom-
ically carried by a machine so expensive to
operate is minute; furthermore, a more effi-
cient machine for cargo transport can be
designed, as the structural requirements for
the military airplane are considerably more
severe, and therefore the structural weight is
higher than for a comparable civil machine.
It is to be hoped that the availability of these
aircraft at the end of the war will not subject
the air transport operators to the type of wild-
cat competition that afflicted the trucking in-
dustry some years ago.

THE PLANE AS A UTILITARIAN VEHICLE

Before considering the effect of technical
advances brought on by the war upon the
possible increased commercial utility of the
airplane, it will be well to consider the present
status of the airplane as a utilitarian vehicle.
The airplane suffers when compared with the
train, truck or steamship as a load carrier;
where steamship freight charges are as low as
one-half cent per ton-mile, and where I.e. I.
railroad freight charges average about four
cents per ton-mile, no competent authority has
yet claimed air-freight charges of less than
fifteen to twenty-five cents per ton-mile as a
possibility. That possible costs for air-freight
do not show a greater spread as compared to
competitive services is a tribute to the design
genius of the aircraft engineer, for funda-
rier. The efficiency of a carrier may be
expressed by its lift/drag ratio, or the ratio
of its weight to the force required to move it.
On this basis alone, and disregarding the effect
of speed, which is of secondary importance for
most freight carriage, the lift/drag ratio of an
efficient airplane may be 20/1; that of the
railway train 100, I, and that of the steamship
500/1. Therefore, with the present principles,
the airplane can be considered for use as a
commercial transport vehicle when cost is of
no apparent consequence, as in war; or where
the capital cost of other transport agencies
would be excessive, as in large parts of South
America; or for the carriage of goods and
people where time is of value.

The aircraft designers and operators can

be expected to battle aggressively for a larger
share of the express and freight transport busi-
ness. It is to be expected that the operators
will be able to gradually reduce their costs
through the use of more efficient airplanes and
more scientific operating methods.

Of the various possibilities that present
themselves for the reduction of transport air-
plane ton-mile operating costs, It is doubtful
that any reduction in cost can be obtained
through a reduction of initial or aircraft sales
prices. Although it may be assumed that the
great productive capacity available after the
war will allow aircraft to be manufactured at
considerably lower prices than were possible
before the war, such as assumption is illusory,
for the cost of the commercial transport was
about $10 per pound before the war, and the
cost of the present military airplanes is of the
same order. Due to the exigencies of design
changes, the industry even now cannot be on
a mass production basis, and it certainly can-
not be so when the demand will be less. One
month's production of the present aircraft in-
dustry can supply airplanes enough to take
care of many times any possible demand for
commercial transports. In any case, by pres-
ent standards, initial cost will be a secondary
consideration. Almost any initial price can
be paid if flight efficiency is obtained, for
particularly at long ranges the influence of
the amount of fuel required upon useful load
is of prime importance. Various estimates
have been made as to the importance to the
operator of reduction in fuel weight or airplane
weight required for a given flight distance;
these estimates range from $250 to $2000
per pound Increase in revenue for the life
of the airplane, for each pound saved.

The possibilities of size, as such, seems to
have a fascination for some who predict on
matters aeronautical; possibly on the basis of
the exploded theory that the bigger must
be better. Present opinion Indicates that
there are no insuperable difficulties standing
in the way of the building of so-called giant
airplanes. If some agency will finance them.
That any appreciable reduction In ton-mile

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

operating cost can be gained by increasing
size, however, has yet to be proven.

Other avenues which may lead to an in-
crease in the load-carrying ability or decreased
operating cost of the airplane are being con-
stantly explored, for aeronautical war research
has a direct bearing upon the future civil air-
plane. Among these studies relating to engi-
neering improvement are those concerning
materials, aerodynamics, structures and power
plants.

WAR DEMANDS DEVELOP NEW MATERIALS

The necessities of war and substitution have
had a healthy effect upon the American air-
craft designer and structural engineer, as it
has again been proven that materials other
than the strong aluminum alloys can be success-
fully used in airplanes. The presently available
materials — strong aluminum and magnesium
alloys, the various steels, and plastic bonded
plywoods, can all be used satisfactorily for
most purposes. No one of these materials
has any great advantage over the others tech-
nically. The present limiting factor in aircraft
structural design is usually not tensile or com-
pressive strength, but resistance to buckling
and local instability, which are functions of the
modulus of elasticity of the material. In this
respect aircraft structural design presents dif-
ferent problems from those to which most
structural engineers are accustomed. These
problems have been well covered in a paper
on aircraft materials and testing by Mr. L. B.
Tuckerman of the Bureau of Standards which
was published in the A.S.T.M. Proceedings for
1935. hlis conclusions are stil! correct, and
indicate that any appreciable decrease in air-
craft structural weight, with corresponding
increase in useful load, is dependent upon the
availability of materials having higher mod-
ulus density ratios than any now available. So,
the prospect of decreasing ton-mile costs
through decrease of airplane structural weight
is considerably dependent upon future metal-
lurgical, materials and structural research,
although a shift in Interest from high perform-

The opinions expressed herein are the writer's own, but acltnowiedg-
nnent is made for use of some of the technical data contained in the
published worl< of Messrs. W. W. Davies. R, D. Kelly. W. C. Mentzer
and Hal E. Nourse of United Air Lines Transport Corporation, and Mr.
Carlos Wood of the Douglas Aircraft Company.

ance to useful load ratio should have beneficial
results.

A consideration of the lift drag ratio pre-
viously mentioned shows that an improvement
in this ratio can be obtained by decreasing
drag for a given lift, and this is the direction
in which most aerodynamic research has been
pointed. The reduction of drag, however, is
in the same category as the present efforts to
Improve the efficiency of the aircraft gasoline
engine; in either case painstaking work is re-
quired to gain a small percentage Improve-
ment. A large gain in efficiency of aircraft
as load carriers waits upon new principles of
flight or propulsion, and as to these, the possi-
bilities are interesting, but probability of real-
ization remote.

These remarks with regard to greater
commercial utilization of the airplane may
seem to be pessimistic, but are not meant to
be so except as may be necessary to deflate
some of the glamour with which this subject
has been surrounded. It is reiterated that the
utilization of the commercial airplane Involves
complex political and economic factors as well
as those of an engineering nature, and it is
upon these first two factors that government
agencies, the operators and manufacturers
could well spend Intensive effort. The com-
mon citizen should not be misled into believing
that great numbers of transport aircraft can
be economically self-supporting in the near
future, and he should be Informed that the
building up of the great airways systems nec-
essary for this country's post-war leadership
will continue to be a matter of public support

"FROM PYRAMIDS TO PENTHOUSE"—
INSTRUCTIVE COURSE AT LEGION PALACE

The California Palace of the Legion of Honor an-
nounces a new course, "From Pyramids to Pent-
house," every Wednesday from 10:30 a.m. until
12 noon for 11 consecutive weeks. Admission is
free.

The first half hour of the course is given by
Dr. Jermayne MacAgy, who will trace architecture
from the early Egyptian times to the present day.
The next hour is devoted to the history of furniture
design, from ancient times to the present, con-
ducted by Miss Elizabeth Wisner. The lectures
will be illustrated with slides. To anyone inter-
ested in furniture from the point of interior decora-
tion as well as to the scholar, these lectures will
furnish valuable background information.

AUGUST, 1943

WILL THE ENGINEER REPLACE THE ARCHITECT?

Editorial in the Federal Architect

This period is a low ebb for architecture.
Architecture has gone into a sleeping-beauty
coma. Its fair face is there; its lovely form is
there. But if it breathes it is not apparent. If
its heart beats, it is a still throb.

The long arm of the War Production Board
has withheld priorities for civilian construction,
justly, in view of the emergency. The same
long arm has restricted materials for govern-
ment construction.

And so that great responsibility of the pro-
fession, the providing of beautiful forms from
gracious materials, is for the time inoperative.
The other great responsibility of the profession,
the efficient and effective planning and ar-
rangement of buildings and groups of build-
ings is reduced in volume, existing only in
government work.

There now comes the question, how can the
profession recover? It cannot recover without
inspired personnel. It is an inspirational pro-
fession, depending for progress upon continu-
ing manifestations of genius.

Can those architectural geniuses who have
gone into the armed forces, who have joined
the ranks of civilian Federal employees, who
have devoted their talents to private endeav-
ors unconnected with architecture — can they
return after the emergency, don the East Wind-
sor tie, the Michael Angelian halo, the purple
smock and at once awake the sleeping beauty?

Or will the engineer be there first? Will the
public listen to the engineer's testimony that
the architect is no longer a planner but just a
beauty-doctor, a knitter of a pretty shirt to
cover inspired engineering structures?

There has been the public talk of recent
months that engineering has increased in re-
sponsibility, what with new and complicated
methods of structural support, with involved
designs for air-conditioning, with fluorescent
lights, high-speed elevators, controlled heat-
ing, telephones, dictaphones and the like. At

the same time, the talk goes on, the architec-
ture has decreased in responsibility, following
the abolition of Corinthian columns, heavily
modelled ornament, highly wrought metals: fol-
lowing the decision to make architecture the
expression of structure and mechanical ar-
rangements.

The engineers probably feel that, if archi-
tecture is merely the expression of their art,
rather than an uplifted thing which their art
is to support and implement, engineers might
do their own expressing.

Perhaps they might hire men skilled in archi-
tecture to be draftsmen for them. But if the
major part of the building is engineering, say
they, and if the major part of architecture is
the expressing of engineering, then architec-
ture as architecture has ceased to be.

The engineers are entitled to this point of
view. If they do not understand that architec-
ture Is a profession that aims to create a fin-
ished product of beauty and studied utility,
they have to be excused for thinking that all
any project need actually be is strongly built,
well-heated, efficiently lighted, carefully piped;
and there is perfection.

How are architects going to knock out that
idea? hlow are they going to set up again the
precious fact that this generation and the next
do not stand on the street corner, and exclaim,
as they look breathlessly at a building. "What
factor of safety! What wet bulb readings!
What foot-candles! What thermostats! What
annunciator systems!"

If it is good architecture the public's breath-
lessness is due to a conviction of inner beauty
which they do not wish to understand. It is the
conviction that they are looking at something
beautiful and heart-warming.

hlow are architects going to convince the
world again that only they can design such
works of genius?

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

1-A POST-WAR GYMNASIUM

2— Open Type School Near Aircraft Factory

This post-war gymnasium (see cut above), now being designed in the office of Marsh, Smith
& Powell, Los Angeles, will be ready for construction after the war when critical materials
become available. The building will be built of reinforced concrete.

Designed with Lamella ceiling, tie rods are eliminated by the low massive concrete side-
walls and by the use of underfloor ties. Pro-tection from direct rays of the sun on the play-
ing floor is had by means of specially designed dormers in the ceiling. The building is for the
Banning hiigh School and besides serving as a gymnasium may be appropriately used for
community dances and social functions.

The Lincoln School at Red-
lands was completed in 1941 as
a W.P.A. project, consisting of
nine classrooms, kindergarten,
library and administrative of-
fices.

The high percentage of Latin [_
Americans attending this school HHL
gave opportunity for a colorful ^P
building. Exterior stucco is a
neutral gray with eaves trim a
deep blue-green. The windows
are a warm olive, doors a pur-
ple brown. The ceiling of the

shelter is blue with circular 'j^ z*^*^'

steel columns painted a light
magenta. I

The tradition of an annual

* hi4

AUGUST, 1943

View from street. Buildings occupy an area 203 feet in depth by 419 feet in length.
The set-bacli from street curb is approximately 80 feet.

Because of its close proximity to the Douglas Aircraft factory, frequent additions to this
school hove been made in recent months. The building is an excellent example of the Cali-
fornia open-type school, arranged around patios with open corridors supported on slender
steel columns.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

VIEWS OF THE JOHN ADAMS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
MONICA. CALIFORNIA
SMITH & POWELL. Architects

Small reflecting pool as seen from the administration offices.

AUGUST, 1943

Wide open corridors and qenerous lawn space with tropical planting, create a cheerful
atmosphere for the students attending the John Adams Junior High School,
Santa Monica, California.

circus at this school, which has been carried on for many years, gave meaning to the carved
stucco decoration over the kindergarten entrance. (Cut on front cover.)

The John Adams Junior hHigh School in Santa Monica, due to the close proximity to the
Douglas Aircraft factory, has been enlarged several times subsequent to its initial construc-
tion.

The original building was one of the first of the California open type school plans,
arranged around patios with open corridors supported on slender steel columns and plain,
simple masses for the various plan elements.

Because of simple form, an unusual and carefully studied color scheme was used on the
building which is attracting considerable attention.

The building is designed around two patios, the northernmost one flanked by the admin-
istration unit at the entrance, the library, art department, mathematics, foreign language and
social studies class rooms. The southern patio is surrounded by commercial department,
domestic science, school cafeteria and general science wings.

Opening out from the administrative offices is a paved brick terrace arranged around
decorative planning spaces and a small reflecting pool.

The overall dimensions of the building are 203 feet In depth by 419 feet in length. A
generous lawn in front of the building gives it a setting, the set-back being approximately
80 feet to the main line of the structure.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

ARCHITECTS' BULLETIN

Issued For
THE STATE ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTS

Northern Section

STATE ASSOCIATION MEMBER
OF THE

iIerican institute of architects

Editor

I William C. Ambrose

iress all communication for publication in

II Bulletin to W. C. Ambrose. 369 Pine
t«t, San Francisco. Calitornia. Office of
h! Northern Section. 369 Pine Street. San
rjcisco.

STATE ASSOCIATION OFFICERS

li Norman K. Blanchard. San Francisco

'fe-Pres.. Walter R. Hagedohm, Los Angeles

Vy Rowland H. Crawford. Beverly Hills

Insurer David H. Horn, Fresno

Regional Director — Southern Section

Gordon B. Kaufmann

Regional Director — Northern Section

Henry H. Gutterson

Executive Board — Northern Section

i Norman K. Blanchard. San Francisco

's-Pres Russell G. de Lappe. Modesto

iretary Hervey P. Clark. San Francisco

lasurer David H. Horn, Fresno

Board of Directors

erick H. Reimers. Francis Ward. Malcolm
Jl. Reynolds, John S. Bolles. Andrew T.
Hass. Henry H. Gutterson. Vincent G.
itaney. Alfred C. Williams.

Northern Section Advisory Council

(\ Francisco District #\:

Clarence W. Mayhew, President
, Elizabeth Boyter Henry Collins

; Francis Chinn Edmund de Martini

Rudolph Igaz Mark Daniels

j Charles W. Masten Vincent G. Raney
I Noble Newsom
it Bay District #2:
' Theo N. Thompson. Chairman
\ A. C. Williams

Loy Chamberlain
keley District #3:
! Gwynn Officer. Berkeley
irth Bay District #4:
! William F. Herbert, Santa Rosa
Vin District #5:
I John S. Bolles. Ross
.,wer San Joaquin District #6:
' Russell G. de Lappe, Modesto
Sper San Joaquin District #7:
I David H. Horn, Fresno
nta Clara District #8:

Gifford E. Sobey. San Jose
lo Alto District #9:
; William F. Hempel. Palo Alto
■n Mateo District #10

Leo J. Sharps. Burlingame
cramento District #11:

Herbert E. Goodpastor. Sacramento
3per Sacramento District #12:

Clarence C. Dakin. Redding
Issen District #13:
I Ralph D. Taylor. Susanville
onterey District #14:

Thomas B, Mulvin, Del Monte
^dwood Empire District #15:

F. T. Georgeson. Eureka

THE SNAKE SWALLOWS ITSELF

Reminiscent of the days (1924-1929) when architects prepared nicely typed
prospectus sheets on proposed apartment houses and hotels. Is an article in
the July Issue of Harpers Magazine. Bernard B. Smith Is the author, and the
piece is prettied up by a little black and white sketch of Mount Vernon as
a head piece.

Those able and willing to remember back before the New Deal will recall
that, in the tooting twenties, the office air was full of land value, building cost,
financing expense, rental-per-room, occupancy, loan value, equity, taxes,
operating expense, etc., all adding up to a net return on the Investment of
twenty two per cent — or the set-up had to be done all over again. That was
partly an aftermath of the first world war, when all was to qo up and never
come down. The "gravity" of the situation was not recognized.

The second world war is not yet finished as this Is being written, but,
though history does not repeat, some old times are being plagiarized. In his
hiarpers article Mr. Smith flirts around with the charms of mass production
and better things for better living through plastics, but his serious attention
is reserved for a scheme for housing which makes the familiar story of the
cat fur farm on the remote Island seem a little childish. In short, his proposal
is that district organizations be formed in which all agree to build new houses
under commitments to tear down said houses after twenty years. By using
the tear-down formula he proves that with the addition of only eighty-two
cents a month to the present F.H.A. scale of payments for a $5,000.00 house,
funds will be available at the end of the twenty years for the replacement of
the $5,000.00 house, which has been designed to just last out the twenty, and
to build a spanking new house. Might we assume that the new house would
be, perhaps, mass tailored to meet the mold of the man of the hour, and that
the leopard could not change his spots for another twenty years?

The build-for-twenty-years Idea has been expounded locally by one of our
most prominent California architects, but we had not seen the financial justi-
fication before. Just how one designs a house which wll; last for twenty
years, and thereby save twenty per cent In first cost, and which will not last
thirty years is perhaps a fit subject for another article. We would like to see
it. And how one saves the foundation of the outmoded house for the con-
struction of the modern-plus-twenty-years house also Intrigues us.

For the architects of twenty years practice there Is a nostalgic charm to
Mr. Smith's article. To the newcomers to practice it is, perhaps, an indication
of the post-war pencil sharpening in store for them. At any rate, it is lots
of fun. Read It. But we wonder if the Mt. Vernon picture was appropriate.

UGUST, 1943

When last heard of, Wayne S. Hertz-

\- — ^

I Herfxka I l<a, past president of the State As-

«c js sociation of California Architects,

was in North Africa in the Engineers Corps and had
been advanced in rank from Captain to Major. William
Knowles, his former partner in the architectural firm
of hiertzka and Knowles, has been engaged in v/ar work
in the southwest section of the United States.

From the other side of the world
I Masten | comes news that Charles M. Masten

^ ^ of the firm of Masten and Hurd,

Architects, of San Francisco is a Major in the Corps of
Engineers and is building a railway somewhere In China.
A good architect Is a good man, wherever he may be.

Colonel Lester W. Hurd was In San

•o fo

I Hurd 1 Francisco the first part of the month. His
5* ^« job as Chief of the Construction Division

Chemical Warfare Service, makes the whole United
States a part of his beat. Though the great era of
plant construction for all kinds of war Industries has
passed the emergency stage, the California friends of
Colonel Hurd know that where he Is there Is action.

Walter T. Steilberg, architect, was
back In San Francisco recently to
attend the marriage of his daugh-
ter. For the past sixteen months Mr. Steilberg has been
a civilian employee of the Government doing construc-
tion work in Alaska. Much of his time was spent on
Kodlak Island. In spite of the weather which makes
the average stay of employees on contract work in
that region only forty-five days, our hardy architect
Is going back for more. Pioneering Is In his blood,
whether it be In new forms of construction or in bat-
tling the fog and wind of the Aleutians.

!8-

Steilberg

DORMITORY FOR SERVICE MEN

Robert McCarthy, war housing contractor whose
record of achievement was featured in the July issue
of Architect and Engineer, and which brought forth
much favorable comment, recently built in one day
a dormitory for service men In the San Francisco Civic
Center. The ultimate scheme calls for a total of six
units to cost approximately $6,000 a unit. Eventually
there would be accommodations for 700 service men.

ENGINEERS CONSOLIDATE OFFICES

The Donald R. Warren Company announce con-
solidation of its two Oakland offices by moving the
Eighteenth Street office to the I 0th floor of the Syn-

dicate Building, 1440 Broadway, where a large force
of engineers is engaged under James M. Fox on an
extensive alloy steel expansion program for the Kaiser
Company. The Warren Company is in full charge of
the structural design of the Kaiser Company's Fon-
tana plant.

ENGINEERS IN ARMED SERVICE

The following members of the Structural Engineers
Association of Southern California are serving with
the U. S. Armed Forces:

ARMY

Name Rank Stationed

BEANFIELD, R. McC, Mapr, C of E ..Tucson, Arizona

BENIOFF, Ben, Lieut-Col., C of E Salt Lake City, Utah

BULLOCK, Virgil W., Maior. C of E Honolulu, T. H.

BUTZ, D. C, Captain, C of E Honolulu, T. H.

COMBS, T. C. Lieut. -Col., C of E . .Canip Claiborne, Louisiana

DERRICK, C. J., Capt., AF Kingman, Arizona

EVANS, E. A„ Brigadier-General, CA Miami, Florida

GREENLEE, William D., Lleut.-Col., C of E San Francisco

IRVIN, Leslie A., First Lieut., CA Ft. WInfleld Scott, Calif.

KADOW, R. J., Capt., C of E Costa Rica

SHIELD, JOHN E., Maior, C of E Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo.

SHUGART, Donald F„ Col., AF .. North Carolina

WILSON, Win E., Maior, AF Washington, D. C.

NAVY

DeSWARTE, C. G., Lieut.-Comdr., CEC Williamsburg, Va.

DICKEY, Walter Linnaes, Lieut., CEC Alameda, Calif.

GRADY, Hamilton Gamble, Lieut., CEC Williamsburg, Va.

HERD, Charles M., Lt.-Comdr., CEC-V (S) Hueneme, Calif.

JOHNSON, Irving Laurence, Lt.-Comdr., CEC Honolulu, T.H.

KING. Harold Y., Lieut., CEC - Williamsburg, Va.

OMSTED, Harald, Lleut.-Comdr., CEC Norfolk, Va.

SAUER, Arthur A., Lieut.-Comdr., CEC ...Seattle, Wash.

WRIGHT, William T., Lt.-Comdr., CEC-V (Si San Diego. Calif.

MARINES

FOX, William J., Col., AF .Solomons

DOUGLAS, Donald, First Lieut ...Camp Elliott, Calif.

GORDON B. KAUFMANN & ASSOCIATES

Gordon B. Kaufmann, architect of Los Angeles, now
serving his country as lieutenant-colonel In the Army,
is keeping his Southern California office intact by a
reorganization of the firm, taking in his associates as
co-partners. These men are J. Harry Hall, production
chief; Robert E. Backus, architect, specifications and
materials; Henry L. Eggers, architect and designer and
Laurence J. Waller, structural engineer, the latter a
recent arrival from Washington where he was chief
structural engineer of the Pentagon Building. Gordon
B. Kaufmann and Associates have offices at 627 South
Carondelet Street, Los Angeles.

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ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

Producers' CouNca Page

Northern California Chapter

The National Organization of Manufacturers of Quality Building Materials and Equipnnent
Affiliated with the AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHTECTS

Charles J. Nicholas this a stronger central organization for the entire building-
year holds down the re- products nnanufacturing industry, cooperation of all
sponsible job of heading branches of the construction industry, and accelera-
up this Chapter's Fellow- tion of post-war preparations. In specific detail, here

ship Committee. This
means that Nick not only
takes all the blame for
the all-important "Xmas
Jinks," but also holds the
job of passing out the
introductions and glad-
handing the guests at our
monthly get - togethers.
Nick's a San Francisco
native son of 1902 vin-
tage, and the number of responsibilities that he can
handle at one and the same time is enough to make
you gasp. Besides the job outlined above, Nick
is presently Program Chairman of the American So-
ciety of Military Engineers, a member of the Trade
Development Committee of the San Francisco Cham-
ber of Commerce, Past-President of the West Portal
Lions Club and ambassador-at-large from Crane Co

Charles J. Nicholas

are the 10 points —

1. To continue active Washington office. To give
all possible aid to war construction, war production
and re-conversion.

2. To stimulate local Council Chapters to greatest
usefulness during the war and in the post-war era.

3. To continue publication of the Technical Bulle-
tin on a flexible schedule adapted to changing condi-
tions.

4. To utilize the assistance of the Council's Ad-
visory Board to the utmost.

5. To collaborate with the American Institute of
Architects on the program outlined by the special
committee, and expand relationships with other groups
in the Industry, such as engineers, contractors, home
builders, dealers, etc.

6. To promote dimensional coordination and mod-

to northern California. Right now Nick is wrapped ular products. To encourage acceptance of proposed
up in the post-war situation, with an eye to the north- American Standard (ASA A62).

ern California market. Nick confidently predicts a
business boom after hlltler and HIirohito become past-
tense, and bases his prediction on several thorough
studies of the post-war problem.

And we're inclined to agree with Nick. Certainly
the amazing resourcefulness exhibited by our member
friends in adapting themselves to war-time conditions
goes a long way toward inspiring confidence In the

7. To broaden the activities of the Market Analysis
Committee with respect both to present and post-war
markets.

8. To accelerate the Council's post-war studies. To
be prepared to propose industry programs for maxi-
mum employment and quality construction, regardless
of whether the war ends quickly or is prolonged.

9. To broaden the base of the Council ... of man-
post-war outlook. Such members who have not only yf^^turers and trade groups for a still stronger central

succeeded In maintaining their organizations, but
have rendered valuable services under most difficult
conditions, should certainly be able to take the prob-
lems of post-war re-converslon In their stride.

The above thoughts were Inspired after taking in
our last meeting, and giving an ear to the interesting
talks by Lou Saylor of Vermont Marble and Hal Heakin
of Pacific Foundry, representing International Nickel
Company.

organization for the manufacturing wing of the Indus-
try.

10. To take the lead in bringing about coopera-
tion of all branches of the construction Industry on
common problems.

Chuck Kraft of Kraftlle comes in for new responsi-
bilities, having been appointed Liaison Officer for
northern and southern California, Washington state
and Denver. This good news means that western
Ten Points cover the ambitious program for the year chapters are going to have a closer tie-in with the
1943-44, as announced by the Producers' Council, Inc. Board of Directors. Chuck has also been appointed
In essence, these plans cover continued active support to the Membership Committee and the Technical
to the War Program, plans to expand the Council as Cooperation Committee of the National Council.

USE QUALITY PRODUCTS

CONSULT AN ARCHITECT

PRODUCERS' COUNCIL— Continued
Big Plans for our September meeting are on the
boards of Program Chairman Bob Telfer's program-
design shop. This meeting will lay emphasis on the
Council's No. I project for '43-'4'4 — "Push Post-War
Planning." A meeting on this topic, besides being
timely, holds plenty of promise of worthwhile develop-
ments. Because of our unique position in the building
industry, the Council rightly recognizes its opportunity
to coordinate its many ramifications.
Details aren't definite at this writing, but the out-
line looks plenty interesting. We're referring to the
plan for Producers' Council members to listen to post-
war thoughts of architects, engineers and others. Look
for further details as to date, place and speakers in
the program announcement — you'll get yours in the
mail shortly.

Look Under "P" in your Auto-Dex and you'll dis-
cover these words — "Producers' Council Roster — See
Last Page — -Directory." Now flip the indicator to
"XYZ," lift the next page — and there it is. Tell your
Architect and Engineer friends about it — and let's not
forget it ourselves.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER

The July 13th meeting of Southern California
Chapter, A. I. A., was featured by an informative talk
on "The Post-War Construction Program for Los An-
geles County," by Gordon L. McDonough, chairman
of the Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles County.
The meeting was sponsored by Chairman John C.
Austin's two committees, "Public Works" and "The
Architect and Governmental Relations."

The following new Junior Associates were elected
to membership at the business meeting which preceded
the evening's highlights: Dan C. Cherrier, Gerald
Henry Sense, Tom F. Merchant, Alfred John Luthi,
Basil G. Pantages, Miles G. Swanson Allan S. Hart-
shorn.

This month's meeting was held jointly with the Pro-
ducers' Council with "Prefabrlcation" the main topic
of discussion.

ARCHITECTS STILL MOVING AROUND

William Clement Ambrose has moved from 224
Kearny Street to 369 Pine Street, San Francisco.

BIrge M. Clark changes his mailing address from
Post Office Box 205, Palo Alto, to 310 University Ave-
nue, same city.

W. D. Coates, Jr., has moved from the Rowell Build-
ing, Fresno, to 41 I Mason Building, same city.

John H. Devitt from 279 Fourteenth Avenue to
2539 Clay Street, San Francisco.

Vernon DeMars from I 195^ Euclid Avenue, Berke-
ley, to 4533 32nd Street, North, Arlington, Va.

Charles DuBois from 1766 Neale Street, San Diego,

to 2242'/2 South Beverly Glen Boulevard, West Los
Angeles.

John I. Easterly from Route 2, Box 41, Healdsburg,
to 2419 McGee Avenue, Berkeley.

Robert Halley, Jr., from 625 Broadway, San Diego,
to Spreckels Building, Suite 602, same city.

Charles H. Franklin from 1505 Francisco Street, San
Francisco, to 2645 Chestnut Street, same city.

Samuel Heiman from 605 Market Street, San Fran-
cisco, to 68 Post Street, same city.

Hunt & Chalmers from 408 South Spring Street, to
816 West Fifth Street, Los Angeles.

Albert R. Hunter, Jr., from 1604 Capistrano Ave-
nue, Berkeley, to 5809 Mendoza Avenue, Oakland.

Edgar B. Hurt from 71 I Arbor Drive, San Leandro,
to 841 47th Avenue, San Francisco.

John Hudspeth from I 145 Grizzly Peak Boulevard,
Berkeley, to 391 Fairmount Avenue, Oakland.

John T. Jacobsen from 1414 Textile Tower, Seattle,
Wash., to 719 Second Street, same city.

Oscar G. Joseph from 2606 Wilshire Boulevard, Los
Angeles, to 101 South Rockingham, same city.

S. Graham Latta from I 13 East Los Fellz Boulevard,
Glendale, to 1824 Roslta, same city.

Marshall R. Lawson from 424 South Broadway to
205 North Alexandria, Los Angeles.

Carl C. McEIvy from 3464 East Seventh Street, to
5151 Ellenwood Drive, Los Angeles.

William G. Merchant from 406 Russ Building, San
Francisco, to 57 Post Street, Room 804, same city.

William Mooser from 244 Kearny Street, to 251
Kearny Street, Suite 310, San Francisco.

Harrison J. Overturf from 410 Orpheum Theater
Building, Seattle, Wash., to 7350 51st, N. E., same
city.

F. L. Roerhig from I 136 North Hill Avenue, Pasa-
dena, to 339 West Palm Avenue, Monrovia.

Palmer Sabin from 3305 Wilshire Boulevard, Room
9, Los Angeles, to I I 30 Shenandoah Road, Pasadena.

Monroe D. Sandell from 4645 East Talmadge
Drive, San Diego, to 1545 North Las Palmas Avenue,
Los Angeles.

Wilton Smith from 109th Street and Jasper Ave-
nue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, to 155 Sansome
Street, San Francisco.

Whitney R. Smith from 5805 Estelle, San Diego, to
1468 North Chester Street, Pasadena.

S. E. Sonnichsen from 663 Paramount BIdg., 644
Lucas Avenue, Los Angeles, to I 14 West North Ave-
nue, Baltimore, Md.

Eugene Weston, Jr., from 502 Architects' Building,
Los Angeles, to 5112 Oakwood, LaCanada, Calif.

G. Stanley Wilson from Mission Inn Building, 3616
Main Street, Riverside, to 4681 Sixth Street, same
city.

David H. Horn from 564 Market Street, San Fran-
cisco, to the Claremont Hotel, Berkeley.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

Estimator's Guide

Giving Cost of Building Materials, Wage Scale, Etc.

Amounts given are figuring prices and are made up from average quotations furnished by material
houses to San Francisco contractors. 3% Sales Tax on all materials but not labor.

Bond — 1'/2% amount of contract.
Government work %%.

Brickwork —

Common, $43 to $45 per 1000 laid, (ac-
cording to class of work).

Face, $125 to $150 per 1000 laid, (accord-
ing to class of work).

Brick Steps, using pressed brick, $1.50 lin.
ft.

Brick Veneer on frame buildings, $1.10 sq.
ft.

Common f.o.b. cars, $16.00 a yard. Cart-
age extra. $2.50 per 1000.

Face, f.o.b. cars, $55.00 to $80.00 per
1000, carload lots.

Building Paper —

1 ply per 1000 ft. rolL

2 ply per 1000 ft. roll..

3 ply per lOOO ft. roll..
Brownskin. Standard, 500
Sisalkraft, 500 ft. roll-
Sash cord com. No. 7 —
Sash cord com. No. 8.__
Sash cord spot No.

-$3.50
_ 5.00
_ 4.25

Sash cord spot No. 8.™ ——

Sash weights, cast iron, $50.00 ton

Nails, $3.50 bate.

Sash weights, $45.00 per ton.

$1.20 per 100 ft.
, 1.50 per 100 ft.
. 1.90 per 100 ft.
. 2.25 per 100 ft.

Concrete Aggregates —

GRAVEL (all sizes) $l.?5 per ton at bunker; de-
livered, $2.50. All quotations less 10% to con-
tractors.

Top sand
Concrete
Crushed '
Crushed

Bunker Delivered

:k, 1/, to %.._
>-rusnea rock, % to I'/z-.
^loofing gravel

and

...$1.90
. 1.90
. 1.90
. 1.90
. 2.25
. 2.25

$2.50
2.45
2.50
2.50
2.80
2.70

SAND—

River sand

Lapis (Nos. 2 & 4)

Bunker Delivered

$2.25 $2.70

2.85 3.15

._ 2.85 3.10
84c per sack

Common cement (all brands, paper sacks) car-
load lots $2.42 per bbl. f.o.b. car; delivered
$2.i0.

Cash discount on carload lots, lOc a barrel,

Atlas White
Calaveras White
Medusa Whi

( I to 100 sacks, $2.70 sad

Vhite i warehouse or delivery; $7.(

ite ( bbl. carload lots.

Forms, Labors average $40.00 per M.

Average cost of concrete in place, exclu-
sive of forms, 35c per cu. ft.;
with forms, 60c.

4-inch concrete basement floor

I2I/2C to 14c per sq. ft.

Rat-proofing ^'/jc

Concrete Steps $1.25 per lin. ft.

Dampprooftng and Waterproofing —

Two-coat work, 20c to 30c per yard.

Membrane waterproofing — 4 layers of sat-
urated felt, $4.50 per square.

Hot coating work, $2.00 per square.

Medusa Waterproofing, 15c per lb., San
Francisco Warehouse.

Tricocel waterproofing.

{See representative.)

Electric Wiring— $12.00 to $15.00 per outlet
for conduit work (including switches).
Knob and tube average $3.00 per outlet.
(Available only for priority work.)

Elevators —

Excavation —

Sand, 60 cents; clay or shale $1 per yard.

Teams, $12.00 per day.

Trucks, $22 to $27.50 per day.

Above figures are an average without
water. Steam shovel work in large quan-
tities, less; hard material, such as rock,
will run considerably more.

Fire Escapes —

Ten-foot galvanized iron balcony, with
stairs, $150 installed on new buildings;
$160 on old buildings.

Floors —

Composition Floors — 22c to 40c per sq. ft.
In large quantities, 18c per sq. ft. laid.
Mosaic Floors — 80c per sq. ft.
Duraflex Floor — 23c to 30c sq. ft.
Rubber Tile — 50c to 75c per sq. ft.
Terazzo Floors — 45c to 60c per sq. ft.
Terano Steps — $1.60 lin. ft.

Hardwood Flooring (delivered to building] —
Hx2>/4- y,x2- Ax2-

TiG TJG So. Ed.

CIr. Qtd. Oak $144.00 M $122.00 M $141.00 M

Sel. ptd. Oak 118.00 M 101.00 M 114.00 M

CIr. Pla. Oak _ 120.00 M 102.00 M 115.00 M

Sel. Pla. Oak 113.00 M 92.00 M 107.00 M

CIr. Maple 125.00 M 113.00 M

Wage— Floor layers, $12.00.

Note — Above quotations are all board measure

except last column which is sq. ft.

Glass (consult with manufacturers) —

Double strength window glass, 20c par

square foot.

Plate 80c per square foot (unglazed) in

place, $1.00.
Art, $1.00 up per square foot.
Wire (for skylights), glazed, 40c per jq.

foot.
Obscure glass, 30c to 50c square foot.
Glass bricks, $2.50 per sq. ft. in place.
Note — If not stipulated add extra for sot-

ting.

Heating-
Average, $I.9C per sq. ft. of radiation,

according to conditions.
Warm air (gravity) average $48 per regis-
ter.
Forced air, average $68 per register.

Iron — Cost of ornamental iroi, cast iron,
etc., depends on designs.

Lumber (prices delivered to bidg. site) —

No. I common $45.00 per M

" " 43.00 per M

Select O. P. Common.
1x4 No. 2 flooring VG.
1x4 No. 3 flooring VG.
1x6 No. 2 flooring VG,
11/4x4 No. 2 flooring..-.
Slash grain —

1x4 No. 2 flooring

1x4 No. 3 floorina

No. I comrr
Lath

run T. & G..

- 48.00 per M

- 80.00 per M

- 75.00 per M
_ 90.00 per M

- 85.00 per M

._$i5.00 per M
_ &2.00 per M

- 50.00 per M
7.50 per M

Shingles (add cartage to price quoted)-

Redwood, No. I $1.20 per bdle.

Redwood, No. 2 1.00 per bdla.

Red Cedar . 1.40 per bdle.

Plywood — Douglas Fir (add cartage) —
"Plyscord" sheathing (unsanded)

A" 3-ply and 48"x96» $39.75 per M

■■^wwal\■■ (wallboard grade)—

1/4' 3-ply 48"x96'' $43.70 per M

"Plvform" (concrete form grade)—

Vs" 5-ply 48"x96" $117.30 per M

Exterior Plywood Siding—

A" 5ply Fir _ _. $132.00 per M

Redwood (Rustic) I'xB" clear heart..$ 95.00 per M
$5 less per M for A grade.

Millwork — Standard.

O. P. $100 per 1000. R. W. rustic $100.00

per 1000 (delivered).
Double hung box window frames, average

with trim, $6.50 and up. each.
Complete door unit, $10.00.
Screen doors, $3.50 each.
Patent screen windows, 25c a sq. ft.
Cases for kitchen pantries seven ft. high,

per lineal ft., $8.00 each.
Dining room cases, $8.00 per lineal foot.

Rough and finish about 75c per sq. ft.
Labor — Rough carpentry, warehouse heavy

framing (average], $17.50 per M.
For smaller work average. $35.00 to $45.00

per 1000.

Marble — (See Dealers)

Painting —

Two-coat work per yard 50c

Three-coat work _ per yard 70c

Cold water painting per yard lOc

Whitewashing per yard 4c

AUGUST, 1943

Turpentine, $1.08 per gal., in 5 gal. cans,

and 95c per gal. In drums.
Raw Linseed Oil— $1.32 gal. in light drunns.
Boiled Linseed Oil— $1.35 gal. in drums

and $1.48 in 5 gal. cans.

White Lead in oil

Per Lb.

I ton lots, 100 lbs. net weight Il'/2C

500 lbs. and less than I ton I2I/4C

Less than 500 lb. lots I2%c

Red Lead and litharge

I ton lots, 100 lbs. net weight iM/jC

500 lbs. and less than I ton I2I/4C

Less than 500 lb. lots I2y4c

Red Lead in oil

I ton lots, 100 lbs. net weight I2I/2C

500 lbs. and less than I ton I3'/4C

Less than 500 lb. lots 1 32/40

Note — Accessibility and conditions cause
some variance in costs.

Patent Chimneys —

6-inch $ 1 .25 lineal foot

8-inch 1.50 lineal foot

10-inch 2.25 lineal foot

12-inch 3.00 lineal foot

Plasier

Neat wall, per ton delivered in S. F. in
paper bags, $1 7.60.

Plastering — Interior —

Yard

1 coat, brown mortar only, wood lath $0.70

2 coats, lime motar hard finish, wood lath .90

2 coats, hard wall plaster, wood lath .80

3 coats, metal lath and plaster 1.50

Keene cement on metal lath _ 1.60

Ceilings with 3^ hot roll channels metal lath

(lathed only) - 1. 10

Ceilings with y4 hot roll channels metal lath

plastered - 2.00

Single partition % channel lath I side (lath

only - _ 1 . 1 0

Srngle partition % cnannel lath k .ncnes

thick plastered $2.90

4 inch double partition % channel lath 2
sides (lath only) - 2.00

«.inch double oartition % channel lath 2
sides plastered 3.50

Inermax single partition; I" cnanneis; 2'A"
overall partition width, "laste'ed both
sides -....- _ _ - 3.00

Thermax oouble partition: 1" cnanneis: 4%"
overall partition width. Plastered both
sides ...._ 1.00

3 coats over I" Thermax nailed to one side
wood studs or joists 1.50

3 coats over I" Thermax suspended to one
side wood studs with spring sound isola-
tion clip -...- - _ 1.75

Plastering — Exterior — Yard

2 coats cement ilnish, brick or concrete

wall $1.00

3 coats cement finish, No. 16 gauge wire
mesh 1,75

Wood lath, $5.50 to $4.50 per 1000 (not

available)
2.5-lb, metal lath (dipped) (not available).. .19

2.5-lb. metal lath (galvanized) (not avail.) 21

3.4-lb. metal lath (dipped) (not available).. .22

3.4.1b. metal lath (galvanized) (not avail.) 24

%-inLh hot roll Channels. $72 per ton.
Finish plaster, $18.90 ton: in paper sacks.
Dealers commission, $1.00 off above quotations.

$13.85 (rebate lOc sack).
Lime, l.o.b. warehouse, $2,25 bbl.; cars, $2.15
Lime, bulk (ton 2000 lbs.). $16.00 ton.
Wall Board 5 olv $50,00 per M.
Hydrate Lime. $25,00 ton.

Plasterers Wage Scale _ _ $1.75 per hour

Lathers Wage Scale 1.75 per hour

Hod Carriers Wage Scale...._ _ 1.50 per hour

Composition Stucco— $1.80 to $2.00 sq. yard
(applied).

Plumbing —

From $100.00 per fixture up, according to
grade, quantity and runs.

Roofing —

"Standard" tar and gravel, $7.00 per sq.

for 30 sqs. or over.
Less than 30 sqs. $7.50 per sq.
Tile, $20.00 to $35.00 per square.
Redwood Shingles, $7.50 per square in

place.
Copper, $16.50 to $18.00 per sq. in place.

5/2 #1-16" Cedar Shingles,

4I/2" Exposure 8.00 Square

5/8 X 16" — # I Cedar

Shingles, 5" Exposure 9.00 Square

4/2 #1-24" Royal Shingles,

71/2" Exposure 9.50 Square

Re-coat with Gravel, $3 per sq.

Asbestos Shingles, $15 to $25 per sq.

laid.
Slate, from $25.00 per sq., according to

color and thickness.
1/2 X 25" Resawn Cedar Shakes,

10" Exposure 10.50

3/4 X 25" Resawn Cedar Shakes,

10" Exposure 11.50

I X 25" Resawn Cedar Shakes,

10" Exposure 12, bO

Above prices are for shakes in place.

Sheet Metal —

Windows— Metal, $1.75 a sq. ft.

Fire doors (average), including hardware

$1.75 per sq. ft.

Skylights — (not glazed)
Copper, 90c sq. ft. (flat).
Galvanized iron, 40c sq. ft. (flat).

Vented hip skylights 60e sq. ft.

Steel — Structural (None available except fo'
defense work)
$150 ton (erected), this quotation is an
average for comparatively small auan-
tlties. Light truss work higher. Plain
beams and column work in large quan-
tities $140 per ton.
Steel Reinforcing (None available except for
defense work) .
$150 to $200 per ton, set.

Stone —

Granite, average, $6.50 cu. foot in place
Sandstone, average Blue, $4.00. Boise,

$3.00 sq. ft. in place.
Indiana Limestone, $2.80 per sq. ft. in

place.

Store Fronts —

Copper sash bars for store fronts, corner.

center and around sides, will average

$1.00 per lineal foot.
Note — Consult with agents.

Tile — Floor, Wainscot, etc. — (See Dealers)
Asphalt Tile — 18c to 28c per sq. ft. in-
stalled.
Wall Tile-
Glazed Terra Cotta Wall Units (single faced)
laid in place — approximate prices:

2 X 6 X 12 $1.00iq. ff.

4 X 6 X 12 1.15 iq. ft.

2 X 8 X 16 I.IO sq.ft.

4 I 8 X 16 1.30 sq.ft.

Venetian Blinds —

40c per square foot and up. Installation
extra.

Windows — Steel

Factory type sash 30c ft.
Ventilators for steel sash $5.00 each.

1 943

BUILDING TRADES WAGE SCALES FOR NORTHERN CALI-FORNIA

All crafts, except plasterers, are now working 8 hours a day. Plasterers' time is 6 hours.

CRAFT

ASBESTOS WORKERS $1.!

BRICKLAYERS - I.I

BRICKLAYERS' HODCARRIERS !,■

CARPENTERS - I ■

CEMENT FINISHERS I.:

ELECTRICIANS I.:

ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS I.l

ENGINEERS: Material Hoist I.!

Piledriver I.:

Structural Steel I."

GLASS WORKERS 1.:

IRONWORKERS: Ornamental I.!

Reinf. Rodmen 1.1

Structural I.'

LABORERS: Building

Concrete f

LATHERS l.i

MARBLE SETTERS _ I.'

MOSAIC t TERRAZZO l.(

PAINTERS 1.:

PILEDRIVERS I.'

PLASTERERS l.i

PLASTERERS' HODCARRIERS I.!

PLUMBERS I.;

ROOFERS I.:

SHEET METAL WORKERS I!

SPRINKLER FITTERS I.!

STEAMFITTERS I.!

STONESEHERS (Masons) I.!

TILESETTERS „ I.!

$1.25

$1,371/,

$1,121/2

$1.25

1.871/2

1.50

1.871/2

2.00

1.871/2

2.00

1.40

1.05

1.40

1.43

1.25

1.43

1 .371/2

1.25

1.50

1.25

1.50

1.371/2

I.SO

1.50

1.37%

1.56

1.50

1.61

1.50

1.56

1.371/2

1.25

1.50

1.371/2

1.621/2

1.371/2

I.2S

i.to

1.60

1.75

I.7S

1.621/,

1.75

l.iO

1.60

1.75

1.60

1.25

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1.121/2

1.21

1.25

1.31%

1.371/2

1.31 'A

1.371/,
1.31%

1.31%

1.25

1.31%

1.3 11/4

1.31 'A

1.3 11/4

1.60

1.31%

1.25

1.60

1.75

1.50

1.60

1.371/,

.871/2

.821/2

.81 'A

.85

.81%

.80

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.90

.81 'A

.921/2

.85

.90

1.75

1.50

1.75

1.60

1.75

1.50

1.25

I.3IIA

1.371/2

1.25

1.31%

1.25

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I.l 21/,

1.15-5/8

1.12'/,

1.50

1.28-4/7

1.371/2

1.25

1.35-5/7

1.42-6/7

1.50

I.2S

1.40

1.50

1.40

1.47

1.40

1.66-2/3

1.75

1.66-2/3

1.75

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1.75

1.83-1/3

1.45

1.40

I.IB'A

1.35

1.75

1.40

1.50

1.53-1/8

1.50

1.56%

1.621/2

1.50

1.371/,

1.371/2

I.l 21/2

1.25

1.371/2

1.25

1.371/2

1.433/4

1,371/j

1.50

1.371/2

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1.371/2

1.25

1.621/2

1.50

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1.50

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1.621/2

1.50

1.75

1.50

1.75

1.50

1.75

1.50

1.371/2

1.50

1.371/2

Prepared and compiled by
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA CHAPTER, ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF AMERICA
ca and cooperation of secretaries of General Contractors Associations and Builders Exchanges of Northe

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

DETROIT STEEL LOOKS AHEAD

If the 55,000,000 jobs that will be needed after
Victory are to materialize quickly after the war ends,
planning must be done now, and there are things Mr.
John Q. Citizen can do to be of practical help. That
is the theme of an unusual series of ads now being
inserted in national consumer publications by Detroit
Steel Products Co., makers of Fenestra steel windows
and other building products.

Because this industry is in peace time the No. I
industrial employer, it must take the lead in having
jobs ready soon after the war, not years after, for
the boys who are fighting the war through for us, and
for the millions of production soldiers, now busy in
war plants on work that will end soon after "V-day,"
the advertising points out.

Huge structures of steel and masonry do not spring
up over-night. . . . Schools, hospitals, apartments and
hotels, commercial buildings and stores must take form,
frst, on the drawing board of an architect . . . then
land must be acquired, authorization? secured, finan-
cing worked out. A start must be made . . . months
or years before jobs result.

"What can you do about it?" ask the Fenestra
firm's ads. "Why, as a business man or citizen, call
the need for planning now to the attention of your
local school and hospital boards, your factory execu-
tives, your local and state planning and governing
bodies. Urge them to use available facilities of archi-
tects, engineers, contractors, builders and realtors for
forward planning now. Get going on plans for your
future home, store or apartment building. Then, we'll
have actual construction under way, and millions of
jobs in the building industry soon after the war, not
two, three or five years after."

While the company's officials are giving construc-
tive thought to forward planning, production facilities
of Detroit Steel Products Company are devoted lOO'^f
to war production.

LOUIS M. UPTON. ARCHITECT

Louis M. Upton, 64, passed away in a Berkeley hos-
pital July 16 following a brief illness.

Many fine homes in San Francisco and the Bay
Area built during the last twenty years were designed
by Mr. Upton. His more recent work had been as a
member of the architectural staff of the Federal Hous-
ing Administration in San Francisco. Mr. Upton was
a member of Northern California Chapter, A. I. A.,
and Oakland Masonic Lodge.

FRANK P. ALLEN

Frank P. Allen, 63, architect and structural engi-
neer with offices at 314 South Alexandria Street, Los
Angeles, met with a fatal accident by being hit by
a heavy mortorized lumber carrier at the California
Shipbuilding Corporation yards In Los Angeles early

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As architect and works director of the Lewis &
Clark Exposition at Portland, Oregon, and the Alaskan-
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tion which led to his appointment to a similar post
for the World's Fair at San Diego in 1935-1936. One
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reinforced concrete bridge in the park which he de-
signed and the construction of which he supervised.

Mr. Allen was architect for the Park Manor and
the Maryland apartment hotels in San Diego and the
Savoy, Perry and Waldorf hotels and the Crary Build-
ing in Seattle, Wash.

PROGRESS IN ILLUMINATION

In an interesting discussion of electrical illumination
in a recent number of the magazine Light, Ward Har-
rison, director, Nela Park Engineering Department of
the General Electric Company, says, among many
other things:

In 1913, five footcandles of general Illumination was
unusual and was looked upon as a goal. At that time
a lOO-watt vacuum tungsten lamp cost eighty cents
and gave about 900 lumens. Today the lOO-watt fluor-
escent lamp gives 4200 lumens or nearly five times as
much. The cost of current averages less than half of
what it did In 1913, so that one may easily secure ten
times as much light for the same money.

To prognosticate the future thirty years hence, one
might conclude that 500 footcandles of artificial illu-
mination would be as common then as five was in 1913
or fifty in 1943. He ventures the conclusion that the
cost of lighting In 1973 will be one-tenth of what it is
now.

When you have something that is 80 per cent in-
efficient, as our best light source which today is the
fluorescent lamp, there is still the chance to improve in
the ratio of five to one. This presupposes that In the
future a radically new light source will be discovered or
Invented.

Came the gas-filled lamp. The gas-filled lamp event-
ually became double the efficiency of the vacuum type.
He looks for continued Improvements in fluorescent
lamps from the standpoint of the candlepower main-
tenance.

The two natural obstacles to adequate artificial illu-
mination have always been glare and heat. The fluor-
escent lamp bids fair almost to eliminate the heat. In
1913 they very well knew that glare was a detriment
and we talked about it then in those same generalities
that litter up our lighting literature today.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

SEPTEMBER L H. EVENTS

The California Palace of the Legion of hHonor, San
Francisco, has announced the following schedule of ex-
hibitions and special events for Septennber:

Boxing, Wrestling and Prize Fighting in Art — Opening Sept. 3.
Watercolors by Chee Chin S. Cheung Lee — Opening Sept. I.
Cargoes, Inc. — A selection of modern textile and decorative

arts — Opening Sept, I.
Watercolors by William Ross Cameron — Opening Sept. 2.
Soldiers of Production— Opening Sept. 3. Emblems of Unity

and Freedom — Closing Sept. 15.
Figureheads and Carvings From American Clipper Ships —

Opening Sept. 16.
Paintings From the Collection of Gordon Blending — Through

Oct. II.
Motion Picture Series — Admission Free. Each Saturday at
2:30 p.m.

Sept. 4 — "Jane Eyre" with Virginia Bruce, Colin Clive.

Sept. I I — "Carnival in Flanders" — A romantic comedy.

Sept. 18 — "Great Guy" with James Cagney.

Sept. 25 — Shirley Temple Revival Series-
"Dora's Dunking Doughnuts."
"Managed Money."
"Merrily Yours."

Radio Broadcasts

Art Review— By Miss Elizabeth Wisner
at 6 p.m., Station KJBS.

Sunday, Sept. 19,

FAVORS OUTSIDE SUB-CONTRACTORS

Contractors in the San Francisco Bay area, who have
backlogs of $5,000,000 in war orders, have been asked
by the Government to shift part of their work to sec-
tions of the country which have an adequate labor
supply.

The Associated Press reported from Washington the
army, navy. War Production Board and Maritime Com-
mission have sent a joint letter to all large contractors
in this area asking them to spread their work through
sub-contractors to less critical labor areas.

ARTHUR F. ROUSSEAU

Arthur F. Rousseau, architect, died at Stanford Hos-
pital, San Francisco, August 5, following a lingering
illness. Mr. Rousseau last practiced architecture with
his brother, Oliver, now in the contracting business, as
Rousseau and Rousseau. The firm designed and built
many of the larger apartment houses in San Francisco
and Oakland.

ANNOUNCEMENT

From 1424 North Kings Road, Hollywood, comes
an interesting announcement that Victor Gruenbaum
has recently become a citizen of the United States.
At the same time he has shortened and simplified his
name to Victor Gruen. In the future the firm name
will be Gruen & Krummeck, designers.

Position Wanted — Broad business experience in labor, service,
personnel and labor relations. University graduate, member of
leading technical organizations. Producers' Council, Rotary and
other business groups. Thorough knowledge Pacific Coast indus-
try and interesting acquaintance with architects, engineers and
professional men. At present employed by leading Pacific Coast
organization, stymied due to financial control and therefore
resigning. For personal interview, please write Engineer, c/o
Architect & Engineer, 68 Post Street, San Francisco.

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TRENDS IN ELECTRONICS
By A. C. Monteith*

Electronics is a much used and
nnuch abused term. In the strictest
sense of the v^ord, "electronics" is
that vi'hich has to do with the action
of electrons — such a general defini-
tion sweeps into its arms heat, light,
magnetism, and electricity. The con-
trol of the electron has been the job
of the electrical Industry since its
inception. When radio came along
with the vacuum tube in which elec-
trons are not confined inside copper
wires but pass out into confined
space, we had a new and more re-
stricted definition of electronics.
Gradually, the term "electronics"
was generally applied to all devices
in which electrons do their work in
space and not within solid matter
like copper. On this basis elec-
tronics has become a full fledged
tool of industry.

There has been much discussion
of electronics of late, and there is
some tendency to speak of elec-
tronics as a servant of the future.
Probably $500,000,000 worth of
business has been done in the Indus-
trial field In the last three years,
excluding radio and Radar. This
makes It a "big business" even today.
Electronics Is growing fast. The only
caution for the future Is to be sure
It does not move so fast that we
will be swept off our feet in making
use of it. Let's not use electronics
just because of its popularity at the
moment. Let's appraise each ap-
plication and compare It with the
time-tried mechanical methods. If
it wins out in such a comparison, let's
give it every opportunity. Elec-
tronics is a going business, and if we
keep the application on a sound
basis there is no question about the
future of electronics In industry.

A large portion of this business
has been a direct result of the war,
and this has given engineers an op-
portunity to try new Ideas. Also, it
has provided a sufficient volume to
produce a variety of electronic de-
vices which has helped Interpret the
potential usefulness of electronics.

INCANDESCENT

SUPPLY

COMPANY

647
MISSION STREET

SAN FRANCISCO

Lighting Fixtures and
Lamps, Fireplace Fur-
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Mirrors, Electrical Sup-
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Los Angeles

Independent
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Structural Steel

Ornamental Iron

Steel Service Stations

Steel Tanks

Standard Steel Mill Buildings

Bridges

821 Pine Street

Oakland

Inqhou'

East Pittsburgh. P

Industry Engineering Dept., West-
Electric and Manufacturing Company,

ANDERSON

&
RINGROSE

General Contractors

320 Market Street, San Francisco
Phone CArfield 2245

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

MULLEN MFG.
COMPANY

BANK, STORE AND OFFICE

FIXTURES— CABINET WORK

OF GUARANTEED QUALITY

CHURCH SEATING

Offlc* and Factory:

M-M RAUSCH ST., Bet. 7th and Bth Sti.

San Francisco

Talaphon* UNdarhill 5815

THE TORMEY
COMPANY

GENERAL PAINTERS
AND DECORATORS

Phone UNderhill 1913

563 FULTON STREET
San Francisco

Phone GArfield 1164

Thomas B. Hunter

Consulting Engineer
DESIGNER OF HEATING
AIR CONDITIONING
VENTILATING AND WIRING
SYSTEMS, MECHANICAL
AND ELECTRICAL EQUIP-
MENT OF BUILDINGS

41 SUTTER STREET

ROOM 710

San Francisco California

Robert W. Hunt Company

ENGINEERS

liiiipec'ti.-iii ■ Tests • Consultation

Sriiiiuls and Oilier Structures
Are Built as Designed

When Construction Materials are

Inspected at point oj Manujacture

and during Erection by

ROBERT W. HUNT COMPANY

Cement, Concrete. Chemical. Metallurgical,
X-Ray and Physical Laboratories

Chicago New York Pittsburgh

Lot Angeiai All Large Citiei

San Francisco, 231 Kearny Street

ORGANIZATION

To make sure that we as a com-
pany use this new tool to best ad-
vantage and keep our feet on the
ground, a central electronics group
has just been established in the In-
dustry Engineering Department at
East Pittsburgh. Westinghouse has
some twenty organizations, each com-
plete in itself, building specific prod-
ucts like motors, transformers, and
lamps. But users are not interested
in individual products as such, but
rather the production of aircraft,
rubber, metals, etc Our Industry
Engineers work with all the different
industries to integrate our products
into engineering systems that best
meet production needs. There are
a number of these specialized groups
in Industry Engineering serving the
various industries such as marine,
metal working, general mills, petro-
leum and chemical, central station,
aviation and mining.

The new group of electronics engi-
neers are consultants to guide all of
these Industry Engineers when analyz-
ing specific industry applications. In
this manner careful consideration
will be given electronic methods as
compared with established mechan-
ical means. Thus, the best method
will be used. This way we will keep
electronics on a good, sound basis
compared to the tried and proven
mechanical way of doing things.

TREND

This new organization is essentially
tailored to match some broad elec-
tronic trends we have observed in
industry. For example, for a long
time many industries hesitated to
accept the electronic way of doing
things. Recently, however, many
have shown signs of greatly increased
interest; and once electronics has
proven itself on the job, they become
staunch supporters. So there will
probably be a pyramiding effect.
This has already happened with the
ignitron: Its activity having reached
the level of factory built-and-tested
units, similar to that long used for
such things as metal clad switchgear.

Since improved tubes have often
proved to be the key to major elec-
tronic advances, there is a marked

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G. P. W.
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trend by research groups to concen-
trate on Improved tube character-
istics. The outlook appears encour-
ciging.

Another striking note is the in-
creasing desire of schools and indus-
try to find out how electronics work.
Several months ago Westinghouse
felt this as a definite impact and im-
mediately started plans to produce
an educational movie and a special
ABC booklet on electronics. This
general seeking of knowledge may
well turn out to be the most sig-
nificant trend of this present elec-
tronic era.

The more people understand about
electronics, the more they will put
It to work properly, and the greater
will be its usefulness to industry.

C. OF C. PLANS "WORK PILE"

To form a cushion for the transi-
tory period of the post-war era, the
San Francisco Chamber of Com-
merce is organizing a "work pile"
which may be drawn upon by busi-
ness and industry in the northern
California area. To date, about
70 committees have been formed
and more are to be organized to
carry on the work.

The task of each committee will be
to determine as closely as possible
the present and future status of the
industry or business it represents and
build a prospect list of those who
will need various facilities or services
when the war is over. This will auto-
matically create a prospect and mar-
ket list for all those who participate.

The committees obtain their in-
formation from a report form on
which the individual business units
answer the following questions:

1 . Are you planning now for post-
war business, and does your plan call
for immediate action at the close of
hostilities?

2. What immediate reemployment
will be possible? List occupations
and numbers needed.

3. What immediate remodeling
will you do? Give approximate cost
of: (a) Front or exterior improve-

ment; (b) interior remodeling or im-
provement, and (c) other improve-
ments.

4. What immediate repairs will
you make? Give approximate costs,
including decorating, new linoleum
or wall coverings, electrical and me-
chanical repairs, etc,

5. What new signs will you install?
Give approximate cost.

6. Will you launch a new adver-
tising program?

7. Will you undertake plant or
store expansion and approximately
what will be its cost?

8. What new or added machinery
and equipment will you purchase?
Approximate cost.

CITY PLAN

The Editor: In the June issue of
your magazine there appeared an
article about the city plan that I
had on exhibit in the San Francisco
Museum. I should appreciate your
forwarding me 4-6 copies of said
number.

It may interest you to know that
besides the wide national publicity
that the plan has received, I have
just recently been asked to send
material covering the plan to Edin-
burgh, Scotland, for an exhibition to
be held there and sponsored by the
Edinburgh Architectural Association.

Very truly yours,

C. B. TROEDSSON.
524 Cornell Drive,
Burbank, Calif.

CANCEL ALL CONVENTIONS

Joseph B. Eastman, director of the
Office of Defense Transportation, re-
cently renewed his request for can-
cellation of conventions and similar
group meetings.

Convention travel, Mr. Eastman
said, is interfering with military and
essential war business travel. He as-
serted that the passenger transporta-
tion problem was now so serious that
even those organizations whose con-
ventions would be devoted to mat-
ters closely concerned with the war
might contribute more to the war
effort by canceling their meetings.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

Robert McCarthy

Your

WAR BONDS

built this Vital
Shipyard Housing—

The Robert McCarthy Co. Methods Save Time and Money

The Robert McCarthy Company, general con'
tractors, recently finished 4,000 apartment units in
Richmond.

Part of your War Bond purchases go for this neces'
sary program. Rentals will reimburse the Government.

Completed in record time, this 4,000'unit job in
Richmond for the U. S. Maritime Commission also
showed a two-fold saving in money — the Robert
McCarthy Company's low bid saved money and their
saving of time will shorten the war and thereby save
additional money in the end.

The Robert McCarthy Company, San Francisco,
is an organization of specialized ability in the con-
struction field, having at its command all the neces'
sary modern equipment for the successful completion
of all types of construction.

Other McCarfhy /obs:

During the last two years, the Robert
McCarthy Company has built about
$20,000,000 worth of war housing —
all completed properly at low cost,
plus speed. The jobs include 1,700
prefabricated housing units in Val-
lejo, 332 permanent prefabricated
units in Sacramento, 5,800 apartment
units in Richmond, 500 in Alameda,
housing along the Alcan Highway,
and special jobs for the Army.

A few of the recently-completed 4,000 apartment units in Richmond sponsored by the V. S. Maritime Commission.

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SEPTEMBER, 1943

Vol. 154 No. 3

FRED W. JONES
Editor

MARK DANIELS
Associate Editor

HOWARD MOISE
Post-War Planning

E. N. KIERULFF*
Ass't Editor

•In the Service

COVER PICTURE: Channel Heights Apartments.

PHOTOGRAPHY: Julius Shulman (Los Angeles Housing).

A. L. Adkins (War Dormitories, San Francisco Civic Center).

CONTENTS

Running Fire 3

Mark Daniels, A.I.A.

News and Comment on Art . 4-5

What's on Your Mind? 7

Los Angeles Completes Five Lanham Act Projects .13

Harrison Stephens
If Architect Loses His Public Will Engineer Replace Him? . 25

El-Way to Relieve San Francisco Traffic Congestion ... 27

Frederick Hamilton
Some Architectural Uses for West Coast Hemlock .... 29

R. T. Titus

Heating Executive Denounces Post-War Ballyhoo .... 33

House a Day — Record Building Achievement of

Robert McCarthy 34

What San Francisco Architects Are Doing 36

Architects' Bulletin 37

W. C. Ambrose

Producers' Council Page 39

Illustrations

Los Angeles Temporary War Housing 12-25

Wilmington Hall

Channel Heights

Banning Homes

Normont Terrace

Dana Strand Village
El-Way for San Francisco 27-28

Donald R. Warren Co., Engineers
Pictures Showing Uses of West Coast Hemlock .... 29-32
War Dormitories, San Francisco Civic Center .... 34-35

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NEXT MONTH

One million houses a year for
the next ten years following
the War, is predicted by ex-
perts and probably is not a bad
guess. Using this prediction as
a background, certain public-
ity connections are spreading
stories of building material de-
velopments that are far from
authentic, leading a gullible
public to believe that the build-
ing industry is headed for a
revolutionary period. No, there
will be no radical changes in
building methods and mate-
rials, at least not for a year or
two following the advent of
peace. There will be minor
developments, however, with
pref abrication in the fore.
Progress in glass uses and re-
placement of certain metal ac-
cessories with plastics are a
certainty.

One well informed in the
plastic field will give you the
true facts about the plastic in-
dustry, dispelling some of the
Hights of fancy of the misin-
formed whose ballyhoo runs
from a pent house on top of
every garage with a plastic
blonde domiciled in every
room, to the heating of homes
by captive heat waves.

"Plastics for the Architect"
by Henry O. Belleville, authen-
tically presents the discernible
limitations within which the
designer may hope to count on
plastic in projecting buildings
of the future. While rumor has
it that an all-plastic house has
been exhibited in Europe, no
attempt is made by the author
of next month's article to fore-
cast as likely the prospect that
these laboratory creations are
to be built on a mass produc-
tion scale in this country.

JOHNNY
DOUGHBOY

GOES MODERN
EVEN IN SOLOMON
JUNGLE CAMP!

The part HAWS Drinking Fountains
and Faucets are playing in the war
today is illustrated by the adapt-
ability of our fighting men who oc-
cupied the Solomons.

Not content with the unsanitary
drinking facilities of the enemy, our
men mode this improvised installa-
tion, so they could enjoy drinking
water as if they were at home.

,taVti.

Illustrated is the HAWS Model
8L Drinking Fountain. This type
fountain is offering fresh, health-
ful drinking water to millions of
our fighting men and women all
over the world. HAWS lists eight
models of Cantonment Type
Drinking Fountains along with
the complete line of sanitary
drinking fountains and faucets.

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ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

KunninG fire

by MARK DANIELS

i)ne of the major precepts of the American form of
lovernment is that there shall be no class legislation.
f a law is passed that may help one class of people
i shall be of a form that shall apply to all classes.
I: it helps bald headed people it must be fair to those
'.{ flowing manes. If a law is passed that is aimed to
[:id the farmers it should be so framed that, if possible,
; might help the urban dwellers also. Of course, we
now that this is not done but we like to boast about it.
Lately we have inaugurated a procedure which, if
is not a law it is to become a practice, is designed
!) help the farmer immeasurably, and the more I
j-iink of it and how its benefits could be extended to
lelp people in other walks of life, the better it looks
D me. It is the pronounced determination of the
'resident and Congress to purchase farm products at
I cost that will produce a profit to the farmer and to
'lell these products to the consumer at a greatly re-
duced price, thus enabling the consumer to put more
i)f his earnings into bonds and at the same time pay
Ihe farmer a fair sum for his product.

Now, why not apply this practice to the product
pf the Architect? Let the government buy the plans
[Tom the Architect at a price that will net him a small
brofit and sell them to the client at a figure that will
snable him to buy still more bonds. Obviously the
government's time old prejudice against paying the
Architect any fee that would include a profit will be
'a stumbling block, but it was done for the farmer and
[if it's sauce for the goose why not make a little for
the gander?

Ufrom worse to worst

iThere is an old legend, or tale, about three huge
[dogs, each of which was larger than the other. The
impossibility is amusing yet it gives an impression of
great size.

Well, recently I went over a book on architecture
[(so called) entitled, "How to Plan a House," published
toy the American Technical Society in 1942, and it
{brought to mind the tale of the three dogs for, from
jthe standpoint of design, each house illustrated was
uglier than the other.

• // PLETHORA OF MATERIAL

Don't let the infinite number of new products for the
"Post War House" scare you. Time and again I have
heard that people were postponing the work of plan-
ning the house they were going to build, when build-
ing materials were again allocated to civilian use,

[because these materials would be so different from

1 those used in the past.

1 No doubt certain new materials will influence de-
tails of construction, such as the use of plastic pipes,

I radiant heat, and the like, but the attic will still be
somewhere near the roof and the basement will re-
main in the vicinity of the ground; that is if the crack-

SEPTEMBER, 1943

pots don't succeed in persuading their clients to hang
their houses from telegraph poles. Planning the house
will still be a problem in P-L-A-N-N-I-N-G for each in-
dividual builder of his home, unless he cannot decide
whether to cook in the bedroom, the bathtub or the
kitchen.

• THE OCR

That is the Office of Civilian Requirements, a new
branch of the WPB, which is the War Production
Board, which in turn is a branch of the — let it go at
that. Anyhow, the OCR is destined to be a very busy
office; that is if the government can be taught to see
that civilians must be kept alive if the army is to be
kept fighting. It is equally apparent that a major
problem confronting the OCR will be to determine the
merits of the innumerable contentions with which
they will be confronted that certain civilian require-
ments are essential, but there are some of us suffi-
ciently optimistic to hope that we civilians will be
allowed to live, eat and build shelters to sleep under
while we earn enough to pay the salaries of the OCR.

• CONFIDENCE

An article in a recent issue of a New Zealand journal
carried the caption, "What English Women Want."
That caption showed an editor's confidence in an
author's stuff.

Some time ago I read a notice of a lecture to be
given by a man of the cloth entitled, "Is Life Worth
Living?" a title which carried the same feeling of
confidence. I did not go to the lecture nor read the
article, so of course, I can't be expected to know what
English (or any other) women want or whether life is
worth living.

• A PROBLEM FOR THE UNIONS

If the planners of the kitchens in the post-war houses
go to the extremes advocated by the ultra modern
architect, union labor will be confronted with the
problem of whether to request the modern plumber
to take out a card as cook or demand that cooks
must also hold cards in a plumbers' union.

• DREAMING AND PLANNING

We see in print the oft repeated statement that
"Dreaming is not Planning." Perhaps that is true in
most instances but planning is often dreaming, or at
least involves dreaming that is, dreaming in the sense
of forming clear mental images. Considered in that
light dreaming may not be planning but good plan-
ning always involves dreaming.

• STATE CONVENTION

After some deliberation it has been decided to hold
a convention as usual of the State Association of
California Architects. The exact date is to be deter-
mined, probably late in October at Los Angeles.

NEWS AND COMMENT ON AR

"MEET THE ARTIST"— A SELF PORTRAIT
SHOW AT M. H. DE YOUNG MUSEUM

The big self-portrait show of living American artists
which San Francisco's de Young Museum offers
as its main attraction for 1943 is now on view.
"Meet the Artist" is the exhibit that invites you to
see the artist — and the cartoonist — as he sees him-
self, whether it be through rose-colored glasses,
stark realism, or the ego-destroying method, the
caricature.

O.SoCrLOV^

Self-portrait of Cartoonist Otto Soglow whose comic
strips may be seen in their original form at the "Meet the
Artist" exhibition, M. H. de Young Museum, San Francisco.

Though the idea of the self-portrait is as old as
painting itself, the notion of assembling likenesses
of the leading living artists of a nation — and in-
cluding in that category not established painters
alone, but some of the most original creative
talent, that of the cartoonist and comic stripper —
this type of exhibition is decidedly unique. Not
only a cross-section of the country's art is given
(for in spite of war difficulties, there are very few
illustrious names missing from the roll), but a
study in styles and techniques is shown as well.
For each artist was "restricted" by one considera-
tion— his subject. From then on he was on his own
to improve upon the product itself, or to ridicule
the work of mother nature as the spirit moved.
Many mediums, many techniques, many different
approaches — but one model: the artist himself.

Lest the painter stray too far from his subject, a
photograph that "does not lie" is displayed along-
side his work. The visitor therefore sees the artist
both as he sees himself and as the camera sees
him.

NEW SATURDAY AND SUNDAY
MOVIE PROGRAM AT S. F. MUSEUM

A new Saturday and Sunday free program of in-
structional movies, mostly in color and with sound,
on various aspects and activities of our world
today, was inaugurated at the San Francisco
Museum of Art on Saturday, September 11.

Travel pictures, industries and occupations di-
rectly or indirectly concerned with art, art proc-
esses and the like will be included in the programs.
The opening session is devoted to Latin America
with the showing of three especially distinguished
and varied films on South America in general,
Venezuela and Mexico. For variety each program
will include one of the classic animated short
cartoons of the past — a field in which the movies
have been exceptionally successful in developing
an expressive art form typical of their technique,
and a five minute consideration of some contem-
porary related art problems.

This addition to the Museum's work with movies
to a wider audience of different interests represents
a consistent and logical extension of its interest in
and use of visual media. The programs have been
carefully selected on the basis of quality and will
offer through the fall season a considerable variety
in travel fare and contemporary experience. There
is no charge to the public, and the documentary
movies are presented as a contribution to public
instruction as a service to the children and adults
of the community.

"ART" AND PHOTOS BY MEN IN
SERVICE AT DE YOUNG MUSEUM

Now showing at the de Young Museum, Golden
Gate Park, San Francisco, is the much-discussed
and publicized exhibition about men in the armed
service. Featured by Life Magazine, CBS and As-
sociated Press and circulated by Publicity Fea-
tures, Inc., the show is called Life in the Service
and contains both "art" and photos by men in the
armed forces. Under the first heading come pastels,
watercolors, pen and ink sketches and oils — all
drawings from life in the barracks, aboard ship, at
mess — and under fire.

The exhibit is in nature of a contest, over six
hundred men submitting from thirty-three states.
The works shown have been selected from the lot
by a jury of critics.

REALISTS AND MAGIC REALISTS
OF TODAY— AMERICANS 1943, EXHIBIT
Concluded September 19 at the San Francisco
Museum of Art, following a popular showing,
Americans 1943; comprised a small but helpful sec-
tion of Americans of the 19th Century, especially
Raohaele Peale, George Caleb Bingham, and
William Harnett, whose depiction of reality is so'
intense that it approaches illusion or vivid story-
telling illustration. Both types of realistic painting
has appealed to the American public. In its pio-
neer naivete it first learned to exclaim over the
incredible gift of representing exactly three dimen-
sions on a flat surface — a feat that never fails even
today to evoke admiration from a percentage of

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEE-

I AN EVER CHANGING WORLD

gallery visitors. Illustration, of course, has always
had its place in the art of all periods. It came
strongly into its own in the American tradition of
Blokelock, Eakins, Homer, John Sloan, Thomas
Benton, etc. Both traditions, exemplified by artists
of power, have yielded works of merit, and this is
especially true in the relatively recently developed
art of our own country, a land of material problems
and somewhat factual-minded conquerors of a
wilderness.

NOTES FROM "ART DIGEST"

Our wide-awake Paul Williamson, Chairman of
the Board of the California Chapter, in a recent
communication with a well known "Home" maga-
zine, makes the following pertinent suggestion to
planning engineers for homes of tomorrow:

I. That wall space be provided for the proper
display of pictures. Original oil, watercolor, or
prints. II. Do not break wall space by electric
light brackets. Visualize pictures by selection of
owner as the decorative motif. Place wall brackets
at edge of windows and doors, or corners, this to
include indirect illumination. III. The fad to elimi-
nate pictures has passed as an amateur decora-
tor's scheme to cover up his lack of knowledge of
what was good in the arts. Today American artists
are producing in oils, watercolors, etc., good pic-
tures to fit the purse of the average home owner.
Anyone can own originals now. Today's best
decorators "build a room" around an outstanding
picture. This adds to America's culture.

Let's hope the builders of "Homes of Tomorrow"
ill heed this advice.

Dean Cornwell, best known in Los Angeles for
his murals in the Public Library, is now in that
city to complete the fifth in his series of paintings
of American Medical Pioneers. The canvas will
deoict William Proctor, Jr., of Philadelphia, who
placed pharmacy on an ethical basis.

Your Pacific Coast correspondent was once pres-
ent at a luncheon of the art section of the Common-
wealth Club of California, at which Abel Warshaw-
sky was the guest of honor. The chairman, Mr.
Henley, asked Warshawsky, "Who has the largest
collection of your paintings?"

"I have," replied the artist. "1 have a complete
collection." — Clifford Gessler.

PREVIEWS

Recent previews that attracted goodly crowds
were the exhibition of "Boxing and Wrestling in
Art," Thursday afternoon, September 2nd, at the
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, and the
exhibition "Meet the Artist," Thursday afternoon,
August 26th, at the M. H. de Young Memorial Mu-
seum. Guests were treated to buffet refreshments
at both affairs.

"SOLILOQUY. 1940"
Oil on composition board,
by Louis Guglieimi
— of Son Francisco
Museum of Art

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Jchitect and Engineer:
JThe editor of "Architectural Forum" has
^gested your nanne as a possible source
i information and data which I might use
Chairman of one of our Citizens' Post-
■ar Planning Committees at Brantford,
itario.

lOne of the projects is a memorial audi-
ihim capable of seating between four
:five thousand people, heated, air-condi-
sd, with removable ice surface, acousti-
y suitable for concerts and designed so
the exterior would be a fitting mem-
il to those members of the community
will, by their sacrifices, make Peace a
llity.

have no preconceived ideas as to
it the building should look like, how much
serty it should occupy, what it would
■ and what the possibilities of its be-
ling a self liquidating project would be
ir it is built.
;What I would like to know Is, If In your
IBS you would have information as to where
hilar auditoria are located in the United
ites, so that we can write the munlclpali-
concerned and secure particulars as
Itlined above.

:Brantford is the fifth manufacturing city
Ontario, with a population of 35,000 and
in the center of a highly productuve agri-
Itural county, and has absolutely no facili-
les for large public gatherings of any kind.

One of our ideas also, is that we may be
Ible to construct a swimming pool adjacent
the community auditorium, using the
lasement level of this building for locker
ind shower facilities, and we have already
he moral and financial support of our six
ervice clubs in this undertaking.

While we all realize that the most Im-
lortant thing at the moment is to keep our
lye on the ball as far as winning the war
s concerned, we do not feel it out of place
o be doing some thinking and some plan-
ling toward the type of city we would like
to have after the war, and we hope that you
be able to help us in suggesting the
source or sources of information we require.
Yours very truly,
E. M. PRITCHARD, Chairman,
Recreation & Recreation Projects,
Post-War Planning Committee.

The names of several outstanding
municipal and memorial auditoriums
in California were furnished Mr.
Pritchard, together with the names of
the architects of these buildings. — Ed.

SEPTEMBER, 1943

the Editor

THE LATE HENRY H. MEYERS

Editor,

Architect and Engineer:

Several weeks ago, I received several ex-
tra copies of the June issue of the Architect
and Engineer In which you published the
very fine obituary on my father, Henry H.
Meyers.

I want to thank you for these additional
copies and at this time to tell you how very
much we appreciated your splendid article.

Father was always so interested in youi
magazine and felt It to be one of the most
valuable publications of its kind In that It
deals mostly with western problems. We
have quite a complete file for many years
back and he often referred especially to
the page giving cost data.

Although Mr. Meyers retired in 1936. he
continued to lead a very active life In his
many interests and kept In touch with all
things of architectural and engineering
interest.

Thank you again for your kind thought.
Yours very truly,
MILDRED MEYERS.
Alameda, August 15. 1943.

ROBERT McCarthys housing job

Editor,

Architect and Engineer:

The July issue of Architect and Engineer
is a wonderful issue of worthwhile informa-
tion with good photographs throughout.
Congratulations!

Mr. McCarthy Is very much pleased with
the way you handled the story about his
vast war-housing jobs.

Best of wishes,
A. L. ADKINS.
San Francisco, July 27, 1943.

That Robert McCarthy's housing
jobs are attracting national interest,
is apparent from information that has
come to us that Architectural Forum
will shortly feature some of his work.
—Ed.

SQUARE FOOT COST DATA

Editor Architect & Engineer:

Would it be possible in one of the forth-
coming magazines for your staff to gather
data and publish the square foot cost data
of various types of buildings.

I refer to frame one story, two story,
brick, concrete and the brick veneer type
of house.

I use your Estimator's Guide published
each month but would appreciate seeing in
your magazine the cost data of typical
houses of this area.

Yours very truly.

IRA JACOBS.
San Francisco, Sept. 2. 19-13.

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TOUGH GOING FOR WHITE COLLARITES

The incomes of more than 20,000,000 persons who
depend on fixed low wages, pensions or allotments, or
meager checks from governmental units, are shrinking
with every rise in the cost of living, the Office of Wa-
Information said today.

Nine million are dependents of men now serving
the armed forces of the United States.

Nearly 2,200,000 are aged persons on State public
assistance rolls.

Another million are disabled veterans drawing pen-
sions or disability compensation, or the widows. and
dependent children of veterans.

Retired and disabled firemen, policemen, state and
municipal employees totalling 158,000 are receiving
pensions or retirement pay.

Dependent children receiving aid through Federal
and State welfare funds number 739,000.

Fifty-three thousand are blind.

About 700,000 retired workers, widows and young
children receive social insurance payments under the
Old Age and Survivors Insurance program of the Social
Security Board.

More than 400,000 persons are drawing annuities for
which they had put away their savings for many years.

Not all of these people, of course, depend entirely
on the government or insurance checks coming to them
monthly, but the payments they receive are fixed and
do not rise with the rising costs of living. Each check
will purchase fewer necessities if prices continue up-
ward. So will the dollars of 6,000,000 others — teachers,
public employees such as firemen, policemen, nurses
in state and city hospitals: municipal, county, townshio
and state employees, and workers on Federal gover"
ment rolls.

The 9,300,000 men in America's armed forces, eacr
receiving non-elastic dollars, are among those who,
when on furlough for instance, would feel the imme-
diate pinch of every upward twist of the inflation
spiral.

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS FALL MEETING

Structural Engineers of Northern California he
their initial fall meeting at the Engineers Club in Sar
Francisco the evening of September 7. Following
dinner the members participated In an Interesting dis-
cussion of "The Design, Fabrication and Erection of
the Rainbow Bridge at Niagara Falls," Interspersed
with interesting motion pictures. Speaker of the eve-
ning was E. L. Durkee of the Shipbuilding Division,
Bethlehem Steel Company of Alameda, who was resi-
dent engineer in charge of erection of the Rainbc-
bridge, world's largest fixed arch, having a scan
950 feet — center to center of concrete skewback. ana
a rise of I 50 feet at the crown.

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ALADDIN Heating Corp

AMERICAN Rubber Mfg. Co. 33

ANDERSON & Rlngrose 46

BASALT Rock Company 43

BAXTER & Company, J. H. 10

CASSARETTO. John 48
CELOTEX Corp. .
CLARK, N.. & Son

CLINTON Construction Company 45

COATES, Leonard, Nurseries 46

COLUMBIA Steel Company *

CROCKER First National Bank - 47

DINWIDDIE Construction Company .48

EL ENCANTO Hotel - 44

FORDERER Cornice Works 45

FULLER, W. P., Co 9

GUNN, Carle & Company 3

HANKS, Inc., Abbot A 46

HAWS Drinking Faucet Company 2

HERRICK Iron Works 46

HOGAN Lumber Company 45

HUNT, Robert W., Company 47

HUNTER, Thos. B ^f

IMPERIAL Brass Mfg. Co

INCANDESCENT Supply Co..
INDEPENDENT Iron Works

JENSEN 8. Son, G. P. W 48

JOHNSON Company. S. T *

JUDSON Pacific Company 45

KAWNEER Co

KRAFTILE Company

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MATTOCK, A. F 48

McCarthy, Robert, Co 2nd Cover

MULLEN Mfg. Co 47

NORTHERN California Electrical Bureau II

PACIFIC Coast Gas Association. 7

PACIFIC Foundry Company, Ltd 10

PACIFIC Manufacturing Company 44

PACIFIC Paint and Varnish Company 38

PACIFIC Portland Cement Company II

PARAMOUNT Built-in Fixture Company 47

PARKER, K. E 6

REMILLARD-Dandinl Co 48

REPUBLIC Steel Corporation 44

SALL Mountain Company

SIMONDS Machinery Company..

SISALKRAFT Company

STANLEY Works, The

TORMEY Company, The..

U. S. STEEL Company..

VERMONT Marble Company 43

WASHINGTON - Eljer Company *

WESTERN Asbestos Company 10

WOOD, E. K.. Company 10

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their headquarters arc BUILDING. s,
at every base throughout the nation.
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Electricity is vital to war production.
Use it carefully and without waste.
Check this light'saving list today:

. /Clean bulbs and lamp reflector
y bowls frequently with soap and
water. Dust can deprive you of
as much as half your light.

i # Avoid direct glare from lamp bulbs
y or bowl. Use shades that are deep
enough and big enough.

i #Use white'lined lamp shades.

y White reflects almost all light fall-
ing on it. Have the outside of your
lampshade any color you please, but
for light-thrift be sure that the in-
side of the shade is lined or painted
white.

/Share the light — as well as the ride.
Arrange furnishings so that at least
two persons can use each lamp.

. #Be sure to place lamps close enough
y for eye-comfort. Even a few inches

farther away can mean fifty percent

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ELECTRICAL BUREAU

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San Francisco, Calif.

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SEPTEMBER, 1943

ENTRANCE TO WILMINGTON HALL AUDITORIUM. LOS ANGELES
Seating 2,000 persons, this huge auditorium is merely a floor and
semi-circular roof extended down to the foundations.

Thirteen Million Dollars for Housing 14,000 People
LOS ANGELES COMPLETES 5 LANHAM ACT PROJECTS

by HARRISON STEPHENS

The big job ol" building ships to win the w.^r
moved, in two years, something lil<e 75,000
new industrial workers into three small towns
edging the Los Angeles harbor. The city's
greatest assignment in housing was created.

As the shipyards built so many ways they
began to look like a giant picket fence around
the whole waterfront, welders, riveters, ship-
fitters, riggers, chlppers, leadermen, burners,
joiners, shipwrights, machinists, electricians and
painters poured into San Pedro, Wilmington
and Harbor City. Greenhorns and old hands,
family men and bachelors, they all wanted a
place to live.

Housing, already short in the closing months
of 1941, became next to impossible to find
after war boomed shipbuilding. Yet, according
to official estimates, the number of industrial
workers in the three towns, all part of Los An-
geles, jumped from 20,000 to 96,000 after
1940. Thousands drove to the harbor daily
from other parts of Los Angeles and nearby

towns, but thousands more had moved to their
new jobs from other counties and other states.
The efficiency of the shipyards depended on
their finding places to live.

FIVE PROJECTS COST $13,500,000

That is the background against which the
Federal government took the stage to build in
a few months enough public housing for more
than 14,000 people. Thirteen and a half million
dollars went into the building of five big proj-
ects, all of which are now occupied and all of
which are managed for the duration of the
war by the Housing Authority of the City of
Los Angeles on agreement with the Federal
Public Housing Authority.

The Housing Authority was already operating
10 permanent developments in Los Angeles
which had been built as slum clearance, low
rent projects but were turned over for the
housing of war workers until the war's end. It
was well organized to take over management
of these five Lanham Act (from the Federal

Diagram shows lo-
cation of the five
Federal financed
war- housing proj-
ects in Los Angeles
County.

All are being man-
aged for the dura-
tion by the Hous-
ing Authority, City
of Los Angeles.

SEPTEMBER, 1943

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CITY OF LOS ANGELES

Besides fhe five Lanham Act projects,
illustrated, the Housing Authority is
operating ten permanent develop-
ments built as slum clearance, low-
rent projects, later turned over for
the housing of war workers for the
duration.

law appropriating money for such develop-
ments) and to handle construction of three of
them.

The operating of war housing developments
raised new, tough problems in both building
and management and, according to Nicola
Giulii, chairman of the Housing Authority, is
proving an experience from which the Author-
ity is learning valuable lessons in mass housing.
No two developments are alike — they range
from a huge dormitory for single men and wom-
en to a sprawling hillside project which may
become a model mutual home ownership de-
velopment after the war. They are expendable
housing, some slated for sale to private bidders
and others to be torn down when the war is
over.

When war started, time was short and the
need was great. The government began its
harbor building program quickly. On Febru-
ary 23, 1942, Dana Strand Village and Nor-
mont Terrace, both family type developments,
went into the construction stage. Both were
built by the Federal Works agency. On May

30 Wilmington Hall, a 1266-room dormitory-
hotel, was started. Two days later building be-
gan on Channel Heights, a family project which
was a sharp departure from all other develop-
ments in both building and plot design. Within
another five weeks another 860 rooms for Wil-
mington Hall were under construction and Ban-
ning Homes, practically a complete city, was
going up.

The local Housing Authority contracted with
FPHA to build the last three developments,
construction of which was supervised through-
out by Walter S. Beck, construction assistant
to Executive Director Howard L. Holtzendorff.

NEUTRA'S CHANNEL HEIGHTS

Probably the most interesting of the five Is
Channel Heights, which features the com-
munity planning of Architect Richard J. Neu-
tra. The site was a hilly, 1 50-acre plot of
ground cut by one large ravine and several
smaller ones. Neutra's plan was a super-block,
park living layout of the sort he has studied
for 10 years.

The result Is a terraced development, with

SEPTEMBER, 1943

PLOT PLAN. CHANNEL HEIGHTS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT. LOS ANGELES
Richard J. Neutra. Architect

every building on a separate elevation giving
it a clear view of the whole harbor. A central
park runs down the center and branches out
into finger parks between each building. The
600 units are broken up into two and four
apartment buildings instead of the heavier con-
centration usually found in mass housing. There
are both one- and two-story buildings. One
mam road runs around the development but
there are no through streets Into it.

The apartments themselves are examples of
Neutra's philosophy that the immediate sur-
roundings of a home are as much a part of it as
the interior. Large windows with a new type
sliding sash allow much of one side of each
living room to be moved away, making it al-
most part of the outdoors. Every two-story

building has a balcony for each apartment.
Other highlights are big bedroom wardrobes,
a large amount of shelf and storage space, roof
insulation which is also the ceiling, and unusually
spacious rooms.

Framework of the buildings was prefabri-
cated. Exterior is a pleasant combination of
plaster and redwood, with a contrast of
brightly colored doors. Interior Is stucco. Use
of critical material was cut to a minimum with
such things as plastic, pot metal and cast iron
plumbing fixtures and all wood refrigerators.

The same "outdoor" planning that went Into
the apartments holds for the community build-
ings. Main parts are a 40 by 72 foot social
hall and a nursery school. Both rooms have
sliding partitions to make two rooms, and glass

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

COMMUNITY PLANNING
AT CHANNEL HEIGHTS

Above: Typical one-story two-apartment unit.
Below (left): Detail of two-story, four-apartment
unit; (right): terraced development gives every
building a liarbor view.

SEPTEMBER, 1943

sides slide away leaving the buildings open to
the adjoining terrace. Covered porches nearly
surround them. Besides these facilities there
are a 9,000 square foot glass enclosed market
building, a soft drink bar and small store.

BANNING'S WAR-TIME AUTO COURT

Banning Homes is almost the exact opposite
of Channel. It is a duration city of more than
6,000 persons. Its 2,000 war apartments cover
156 acres of land — more than three times the
number of dwelling units on a plot approxi-
mately the same size as that covered by Chan-
nel. Banning Homes has been termed a "war-
time auto court."

Purpose back of the development was to
furnish immigrant war workers, arriving in Cali-
fornia with nothing but light luggage, every-
thing they would need and the convenience
that would be necessary with long hours at the
shipyards and often both adults in a family
working. First problem was location close to
the shipyards. Clear land was available at the
site finally chosen, but 350,000 yards of dirt
had to be moved to level it for building. Gyp-
sum board was selected as the chief building
material and dwelling structures were designed
to take standard sizes of the board for interior
and exterior walls as well as ceilings. Lumber
for framework was cut to standard lengths at
the lumber yard. Three - foot wainscot of
Masonite was included to protect the light
gypsum board from damage. Factory finished
floors were ordered to help speed the job.

Other non-criticals which went into the build-
ing were hot air ducts of plaster board to heat
each building from oil furnaces, concrete oil
storage tanks, plastic door knobs and faucet
handles, concrete shower pans and wooden
curtain rods. Water pipe was not available
so 6,000 feet of used well casing was rounded
up by a dealer in second hand oil well equip-
ment, cleaned and turned over to the builders.

There are both one- and two-room apart-
ments at Banning — for couples and for families
up to four persons. Furnishings are complete.
The whole project is built around five commun-
ity buildings which contain practically every
facility found In a small town. The big frame

and stucco structures house a gymnasium and
auditorium for games, meetings, movies and
dances, a 4,000-book library, market, barber
and beauty shops, drug store, games room,
coffee shop and complete Infirmary. The health
center is staffed by the California Physicians
Service and 80 per cent of the residents pay a
small monthly fee with their rent which gives
them complete health services.

Families began moving into Banning Homes
long before all buildings were completed, and
the city began to pulsate life. Community
church services were arranged, a nursery school
program was developed, classes In nutrition,
conversational Spanish, home nursing and
civilian defense were set up, a Little Theater
group was formed and volunteers joined a fire
brigade to help man two engine companies
placed on the development. Thirty-two acres
of ground adjoining the project were leased
by a resident organization for Victory gardens
and some families have already harvested the
first crop.

Architects William Allen and W. George
Lutzi were in charge of designing Banning
Homes.

WILMINGTON HALL A DORMITORY CITY

Wilmington Hall is a dormitory with rooms
for 3,000 war workers, plus special emphasis
on community facilities to keep up the morale
of the ship builders who live there. Its 67
buildings spread over nearly 40 acres of land.
Besides the 2,126 double and single rooms,
there are a theater and gymnasium building,
music room, cafeteria, library, lounge, barber
shop, laundry and cleaning shop, community
store and infirmary, with a medical plan similar
to that at Banning. A staff of 185 men and
women gives complete hotel service.

The architect, Lewis Eugene Wilson, de-
signed the place as a war baby throughout.
Most of the buildings are walled with plywood
— not a critical material at the time — with
board siding on the outside. A single sheet of
plywood does the job of both inside and out-
side walls in the community buildings where
uncovered studs rib the exterior — and make
an attractive design.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

BANNING WARTIME AUTO COURT
COVERS 156 ACRES

SEPTEMBER, 1943

WILMINGTON HALL STRUCTURES WERE BUILT ON A JIG
Prefabricated sections up to 70 feet in length were hoisted
into place and nailed together.

TEMPORARY DORMITORY. WILMINGTON HALL
Planned as a community center this development provides
cafeteria, recreation, club rooms, library and health services.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

WILMINGTON HALL
LOUNGE

Community facilities
are emphasized to
help maintain morale
of 3,000 men worliing
in the Wilmington-
San Pedro shipyard
area.

There ore 2,126 dou-
ble and single rooms
provided in 47 build-
ings. A staff of 185
men and women gives
complete hotel serv-

Wllmlngton Hall structures were built on a
jig. Cut to correct lengths at the lunnber yard,
wood for the framework was laid out on a tem-
(plate and prefabricated while the floors were
I being constructed. Then sections up to 70
feet in length were hoisted into place and
nailed together.

The huge auditorium, 75 by 150 feet and
able to seat 2,000 persons, is merely a floor and
semi-circular roof which extends down to the
foundations. It is held up by laminated arches
— 28 pieces of 7'/2 by 3/^-Inch board were
glued together to make the curving timbers.
The arches were delivered in half sections,
bolted together at the top, hoisted into place
with a gin pole and bolted at the foundations.
About a quarter of the metal used in normal
roof girder construction was necessary.

20 ACRES OF LAWN AT NORMONT

Space is the most characteristic feature of
Normont Terrace. The 400-unit development
is surrounded by 20 acres of lawn in addition
to four play areas, a baseball diamond and
volleyball court, and front and back yards for
all units.

BELOW: ENTRANCE TO WILMINGTON HALL ANNEX
VICTORY ROOMS

SEPTEMBER, 1943

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Architects WInchton L. Risley and Stanley
R. Gould designed the buildings to step up In
increasing widths from the foundations. The
first floor overhangs the foundation 10 inches
on all four sides. The second floor overhangs
the first by 27 inches and the flat roof juts out
from this to shade the upstairs windows.

Light colored plaster on the exterior walls
of the first floor is contrasted by redwood sid-
ing on the second story of every building. In-
teriors are finished in stucco. The war apart-

ments are one, two and three bedroom units.

One unusual time saver in construction was
use of pre-formed front steps. Concrete was
poured into forms for the steps, which were
then set on the foundations.

Redwood community buildings feature a

large social room for meetings and dances

which holds 250 persons, and a nursery school.

Nearly 2,000 people live on the development.

DANA STRAND VILLAGE

Dana Strand Village, a 384-unit develop-

DANA

STRAND

VILLAGE

NORMONT
TERRACE
Two-story
family type
apartments.

DANA
STRAND
VILLAGE
A 384 Hnit
development.

SEPTEMBER. 1943

Photo on right shows o typical studio
war apartment kitchen at Banning.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

ment, was built on five city blocks in Wilming-
ton. Architects George J. Adams and Graham
Latta designed it to utilize existing streets as
roads into five central parking lots, around
which the buildings were grouped. A war hous-
ing ruling at that time that the entrance must
be through the kitchen — to save extra side-
walks— was neatly handled by the designers.
Large kitchens were planned for use as dining
rooms as well, and the entrance is actually into
the dining room portion of the room.

Several colors keep the two-story buildings
from becoming monotonous, but the color
planning is such that from any angle, all colors
harmonize. The exterior plaster is painted vari-
ous subdued shades of brown, coral and warm
grey, while wood siding that makes up a por-
tion of the exterior of some of the buildings is
painted in several deeper tones. The whole
color plan is tied together with the same trim
throughout.

Like all other developments, Dana Strand has
important recreational facilities. Six small play
areas are scattered over the 2 I -acre plot, and

across the street is a community building with
social hall and lounges as well as administrative
offices. The development adjoins a public
school playground.

As little critical material as possible was
used in the construction — no metal went into
termite protection, corner beads for plaster-
ing, range and under floor vents, hardwood for
screens or roof flashing. To protect scarce
screens against severe weathering of salt air,
they were placed inside instead of outside the
glass. Interior of the buildings is stucco and
enameled plaster.

The war housing developments it manages
for the duration, plus its own 10 permanent
developments, give the L.A. hHousing Authority
15 projects accommodating some 27,000
people. After the war the Lanham Act de-
velopments will be disposed of and the Author-
ity will get back to the job of managing low
rent, subsidized housing and probably an in-
creasing program of slum clearance. But, for
the duration, the Important thing Is to help win
the war by providing homes for war workers
and their families.

IF THE ARCHITECT LOSES HIS PUBLIC WILL ENGINEER
REPLACE HIN?

(From The Federal Archi+ecf)

There has been a great deal of discussion In types of engineering and their relationship to

recent months upon the question that engi-
neers have to some considerable extent come
over Into pastures held previously to be purely
architectural. The engineering profession, it
is held by many architects, aspires to do all the
staff and. control work In connection with de-
signing and erecting buildings, calling on the
architectural profession, as a subordinate to
do the architecture.

each other and to a building Is the Architect.

To amplify that statement, we say in ex-
planation that we never saw a mechanical engi-
neer who looks upon a structural engineer with
any seriousness. To the M. E. the S. E. is there
to make it hard, putting beams where there
should obviously be ducts and slabs where
sanity dictates pipes. And a civil engineer, to
the M. E., Is just a sun-burned character who
We are not too much perturbed about that, looks through a spy-glass and comes up with a
while admitting that it Is a possibility. If there wrong grade. So, while a M. E. could possibly
was such a thing as an Engineer, combining all coordinate engineering, he has never been edu-
the functions of the broad scope of engineer- cated for coordination.

Ing In one person, we should be quite fearful. tij.ii- -j xl

-> r- -1 I [.^g structural engineer considers the me-

But as a matter of fact the man who comes chanlcal engineer and the sanitary engineer

closest to having a full understanding of all the and the road engineer Just playboys who, with

SEPTEMBER. 1943

a little more patience and perseverence, nnight
have progressed to be structural engineers.
The structural engineers view the others as be-
ing in the tadpole stage of the profession, par-
ticularly the mechanical engineer, since it is
elemental that water will run through a pipe
and air through a duct.

But architects, while growling and grousing
as is their nature, have learned through genera-
tions to evaluate the services and talents of the
engineers. Nowhere in life do the various types
of engineers get such wholehearted, though
grudging, respect and admiration as from the
architects. When an engineer says it's a 12-
inch beam, it's a 12-inch beam, period, though
the architect reserves the privilege of being
dyspeptic and ill-tempered about it.

The architect is the coordinator, the staff
strategist. He brings together all these engi-
neering geniuses, growling all the time, but
keeps fretting and tearing his hair until at
length he coordinates engineering and archi-
tecture. At least he hopes.

We think engineers do not covet the archi-
tect's job of planning and coordination. The
engineers we know are concerned too much
with their trusses and their air-conditioning
loads to want to take on over-all planning,
to worry about seating-capacity and corridor
circulation patterns.

Yet, if our diagnosis is correct, there is a
certain section of the public that would like
to give engineers rather than architects, plan
and design control. Architects have unfor-
tunately got themselves pretty well misunder-
stood in the past decade or so.

The curse of architects is that they are in-
articulate. A long while ago the profession,
after calm deliberation, became non-adver-
tising. Unfortunately this was also taken to
mean non-explanatory, the same as the medical
profession which does not advertise. But as a
profession it explains its progress and reasons
for progress. Its X-ray technique, its drugs, its
new anaesthetics all are brought to the atten-
tion of the world, as a public service. Educated
people generally, therefore, have an under-
standing of the aims and viewpoint of the
medical profession.

Not so architects. In the last twenty-five
years the architectural profession took the
most drastic step in its history, the most drastic
step in the history of any profession. The archi-
tects cast aside the accumulated lore of their
art, locked their books on the top shelf and
started in to recreate their profession as prac-
tically a new vocation, insofar as outward and
visible sign is concerned.

Whether that was aesthetically and socially
wise is a question that has been argued and
table-thumped for many years, without de-
cision. The thing that, practically, was unwise
about it was that it decided to come out as a
modern profession unconnected with its past,
without careful publicity preparation to ap-
prise the public as to what was going to happen
and why.

And thus the architectural profession lost its
public. In changing its language, it made one
fatal blunder. It failed to understand the na-
ture of public appreciation of architecture.
The public in general has no quick-changing
reasoning, no mental appreciation of architec-
ture. Its enjoyment of architecture is emo-
tional, a good deal of it is deepseated, in-
herited through several generations, just as is
their emotional ecstasy over green hills and
valley and distant mountains. . . .

Who are architects that they alone may tell
the public what to like, while all other creative
genius listens breathlessly for the public's ap-
proval? The answer is that in that detachment
of architects from the public lies the possibility
of disaster.

The public are beginning to say now, in-
differently and a little absent-mindedly, but
they do say it, "We don't understand the prod-
uct of these architects. We'll let anyone de-
sign our buildings."

We may be wrong in this attitude. We have
been wrong before. But there are two facts.
One, the architect went into his redesign status,
without giving consideration to, or caring,
whether the lay mind would like the new prod-
uct. Two, the architect is, or is on the verge of,
losing his public. Do these facts connect?

Editor's Note: Next month Louis La Beaume, F.A.LA.. discusses
this timely subject under the heading, "Architectural Profession
Needs a Voice."

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EL-WAY TO EASE SAN FRANCISCO TRAFFIC

by FREDERICK HAMILTON

INTENDED AS a post-war construction project and presenting a possible solution to the
downtown traffic congestion of San Francisco, the Donald R. Warren Co., engineers, have

designed and propose to build, if financial backing is assured, an "El-Way" consisting of a
six-lane divided highway forming a loop about the heart of the city's business district. This
loop circles the downtown area within a radius of one-half mile from the Intersection of
Kearny and Post Streets. The main loop has a total length of 15,000 feet, all of which is an
elevated highway, with the exception of 2,100 feet of twin tunnels which extend from Grant
Avenue to Bush, passing under Stockton, Powell, Sacramento, Mason, California and Pine
Streets. To facilitate the movement of traffic, the "El-Way" has long sweeping curves and
gentle grades. Ramps to and from the roadway are provided at various intervals for the
convenience of traffic. Depots for public bus conveyances will be placed at various points with
comfort stations and rest rooms adjacent.

The design of the structure considered both the roadway and the area below it, as each
would have its influence on the general beauty of the city. Beneath this 88-foot wide "El-Way"
provision has been made for parking 10,000 automobiles. The roadway has a division strip for
its entire length, thus eliminating the great hazard of Interference by traffic from the opposite
direction. Five-foot emergency sidewalks with an ornamental rail will enhance the beauty of
the structure.

To travel half-way around the "El-Way loop at thirty-five miles per hour will require but
two and one-half minutes. A traffic study across the area embraced by the proposed
"El-Way" was made on June 10, this year. At that time it was found that it took seven and
three-fourths minutes to travel between First and Seventh Street on Market, eight minutes
between California at Montgomery to Post and Taylor, and seven and three-fourths min-
utes from Sixth and Howard to Post and Taylor. The streets then were practically free of traffic,
with the main Interference being that of stop signals.

SEPTEMBER, 1943

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DRAWING SHOWS ROUTE OF PROPOSED EL-WAY THOUGH DOWN TOWN
SECTION OF SAN FRANCISCO

The "El-Way" would provide for a free
flow of traffic in excess of 70,000 motor
vehicles daily, and is so located as to have
ready access to the nnain streets and bridges
contributing to the traffic arteries of the city.
With its two miles of extensions and feeder
ramps, it is estimated to cost thirty-five mil-
lion dollars, fifteen million of which would be
spent for the acquisition of right-of-way. At
these times of gasoline rationing, traffic in
downtown San Francisco is small compared
with that of the past and only a small increment
of that which may be expected in the post-war
days. The traveling public even now is spend-
ing in lost time alone, sufficient money, if
capitalized at the rate of pay of common
labor, to amortize a loan sufficient to pay for
this "El-Way." In addition there is also the
value and convenience of parking 10,000 auto-

mobiles beneath the structure which could
readily be capitalized.

The project has not been sponsored by any
civic or political group. The study and engi-
neering work has been made by the engineers
to contribute an idea for the relief and en-
hancement of the City of San Francisco to be
used in the great construction program which
necessarily must follow the day of Victory.
However, there has been much moral support
and many suggestions given by public-spirited
individuals, who on the basis of a non-political
and non-profit organization have united them-
selves as the Metropolitan Developers.

The Metropolitan Developers have elected
to form a foundation to study from a purely
engineering and economic standpoint those
factors which by scientific solution may en-
hance the general flow of industry and com-
merce to the metropolitan areas.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

ARCHITECTURAL USES FOR WEST COAST HEMLOCK

by R. T. TITUS*

IN rural Vermont they have a saying — "It
takes a rough road to bring the big pota-
toes to the top of the barrel." Certainly war
times provide sufficient "rough roads" to bring
to the top, men, ideas and materials adequate
to the emergency. This is the case of West
Coast hemlock, a wood long considered by
the lumber manufacturers of the Pacific North-
west as inferior to Douglas fir, the principal
species of the region. This opinion was changed
in 1942 when the war requirements for wood
planes — trainers, gliders and transports, in-
creased far beyond the possible production of
Sitka spruce, the standard aircraft wood. After
reviewing test data of the U. S. Forest Prod-
ucts Laboratory and other technical agencies,
the Material Center Army Air Forces author-
ized the substitution of West Coast hemlock
for Sitka spruce in airplane construction con-
tracts.

Just as this wood proved Itself suited to the
exacting requirements of the aircraft industry.
West Coast hemlock, through its performance,
is convincing architects that It is a wood to be
specified for many uses in homes, churches,
schools and other structures.

The difference in the physical and mechani-
cal properties of woods depends on the rela-
tive thickness of cell walls and the arrangement
of the cells In relation to each other. The cell
structure of West Coast hemlock gives it three
very desirable qualities: uniform texture, a high
strength-weight ratio and resilience. The wood
Is light In color, workably soft, strong, straight-
grained and free from pitch or resin. Knots
are usually small and sound, hence even the
lowest grade sheathing makes a good nailing
base for siding or roof covering. The wood
nails firmly with strong resistance to splitting,
saws smoothly and is light and easy to handle.
For ordinary building purposes West Coast
hemlock is equally as useful as Douglas fir.

'West Coast Lumbermen's Association.
SEPTEMBER, 1943

Of the four species of hemlock native to the
United States, West Coast or Western hem-
lock attains the largest size and has the great-
est all-around value. The tree grows from
Alaska to Northern California reaching its best
development in Western Oregon, Washing-
ton and British Columbia where even tempera-
tures and heavy rainfall are conducive to tree
growth. While occasional trees have been
found measuring as much as nine feet in diam-
eter the average is two to four feet with a
height of 200 to 225 feet. In extent of stand-
ing saw timber — I I 5 billion board feet — West
Coast hemlock Is exceeded only by Douglas
fir and ponderosa pine.

The even - growing, close - grained upland
hemlock now being logged in the West Coast
region, is producing logs with a large percen-
tage of clear wood of a quality which is greatly
superior to that of other species of hemlock
with which it should never be confused.

FOR FLOORING AND PANELLING

Its hardness and uniformity of texture make
West Coast hemlock particularly desirable for
flooring. It has the unusual faculty of harden-
ing with age and use. In vertical grain It is
specified by architects for rooms In constant
use. In school classrooms and halls, floors of

West Coast hemlock makes a "fast" qym floor.

ABOVE: WHERE WEST COAST HEM-
LOCK GROWS

LEFT: MATURE TREE READY FOR
HARVEST

LEFT: STAINED PANELING GIVES
QUIET DIGNITY TO THE BOOK
NOOK

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

.West Coast hemlock endure years of scuffling
ifeet; in the gynnnasiunn their resiliency speeds
(the fastest game. They will not darken with age,
land the ease with which their fine appearance
lis maintained is a continuing satisfaction. Flat
•grain flooring is recommended for rooms not
.subject to heavy wear or where the wood is
to be covered.

Because it more closely resembles hard-
woods in appearance than do most softwoods
iWest Coast hemlock is popular for panelling.
(Its cells form patterns of bright beauty with
an effect of depth. In homes, panels of natural
jfinish make a perfect background for winter's
■formal draperies or summer's gay chintzes. In
school rooms where light is needed, hemlock
may be bleached to pale colors; in a church
It may be stained to a deep candlelight-re-
flecting warmth. Simple sanding and clear
waxing are a popular hemlock panel finish.
I West Coast hemlock is specified for kitchen
land service room cabinets; for shelving be-
! cause it is strong enough to take heavy loads
without sagging and because the wood has no
taste or odor; for doors and drawers because
It joints well, has little tendency to warp and
Is receptive to paints and enamels. The ease
with which hemlock may be painted also rec-
ommends it for exterior siding In which it is
available in a variety of patterns and sizes.
Venetian blinds manufactured from vertical
grain West Coast hemlock have been ap-
proved by the Federal Specifications Board —
a distinction shared with only two other Amer-
ican woods.

SUITABLE FOR BUILT-IN FURNITURE
The qualities of strength, uniform texture,
attractive grain and freedom from pitch, which
make West Coast hemlock desirable for beau-
tiful floors and interior finish make It suitable
also for furniture, either detached or built-in.
Breakfast-room, bedroom, and play room fur-
niture of West Coast hemlock Is now manu-
factured by some of the best factories on the
Pacific Coast. Closely allied to furniture are
various items of household equipment such as
ladders. Spruce has long been known as the
standard ladder material but West Coast hem-
lock Is now taking over a large portion of this
business and the American Standard Safety

West Coast hemlock siding lends beauty to a
country home —

ar to a cottage in the city.

Dark stained treads and painted risers combined in a
beautiful staircase of hemlock.

SEPTEMBER. 1943

Code for Construction, Care and Use of Lad-
ders sponsored by the National Safety Council
provides that this species, along with a few
others such as ash, nnay be used in dimensions
five per cent less than those specified for
spruce.

Scientists at the U. S. Forest Products Lab-
oratory have studied and analyzed the prop-
erties of most native woods. The table below,
taken from information supplied by the lab-
oratory shows the relative strength of West
Coast hemlock and other common construction
woods:

stress) and 900#c and 700#c (compression
stress) West Coast hemlock grades, adopted
by West Coast Bureau of Lumber Grades and
Inspection. The availability of stress grades in
West Coast hemlock broadens the field of
dependable materials for architects and engi-
neers where lumber of definite known strength
is required. For the ordinary frame structure
joists, rafters, studs, sheathing and subflooring
are selected from the construction grades:
Select Merchantable, No. I , No. 2 and No. 3.
No. I Is the preferred grade for joists, rafters
and plates although the higher quality Select

Compression Co

Perpendicular P.

to Grain
(All values are Ii

200
325
325
250
250
300
300

>mpressio
arallel to
Grain
n pounds

933

Maximum
Horizontal
Shear
oer sq. Inch)

106

Modulus

of
Elasticity

,000,000

1,466

120

,600,000

1,466

146

,600,000

1,000

1 13

.000,000

1.066

1 13

,200,000

933

,100,000

1,200

100

,400,000

Extreme

Fiber in

Bending
SPECIES

Cedar, western red 1,200

Douglas fir, coast region 2,000

Pine, southern yellow 2,000

Pine, Ponderosa and white 1,200

Spruce, Sitka 1 ,466

Hemlock, eastern 1,466

Hemlock, West Coast 1,733

Glued laminated construction is developing Merchantable grade may be specified for the
rapidly and the Forest Products Laboratory has sake of appearance. No. 2 has ample strength
made careful studies of the gluing properties for studs, plates, bridging and for floor or roof
of various woods. They have segregated our loists on short spans or in slightly larger sizes
commercial woods into four groups, according than No. I . No. 3 is suitable for studs in I -story
to gluing properties, and have included West walls and non-bearing partitions, and for lami-
Coast hemlock in the first group along with nated construction.

Western red cedar, Sitka spruce, redwood Select Merchantable and No. I boards are

and northern white pine, as a "wood that glues specified for subfloors and sheathing In first
easily with different glues under a wide range class construction; for concrete forms where
of gluing conditions." a special finish is desired or where appearance

WCH HAS STRENGTH AND BEAUTY Is a factor. No. 2 boards have ample strength

West Coast hemlock Is graded commercially gpd satisfactory coverage for wall and roof
for both strength and appearance. Choice of sheathing and subflooring in the usual perma-
grades will depend upon the purpose Intended, pgnt construction; No. 3 boards may be used
The Forest Products Laboratory has recently ]^ bw-cost or temporary building,
approved the 900#f and i200#f (bending Flooring, paneling, finish and exterior siding

are all selected from the clear or finish grades
— "B&Btr.," "C" and "D." .A limited amount
of flooring Is manufactured and graded as
"Clear All Heart VG" for floors of highest
quality where appearance warrants the pre-
mium which the grade commands. "B" and
"Btr" grade is recommended for most purposes
where natural finish Is desired, "C" grade
where stain or paint Is to be used and "D"
grade for low cost construction where some
waste in cut-outs, or use of short lengths, is
not objectionable.

Natural finish hemlock flooring reflects
the sun's brilliance.

Heating Executive Denounces Post -War Ballyhoo

"Advertising budgets once used for the purpose of
selling merchandise to the public may have to be ap-
plied widely in reverse to combat the wild and wierd
dream-world products which uncontrolled and ill-ad-
vised publicity are creating today In the minds of
Americans," according to Gordon Rieley, vice presi
dent of The Bryant Heater Company of Cleveland.

Backing up his belief that manufacturers In the
automotive, aviation and building fields, as well as in
his own Industry, confront a problem demanding im-
mediate action, Mr. Rieley already has assigned a por-
tion of his company's advertising appropriation to the
purpose of straightening the thinking of a misguided
public.

A recent Bryant advertisement appearing in News-
week and captioned "Speaking of the Shape of Things
to Come," Illustrates a scholarly looking old gentleman
pointing seriously to a blackboard on which he has
drawn an action diagram which rivals some of Rube
Goldberg's best classics. The copy begins: "hlold
everything, Horatio! It's a bit early, don't you think,
to predict the heating of homes by captive heat waves?
Or furnaces fed by radio beam?" The copy continues
by explaining how there will be new, improved heating
for postwar homes, but produced by "sensible, down-
to-earth engineering," and outlines what Bryant Is
planning In this respect.

Admitting that most business men realize the cars
which will come off the assembly lines of automobile
manufacturers at the war's conclusion will be the 1942
models which were halted soon after first deliveries,
Mr. Rieley expressed the opinion that the man-on-the-
street still thinks he will get an ultra-streamlined tear-
drop, ready to travel at 100 miles an hour on the
super highways which supposedly will be built to ac-
commodate such traffic. Other popular public con-
ceptions created by unwise publicity and which came
in for criticism by Mr. Rieley were the "helicopter In
every backyard," and the radically futuristic "home of
tomorrow."

"Certainly, there will be progress in aviation," he
said, "and Americans will fly more than we would have
imagined even a scant two years ago. However, there
will not be a helicopter ready for every family to buy
and fly away the day after peace is made, nor will
those available be In the price range of low-cost pre-
war automobiles as so many Americans now imagine.

"There will be new homes built by the thousands in
the postwar period, but few of the 'home from Mars'
designs which have received such widespread and
careless publicity," Mr. Rieley continued. He empha-
sized the fact that there will be a considerable amount
of low-cost housing and that these radically different
homes could not be produced except at excessive cost.

Builders, themselves, were quoted as unalterably op-
posed to the current ballyhoo and firm In their Inten-
tions to continue building to the designs of prewar
days, with certain Improvements which can be made
without skyrocketing building costs.

In his own field of heating, the Bryant executive
found room for criticism In the stories circulated re-
garding developments which are far from ready for
public use. He regarded as too costly the general
application of district heating by which an entire area
of homes would be supplied by a central heating plant.
It Is his opinion that heating of buildings with electrical
energy stored during off-peak hours Is a method on
which much study is needed before It can become
practical.

"None of us want to stand in the way of progress,"
concluded Mr. Rieley. "None of us want to delay any
longer than necessary giving to Americans the better
things that only American genius can and will provide.
However, unless we more intelligently use the powers
of advertising and publicity which, in the past have
served us so well, we will discover Mr. and Mrs.
America demanding and expecting us to deliver mer-
chandise that not even Superman could produce."

Lightning Hose Racks

— and Lightning Fire Hose Cabinets are designed
and made to enable the architect to plan the utmost
in fire protection for his clients. Write for details,

The

together with plans and specifications.

AMERICAN RUBBER

Manufacturing Co.

Factory and
General Offices

Park Avenue and Watts Street, Oakland, 8, California

SEPTEMBER, 1943

HOUSE A DAY

Record Building Achievement of
Robert McCarthy

From a six-million-dollar housing job to one that
totals thirty-five thousand nnakes little diffetence to
Robert McCarthy, San Francisco contractor, in so
far as speed goes.

To demonstrate speed, McCarthy put up a single
88-bed dormitory building in the San Francisco
Civic Center for the accommodation of enlisted
men on leave. The building was started in the morn-
ing and ten hours later, the same day, it was ready
for occupancy, complete with showers, electric
lights and painted. It was a gift to the city from
Robert McCarthy and demonstrated that Mayor
Rossi's long desire to provide such accommodations
for our armed forces was a simple undertaking.

The Mayor was so elated that he asked the city

supervisors for money with which to build five mors
buildings.

Although McCarthy donated the first dormitory
he had to bid in the usual way for the five othe'
buildings. He not only was the lowest bidder h)
several thousands of dollars but he guaranteec
to complete the job in six working days, against e
time of 30 to 60 days by the other contractors
McCarthy's bid for the five buildings was $34,600
complete in every detail excepting for the bed;
which were furnished by the city.

Each building is I 12 feet long by 24 feet wide /
The usual type of prefabricated sections was usee |
for the floors and walls. Wall sections were co"
structed of plywood, glued and nailed on 2x3 st'
ding having cross-bracing, with door or wina
openings where specified. These wall sections ar j
rived on the job with window casements already Ir /
place and were of the double-wall type providing |
"dead " air space for insulation. Roofs are pitchec ]
and covered with green mineral-surface roof
paper. Inside, the ceilings are of plywood nai'
on horizontal beams. The first coat of paint wa'
sprayed on at the mill and the second coat, o"
cream-color plus turquoise trim, was hand-brushec
after carpenters moved along.

The foundations are of the mud-sill type restinc
right on the gravel walks, which happened to be
in the right places and of the right width so that
all buildings could be placed In the Civic Centei
without so much as moving a plant or trimming c
single tree.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEEF

1 Shower and wash facilities are provided so that
[our men at a time can use any of these respective
fconveniences which are provided in one large room
*pt the end of each floor where there are also a
Separate bed room for an attendant and a large
tloset for linen storage.

Four of the buildings are of one floor and two
pre of two floors with all of the plans identical
Excepting where an interior stairway leads to the
,econd story. In all, accommodations are provided
or 704 persons; each will be charged 50 cents
Der night.

Construction of the five additional buIIJings
started August 16 and finished five days later, one
full day ahead of schedule.

During the last two years the Robert McCarthy
Company has built about $20,000,000 worth of Gov-
srnment housing. This includes !,700 four or five-
^oom separate prefabricated dwellings In Vallejo,
332 permanent prefabricated dwellings in Sacra-
■nento for Government airport employees, 5,800
war-apartment units in Richmond, 500 war apart-
ments in Alameda, the alien evacuee center at
Tanforan race track, housing along the Alcan High-
way and some "military secret" jobs for the Army.

One of the outstanding characteristics of Robert
McCarthy is his ability to slash through red tape,
even during these days of "priorities", obtain all nec-
lessary material rapidly and get the jobs done ahead
jof schedule.

iThe large picture is a general view of completed proj-
ect. Other views are progress photos, except lower
Tight which shows Robert McCarthy (left), Eneas Kane,
|Secretary to Mayor Rossi, holding copy of Architect
and Engineer (center), and Joseph McCann, Inspector
of Police.

ISEPTEMBER. 1943

WHAT SAN FRANCISCO ARCHITECTS ARE DOING

EAST

BAY

WAR

HOUSING

BLANCHARD,
MAHER &
WARD

PLUMAS
COUNTY
PROJECT

NEVADA

DWELLING

UNITS

FROM
HOTEL
TO
APARTMENTS

Consfruction of more than 1 ,000 new war housing units has been authorized by the
Federal Public Housing Agency in Berkeley and Albany. The projects will be financed
under an appropriation of approximately $6,500,000. Plans call for leasing the 42-acre
Gill tract from the University of California. Fringing the Richmond Shipyard Railway
the tract is almost opposite the abandoned Albany racetrack.

Another housing project for shipworkers and costing $250,000, is being handled by
J. M. Walker, Berkeley speculative contractor. There will be 25 apartment buildings
located in the vicinity of Dwight Way and Sacramento Street.

A $2,500,000 housing project in Alameda has been awarded F. C. Stolte, local con-
tractor. Besides 1,640 temporary dwelling units there will be a community building and
two nurseries for the care of war workers' children.

Blanchard, Maher & Ward, 369 Pine Street, San Francisco, have two projects for the
Home Owners' Loan Corp., consisting of apartment remodeling for war workers at Belmont
and a similar job at 2014 Channing Way, Berkeley. . . . Preliminary drawings are in progress
in the same office for 320 family dwelling units for the Federal Housing Authority at
Eureka, Humboldt County. ^

Plans have been prepared in the office of Theo. C. Bernard and James D. WIckenden, I
402 Jackson Street, San Francisco, for 60 dormitory and 20 family units for the San Luis
Obispo Housing Authority.

A contract has been let to the John J. Moore Company of Oakland for the con-
struction of a one-story brick office and factory building for the Kear Engineering Com-
pany of Palo Alto, from plans by R. H. Cooley, structural engineer.

Leonard F. Starks, Sacramento architect, who now maintains a San Francisco office in
the Monadnock Building, has been commissioned to prepare plans for 40 family dwelling
units at Chester, Plumas County, for the Federal Public Housing Authority.

David H. Horn, Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, has completed plans and received con-
struction bids for 500 dormitory units In Vallejo, Solano County, for the Housing Authority,
City of Vallejo.

L. H. Nishklan, 155 Sansome Street, San Francisco, has completed plans for a $60,-
000 grammar school building at Stege. Bids have been taken by the Federal Works
Agency, War Public Works Division, 2223 Fulton Street, Berkeley. Mr. NIshkian's office
also prepared the plans for a $60,000 grammar school to be built In the Pullman District,
Richmond.

H. Rafael Lake, 320 Market Street, San Francisco, and Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, has
working drawings practically completed for 20 family dwelling units and 55 dormitories
for Carlin, Nevada, financed by the Federal Public Housing Authority.

Recent housing projects authorized by the Federal Public Housing Authority, 785
Market Street, San Francisco, include 60 dormitory units at Sparks, Nevada, DeLong-
champs & O'Brien, architects; 40 family dwellings and 20 dormitories at Riverbank, Cali-
fornia, Russell G. De Lappe, architect, and 1 ,000 apartment units at Rodeo, E. Geoffrey
Bangs, K. O. Narbett and E. T. Spencer, architects.

Architect Albert F. Roller, I Montgomery Street, San Francisco, has completed drawings
and awarded a contract for remodeling the hotel building at I 101 Polk Street, San Fran-
cisco, Into 19 apartments for war workers. The Home Owners Loan Corp. has authorized
expenditure of $37,000 for making the conversion.

The Housing Authority, City of Richmond, has selected the following architects to
design housing projects at locations to be determined, the improvements to consist of
3,000 family units for war workers: A. F. Roller, K. O. Narbett, Miller & Warnecke, E. G.
Bangs, F. H. Relmers, L. F. Starks and Ed Musson Sharpe.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

ARCHITECTS* BULLETIN

Issued For

THE STATE ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTS

Northern Section

EDITOR OF BULLETIN
William C. Ambrose

Address all communications for publication in
the Bulletin to W. C. Ambrose, 369 Pine
Street, San Francisco.

STATE ASSOCIATION OFFICERS

Office of Northern Association
349 Pine Street, San Francisco

Officers

President Walter R. Hagedohm, Los Angeles

Vice-Pres Norman K. Blancfiard, San Francisco

i Secretary Hervey Parke Clark, San Francisco

Treasurer George E. Gable, Los Angeles

Southern Section Officers

I President Walter R. Hagedohm. Los Angeles

I Vice-President E. Allan Sheet, Los Angeles

I Secretary Rowland H. Crawford, Beverly Hills

1 Treasurer George E. Gable. Los Angeles

Northern Section Officers and Directors

I President Norman K. Blanchard, San Francisco

■ Vice-President ...Russell G. deLappe, San Francisco

Secretary Hervey Parke Ciark, San Francisco

! Treasurer David H. Horn, Berkeley

I Directors: John S. Bolles. Ross; Andrew T. Hass,

j San Francisco; H. H. Gutterson, Berkeley;

] Vincent G. Raney, San Francisco; Frederick H.

Reimers, San Francisco; (Malcolm D. Reynolds,

Oakland; J. Francis Ward, San Francisco, and

Alfred C. Williams, San Francisco.

Northe

Secti<

Adv

Dry Co

San Fr<

ico District No. I, J. Francis Ward;
East Bay District No. 2 Irwin M. Johnson;
Berkeley District No. 3, John K. Ballantine, Jr.;
North Bay District No. 3, C. A. Caulkins; Marin
District No. 5, John S. Bolles; Lower San Joa-
quin District No. b, Frank V. Mayo; Upper San
Joaquin District No. 7, Philip S. Buckingham;
Santa Clara District No. 8, Ralph Wyckoff;
Palo Alto District No. 9, Elizabeth Boyter; San
Mateo District No. 10, Leo J. Sharps; Sacra-
mento District No. II. Harry J. Devine; Upper
Sacramento District No. 12, Fred J. deLong-
champs; Lassen District No. 13, Ralph D. Taylor;
Monterey District No. 14. Charles E. Butner.
and Redwood Empire District No. 15. Franklin
T. Georgeson.

Northern Section Standing Co

littees
G. Rane

.Legislative Committee

I Public Relations Committee J. Francis Ward

(Building Industry Committee Hervey Parke Clark

(Convention Program Committee Edgar Bissantz

Post-War Reconstruction Com J. Francis Ward

Membership Committee John S. Bolles

Building Industry Directory Russell G. deLappe

Policy Committee Russell G. deLappe

SEPTEMBER. 1943

ARE YOU A IITTLE AUDREY'

Do you know what YOU are going to do for the first year after the war is
over? The answer is, fortunately for many people, "No!" We hope for the
best. If we could foretell the future, hope would be out of our life picture,
and the suicide rate would be very high. But hope, as a foundation for our
future actions, needs a considerable reinforcing — its crushing strength is
rather low. The only picture which we remember having seen of "hlope"
was of a filmy female draped languidly over a globe.

The conclusion seems inevitable that, for the first year after the war, and
for all of the rest of the years, hlope is just a nice gal to cheer us on our
way. So with hlope as a supercargo, it seems that our voyage into the
future will be on the same ship of Blood, Sweat and Tears as is carrying us
through the war, with perhaps a little less emphasis on the blood and tears.

We are encouraged because the realists of the country are making them-
selves increasingly heard and felt. Indications are that a considerable group
of people In this nation are not depending upon a wing and a prayer to get
us back upon a peace time economy. For the first few months after the
turn of the tide of war, and when the first echoes of post-war planning were
being heard, the idea seemed to be that all that was necessary to assure full
employment and an orderly transition to peace after the war was for a list
of desirable work projects to be compiled. Then — Presto! The ten million
sons of William Jennings Bryan's million men who were to "spring to arms
over-night" would be gainfully employed.

Then some few, whose eyes were not blinded by star-dust, started ham-
mering home the fact that, until the key was turned in the door, access was
barred to the accumulation of work which was potentially available. The key.
It Is now becoming generally realized, is made of definite plans and speci-
fications for the actual performance of the post-war work. It is becoming
recognized that one can not build a building or a highway until he has money
and land available and some rather definite documents with which to com-
mence work. That Is, one can not unless he doesn't care how much of a
dollar's worth an expenditure of 100 cents will provide.

It now appears that we are entering the second stage of planning for
the post-war struggle. The lists of projects are on their way, and, here and
there, beginnings are being made on the process of translating "swell ideas"
to tracing paper and mimeograph. But the parade has only started. It is
now up to the architects and the engineers to prod their executive friends
and their public legislators so that funds may be available and that definite
planning work may be started now. To wait for the second step until the
war is over means the birth of a new brother to the unlamented WPA. The
new brother Is not welcome under whatever set of initials.

A most vigorous boost to
% — •

I Another W. P. A.7 | the public understanding

^~~ ''* of the necessity for defi-

nite planning was given by the nation-wide broadcast
of the American Forum of the Air on August 19th,
last. The subject was "Shall We Have Another WPA
After the War?" The participants in the discussion
included Representative Lynch, who has introduced
legislation in Congress appropriating funds for the
preparation of plans for public works to be built after
the war; General Fleming of the Federal Works
Agency; Walter R. MacCornack, Vice-President of
the A. I. A.; Colonel Seabury of the A.C.E.A., and a
representative of the General Contractors Association.

It was brought out very forcibly that, with the com-
pletion of the major construction of our war plants,
there Is now a large force of trained and competent
architects and engineers available and eager for the
definite planning of work to be constructed as soon
as the war is over. A point which should be reassuring
to those considering appropriations for getting actual
plans under way is that provision planned in congres-
sional appropriations, for the reimbursement of politi-
cal sub-divisions which start plans now on post-war
projects so that those sub-divisions will not be at a
financial disadvantage as far as the cost of plans is
concerned, in comparison with those who delay the
starting of plans until the appropriations have been
made actually available.

A valuable pamphlet is also now being distributed
by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States,
Washington, D.C., entitled "Plan Now For Future
Public Works." It is a comprehensive review of the
subject and puts special emphasis on the necessity
of the efforts of each individual to get projects past
the listing stage, and to do it now.

Just how many
months will be given
us to get ready for
"* °* the post - war con-

struction upon which the country has put high hopes
for re-employment no one can tell. But our previous
experience tells us that the change will be sudden.

You will remember that Little Audrey stood on the
street corner, all dressed up, waiting for the Boy
Friend, and stood and stood there for a long time —
then she began to laugh and laugh. For she didn't
have any Boy Friend. Perhaps she laughed because
she realized that, nowadays, it takes more than hope
to get a Boy Friend. And it takes more than hope to
get our post-war industry under way.

Post-War Changes Will
Be Sudden

NORTHERN AND
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
CHAPTER MEETINGS
FOR AUGUST

The Northern California Chapter of the American
Institute of Architects held their regular monthly meet-
ing for August at the Alexander Hamilton Hotel,
Tuesday, August 3 I , at 6:30 p.m.. President Eldridge
T. Spencer, presiding.

Members present: J. H. Devitt, J. H. Mitchell, S.
Willard, L. A. Kruse, R. I. Stringham, E. T. Spencer,
J. D. Young, H. H. Gutterson, I. F. Morrow, J. Bake-
well, H. P. Clarke, D. Horn, I. Johnson and R. Pollack.

The minutes of the previous meeting were approved
as published.

John Bakewell gave a stimulating account of the
recent Institute Convention at Cincinnati, including
a graphic description of the planning and presentation
of the Convention Hotel — you should have heard It.

Henry Gutterson, Regional Director of the A.I.A.,
recited several Interesting items on what Is going on
back of the scenes In the Institute and evidently there
Is plenty of activity, what with a newly streamlined
membership drive and Post-War Planning Committee
measures.

Getting close to home, considerable constructive
discussion centered around a recent release from the
Regional Office of the F.P.H.A., regarding Architects
and Engineers.

A petition to Mayor Rossi of San Francisco, deplor-
ing and imploring, and having to do with the whole
episode centering around the recent changes in the
San Francisco Housing Authority, occupied a lively
half hour. The petition in Its final form should be
out soon.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER, A. I. A.

As noted in last month's issue Southern California
Chapter's August meeting was given over largely to a
discussion of prefabrication and its implications. To
relieve the tension some of the members put on a
humorous skit entitled "Life Is Great in a Prefabricate,"
the cast being made up of Welton D. Beckett, Carleton
Winslow, J. E. Trudeau and Walter Steyer. The playlet
was written by Theodore Criley, Jr., and Warren E.
Hoyt.

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Northern Co/lfornlo diopter

The National OrganizaHon of Manufacturers of Quality Building Materials and Equipment
Affiliated with the AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHTECTS

Past-President F. K. "Ken" pictures by International Nickel will be presented by
Pinney was as busy as a Hal Heakin of Pacific Foundry.

pair of Siamese twins in a Jingle Bells will be heard on December 7, when the
bathtub when he was Sec- annual Xmas Jinks will be staged. The date is no mis-
retary - Treasurer of the take . . . from where we're standing it looks like we'll
Northern California Chap- have something to really celebrate this year!
ter, P. C, way back in Fellowship Chairman "Nick" Nicholas has been

1933. In those black days given the nod by the Executive Committee to start
the treasurer frequently planning for the annual holiday event. This year, again,
had to dig down in his the emphasis will be on informality, good-fellowship
and simplicity. The Engineers Club will again be the
scene of the festivities.

"Some of These Days" is the title of a sad song you
might be singing if you lose sight of the fact that
"post-war planning" will cease to be such one of these
days. And when that time rolls around what will you
Since 1928, Ken has been with the Armstrong Cork be looking for? That's an easy one to answer . . .
Company. In 1936 he was named San Francisco Dis- prospects and jobs! And as salesmen, we won't be
trlct Manager for the Building Materials Division of expecting anybody else to do that job for us. Brought
Armstrong. Ken is an alumnus of Pomona College, down to the level of the individual architect and pro-
(P.S. — Robert Taylor went there too!) Rumor is that ducer, that's just what post-war planning is. In plain
his track record . . . sprinting . . . helped him catch English, the time is ripe to keep a few extra eggs in
his charming wife, a Texan. The Pinneys, including an the wartime nest for peace-time use. Why not line
extra-cute daughter, are residents of San Francisco. up those future peace-time jobs now?

F. K. "KEN" PINNEY
— he paid the piper.

jeans and advance the
Club finances.
Ken must have done a swell job, because he was

elected Vice-President and later President in 1939.

And today Ken ably functions as Chairman of the

Post-war Planning Committee.

13 a Lucky Number? Our September 13th meeting
with the American Institute of Architects brought to
mind the interesting joint meeting held with the Ameri-
can Society of Military Engineers on May 13th. The
A. I. A. and Producers' Council members swapped post-
war planning ideas, and the Council's position in all
the present welter of planning was explained. West-
inghouse Electric gave the Architects and Producers
a quick glimpse into the future of Electronics.

The A. I. A. Chapter requested that the dinner be
"Dutch treat." The dinner ended on the note of good-
fellowship that always characterizes relations between
the Chapter and the Architects and Engineers.
Looking Back to August 2, we had an interesting talk
by Norman Brown of Bell and Sossett. At this regular
monthly luncheon, Vice-President Horace Pickett pre-
sided . . . he's been doing a first-rate job keeping the
ball rolling throughout the summer. Bob Telfer gave
an extemporaneous and humorous dissertation on
"Doors." Bob was pinch-hitter on the spot reserved
for The Peele Co.

Here's the Trouble. American life has become so high-
ly organized, industrially and socially, that we've come
to think that organization alone will handle post-war
planning. But for peace-time planning, that old phrase,
"individual initiative," is the only reliable element that
will bring definite results.

It's Later Than You Think. After this issue, it might
be too late to discuss the generalities of post-war plan-
ning. Unless you're out there pitching right now, you
might find yourself fishing behind the net in the very,
very near future!

Here's an Outfit That's Really Plugging. Detroit Steel
Products are really doing something about post-war
planning. Their advertising has struck out boldly to
talk about definite jobs after V-Day. They're tying
in their ad campaign with some of the Council's post-
war objectives. C. R. Raquet, Vice-President at Detroit
Steel, has announced the opening gun of an ad cam-
paign to break with a national drive with the theme
"Start an Architect on a Plan Now!" First ad in this
series appeared in a July number of Newsweek. Others

^ _ are scheduled for architectural media.

October Meeting. . . . Program Chairman Bob Telfer tl„ "\a/„l d:u di._" t i-u q c i-l l t

= ^ I he Work rile rlan ot the ban rrancisco Chamber ot

announces that Ray Brown, of Gladding McBean & r- • iL • xl j.j. j.-

^ ,, ,. ' ^ Commerce is another campaign worth your attention.

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Co. will talk at our October 4th meeting. Motion

JSE QUALITY PRODUCTS

^gr^v CONSULT

AN ARCHITECT

The Month's Digest of New Building Products

All of the literature described here is available to architects, engineers, contractors, drafts-
men and specification writers upon request direct to the manufacturers.

WOOD ROOF VENTILATOR— A

new wood ventilator known as the
"Air-X-Hauser" has been intro-
duced by G. C. Breidert Co., 634
So. Spring Street, Los Angeles,
represents a new principal in de-
sign. Wind striking it at any angle
sets up a suction action which ex-
hausts the inside air. The ventila-
tor has no moving parts, is made
of kiln-dried wood, and is treated
with wood preservative. Tongue
and groove construction uses few
nails. Complete details can be
obtained by writing the manu-
facturer.

DRAFTING AID— A new method
of attaching drawings and blue-
prints to drawing boards, which
eliminates the necessity of moving
the T-Square over thumbtack
heads, is the use of Kum-Kleen
stickers. The stickers are paper
thin, will lie flat, are applied with-
out moistening, and are easily
peeled off without affecting the
surfaces to which they are at-
tached. All of the adhesive re-
mains on the label. Kum-Kleen
stickers come in a variety of sizes
and shapes, are made by Avery
Adhesives, 451 E. Third Street,
Los Angeles.

WOOD GRILLE— A rolling wood
grille which uses wood bars strung
on light steel tapes operating up
and down on wood guides, coils
overhead on a horizontal counter-
balancing shaft, is the product of
Cornell Iron Works, Inc., 36th Ave.
at 13th Street, Long Island City,
New York. The grille can be fabri-
cated for opening widths up to 19
feet, with opening heights unlim-
ited. Operation is either push up
or, for large sizes, move by hand
chain or electric motor. It locks
into the side guide with a padlock
and hasp on the bottom bar.

PLASTIC FLOAT — Kirkhill, Inc.,
6828 McKinley Ave., Los Angeles,
has introduced a plastic toilet float
to replace the copper ones that
were manufactured prior to the
government regulations. The float
sells for less than $1 and measures
4x5". It is made of crystal-clear
Lumarith and is impervious to
water, non-corrosive, and has a
tensile strength up to 14,600 pounds
per square inch. The float is rein-
forced at the spud where strength
is needed.

REDWOOD PLASTICS— A non-
critical phenolic type thermoplastic
perfected from the phlobaphanic
structures of the Redwoods, is now
available in abundant quantities
for both war and civilian produc-
tion of countless items formerly
manufactured from hard rubber
and other thermosetting plastic
compounds. The redwood plastic
embodies in one composite form
both resin and filler employed in
the molding of an endless variety
of products. It is readily adaptable
to either compression molding or
the standard equipment of hard
rubber plants. When special prop-
erties are desired, it can be mixed
easily with other resins and plastic
cizers with absoluate control of the
formulation ingredients. The new
plastic, known as "Shellerite," was
developed jointly by the Pacific
Lumber Company, San Francisco,
the Institute of Paper Chemistry,
Appleton, Wis., and the Sheller
Mfg. Co., Portland, Ind.

TRACING CLOTH— The Fredrick
Post Co., has just recently devel-
oped a new improved white pencil
tracing cloth known as "Whitex."
One of the outstanding features is
that it is moisture resistant on both
sides, which guards against spots

from perspiration or moist hands
which mar the prints from the fin-
ished drawing. Samples can be
secured by writing the manufact-
urer (above) at Box 803, Chicago.

PLASTICS METAL PLATED — A

new process by which plastics,
glass, or any non-conductor, is
plated with any of the plating
metals, is announced by Precision
Paper Tube Co., 2023 W. Charles-
ton Street, Chicago, 47. This proc-
ess can be used for plating magne-
tic and electric shielding of all
kinds — radio shielding, electro-
static and magnetic shielding, ap-
plications as coil shields, con-
densers, etc. Plastic articles can
be made to match those made of
metals. Conductor and insulator
can be combined in one unit. De-
tailed information and estimates
can be had by writing.

PRODUCERS' COUNCIL

and industry-wide, of work that will go
right on when the war is over. The
main purpose of the campaign is to
provide the very maximum of employ-
ment during the industrial reconver-
sion period. It should turn up a pros-
pect list that will contain some first
rate leads for you, Mr. Architect, and
you, too, Mr. Producer!

Here's an Opportunity to learn lots
more about another effort to realize .'
one of the Producers' Council's car-
dinal points . . . the promotion of di-
mensional coordination and modular
products. Mr. Harry C. Plummer, Di-
rector of Engineering and Research
of the Structural Clay Products Insti-
tute, will talk ai the annual meeting
of the Pacific Coast Building Officials
Conference to be held in San Fran-
cisco October 5-6th. ij

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

Estimator's Guide

Giving Cost of Building Materials, Wage Scale, Etc.

Amounts given ore figuring prices and are made up from average quotations furnished by material
houses to San Francisco contractors. 3% Sales Tax on all materials but not labor.

All prices and wages quoted are (or San
Francisco and the Bay District. There may be
tlight fluctuation of prices in the interior and
southern part of the state. Freight cartage,
at least, must be added in figuring country
work.

Bond — 1'/2% amount of contract.
Government woric ^%.

Brickwork —

' Common, $43 to $45 per 1000 laid, (ac-
' cording to class of work).

Face, $125 to $150 per 1000 laid, (accord-
ing to class of work).

1 Brick Steps, using pressed brick, $1.50 lin.
ft.

Brick Veneer on frame buildings, $1.10 sq.
i ft.

i Common f.o.b. cars, $16.00 a yard. Cart-
age extra. $2.50 per 1000.

Face, f.o.b. cars, $55.00 to $80.00 per
1000, carload lots.

Building Paper —

1 ply per lOOO ft. rol

2 ply par 1000 ft. ro

3 ply per 1000 ft.

skin. Standard. 500 ft.
Sisalkraft, 500 ft. rolL
Sash cord com. No. 7._
Sash cord com. No. 8...
S«h cord spot No. 7„
Sash cord spot No. 8~

_»3.50
_ 5.00
_ 4.25
_. 5.00
5.00

_J 1. 20 per 100 ft.
_ 1.50 per 100 ft.
_ 1.90 per 100 ft.
2.25 per 100 ft.

Sash weights, cast iron, J50.00 ton.

Nails, $3.50 base.

Sash weights, $45.00 per ton.

Concrete Aggregates —

GRAVEL (all sizes) $1.95 per ton at bunker; de-
livered, $2.50. All quotations less 10% to con-
tractors.

Bunker Delivered

Top sand $1.90 $2.50

Concrete mix 1.90 2 45

Crushed rock, l/< to % 1.90 2.50

Crushed rock, % to Wi 1.90 2.50

Roofing gravel _ 2.25 2.80

River sand 2.25 2.70

SAND— Bunker Delivered

River sand _ $2.25 $2.70

Lapis (Nos. 2 & 4). _ ._ 2.85 3.15

Olvmpia Nos. I & 2 _ 2.85 3.10

Del Monte white 84c per sack

Common cement (all brands, paper sacks) car-
load lots $2.42 per bbl. f.o.b. car; delivered
$2.40.

Cash discount on carload lots. lOc a barrel
loth Prox.

Atlas White \ I fo 100 sacks, $2.70 sack,

Calaveras White ■) warehouse or delivery $7 45

Medusa White ( bbl. carload lots.

Forms, Labors average $40.00 per M.

Average cost of concrete in place, exclu-
sive of forms, 35c per cu. ft.;
with forms, 60c.

4-inch concrete basement floor

I2I/2C to 14c per sq. ft.

Rat-proofing 7'/2C

Concrete Steps $1.25 per lin. ft.

Oampproofing and Waterproofing —

Two-coat work, 20c to 30c per yard.

Membrane waterproofing — 4 layers of sat-
urated felt, $4.50 per square.

Hot coating work, $2.00 per square.

Medusa Waterproofing, 15c per lb., San
Francisco Warehouse.

Tricocel waterproofing.

(See representative.)

Electric Wiring— $12.00 to $15.00 per outlet
for conduit work (including switches).
Knob and tube average $3.00 per outlet.
(Available only for priority work.)

Elevators —

Excavation —

Sand, 60 cents; clay or shale $1 per yard.

Teams, $12.00 per day.

Trucks, $22 to $27.50 per day.

Above figures are an average without
water. Steam shovel work In large quan-
tities, less; hard material, such as rock,
will run considerably more.

Fire Escapes —

Ten-foot galvanized Iron balcony, with
stairs. $150 Installed on new buildings;
$160 on old buildings.

Floors —

Composition Floors — 22c to 40c per sq. ft.
In large quantities, 18c per sq. ft. laid.
Mosaic Floors — 80c per sq. ft.
Ouraflex Floor— 23c to 30c sq. ft.
Rubber Tile — 50c to 75c per sq. ft.
Terazzo Floors — 45c to 60c per sq. ft.
Terazzo Steps — $1.60 lin. ft.

Hardwood Flooring (delivered to building) —
Hx2i/4' %x2- Ax2-

TiG UG Sq.Ed.

CIr. Qtd. Oak $I4«.00 M $122.00 M $141 .00 M

Sel. Qtd. Oak 1 18.00 M lOI.OOM 114 00 M

CIr. Pla. Oak 120.00 M 102.00 M 1 15.00 M

Sel. Pla. Oak 113.00 M 92.00 M 107.00 M

CIr. Maple _..I25.00M 1 13.00 M

Wage— Floor layers, $12.00.

Not* — Above quotations are all board measure

except last column which is sq. ft.

Glass (consult with manufacturers) —

Double strength window glass, 20c per
square foot.

Plate 80c per square foot (unglazed) in
place, $1.00.

Art, $1.00 up per square foot.

Wire (for skylights), glazed, 40c per sq.
foot.

Obscure glass, 30c to 50c square foot.

Glass bricks, $2.50 per sq. ft. in place.

Note — if not stipulated add extra for sot-
ting.

Heating —

Average, $I.9C per sq. ft. of radiation,
according to conditions.

Warm air (gravity) average $48 per regis-
ter.

Forced air, average $68 per register.

Iron — Cost of ornamental Iron, cast iron,
etc., depends on designs.

Lumber (prices delivered to bidg. site) —

No. I common $45.00 per M

^°i- \ J?'"„'"?I 43.00 per M

^i^M °^ I- Common «.00 per M

"^ M°- I l°°".'"i VG 80.00 per M

'1 M°- \ l°°"."'i VG 75.00 per M

l'Ax4 No. 2 flooring 85.00 per M

Slash grain —

I'i ^°- \ Il°''^'"^ $45.00 per M

1x4 No. 3 flooring 62.00 per M

No I common run T. & G 50.00 per M

Lath ...... 7.50 pe, ^

ihingles |add cartage to price quoted) —

Redwood, No. I $1.20 per bdl..

Redwood, No. 2 1.00 per bdle.

Red Cedar 1.40 per bdle.

Plywood — Douglas Fir (add cartage) —

"Plyscord" sheathing (unsanded)
A" 3ply and 48''x94'' $39.75 per M

"Piywall" (wallboard grade)-

, 1/4" 3.ply 48"x94''

"Plyform" (concrete form grade)—

. %" 5-ply 48"x94"..

..$43.70 per M
...$117.30 per M

Exterior Plywood Siding— "'"

^'j^'P'^, fl' : - JI32.0O per M

Redwood (Rustic) rx8" clear heart..$ 95.00 per M
$5 less per M for A grade.

Millworl — Standard.

O. P. $100 per 1000. R. W. rustic $100.00

per 1000 (delivered).
Double hung box window frames, average

with trim, $6.50 and up, each.
Complete door unit, $10.00.
Screen doors, $3.50 each.
Patent screen windows, 25c a sq. ft.
Cases for kitchen pantries seven ft. high,

per lineal ft., $8.00 each.
Dining room cases, $8.00 per lineal foot.

Rough and finish about 75c per sq. ft.
Labor — Rough carpentry, warehouse heavy

framing (average), $17.50 per M.
For smaller work average, $35.00 to $45.00

per 1000.

Marble— (See Dealers)

Painting —

Two-coat work _ per yard 50c

Three-coat work per yard 70c

Cold water painting _ per yard lOc

Whitewashing per yard 4e

SEPTEMBER, 1943

Turpentine. $1.08 per gal., in 5 gal. cans,

and 95c per gal. in drunns.
Raw Linseed Oil— $1.32 gal. in light drums.
Boiled Linseed Oil — $1.35 gal. in drums

and $1.48 in 5 gal. cans.

White Lead !n oil

Per Lb.

I ton lots, 100 lbs. not weight Il'/2C

500 lbs. and less than I ton I2l/,c

Less than 500 lb. lots I2%c

Red Lead and litharge

I ton lots, 100 lbs. net weight I I '/2c

500 lbs. and less than I ton I2I/4C

Less than 500 lb. lots I23/4C

Red Lead in oil

I ton lots, 100 lbs. net weight I2I/2C

500 lbs. and less than I ton I3'/4C

Less than 500 lb. lots I3%c

Note — Accessibility and conditions cause
some variance in costs.

Patent Chimneys —

5-inch $1.25 lineal foot

8-inch 1.50 lineal foot

10-inch 2.25 lineal foot

i 2-inch 3.00 lineal foot

Plaster

Neat wall, per ton delivered in S. F. In
paper bags. $17.60.

Plastering — I nterlor —

Yard

1 coat, brown mortar only, wood lath $0.70

2 coats, lime mofar hard finish, wood lath .90

2 coats, hard wall plaster, wood lath .80

3 coats, metal lath and plaster _ 1.50

Keene cement on metal lath 1.60

Ceilings with ^A hot roll channels metal lath

(lathed only) 1. 10

Ceilings with % hot roll channels metal lath

plastered 2.00

Single partition % channel lath I side (lath

Single partition % channel iath 2 incTes
thick plastered _ _ $2.90

4-inch double partition % channel lath 2
sides (lath only) ....- 2.00

4-inch double partition % channel lath 2
sides plastered - 3.50

Thermax single partition; I" channels; 21/,"
overall partition width. Plastered both
sides 3.00

Thermax double partition; I" channels; 4%"
overall partition width. Plastered both
sides _ - •4.00

its over r Thermax nailed to one side

od sluds or ioisis

sts over I" Thermax suspended to one
e wood studs with spring sound isola-
n clip -...

Plastering — EKtorior — ^'rd

2 coats cement finish, brick or concrete
wall $1,00

3 coats cement finish. No. 18 gauge wire
mesh 1 .75

Wood lath, $5.50 to $6.50 per 1000 (not

available)
2.5-lb. metal lath (dipped) (not available).. .19

2.5-lb. metal lath (galvanized) (not avail.) 21

3.4-lb. metal lath (dipped) (not available).. .22

3.4-lb. metal lath (galvanized) (not avail.) 24

'A-inch hot roll channels. $72 per ton.
Finish plaster. $18.90 ton; in paper sacks.
Dealer's commission, $1.00 off above quotations.

$13.85 (rebate lOc sack).
Lime, f.o.b. warehouse, $2.25 bbl.; cars. $2.15
Lime, bulk (ton 2000 lbs.). $16.00 ton.
Wall Board 5 piv. $50.00 per tvl.
Hydrate Lime, $25.00 ton.

Plasterers Wage Scale $1.75 per hour

Lathers Wage Scale 1.75 per hour

Hod Carriers Wage Scale _ 1.50 per hour

Composition Stucco — $1.80 to $2.00 sq. yard
(applied).

Plumbing —

From $100.00 per fixture up, according to
grade, quantity and runs.

Roofing —

"Standard" tar and gravel, $7.00 per sq.

for 30 sqs. or over.
Less than 30 sqs. $7.50 per sq.
Tile, $20.00 to $35.00 per square.
Redwood Shingles, $7.50 per square in

place.
Copper, $16.50 to $18.00 per sq. in place.

5/2 #1-16" Cedar Shingles,

4I/2" Exposure 8.00 Square

5/8 X 16" — # I Cedar

Shingles, 5" Exposure 9.00 Square

4/2 #1-24" Royal Shingles,

71/2" Exposure 9.50 Square

Re-coat with Gravel, $3 per sq.

Asbestos Shingles, $15 to $25 per sq.

laid.
Slate, from $25.00 per sq., according to

color and thickness.
1/2 X 25" Resawn Cedar Shakes,

10" Exposure 10.50

3/4 X 25" Resawn Cedar Shakes,

10" Exposure 11.50

I X 25" Resawn Cedar Shakes,

10" Exposure 12.50

Above prices are for shakes in place.
Sheet Metal—

Windows— Metal, $1.75 a sq. ft.

Fire doors (average), including hardware

$1.75 per sq. ft. '

Skylights — (not glazed)
Copper, 90c sq. ft. (flat).
Galvanized iron, 40c sq. ft. (flat).
Vented hip skylights 60c sq. ft.

Steel — Structural (None available except for
defense work)
$150 ton (erected), this quotation is ati
average for comparatively small quan-
tities. Light truss work higher. Plain
beams and column work in large quan-
tities $140 per ton.

Steel Reinforcing (None available except for
defense work) .
$150 to $200 per ton, set.

Stone —

Granite, average, $6.50 cu. foot in place.
Sandstone, average Blue, $4.00. Boise,

$3.00 sq. ft. in place.
Indiana Limestone, $2.80 per sq. ft. in

place.

Store Fronts —

Copper sash bars for store fronts, corner.

center and around sides, will average

$1.00 per lineal foot.
Note — Consult with agents.

Tile — Floor, Wainscot, etc. — (See Dealers)
Asphalt Tile — 18c to 28c per sq. ft. in-
stalled.
Wall Tile-
Glazed Terra Gotta Wall Units (single taced)
laid in place — approximate prices:

2 X 6 X 12 Jl.OOsq.tt.

4 X 6 X 12 1.15 sq.ft.

2 x 8 X 16 1.10 sq.ft.

4 X 8 X 16 1.30 sq.ft.

Venetian Blinds —

40c per square foot and up. Installation
extra.

Windows— Steel

Factory type sash 30c ft.
Ventilators for steel sash $5.00 each.

1 943

BUILDING TRADES WAGE SCALES FOR NORTHERN CALI-FORNIA

All crafts, except plasterers, are now working 8 hours a day. Plasterers' time is 6 hours.

CRAFT San Francisco Alameda Fresno Marin Sacramento San Jose San Mateo

ASBESTOS WORKERS $1.50 $1.25 $1.25 $l.37i/z $I.I2I/, $1.25 $1.25

BRICKLAYERS \.mi 1-871/2 1-50 I.B71/2 2.00 2.00 I.B?'/,

BRICKLAYERS' HODCARRIERS 1.40 1.40 1.05 1.40 1.40 1.40 1.40

CARPENTERS 1.43 1.43 1.25 1.43 1.43 1.43 1.43

CEMENT FINISHERS \ M'h 1-371/, 1.25 1.25 1.25 1.50

ELECTRICIANS 1.70 1.50 1.50 l.37i/j 1.50 1.50 1.50

ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS 1.61 1.56 1.50 1.61 1.61 1.50 1.50

ENGINEERS: Material Hoist 1.50 l.37i/j 1.25 1.50 l.37i/j I.621/2 1.371/,

Piledriver 1.75 1.60 1.60 1.75 1.75 1.75 1.62'/,

Structural Steal 1.75 1.60 1.60 1.75 1.75 1.75

GLASS WORKERS _ 1.25 1.25 I.I21/2 1.25 I.I21/2 1.21 1.25

IRONWORKERS: Ornamental 1.50 I.3|IA I.371/2 I.31IA IJ71/2 1.31% 1.25

Reinl. Rodman _.... 1.50 I.3II/4 I.31IA I.3|IA I.3|IA 1.60 I.3|IA

Structural _ 1.75 1.60 1.60 1.60 1.60 1.75 1.50

LABORERS: Building 85 .871/2 .82i/j .t\'h .85 .BHA -BMA

Concrete 871/2 -'3% -'0 .8 1 'A .921/2 -85

LATHERS _ 1.75 1.75 1.50 1.75 1.60 1.75 1.75

MARBLE SETTERS 1.43'A 1-25 1.25 l.3|iA 1.371/2 1-25 I.3IIA

MOSAIC a TERRAZZO 1.00 1.25 I.I21/2 I.I21/2 1.15-5/8 I.I21/2

PAINTERS 1.371/2 1.50 l.2a-4/7 1. 371/2 1-25 1.35-5/7 1.42-6/7

PILEDRIVERS _ 1.47 1.40 1.40 1.50 1.40 1.47 1.40

PLASTERERS 1.66-2/3 1.66-2/3 1.75 1.66-2/3 1.75 2.B0 2.00

PLASTERERS' HODCARRIERS 1.50 1.45 1.40 1.40 1.18% 1.35 1.75

PLUMBERS 1.70 1.50 1.53-1/8 1.50 1.56IA 1.621/, 1.50

ROOFERS 1.371/2 1.371/2 1.121/2 1-25 1.25 1.371/, 1.25

SHEET METAL WORKERS _ 1.50 I.371/2 1.43% 1. 371/2 1-50 1.50 I.371/2

SPRINKLER FITTERS IJO 1.371/, 1.25 ..... 1.621/, __,

STEAMFIHERS 1.50 1.50 f.SS'/s 1.50 I.56IA 1-621/2 1-50

STONESEHERS (Masons) I.SO 1.75 1.50 1.75 1.75 1.50 1.75

TILESEHERS 1.50 I.371/2 I.371/2 1. 371/2 1-371/2 1-50 1.50

Prepared and compiled by
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA CHAPTER, ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF AMERICA

with the assistance and cooperation of secretaries of General Contractors Associations and Builders Exchanges of Northeri

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$1.25

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2.00

1.40

1.43

1.25

1.50

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1.56

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1.25

1.75

1.60

1.25

1.31'A

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California.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

CHAPTER MEETINGS

(Continued from page 38)

A. E. Barnes, presidenf of the local Producers' Coun-
cil Club, directed the roundtable discussion of the eve-
ning's topic and among those voicing their opinion
were G. E. Morris, Los Angeles Superintendent of
Buildings; C. D. Wailes, Joseph Weston, A. T. Daniel-
son, Wilbur Barr and Fritz Burns, president of the Na-
tional Home Builders Association, who expressed his
belief that the future of the prefabricated house de-
pends on the measure of public acceptance and until
this is ascertained builders will continue to operate as

in the past.

PARKMERCED HOUSING PROJECT

Latest reports by the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company which Is financing the $12,500,000 Park-
merced Housing Project In San Francisco, Indicate that
1,700 units will be completed and ready for occupancy
in the spring of 1944. The project has run the gauntlet
of ups and downs since work was started two years ago.
Changes in type of construction, due to scarcity of
materials, from reinforced concrete to steel and brick,
then to wood frame, has naturally delayed progress and
caused the redrawing of architect's and engineer's
plans. The original scheme called for 2,600 units which
has been hacked one third. Some of the buildings have
reached the painting stage, others the frame work is
In progress.

Archiects Leonard Schultze and Associates of New
York are doing their utmost to move the job along.
So are the contractors, Starrett Bros. & Elken, also of
New York. Both H. J. Brunnier and Frederick H. Meyer
of San Francisco, were originally Indentlfied with the
project, Brunnier as structural engineer and Meyer as
resident architect.

Metropolitan is also financing a similar project in
Los Angeles, known as Park La Brea which has been
cut to 1,300 units. Commenting, Time recently re-
ported that "the remainder of the finished concrete
foundations will be kept like the ruined city of Perse-
polis to be grown over by milkweed and wild daisies
until after the war."

COMPETITION DATE EXTENDED

The Ministry of Public Works and Communications
of Ecuador announces that the closing date of the
first stage of the Architectural Competition for the
Legislative Palace in Quito has been changed from
October 1st to December 31st. Competitors will,
therefore, have three more months In which to complete
their entries.

Additional details may be obtained from the Pan-
American Union, Washington, D.C.

ENGINEER'S EXCURSION

Members of San Francisco Section, American Society
of Civil Engineers, participated in an excursion to
Sunnyvale, Saturday, August 28, where they were es-

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to California from St. Louis when Los Angeles was
just starting to build sky-scrapers. The I. W. Hell-
man building, designed by Mr. Rosenheim, was one of
the first reinforced concrete office buildings to be
erected in the Southern city. The structure stands as a
monument to the architects' ability, as do a number of
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tories. Mr. Rosenheim was a member of Southern
California Chapter, A. I. A., and some years ago took
a prominent part in its activities.

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engines. An engine every 24 hours is the plant's rec-
ord to date. Those taking advantage of the invitation
used the Southern Pacific trains for transportation both
to and from the works. Carl W. Appleford acted as
chairman of the program and excursion committee.

BUILDING CODE FOR PREFABRICATION

Anticipating a post-war trend in prefabricated con-
struction for residences and small homes, the Uniform
Building Code for the State of California is to undergo
some changes and the following six provisions seem
likely of adoption on recommendation of a special
committee of the Pacific Coast Building Officials
Conference:

1 . Every approval of material not specifically men-
tioned In the code shall Incorporate as a proviso the
kind and number of tests to be made during prefabrlca-
tlon.

2. In lieu of structural design any assembly to be
used as a structural element shall be submitted to test
loads acting as they would In a completed structure.
Such assemblies shall also be tested for durability and
weather resistance.

3. Connections shall be designed to develop the
strength of the members connected with structural
connections conforming with the existing provisions of
the code.

4. In the installation of pipes and conduits allow-
ance shall be made for any material to be removed;
panels to be tested after all chases and cavities have
been cut and Installations of pipes and conduits to con-
form to all laws applicable thereto.

5. Materials to be Inspected for compliance with
the code and to be grade-marked or labeled as re-
quired elsewhere In code; Inspection to be made in
the process of assembly and erection In the field with
continuous Inspection, If required for certain materials,
where construction takes place at the site. Continuous
inspection during assembly may not be required If
certified for compliance by an approved agency.

6. A certificate of compliance by an approved
agency shall be furnished with every assembly but one
certificate may serve for all assemblies of one type
delivered at one site.

EVERS OUT OF HOUSING JOB
Architect Albert J. Evers who has served as executive
director of the San Francisco Housing Authority almost
since its inception five years ago, was recently relieved
of his office by a three to two vote of the board. Evers
said it was a question of whether he or someone else
was to direct the affairs of the Authority. John W.
Beard, chief of the management division, has been
named temporary acting executive director. The
Authority still has several important housing projects
to carry through.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

SAN FRANCISCO'S FERRY BUILDING

The San Francisco City Planning Connmission has
offered some suggestions for modernizing the Ferry
Building, long a land mark, as a post-war construction
activity, recommending several optional schemes, any
one or all of which would contribute to the betterment
of a threatened blighted area.

For a period following the suspension of commuter
service the Ferry building was practically deserted.
The war, however, has brought new uses to the build-
ing as well as the district but only temporarily and the
commission feels something will have to be done with
the return of peace to keep this section of the city
alive.

One plan is to maintain the building as a bus and
street car terminal which would necessitate remodel-
ing the structure and removal of the old ferry slips.
It could also be used as a terminal for seaplane and
highspeed motor boat service between bay cities.
Establishment of a permanent museum Is another sug-
gestion offered by the commission which also would
like to see a permanent plaza with a broad new terrace
built directly In front of the building.

BOOK REVIEW

The Old Churches of London, by Gerald Cobb. Over
one hundred illustrations of edifices, some of which
were destroyed through recent indiscriminate bomb-
ing. Published by Charles Scrlbner's Sons, 597 Fifth
Ave., New York. Price $5.

The destruction of so many of Britain's fine buildings
has awakened interest as It has excited grief about the
splendid but little realized Inheritance of the London
churches. Professor Geoffrey Webb contributes an
able survey of the work of five centuries, and Gerald
Cobb a detailed and comparative account from his
minute knowledge.

The illustrations include six color plates, views of
vanished or falsified buildings from old drawings and
prints, and over one hundred photographs of churches,
surviving and destroyed, their exteriors and interiors,
and all that noble craftsmanship in wood, stone, plaster
and metal of Wren and his successors. The beautiful
cover drawing by Professor Randolph Schwabe, Prin-
cipal of the Blade School of Art, is based on an early
eighteenth century engraving, and Is Intended to give
a general impression of the towers and steeples of the
city's churches shortly after their completion.

ARCHITECT OWNS VALUABLE TIME-PIECE

Ralph M. Wyckoff, architect of San Jose, is owner
of a watch which he says was once carried by King
Louis Phillipe of France In the 19th century.

The watch was made by A. Benolt Company of Ver-
sailles and is engraved as made by royal command.
Frame and works are platinum and there are 15 rubles
in the timepiece. Its intrinsic value was set by Wagg-
staff of London as $500 to $600.

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The Vermont Marble Company,
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mont, was awarded an Army-Navy
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Company's fine and unusual job of
converting its stone working machin-
ery to the manufacture of war imple-
ments.

Six large shops of the company are
now devoting their whole facilities to
this type of work, which accounts for
some 85 per cent of the company's
current production.

Stone working machinery gener-
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l/g", but In these Vermont shops this
equipment was rebuilt by the com-
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work to tolerances of 5/1000 of an
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machining heavy castings which are
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winches and a large variety of other
products. The wood-working plant
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containers for war materials.

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individual pins at the ceremonies.
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Proctor, President of the Vermont
Marble Company, and the Individual
pins for the employees by Frank Lor-
raine, President of the Independent
Marble Workers of Vermont.

THE AIRPLANE OF TOMORROW

A warning against a dangerous
conflict between the "international
airplane" and "nationalistic Ideas" is
given by Waldemar Kaempffert,
Science Editor of the New York Times,
in The Airplane and Tomorrow's
World, issued by the Public Affairs
Committee of New York City.

"Isolation and the airplane cannot
go together," declares Mr. Kaempf-
fert In the new Public Affairs pamph-
let. "The airplane demands a politi-
cal outlook that goes beyond country
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Mr. Kaempffert sees, in recent
speeches made both in Congress and
in Parliament, a desire to use the long-
distance airplane to secure economic
and political advantages over dis-
tant countries. He calls deep nation-
alistic resistance to free intercourse
"a headache for the future," and sug-
gests— as one of the problems which
must be ironed out in postwar plan-
ning and at the peacetable — a change
in our concept of "Who owns the
air?"

"The first giant planes to appear
after the war will probably have a
ceiling no greater than the C-54's
35,000 feet, but the true stratosphere
plane will come," Mr. Kaempffert
says. "It will climb at the rate of
four miles a minute out of sight of
ocean and land. It will be an ordinary
event to breakfast in New York and
lunch in Southampton or Ports-
mouth.

"This stratosphere plane with a
range of half the earth's circumfer-
ence could easily be used by a strong,
predatory nation in making many
simultaneous surprise attacks," re-
minds the author of the pamphlet.
"Is world unity to be achieved by
some ruthless, militaristic power and
maintained by all the resources of
transportation and communication?
Or by some new League of Nations
with power to enforce its decisions,
or by some federation of states?

"The more the relation of air power
to permanent peace Is studied," con-
cludes Mr. Kaempffert, "the more It
becomes obvious that air traffic must
be placed under a single international
authority and that peace must be
preserved with the aid of an interna-
tional air force. Probably ten or fif-
teen bomber stations strategically
located around the Artie Circle and
other regions would be enough."

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construction project by the fabricator,
are to be treated as Class A products
instead of as controlled materials, ac-
cording to Direction No. 24 to CMP
Regulation No. I, the War Production
Board has recently announced.

In supplying steel products for con-
struction projects, fabricators found
that nnost of the itenns were Class A
products, but that there were fre-
quently some items which were act-
ually controlled materials. This meant
that, for a Class A product, a fabri-
cator had to receive an order accom-
panied by an allotment and a prefer-
ence rating, while for controlled ma-
terials he had to receive an authorized
controlled materials order. The Di-
rection now permits fabricators to ac-
cept orders for all steel items going
into construction as if they were Class
A products.

LEASE INSTEAD OF PURCHASE

A total of 263 sites, or approxi-
mately one-third of the sites for war
housing projects placed under con-
struction during the fiscal year ending
June 30, were leased, instead of pur-
chased. Commissioner Herbert Em-
merich of the Federal Public Housing
Authority announced recently.

"The policy of leasing instead of
purchasing sites for temporary struc-
tures wherever possible, is being con-
sistently followed in all our land ne-
gotiations," Mr. Emmerich explained,
"not only in the interest of economy
but also to facilitate the speedy re-
moval of temporary structures after
the war."

Since adopting the lease-instead-
of-purchase policy, sites for 35 war
housing projects, comprising more
than 1,315 acres, have been obtained
from patriotic owners for the nominal
rental of $ 1 .00 a year, he said. These
sites are located In 14 different states.

Five sites have been leased at $1
a year in each of the states of Ala-
bama, Arizona, California and Utah;
three each In the states of Colorado
and Georgia; two In Nevada, Texas
and Washington; one In Arkansas,
Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana and
Montana.

Combined rental costs of the 263
leased sites amounts to $318,377 a

year, less than 4 per cent of their ap-
praised valuation totaling more than
$8,000,000.

The policy of leasing instead of pur-
chasing war housing sites was adopted
by FPHA early in 1942. Under these
leases, taxes on the land are paid to
the local governments by the FPHA.

POST-WAR GAS APPLIANCES

That the western home-maker vi-
sions modern mlracies in gas-fueled
appliances for her "home of tomor-
row" was revealed by the Pacific
Coast Gas Association's coastwide
contest for service and sales per-
sonnel of the gas companies, just
concluded: "Have You Ever Seen
a Dream Cooking?"

More than 400 men and women
employes who are in constant con-
tact with consumers submitted Ideas
for possible Improvements in gas
ranges, heating appliances, heaters
and refrigerators, and collected over
$1000 In war bond prizes, offered by
the post-war appliance committee,
headed by W. H. Jacobs of South-
ern California Gas Company.

The women's committee, led by
Gladys Warren, turned In 155 en-
tries proposing additions to gas
ranges. Although unanimous In their
acclaim of the "certified perform-
ance" of present models, the women
visualized many "gadgets" that will
be studied by manufacturer-members
of the Association for the prac-
ticability and economic value. In-
cluded were ideas for ovens that
could be adjusted for height, glass
ovens, two-oven ranges with sepa-
rate controls, built-in cabinets and
other convenience devices, built-in
pressure cookers, tube lighting,
wider use of lightweight metals and
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PLASTICS for Post-War HOUSING

OCTOBER, 1943

TIME low FOR
THIIKIIG ABOUT TOMORROW

Right now our job is helping
to win a war ... for some time
all our efforts — ours and
yours — have been and still
are, devoted to that job, evi-
denced by two of our recently
completed housing projects in
the San Diego Area

(Illustrated in this issue)

Perhaps it's time now for
thinking about tomorrow — for
making long range plans for
the building and rebuilding
of a better and saner world f orj
which we are fighting

GOOD CONSTRUCTION
WILL BE NEEDED

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RCHITECT AND ENGINEER

OCTOBER, I 943

Volume 155 No. I

FRED W. JONES
Editor

MARK DANIELS
Associate Editor

HOWARD MOISE
Post-War Planning

E. N. KIERULFF*

Ass't Editor

•In the Service

COVER:

Lettering by Wayne Hertika, Architect

PHOTOGRAPHY:

Plastics by Dana B. Merrill

Fraternity Houses by Berton Crandall

CONTENTS

News and Comment on Art

4-5

What's On YoHr Mind?

Plastics for the Architect

Henry O. Belleville

Three Fraternity Houses by John K. Branner .

Two War Housing Projects at San Diego

Architectural Profession Needs a Voice

Louis LaBeaume, F.A.I.A.

Plywood and Plastic Refrigerator ....

Plastics for Prefabricated Bathroom

Architects' Bulletin

Producers' Council Page

Illustrations

Some Post-War Plastic Models ....

. 12-17

Fraternity Houses at Stanford University .

. 20-22

John K. Branner, Architect

San Diego War Housing Projects ....

. 23-26

Frank L. Hope, Jr., Architect

Oil Paintings by Elmer Grey

. 30-31

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The first of a series of reports
on a Master Plan for the City
of San Francisco offers some
basic proposals of the Shore-
line Plan. Highlights of this
report, together with suitable
illustrations, will be presented
to Architect and Engineer
readers under the signature of
L. Deming Tilton, Planning
Director. Seven or more pro-
posals are listed, including a
23-mile continuous shore drive,
560 acres of new industrial
area, rehabilitation of the Ferry
Building area, elimination of
shoreline pollution, new recre-
ational facilities, 380 acres of
new residential land and more
harbors for small boats.

Two huge wooden blimp
hangars are nearing comple-
tion at the U. S. Naval Air
Base at Santa Ana, California.
One of these hangars, costing
$2,000,000, is 1,000 feet long,
171 feet high and has a clear
span of 237 feet. It is an engi-
neering accomplishment of un-
usual interest in that it is the
largest clear - span wooden
building ever erected.

A growing interest in pre-
fabricated school houses for
rural districts has prompted
a San Francisco firm to spe-
cialize in this new type of
construction. Several interest-
ing examples will be illustrat-
ed, with descriptive matter by
the author, who describes his
method as "the new prebilt
class rooms," a result of years
of planning and engineering —
not a war baby, he says, but
"The School of the Future."

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NEWS AND COMMENT ON Al

TWO NEW ATTRACTIONS AT THE
SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF ART

A new course on Music started at the San Fran-
cisco Museum of Art October 7 and will be fol-
lowed by a series of three more meetings for pub-
lic attendance at an 83-cent admission charge for
each meeting. The course is conducted by Mrs.
Cecil Hollis Stone, pianist, and well known accom-
panist and chamber music player, student of mu-
sical history and form. Her lectures will form an
admirable introduction to this year's symphony
series, as well as a sound basis for musical under-
standing in general. The Museum regards this
and similar courses on related arts as an important
part of its contribution to the cultural activities of
the community, and feels that no living art is out-
side its province, because of the constant influ-
ences the arts have upon one another and their
parallel courses of development in our time.

Through October the San Francisco Museum of
Art offers a dramatic presentation of "Ships For
Victory," organized by the Portland Art Museum
to give the community insight into what was being
done to hasten victory, in the shipyards of the re-
gion. Here in San Francisco, the exhibition has a
double interest: it illustrates in a general way a
process going on tirelessly day and night in our
own shipyards and it focuses attention on the ac-
complishment of another important center of the
Pacific Coast. This is the first showing outside
Portland. The exhibition will tour.

SELF-PORTRAIT. 1943

The above painting by one of America's leading women artists is among
the most amHsing and "far-fetched" of the more conventional self-
portraits in the current De Young exhibit. Miss Rosenthal has invited
us to meet not only the artist, but a whimsical, giggling crew of
"muchachitos" encountered during a recent trip to Mexico. A patient
burro for her perch, pallet, brushes and flit-gun in hand, and with tongue
in cheek, the artist sets out — new paintings to conquer!

PHOTO EXHIBIT OF MODERN BRITISH
ARCHITECTURE AT LEGION PALACE

Several excellent shows are attracting art love
to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor
San Francisco this month. Outstanding exhih
tions include —

"British Architecture," selected by the Royal 1
stitute of British Architects for the New Yoi
World's Fair of 1939-1940. There are 92 phot
graphs, giving a comprehensive idea of moder
building in Great Britain, showing churches, flat
office buildings, hospitals, factories, undergroun
stations, airports, bridges, and so forth.

"Action Photography," circulated by the Mi
seum of Modern Art, opened October 15. Th;
exhibition traces the gradual reduction of exposur
time in photographing action from the first snoj
shot of moving figures taken by Eadweard Mu^
bridge in the 1880's to the amazing "stroboscopic
or high-speed photography of today.

"From Gericoult to Renoir," is a cross section c
the graphic arts created by the French Masters c
the 19th and 20th centuries. All works are originc
etchings and lithographs, some of the latter ar
colored. Included are, among others; The Faus
Illustrations by Eugene Delacroix, works by Thee
dore Garicault, Honore Daumier, Gustave D
Paul Gavarni, Horace Vernet, Camille Corot C
Daubigny, Edouard Manet, Paul Cezanne, CamiUl
Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, H. de Toulouse-LautreJ
Paul Gauguin and Auguste Renoir. I

LEGION OF HONOR
DRAWS HOOPER PAINTINGS
Adding immieasurably to th
wealth of fine art in San FrancL
co's California Palace of the U
gion of Honor, Albert Campbe.
Hooper, of Palo Alto, has just pre
sented his valuable collection t
the museum.

Included are 19 paintings b
Dutch, Flemish and English mas
ters; a bronze bust of Benjamii
Franklin by Houdon; 25 pieces c
furniture; approximately 100 piece
of porcelain, and miscellaneoii
decorative objects.

Paintings include; Portrait of <
Man, and Earl of Pembroke one
Montgomery, Anthony Van Dyck
William Sotheron, George Rom
ney; Lady Elizabeth Churchill
John Hoppner; Cottage Scene
Isack van Ostade; Portrait of (
Woman and Portrait of a Man
Nicolaes Maes; Ripperd van Groe
vendijik and Claudina van Groe
vendijik, Paulus Moreelse; Jeminc
Saintsbury; Thomas Beach; Self
Portrait, Cornellis J. Van Ceulen
Portrait of a Woman, Quiryn Brek
elenkam; Landscape, J. B. C. Corot
Portrait of a Man, Gonzalez Cockes
Portrait of a Woman, Gabriel Max

DORIS ROSENTHAL

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEEF

AN EVER CHANGING WORLD

PORTLAND ART MUSEUM OFFERS
EVERSE EXHIBITIONS THIS MONTH

tiring October the Portland Art Museum is pre-
anting two very diverse exhibitions. "America
i:the War," a collection of one hundred prints by
/nerican print-makers, is being shown concur-
rlitly with twenty-five other museums in the coun-
\y. This is of particular interest in Portland, where
th Museum last month presented an exhibition,
'?he Road to Victory," in which the story of
Jfnerica at war was conveyed photographically.
l.e same subject, translated by the imaginations
c! creative artists, offers interesting contrast and
climonstrates the fixed and separate fields of pho-
tferaphy and creative art.

I'The second October exhibition is the work of
Biilio Pettoruti, whose paintings were seen in San
Fancisco last year and which have been touring
tb country since that time. Introduced to America

by Dr. Morley, this Argentinian has been making
his mark as an abstract painter of scientific pene-
tration and controlled vigor. With the exhibition
at Portland he has circled the entire country, and
at least in the field of art Argentina has been dem-
onstrating a will to good neighborliness.

MURAL DESIGNS IN SPRINGFIELD

COMPETITION TO BE EXHIBITED

Following is the itinerary for 1943-1944 exhibition
of the winner and twenty-five other designs se-
lected from the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts'
$4500 mural competition:

October — Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

November 1-19 — Miami University, Oxford,
Ohio.

November 22-December 10 — Cleveland School
of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.

'j^RD PLAYERS

'il on canvas by Karl Hofer

CTOBER, 1943

Albert Bender Collection,
San Francisco MuscHm of Art

WITH mu TO DO

This season of this year — rij^ht now,
and for the next few months — your fanv
ily is going to need the best electric hght
you can provide. Next Spring and Sum-
mer the need will not be so great — but
now good light is imperative.

Short daylight hours make artificial
lighting in your home more important,
not only for normal seeing, but for all
those increased seeing tasks imposed by
school work, and long evenings of study,
reading and other seeing tasks.

This year the problems of attaining
good lighting are greater than usual be-
cause electricity is a wartime essential
and must not be wasted. Each lamp must
deliver full value in light for the elec-
tricity it uses.

In order to do this, a few simple rules
should be observed:

1. Reflectors, lamp bulbs, and shades must
be kept CLEAN.

2. Shades op>en at the top and wide at the
bottom distribute light best.

3. Shades with white lining deliver much
more usable light than those with any
tinted lining.

4. Group your furniture, and then place
each lamp to serve as many persons as
possible.

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January — University of Illinois, Urbana, Hhn
February — Thayer Museum, Lawrence, Kan:
March — Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, Kan,,
April — Kansas State Teachers College, Empc

Kan.

May — University of Minnesota, Minneap(i

Minn.

June- -Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, ;
Only one California artist is represented in {

exhibition, Nell G. Best of Lynwood.

♦

NOTES FROM THE ART DIGEST

The Santa Barbara Museum in California ha? i.
cently received as gifts three works by cont'i-
porary American artists.

Lt. Wright S. Ludington gave into the permarj
collection Yasua Kuniyoshi's "Weathervane <j
Objects on Sofa," a widely exhibited canw.
and Charles Sheeler's "Still Life" of a white pitci
and gladioli. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sachs gave :-
Museum a figure study drawing by Jack G»
Stark which will be added to the well knci
Ludington collection of black and whites.

The art dealer, Grace Nicholson, of Pasadei
has given her spacious gallery — which is a wl j
building and "more like a museum than a deals
gallery," people have always said — to the (/
of Pasadena which has turned it over to the Pc/-
dena Art Institute.

Miss Nicholson, a specialist in Oriental art, i
retain her home apartment for life and will;
resident advisor. The galleries will house the I-
lection of the Institute and there will be space t
exhibitions and possibly for art classes.

The closing of the exhibition of the Rci!
Academy marked what was considered the nil
successful London season in some years. A cci!
of the visitors shows that more than twice as itKy
people attended than during the same pericxi il
year. ■

The sales of paintings during the first four wei
exceeded in value those for the whole periociii
each of the last four exhibitions. During the in
weeks 254 works were sold for approximately $ ,•
000. The total sales last year were 263 for $26,^
Last year the National Academy, American cc>
terpart of the Royal Academy, made eight scs
from its annual exhibition.

It is somewhat uncanny that the only work:)'
art to reach England from the Continent during e
last three years was the exhibition of more tlin
100 pictures by British prisoners of war. This t'k
place at Knoedler's in Bond Street, London.

Bringing their summer's art activities to a ci-
elusion, the James Vigeveno Galleries of Los i-
geles presented through September a 0011601101)1
17th century Dutch master paintings. At the ofi-
ing of the exhibition. Dr. Adrian Hogart, Netjf-
lands Consul, made a brief commentary, dTav)<i
a comparison between the present war and «
conflict against Spain which raged in Holla"'
the 17th century.

ARCHITECT AND EN

UATS ON YOUR MIND?

Letfers to the Editor

ilUSOON AIRPORT TERMINAL

itit and Engineer:

s< -to thank you for the extra copies
e uly Architect and Engineer with re-
lions of the Keehi Lagoon Airport

il'-iay be interested in the following

lit received from John H. Frederick.

s^r of Transportation & Industry, School

uiiess Administration, University of

, id Air Cargo Editor of Distribution

jiiousing magazine:

bje recently been talking with people
of the larger cities of the Middle
airport planning problems, includ-

)(inal building construction and plans,

Iust say that your thinking on the
far ahead of anything I have found
erritorial Superintendent of Public
_,3an F. Balch, some months ago.
tpthe rapidly changing conditions, and
jfenal development of air transport,
i|ted steps to meet the situation as
lAs possible after the war. As a re-
>|imlnary plans are finished and the
sy funds for working drawings were
ijated by the lest legislature,
tibest regards and aloha, I am
S Sincerely yours,

I HART WOOD.

nulu, Sept. 7, 1943.

tERS AND ARCHITECTS REVOLT

lit and Engineer:

Ifed is a bit of news entitled "Engi-

d Architects in Revolt," which I be-

will find sufficiently interesting to

for publication in your October

fers of the Engineers and Architects Asso-
Southern California have revolted in
r the high handed policies of some of
"5 and have reorganized themselves as
rs and Architects Institute of Southern

organization has opened offices at 124
rth Street, Suite 589-590, telephone Madl-
Los Angeles.

resslve and forward-looking group of
|nd directors were elected at a recent
bt the Institute as follows;
ht: Wm. C. Becker,
^sident: G
■y-Treasur

A. Smith.

Directors

.. Dodge Herman C. Muhlba

'V Gary Joseph Whitman

;redlth

» of the revolt and unusual action
of the history of the old Engineei
s Association is revealing.

1 938- 1939

1942- 1943

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Vicinity

•Members In both Armed and Civilian Services
throughout the world continue their membership
and request data and accommodations.

"This rapid growth was based on more than the
war boom in Southern California. In fact, one ol
the principal inducements offered members was
a highly efficient and greatly appreciated free
employment service.

"One contributing factor for the revolt was the
well-known resentment that has been accumulating
in many technical minds over the questionable
honor of working on important war projects for
considerably less money than that frequently paid
many mechanics. Faced on every front with revo-
lutionary changes demanding leadership and bold
action, it became obvious that the necessary
progress could not be achieved In an organization
that could be so easily stymied by directors who
did not understand the responsibility of their
positions, ignored the welfare and demands of its
members.

"Refusal of some of these directors to resign
upon request and later, to submit to a referendum
vote presented but two alternatives: (a) Waste
valuable time In a fight through the courts, with
harmful publicity to the entire profession, or (b)
Re-organize. The latter was the overwhelming
desire expressed by the membership at called
meetings and by mailed-in ballots.

"With plans being perfected to make the En-
gineers and Architects Institute one of the most
beneficial and highly respected technical societies
In the country, committeemen and members are
out working with the zeal and determination of

"The policy of assisting employing Engineers,
Architects and Industry in obtaining the best
technical assistants available without cost to either
employer or employee, will be continued, enlarged
upon and perfected, as one of the functions of the
Institute. This Is not only regarded as a worth-
while accommodation to the members, but a very
Important contribution to the war effort In a terri-
tory where rapidly expanding industry is constantly
in need of technical men of a thousand and one
skills and experience.

"Five thousand members, with headquarters in
an appropriate club-like atmosphere, offering
many long desired accommodations. Is the Imme-
diate obiectlve of the Engineers and Architects
Institute."

L. S. SANDERSON.
3448 Fifth Ave., Los Angeles.
9-12-43.

SAN JOSE POST-WAR PROGRAM

Editor,

Architect and Engineer:

The enclosed article describes a long-
range, post-war industrial program which
has just been launched by Santa Clara Coun-
ty, California.

This is the first large-scale promotion on
the part of any West Coast Community dur-
ing war-time, and is the forerunner of a
marked post-war industrial expansion on the
Pacific Slope.

As such, it may be of interest to your
readers.

Yours very truly.

RUSSELL E. PETTIT,

Secretary, San Jose Chamber

of Commerce.

Extracts from the San Jose article referred
to follow:

"Plans for a $55,O0O-per-year campaign to
attract new industries to San Jose, county
seat of Santa Clara County, California, were
announced recently. The effort will be spon
sored by the San Jose Chamber of Com
merce, the San Jose newspapers, and public
spirited citizens. The board of county su
pervisors put up $25,000, the city counci
$20,000, and business leaders subscribed the
rest.

"One phase of the movement will be ex-
tensive advertising in national business and
trade magazines."

GOING STRONG AT 72

Editor,

Architect and Engineer:

1 am back at my home in California once
more — and very glad to be here, instead of
Florida, where they have a beastly climate.
The California Institute of Technology here
is given over entirely to war work now — is a
hive of engineers — and I am holding down
a position there along with several well-
known architects.

Yesterday I was lunching with one and
telling him about the murals that I painted
in Florida. F-le said, "Have they been pub-
lished?" That put the idea into my head
of trying again to see if I couldn't get one
or more of them published. (See pages 30
and 31 this issue.)

I am rather proud of the fact that at the
age of 70 I was able to teach blueprint
reading (somewhat out of my line) to groups
of boisterous marines, during regular class
hours, and out of hours paint a mural frieze
35 feet long, that the senior officers, after
seeing half of it painted, decided they
wanted it in their own quarters — when it
was originally intended for the lobby of
their auditorium.

With kind regards, truly yours,

ELMER GREY.
Pasadena, Cal.
LOW COST HOMES
Editor,
Architect and Engineer:

I would like to obtain literature, pictures,
floor plans, etc., on:

1 . Low cost homes.

2. Week-end cabins or cottages.

3. General instruction on building.

Have you anything of this nature availa-
ble? If so, I would appreciate if you would
advise me of the cost of this literature.

Can you recommend any other possible
source for this type of literature? I would
be very grateful for any assistance you can
give me. yours very truly,

EDYTHE R. REGINELLI.
3181 California, St.,
San Francisco, Cal.

(I) and (3) Contact an architect. (2)
Possibly California Redwood Associa-
tion nnay have literature on week-end
cabins or cottages. — Editor.

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LOANS TO CONTRACTORS

Government guaranteed V loans will be mac
available to war contractors and subcontractors c
a much broader basis than heretofore, effective immi
diately, under a plan jointly announced by the Wi
and Navy Departments, the U. S. Maritime Commi
sion and the Federal Reserve Board.

The plan is designed to assure contractors that thel
working capital invested in war production will nij
be frozen in the event of contract terminations. Ii
terest on loans guaranteed under the new program w
be assumed by the Government upon termination <
contracts as under present Regulation V guarantees.

This decision to broaden industrial credit facilitit
was reached with a view to preventing any lag in we
production, which might be caused by fear on th
part of contractors that their capital would be tie
up as contracts are cancelled in response to swifti
changing war requirements. This broadened V loa
will go far toward allaying such fears.

In the past, advances under V loans have beet
restricted, in general, to working capital needs fd
war production. The broadening of the plan will enabi
contractors to obtain the use of most of their owl
working capital immediately upon termination of the
contracts. Banks will be enabled to make such ai
vances at once, and with a minimum of complication

The services stress the fact that cancellation of coi
tracts must not be construed as marking the beginnin,
of a general curtailment of war production. On tbl
contrary, with the war rapidly becoming one of move
ment, with great Allied offensives in progress and
prospect, material requirements are subject to sudde
and unavoidable changes, and It Is essential to remov
all possible causes of delays In war production.

PLYWOOD PRESIDENT OFFERS SUGGESTION

To permit prompt resumption of normal civilian pre
duction when the war ends, Lawrence Ottinger, pres
dent of the United States Plywood Corporation, ht
publicly urged that some procedure be developed fc
Immediate settlement upon cancellation of war coi
tracts of the claims of hundreds of thousands of prim
contractors and their sub-contractors, suppliers an
material men.

Mr. Ottinger suggests that banks be authorized ♦
make payments on account of these contract-cancellc
tion claims on the approval of certified public accoun
ants, such action to be subject to ultimate Governmer
review. The alternative to such an orderly adjustmer
of war contract-cancellation claims, said Mr. Ottinge
Is chaos.

Post-war plans of the United States Plywood Co
poration have been sufficiently perfected, Mr. Ottir
ger says, to give its "many qualified employees an
associates now in the armed forces" assurances ci
Immediate reemployment, as well as employment t|
"many more."

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEE

DEFINITE
ADVANTAGES

n SAL-MO SUPPLY DUCT

»r Warm Air Heating, VentMing
nd Air Condilionittg Systems

Each SAL-MO SUPPLY DUCT carries the Underwriters

SPECTED" label for Heating, Safety and Pernnanence.

The unique folding feature of this DUCT saves space i

storage and transferring to jobs.

SAL-MO SUPPLY DUCT embodies built-in insulation, i

years of fuel saving.

Superior lightness (less than 8 oi. per square ft.) coi

with superior strength (Mullens Test over 400 lbs. per

inch) assures ease in handling and structural stability.

Fabricated entirely with insoluble adhesives, weather an

humidity cannot affect it.

Manufactured in 24 standard siies (Areas from 24

inches to 448 square inches— in 4-foot time-saving I

allowing for all types of installations.

Also furnished in flat sheets containing from II to 24

feet which can be easily rolled or scored on the [ob.

square
d high

iALL MOUNTAIN COMPANY

U W. Adams street Dept. A Chicago 3. Illinois

:;fBER. 1943

Index to Advertisers

•Indicates Alternate Months

ALADDIN Heating Corp

AMERICAN Rubber Mfg. Co.
ANDERSON & RIngrose

BASALT Rock Company 43

BAXTER & Company, J. H 10

CASSARETTO, John 48

CELOTEX Corp - *

CLARK, N., & Son 46

CLINTON Construction Company 45

COATES, Leonard, Nurseries 47

COLUMBIA Steel Company I I

CROCKER First National Bank 47

DINWIDDIE Construction Company 48

EL ENCANTO Hotel.

FORDERER Cornice Works 45

FULLER, W. P., Co - 3

GUNN, Carle & Company.-

HANKS, Inc., Abbot A 46

HAWS Drinking Faucet Company 2

HERRICK Iron Works 46

HOGAN Lumber Company 45

HUNT, Robert W., Company 47

HUNTER, Thos. B 47

IMPERIAL Brass Mfg. Co 35

INCANDESCENT Supply Co 46

INDEPENDENT Iron Works 46

JENSEN 8. Son, G. P. W 48

JOHNSON Company, S. T 1°

JUDSON Pacific Company 45

KAWNEER Co

KRAFTILE Company

MATTOCK, A. F '♦8

MULLEN Mfg. Co -;- 4/

MYERS Bros 2nd Cover

NORTHERN California Electrical Bureau 6

PACIFIC Coast Gas Association

PACIFIC Foundry Company, Ltd 10

PACIFIC Manufacturing Company 44

PACIFIC Paint and Varnish Company 38

PACIFIC Portland Cement Company

PARAMOUNT Built-in Fixture Company ■- 48

PARKER, K. E Back Cover

REMILLARD-Dandlnl Co 48

REPUBLIC Steel Corporation 44

SALL Mountain Company '

SIMONDS Machinery Company 44

SISALKRAFT Company 43

STAN LEY Works, The

TORMEY Company, The 47

U. 5. STEEL Company..

VERMONT Marble Company • 44

WASHINGTON - Eljer Company

WESTERN Asbestos Company *

WOOD, E. K., Company 10

WAR Bonds 3rd Cover

Take a buying tip from Uncle Sam

when you need
low-cost Hot Water /

Specify AQULUX

WATER HEATERS

'hat he is doing, and he ought to know . , .
of gallons monthly for the Army and N
cr supply has to be dcpendabi

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ship h.

le Sam installs an Aqulux Water Heater in a Mili.

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knows what it will do, for he has checked its per.
formance. He knows he is buying hot
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^ for the job in hand. And he knows he

fy is putting in equipment that will de-

years of s

If you hi
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example; invest
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of the firnn — Service in physical equip-
nnent — Experience and Personnel —
All these factors contribute to a
speedy and satisfactory completion
of construction with minimum of time
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Marching back to

DURING the first six months of peace, a U. S.
Chamber of Commerce survey indicates that
1,015,000 families intend to build or buy new homes —
592,000 intend to modernize kitchens — 496,000 plan
new iiathrooms.
But what kinds of homes? How importantly will advanced design,
improved construction and new materials influence their planning?
Architects and bmlders already have the answers to manv such
questions m the versatile performance of steel, not only in industrial
buildings but also in dwellings. These qualities will serve an even more
important need when it comes to designing the "homes of tomorrow."
Modern construction will create many new demands for which the use
of '•teel is a practical "must."

I'or no other material can serve so many purposes so well. Wherever
there is need for strength, durability, resistance to the elements and
fire there will be found a steel suited to that need. l\1ass production
of prefabricated units, which seems destined to increase, is just one
of the instances in which steel can serve to advantage.

We have collected a fund of valuable information concerning the

most frequent uses of U-S-S Steel Products in home building. This

information makes interesting reading in a fully illustrated brochure.

85 Wa\s to AJake a Better Home." Just drop us a line and we shall

be glad to forward your free copy.

BACK THE ATTACK

WITH WAR BONDS

USS STEEL SHEETS

COLUMBIA STEEL COMPANY, i'aw Francisco

CARNEGIE-ILLINOIS STEEL CORPORATION, I'iltsbtiigh and Chicago
TENNESSEE COAL. IRON & RAILROAD COMPANY, Birmingham

United States Steel Supply Company. Chicai.i. \l arrhmise Dislriblilors
United Stales Steel Export Company. New York

Properties and advantages
of Special U'S'S Steels

USS COPPER STEEL Twice the atmn

Furnished hiack or (ialyanized for ([utter
downspouts, flashinds. duct work for ai
condilionini! systems and furnace cunstru

Xiie cost oi USS Copper Steel is
close to that of plan steel that it adds le
than one dollar to cost of sheet metal woi
in avcraXe huildinj! under $6,000.

USS PAINTBOND— A «a|yani/.ed Bon
erized Steel. Permi:s immediate paintin
Paint holds tii^hter.
recommended fur all
(gutters, downspouts,
metal work.

In the South and West, USS Dul-Knte,
with properties similar to Painthond. is
available.

USS VITRENAMEl Porcelain on USS
\'inil NAMI I has almost unlimited possibili-
ties both for interiors and exteriors. Base
niefal is easily formed into attractiye shapes.
Porcelain finish is durable and easiU
cleaned.
Ideal for

Hi;;:ily
inch as
I sheet

all panels. roolin|<. shiniiles.
shutters, tilinti. and bathroom, kitchen and
laundry equipment. Tor bathtubs, lava-
tories, sinks, stoves, relriierators, wasliinil
machines, hot water heaters, laundry travs,

specif\ II-S-S VllRliNAMl!!..

USS STAINLESS STEEL — ,

metal" for sinks, drainboards,
faces, kitchen and bathroom tr
place where a permanent, sar
beautiful service is desired.

NITED STATES STEEL

>LnSTICS

FOR THEMRCHITECm

Henry O. Belleville

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Popular imagination has cast plastics in a glamor role among modern structural materials f
re-building the post-war world. Plastic penthouses, synthesized from coal, air, and water, witia
variety of conveniences known and unknown, are envisioned by the layman.

What is the prospect for the materialization of such a concept? If the architect is to be
Aladdin, he will be fore-armed for peace by exact data that will enable him to bring the pop
flight of fancy down to earth, and recognize the limits within which he may expect to exploit
versatile functions of this new material.

Its possibilities are challenging. For the house of the future is likely in many instances to e
made of standardized, mass-produced parts. Modern plastics are a creation of the mass-produc
age and as such were conceived and designed to fit into other mass-production processes.

In the chemical wonderland which gave birth to plastics, the architect, aware of the s
advance of synthetics from mere substitutes for existing materials to replacements of these, c

finally to a dominant position i''
specialized field all their own, •
be forgiven for harboring a b-
that almost anything is rather n
than likely to be possible.

It is the purpose here to report*
presently discernible limitations wv
in which the designer may hope'O
count on plastics in projecting bu-
Ings of the future. It is said tha*
all-plastic house has been exhib
in Europe. Be that as it may, nc
tempt is made here to forecas'
DOOR PUSH BAR OF "LuciTE" likely the prospect that these lab(

T' creations are to be built on a mass-production scale.
I Research workers responsible for the development of the new plastics are men of imagination.
JOfheir vision is due the progress of the industry at a rate and in directions that have glamorized
re product In the public view. But they are scientists. And long ago they left off mere duplication
ff ptural substances. Today, as in the acrylic resin plane noses, they set their goals by practical
trlptural specifications and build to meet these.

j PLASTICS IN POST-WAR PLANNING

. Therefore, it Is not surprising to find that in response to demand already widespread, plastics
ta^l been finding their way increasingly into housing. Under the impact of war still further adapta-
io| are being perfected as plastics survive the rigors of service in the world's battle machines,
(xdeding ofttimes the performance of older materials in similar applications. In the coming peace,
\ i already obvious, they will continue to widen the field of their utility and increasingly attract the
ircjitect.

Ipstics are produced in two broad
ilaiifications — thermosetting types,
i^hi;h, in a cycle somewhat analogous
JD hat whereby a mass of soft clay
i ansformed by heat into a hard
kii<, take permanent form through
leo-treating processes; and thermo-
)l^ic, which assume functional form,
ike molten iron, under heat, but
^'hlh. like iron, maintain that form
)n| below the molding temperature,
■oyiulatlon of both is achieved by
)r6'sure under heat.

BATHROOM FIXTURES OF CRYSTAL-CLEAR PLASTIC

"Louverplas"
Shields for
Fluorescent
Light

Within these two divisions, the industry rec-
ognizes distinctions between two further clas-
sifications. While many objects are formulated
from plastics as such, certain plastics and re-
lated compositions are used as bonding agents
or adhesives. As a bonding agent, they serve
to unite non-plastic materials, either as an
adhesive joining laminations of the non-plastic
— wood or paper, for example — or as an inn-
pregnant to bind together non-plastic particles.

Among plastics adapted to a wide variety
of uses for the architect or designer's purposes
is "Lucite" methyl methacrylate resin. It is of
the thermoplastic type. War allocations now
consume the entire supply. But with the com-
ing of peace, the designer will find a host of
applications tried, tested and ready for en-
hancing the interiors of the homes of the future.

BATHROOM FIXTURES OF "LUCITE"

"Lucite" is fabricated into the clear, high-
visibility housings from behind which our airmen
fight the enemy. It is used for the cockpit,
turret and blister enclosures, and "green-
houses" of the big bombers. It is optically
clearer and weighs less than glass.

When peace releases this product for gen-
eral consumer use, it is destined for an impor-
tant place in the home. In bathroom, kitchen
or wherever plumbing handles, faucets, towel
racks, soap cups, toothbrush and glass recep-
tacles are required, it will offer opportunities
for superior decorative and modern treatment.
Transparent or colored opaque formulations
present a varied choice for esthetic enhance-
ment in these interior applications. The plastic
has especial appeal in the form of extruded
moldings.

It will be a valuable adjunct in the designing
of illuminating fixtures, a use to which it has
already been applied. This synthetic possesses
properties for carrying light around its own
curves and seems bound to reward the study
of the pioneering designer able to exploit this
unique quality for carrying illumination around
corners.

Upper left: Plastic screen.

Below: Paint brush with natural bristles (left) and brush
with tapered Nylon bristles (right). Latter wears three
times longer than natural bristles.

ARCHITECT AND ENGiN

"Plastacele" cellulose acetate plastic is
nother of the synthetic family which will find
Acceptable applications in the lighting field.
In the form of "Louverplas," It will function as
3 pleasing director for the fluorescent type of
lighting.

Nylon, the dramatic triumph of ten years of
.chemical research in the synthesis of plastics
from coal, will emerge as a valuable aid to the
builder in the post-war era. Famed among the
public as a superior textile filament, of ines-
itimable value as the life-raft of the airways In
{parachutes, the needs of the nation's military
•program have speeded perfection of its uses,
opening up ever broadening areas of utility
[that stir the imagination of the designer.

WINDOW SCREENS OF NYLON

, Window screens of nylon that can be rolled
up, out of the way like shades, have been tested

,and will be available In volume after the war.

^Resistant to weathering, nylon screening will
prove a boon to the architect. These screens

iwill eliminate the disfigurement Inevitably en-
countered when metal screens rust and corrode

land pour staining streams of water on sills and

: other painted woodwork.

j Development of nylon as a woven upholster-
ing cover for seats and benches offers a chal-

jlenglng opportunity for the use of color in the
treatment of breakfast nooks or sun porches.

t Nylon bristles for paint brushes today are
|allocated solely for war use. But it may well
ibe that their demonstrated superiority over
[animal bristles may find recognition In the
I specifications of the discriminating architect
iln his search for the highest quality finishes In
j post-war paint jobs when the decreasing needs
of the war program release nylon for consumer
{use.

"Fabrlkoid" pyroxylin-coated fabric repre-
sents an adaptation of plastic treament which
I enjoys recognized advantages over many older
[ materials In a variety of uses of interest to the
; architect. As an upholstery covering. It Is
superior because it is washable, durable, and

Upper right: Plastic nose for a IMortin bomber.
I Lower: Nylon plastic for post-war industry — rope, para-
i chute cloth and bristles.

Not«: All illuitrationi courtesy Du Pont D« Nemoun Co.

BER, 1943

methvl mMhorrll 7 '^^.If^^^ plasties from uses for war purposes, decorative bathroom fixtures such as these made of "Uc"
ThTs nrJ^^or ^,1 r? T"''^ ''^°^''' °'''^- Tumbler holder, wardrobe hook, soap dish, brackets and wall plates show I

black «r'l,h,7-? "« ? ' construction. Styles of wall plates ore completely transparent or with underneath finisH
DiacK or in cnromiiiin ettect.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINl'

A light shone at one end of this snaky rod of "Lucite" methyl methacrylate resin —
travels to and out the other end without heating the crystal-clear plastic. Ability to
"pipe cold light around curves" makes the material particularly adaptable to medical
instruments. A plastic gas mask lens is shown with the bent rod.

Decorative plastic bathroom fixtures pictured above include tumbler holder, wardrobe hook, soap dish, brackets
and wall plates. Styles of wall plates are completely transparent or with underneath finish in black or in chromium
effect.

OCTOBER, 1943 - 17

colorful. Wearing qualities and scuff-proof
properties have already won "Fabrikoid" wide
acceptance annong architectural specification
writers as the covering for seats in theaters
and public places.

Plywood adhesives recently perfected for
the aviation industry make use of plastics or
synthetic resins as a bonding agent. These will
be available in great quantities after the war.
Thin sheets of veneer bonded with these new
plastic "glues" can be bent or molded into
practically any shape desired.

Plywood furniture, light walls and movable
partitions as strong per unit of weight as steel,
are foreseen as holding the promise of Inex-
pensive and durable housing for tomorrow.

Plasticizing is among the treatments chemi-
cal science has developed to endow wood with
qualities that vastly improve upon nature. The
chemist will be able to supply the post-war
building industry with lumber so treated as to
be a distinctive structural material in its own
right.

PLASTICS FOR DECORATIVE FEATURES

Looking ahead, the designing architect may
with confidence assume a widening and in-
creasingly versatile field of plastics will develop
for use in decorative features of bathroom,
living rooms, and kitchens, in bars and lounges,
theatre lobbies and soda fountains or gas sta-
tions wherever a distinctive and modern note
is to be sounded.

Venetian blinds have been made of trans-

lucent plastics and colorful treatment has been
achieved for ballrooms through the employ-
ment of plastic panels.

An advantage possessed by plastic door-
knobs over the metal kind Is their high-Insulat-
ing value. Static electricity stored in the hu-
man body won't discharge a spark when the
hand grasps the plastic knob. Wear resistance
Is a superiority of plastics adapted as thresh-
olds while escutcheons and electric switches of
the material offer scope for decorative en-
hancement, and plastic floats for flush tanks
have proved longer lasting than the metal
types.

Adaptations of plastics as embellishments,
decorations and structural components of fur-
niture and furnishings and building appoint-
ments are myriad and will multiply when war
releases the synthetics for civilian use. Among
the long list appear such Items as shower cur-
tains, cabinets, ceiling panels, store facades,
moldings, dralnboards, Insulating materials,
walnscotlngs, and electrical fixture parts.

All these and the other mentioned uses for
plastics In the building field Indicate the ex-
tent to which the designer may let his imagina-
tion roam In bringing down to earth the air-
castles Inspired In the modern man's fancy by
the romance of synthetics. An all-plastic dwell-
ing may now seem but a fantasy of the distant
future but the most up-to-date house of the
year-after-the-war will be a shining landmark
of the progress toward ever-widening applica-
tions of plastics by the architect.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

PLYWOOD SURFACES TO HAVE METALLIC SKINS
GLUED WITH PLASTIC

Howard Blakeslee, Associated Press science
editor, writes of a new post-war use of light
metals which may be pressed into thin sheets
or "metallic skins" and used in prefabricated
houses, plywood surfaces, kitchen assemblies,
etc. A plastic glue makes these innovations pos-
sible.

All that is needed to make this metal skin a
permanent part of a structure is a glue which
will form a bond as strong as the materials it
sticks together. Two such glues have been an-
nounced recently.

One is reanite, a product of the United
States Stoneware Company, New York City;
the other is cycleweld, a product of the Chrys-
ler company and of the Goodyear Tire and
Rubber Company.

Both are plastics. Both, under mild heat and
pressure, bond metal to metal, to rubber, to
plastics, or any one of the three to any other.
The bonds, in laboratory tests, are as strong
as the original materials.

Lightweight stainless steel or aluminum is
easily bent or dented. But combine it with
moisture-proof and fire-resistant plywood and
the resulting material is rigid, strong, not easily
dented, and very light in weight. In addition,
such a structure is expected to have good
sound-insulation.

Plywood is easily bent and molded. The metal
skins will bond perfectly over curved surfaces.
These plastic bonding materials enlarge the
usefulness of thin metallic sheets enormously,
for very thin metal is not always easy to rivet
or to weld.

The stoneware people believe that bonding
will produce the nearest thing yet to a vibra-
tionless and noiseless era after the war. This

will come from the enhanced use of rubber as
a cushion. Bonding rubber to metal is not new.
But the stoneware executives say that nothing
like the strength of bonds for rubber now pos-
sible have been available. Present specifica-
tions for automotive manufacture are based
on a rubber-to-metal bond able to withstand
250 to 300 pounds pull.

For reanite, a bond five times stronger than
this specification is claimed. This means that
heavier machinery can be cradled in rubber.
The vibration strain should be lessened both
for buildings and for the machines themselves.

Another possibility is a new form of metal,
made by combining powdered metal with the
bonding liquid. Powdered metals at present are
molded Into solid metals under heat and pres-
sure. The reanite bonding material combines
with powdered metal to form a cement. This
material, still under laboratory tests, gives
promise of reacting like a plastic. It follows
difficult molding contours with ease.

The metal glues already are in Industrial use,
for joining lightweight metal structures where
riveting and welding would be cumbersome.
The layer of plastic glue is only about as thick
as the adhesive used to seal an envelope. It Is
sprayed or painted on the surfaces to be joined,
or laid between them as a thin tape.

This process does not promise to supplant
nails for building houses, or to produce steel
ships fastened by metallic glue Instead of by
welding. It Is Intended for use with lightweight
metals, rubber (natural or synthetic), wood,
leather, glass and ceramic materials.

Promising uses are In some parts of prefabri-
cated houses: kitchen assemblies, refrigerators,
and bonding of copper and zinc engravings to
wood blocks.

OCTOBER, 1943

BETA THETA PI FRATERNITY. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, PALO ALTO

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

SIGMA CHI FRATERNITY. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, PALO ALTO

THREE FRATERNITY HOUSES BY JOHN K. BRANNER

Completed shortly before Pearl Harbor these well designed fraternity houses at Stanford
University housed their members but a short while. The Army moved in soon after war was
declared and will probably continue in possession until Hitler and Hirohito are decisively
whipped.

Sigma Chi house is entirely new, while Beta Theta Pi and Chi Omega were alteration
jobs. Modernized Georgian, Sigma Chi has several interesting features — viewing the exterior
one would not suspect that the row of dormer windows light the Chapter hall which occupies
the entire top floor. A modern staircase, which the members facetiously dubbed the "Hedy
Lamarr," and two huge marble fireplaces are worthy of mention.

Chi Omega Sorority house has a New Orleans balcony across the front which gives the
building an atmosphere of the South. Beta Theta Pi has the Mt. Vernon motif. In con-
nection with the Chi Omego alterations, Mrs. David Livingston of San Francisco was the mov-
ing spirit behind the project and it was largely due to her tireless efforts that the funds were
raised for the improvements.

OCTOBER, 1943

CHI OMEGA HOUSE. STANFORD UNIVERSITY. PALO ALTO

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

Jlp5^1^^'-dp

GENERAL VIEW OF BAYVIEW HEIGHTS. SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA

TWO WAR HOUSING PROJECTS AT SAN DIEGO

Two Federal public housing projects in San
Diego are cited as better than the average in
design and site planning, consequently are at-
tracting nationwide interest by housing authori-
ties. One project is at Bayview hieights, the
other at Mission Beach. The former stretches
over some 18 acres of fairly rugged topog-
raphy six miles from San Diego's manufacturing
district. Mission Beach is known as the Los
Altos project. Both undertakings were carried
through by the following personnel:

LANGDON W. POST, Director, Region 10.

RAYMOND W. HANSON, Area Project
Engineer.

AUBREY M. DAVIS, Housing Manager, San
Diego Area.

ARCHITECT-ENGINEERS: Frank L Hope,
Jr., Architect, and Edward Morehead.

GENERAL CONTRACTORS: Myers Broth-
ers.

Bayview Heights has 127 units, 16 of which
are one-bedroom units, 79 two-bedroom units
and 32 three-bedroom units.

By extension of services, it was possible to
utilize the city's sewer and water systems and
the utility company's gas and electrical serv-
ices.

All units are placed to conform to the natural
contours, to get a maximum of sun, and to
obtain advantage of the view from the princi-
pal rooms. Units are also placed so as to form
courts in order to obtain maximum open spaces
and privacy for living and service areas. The
service courts are screened with wood fences
to hide the clothes lines and service entrances.
Two units are placed close together in such a
manner that in future time the property may be
divided into lots and sold with each lot contain-
ing two houses or a two-family dwelling, if such
a procedure is feasible. Houses are prefabri-
cated and demountable so that they may be
readily moved to another site. In addition, the
units are placed to keep the one, two and three-
bedroom units together in courts, thus insuring
neighbors with no children or the same number
of children to be together.

The project was planned for a minimum of
new streets in order to keep down the in-
itial and maintenance cost; parking areas are
located off the streets.

All the units are placed on concrete pier
foundations, are of prefabricated plywood with
exterior water-proof plywood walls, and ply-
wood roof covered with composition. The

OCTOBER, 1943

FEDERAL PUBLIC
HOUSING PROJECTS
SAN DIEGO
CALIFORNIA

FRANK L. HOPE. JR..
Architect

EDWARD MOREHEAD,
Site Planner

MYERS BROS.,
General Contractors

Row of houses placed to conform
to contour of site,
Bayview Heights,
San Diego, California.

Illustrations courtesy Southwest Builder
& Contractor

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Trees on site of Bayview Housing Project restricted necessity for landscaping
to lawns and planting on banks to prevent soil erosion.

interior walls and ceilings are plywood. Sliding are provided with large storage space and

type windows are large and double hung. The laundry facilities.

units are equipped with gas ranges, automatic The houses are painted light pastel colors,
water heaters and portable oil circulating type each court having different color combinations,
heaters. Bathrooms have bathtubs and linoleum The base of each dwelling is painted in a con-
floors. Kitchens also have linoleum floors and trasting color to accent the modern lines.

Los Altos Housing Project, Pacific Beach, San Diego. The site had been partly developed for a residential subdivision.

Development of site, type of buildings and their block arrangement is shown in view above.

The landscaping work includes lawns for most already established, each block was worked out

of the areas. On the steeper banks, mesem- into a large court with all units staggered to

bryanthenunn was used tor erosion control as avoid monotony. Parking and service areas are

well as for color. The streets are paved with located in the courts inside the lot. This keeps

the parking off the streets and gives play and
work areas seclusion from the street and a
certain amount of privacy.

Units in the undeveloped part were placed
so as to fit the contours and to take advantage
of the view from the principal rooms. Two

asphalt and walks are of cement.

LOS ALTOS HOUSING PROJECT

The site for the Los Altos Housing project
on the upper slopes of Northwest Pacific Beach,
overlooks Mission Bay, Mission Beach and the

ocean. Originally It was about half devel- units were placed close together In such a
oped with certain streets and utilities in place, manner that in future time the property can
The^ other half was undeveloped on the be divided into lots and sold with each lot con-
hillside and of steeper contour. The project taining two houses or a two-family dwelling, If
Includes 428 houses or units, of which 68 are such a procedure is feasible. The houses are
one-bedroom units, 256 two-bedroom units and prefabricated and demountable so that they
104 three-bedroom units. The site covers an may be moved to another site. In addition, the
area of 89 acres and Is about eight miles from units are placed to keep the one, two and
the Industrial section where the tenants are three-bedroom units together In courts, fol-
employed. lowing the same Idea as carried out at Bayvlew

In developing the area where blocks were Heights.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

ARCHITECTURAL PROFESSION NEEDS A VOICE

By LOUIS LA BEAUME, F.A.LA.

At the present moment the architectural
profession finds itself in a state of utter de-
moralization. The causes of this demoralization
are numerous. Some of them may be due to
circumstances beyond our immediate control;
others are not. In any event, it may be well to
consider them seriously and to analyze and
discuss them with courage and candor.

It is shocking to discern so many symptoms
of confusion in all the talk that goes on about
architecture and the future of the architect.
Even the old terms "Architecture" and "Archi-
tect" are being used more and more sparingly,
as though they might hint at some taint or
stigma. To refer to architecture as an art is
no longer permitted in certain circles, and any
chance reference to beauty makes the average
architect hang his head in shame.

Until a few years ago the architect believed
in himself and in the dignity of his calling, hie
was respected in his community as a man apart
from the jerry builder or the structural engi-
neer. By reason of his special qualities and as
the result of his training, he had been able to
cultivate the public appreciation of Architec-
ture as an Art, differentiating it from mere
building. Owing largely to the leadership and
inspiration of the Institute he had succeeded in
organizing his professional concepts in such a
way as to win the respect of the more intelli-
gent elements of society. By them he was con-
sidered not a futile visionary, a dilettante, but
a man of taste, judgment and sound, practical
sense. His instinct for order and his skill In plan
and design were supplemented by a feeling for
and a knowledge of fundamental structure.
With sufficient administrative ability to cor-
relate and combine the various elements and
crafts involved in each special task entrusted
to him, he served society efficiently and faith-
fully. He was indeed the Master Builder.
ARCHITECT'S POSITION TODAY

What of the Architect's status today? He
feels himself not only unwanted but scorned.

He apologizes for his past virtues simply be-
cause he hears them vociferously described as
vices. And there is no health in him.

I do not believe that this debility is wholly
due to the impact of the war. Or because
building for "commodities firmness and de-
light" seems to have ceased for the moment.
The roots of our sickness lie deeper. The loss
of employment is hard to bear, but the loss of
one's self respect is not to be borne at all.

"Who steals my purse steals trash! But he
who taketh away my good name steals that
which enriches him not and makes me poor
indeed."

Must we then stand Idly by and allow others
to steal our good name, or deride it and
trample it in the dust? I think not.

The assault against the ancient and honor-
able (and beautiful) art of architecture should
be faced squarely unless we are content to let
the very spirit of Architecture become a mere
historical memory. Can we afford to let the
case against us go by default? An Innocent
bystander may command some measure of
sympathy; but a guilty bystander will com-
mand neither sympathy nor respect.

In assessing the forces which are Insidiously
and even openly undermining the prestige of
the profession and the faith of the Architect
in himself and In Architecture, it should be
made clear that we are not primarily concerned
with the quarrel between the Conservatives
and the Modernists. History affords sufficient
evidence of the evolutionary process to render
such debate idle. Architecture should, and
does, adapt itself to changing conditions. It
always has and it always will. The modernism
of today may well be as outmoded tomorrow
as the Victorian modernism, or Art Nouveau,
of yesterday Is outmoded today. We are con-
cerned, however, with the complete denial of
any esthetic values whatsoever and the em-
phasis by the modernists on mere utility and
material functlonalism. In this denial and this

OCTOBER. 1943

over-emphasis, we see the negation of those
Intangible spiritual values which are the es-
sence of true Architecture.

INSTITUTE NEEDS HOUSECLEANING

Recognizing the danger of this doctrine to
the very existence of Architecture as an Art
of profound cultural significance to society, the
time seems to have come for a redefinition
of the objects for which the Institute was
founded. This redefinition is imperative for
another reason less important perhaps for the
preservation of the real spirit and substance
of Architecture, but vital to the continuity of
those professional ideals which have been la-
boriously formulated through the years by the
Institute.

On every hand these ideals are being under-
mined by Government, by industry, by the
press, even by the architectural profession
itself.

Our battle against the encroachments of
Federal, State and Municipal Bureaus into the
field of private practice has not been crowned
with success. We have lost ground and very
likely shall continue to do so, for the tides are
running strongly against all kinds of private
enterprise everywhere. We could muster no
valid argument against this trend were not
the character and dignity of Architecture
itself involved. Our selfish interests, and pro-
fessional privileges would count for little were
we certain that Architecture might be thus
enobled and society thus enriched.

But we cannot be sure while so many voices
within and without the profession are acclaim-
ing the virtues of standardization, mass pro-
duction, prefabrication and stereotyped de-
sign. We may excuse much and resign our-
selves to many errors in the exigency of the
war effort; but it can scarcely be denied that
we are witnessing a steady and increasingly
rapid deterioration not only of what we were
proud to call Architectural design, but of
craftsmanship and building integrity.

Were this condition only temporary it might
be borne with equanimity. But It is seriously
proposed by the spokesmen for industry that
all building efforts be integrated; and all the
elements concerned In the designing and plan-
ning In the mining or manufacturing of mate-

rials, and the fabrication, transportation and
erection be co-ordinated and streamlined into
one vast, smooth running (?) entity, for the
mass production and sale of — what — of houses
to be lived in, churches to be worshipped in,
plants to be toiled in, whole cities to be foiled
in.

THREATENED WITH COMPLETE EXTINCTION

The Architect is asked to connive in this
grandiose arrangement. He is pointedly threat-
ened with complete and utter extinction, if he
does not choose complacently to play a minor
part in this vast merchandising and sales or-
ganization. The old professional relationship
between Architect and client is to be swept
away. The idea has worked well in the ready-
to-wear clothing industry. The American pub-
lic buys packaged goods of all sorts. We have
proprietary medicinal products, why not pro-
prietary building (or Architectural) products?
Why indeed not packaged sculpture, packaged
paintings? We are on the march toward a
higher, finer, richer civilization. So say the
editors of our Architectural Press. So say the
exponents of the new ideology.

We have no answer, we have only an Inner
faith. We have no journal, no pulpit, no ros-
trum from which to combat this sophistry. We
have only the still small voice of conscience —
and the Institute.

It may be that the fears of the writer will
be considered morbid and his ideas dismissed
as reactionary. But when, as Charles Maginnis
has said, the Professors cease to profess, it Is
time to take stock of our few remaining values.

We need not bother about the older genera-
tion. It is the destiny of the younger genera-
tion which is at stake. It is they who call for
leadership. We can only hope to kindle in them
a renewed respect for:

The pure Spirit of Architecture.

The dignity and value of fine Craftsmanship.

The honor of the Professional Ideal.

In doing thus we will bequeath to them a
priceless heritage.

These values are all that count.

They have little to do with such correlatives
as Unification, Registration, Disciplinary Pro-
cedure, Schedules of Fees or the Producers
Council.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

It is later than we think and it will not do
to stifle our forebodings with the comforting
assurance that the shadow will pass. The total
blackout of our nnost precious ideals can hap-
pen here — is happening here.

What then, we nnay ask, can be done about
it? No one of us has a ready answer. The
easiest way would be to let things slide, and
trust that when they get bad enough the hunnan
race will cry for something better. The main
point to be decided now is whether or not we
believe that things have gotten bad enough
to call for remedial action. If we do so agree,
some discussion as to what direction such ac-
tion should take would be in order.

We may grant that since architecture is out
for the duration, the whole subject of this dis-
cussion is academic. Even so, or all the more
because this may be so, discussion may pro-
ceed in a somewhat more purified atmosphere.
THREE REMEDIES ARE OFFERED

It has already been stated that we have no
Journal, no Pulpit, no Rostrum. We have dis-
pensed with the services of our publicist. How,
then, are we to express our views and convic-
tions, whatever they may be, to the profession,
to the architectural schools, and, quite as Im-
portantly, to the public.

First — As to the lack of a Journal.

The Octagon has published the report of
Mr. Talmage C. hjughes. Chairman of the Com-
mittee on Public Information. The proposals
of Mr. Hughes are not new, and have been
considered and rejected by previous Boards.
On their face they would seem to be incon-
sistent with the criticisms just referred to
against the policies of the existing architectural
magazines. There is, however, enough merit in
Mr. Hughes' suggestion to warrant a closer
analysis.

2 — The lack of a Pulpit.

It Is true the Institute possesses no pulpit
from which to address the public. It does, how-
ever, have a kind of pulpit in every Chapter.
Should the Board of the Institute succeed in
formulating a clear statement of policy, re-

garding the fundamentals listed above, means
might easily be found to communicate such a
statement, by word of mouth, directly to each
Chapter membership. The resulting discussion
would greatly hearten the membership, and
might go far toward dispelling doubt, and
binding It more closely to the Institute. Such
procedure would have little news value, though
It might conceivably strengthen morale.

3 — The lack of a Rostrum.

To reach the general public and instill, in
the public mind, a clearer conception of archi-
tectural values, further action might well be
considered. The terms "Mass Housing,"
"Quantity Production," "Pre-fabrication,"
"Streamlining," "Town Planning," "Integra-
tion," etc., etc., have reached the public ear,
and even though their implications have not
always been understood, they have prepared
the public mind for further discussion.

Certain publications have a considerable cir-
culation among the more intelligent and
thoughtful elements of the nation. Articles, not
necessarily based on spot news but discussing
intellectual, spiritual, and social values, find
their way continually into such publications
and are read with interest by large numbers of
people. These articles are not always written
by professional men. In fact, the most effec-
tive of them are written by professional writers.
The possibility of preparing a series of articles
on subjects affecting architecture, and the ar-
chitectural profession, might well be consid-
ered. Journalists and publicists of reputation
might be consulted and induced to contribute
to such a series. The writers might be reim-
bursed wholly, or in part, by the magazines
publishing the material.

I do not know how close the relationship of
the Committee on Education with the Schools
or Architecture is at the present time. The
Committee on Education may hold views diver-
gent from those expressed herein, but when,
as, and if the Institute decides to redefine, or
reaffirm its credo, a closer alliance with the
schools will be of great value.

OCTOBER, 1943

ELMER GREY, CALIFORNIA ARCHITECT, PAINTS OIL

If is said that one of Winston Churchill's hobbies is painting in oils. And I know from having seen
them that the late Dr. Albert Michelsen, the discoverer of the speed of light, painted many water-
colors that were very good. Without anything like the value or usefulness of these men to my credit,
I can at least claim a similar avocation, for I delight in painting in oils.

Parley between Indians and French. Florida, soon after its discovery by the Spanish,
changed hands repeatedly between Spain and France.

On the
by the

left, more
Spanish

of the French coming up from the sea for the parley. On the right, dedication of a Christian shrine
(unfortunately the photographer divided some of the episodes).

The some dedication ceremony with the interested but somewhjt astonished
natives watching from behind the trees.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

FRIEZE DEPICTING EARLY HISTORY OF FLORIDA

It is because of that liking that I undertook the rather ambitious task of painting a frieze for the
Senior Officers' Quarters in the Naval Air Station at Jacksonville, Florida, while I was ennployed there
in 1941 and '42 as an Instructor in mechanical drawing. The frieze measures 35 feet in length, and
represents in five episodes the history and development of Florida. It was an enjoyable task and
was worth doing. The panels shown here are photograped from the original work. — Elmer Grey.

Medieval shipping in the harbor of St. Augustine in 1678. Slietches and documents made by Spaniards at the time, copies
of which are extant, show the place surrounded by high sand hills which 300 years of wind have blown away.

A wooden fort built at St. Augustine about 1678 — taken from a Spanish sketch. Copies of a document are also extant in
which the Spanish governor pleaded with the king of Spain to send him money with which to build an all-stone fort, saying
that they could not fire off the cannon in the wooden fort because the fort would collapse.

Modern St. Augustine. These buildings are there but have been slightly modified in juxtaposition for the sake of pictorial
composition. The old-fashioned carriages operated by colored cabbies wearing stove-pipe hats, appear in large numbers
and help preserve the quaint aspect of the oldest city in the United States.

OCTOBER, 1943 31

Courtesy Durez Plastics S Ctie

PLYWOOD AND PLASTIC REFRIGERATOR

Illustrated is an ice box of the not too dis-
tant future — nnade of resin-bonded plywood,
faced with a skin of corrosion resistant plastics.
To help you look into the future is a list of some
of the high points of this post-war ice box.

1. Upper half for general refrigeration.

2. Revolving shelves nnake contents easy to
reach.

3. Cooling locker drawers for tall bottles.

4. Lower half for frozen foods — kept at 10
degrees F. or lower.

5. Violet-ray connpartment for sterilizing
and tenderizing nneats.

6. Ice cube ejector lever.

7. Ice cubes drop into this drawer for easy
rennoval.

8. Cold water faucet inside door.

9. Cooling locker.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

Plastics i Chemicals, In

PLASTICS FOR PREFABRICATED BATHROOM

Here is a bathroom stressing the use of plas-
tics. It was designed by Carl Sundberg of
Sundberg and Ferar, New York. It offers a
nunnber of unique features, including a shower
which folds into the wall when not in use.

The shower is adjustable in height, thereby
eliminating the need for shower caps. The
shower head and faucets are improved in ap-
pearance by the use of plastics.

The new post-war bathroom will be made of
interchangeable units, also integrated com-
pact units that minimize plumbing and mate-

rials. Plastics and resin-bonded plywood, as
well as drawn steel, will undoubtedly play an
important role in the development of future
bathroom units.

Prefabricated bathroom units of drawn steel
are a post-war certainty, preliminary designs
calling for welded construction with cantilev-
ered end units, overhead fluorescent lighting
and ventilation. Besides general lighting, the
bathrooms will require sidelights, preferably
fluorescent, that may be easily adjusted to
light the face and not the mirror.

OCTOBER, 1943

POST-WAR HOME PLANNERS INSTITUTE

A Home Planners' Institute has been established in
Portland, Oregon, to show families how to plan a home
that will be more charming, efficient and economical.
The Institute is offering a series of 24 classes, free.
They have obtained outstanding authorities on each
phase of home building to deliver lectures to the
classes.

The Home Planners' Institute was organized by the
West Coast Lumbermen's Association, the Western
Retail Lumbermen's Association, and the Equitable
Savings and Loan Association. Portland will be the
pilot plant, and within a few months the lumber associa-
tions will make the proved plan available to every city
In the United States. The plan has received the ap-
proval of the U. S. Savings and Loan League and the
National Association of Lumber Manufacturers.

It Is an educational and savings idea. In every city
it will be free to anyone sincerely interested in building
A home, and who, as proof of that sincerity, will accu-
mulate a down-payment either In War Bonds or a
Home Planners' Savings Account. A regular savings
program must be started now, so the down-payment
for the type of home planned will be accumulated In
time to start building as soon as the war ends. Both
the course and the savings program In Portland are
being set up on a two-year basis. But if the war ends
sooner than expected and building can be started
earlier, the classes will be condensed so all the topics
can be covered in a shorter time.

Local authorities In each city will be invited to
address the classes on subjects such as site selection,
financing the home, design, landscaping, heating and
air conditioning, building materials, planning for hob-
bies and recreations, new developments, Insulation,
interior decoration, and 12 allied building subjects.
Lecturing at these meetings will give the speaker an
opportunity to meet a group of Interested postwar
home builders.

This is the largest single step private industry has
taken toward postwar planning. Here is a program
which will provide immediate jobs for returning service
men and idle war workers. Through this program tens
of thousands of American families will have their plans
drawn, probably their lot chosen, and most important
of all, have the money accumulated to finance a home
the day peace is declared. This plan will provide
immediate employment for thousands of mlllworkers,
architects, carpenters, plasterers, plumbers, building
supply men, and on through the endless occupational
list.

Through this program the home building Industry is
preparing itself to take up the peacetime slack — and
do it without any lag. Here is a program which will
provide jobs, thus boosting the morale of returning
service men and make sure that the thousands of men
who have been trained as carpenters, electricians and
painters in the shipyards have jobs in the field in which
they are experienced.

The sponsors of this plan also feel that this public
service will make the average home planner more sen-
sitive to "graceful living," and how to obtain the most
from a home. Also by introducing technical improve-
ments to these people, it will increase desires, and
enlarge the market for the thousands of new products
which will be offered by manufacturers in the postwar
period.

BUY MORE BONDS

Architect and Engineer publishers have received the
following letter, with citation from the Treasury De-
partment, Washington, in appreciation of its co-opera-
tion in encouraging the sale of war bonds through the
medium of the advertising pages;

"Gentlemen:

It gives me great pleasure to transmit to you the
enclosed citation, signed by the Secretary of the Treas-
ury, in recognition of your outstanding service to the
War Bond campaign.

Very truly yours,

THOMAS H. LANE.

Chief, Advertising Section,
War Finance Division.'
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TODAn CLUES FORPOSMR FLUSH mm

^^ While no one can lay down any very definite blue-
^ prints for the plumbing that will be found in postwar
buildings, some valuable clues as to trends can be discovered
in buildings completed within the last year or two.

Take hospitals, for example. Several outstanding institu-
tions have been put into service during this period. The
Jefferson Hospital at Birmingham — already recognized as
one of the South's finest — is one of these.

Every piece of equipment that went into the Jefferson
Hospital was selected with careful forethought to the com-
fort and well-being of the patients to be served. Noise re-
duction, for example, has been aided by the selection of
Watrous Silent-Action Flush Valves.

In this detail there is a definite clue on postwar trends
. . . the flush valves to be installed in most buildings of
tomorrow will be smoothly functioning water control in-
struments which operate silently — without any of the tell-
tale noise that once was associated with flush valves.

In fact, if we are to judge by the Jefferson Hospital's
selection of Watrous Silent-Action Flush Valves, more and
more careful attention will be given to —

(a) the degree of noise elimination provided by a
flush valve — and the PERMANENCY of the
noise elimination.

(b) the ability of the valve to be adjusted for
maximum water savings.

Plans for Watrous Flush Valves for the buildings of
tomorrow are already under way. You may be sure these
valves will match fully the many other developments in
building construction which are to come.

THE IMPERIAL BRASS MFG. CO.

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Data for wartime projects and postwar applications.

Sweet's Catalog File — Section 27, Catalog No. 39 — covers
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The Jefferson Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama

Charles M. McCauley, Architect

The Pate Co., Plumbing Contractors

Flush Valves

• There are two of these utility rooms on each
floor with service sinks equipped with Watrous
Silent-Action Flush J'alves. Watrous Silent-Action
Flush I alves are also installed on fixtures in all
bathrooms and washrooms.

NORTHERN AND
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
CHAPTER MEETINGS
FOR SEPTEMBER

The Northern California Chapter directors have
adopted the following resolution:

"WHEREAS. The members of the San Francisco Chapter of
the American Institute of Architects are vitally interested in the
welfare of our city and are concerned that high standards of
housing as so far developed be maintained, and

WHEREAS, The low cost housing as instituted by the Federal
Government is an important part of the city's housing program;
and

WHEREAS. The San Francisco Housing Authority as originally
appointed by yourself and as organized and administered under
its late Executive Director, has operated sympathetically, Intelll*
gently and efficiently in the interest of the city as a whole; and

WHEREAS, We regret the present condition which has given
rise to the removal of the Executive Secretary, and the subse-
quent resignations of two distinguished Commissioners,

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: That this organization
respectfully petitions your Honor, the Mayor of San Francisco,
that in the reorganization of the Commission you be guided as
follows:

Individuals to serve on the Commission shall be:

1. Sympathetic with Public Housing.

2. Well Informed on the subject.

3. Capable of establishing a strong Housing Authority to pre-
clude the possibility of losing control to the Federal Gov-
ernment.

4. Appointed on the basis of true fitness without regard to
political affiliations."

his death he was a director and treasurer of the San
Francisco Builders Exchange. He was 60 years old.

CHAPTER VISITS WILMINGTON HALL

Wilmington Hall, one of the new projects of the
Los Angeles Housing Authority, was the meeting place
of Southern California Chapter on September 14.
Many of the members had never had the pleasure of
a close-up of this extensive war dormitory develop-
ment and they were agreeably surprised to find such
a well laid out building group. Wilmington Hall itself
is the recreational unit of the project.

Brief talks were made by Roy Patterson, manager
of the development, and Oliver Haskell, recreational
director. Lewis E. Weston, architect of the project,
was the principal speaker

FATAL ACCIDENT TO C. W. CARLE

C. W. Carle, vice-president of Gunn, Carle & Co.,
San Francisco building material distributors, met a
tragic death by being struck by an assistant fire chief's
automobile September 10. Carle had stepped off a
Fairfax bus at Van Ness Avenue and Lombard Street,
San Francisco, and was about to board a street car for
his office, when the fire apparatus ran him down, in-
flicting fatal injuries. Carle had been identified with
the building industry in San Francisco for more than
20 years and was an expert salesman. At the time of

PASSING OF TWO PIONEER ARCHITECTS

Two of San Francisco's pioneer architects, so to
speak, passed away the past month — James W. Reid,
91, and George Rushforth, 82. Both were prominently
identified with the design and construction of many
notable structures in the San Francisco Bay area in the
early nineties.

Mr. Reid was the architect of the Fairmont Hotel,
the Fitzhugh buildings in Los Angeles and Portland,
Oregon, Hale Brothers' store, the original Claus Spreck-
els building, now the Central Tower, and many others.

Mr. Reid, who with his brother, Merritt Reid, had
founded the pioneer architectural firm of Reid Brothers,
had lived in San Francisco since 1889. He came to the
Coast from his home in St. Johns, Canada, to construct
the Coronado Hotel in Coronado, in 1887. Mr. Reid
retired about 10 years ago.

He was one of the oldest members in point of mem-
bership of the Pacific Union Club, which he joined in
1890, the Burlingame Country Club and the San Fran-
cisco Golf Club. He also was a Knights Templar and a
member of Northern California Chapter, A. I. A.

He died after a brief Illness at his home, I 100 Union
Street, which he designed. It was one of two homes
in which Mr. and Mrs. Reid had lived, the other being
the Fairmont.

George Rushforth, 82, died at his home, San Mateo
Avenue, Berkeley, September 30. He retired from
active practice some years ago, one of his last works
being the two story concrete Wesley Foundation
building in Berkeley and adjoining the First Methodist
church, which latter he also designed.

For some years Mr. Rushforth was a member of the
architectural firm of Wright, Rushforth and Cahill and
when Mr. Wright died Messrs. Rushforth and Cahill
continued in partnership until each went into business
for himself. Mr. Rushforth maintained offices in San
Francisco. He was architect of the Hotel Whltcomb,
in San Francisco, the Forest Hill Hotel at Pacific Grove
and churches, schools and residences in the Bay area.

He was a member of Northern California Chapter,
A. I. A., and at one time was active in church work,
being an official of First Methodist Church, Berkeley.

NEW SECRETARY OF ARCHITECTS' ASSOCIATION

Don Murray, recently given an honorable discharge
from the U. S. Army, has been appointed secretary of
the Engineers and Architects Association of Southern
California, according to an announcement by Paul H.
Ehlers, president.

For 10 years Mr. Murray served as assistant secre-
tary of the Los Angeles Credit Men's Association, an
affiliated unit of the National Association of Credit
Men. The major part of his work was placement of
personnel with wholesalers, jobbers, manufacturers, and
financial Institutions in Southern California.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

ARCHITECTS* BULLETIN

Issued For

THE STATE ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTS

Northern Section

EDITOR OF BULLETIN
William C. Ambrose

Address all communlcaiions for publication in
the Bulletin to W. C. Ambrose, 369 Pine
Street, San Francisco.

STATE ASSOCIATION OFFICERS

Office of Northern Association
369 Pine Street, San Francisco

Officers

President Walter R. Hagedohm, Los Angeles

Vice-Pres Norman K. Blanchard, San Francisco

Secretary _...Hervey Parke Clark, San Francisco

Treasurer George E. Gable, Los Angeles

Southern Section Officers

President..._ Walter R. Hagedohm, Los Angeles

Vice-President E. Allan Sheet, Los Angeles

Secretary Rowland H. Crawford, Beverly Hills

Treasurer George E. Gable, Los Angeles

Northern Section Officers and Directors

President Norman K. Blanchard, San Francisco

Vice-President....Ru5sell G. deLappe, San Francisco

Secretary _ Hervey Parke Clark, San Francisco

Treasurer David H. Horn, Berkeley

Directors: John S. Belles, Ross; Andrew T. Hass,

San Francisco; H. H. Gutterson, Berkeley;

Vincent G. Raney, San Francisco; Frederick H.

Reimers, San Francisco; Malcolm D. Reynolds,

Oakland; J. Francis Ward, San Francisco, and

Alfred C. Williams, San Francisco.

Northern Section Advisory Council
San Francisco District No. I, J. Francis Ward;
East Bay District No. 2 Irwin M. Johnson;
Berkeley District No. 3, John K. Ballantine, Jr.;
North Bay District No. 3, C. A. Caulkins; Marin
District No. 5, John S. Bolles; Lower San Joa-
quin District No. 6, Frank V. Mayo; Upper San
Joaquin District No. 7, Philip S. Buckingham;
Santa Clara District No. 8, Ralph Wyckoff;
Palo Alto District No. 9, Elizabeth Boyter; San
Mateo District No. 10, Leo J. Sharps; Sacra-
mento District No. II, Harry J. Devine; Upper
Sacramento District No. 12, Fred J. deLong-
champs; Lassen District No. 13, Ralph D. Taylor;
Mo.nterey District No. 14, Charles E. Butner,
and Redwood Empire District No. 15, Franklin
T. Georgeson.

Northern Section Standing Committees

Legislative Committee Vincent G. Raney

Public Relations Committee J. Francis Ward

Building Industry Committee Hervey Parke Clark

Convention Program Committee Edgar Bissantz

Post-War Reconstruction Com J. Francis Ward

Membership Committee John S. Bolles

Building Industry Directory Russell G. deLappe

Policy Committee Russell G. deLappe

OCTOBER, 1943

S. A. C. A. ANNUAL CONVENTION

The annual convention of S.A.C.A. was held this year at the Mayfalr Hotel,
Los Angeles, October 14, 15 and 16. Due to war-time traveling conditions
the attendance from Northern California was considerably smaller than usual.
So that the Northern members would not be deprived of all the pleasures
and benefits of a convention, a streamlined pre-convention meeting of the
Northern Section was held at the Engineers Club, San Francisco, on October
4, 1943. Fifty-four members attended the dinner and listened to the after-
dinner oratory of members who had done things for the Association in the
past year. The election of officers for the Northern Section was held with
results as noted under a separate heading in the Bulletin.

•o ,o After the hottest election campaign in the history

2 S.A.C.A. Election ] of the Northern Section, the following officers
°* ^* were elected at the pre-convention meeting. They

will hold office in 1944:

President — John S. Bolles.

Vice-President — Malcolm D. Reynolds.

Treasurer — Ralph Wyckoff.

Directors— Norman W. Blanchard, Philip S. Buckingham.
These new officers and directors will, as already stated, hold office for
the coming year, together with the following listed members, who have another
year to serve:

Henry H. Gutterson — Regional Director, A.I.A.

Andrew T. Hass— Northern California Chapter, A.I.A.

Peter L Sala— Central Valley's Chapter, A.I.A.

Frederick H. Reimers— State Board of Architectural Examiners.

Vincent G. Raney, J. Francis Ward, Alfred C. Williams-
elected by members.
The principal contest arose as a result of a write-in campaign in favor of
Russel G. DeLappe, Vice-President of the State Association for the past year
in opposition to the nominating committee candidate, John S. Bolles. The
campaign was enlivened by letters, much telephoning and many conferences
to make sure that the proper candidate received the most votes.

After the ballots were counted and the results announced, representatives
of the Stockton Advisory Section moved that the election be declared void
on account of irregularities in procedure. On a point of order that such a
motion could not be considered after the completion of the balloting, the
motion was not put to a vote. A motion to adjourn ended the debate.

?S % Hervey P. Clark, Secretary of the N. C. Section,

J Patents Available J S.A.C.A., has been asked by the Office of Alien

Property Custodian to publicize to architects that

45,000 U. S. patents and patent applications, which were formerly under

enemy control, are now available for license by Ameri-
cans for use during the war and post-war periods.
Further information may be obtained from Mr. How-
land H. Sargeant, Chief, Division of Patent Admin-
istration, Office of Alien Property Custodian, Field
Building, Chicago, 3, Illinois.

A fee of $15.00 is charged for each patent issued.
An index of patents vested in the Alien Property Cus-
todian and an instruction sheet giving necessary infor-
mation as to procedure are available.

,. That the architect
7 Post-War & the Architect f and workers in as-

SJ ^' sociated lines are

becoming acutely aware of the necessity of positive
action now in planning for post-war work has been
evident in recent weeks.

At the Building Industry Conference Board meeting
on September 15, Chairman J. Francis Ward outlined
the program for the post-war committee for that or-
ganization, hie emphasized the necessity of getting
back as quickly as possible to a normal relationship
between owner, architect, contractor, and material sup-
plier. George W. Williams, contractor, urged that all
branches of the building industry unite to guard against
governmental agencies taking over the functions oF
private industry, htarry Michelson, architect, outlined
legislation now in effect and now pending having to do
with post-war building, hiarold Smith of Dinwiddle
Construction Company called attention to the current
employment of private architectural and engineering
firms by the Navy for the preparation of comprehen-
sive reports on cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contracts. He cited
such employment as an example of the value of private
professional men in the construction field as a rein-
forcement for and knowledge of the men In govern-
mental employment. Fred Hall, civil engineer, urged
that every effort should be made to have complete
plans and specifications prepared now for Immediate
use when the material and labor become available.

,g ,^ Copies of a transcript of

the broadcast, "Will We
Need a W, P. A. After
the War," which was noted here in the September
issue, have been received from the A. I. A. office in
Washington. Copies are available from Randall, Inc.,
Washington, D. C, with a ten-cent (lOc) charge for
handling and mailing.

,0^ ,,, We quote Douglas

I Plans for Public Works j Dacre Stone, archi-
^ '^' tect, and President of

Copies of Broadcast

the City Planning Commission, San Francisco: "The
making of detailed plans and specifications for these
Public Works, however, is not the function of the Plan-
ning Commission. Such work should be done by other
agencies and by private architects and engineers.
Funds must be procured to cover the cost of these
plans at the earliest possible moment. Subsequently,
funds for the actual construction of projects must be
found through Federal, State, or local channels."
, ,,^ Charles F. Strothoff, ar-

Executive Director | chitect, has been appoint-
*• '• ed executive director of

the Richmond Housing Authority. He succeeds Mr.
Harry A. Barbour, who has resigned after serving in
the position since the first project of the Authority
in 1941. There are now 28,630 family units and 3,000
dormitory units under the jurisdiction of Mr. Strothoff.
,^ ,,^ Following the other re-

I Promotion for Bolles | cent changes in the or-
• '-• ganlzation of the San

Francisco Housing Authority, John S. Bolles, architect,
has become Technical Director under J. W. Beard,
Acting Executive Director.

,^ ,^ Believe it or not, there is

I Architects Wanted [ a shortage of Architects
°* °* in California at the pres-

ent time. The San Francisco office of the Federal Hous-
ing Administration would like to hear from architects
who have available time. If you know of anyone who
might be interested, direct him to Harris Allen, Archi-
tect, at the F.H.A. offices, 315 Montgomery Street,
San Francisco.

POST-WAR HEATING SYSTEMS

More than 60 per cent of post-war heating systems
will use mechanical circulation to carry heat from the
heating plant through the home and building, according
to a survey by Fueloll & Oil Heat Magazine. Oil-
heating dealers, including heating contractors, electri-
cal retailers, fuel-oil suppliers, and other retail outlets
in the states of Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland,
Wisconsin, Iowa, Washington and Oregon were polled
by mail to get their estimate of post-war heating
preferences in their localities.

According to their estimates, more than a third of
post-war heating will be forced warm air and slightly
less will be forced hot water. Gravity warm air and
one-pipe steam run neck-and-neck In third and fourth
places, and gravity hot water and two-pipe steam
trail in fifth and sixth places.

PACIFIC PAIIVT & VARNISH CO.

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ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

Producers' Coumcil Page

Norfhern CalHornia Chapter

The National Organization of Manufacturers of Quality Building Materials and Equipment
Affiliated with the AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHTECTS

G. R. KINGSLAND
his hobby — raising flo

When the parent organ
ization of the Producers'
Council decided upon a
Council Club in San
Francisco, they made a
wise choice in G. R.
"Ray" Kingsland as the
man to start the ball roll-
ing. That was more than
twelve years ago . . .
since then, Ray has not
only been first president,
but succeeded himself in 1932 and 1933. In fact, he is
the only remaining member of our original group of
founders. On the personal side: Ray was born and
raised in San Francisco, and after leaving the Univer-
sity of California, he joined the staff of the Otis Ele-
vator Company . . . one of the few companies in the
country that makes money by having its ups and downs.
President-emeritus Kingsland is a member of the Bo-
hemian Club and the Claremont Country Club. Ray
was president of the Engineers Club of San Francisco
in 1928. He lives high on a hilltop in the Claremont
section of Berkeley with his wife and daughter, hlis
hobby: raising flowers, which, unlike elevators, go only
up, not down.

Here's a Quick Quiz: Can you name the past presidents
of your Chapter? Give up? Well, here they are:

1931— Ray Kingsland —Otis Elevator

2 — Ray Kingsland
3 — Ray Kingsland
A — Ben Blair
5_Clark Wayland
6 — Fred Scott

— Otis Elevator
— Otis Elevator
— Standard Sanitary
— Western Asbestos
— National Lead

7 — "Gaz" MacKenzie — Libbey-Owens-Ford

8 — Bill Wooldredge — Columbia Steel

9 — Ken Pinney — Armstrong Cork

40 — Vic Anderson — Otis Elevator

41 — Ray Brown — Gladding McBean

42 — Gano Baker — Westinghouse

You'll Hear More About Them in succeeding issues.
Incidentally, speaking of Ray Kingsland, see our June
Issue for a list of many other "firsts" in the develop-
ment of Chapter affairs that were scored by Ray.

Last Round-Up: November 1st will be the last luncheon
meeting of the year . . . both calendar and Chapter
year. Let's all get together and wind-up the Chapter's
1943 activities with a bang! You'll like the program
scheduled for this last lunceon. Johns-Manville and

USE QUALITY PRODUCTS

Western Asbestos head the bill. Same place . . .
Room "A," Palace hlotel . . . noon, Monday, Novem-
ber first.

Father's Day: At our October 4th meeting, we were
lucky to have F. W. Morse, Vice-President of the
Chamberlin Metal Weather Strip Company and Direc-
1or and Past President of the Producers' Council. Mr.
Morse was father of the Chapter idea. If it weren't for
the fact that Mr. Morse was such an important person,
we would cock a questioning eye-brow at the speed
with which the members originally scheduled to speak
gave way to Mr. Morse! Everybody agreed that his
talk on the "Or Equal"" clause was as timely as today's
newspaper.

Old Mister O. R. Equal is on his way out, thanks to the
approval of the lnstitute"s 1943 Annual Meeting. A
definite move has been made to eliminate the speci-
fication practice of including the "or equal" provision.
Recommendation for this action came from the In-
stitute's Committee on Contract Documents, under
the able chairmanship of William Stanley Parker. It
was developed through the persistent efforts of J. C.
Bebb, past Chairman of the Council's Industrial and
Commercial Committee. In 1942 the Council's Annual
Meeting approved a statement on this practice pre-
pared by Mr. Bebb's Committee. Since this subject
has now reached the stage where it can be sold to
individual designers and specifiers, the Executive Com-
mittee has transferred it to the jurisdiction of the
Technical Cooperation Committee. This Committee is
going to bring it to the attention of the national engi-
neering societies for their endorsement, paving the way
for nation-wide acceptance by practicing Architects
and Engineers.

Local Chapters can really do a job on Old Mr. O. R.
Equal. They should make every possible effort to see
that he's dead and buried. Incidentally, this situation
gives us the subject matter for another interesting
meeting with the Architects.

The Welcome Mat's Out for E. L. Bruce Company and
The Celotex Corporation, new Chapter members. F. L.
O'Connor and E. P. Larson are their representatives.
Note: This puts our new member score for 1943 at
six to date.

Recruits? New National Members are Chapter pros-
pects. This year the .Producers' Council, Inc., has wel-
comed the following companies into our midst, besides
Celotex which is now one of our local members:

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CONSULT AN ARCHITECT

PRODUCERS' COUNCIL— Continued

Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. — Toledo, Ohio
Universal Zonolite Insulation Co. — Chicago, III.
J. A. Zurn Manufacturing Co. — Erie, Pa.
Mueller Brass Co. —Port Huron, Mich.

Surface Combustion Co. — Toledo, Ohio

The Chapter Joins the Citizens' Master Plan Committee
of the San Francisco hlousing and Planning Association.
This step was authorized and encouraged by your
Executive Committee. For many years the Council has
urged local chapters to take part in local planning
groups. We have always supported the Building In-
dustry Conference Board as a manifestation of this
policy.

Jinks Shift: The Xmas Jinks date has been switched
to December 1st, due to schedule trouble. It's better
early than late ... so remember, the Xmas Jinks . . .
December first.

Shingle Out: Architect Bill Knowles is back in town
with his shingle out at 369 Pine Street. Post-war plan-
ning? Let's hope so.

ARCHITECTS STILL ON THE MOVE

James H. Anderson, Jr., has moved from the Clare-
mont hlotel, Berkeley, to 5 Via Hermosa, Orinda,
California.

Tennys F. Bellamy, from 1038 Exchange Building,
Seattle, to 9925- 1 5th, N.W.. same city.

Gates W. Burrows has moved from 310 Cliff Drive,
Laguna Beach, to 303 West Ninth Street. Long Beach.

Mario F. Corbett, from c/o McNeil Construction
Company, Pleasanton, to I I Star Route, Redwood City.

Clarence C. Dakin, from 10823 Braddock Drive, Cul-
ver City, to 434 South Garfield Avenue, Alhambra.

Marshall A. Dean, from Colonial Inn, Walnut Creek,
to 186 Pacific Avenue, Pacific Grove.

John E. Dinwiddle has moved from 125 Stonewall
Road, Berkeley, to Claremont Hotel, same city.

John N. Douglas, from 888 Victoria Drive, Pasadena,
to 1003 West Hillcrest Street, Monrovia.

Sidney Eisenshtat, 4431 West 64th Street, Los An-
geles, to Box 85, Yucaipa, San Bernardino County,
California.

Julian F. Everett, from Vista, California, to 4811
Keneston, Los Angeles.

Gerald C. Field, from 1504 Textile Tower, Seattle,
Washington, to 2217 Everett, North, same city.

Sherwood D. Ford, from Insurance Building, Seattle,
Washington, to 5 1 2 Railway Exchange Building, same
city.

William Grant Foster, from 34 Avon Road, Berkeley,
to 1497 Posen Street, same city.

David L. Foulkes, from 4542 Latona Avenue, Seattle,
Washington, to 4668 Eastern Avenue, same city.

Breo Freeman moved from 303 Markham Place.
Pasadena, to 91 North Oakland Avenue, same city.

William C. Purer, moved from 402 Boston Building,
Honolulu, to 1909 Aleo Place, same city.

Frank S. Gerner, from 1429 Grant Street, Berkeley,
to H. Q. Company, N.C.S.W.D.C, Presidio of San
Francisco, San Francisco.

Michael Goodman, from 1400 Hawthorne Terrace,
Berkeley, to 2422 Cedar Street, same city.

Harry A. Herzog, from 311 Fenton Building. Port-
land, Oregon, to 407 Henry Building, same city.

Gilbert Hodgeson has moved from 208 Hillview
Avenue, Redwood City, to Route I , Box 697, Los Altos.

Keplar B. Johnson, from 5347 Golden Gate Avenue,
to 503 North Laurel Avenue, Los Angeles.

Paul W. Jones, from 718 Colorado Avenue, La
Junta, Colorado, to Gray Court No. 5. 8600 East
Dixie Highway, Miami, Florida.

Walter E. Kelly, from Artisan Building, Portland,
Oregon, to Broadway Oak Building, same city.

E. Keith Lockard. from I 17 East de la Guerra, Santa
Barbara, to 1746 Prospect Street, same city.

Leon D. Lockwood, from 50 Third Street, San Fran-
cisco, to 835 South Oxford Street, Los Angeles.

Walter W. Lund, from 2232 Boylston North, Seattle,
Washington, to 2502 Boylston North, same city.

Richard Lytel, from 1006 Securities Building, Seattle,
Washington, to 1015 Securities Building, same city.

Ensign William B. McCormick, from 28 Terrace Walk,
Berkeley, to Cincpac Staff, c/o Fleet Post Master,
Pearl Harbor, Honolulu.

Bjorne H. Moe, 2318 Second Avenue, Seattle, Wash-
ington, to 2650 North Dravus, same city.

Carl W. Morrison, from Textile Tower, Seattle, Wash-
ington, to 719 Second Avenue, same city.

Frank B. Smith, from 1234 East 98th Street. Seattle.
Washington, to 4835 N. E. 1 00th, Portland, Oregon.

Harold G. Stoner, from 800 Butterfleld Road, San
Anselmo, to Larkspur.

James M. Taylor, Sr., from 1304 Textile Tower, Seat-
tle, Washington, to 2042 Boyleston North, same city.

Archibald N. Torbitt, from Lloyd Building, Seattle,
Washington, to 1 0580- 1 5th N. W., same city.

Donald D. Williams, from Textile Tower, Seattle,
Washington, to 3 1 2 Fairview North, same city.

Joseph H. Wohleb, from Old Capitol National Bank
Building, Olympia, to 201 Chambers Block, same city.

KAHN ESTATE OVER TWO MILLION

The estate of Albert Kahn, distinguished Detroit
architect who died last December 8, was listed at
$2,123,396.04 in an inventory filed recently In the court
of Probate Judge Thomas C. Murphy, Detroit.

Largest item in the appraisal consisted of stocks
valued at $1,776,211. Other items included cash,
$266,789, real estate, $59,023, and bonds and mis-
cellaneous investments, $21,371.

The late Albert Kahn was a brother of Felix Kahn,
well known San Francisco contractor.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

Estimator's Guide

Giving Cost of Building Materials, Wage Scale, Etc.

Amounts given are figuring prices and are made up from average quotations furnished by material
houses to San Francisco contractors. 3% Sales Tax on all materials but not labor.

All prices and wages quoted are for San
Francisco and the Bay District. There may be
flight fluctuation of prices in the interior and
louthern part of the state. Freight cartage,
at least, must be added in figuring country
work.

Bond — 1'/2% amount of contract.
Government work %%.

Briclworlt —

Common, $43 to $45 per 1000 laid, (ac-
cording to class of work).

Face, $125 to $150 per 1000 laid, (accord-
ing to class of work).

Brick Steps, using pressed brick, $1.50 lin.
ft.

Brick Veneer on frame buildings, $1.10 sq.
ft.

Common f.o.b. cars, $16.00 a y^rd. Cart-
age extra. $2.50 per 1000.

Face, f.o.b. cars, $55.00 to
1000, carload lots.

).00 per

Building Paper —

1 ply per 1000 ft. roll $3.50

2 ply per 1000 ft. roll 5.00

3 ply per 1000 ft. roll 6.25

Brownskin, Standard, 500 ft. roll 5.00

Sitalkraft, 500 ft. roll 5.00

Sash cord com. No. 7 Jl. 20 per 100 ft.

Sash cord com. No. B 1.50 per 100 ft.

Saih cord »pot No. 7 I.WperlOOft.

Sash cord spot No. 8 2.25 per 100 ft.

Sash weights, cast iron, {50.00 ton.

Nails, t3.S0 base.

Sash weights, (45.00 per ton.

Concrete Aggregates —

GRAVEL (all sizes) $1.95 per ton at bunker; de
livered, $2.50. All quotations less 10% to con
tractors.

Top sand

Concrete mix

Crushed rock, '/< to %

Crushed rock, ^4 to I'/j..,

Roofing gravel

River sand

SAND—

River sand

Lapis (Nos. 2 & 4)

Olympia Nos. I & 2

Del Monte white

Bunker

$1.90

..... 1.90

1.90

2.25

..... 2.25

Delivered
$2.50
2.45
2.50
2.50
2.80
2.70

Bunker Delivered
.._.$2.25 $2.70
_. 2.85 3.15
.._ 2.85 3.10
84c per sack

Common cement (all brands, paper sacks) car.
load lots $2.42 per bbl. f.o.b. car; delivered
$2.60.

Cash discount on carload lots, lOc a barrel,

Atlas White \ I to 100 sacks, $2.70 sack,

Calaveras White i warehouse or delivery; $7.65

Medusa White ( bbl. carload lots.

Forms, Labors average $40.00 per M.

Average cost of concrete in place, exclu-
sive of forms, 35c per cu. ft.;
with forms, 60c.

4-inch concrete basement floor

I2I/2C to 14c per sq. ft.

Rat-proofing 7I/2C

Concrete Steps $1.25 per lin. ft.

Dampproofing and Waterproofing —

Two-coat work, 20c to 30c per yard.

Membrane waterproofing — 4 layers of sat-
urated felt, $4.50 per square.

Hot coating work, $2.00 per square.

Medusa Waterproofing, 15c per lb., San
Francisco Warehouse.

Tricocel waterproofing.

(See representative.)

Electric Wiring— $12.00 to $15.00 per outlet
for conduit work (including switches).
Knob and tube average $3.00 per outlet.
(Available only for priority work.)

Elevators —

Excavation —

Sand, 60 cents; clay or shale $1 per yard.

Teams, $12.00 per day.

Trucks, $22 to $27.50 per day.

Above figures are an average without
water. Steam shovel work in large quan-
tities, less; hard material, such as rock,
will run considerably more.

Fire Escapes —

Ten-foot galvanized iron balcony, with
stairs, $150 installed on new buildings;
$160 on old buildings.

Floors —

Composition Floors — 22c to 40c per sq. ft.
In large quantities, 18c per sq. ft. laid.
Mosaic Floors — 80c per sq. ft.
Duraflex Floor— 23c to 30c sq. ft.
Rubber Tile — 50c to 75c per sq. ft.
Terazzo Floors — 45c to 60c per sq. ft.
Terazzo Steps — $1.60 lin. ft.

Hardwood Flooring (delivered to building) —
Hx2iA" %x2» Ax2-

TiG TiG Sq.Ed.

CIr. Qtd. Oak $144.00 M $122.00 M $141.00 M

Sel. Qtd. Oak 1 18.00 M lOI.OOM II4.00M

CIr. Pla. Oak _ 120.00 M 102.00 M 115.00 M

Sel. Pla. Oak _ 113.00 M 92.00 M 107.00 M

CIr. Maple 125.00 M 113.00 M

Wage— Floor layers, $12.00.

Note — Above quotations are all board measure

except last column which is sq. ft.

Glass (consult with manufacturers) —

Double strength window glass, 20c per
square foot.

Plate 80c per square foot (unglazod) in
place, $1.00.

Art, $1.00 up per square foot.

Wire (for skylights), glazed, 40c per iq.
foot.

Obscure glass, 30c to 50c square foot.

Glass bricks, $2.50 per sq. ft. in place.

Note — if not stipulated add extra for set-
ting.

Heating —

Average, $I.9C per sq. ft. of radiation,
according to conditions.

Warm air (gravity) average $48 per regis-
ter.

Forced air, average $68 per register.

Iron — Cost of ornamental iron, cast iron,
etc., depends on designs.

Lumber (prices delivered to bidg. site) —

No. I common $45.00 per M

No. 2 common 43.00 per M

Select O. P. Common

1x4 No. 2 flooring VG

1x4 No. 3 flooring VG

1x6 No. 2 flooring VG

l'/4x4 No. 2 flooring

Slash grain —

1x4 No. 2 flooring — $65.00 per M

1x4 No. 3 flooring _ 62.00 per M

No. I common run T. & G 50.00 per M

Lath _ _ 7.50 per M

Shingles (add cartage to price quoted) —

Redwood, No. I $1.20 per bdle.

Redwood, No. 2 1.00 per bdle.

" ' " ' 1.40 per bdle.

. 48.00 per M
. 80.00 per M
, /5.00 per M
. 90.00 per M
85.00 per M

Plywood — Douglas Fir (add cartage)
"Plyscord" sheathing (unsanded)
A" 3ply and 48"x96" $39.75 per M

■■Plywall" (wallboard grade)—

'A" 3-ply 48"x96'' $43.70 per M

"Plvform" (concrete form grade)—

s/s" 5-ply 48"x96" $117.30 per M

Exterior Plywood Siding—

A" 5-ply Fir _ _ $132.00 per M

Redwood (Rustic) I"x8" clear heart..$ 95.00 per M
$5 less per M for A grade.

Millworlc — Standard.

O. P. $100 per 1000. R. W. rustic $100.00

per 1000 (delivered).
Double hung box window frames, average

with trim, $6.50 and up, each.
Complete door unit, $10.00.
Screen doors, $3.50 each.
Patent screen windows, 25c a sq. ft.
Cases for kitchen pantries seven ft. high,

per lineal ft., $8.00 each.
Dining room cases, $8.00 per lineal foot.

Rough and finish about 75c per sq. ft.
Labor — Rough carpentry, warehouse heavy

framing (average), $17.50 per M.
For smaller work average, $35.00 to $45.00

per 1000.

Marble — (See Dealers)

Painting —

Two-coat work _ per yard 50c

Three-coat work per yard 70c

Cold water painting per yard lOc

Whitewashing per yard 4c

OCTOBER, 1943

Turpentine, $1.08 per gal., in 5 gal. cans,

and 95c per gal. in drums.
Raw Linseed Oil — $1.32 gal. in light drums.
Boiled Linseed Oil — $1.35 gal. in drums

and $1.48 in 5 gal. cans.

White Lead In oil

Per Lb.

I ton lots, 100 lbs. net weight Il'/jc

500 lbs. and less than I ton I2'/4C

Less than 500 lb. lots 123/^0

Red Lead and litharge

I ton lots, 100 lbs. net weight ll'/2<:

500 lbs. and less than I ton I2I/4C

Less than 500 lb. lots I2y4c

Red Lead in oil

I ton lots, 100 lbs. net weight I2I/2C

500 lbs. and less than I ton 1 31/40

Less than 500 lb. lots 133/40

Note — Accessibility and conditions cause
some variance in costs.

Patent Chimneys —

6-inch $ 1 .25 lineal foot

8-inch 1.50 lineal foot

10-inch 2.25 lineal foot

12-inch 3.00 lineal foot

Plaster

Neat wall, per ton delivered in S. F. in
paper bags, $17.60.

Plastering — I nterior —

Yard

1 coat, brown mortar only, wood lath $0.70

2 coats, lime motar hard finish, wood lath .90

2 coats, hard wall plaster, wood lath .80

3 coats, metal lath and plaster....- 1.50

Keene cement on metal lath 1.60

Ceilings with ^A hot roll channels metal lath

(lathed only) - 1. 10

Ceilings with y^ hot roll channels metal lath

plastered 2.00

Single partition % channel lath I side (lath

only 1 . 1 0

Single partition ^i channel lath 2 inches

thick plastered _ $2.90

4-inch double partition % channel lath 2

sides (lath only). 2.00

4-inch double partition V* channel lath 2

sides plastered - 3.50

The

iingle partition; I" channels; 2'A"
partition width. Plastered both

rherman double partition; I" channels; 4%"
overall partition width. Plastered both
sides 4.00

3 coats over I" Thermax nailed to one side
wood studs or joists 1.50

3 coats over I" Tnermax suspended to one
side wood studs with spring sound isola-
tion clip _ 1.75

Plastering — Exterior —

2 coats cement finish, brick

Yard

3 coats cement finish, No. 18 gauge wire

mesh 1 .75

Wood lath, $5.50 to $6.50 per 1000 (not

available)
2.5-lb. metal lath (dipped) (not available), .19

2,5-lb. metal lath (galvanized) (not avail.) 21

3.4-lb. metal lath (dipped) (not available).. .22

3.4-lb. metal lath (galvanized) (not avail.) 24

%-inch hot roll channels, $72 per ton.
Finish plaster. $18.90 ton; in paper sacks.
Oetiler's commission, $1.00 off above quotations.

SI3.85 (rebate lOc sack).
Lime, f.o.b, warehouse, $2.25 bbl.; cars, $2.15
Lime, bulk (ton 2000 lbs.), $16.00 ton.
Wall Board 5 piv. $50.00 per M.
Hydrate Lime, $25,00 ton.

Plasterers Wage Scale _ $1.75 per hour

Lathers Wage Scale 1.75 per hour

Hod Carriers Wage Scale 1.50 per hour

Composition Stucco— $1.80 to $2.00 sq. yard

(applied).

Plumbing —

From $100.00 per fixture up, according to
grade, quantity and runs.

Roofing —

"Standard" far and gravel, $7.00 per sq.

for 30 sqs. or over.
Less than 30 sqs. $7.50 per sq.
Tile, $20.00 to $35.00 per square.
Redwood Shingles, $7.50 per square in

place.
Copper, $16.50 to $18.00 per sq. in place.

5/2 #1-16" Cedar Shingles,

4I/2" Exposure 8.00 Square

5/8 X 16" — # I Cedar

Shingles, 5" Exposure 9.00 Square

4/2 #1-24" Royal Shingles,

7I/2" Exposure 9.50 Square

Re-coat with Gravel, $3 per sq.

Asbestos Shingles, $15 to $25 per sq.

laid.
Slate, from $25.00 per sq., according to

color and thickness.
1/2 X 25" Resawn Cedar Shakes,

10" Exposure 10.50

3/4 X 25" Resawn Cedar Shakes,

10" Exposure 11.50

I X 25" Resawn Cedar Shakos,

10" Exposure 12.50

Above prices are for shakes in place.
Sheet Metal —

Windows— Metal, $1.75 a sq. ft.

Fire doors (average), including hardware.

$1.75 per sq. ft.

Skylights — (not glazed)

Copper, 90c sq. ft. (flat).

Galvanized iron, 40c sq. ft. (flat).

Vented hip skylights 60c sq. ft.
Steel — Structural (None available except for
defense work)

$150 ton (erected), this quotation is an
average for comparatively small quan-
tities. Light truss work higher. Plain
beams and column work in large quan-
tities $140 per ton.
Steel Reinforcing (None available except for
defense work).

$150 to $200 per ton, set.

Stone —

Granite, average, $6.50 cu. foot in place.
Sandstone, average Blue, $4.00. Boise,

$3.00 sq. ft. in place.
Indiana Limestone, $2.80 per sq. ft. in

place.

Store Fronts —

Copper sash bars for store fronts, corner.

center and around sides, will average

$1.00 per lineal foot.
Note — Consult with agents.

Tile — Floor, Wainscot, etc. — (See Dealers)
Asphalt Tile — 18c to 28c per sq. ft. in-
stalled.
Wall Tile-
Glazed Terra Cotta Wall Units (single faced)
laid in place — approximate prices:

2 X 6 X 12 $1.00 sq.ft.

4 x 6 X 12 1.15 sq.ft.

2 X 8 X 16 I.IO sq.ft.

4 X 8 X I6..._ 1.30 sq.ft.

Venetian Blinds —

40c per square foot and up. Installation
extra.

Windows — Steel

Factory type sash 30c ff.
Ventilators for steel sash $5.00 each.

1 943

BUILDINe TRADES WAGE SCALES FOR NORTHERN CALI-FORNIA

All crafts, except plasterers, are now working 8 hours a day. Plasterers' time is 6 hours.

San Francisco Alameda

ASBESTOS WORKERS

$1.50

$1.25

$1,371/2

$1,121/2

$1.25

BRICKLAYERS - -.-

1.871/,

1.50

1.871/,

2.00

1.871/2

1 .871/2

2.00

BRICKLAYERS' HODCARRIERS _

1.40

1.05

1.40

CARPENTERS _

143

1.43

1.25

1.43

CEIvlENT FINISHERS

\.7T/,
1.70

1.371/2
1.50

1.25
1.50

1.25
1.371/,

1.25
1.50

1.50
1.50

Tib

1.25
1.50

1.25

ELECTRICIANS

1.371/4

ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS

1.61

1.56

1.50

1.61

1.50

1.56

ENGINEERS: Material Hoist

1.50
1.75
1.75

1.371/,

1.60

1.25
1.60
1.60

1.50
1.75
1.75

1.371/2

1.75

1 -621/2

1.75

1.371/2

1.621/2

1.371/2

1.75

1.60

i.25

Piledriver

Structural Steel _

1.60

GLASS WORKERS

1.25

1.121/2

1.25

1.121/2

1.21

1.25

IRONWORKERS: Ornamental

1.50

1.311/4

1.371/2

1.311/4

1.371/j

1.311/4

1.25

1.311/4

Reinf. Rodmen

1.50

1.3 11/4

1.311/4

1.60

1.3 11/4

1.311/4

1.75
.85

1.60
.871/2

1.60
.821/2

1.60
■81 'A

1.60
.85

1.75
.8 11/4

1.50
.8 11/4

1.60
.811/4

1.371/2

LABORERS: Building _

.80

Concrete „ _

.871/2

.933/4

.90

•8 11/4

.921/2

.85

LATHERS

1.75

1.433/4

1.75
1.25

1.50
1.25

1.75
1.311/4

1.60

1.371/2

1.75
1.25

1.75
1.3 11/4

1.50

MARBLE SETTERS

MOSAIC S TERRAZZO

1.00

1.37"/,

1.47

1.25

1.121/,

1.121/,
1.371/2

1.15-5/8
1.25

1.121/2
1.35-5/7

i.42-6/7

L50

PAINTFRS

1.25

PILEDRIVERS „

1.40

1.60

1.40

1.47

1.40

PLASTERERS

1.66-2/3

1.75

1.66-2/3

1.75

2.00

1.75

1.83-1/3

PLASTERERS' HODCARRIERS

I.SO

1.45

1.40

1.183/4

1.35

1.75

1.40

1.50

PLUMBERS _ „

1.70

1.50

1.53-1/8

1.50

1.561/4

1.621/2

1.50

1.371/,

ROOFERS

1.371/,

1.371/2

1.121/2

1.25

1.371/2

1.25

SHEET METAL WORKERS. „

1.50

1.371/2

1.433/4

1.371/2

1.50

1.371/2

1.25

1.37'/,

SPRINKLER FITTERS

1.50

1.371/2

1.25

1.621/2

1.50

STEAMFITTERS _

1.50

1.531/8

1.50

1.561/4

1.621/2

1.50

STONESEHERS (Masons) _

1.50

1.75

1.50

1.75

1.50

1.75

riLESEHERS

1.50

1. 371/2

i. 371/2

1.371/2

1.50

1.371/2

Prepared and compiled by
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA CHAPTER, ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF AMERICA
and cooperation of secretaries of General Contractors Associations and Builders Exchanges of Northe

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

F.P.H.A. APPROVES SARAN TUBING

Federal Public Housing Authority, after exhaustive
tests extending over several months, has authorized
the use of saran tubing and fittings for water lines in
publicly financed war housing. Extruded by several
firms, the tubing will be available through regular dis-
tribution channels in virtually all parts of the country.
The F.P.hH.A., however, recommends saran for use in
areas with difficult water conditions such as the eastern
seaboard, some of the southern states and the two
northwest states of Oregon and Washington. This sug-
gestion is based on the fact that saran prices will
compare with copper tubing and fittings considered
desirable in the past for hard water.

Present arrangements call for the manufacture of
some 600,000 feet of tubing and 200,000 fittings per
month. For this preliminary three-month program, plans
call for use of these parts in 5000 dwelling units per
month or in a total of 15,000 units. Savings in gal-
vanized steel pipe are calculated to approximate 500
tons. The tubing will be used for both hot and cold
water lines, hlowever, for connections between water-
backs and range boilers, between direct fired coal
water heaters and storage tanks, and for overflow lines
from relief valves, F.P.H.A. recommendations call for
the use of standard weight galvanized iron pipe.
F.P.H.A. instructions note that the tubing, coming in
three sizes — Yg, '/2 and %-inch — and with a normal
wall thickness of .062-inch, is considered safe within
a range of 200° F. and psi. working pressure.

PLASTICS TODAY AND TOMORROW

"Plastics Today and Tomorrow," and exhibition of
the uses of plastics in the war effort and in the post-
war world, was recently held at the Yale School of Fine
Arts in New Haven, Conn. Sponsored by Yale Uni-
versity, the exhibit was arranged for and collected by
"Modern Plastics" in the belief that it would provide
a graphic demonstration of the versatility of the indus-
try and stimulate the interest of schools of higher edu-
cation in the opportunities open to them for furnishing
trained and skilled personnel for the plastic Industry.
Several thousand plastic items, ranging from a plastic
set screw the size of a pin head, to the molded fuselage
of an airplane, were shown.

ALBERT KAHN SCHOLARSHIP

The Albert Kahn Scholarship In Industrial Architec-
ture will be awarded this year covering full tuition
($400.00) to a student who has completed four years
of a four-year or of a five-year course in architecture
and who has shown outstanding ability in both design
and construction In any accredited school of archi-
tecture. Deposits and fees amounting to $35.00 are
not included in the scholarship.

Any architect or student Interested may obtain
application blanks by writing to George Simpson KoyI,
Dean, School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania.

This Lightning Hose
Racii is fastened to
wall, steel girder,
or wooden or con-

A Required Safely Measure —
A Desired Architectural Feature

The safety and accessibility of
required fire profection is
made unobtrusive with Lightning
Hose Racks, Reels, or Cabinets.

The

Types for every requirement.

AMERICAN RUBBER

Factory and M Q n U f O C t U T I It q Co.

General OfRces: '

Park Avenue and Watts Street, Oakland, 8, California

BASALITE

CAMBERED SHINGLE TILE

PERMANENT • FIREPROOF • STORM-
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Manufactured by

BASALT ROCK CO., INC.

NAPA. CALIFORNIA

aSALKRAFT

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'More than a building paper
THE SISALKRAFT CO.

205 West Wacker Drive
Chicago, III.

55 New Montgomery Street
San Francisco, Calif.

OCTOBER, 1943

The Most Complete Line of

STEELS and BUILDING MATERIALS

Made by a Single Producer

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See Stveet'a Catalog File or write us for
full information.

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GENERAL OFFICES: CLEVELAND, OHIO

DENVER, COLORADO .... CONTINENTAL OIL BUILDING

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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA .... RIALTO BUILDING
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PACIFIC
MANUFACTURING CO.

HIGH CLASS INTERIOR FINISH
QUALITY MILLWORK

142 SANSOME ST., SAN FRANCISCO

SArfield 7755

6820 McKINLEY AVE., LOS ANGELES

THornwall 4196

BUILDERS EXCHANGE. OAKLAND

"AMERICAN MARSH"

Redi'-Vac Vacuum Heating Pump

SIMONDS MACHINERY CO.

San Francisco
816 Folsom St.

UERmOIIT

mflRBLE compflnv

Producers and Finishers

Domestic and Imported Marbles

Write for new pamphlet describing our
Marble Toilets and Showers

San Francisco and Los Angeles
San Francisco phone: SUtter 6747

A.LA.'S "OCTAGON" TO BE REVISED

At the annual meeting of the A. I. A. in Cincinnati,
a special committee was named to make recommenda-
tions for carrying out the Institute's wishes that the
Octagon be revised in style, form and contents and
to this end the various Chapters will be asked for
their expressions upon the following:

Would you favor a change in the form of The
Octagon to, say, "Reader's Digest" or some other
size?

'Would you favor the publication of articles of a
broad nature on such subjects as the education of
the architect, or the relation of the architect to post-
war planning?

Would you favor articles of a technical nature, such
as on the development of resin products in plastics?

Would you favor articles on personalities In the
profession and their work, or personalities in allied
fields, such as engineering, construction, etc.?

Would you favor an open forum department in
The Octagon to contain short, signed comments from
members in criticism or commendation of Institute poli-
cies or activities, or of anything else that Is of real
concern to the architectural profession — barring per-
sonalities, of course?

Would you favor discussion of the relation of archi-
tects to public building from the public official's point
of view?

Can you suggest types of articles?

NEW U. S. STEEL SUBSIDIARY

United States Steel Corporation announces the
completion of arrangements with Defense Plant Cor-
poration, an RFC subsidiary, for the operation during
the war of the new government-owned steel mill in
Utah, substantial completion of which Is now scheduled
for the end of this year. Under the terms of the agree-
ment, these facilities will be operated for the account
of Defense Plant Corporation by Geneva Steel Com-
pany, a newly-organized U. S. Steel subsidiary.

No operating fee or other compensation is to be
paid to Geneva Steel Company or U. S. Steel for their
services in directing the war-time operation of this
large plant. All costs Incidental to Its management
and operation will be paid by Defense Plant Corpora-
tion, and all proceeds from the sale of its products
will be for account of Defense Plant Corporation.

When completed, this will be by far the largest
integrated steel mill west of the Mississippi, a plant
of the most modern design, whose cost will approximate
$180,000,000. The site of the main plant at Geneva,
Utah, known as Geneva Works, embraces more than
1,600 acres.

These Utah facilities were ordered by the Govern-
ment primarily to provide steel for war shipbuilding
needs on the Pacific Coast. Geneva Works was de-
signed by U. S. Steel engineers and is being erected
for Defense Plant Corporation by Columbia Steel Co.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

DRAFTSMEN FOR WAR WORK

Over a hundred draftsmen are being sought by the
U. S. Civil Service Commission for work in Federal
agencies that is necessary to the prosecution of the
war. Entrance salaries range from $1,752 to $3,163
a year, including pay for the eight hours of overtime
incorporated in the 48-hour Federal work-week.

Draftsmen of all types are needed, particularly ship,
electrical, and mechanical draftsmen, as well as topo-
graphic draftsmen. Agencies needing these types of
personnel in the greatest numbers are the several
bureaus of the Navy Department, the Coast and Geo-
detic Survey of the Department of Commerce, and the
Geological Survey of the Department of the Interior.
The Treasury Department and the War Production
Board utilize statistical draftsmen.

Qualified engineering draftsmen in any field are
urged to apply. However, persons without previous
experience in the fields where needs exist may be
appointed and trained in the subject. Women are
especially desired. Applicants having training or ex-
perience primarily in commercial art, interior decorat-
ing, etc., which included any drafting training or ex-
perience will be considered.

For positions paying $1,752 a year, requirements are
at a minimum. Persons may qualify with six months of
practical elementary full-time paid drafting experience,
or with completion of one of the following types of
study: at least three semesters of training in drafting
in high school; or a thorough course of drafting re-
quiring actual classroom work in a school specializing
in drafting; or a U. S.-approved ESMWT course in
engineering drafting; or a course in drafting in a
college or university.

Persons enrolled in drafting courses are urged to
apply, since they may be appointed prior and subject
to the completion of these courses.

Applications should be sent to the U. S. Civil Service
Commission, Washington, 25, D. C.

MORE HOUSING NEEDED IN L A.

Seeking new housing to break up Los Angeles' dan-
gerously jammed negro ghettos was the object of a
special trip to Washington made recently by hHoward
hloltzendorff, executive director of the Los Angeles
Housing Authority. Up to now the N.H.A. has never
taken into consideration racial minorities in program-
ming housing for Los Angeles nor has the local
authority ever been consulted on housing needs. At
least 2500 additional war housing units are needed for
persons of all races. Dr. George Uhl, Los Angeles
city health officer, is quoted as saying that conditions
in the eastside and particularly in "Little Tokyo"
threaten to breed an epidemic "that might assume
tremendous proportions, slowing, if not paralyzing, the
war effort in the southern city." Estimates are that
the negro population in Los Angeles has grown from
40,000 to 91,000 since 1930.

Hocnn LumBER co.

V/holesale and Retail

LriUBER

MILL WORK • SASH & DOORS

Office, Mill, Yard and Docks

SECOND AND ALICE STREETS • OAKLAND, CALIF.

Tefephone GLeneourf 6861

OP CALIFORNIA

General Contractors

923 FOLSOM STREET • SAN FRANCISCO

SUtter 3440

FORDERER CORNICE WORKS

Monufacfurers of
Hollow Metal Products • Interior Metal Trim

Elevator Fronts and Cabs
Metal Plaster Accessories • Sanitary Metal Base

Flat and Roll Metal Screens
Metal Cabinets • Commercial Refrigerators

269 POTRERO AVE.

SAN FRANCISCO. CALIF. HEMLOCK 4100

STRUCTURAL STEEL

For Class A Buildinss,
Bridges, etc.

JUDSON PACIFIC CO.

1200 SEVENTEENTH STREET

SAN FRANCISCO

^^=== Pl«nh: San Francitco - Oakland =

OCTOBER, 1943

N. CLARK
AND SONS

Manufacturers of

Quality
Architectural
Clay Products

During this stage of the war.
our principal energy is to nnan-
ufacture products required by

401 PACIFIC AVENUE

ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA

San Francisco • Los Angeles

Salt Lake City • Portland

HERRICK
IROX WORKS

STRUCTURAL STEEL
REINFORCING STEEL

I8TH AND CAMPBELL STS.
OAKLAND, CALIF.
Phone GLancourt I7t7

ABBOT A. BAIVKS, INC.
Engineers & Chemists

INSPECTING — TESTING — CONSULTING

CONCRETE • STEEL • MATERIALS

CHEMICAL AND TESTING

LABORATORIES

• RESEARCH AND INVESTIGATION •

TESTS OF STRUCTURAL MATERIALS

DESIGN OF CONCRETE MIXES

SHOP AND ERECTION INSPECTION OF

STRUCTURES AND EOUIPMENT

INVESTIGATION OF STRUCTURES

AND MATERIALS

TESTS AND INVESTIGATION OF

FOUNDATION SOILS

FIRE RESISTANCE ANT INSULATION

TESTS

624 Sacramento Street. San Francisco

INSTITUTIONAL POST-WAR
MARKET

An eight and one-half billion-dollar
market for mass feeding and mass
housing equipment and supplies is re-
vealed by the post-war planning sur-
vey just completed by Institutions
Magazine among more than 50,000
managements in the institutional field.
Over 92 per cent of the hotels, hos-
pitals, restaurants, schools, clubs and
similar institutions making up this big-
consumer market are definitely sched-
uling extensive rehabilitation Vi'ork or
new construction.

It is estimated that from three to
five years will be required to com-
plete this mammoth program. How-
ever, so many owners and operators
of institutions are already blueprint-
ing their plans, the survey indicates,
that most of the work not already in
progress will begin the moment that
the necessary material can be made
available to them.

The tabulation of the post-war plan-
ning survey indicates that 39% of the
nation's more than 300,000 institu-
tions are scheduling some new con-
struction; 24% plan exterior remodel-
ing; 55% intend to remodel Interiors;
49% will re-equip general operating
facilities; and 44% are going to re-
furnish.

The $8,500,000,000 which the work
will require will be allocated to each
department in the following manner:
Kitchens (Including food service

supplies) _ _ 14%

Bedrooms 10%

Dining Rooms - -. 6%

Public Rooms --- 7%

Plumbing .__ . _ 10%

Heating I 1%

Air Conditioning and Refrigera-
tion 3%

Laundry ._ 8%

Building Exteriors 29%

Other Departments _ 2%

Although 9 I % of all institutions are
keeping their plans flexible so as to
take advantage of new product de-
velopments, 7% of the field have
work actually In progress, 36% are
entirely ready to start when the ma-
terial situation permits, 7% have
plans in the blueprint stage, 12%
state that their work is being actively

INCANDESCENT

SUPPLY

COMPANY

647
MISSION STREET

SAN FRANCISCO

Lighting Fixtures and
Lamps, Fireplace Fur-
nishings, Pictures and
Mirrors, Electrical Sup-
plies and Marine Fix-
tures.

Oakland - Fresno
Los Angeles

Independent
Iron ^^orks

Structural Steel

Ornamental Iron

Steel Service Stations

Steel Tanks

Standard Steel Mill Buildings

Bridges

821 Pme Street

Oakland

ANDERSON

&
RINGROSE

General Contractors

320 Market Street, San Francisco
Phone GArfield 2245

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

MULLEN MFG.
COMPANY

BANK, STORE AND OFFICE

FIXTURES— CABINET WORK

OF GUARANTEED QUALITY

CHURCH SEATING

Offic* and Factory;

iO-80 RAUSCH ST., B«t. 7th and 8th Stl.

San Francisco

Taltphona UNderhill 58IS

planned and 38% indicated that it
is under discussion.

THE TORMEY
COMPANY

GENERAL PAINTERS
AND DECORATORS

Phone UNderhill 1913

563 FULTON STREET
San Francisco

Phone GAreeld 1164

Thomas B.Hunier

Consulting Engineer
DESIGNER OF HEATING
AIR CONDITIONING
VENTILATING AND WIRING
SYSTEMS, MECHANICAL
AND ELECTRICAL EQUIP-
MENT OF BUILDINGS

41 SUTTER STREET

ROOM 710
San Francisco California

Robert W. Hunt Company

ENGINEERS

Inspection • Tests • Consultation

Schools and Other Structures
Are Built as Designed

When Construction Materials ore

Inspected at point of Manujacture

and during Erection by

ROBERT W. HUNT COMPANY

Cement, Concrete, Chemical, Metallursical.
X-Ray and Physical Laboratories

Chicago • New York - Pittsburgh

Los Angtles • All Large Cities

San Francisco, 251 Kearny Street

TRAIN FOR RESCUE WORK

Plans for a school to train 50 or
more Civilian Defense Rescue Service
chiefs from eight western states are
being laid by the Ninth Regional Of-
fice of Civilian Defense. The school,
to be conducted by O.C.D. with the
assistance of the U. S. Bureau of
Mines, is scheduled tentatively for
November 8-18 at the University of
California.

The Berkeley school, for which com-
plete accommodations have been pro-
vided by the College of Mines, will
offer a ten-day course in rescue tech-
niques to be employed in disaster due
to enemy bombardment, sabotage,
industrial accidents or natural causes.
The faculty will include outstanding
experts in the technical fields related
to rescue work. Throughout the course
a highly trained rescue squad will
demonstrate, with the aid of a spe-
cially constructed "incident," such
rescue techniques and procedures as
tunneling, shoring, and extrication of
casualties. The use and care of res-
piratory protective devices will be
stressed, and an evening course in
first aid will be offered by experienced
Bureau of Mines instructors.

Chiefs of the Rescue Service of all
State Councils in the Ninth Civilian
Defense Region, and the rescue chiefs
and other key rescue personnel in all
the larger communities within target
areas, are being urged to attend this
course which is one of two Pilot Res-
cue Service Training Schools to be
held in the nation.

BRIDGE COMPETITION
POSTPONED

The American Institute of Steel
Construction announces that, due to
the effect of conditions brought about
by the war emergency, it has been
decided to suspend its Students' An-
nual Bridge Design Competition until
the war has ended.

This action, although necessary be-
cause of students' wartime schedules,
is greatly regretted by the Institute,
particularly on account of the grati-
fying response on the part of students

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SMALL ACCOUNTS

Whether your account is large or
small, business or personal, check-
ing or savings, you will find our
Mailway service helpful We have
special facilities to make banking
by mail easy and prompt. Our care-
ful attention to your needs will en-
able you to bank with us by mail,
at greater convenience to you.
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LANDSCAPING

WAR HOUSING PROJECTS

Maritime Commission

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SHASTA DAM 88% COMPLETE

The diversion tunnel at Shasta Dam
is in full use with the entire flow of
the Sacramento River going through
it, the United States Bureau of Recla-
mation has announced.

Rising blocks of concrete in the
spillway section turned part of the
river through the tunnel on June 26
and continued construction activities
in that section have brought the res-
ervoir to a level permitting the tun-
nel to form a channel for the entire
river flow.

Construction Engineer Ralph
Lowry said that the actual diversion
of a river around a dam usually is a
significant event in the history of
this kind of job, and a construction
man never breathes easily until the
river is under control. "By late fall,
if the present schedule is carried out,
concrete in the spillway section will
be so high that it will take a bigger
flood than has ever occurred to cause
us much trouble," Mr. Lowry said.

With the river in the tunnel, a cof-
ferdam across the river bed above
the tunnel outlet will prevent back-
water from interfering with placing
the spillway apron. The apron is a
thick layer of concrete placed over
the river bed area a1 the foot of the
spillway to prevent the fall of water
from eroding the rock at the down-
stream toe of the dam.

With more than five and one-half
million cubic yards of concrete in
place Shasta Dam Is nearly 88 per
cent complete. The pouring sched-
ule on mass concrete will be com-
pleted within a year if the present
rate of placement is maintained.
Since the first concrete was placed
In July, 1940, Pacific Constructors,
Inc., the general contractor, has man-
ufactured and placed an average of
nearly 156,000 cubic yards per
month. In the righ^ abutment sec-
tion, IB blocks are complete and most
of the blocks of the left abutment

are ready for the final concrete pour
in that area.

In the Shasta Power Plant, the in-
stallation of machinery continues,
with the assembly of the No. 3 gen-
erator well under way. Installation
of penstocks for Units 3 and 4 is
about 60 per cent complete and
cable and wiring installations are on
schedule.

U. S. STEEL BUYS WAR BONDS

United States Steel Corporation and sub-
sidiary connpanies purchased United States
securities amounting to $100,000,000 during
the third War Loan Drive. The subscription
will be allocated In various amounts for
credit to the districts In the United States
in which the corporation operates.

U. S. Steel and subsidiary companies pur-
chased $30,000,000 of securities In the sec-
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No. 2

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Post-W«r Planning

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NOVEMBER CONTENTS

COVER:

Four views ot San Pablo prefabricated elementary school

PHOTOGRAPHY:

San Pablo School— Robert C. Kaestner

Blimp hangar, Santa Ana Naval Air Station

— Navy official photographer

Marli Daniels

News and Cemmcnt on Art

In the News

New Schools for War and Post-War Needs .

Robert C. Kaestner

Navy Blimp Hangar at Santa Ana ....

The Public and Its Architect

Jan Reiner

Planning

Actual Post-War Work?

Arnold A. Weitiman, AJ.A.

The Post-War Employment Problem .

State Association of California Architects-

Sixteenth Annual Convention ....

W. C. Ambrose, Architect

Producers' Council Page ......

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Space limitations necessitat-
ed carrying over to December
the San Francisco Shoreline
Report by L. Deming Tilton,
Director of Planning, an-
nounced for publication in this
month's issue. A review of the
Report will be accompanied by
full-page plates illustrating the
various proposals of the plan.

"Stained Glass, Past and Fu-
ture," by Jeannette Dyer Spen-
cer, describes the technique of
this interesting age-old art —
the glory of the ancient cathe-
drals, crowning achievement of
a devout world. Mrs. Spencer
answers the oft-repeated query
today, "will stained glass be
one of the arts resurrected.'"

The war has been the means
of developing many fresh ex-
amples of good, old-fashioned
American ingenuity, one at
point being a unique housing
project of the Santa Fe Rail-
road and known as "Indian
Village." The author describes
the conversion of a train of
abandoned freight cars into
modern housing units for
Navajo Indian war workers.

Recent discussion of "Tlie
Design, Fabrication and Erec-
tion of Rainbow Bridge at Ni-
agara Falls," uncovered some
interesting structural features
enumerated by the Resident
Engineer of Bethlehem Steel
Company, E. L. Durkee, in a
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Structural Engineers" Associa-
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per (with illustrations) makes
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2 ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

KunninG fire

by MARK DANIELS

VRIORITIF.S AND HOUSING

Not that it is at all unusual, there exists a porticu-
irly flagrant type of contradictory dennand in the
onditions and requirements established by the gov-
rnrnent as a basis for one of their songs with which
ley serenade the public. We all realize that emer-
encies cause contrary instructions that result in
aradoxical requirements, although usually these are
djusted to harmony in the course of time.

"Mother may I go out to swim?
Yes, my darling daughter.
Hang your clothes on a hickory limb
But don't go near the water."

Yes, children, build us a lot of houses so that our

red war workers will have nice homes to live in,

ut don't use any building material until you get

riorities. And just try to get them!

Most of us understand clearly what the situation

and also make allowances for the patriotism of

ose who are trying to avoid the overuse of critical

aterials that might jeopardize the war outcome, but

I vhen the point is reached where the government

efuses to give priorities on nearly all forms of build-

ng materials and then upbraids us for not producing

, jew houses for the new war workers, things seem to

be going too far. The American people are begin-

iiing to say, in the language of the late Harry Leon

'Wilson's "Cousin Egbert," "I can be pushed just

;o far."

^ BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

\ The other day I heard a highly qualified critic who
Was examining a series of plans in a recent publica-
(ion, cry out, "What a beast of a plan that is!" I had
Deen over those plans and thought they were excep-
ionally good from a functioning viewpoint, and told
'lim so. I pointed out to him where the sunlight had
seen made available to the maximum, where circu-
.ation was excellent and low cost was apparent.

"True," he said, "and while I don't mean that even
f it were good, still I wouldn't like it, it is never-the-
less a beast of a plan. I mean that if the designer
had been a true architect he could have accom-
blished all you claim for it and still have made the
plan beautiful."

I did not feel equal to a long discussion of what is
beauty, in the abstract, or what changes in our pres-
ent concept of beauty might make that of today seem
ugly. No, I did not want to argue the point; because
i had a lurking suspicion that he was right.

P PREFABRICATION AND PRODUCTION

j Prefabrication has become such an all embracing

i;ubject that it has swallowed everything related to
t, down to calling the making of bricks "prefabrica-
ion" because they are made for use in a structure
)efore the structure itself is started. That is no pre-
fabrication in the sense in which that overworked
expression is used today. That is a primitive form
,of getting into PRODUCTION. If an architect designs
:a structure in such a way that certain units can be
ibuilt apart from the site and later assembled on the
Isite and there erected, that is PREFABRICATION.
But if the builder manufactures elements of those

NOVEMBER, 1943

units and assembles them to construct those units,
that is production, of a form. The line between Pre-
fabrication and Production that is drawn by contrac-
tors is a shifting one and it is possible that, at some
lime, it will be all Production. Until that time we will
all be trying to get Prefabrication into Production.

• CHINESE EXCLUSION IN REVERSE

If the Chinese should put the Americans who are
allowed in China on quota, we might look at our
treatment of them in this country in a different light.
Unthinking people will say, offhand with character-
istic snap judgment, that the Chinese would be by far
the greater losers, but the question is debatable.

Spiritually the Chinese would lose nothing. Aes-
thetically they could only gain by eliminating inter-
ference from our youthful conception, with their age-
old cannons of art and profound philosophies. Eco-
nomically I doubt if we ever leave half as much as
we take out. And, just think of the salutary effect
being placed upon a quota would have upon our
boasting travelers!

• ONE SOLUTION

The draft seems to be in doubt about the value
of fighting too hard over dad drafting. This seems to
me to be a bit of unnecessary pother, or at least a
little hasty. Give them a bit more time and the OPA
will have the entire male population reduced to a
condition where they will have to join the army to
get anything to eat.

•PETS

Birds are the national pets of China.

Dogs are the national pets of England.

The national pets of the U. S. vary in character,
almost annually, usually according to politics. Right
now they are the so-called "war-workers"; and how
we are pampering them!

How long they will remain at the head of the list
depends upon how long we plain earners can pay
the piper. At present we are paying them unheard-of
hourly rates. If a man, woman or child can prove
that his is a war work (and who cannot), his demands
for pay in astronomical figures are granted. For-
merly, when we were caught in a war, those who
did not shoulder a gun took a hitch in the belt and
pitched in to work. Now we run bus lines to transport
"war workers" a few hundred yards to work. A few
days ago one of the leading New York papers carried
an ad offering top prices for 1941 or later models of
"Cadillacs" for resale to war workers. The natural
inference is that only Cadillacs or better would be
consistent with the income of the "war worker."

• FENCES

In all probability some of Hitler's ideas were based
upon good old customs. Take his determination to
build a fence around Europe. The Anglo-Saxon race
has, for centuries, been fencing in their properties,
and Hitler is not the first man who has tried to fence
in property that did not belong to him. In many
instances, that is a way to acquire title that otherwise
can't be established. Here in the west we call it
acquiring title by the McEnerney act. All Hitler
needed was a McEnerney act that could be applied
to all Europe.

NEWS AND COMMENT ON AR

Courtesy Art Institute of Chicago

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EXPECTANCY
by Chang Shu-Chi
deYoung Memorial Museum

DE YOUNG EXHIBITS PAINTINGS
OF EMINENT CHINESE SCHOLAR

Now* showing at the deYoung Museum in San
Francisco is an exhibition of watercolors by one
of China's foremost contemporary artists, Professor
Chang Shu-Chi. Prof. Chang is already a familiar
figure in this country both through his work, ex-
hibited at leading American galleries and mu-
seums, and through his "official" capacity as
"ambassador of art and good will" from the Chi-
nese government. It was two years ago that Prof.
Chang left the Orient and came to the United
States as a sort of cultural emissary from Gen-
eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek.

Prior to the Japanese invasion Professor Chang
lived with his wife and four children in Nanking,
acting as head of the art department at the Na-
tional Central University there. When the capital
was moved to Chungking, the University went
with it — and so did Prof. Chang. His family, how-
ever, were caught in occupied territory, and it
has been six years since Professor Chang has seen
them. Feeling that his country's cause and the
permanent cause of cultural values could be fur-
thered to a great degree by coming to America,
in 1941 Chang packed his paints and brushes and
left his native land.

During his stay here, such leading museums as
the Chicago Art Institute, the Baltimore Museum
of Art and the Kansas City Art Institute in this
country, also the Royal Ontario Museum, the
Montreal and Ottawa Museums of Canada, have
held one-man shows of his work. The current ex-
hibition at the de Young marks his first showing
on the West Coast.

A major accomplishment was his "The Hundred
Doves", a scroll symbolizing the doves of peace
which was presented by the Generalissimo to
President Roosevelt and which now hangs in the
White House.

Regarding his work, his friend Dr. Lin Yutang,
says: "Prof. Chang Shu-Chi . . . has achieved a
special technique with two-color brushes which
should be highly interesting to all artists. The
delicate shading which he achieves with such
complete ease is amazing. It is a delight to watch

Caurlexy of Life Mafaiin.-

PROFESSOR CHANG SHU-CHI

. . . demonstrates his painting technique

at de Young Museum.

Professor Chang at work, which shows more clear-
ly than anything else the quickness and ease with
which conceptions of line and form are recorded
by Chinese painters, through mastery of the
brush."

Bay region visitors to the de Young Museum
will have the opportunity to see for themselves
this ease and dexterity which the Chinese artist
has so completely mastered. During the run of
his show, each Sunday afternoon from 3:00 to 5:00
o'clock. Professor Chang will demonstrate his
painting technique, creating his lovely watercolors
of flowers and birds for the public to watch and
enjoy.

LATIN-AMERICAN CINEMAS AT
SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF ART
A Latin-American program of moving pictures will
be presented monthly as a regular service to those
interested in our neighbors. Russia, China, Great
Britain as our allies will appear at frequent inter-
vals. Occasionally war films will be shown be-
cause they are exceptionally fine and informative
films, not simply to trade on the emotions of the

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I AN EVER CHANGING WORLD

times. The enemy will appear too, and so will
lands like Italy, Greece, France, that will be much
in the news. Pictures of what those lands look like
will be good background for the headlines of the
months to come. These programs are free, and are
presented by the San Francisco Museum of Art
as a public service in visual education.

RECENT WORKS OF QUINTANILLA
ON VIEW AT DE YOUNG MUSEUM

The work of a soldier and artist of Republican
Soain, Luis Ouintanilla, on view at the De Young
Museum, has brought forth both favorable and
unfavorable comment. At the request of his Gov-
ernment the artist was commissioned to do a series
of five frescoes to be hung in the projected Spanish
pavilion at the New York World's Fair; he left the
battlefield for the United States to accomplish this
task. Before the assignment was completed, the
Republican Government had collapsed, since
which time Ouintanilla has, quite naturally, been
refused entrance to his native country. The panels
were finished at a later date, however, and have
been shown, along with others of his works, at the
Museum of Modern Art in New York.

The exhibition which the De Young Museum is
showing contains many of the same paintings,
pastels, drawings and etchings contained in that
previous and first American exhibit of his works.
All that remains of his work done in Spain, his
series of drawings of the Civil War, reproduced in
the book, "All the Brave," may be seen, along with
other black-and-whites on the Spanish scene.

The oils and pastels are the result of his efforts
since coming to the United States, where he intends
to make his home and has already taken out
citizenship papers. A recent assignment here was
his execution of working drawings for the film,
"For Whom the Bell Tolls," and also a number of
paintings done in conjunction with the picture.
One of these, a large canvas showing Gary Cooper
in the role of Robert Jordan, is now on view.

The San Francisco Chronicle in its review refers
to the Ouintanilla oils as scarcely the kind of thing
one would expect from that quarter. "They are
mostly sophisticated caricatures of a type the
lamented Vanity Fair would have loved, and while
they are good enough of their kind, the results
seem scarcely worth all the trouble it took to paint
them. The drawings are very much more signifi-
cant. Here the caricaturist's power over human
types is brought into play to provide arresting and
memorable partly achieved vignettes of the Span-
ish war."

DE YOUNG DISPLAYS PAISLEY
SHAWLS FROM ITS COLLECTION

The de Young Museum is now showing an unus-
ually colorful and exotic textile display. It consists
of Near-Eastern and Paisley shawls belonging to
the Museum — incidentally, one of the best collec-
tions cf the so-called "Cashmere" shawls. The
fashion that Napoleon introduced in France upon
his return from Egypt and which soon spread over
the European continent, is beautifully illustrated in
the current exhibit. Original shawls from Asia and
from Paisley in Scotland, famous textile center

during the Victorian Era, in rich reds, blues and
yellows, with typical all-over geometric and floral
designs, combine to make this exhibition one of
the most delightful the textile department of the de
Young has assembled. The shawls can be seen
throughout the month.

ARTISTS PREVIEW ANNUAL SHOW
OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE

Art Association Annuals furnish the opportunity
each year for taking stock of the San Francisco art
scene, as well as assessing new talents and fam-
iliar entries from all parts of the country. The same
activity that made Marinship a large, and on the
whole good show despite its limitations, has
worked in the Annual to produce a lively, varied,
vigorous but small, exhibition.

On Wednesday, October 19th, a preview for the
artists. Art Association and Museum members and
their friends, brought together all of prominence in
the San Francisco Art world, who rarely meet these
days of war. Later the exhibition was thrown open
to the public.

"ISABELLA"

Oil on Canvass, by Alex Breek.

Albert N. Bender Co
San Francisco Muss

NOVEMBER, 1943

PELIKE VASE— Greek, 5th Century B. C.

From the Spreckels Collection now on Exhibition

ot Legion of Honor Palace.

LEGION OF HONOR PALACE
HAS VALUABLE ART TREASURES

The recent gift of Albert C. Hooper of his art col-
lection to the California Palace of the Legion of
Honor in San Francisco (Architect and Engineer for
October) consists of 368 items, including 19 paint-
ings; 3 pieces of sculpture; 28 furniture items; and
98 pieces of porcelain; 19 clocks and watches, 39
pieces of silver; and a collection of miscellaneous
items of decorative art including glass, ivory,
enamel, lacquer, tapestry and marble.

In accepting the collection, the California Palace
of the Legion of Honor has passed the following
resolution:

"WHEREAS Mr. Albert Campbell Hooper of Palo Alto, Cali-
fornia, has generously offered to present to the California Palace
of the Legion of Honor his magnificent collection consisting of
nineteen oil paintings and numerous valuable items of deco-
rative arts, the collection totaling three hundred sixty-eight
articles; and

"WHEREAS said articles will form a most important addition
to the museum's permanent collections, for the education and
entertainment of present and future visitors to the California
Palace of the Legion of Honor; now, therefore, be it, and it is
hereby

"RESOLVED, by the Board of Trustees of said California
Palace of the Legion of Honor, that, on its own behalf, and on
behalf of the people of the City and County of San Francisco, it
gratefully accepts said offer of said important collection and
extends to Mr. Hooper its heartfelt gratitude for his thought-
fulness and generosity."

TWO SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS AT THE
PALACE OF THE LEGION OF HONOR

Two special exhibitions are being held now and
will continue indefinitely at the California Palace
of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. One is
an exhibition of painting and sculpture sponsored
by the Society for Sanity in Art; the other is Greek
vases in the Spreckels collection as published in

the Corpus Vasorum. The latter opened November
1 and will be shown for an indefinite period, prob-
ably two or three months.

The Corpus Vasorum is a scholarly portfolio
illustrating the Greek and Italic vases of the two
museums in San Francisco, the De Young and the
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, with de-
scriptive text on each vase. It was written by the
great expert in the field. Professor H. R. W. Smith
of the University of California. The Greek vases
in the Spreckels Collection are among the finest
and rarest in the world and are unsurpassed, really
in quality. San Francisco art lovers are indeed
iortunate to be able to study these vases.

DE YOUNG EXHIBITS RARE
COLLECTION OF CHINESE ART

The De Young Museum is fortunate in having been
loaned an exquisite exhibition of "Archaic Chinese
Mirrors, Small Bronzes and Jades" from the collec-
tion of Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Marcus of San Fran-
cisco. The public is afforded a rare treat of seeing
an aspect of Chinese art which is usually sadly
neglected by most museums: objects which do not
come under the heading of "display" pieces, but
which actually constitute small masterpieces.

EXHIBITIONS IN DECEMBER
AT THE S. F. MUSEUM OF ART

Paintings by Liz Clarke — Now until December 5.

San Francisco Society of Women Artists' Annual
— to December 12.

Prints by Roi Partridge, Retrospective Exhibi-
tion— to December 12.

Bay Area Council of Camera Clubs — to Decem-
ber 13.

PORTLAND ART NOTES

The feature exhibition in October at the Portland
Art Museum was the "Twelve Oregon Artists."
Invitations were issued to a dozen painters and
sculptors whose work had outstanding merit in
last year's Second All Oregon Exhibition. This
sequence of large show, open to all comers fol-
lowed by a smaller invitational show, in which
the exhibitors present a number of their works, is a
regular offering of the Museum for the purpose
of fostering local art and selling it to the public.
In the larger exhibition, the Museum assumes re-
sponsibility for selling a certain number of works
to patrons among the general public, while from
the smaller, invitational exhibition, the Museum
itself has in the past made purchases for its per-
manent collection. This is the fourth year of a
cycle which has proved itself extremely popular
with both artists and piiblic. A number of artists
to be seen this year were presented last February
by the San Francisco Museum in its exhibition of
Oregon Artists. The exhibitors: Louis Bunce, Con-
stance Fowler; Rev. Bernard Geiser, Marianne
Gold, Charles Heaney, Lydia Herrick Hodge, Fred-
eric Littman, Sgt. R. E. Jakobsen, Carl Morris, Hilda
Morris, C. S. Price, and A. C. Bunquist.

A second exhibition presents Contemporary Tex-
tiles. This includes a collection of sixteen textile
prints by leading American and European de-
signers, fifteen examples of textiles woven by Dor-
othy W. Liebes of San Francisco; and nineteen
pieces and samples of the fabrics woven for Tim-
berline Lodge on Mt. Hood. — R. T. D.

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i»as kind enough to suggest that I should
^.ommunicate with you with a view to your
ery kindly giving me some information as to
he publication of any details dealing with
he multi-story factory.
I would visualize a large block of build-

JOVEMBER, 1943

Ings, say six to seven stories In height, each
floor subdivided for the occupation of
smaller tenants, where all the necessary serv-
ices, gas, water, electricity and heating, can
be provided in exactly the same way as they
are in a block of ordinary flats.

Can you let me have any information re-
garding any projects In the States of this
particular character. Any information which
you can supply will be very gatefully re-
ceived.

Yours faithfully.

W. H. L. PRICE.
Bedford Ave.
Trading Estate
Slough. Bucks.

HOUSING PUBLICITY

Editor,

Architect and Engineer:

I want you to know how deeply we of the
Housing Authority appreciate the splendid
display of our five War Housing proiects
which you had In the September Issue of
your magazine. Architect and Engineer.

It Is that sort of article and use of pictures
which assists in bringing before the public
the facts about public housing. We have
already received several extra copies of the
magazine and most of the officers and com-
missioners of the Authority have seen it and
have been enthusiastic about the attractive
way in which you presented it.

We have received several requests for ad-
ditional copies of this magazine and want
to have several more in our own office for
distribution from time to time. Would you
be kind enough to send us 75 additional
copies and bill the Housing Authority?
Sincerely,
HOWARD L. HOLTZENDORFF,

Executive Director.
Los Angeles, Nov. I, '43.

A MODEST CLIENT TO HIS ARCHITECT

Build us a house of quarried stones
With roof of slates — we hate asbestos —
Where we may sup on wine and scones
And sweetly rest us.

Or e'en a house of well-burned brick
With oaken beams, would amply please us.
So be it that the walls are thick.
For thin walls freeze us.

We loathe a house with too much glass.
And have scant love for plastic features
Or stools of chrome, for we, alas!
Are natural creatures.

And so we are constrained to state
That we reject, without misgiving.
Your cantllevered boiler plate
Machines for living.

— Bulletin Illinois Society of Architects.

...IN GAS INDUSTRY
DRAFTING ROOMS
AND LABORATORIES

Gas appliance manufacturers
are concentrating, these days,
on war production. But they
are finding time, after hours,
to project their thoughts
and technical skill into the
future. • New designs are tak-
ing form . . . new materials
being discussed . . . innova-
tions perfected . . . models
built and tested. * You can
count on our industry to keep
pace with your profession in
equipping the better homes of
tomorrow . . . homes that even
now are materializing on ^o«r
drawing table.

JVteanwhile, let's all dig
deeper for War Bonds

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IN THE NEWS

NEW PRESIDENT, S.A.C.A.

_ John S. Bolles, newly elected

^^^^^^ president oi the Northern Sec-

^^^^^^k tion, State Association of Cali-

9 ■ fornla Architects, is 39 and a

native ot Berkeley. His father,
the late Edward G. Bolles, was
a well known San Francisco ar-
chitect.

Mr. Bolles enjoys a fine pro-
fessional background. In 1926
BOLLES he received his B. S. in civil

engineering at the University of Oklahoma. Harvard
made him Master in Architecture in 1932 following
tours in Turkey and Egypt for the University of Chicago
and a year in Cluny, France, for the Medieval Academy
of America (Ralph Adams Cram). Mr. Bolles spent
nearly three years in Mexico studying Mayan art and
architecture for Carnegie Institute. The University of
Chicago sent him to Persepolls, Persia, In 1935 ano
the following year he began the practice of architec-
ture with his father in San Francisco.

fHIs earliest recollection of architect's offices was
John Donovan's, in Oakland, with Gutterson, Morrow
& Edward Bolles as fellow draftsmen. Mr. Bolles as-
sisted Jose Moya del Pino In the design and execu-
tion of murals for the State Ball Room and Temple of
Religion at the 1939 Exposition. In fact he designed
the Temple of Religion. Soon after war was declared
he was employed as area engineer, F.P.H.A. for Marin
City and San Francisco housing projects. The State
Association's new president maintains a private office
at 681 Market Street, San Francisco, hlls home Is In
Ross, Marin County.
REGIONAL EXECUTIVE

hlenry H. Gutterson, architect
of San Francisco, Is now West
Coast Regional Executive for
the United Service Organiza-
tions which Include the Y.M.
C.A., Y.W.C.A., National Cath-
olic Community Service, Jewish
Welfare Board, Salvation Army
and the National Travelers Aid
Association. Mr. Gutterson had
GUTTERSON previously served the United

Service Organizations as Building Counselor and As-
sociate Regional Executive.

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is Honorary Chairman of
the Corporation which has been doing splendid work
since the start of the war. West Coast Regional offices
are at 26 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco.

(Turn to Page 10)

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

'Liyeability'
Factor in a Home

Homemakers today, forced by war
conditions to do their own housework,
are learning more than ever the value of
electrical service in the home.

People living in rented quarters
blame the shortsighted policy of the
owner in neglecting to provide proper
electrical service. But those living in
homes they have had built, sometimes
unfairly, blame the architects.

Planning of future homes will put
the electrical service at the top of the
list of important considerations. What'
ever else the architect's plans call for, the
electrical service will be the key to the
liveabihty of that home.

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
ELECTRICAL BUREAU

1355 Market Street
San Francisco

Electricity h wifal for war production.

Use it carefully and without

waste.

Index to AdvertLsers

'Indicates Alternate Months

ALADDIN Heating Corp *

AMERICAN Rubber Mfg. Co 43

ANDERSON & Ringrose 46

BARRETT & Hilp I I

BASALT Rock Company 44

BAXTER & Company, J. H 10

CASSARETTO. John 48

CELOTEX Corp *

CLARK, N., & Son '

CLINTON Construction Company 45

COATES. Leonard, Nurseries 47

COLUMBIA Steel Company *

CROCKER First National Bank 47

DINWIDDIE Construction Company 48

EL ENCANTO Hotel..

EORDERER Cornice Works 45

FULLER, W. P., Co *

GUNN, Carle & Company..

HANKS, Inc.. Abbot A. 47

HAWS Drinking Faucet Company 2

HERRICK Iron Works...... --. 48

HOGAN Lumber Company 45

HUNT, Robert W.. Company 47

HUNTER, Thos. B

IMPERIAL Brass Mfg. Co 31

INCANDESCENT Supply Co 46

INDEPENDENT Iron Works.. 46

JENSEN & Son, G. P. W 48

JOHNSON Company, S. T *

JUDSON Pacific Company 45

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KRAFTILE Company 8

MATTOCK, A. F... 46

MULLEN Mfg. Co 47

NORTHERN California Electrical Bureau 9

PACIFIC Coast Gas Association 7

PACIFIC Foundry Company, Ltd. 34

PACIFIC Manufacturing Company - 44

PACIFIC Paint and Varnish Company.. 34

PACIFIC Portland Cement Company 2nd Cover

PARAMOUNT Built-in Fixture Company 40

PARKER, K. E..... 3rd Cover

REMILLARD-Dandini Co *

REPUBLIC Steel Corporation 44

SALL Mountain Company

SIMONDS Machinery Company 44

SISALKRAFT Company 45

STANDARD Engineering Corp 42

STANLEY Works, The.. 10

TORMEY Company. The 47

U. S. STEEL Company

VERMONT Marble Company 44

WASHINGTON - Elier Company *

WESTERN Asbestos Company 43

WOOD, E. K., Company 40

WAR Bonds 41

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NOVEMBER, 1943

HARDWARE for the

"After the Victory" GAME ROOM

Since gas rationing changed
the traveling American into a
"stay-at-home" many people are
studying their homes — finding
improvements to make, or think-
ing of how they will build their
new homes, once the war is over.

One of the rooms that will get
careful consideration is the play-
room. Here, home owners are
inclined to give way to their
originality. Pine paneling with
built-in closets for games and
sports equipment, benches with
hinged tops to hold toys, cabi-
nets for bar supplies, and other
ingenious features will be devel-

oped by home- planners.

Whatever the hardware re-
quirements of a post-war build-
ing are, STANLEY will be in a
position to fill them.

Due to government restric-
tions on metals it is impossible
to supply all civilian needs in
hardware at the present time.
We are certain that you and your
cutomers understand why the
present shortage exists, and real-
ize that when our big war job is
done you will have all the
STANLEY hardware you need.
The Stanley Works, New Britain,
Connecticut.

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IN THE NEWS

(Continued from Page 8)

PROMOTED TO V.-P.

Burrell S. Manuel, Southern Cali-
fornia District manager for the
Westinghouse Electric Supply
Co., with headquarters in Los
Angeles, has been elected a
vice-president of that supply
company by Its board of direc-
tors.
A native of hHannlbal, Mo.,
^^j^yjL Mr. Manuel first entered the

electrical industry in 1901 at
Denver, Colo., with the Mountain Electric Co., agents
for the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.
hie joined the staff of the latter company at Denver
in January, 1905. In 1920 he was sent to San Francisco,
where he served until 1927.

In 1927 the Westinghouse Electric Supply Co. — sub-
sidiary of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing
Co. — acquired the property of the Illinois Electric Co.
at Los Angeles, and Mr. Manuel was transferred there
as district manager.

ARCHITECT'S FEE VALID

Claim of F. W. Stevenson, architect, against the
San Diego County Board of Supervisors, for $24,765
fees for preparation of plans for proposed additions
to the county hospital, was sustained by Judge Robert
Burch in the Superior Court at San Diego. The county
having already paid about $3500 to Stevenson, there
is a balance of $21,000 due him.

Stevenson had a contract with the county for prepa-
ration of plans and specifications for proposed hos-
pital additions which were approved by the Super-
visors August II, 1941, and were used in an inef-
fectual effort to secure a Federal grant. The contract
was terminated by a resolution adopted by the Super-
visors on October I, 1942, and further payments were
refused. The court held the architect was entitled to
his fees under the contract for the work done even
though the hospital additions were not built.

RESUMES ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE

Ernest Irving Freese, architect, has opened an office
for the resumption of private practice at 6247 Pine
Crest Drive, Los Angeles, and will give his attention
to planning projects for postwar construction. Since
start of the war Mr. Freese has been chief structural
designer with Myron Hunt on projects at Camp Callan
and Fort Rosecrans, San Diego.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

A city of
5000 homes
for war
w o r k e r s .
Erected in
180 days.
Norfolk,
Virginia.

The Bartlett
Dam, highest
multiple arch
construction
in the tvorld.
Arizona.

For Wresting-
house. A new
addition to
their huge
tvestern plant
in Emery-
I'itle, Calif.

Army ■ Navy
"E" and Star
awarded to
Barrett &
H Up for
over 150
projects on
Mare Island.

Construction is the backbone of achieve-
ment. Buildings for manufacture and house-
ing, dams for power and irrigation, bridges,
roadbeds, ways, docks and airj>orts for transpor-
tation . . . these are the products of the
construction industry . . . and these had to be built
first, before the productive power of our nation
could again be proven.

Barrett 8i. Hilp immediately joined with the rest
of the construction industry to provide these
facilities, and today America's might is pouring
forth as a tidal wave to engulf the forces of greed
and aggression.

B Si H men and B & H methods have created
homes for tens of thousands of war workers. New-
plants and plant additions for war industry. Dams
and aqueducts for both wartime and peacetime
service. Important sections of both of San Fran-
cisco Bay's great bridges. Drydocks, hospitals,
cantonments, and ammunition dumps for our
armed forces. We have built one complete ship-
yard and are now launching a new type of con-
crete ship-shape barge for ocean-going service.

Right now our job is the job of all Americans • —
to help win this war quickly and completely. The
Barrett & Hilp organization is conditioned to fulfill
its obligations to a nation at war — and to work
with your engineers on blueprints for the future.

SAN FRANCISCO • CALIFORNIA

NlilW SCHOOIjS for >V A I

by ROBERT C. KAESTNER

Due primarily to the tremendous migration of war workers,
our school accommodations in defense areas are proving wholly
inadequate. The greater majority of migratory war workers have large
families and for every family there is an average of 1.4 children to over-
crowd our present school systems. For example, the population statistics from
Carquinez hHeights Housing Project, near Vallejo, shows by actual count: .32 chil-
dren of elementary school age (6-12 years inclusive); .096 children of senior high school
age (16-17-18 years); .5 children of pre-school age (1-5 years inclusive). The large percentage of
children per transient family indicates a younger married group than groups in average city population:

Numerous schools in California defense areas have had their enrollment increased 40 to 60 per cent ,
and in many areas school enrollment has increased 500 to 600 per cent. The housing program for thel
family has come first while the school building program for the children has lagged behind. The tremen--
dous defense housing program has taken a mighty toll in conventional building materials. Other war con-
ditions have created a scarcity of both building materials and equipment. Notwithstanding all these
obstacles, school buildings must be built. The temptation is to erect buildings of a temporary nature, of'
indifferent design, "to bridge the gap until the war is over" or to cheapen the initial cost rather than to
evolve a far sighted or imaginative method to deal with the present critical requirements. The indul-i
gence is to skimp In the qualities of good design instead of the opportunity to experiment with all the
qualities of a well designed school.

From an economic standpoint, type, method and time of construction are important factors, noi
only in Initial cost but in war life of the structure. It Is obvious that a school building will not deteri-
orate and become structurally useless suddenly after the war is over. The school building must be af
least 95 per cent salvagable. To meet this need it must be a type of prefabricated and pre-flnlshec'
building which. In the Initial construction, will be a time saver, and therefore a labor saver. The forego-

12 ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

Nl> POST >VAli NK1]1>S

jig properties are a means to reduce post-war costs in readjusting the school buildings to other loca-
lions or conditions. Critical conditions and times are now forcing upon us, through necessity, a change

tour conventional methods — a change long overdue. It should not be merely a temporary war
,,,easure to be discarded when peace is signed, but rather a step into the post-war.
[

■ The E. J. Kump Co., Architects & Engineers, and the Standard Engineering Corporation of San
francisco have produced manufactured construction by solving the common every day problems,
engineering, materials, manufacturing processes, shipping and erecting, all have been integrated into a
veil designed school. Each problem was closely connected to each other. The school had to be engi-
leered to meet the requirements of the State Division of Architecture. The engineering plans com-
firised not only drawings and calculations, but actual physical tests which were the proof of the calcu-
btions. New manufacturing processes influenced the design of the structural members. Drawings were

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, EL PORTAL TRAILER COURT. SAN PABLO. CALIFORNIA
Ernest J. Kump Co., Architects-Engineers
Federal Works Agency, Constructing Agency

Complete Classroom Unit Being Unloaded From Truck

Laminated Three-Hinged Arches Before Erection

Striic I

made for each member with allowances for glue, pre-finished structural members, pre-drilled holes for
screws, and ease and speed of erection. Drawings, actual members, ideas, suggestions were often dis-
carded when a better solution was at hand. Materials presented more problems; for example, what lum--,
ber was easiest to purchase with low priorities, and what sizes and lengths would be available at all:
times? There were but two concrete answers to these questions: short lengths and two-inch stock. As a
result, the sizes of all members had to fit the two-inch stock and short lengths. Carpenters and mill men-
had to anticipate a thirty-second of an inch for precision in erecting. Carpentry labor was a critical
shortage, therefore small members were used so that there was only one man to a piece. Lumber wasr
green and had to be chemically processed to be true. Machinery and equipment was not available,'
thus ingenious Ideas were put to work for various problems, to solve equipment shortages.

The laminated three-hinged wood arch presented many difficult problems. The arch had to be:
designed to resist seismic forces when erected and must be able to span different widths. The lami-i
nations had to be assembled into a homogeneous mass to construct a sturdy arch that would not:<
crack, check or rupture. To standardize its parts for manufacturing and transportation to various'
locations entailed a great deal of tedious work. At first the arches took an hour each to assemble
now it takes only three or four minutes.

Space in the plant for working was limited, sizes of members for panels had to be standardized
to a few jig tables. The size of all panels was standardized. Floor, wall and roof panels had members^
of the same and different sizes, but located in the panel in the same position. The panel was designed-
for any of the common materials of exterior and interior finish. Including shingles, gypsum board, floor--
Ing, sidings, sheathing, pre-finished wall boards and insulation. All panels, when assembled and readyJ
for erection are pre-finished. Members in panels are all pressure glued, screwed, or nailed as needed.

Labor had no previous experience, and assembly was learned the hard way. The three-hingeo
arch made the simple structural skeleton possible. Rim joists and girders took extruded shapes because
of the limited size of available lumber stock. Each rim joist and girder was built of members pres-
sure glued together. All lineal members were notched to allow for accurate fitting for erection in
the field, hloles for screw connections were drilled.

•>tbly

Mudsills and Floor Girders (foreground)
Erecting Wall Panel (background)

Flooring was pressure glued to form a panel and then pressure
lued to the core members. A glued floor panel is extremely strong
nd will not squeak with age.

Windows had to be standardized to meet the following qualifica-
itlons: Must be weatherproof, waterproof, easily vented, inside or
but; horizontally projected, without patent hardware, and easily
jerected without meticulous fitting. The resulting sash had all these
Iqualifications and one more — it could be a casement window which
jcould be vented to the interior or to the exterior. Shipping and
'breakage were brought into the design and all preconceived ideas
were abandoned to meet standardized requirements. Doors were
[standardized into units which could be applied the same as the
Swindows. The door sill was part of the door unit.

The electrical system for lighting the classrooms could not be
■applied as in conventional construction. All of the manufacturing
.procedures were considered for the electrical distribution. The sys-
:tem had to be standardized to be integrated into the manufactured
(construction. The problems of conceiling wires within the structure
Iwas difficult because another trade was brought into the picture.
Ilhe wiring could not be pre-finished because of the nature of the
(materials, so it was concealed by semi-structural members. Lighting
jfixtures had to be designed of least critical materials, yet give proper
[light for classroom needs. Ceiling surfaces had to have adequate
reflecting qualities. The location of the fixtures required expert study
to give maximum results. The whole system was standardized for
good light, using available materials and insuring speed and economy.

The tendency for most designs for a school building is to let the
plumber get his equipment in by boring, notching and cutting, but
not in a manufactured pre-finished building. As in the electrical
system, another trade was introduced. Cutting or boring of struc-
tural members were minimum to code requirements and could not
be compensated by other members, as each had a working position.
!t is not economical to cut and patch, but it is economical to integrate
plumbing to a standardized system. Plumbing locations and fittings
within the building, therefore, were standardized to the critical and
available materials.

-U

TYPICAL CLASSROOM INTERIOR. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. EL PORTAL TRAILER COURT
Note Bi-Lateral Lighting

When the finished products were ready for
shipment, each piece had a definite place on
the eight-by-twenty-four truck or trailer bed.
Each panel was crated so that the finished sur-
faces were protected. Crates were designed
for easy packaging, removability and reuse.
Paper and scrap wood was used between each
member with the minimum points of bearing.
The packages had to be light enough for a man
to handle, yet strong enough to be packed to-
gether in a moving truck. The layout and co-
ordination within the manufacturing plant had
to be such that as the fabrication proceeded
the finished products were stored in single class-
room units.

A pallet was designed to fit onto a truck.
Each panel and lineal piece was placed so that
on arrival for erection the first panel or mem-
ber needed was on top. Each pallet with a load
became one complete classroom building. Steel
hoists were designed so the load could be easily
picked up and placed on the truck and upon
arrival rapidly unloaded. Traveling to the erec-
tion site presented problems of dirt, dust and
rain. A tarpaulin was fitted to the packaged
building.

It should be observed that, as construction
proceeds, improvements and adjustments are
learned.

The day before the truck arrives with its load
the foundation for the building is prepared and
mudsills are trued and leveled. Because of the
latent condition at the various sites the founda-
tions were not prefabricated.

The truck is parked in a desirable location
at the site and can be unloaded in fifteen
minutes by a crew of four men. The tarpaulin
is removed and the rim joists, girders and floor
panels are placed on the foundation. Each
panel and members are connected together by
screws for greater strength and ease in de-
mounting in the future. Electric screwdrivers
replaced the hammer as on the conventional
building. Pre-drilled holes and electric screw-
drivers removes the temptation of driving
screws with a hammer.

Lineal members were notched, so butting
members were easily placed and connected.
Notched plates are screwed to the floor and
rim joists to take the thrust of the three hinged
arches. If the floor is pre-finished, care is taken
so as not to mar it, but if it is to have a com-
position covering it is treated as any other
floor. The arches are placed and lifted into
their proper position, followed by the end wall
columns. This then forms a structural skeleton
with only the skin to be applied. A carpenter
and laborer can erect the walls and another

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

TKE SAN PtSLO EUUENTtRY SCHOOL IS THE
FIRST URSE SCHOOL PUKT COtlPL£TED IITH
THE PRE-BILT STRUCTURES. IT SERVES tN EX-

tLSO IITH t CQUUUNITY BUILDINS tND OTHER
FACILITIES.

SEVERAL OTHER PRE-BILT SCHOOL PUNTS ARE
UNDER (AV IN OTHER POINTS IN CALIFORNIA.
■HEN ERECTED IN THE VALLEY HHERE CLIMA-
TIC CONDITIONS ARE MORE EXTREME. INSUU-
TION IS PROVIDED IK THE PANELS AND THE
CORRIDORS ARE SUSSED IN.

PLANS. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, EL PORTAL TRAILER COURT
SAN PABLO. CALIFORNIA

PLANS FOR FIVE OTHER SCHOOLS USING "PRE-BILT" FABRICATED UNITS

carpenter and laborer can apply the roof pan-
els. Wall panels are screwed from the inside
and roof panels on the outside. Each pre-fin-
ished panel is interchangeable with any other
panel and is not structural. Doors and windows
are separate units which are applied to the
structural skeleton. A door unit can replace a
panel or window unit, or vice versa. The stand-
ardization of the skin to the structural frame
adds to the speed of erection. The possibili-
ties of this light unit skeleton construction have
not been exploited. When the floor, wall, roof
panels, lighting fixtures and roofing have been
erected the building is ready for use.

A one-unit classroom building for Pleasant
hHills Elementary School District was erected
and occupied by school children In five
days. A classroom school unit may be built in
one day minus the electrical system, compo-
sition flooring, roofing and unit heater.

The roofing of the buildings presented prob-
lems inasmuch as a one-unit classroom in a re-
mote location raised the cost of roofers to
come to the site. The cost for this procedure
was out of proportion to the rest of the unit,
so the use of a patent cold roofing was used
and applied by one of the erection crew. The
speed with which these buildings are erected
does not mean that a large crew of men are
used. A three-man crew can erect a building,
but naturally not as speedily as a four-man
crew.

The exterior appearance of the prefabri-
cated school building has not been materially
changed from other types of schools, but em-

phasis on the method and speed of erection
lends itself to our present war conditions.

This type of construction, though light, is
strong and durable. It is not expensive to main-
tain, while It fulfills requirements and, being
easy to dismantle and of high salvage value,
will not have to be retained when requirements
change. One school district can sell or lease
to another district when a building is needed
or not needed.

The design of the "pre-bilt" school does not
lack In any of the qualities of a well designed
school. Bi-lateral light In each classroom gives
constant and adequate light for every student.
A naturally well lighted classroom will not pro-
duce contrast glare. Solar orientation of all
classrooms produce an absolute guarantee
of excellent light. In most locations the north
orientation is best, but some locations and site
conditions warrant different exposures. Proper
orientation, combined with loose or open plan-
ning, gives the possibility of fluidity in the
general design and lay-out, to suit ever chang-
ing demands. Manufactured construction is
flexible and easily adapted to Integrate into
natural and existing environments. The light
and rigid construction allows for Individual ex-
pansion and simple alteration.

Manufactured construction is a necessary
tool for everyone who designs and builds and
wishes to do both better.

The work done in prefabricated and manu-
factured construction has only scratched the
surface of its latent possibilities. The point is
to design something better now and to con-
tinue on Into the post-war period.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

eeden blimp hangar at the Naval Air Base, Santa Ana, California, is 171 feet high,
Bsi clear span across of 237 feet, largest ever erected.

NAVY BLIMP HANGAR AT SANTA ANA

(Publication approved by Eleventh Naval District, Area Public Relations Office.)

When structural steel became scarce a year
ago, threatening to halt the Navy's lighter-
than-air expansion program, the Navy's Bureau
of Yards and Docks decided something had to
be done.

At that time Nazi U-boats were ravaging
the North and South Atlantic shipping lanes.
Allied merchant ship sinkings were rising to
alarming figures. Nothing, the Navy's top-
ranking officers said, must halt even momen-
tarily any phase of the anti-submarine cam-
paign.

Navy engineers and draftsmen were given
the problem. After two months of unceasing,
painstaking work they could report they had
won.

Concrete example of this American ingenu-
ity is found at the U. S. Naval Air Station at
Santa Ana, California, where two huge blimp
hangars of a type never before attempted by
engineers are nearing completion.

In these giant airship sheds will be housed
the Navy blimps which patrol the Southern
California sea lanes searching continually for
enemy undersea raiders.

The largest clear span wooden buildings in
the world, these hangars are 171 feet high —
equivalent to a 17-story building; more than
1,000 feet long, and almost 300 feet wide at
the base.

Between the bents or footings the clear span
is 237 feet wide, sufficient room to quarter
blimps in rows of two inside the structure with
no danger of the fabric tearing on the sides
of the hangar.

Behind the building of these great lighter-
than-airship dromes is a typical story of deter-
mination.

Navy officials found two Pacific Northwest
lumber companies that could prefabricate suf-
ficient timber to build the hangars.

Before shipment, each beam was cut to the

NOVEMBER. 1943

Official Navy photos
Left, looking down the ear track of the Santa Ana Naval Air Stjfion blimp hangar. Right, a near 90-degree skyward
angle shot shows construction of a rib section of arched roof.

Left, folding doors at each end of hangar are supported by twin concrete pylons carrying an enormous built-up

wooden "box beam." The doors fold up in recess between pylons.

Right, interior view of hangar, showing detail of timbered arch roof and scale of structure.

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correct length, with the ends shaped at the
exact angles, and holes drilled at the precise
points for assembling bolts and fixtures. The
timbers and sheathing, all treated with fire-
resistent chemicals at the prefabricating plant,
were transported to the Santa Ana lighter-
than-air and other bases.

Assembling required no more than 60 days'
time.

Captain H. N. Coulter, U. S. Navy, com-
mander of air station at Santa Ana, said a
feature of these wooden blimp hangars is their
novel, folding leaf-like sectional doors which
are suspended independently of the hangar.
Huge twin reinforced concrete pylons on either
side support an enormous square "box beam"
girder, he explained, and the doors, which can
be opened with the touch of an electric button,
fold away accordion-like in the recesses be-
tween pylons.

The sliding sections are 120 feet high and
are supported on railroad rails at top and bot-

tom. Navy engineers designed the huge built-
up wood girder with a sag allowance of I inch,
but actual tests have shown a sag of % inch.

These doors, consisting of steel frames cov-
ered with plywood, relieve the hangar of sup-
porting more than 200 tons of dead weight,
and offer a minimum of wind resistance.

The two hangars, covered by two-inch thick
wood plank sheathing, cost approximately $2,-
000,000 each, or about one-third less than steel
hangars of the same capacity.

The saving of $8,000,000 at Santa Ana alone
constitutes a feat of no small magnitude. It is
equivalent to 426,666 war bonds of the $ I 8.75

denomination — and that, as they say, "ain't
hay."

All structural lumber fabricated by the
Henry Mill & Timber Company for these proj-
ects was fireproofed by a vacuum-pressure-
inert salt method at plants of the American
Lumber & Treating Company.

NOVEMBER, 1943

THE

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Jan Reiner will be remembered as aufhor of a
lecture on "Building Ma+erials — the Grammar ot
Architecture," published in the Architect and
Engineer tor January, 1943. This month's con-
tribution by Mr. Reiner presents some of the
salient points emphasized by the young Czech
designer in a talk before the Berkeley Women's
City Club. Mr. Reiner has been identified with
a number of important housing projects in the
San Francisco Bay Area the past several years
in addition to teaching at Mills College and the
Schaeffer School in San Francisco.

AND IT[

In the main, an architect is concerned with
three public groups. First, the people — or
the clientele — who are chiefly interested in
residential work. Second, governmental agen-
cies and private corporations, interested In
large-scale construction, and Third, the people
who cannot afford the services of an architect,
those living in the slums.

Group I is the group of which we generally
think when we say "the Public." This is the
public which goes to art museums, art lectures,
which reads art books and art magazines. A
group of people that may be enthusiastic about
a modern home, traditional home, or a home.
This group usually thinks in terms of an indi-
vidual home, and not in terms of neighborhood
or regional planning.

The governmental agencies and corporations
comprising Group 2 deal mostly with large-
scale planning and construction such as admin-
istration buildings, schools, hospitals, airports,
warehouses, factories, and so on. A great many
factories built during the past century embody
the principles of modern architecture. Their
functional design, derived from simplicity and

economy of planning, demonstrates that "form
follows function." On the other hand, the de-
sign of many governmental buildings is much
too monumental; functional design is of less
importance than the symbolic value of columns
on the facade.

Groups I and 2 represent a "cash-and-
carry" architecture, while Group 3 represents a
subsidized social architecture. hHowever, Group
3 forms a considerable part of the population
of many cities. The "style" of the slums is an
"international style" accompanied by poverty,
illness, and criminal records. The pre-war slum
clearance projects and the present war housing
projects are definite steps to raise morale and
the standard of living. It is farsighted to build
adequate housing projects now, rather than to
build jails and maintain armies later.

I suspect that this audience Is chiefly Inter-
ested in individual homes: let me therefore
turn toward this subject, hlow do we think of
a home? Do we first think of its plan, or of Its
facade? The other day I came across a hHIndu
description of a house. The house is called
"akasha" which means accommodation for liv-
ing. The hiindus think primarily of a plan when
they think of a house. Western people think
primarily of a facade.

For instance, one person will say, "I want a
Spanish house because it fits this climate and
the California tradition." Another person will
say, "No, I want an Early American house, be-
cause that is the American style." The third
will say, "Let's build modern, I want a house

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with big windows, plenty of light, a streamlined
machine for living." Still another will say, "No,
I don't want big windows, I want a cozy Old
English cottage with a high roof." And so on.

Thus, the discussion of the house boils down
to a collection of facades, and if we are ana-
lytical enough we discover that the question
focuses actually on ONE facade — the front of
the house. After this great discovery, let us
see what difference we find in the actual plans
of these homes.

Take three families of the same size living in
the same neighborhood here In Berkeley, and
you will find that their Spanish, French, and
Old English houses have practically Identical
plans. Why, then, do people build In different
styles? One reason is, of course, that they
want individual-looking homes. But often the
reason for these various styles is a clever spec-
ulative builder who sells them a facade instead
of a home.

What is a facade — what is a style? The
French architect Perret wrote that style is
man himself. hHe meant the man of a par-
ticular geographical and social strata and of
particular time. Thus, the man of Ancient
Egypt built in different style from the man of
the Middle Ages. To a large degree the style
of a building Is determined by the available
building materials and current building meth-
ods. The building materials are the language
of the architect, and the grammar of architec-
ture of each civilization. In the January, 1943,
issue of the Architect & Engineer I wrote on

this subject and because of limited space now,
I have to refer the reader to that issue.

The use of contemporary building materials
and building methods does not guarantee a
good modern design. The design develops
through elaborate research. As a conspicuous
example let's take a lamp. Before a light fixture
is designed, a great many studies of light dis-
tribution must be undertaken. Many people,
especially the dealers in light fixtures, believe
that a fixture looking like an 18th century
chandelier is a beautiful fixture. It is perhaps
the most expensive fixture, but I am certain it
is the most unfunctional fixture. The round
shape of an electric blub made of glass is en-
tirely different from the long shape of a candle,
made of wax. Therefore, the electric bulb
should not be shaped like a candle, and vice
versa. The time may come when the source
of light will be either hidden in the ceiling, or
the ceiling and the walls themselves will be the
source of evenly distributed light.

The other day, when I was sitting in the Top
O' the Mark during a very heavy mist, it was
impossible to see outside even though it was
still daylight. I realized that the huge windows
of this room in foggy weather look like the
future luminous walls and ceilings of our homes.

But no matter how ingenious the house de-
sign may be, the majority of people cannot
afford it because of the high cost. Perhaps
the best way to produce a comfortable and
inexpensive house is by standardized mass-
production.

NOVEMBER, 1943

The idea was not to destroy the natural surroundings by paving, sidewalks, etc., therefore the hotel was built
on a bridge over a creelc. Part of the bridge roadway became the main floor accommodating the hotel lobbies,
and the in-and-out door dining space, both overlooking valley and mountains.

If the last war created a popular car, this and that will be the most modern thing about

war should create a popular house. In the the modern house.

future some of the armament plants could be H" should be possible to transport sections of
converted into production of houses and home pre-fabricated houses into locations thousands
appliances. We will undoubtedly have more °^ ^''©^ ^'5+^"+ ^nd assemble them into well-
mechanical gadgets in the kitchen, laundries P'^""^^ communities. A decentralized com-

new heating and lighting equipment, and so
on. There will be various models of houses just
as there are now various models of automobiles.
There will be the demountable house, the pack-
age house, the plastic house, the light metal
house, and so on. The change will not be so

munity will then become a true creation and
expression of the 20th century. Socialized
housing, developed for large areas, will surpass
the competitive real estate speculation now
operating in small areas. A decentralized city
could ease up the crowded cities and much
improve the living conditions of people, who.

much a matter of appearance as It will be a up to now, were unable to secure the services
matter of price, which will be much lower — of an architect.

The lobby of this high mountain tourist hotel for Norway, sketched by Mr. Reiner, reveals a two-story scheme

in which the social and sport life takes place. As in other Scandinavian buildings, one observes here
the use of modern building materials and functional design.

24 ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

Filled Tidelands^

New Highway
Connection

560 ACRES OF NEW INDUSTRIAL AREA

The level shoreline «rea between Hunteri Point end
the Embarcadero conititutei a Icqically ettab-
liihed industrial district. Five hundred and tiity
acres of valuable new land can be created by tilling
the tidelandi.

CONTROL OF EROSION AND ACCRETION

Land slippage injures scenic drives and walks in r'V

Lincoln Park; erosion and sand accretion on the I \

Great Highway are costly. Scientific surveys are L/
needed as a basis for economical corrective V

measures.

A 23-MILE CONTINUOUS SHORE DRIVE

Protection and improvement of the Great Highway
along the ocean; new roadway connections along
the Golden Gate, and a new Freeway on the Bay
Shore are proposed to complete a useful traffic
artery and notable scenic highway around San
Francisco.

REHABILITATION OF FERRY BUILDING AREA

Remodeling of the Ferry Building, land clearance _^

and street revision will provide a Water Gate *" I \

the City; a street car and bus terminal; a tourist- 1/

commercial center, with shops, exhibits, recreation ^f

facilities, offices,
fishing trips.

and docks for sight-seeing and

ELIMINATION OF SHORELINE POLLUTION

San Francisco and neighboring cities are polluting
the Bay, creating a health hazard and preventing
full use of shoreline properties. Nearly 46,000,000
gallons of untreated sewage are discharged daily
by this City, spoiling its own beaches and yacht
basins. A complete system of sewage treatment
plants is proposed as a post-war project.

NEW RECREATIONAL FACILITIES

New beaches, shore parks and picnic areas; walks, ^W
bicycle paths, observation points; improved park- | \
ing lots, and more accessible and attractive tourist I /
facilities can be created along the shore. Land is ''V
generally available; a comprehensive plan for its
ultimate development is now provided.

380 ACRES OF NEW RESIDENTIAL LAND

Filling of shallow tideland areas near Candlestick
Point will provide new land for a well-planned resi-
dential district on the Bay. Small homes here would
be within walking distance of the Navy Yard and
other places of employment, and close to the pro-
tected waters and sunny recreation areas on the
Bay Shore.

NEW HARBORS FOR SMALL BOATS

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small sailboats would be located near the

Hunters Point residential areas.

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arina Yacht Harbor would be doubled in k.

y, Aquatic Park developed for boats, and jX

ry Building transformed as a pleasure craft | /

|. Facilities for boat building, rowing, and L^

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BASIC PROPOSALS OF SAN FRANCISCO'S SHORE LINE PLAN

A summary of the City Planning Commission's preliminary report, recently revised,

will be published in this magazine next month.

NOVEMBER, 1943

TO AVOID POST-WAR SLUMP

The U. S. Department of Commerce has re-
cently prepared a handbook for the guidance of
small cities in their post-war planning. It is titled,
"Community Action for Post-War Jobs and
profits." Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones
hopes to get organizations in 2,000 cities set up
by the end of the year.

Although the booklet makes many suggestions
for strengthening business now, its main theme
is post-war planning. It suggests that local Cham-
bers of Commerce and other business organiza-
tions start at once to do some or all of the
following:

• Establish a "work pile plan" by collecting and
cataloging figures on what each local business
firm plans to spend after the war on repair,
modernization, expansion or conversion — and
on their probable post-war personnel needs.

• Contact both local and nearby firms and make
preliminary arrangements to ease and speed
the placement of workers who will need new
jobs.

• Urge companies, through local newspaper and
radio advertising, to build up their capital
reserves by curtailing their present expendi-
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POST-WAR WORK?

by ARNOLD A. WEITZMAN. A.I.A.

In the columns of all architectural and engineering magazines discussions are carried on
about post-war work, in one form or another. A few architectural firms actually have work
on the boards, either by order of some client or on their own initiative and cost. But in
point of volume, if measured on a national scale, this work is insignificantly small. Besides,
these so-called "programs" are general and undefined. We still do not know who will actually
do what, where and how much of it. What instrument and method of financing a national
program? And a national program it must be; or it is not even worth talking about. It is
a very elementary fact that unless these factors have been definitely established we are all
talking generalities and groping in the dark. We are not planning, because the proper steps
have not been taken by national agencies, which must be done before we can do actual
and fruitful work in preparing a "painless" transition from war economy to permanent peace
prosperity for the nation. Until such time we are only toying with a cherished ideal of plan-
ning; planning everything we can think of as architects or engineers.

Planning of course is our very nature, and there is no doubt that co-ordinating and
planning post-war work on a national scale and immediately, is very necessary for the well
being of this nation. It is the only sure and sound method by which to avoid economic
disaster after the war is over. The architect must, out of patriotic and humane impulses,

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lend strong and vehement emphasis to his advice for definite national planning immediately,
because he is the one who can logically prepare and put such a program into operation.
Certainly now, more than ever, it must be made known that the architect is not an abstract
dreamer, contrary to the idea which the general public has, in utter error, formed about
him. If the architect of yore liked the halo of a poetic picturesque artist attached to him,
the architect of today repudiates and resents such an idea about him. hie wants his public
to know him the way he really is; and he is not a mere dreamer, but a scientific, creative
realist with esthetic taste, a master builder. The architect is zealous in his profession and is
always eager to reflect these attributes on the community in which he lives.

This truth about the architect must now diligently be carried to the public. The archi-
tect must now introduce himself, because there is at present a tremendous job to be accom-
plished all over the world which he alone can do, by his training and by his method of
scientific planning; not scheming. There is, however, certain and great danger lest the public
continues to confuse planning with scheming, and by his passive attitude the architect helps
misconception about the real nature of his work to continue.

Scheming Is done by individuals and groups of selfish interest, who take advantage of
opportunities, no matter how calamitous, for furthering their own gains. The public may co-
incidentally and temporarily derive benefits from such schemes; but the main objective of
such enterprise is "self-service"; whereas planning, as the enlightened architects now rec-
ommend, is that the interest of the community shall be of prime importance. Justified profits
will surely result to investors from constructive enterprises; not from gambling. Such selfish
interest that stems from public interest would be of the enlightened kind, and stimulating
permanent and severe economic growth.

The Octagon of May, 1943, appeals very timely for such an attitude when it writes:
"The enlightened selfish interest of groups shall be coordinated and action taken must be
based on the principle, that the well being of the people as a nation will be reflected in
advantage to the various groups." The same article sounds the emphatic warning that "the
time to set about planning for post-war reconstruction is now!"

Events are moving swiftly and we have nothing, actually, planned to meet this acute
situation which we are certain to face at home. There is so much talk about Johnny's coming
home but, excepting a promise that Johnny will have a few months salary after peace or gen-
eral armistice is declared, we fail to hear of any concrete plan how millions of them will
obtain steady employment in order to build on il" their future life! We also hear that Johnny will
get his job back, hlow? At the expense of John, his father, and Bill, his uncle? Is this a
solution to a problem that, if overlooked, it may rob us of all the advantages that we hoped
to gain by winning this war at such enormous sacrifices? Certainly not! Our present economic
structure would prove itself bankrupt and naughty, and it would totter to the ground if we
would have to deprive the millions of men who stayed home of their bread in order to give
it to the demobilized soldiers. Yet such a fruitless and pernicious procedure will have to be
followed if definite planning on an organized national scale is not diligently started immedi-
ately. In such a planning the architect, the engineer, and the economist, supported by an
informed public, must lead; not enlightened, selfish, scheming interests!

We are happy in our firm conviction that our national will and our economic system,
both are sound. Tremendous opportunities are there for development and building, more
than enough to keep this nation economically sound and to maintain a stable prosperity, if the
right man is given the right job. The American people of this time should understand to keep
the schemers out and call on the architect and the engineer for actual planning.

NOVEMBER. 1943 2;

POSSIBLE AFTER-WAR
DANGERS IN CALIFORNIA

Discussing the immediate need of
post-war plans and programs by both
industry and government, the Califor-
nia Housing and Planning Association,
through the medium of its publication,
Agenda, says:

"To expedite immediate post-war
reemployment and to help distribute
and sustain employment will require
programs not only for conversion of
manufacturing industries but also to
aid reemployment in agriculture, min-
ing, trade and services, private con-
struction and public works, and to
sustain public confidence in post-war
recovery. Neither complete economic
planning with regimentation of all pro-
ductive enterprise, nor complete ab-
sence of advance planning by both
private industry and governmental
agencies can be relied upon to bring
about readjustments satisfactory to
the American people.

"One of the dangers facing the Pa-
cific Southwest and tho Nation after
the war will be the widespread desire
to return to a peacetime economy
overnight — a belief that the difficult
problems of readjustment can be
whisked away merely by the sudden
dispersal of all wartime organization
and controls. To apportion equitably
the limited supplies of raw materials
among manufacturers and of goods
among consumers, to shift war workers
from armament plants, aircraft fac-
tories, and shipyards and retrain them
gradually for new jobs as peacetime
activities are resumed; and to prevent
prices from soaring as they did in

1920, with subsequent collapse as in

1921, it will be necessary to relax
controls judicially. The timing of de-
cisions to abandon war production in
this or that plant, to muster out this
or that group of soldiers, to remove
priorities on certain raw materials and
finished goods will be all-important.

"Another danger facing the Region
and the Nation would be the refusal
to accept new opportunities and to
attempt to return to a more primitive
economy. If the war is prolonged to
the point of economic and psychologi-
cal exhaustion, there may arise a cry
of 'back to the land — a farm and sub-

THE POST-WAR
PROBLEM

EMPLOYMENT

The country is faced with the emergency problem of employ-,
merit during the post-v^^ar period for: (a) men in uniform at the
war's end, (b) government employees in excess of peace-time '
requirements, (c) employees of government-owned and privately-
operated plants producing war material, (d) employees of privately-
owned plants now producing war material, that can be reconverted
to peace-time production (anticipating that during reconversion
there may be an extended period of unemployment). To meet
these emergency needs for post-war employment and to build
more permanently for the general welfare, there are many possible
solutions, among which are the following:

1) Encourage the development of private enterprise by every
means consistent with the general good, including review of con-
trols and fiscal policies applied as war-time measures.

2) Encourage all units of industry, large and small, to plan now ■
for their type and scope of operation after the war. Many pro-'
ducers of war goods will return to their former production for
civilian needs; others must convert to new lines and new products.
Upon the thoroughness of industrial planning now, post-war em-
ployment and productivity will depend, especially in view of the i
prodigious character of post-war expansion required to equal war
production.

3) Encourage the complete readiness for use, by private enter-
prise and by all levels of government, of a true "shelf" of post-war
construction projects for which there are authorizations, surveys,
plans and specifications, with financing provided:

(a) Let there be special provision for a repair, maintenance, replacement and
new work program that emphasizes jobs long deferred by war, and that can
be set in motion with the least loss of time at war's end, to tide over employ- '
ment for the oerlod in which large projects are gotten under way. By thorough I
advance planning provide work in reference to public need, avoiding "made"
work that might otherwise be hastily improvised and uneconomically executed
without attaining maximum public service.

(b) Let long range construction planning for continuing programs and large '
projects be with reference to public need and employment and be reconciled ■
with construction potentialities, the national economy In general, and the i
wartime backlog of demand for many consumer goods. Consider the overall I
construction program with a view to maximum employment consistent with I
construction needs and a balanced economy. With an assumed national income ■
of $1 10 billion, $14 billion might be spent for construction, of which four or
five billion might be for public works. If construction, other than that for war,
continues at war's end at $1.5 billion, large possibilities for employment will
depend upon the acceleration of the construction program. If this program
attains an annual acceleration of $3.8 billion (the war-time peak) an annual '
construction total of $14 billion would be attained only by the fourth year.
In this is further emphasis of the need that a so-called "shelf" of construction '
projects consist not in projects merely "proposed" but in those advanced to
the point of getting under way at once when men return from the military and
industrial war-fronts. Assuming that $5,000 for construction hires one man

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Dti-site and 1.5 men off-site in shops, mines, transportation, and so forth, for
one year, $14 billion would employ 2.8 million men on-site and 4.2 million
Dff-site, 7 million in all of which 2.5 million might be on public works. Although
lot eliminating unemployment, such a program would be a substantial contrl-
sution from the construction industry toward that end.*

4) Consider employment possibilities In dismantling surplus mlli-
[■ary Installations.

5) Plan and schedule demobilization of the armed forces so far
Jas practicable, to return men to civil pursuits as and where employ-
iment becomes available — some regions being ready sooner than
[others, some skills more in demand than others. Such scheduled
|demobilizatIon might be made feasible by a reversal of the war
■framing program, refitting men in uniform for return to peace-
time occupations. The great military training stations and the
Jesfabllshed educational institutions, both of which play such im-
portant parts in special training for war, might be used for post-
war courses in the manual arts, academic subjects, languages,
history and so forth, including political economy and the duties
and responsibilities of citizens — often less well understood and
practiced than the citizen's civil rights.

6) Consider universal military service first for national safety
and also in reference to employment problems. One year of such
service for boys will not solve the problem of unemployment but
will remove some employment competition.

7) Study opportunities for greater coordination of agriculture
with industrial and chemical uses of farm products.

8) Apply a lesson of this war in measures to maintain adequate
stockpiles of selected raw materials.

9) Seek a solution of continuing problems of social security as
related to unemployment and old age benefits.

1 0) Continue the study of conservation measures for agricultural
and forest lands.

I 1) Encourage the preparation of master plans for cities, and
for metropolitan and regional areas by which a more logical ar-
rangement of their development may be laid down, including pro-
visions for adequate housing, streets, parks, facilities, playgrounds,
and means of transportation and for the elimination of slums and
blighted areas.

12) Effect international agreements for the elimination of finan-
cial and legal obstructions to trade between nations.

13) Encourage that expansion of private enterprise necessary
for full employment by measures to make the natural resources of
the country more easily available. Give thorough study to the best
plans not only for conserving natural resources but for their utiliza-
tion for the public good.

14) Consider the revision of laws and regulations for the greater
freedom of commerce between states of the United States, includ-
ing the most efficient use of all transportation facilities.

UNEMPLOYMENT SITUATION
MAY BE SERIOUS

sistence for every family!' Such a
movement would defeat efforts to
conserve and develop natural re-
sources on a selective basis. In some
sections the war is removing workers
from land that might better never
have been put under cultivation,
thereby alleviating farm problems. In
others the war-induced migration has
drained workers from land which could
provide them a good living after the
war. Post-war programs for agricul-
ture should seek to point out oppor-
tunities in these areas of proved fer-
tility and to prevent recurrence of
pre-war problems in poorer farming
districts.

"This word of caution against indis-
criminate farm settlement does not
mean that no new agricultural land
should be developed in the Pacific
Southwest. It does mean, however,
that future land reclamation projects
should be thoroughly studied before
their authorization, to determine
whether there will be prospective mar-
kets for the crops to be grown,
whether the settlers can probably
make a satisfactory living on the land,
and whether more crop land in the
area Is actually needed. Population
growth in the Region alone may jus-
lify some Increase in the farm acreage.

"Because of California's huge nu-
merical increase in population and la-
bor force, the great bulk of unem-
ployed In the Pacific Southwest under
both favorable and adverse condi-
tions will be in this State. Under ad-
verse conditions, more than a million
persons might be unemployed in Cali-
fornia during the transition period.
But under favorable conditions (which
might be achieved through coopera-
tive planning and timing of post-war
redevelopment), total unemployment
might be about half this figure, or
only one-fourth larger than in April,
1940, and the ratio of unemployed to
total population would be about the
same as that date. fHowever, the un-
employed will be more largely con-
centrated in the major industrial areas
of Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay,
and San Diego than were the State's
unemployed in 1940."

NOVEMBER, 1943

REGIONAL CONFERENCE
HELD AT LOS ANGELES

New problems that enlarging forces
of the Pacific war are bringing to the
West Coast and their carryover into
the post-war period, were discussed
by speakers at the semi-annual board
of governors' dinner and regional con-
ference of the California hlousing and
Planning Association at the New Ross-
lyn Hotel in Los Angeles, October 29.

Robert W. Kenny, state attorney
general and president of the C.H.
P. A., one of the principal speakers,
pointed out that California's war in-
dustries have brought 650,000 persons
into the state in the past three years.
A little more than half of them live
in newly constructed dwellings, mostly
In public housing projects. The rest
found places for themselves in exist-
ing dwellings, converted buildings and
trailers.

"This migration has occupied prac-
tically all the available housing," Ken-
ny declared, "and government agen-
cies estimate that 1944 will bring an
additional quarter of a million people
into the state, hlow to provide living
facilities, housing, food, schooling and
health protection for those who are
coming is the biggest question In Cali-
fornia today. As the Pacific offensive
speeds up, war production must keep
pace and the matter of providing ade-
quate manpower and keeping It on
the job Is of paramount importance."

Langdon W. Post, regional director
of the Federal Public Housing Au-
thority, San Francisco, and E. S. Mc-
Klttrick, building vice-president of the
Associated Contractors of Southern
California, talked on housing and
planning from the respective view-
points of public administration and
private construction.

Dr. Harry Girvetz, Santa Barbara
State College, discussed the political
aspect of State and Federal social
programs in the Immediate post-war
period.

Other speakers included Gordon
Whitnall, member, board of gover-
nors, Los Angeles Town Hall; Charles
B. Bennett, Los Angeles City Planning
director; Maurice Saeta, vice-chair-
man, Los Angeles City Housing Au-
thority; Walter E. Packard, Central

Valley Research Committee; C. J.
Haggerty, State president, A. F. of
L., and Oscar Fuss, legislative repre-
sentative, C. I. O.

REPLACES CALIFORNIA
PLANNING BOARD

The California Reconstruction and
Re-employment Commission, which
replaces the State Planning Board,
abolished, has been functioning less
than two months with gratifying suc-
cess. The new agency has broad pow-
ers "to prevent unemployment, con-
serve and develop the natural, social
and economic resources of the State,
promote development of new Indus-
tries, create new markets, promote
the re-employment of discharged
service men and readjustment of dis-
placed war workers, and the conver-
sion of industry and commerce from
a war to peace standards, to provide
for post-war readjustment and recon-
struction, and to encourage economic
and social Improvement of the general
public."

The bill creating the commission
also includes specific instructions to
plan and promote Improvement and
expansion of highways and freeway
systems, and the reconstruction and
expansion of State buildings, hospitals,
and institutions.

Charles H. Purcell, Director of Pub-
lic Works, is chairman of the Com-
mission with Finance Director J. F.
Hassler serving as vice-chairman.
Other members of the Commission
are the directors of the departments
of natural resources, agriculture. In-
dustrial relations, and professional and
vocational standards, the president of
the University of California, the su-
perintendent of public Instruction, and
the executive secretary of the Gover-
nor.

Each member of the Commission
will act as chairman of a citizen ad-
visory committee of five experts to
be nominated by him for appointment
by Governor Warren.

V. B. Stanbery, formerly regional
counselor in the Berkeley field office
of the National Resources Planning
Board, has been employed as chief
of the Commission's technical staff.

CALIFORNIA STATEWIDE
POST-WAR EMPLOYMENT

The California State Chamber of
Commerce has appointed a statewide
Committee on Post-War Economics
to stimulate and assist private Indus- ,
tries in California in making long,
range plans for maximum employment
and production in the post-war period.

Chairman of the committee is Asa i
V. Call, president of the Pacific Mu-
tual Life Insurance Co., Los Angeles.
Serving with him are 22 leaders in
shipbuilding, aircraft, transportation,
finance, agriculture, oil, retail trade,
sleel, and utilities.

A sub-committee has been appoint-
ed to draft proposals of public policy
favorable to expansion. Investment of
venture capital, and maximum produc-
tion and employment by private en-
terprise in the post-war period.

WORK PILE PLAN HAS GOOD
START IN SAN FRANCISCO

Returns from the San FrancI .
"work pile plan" are highly gratifying.
Eighteen Industrial groups and 388 In-
dividual companies have indicated a
post-war expenditure of more than
$64,000,000.

The city's ten leading banks expect
lo spend more than $2,000,000, start-
ing as soon as possible after the war
ends. Individual predictions range
from a few thousand dollars to the
American Trust Company's $1,000,-
000. The money will go variously for
new construction, new equipment, re-
pairs and remodeling.

The Municipal Railways are laying
aside more than $1,600,000 for new
tolling stock, new construction and re-
placement of rails. Hotels, as reported
by the Hotel Employers' Association,
plan to spend more than $1 16,000 for
repairs, a similar amount for new fix-
lures. Chain stores, automobile deal-
ers, oil companies and various other
groups indicate that although their
estimates are not yet complete the
total amount will run into the millions.
Figures for job openings indicate
that nearly every group reporting ex-
pects to have room for many ex-serv-
ice men and war workers.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

'S CLUES FOR m]m FLUSH MLVES

While no one can lay down any very definite blue-
jjiints for the plumbing that will he found in postwar
luildings, some valuable clues as to trends can be discovered
k buildings completed within the last year or two.
Take hospitals, for example. Several outstanding institu-
iins have been put into service during this period. The
ellerson Hospital at Birmingham — already recognized as
of the South's finest — is one of these.
Every piece of equipment that went into the Jefferson
{[ospital was selected with careful forethought to the com-
prt and well-being of the patients to be served. Noise re-
liUction, for example, has been aided by the selection of
i^atrous Silent-Action Flush Valves.
In this detail there is a definite clue on postwar trends
. . the flush valves to be installed in most buildings of
amorrow will be smoothly functioning water control in-
;lruments which operate silently — without any of the tell-
ale noise that once was associated with flush valves.

In fact, if we are to judge by the Jefferson Hospital's
election of Watrous Silent-Action Flush Valves, more and
acre careful attention will be given to —

(a) the degree of noise elimination provided by a
flush valve — and the PERMANENCY of the
noise elimination.
(bl the ability of the valve to be adjusted for

maximum water savings,
(c) the valve's simplicity and economy of main-
tenance.
Plans for Watrous Flush Valves for the buildings of
omorrow are already under way. You may be sure these
falves will match fully the many other developments in
luilding construction which are to come.

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1237 West Harrison Street, Chicago 7, Illinois

The Jefferson Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama

Charles M. McCauley, Architect

The Pate Co., Plumbing Contractors

• There are liio of thp<i' ulililv romii^ an i-nfh
floor with service sinks equipped uith U titrous
Silent-Action Flush I alves. tf atrous Silent-Action
Flush t nitres are also installed on fixtures in all
bathrooms and washrooms.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
CHAPTER MEETING
FOR OCTOBER

CONCRETE, WOOD, PLASTICS

One hundred and six members, associates and guests
attended the October meeting of Southern California
Chapter at the Hotel Clark, Los Angeles.

James Byers, president of the Structural Engineers
Association of Southern California, was called upon
to tell of advancements, if any, made in reinforced
concrete construction, in recent months.

"No vast changes have occurred in reinforced con-
crete construction, but, evolutionary processes have
been accelerated by the war," according to Samuel
Hobbs of the Portland Cement Association. "New
techniques in design practice have been speeded up,
others have been shelved for the duration."

Excessive cracks in tank construction have been
avoided by ring tension produced prior to load by the
Hewitt Process. Pre-stressed concrete piles of great
density within a few hours have been produced by
the use of steam and special cement at Fresone, France.

The fusion of cement and aggregates around rein-
forcing steel by electrical heating and then cooling
after initial hardening of concrete is another innova-
tion, described by Mr. Hobbs.

Asserting that wood is the strongest building ma-
terial in comparison with its weight, Charles Mack-
intosh berated architects and engineers for wasting
wood. Selected pieces having a low moisture con-
tent possess amazing strength — comparable to work-
ing values for steel, the speaker said. In a blackboard
talk Mr. Mackintosh pointed out that eccentric loading
on one face only of a wood diagonal member of a
truss reduced its strength 75 per cent.

The new flying box-cars with a wing spread equal
to the length of a football field are of plywood, as
are also a number of the recent fighter plane types.

Mr. Delmonte gave an expert's review of plastics
made from wood (lignin), asphalt, soybeans, corn, milk,
and of the thermo, nylon and silicon plastics. Tensile
strengths up to 100,000 pounds per square inch, it was
said, have been achieved in certain plastics. Their
architectural uses will be largely as moisture barriers
for wood, canvas, paper and other materials and as
extruded or cast moldings and in many places where
metal or wood have heretofore been employed. (See
article on "Plastics for the Architect" in Architect and
Engineer for October.)

The following excellent board of officers has been
nominated to represent the Southern Chapter in 1944:

For president — Herbert J. Powell.

For vice-president — Chas. O. Matcham.

For secretary — Paul R. Hunter.

For treasurer — Robert V. Derrah.

For director (I year) — Theo. Criley, Jr.

For director (3 years) — Welton D. Becket.

S. F. STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS

Members of the Structural Engineers Association of
Northern California resumed their meetings at the
Engineers Club, San Francisco, November 2. Preceded
by dinner, the gathering was addressed by Harry E.
Kennedy on "Welding Techniques and Welding Prob-
lems." Mr. Kennedy is the inventor of what is now
called the unionmelt process and his talk embraced
personal experiences in connection with the develop-
ment of welding techniques and applications. Mr.
Kennedy is an inventor of enviable reputation as well

as an engineer who delights in "trouble-shooting."

* * *

Ellison and King announce the removal of their offices
to 500 Sansome Street, Suite 715, San Francisco II,
telephone EXbrook 6698. William Ellison says the Bar-
rett & Hilp concrete barges are progressing nicely,
with eight in the water to date.

The following members of the Structural Engineers
Association of San Francisco attended the convention
of the P.C.B. Officials Conference in San Francisco
October 5 and 6: E. S. Banta, R. D. Dalton, T. P.
Dresser, M. S. Farwell, F. F. Hall, A. C. Horner, John
Little, A. E. Lilly, C. A. Lindgren, J. E. Mackie, W. T.
Norris, W, H. Popert, M. C. Poulsen, C. E. Seage,
J. B. Wells, C. A. Whitton, D. C. Willett, also Martin
Falk, and proposed member R. D. Rader.

John J. Gould has been rendering service on timber

structures for a large company in Tacoma, Wash.,

requiring frequent trips north.

* * *

Kaj Theill recently completed the design of two jobs
for the U. S. Navy, one in Berkeley and the other in
Pittsburgh, which have since been completely con-
structed.

Theo. P. Dresser, S. S. Gorman, and Franklin P.
Ulrich have been nominated for the office of vice-
president of the San Francisco Section, American So-
ciety of Civil Engineers, to be voted on at the Decem-
ber meeting.

PERSONAL MENTION

E. B. McClure has become associated with the Soule
Steel Company, and for the present he will be located
at the company's home office in San Francisco. Soule
Co. also maintains offices in Los Angeles and Portland.

Charles S. Strothoff, architect and engineer, has
been named executive director of the Richmond Hous-
ing Authority to succeed Harry Barbour, resigned.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

THE STATE ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTS

Northern Section

\ddress all communications for publication
n this department to W. C. Ambrose, 369
'ine Street, San Francisco.

OHice of Northern Section

STATE ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA

ARCHITECTS

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«ce-Pres Norman K. Blanchard, San Francisco

iecretary Hervey Parke Clark. San Francisco

treasurer George E. Gable, Los Angeles

Souttiern Section Officers

President Walter R. Hagedohm, Los Angeles

/ice- President E, Allan Sheet, Los Angeles

Secretary Rowland H. Crawford, Beverly Hills

Treasurer George E. Gable, Los Angeles

Northern Section Officers and Directors

K. Bli

chard, Sa

President

President .Russell G. deLappe, San Francisco

Secretary Hervey Parke Clark, San Francisco

Treasurer David H. Horn, Berkeley

Directors: John S. Bolles, Ross; Andrew T. Hass,

San Francisco; H. H. Gutterson, Berkeley;

Vincent G. Raney, San Francisco; Frederick H.

Reimers, San Francisco; Ivlalcolm D. Reynolds,

Oakland; J. Francis Ward, San Francisco, and

Alfred C. Williams, San Francisco.

Northern Section Advisory Council

San Francisco District No. I, J. Francis Ward;
East Bay District No. 2 Irwin M. Johnson;
Berkeley District No. 3, John K. Ballantine, Jr.;
North Bay District No. 3, C. A. Caulkins; Marin
District No. 5, John S. Bolles; Lower San Joa-
quin District No. 6, Frank V. Mayo; Upper San
Joaquin District No. 7, Philip 5. Buckingham;
Santa Clara District No. 8, Ralph Wyckoff;
Palo Alto District No. 9, Elizabeth Boyter; San
Mateo District No. 10, Leo J. Sharps; Sacra-
menro District No. II, Harry J. Devine; Upper
Sacramento District No. 12, Fred J. deLong-
champs; Lassen District No. 13, Ralph D. Taylor;
Monterey District No. 14. Charles E. Butner,
and Redwood Empire District No. 15, Franklin
T. Georgeson.

Northern Section Standing Committees

i Legislative Committee Vincent G. Raney

1 Public Relations Committee J. Francis Ward

I Building Industry Committee Hervey Parke Clark

j Convention Program Committee Edgar Bissantz

Post-War Reconstruction Com J. Francis Ward

Membership Committee John 5. Bolles

I Building Industry Directory Russell G. deLappe

I Policy Committee Russell G. deLappe

NOVEMBER, 1943

SIXTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION

Election of 1944 officers at the convention of the State Association of
California Architects, held in Los Angeles on October 14, 15 and 16, 1943,
resulted as follows:

President — John S. Bolles, Northern Section (see page 8)

Vice-President — Robert hi. Orr, Southern Section

Second Vice-Presidents — Russell G. de Lappe and Vincent Palmer

Secretary — Adrian Wilson, Southern Section

Assistant Secretary — Malcolm D. Reynolds, Northern Section

Treasurer — Ralph Wyckoff, Northern Section

Assistant Treasurer — George E. Gable, Southern Section

By the time this magazine reaches the mailing
room the lights will have been on all over the
United States for some time. Of course we

The Lights Are On

know the war Is not yet over, but there are undoubtedly many plans being
made now to slam the bureau door (this is not a mis-print) when the war
does end and to set up shop again as private practitioners in the noble art
of architecture.

Lest we forget, it might be well to highly resolve that this time, when
we have an office, we are going to charge fees for our work sufficiently large
so that when the first slackening of work comes along, as It inevitably will,
we won't have to dig into that savings deposit that the Government and
our patriotism has made us set aside from war-time earnings. The temptation
of a new fur coat for the missus may be strong In our heart when we get
a check for two months work which is as large as any three months' pay
even In the inflated war wages. But, In the words of the song, "Sailor, beware!"

For there is a rack ahead in the course of every architect steering a
path in private business. It Is slightly submerged at the highest tides in
our fortunes, and it causes the foundering of many a practice. Someone
had another simile or metaphor in mind when he named It "Overhead," and
maybe that name is more descriptive, for It hangs over the door of every
office and the link by which It Is suspended Is very fusible.

So, remember these facts when you start to count up expenses and stop
counting after rent, telephone, office supplies and petty cash.

If you have worked at full speed for ten of the twelve months of a year
and have worked on the books and done mostly filing for the other two
months, you have made 16 2/3 per cent less profit on the job than your
books showed when you finished that job.

If you do not have any more to show for your labor at the end of the year
than when you were working for some one else, you have been assuming the
risks of an employer and getting paid at the rate of an employee. You don't
begin to make a profit on a job until after you have paid a wage to everyone
who has worked on the job, including yourself. A holiday for an employee is
a holiday. For an employer, even though the employer is hiring only himself,
a holiday Is an Item of overhead — the expenses go on; but the benefits from
the holiday do not pay any grocery bills.

Two weeks off for the draftsman means four per cent
more cost than the books show against every job upon
which he has worked during the year.

"Kid stuff!" is the reaction of many men when these
items and a dozen other items of "overhead" which
anyone can think up with a little effort are called to
their attention. But the cycle of job — office of own —
office in house — and job again goes on time after
time. Part of the cycle is inevitable. But much of it
might be cured by replacing a degree of optimism
and realism, by knowing your costs and charging ac-
cordingly.

Remember that if you are not getting about twice
as much for a job as the amount of the drafting costs,
including your own time, you haven't begun to make
any profit, and you may be on your way out of busi-
ness.

Our face is red, and our apologies

10 JO r a

I Errata I ^re humble. Somewhere in this Edi-

o» *• tor's office a line was skipped last

month in joining the office to the office-holder, with the
result that in the list of Northern Section officers
elected at the Pre-Convention Meeting in San Fran-
cisco, the Secretary was listed as Vice-President and
the Vice-President was omitted entirely. The list of
officers and directors for the Northern Section should
read:

President, John S. Bolles; Vice-President, Russell G.
de Lappe; Secretary, Malcolm D. Reynolds; Treasurer,
Ralph Wyckoff. Board of Directors — Norman K. Blan-
chard, for 2 years; Philip S. Buckingham, for 2 years;
Henry H. Gutterson, Regional Director, A. I. A.; An-
drew T. hiass. No. Calif. Chapter, A. I. A.; Vincent G.
Raney, I more year; Frederick H. Reimers, State Board
Architectural Examiners; Peter L. Sala, Central Valleys
Chapter, A. I. A.; Alfred C. Williams, I more year.
,_ ,. Of interest to all architects in

I Quo Vadis I California, and particularly to ar-
°* ' -• chitects in the San Francisco Bay

Area, were the facts recited by Mr. R. M. Dorton,
Area Representative of the Executive Office of the
President on the Committee for Congested Production
Areas, before the Building Industry Conference Board
in San Francisco on October 13, 1943.

Mr. Dorton seemed hardly at all handicapped by
his lengthy title. He stated that, on the basis of ration
board records, the growth in population in Bay Area
communities in the period 1940-1943 was approxi-
mately as follows:

West Bay Area (San Francisco) 9.5%

East Bay Area 22.57o

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the whole United States had been centered in Cali-
fornia, with 85,000 "title 6" units and 100,000 war-
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nine months. Of this number from 84,000 to 100,000
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Producers' Council Page

Norfhern CalHornia Chapter

The NaHonal Organization of Manufacturers of Qualify Building Materials and Equipment
Affiliated with the AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHTECTS

When the Bohemian Club mous market survey made in this area, the Seal chalked
yells — "Slide, Wayland, up a 70 per cent acceptance by Bay Area Architects

CLARKE E. WAYLAND
. . slide trombonist

'^^>i''^^B^L of his trombone with the

^^M^^^^^^^ Club band. Those who
^^^^H A ^^^^H know report that Clarke
^B^^^B^ ^^^^^M can rip a rhapsody apart
with the same skill he dis-
played when he functioned
as President of the Northern California Chapter, back
in '35.

Born in San Francisco, he studied mechanical engineer-
ing at U. C, graduated in 1917. His next four years
were spent with the Chas. C. Moore Co., San Fran-
cisco engineers, and with the Babcock and Wilcox
Company in the design, construction and testing of
steam electrical power plans.

From 1920 to '30, Clarke helped Johns-Manville Sales
Corporation in San Francisco to prosper. In 1930,
Clarke branched out on his own, taking on the Johns-
Manville franchise for the sale and installation of
Sound Control Materials, Corrugated Translte Mate-
rials, plus the distribution of Industrial Power Products.
In 1934, the Wayland Co. merged with Western

S L-l-D-E!" . . . Clarke E. and Engineers, when it was used in advertising. If
Wayland, isn't heading for member companies need definite assurance to get
home with bases loaded — them off the dime on the matter of using the Seal,
he's siphoning a sonata out here it is. Certain It Is that our advertising depart-
ments don't have to work with tongue in cheek when
it comes to talking about the merit of our products
. . . and the Council Seal can serve a very definite
purpose in developing the quality Idea. Don't forget
what we call ourselves. "The organization of manu-
facturers of quality building materials and equipment.
Affiliated with the American Institute of Architects."

It's nice to know, for sure, that when the Architect or
Engineer gets ready to make a buying decision, the
number one factor that helps him decide Is his con-
fidence in the salesman. Also high in the buyer's esti-
mation is the reputation of the manufacturer and the
quality of his products.

Good Idea Dept. — Use the Council Seal on business
cards and correspondence. Here's a fine opportunity
to increase prestige of individual companies.

Ballyhoo Banned. A recent letter from Theodore I.
Coe, Technical Secretary to the A. I. A., provides the
best picture possible of the unique relationship between

Asbestos Magnesia Co., to form the Western Asbestos ^^^ Architect-Engineer and the Producers' Council

Co. As Vice-President, Clarke has kept his organiza-
tion In the active column in Chapter affairs. Early
years of the Producers' Council Club of Northern Cali-
fornia saw Clarke serving not only as President (they
called 'em Governors then) but also as Secretary and
Vice-President. Clarke's interests and activities in the
construction industry are many, and he has gained
fame far and wide as a gentleman farmer and apple
grower de luxe.

Xmas Jinks Rationed! Attendance this year Is limited
to 180. So run, do not walk, to the nearest phone and
dial Sutter 4211, and fix up your reservation with
Harry Lemos right now! Don't forget, the Jinks Is the
highspot of the year's activities — and It comes early
this year — December I. TIME: Cocktails at 6:30 p.m.
PLACE: The Engineers Club of San Francisco. TICK-
ETS: $4.00. What's holdin' you back?

Seal Scores in Survey. We're talking about the Pro-
ducers' Council Seal, of course. In a recent anony-

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Member. Coe sees them as associates, rather than
customer and salesman. Mr. Coe says: "We like to
feel that the objectives of the affiliation, 'A closer
and more professional relationship between architects
and the producers of material, and their use,' have
made a substantial contribution to the better under-
standing which has developed during the period of
the affiliation between architects and the producers
of the products they need and specify. We like to
feel that these objectives have played a part in creating
an appreciation of the fact that the architect needs
factual, technical information concisely presented and
not the ballyhoo of sllvery-tongued spielers.' Certain
it is that responsible producers are now represented
by those qualified to explain and demonstrate the
technical characteristics of the products In which the
architect Is interested."

An obligation is implied too, of course. Let not any
one of us let the rest of us down.
(Turn to next page)

CONSULT AN ARCHITECT

PRODUCERS' COUNCIL (continued)
"Or Equal" slapped again. Architects in convention in
Los Angeles last month passed a resolution recom-
mending an improved bidding procedure, eliminating
the use of the "Or Equal" clause.
Modular Planning Boosted. Last month your Chapter
sponsored a meeting of local structural clay products
manufacturers to hear Harry C. Plummer, Director of
Engineering and Research for the Structural Clay Prod-
ucts Institute. The Modular Planning project was fa-
vorably accepted by all present. Particularly enthusi-
astic were the masonry contractors, who foresaw 25
per cent savings resulting from modular masonry units.
Modular Post-War Planning was the outgrowth of a
further session by manufacturers of glazed wall units,
called by Ray Brown (Gladding, McBean), Chairman of
our Technical sub-Committee under the Post-War
Planning Committee. Modular sizes were adopted by
the industry and the following manufacturers: Kraftlle,
Gladding, McBean and N. Clark & Sons pledged them-
selves to have modular products available for post-war
construction.

"THE MEANEST THIEF"

Twelve million checks a month are being mailed by
the United States Treasury Department. They are go-
ing principally to dependents of men in the armed
forces — to the wives and mothers of men who are
giving their all in the barren wastes of the Arctic, in
the far reaches of the Pacific, in the unbearable heat
of the desert — that American ideals may not perish
from the earth.

"That anyone would stoop to the level of pilfering
these checks from private mailboxes is well nigh unbe-
lievable, yet true," the Treasury says.

Because of the hardships occasioned by such thievery,
and due to the necessary investigation and routine of
issuing a duplicate check, the United States Secret
Service has requested that everyone join in a nation-
wide campaign of education designed to protect
payees and merchants against this meanest of all
thieves.

When cashing checks for others, the Secret Service
suggests these four points:

1. Know your endorsers.

2. Before cashing a Government check for a stranger,
ask yourself this question — "If the bank returns this
check as a forgery, can I find the forger and recover
my loss?"

3. Have all checks initialed by the employee who
cashes them.

4. Insist upon having all checks endorsed In your
presence.

If an allotment or allowance check is received from
the Government, the Secret Service urges that these
simple suggestions be followed:

I. Never endorse a check until you are actually In
the presence of the person who will cash it.

2. Be sure your mailbox is locked.

3. Whenever possible, arrange with your mall car-
rier to deliver all checks in person rather than to the
box.

4. See that your name is printed plainly on your
mailbox.

5. If you change your address notify the postal
fiuthorltles immediately.

6. Cash your checks in the same place each month.

7. Cash your checks yourself. Don't send small chil-
dren to the store with It. Such a practice encourages
juvenile delinquency and already one Federal Judge
has sentenced a merchant for cashing a Government
check for a child, obviously not the payee.

NEW USES FOR GLASS

In modernizing kitchens today, builders are finding
It possible to use Carrara glass as splashers behind
kitchen stoves. The glass, cut to size, may be attached
to the wall either by means of rosettes or by means
of mastic. It Is Impervious to grease, grime and dirt,
and does not absorb odors.

Such a panel also may be used behind the lavatory
In the bathroom, where it is colorful, attractive and
smart, as well as useful In protecting the wall from
splashings and discoloration.

The glass Is easily cleaned with a damp cloth.

CIVIL ENGINEERS— S. F. SECTION NOTES

Wm. J. O'Connell, Jr., technical consultant of San
Francisco, graduate of the University of California In
1925, was principal speaker at the bi-monthly meeting
of San Francisco Section, American Society of Civil
Engineers, Tuesday evening, October 19. His subject
was "Wastes from California Industries — Pollution

Loadings and Treatments."

* * *

Henry D. Dewell is completing his work as editor
of the "Timber Test Reports of the Structural Members
Used In Treasure Island Exposition" under sponsorship

of the San Francisco Section, A.S.C.E.

* * *

The following have been reported as serving their
country, as Indicated:

Ensign Donald R. Brown, U.S.N.
Sgt. Stephen D. Crow, U.S.A.
Lt. Morgan E. Stewart, U.S.A.

XMAS SEAL SALE

With the mail delivery of November 22, tuberculosis
associations throughout the United States will inaug-
urate the thirty-seventh annual Christmas Seal sale.

The design showing a child watching Santa Claus
is a cheerful reminder that Christmas will soon arrive.
The double-barred cross, appearing in the lower left-
hand corner is also a reminder — that tuberculosis is
still a dangerous enemy which must be brought under
control.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

Estimator's Guide

Giving Cost of Building Materials, Wage Scale, Etc.

Amounts given are figuring prices and are made up from average quotations furnished by material
houses to San Francisco contractors. 3% Sales Tax on all materials but not labor.

Bond — I'/zVo amount of contract.
Government work %%.

■rlekwork —

Common, $43 to $45 per 1000 laid, (ac-
cording to class of work).

Face, $125 to $150 per 1000 laid, (accord-
ing to class of work).

Brick Steps, using pressed brick, $1.50 lin.
ft.

Brick Veneer on frame buildings, $1.10 sq.
ft.

Common f.o.b. cars, $16.00 a yard. Cart-
age extra. $2.50 per 1000.

Face, f.o.b. cars, $55.00 to $80.00 per
1000, carload lots.

Building Paper —

1 ply per 1000 ft. roll

2 ply per 1000 ft. roll

3 ply per 1000 ft. roll

Brownskin, Standard, 500 ft. roll..

Sisalkraft, 500 ft.

) Sash cord com. No. 7

Sash cord com. No. 8

Sa«h cord spot No. 7

Sash cord spot No. 8 —

'i Saih weights, cast iron, $50.00 ton.

1 Nails, t3.50 bate.

j Sash weights, $45.00 per ton.

.-.$3.50
_ 5.00
_ 4.25
_.. 5.00
__ 5.00

.$1.20 per 1 00 ft.

. 1.50 per 100 ft.

. 1.90 per lOOft.
2.25 per 100 ft.

Concrete Aggregates —

GRAVEL (all sizes) $1.75 per ton at bunker; de-
livered, $2.50. All quotations less 10% to con-
tractors.

SAND-

River san

Lapis (Nos. 2 & 4)..

Bunker Delivered

...._ $1.90 $2.50

_ 1.90 2.45

1.90 2.50

Crushed rock! % to I1/2 1.90 2.50

Roofing gravel 2.25 2.80

River sand 2.25 2.70

Top sand

Concrete ......

Crushed rock. 'A to %,

rr„fi,aA ^^^i. 3/. »» 11/

Bunker
....$2.25

Delivered
$2.70
2.85 3.15
2.85 3.10
84c per sack

Common cement (all brands, paper sacks) car-
load lots $2.42 per bbl. f.o.b. car; delivered
$2.60.

Atlas

Calave

Med

s White ( I to 100 sacks, $2.70 sacl

iveras White ■} warehouse or delivery; $7.(

use White ( bbl. carload lots.

Forms, Labors average $40.00 per M.

Average cost of concrete in place, exclu-
sive of forms, 35c per cu. ft.;
with forms, 60c.

4-inch concrete basement floor

I2I/2C to 14c per sq. ft.

Rat-proofing 7'/2C

Concrete Steps $1.25 per lin. ft.

Dampproofing and Waterproofing —

Two-coat work, 20c to 30c per yard.

Membrane waterproofing — 4 layers of sat-
urated felt, $4.50 per square.

Hot coating work, $2.00 per square.

Medusa Waterproofing, 15c per lb., San
Francisco Warehouse.

Tricocel waterproofing.

(See representative.)

Electric Wiring— $12.00 to $15.00 per outlet
for conduit work (including switches).
Knob and tube average $3.00 per outlet.
(Available only for priority work.)

Elevators —

Excavation —

Sand, 60 cents; clay or shale $1 per yard.

Teams, $12.00 per day.

Trucks, $22 to $27.50 per day.

Above figures are an average without
water. Steam shovel work in large quan-
tities, less; hard material, such as rock,
will run considerably more.

Fire Escapes —

Ten-foot galvanized iron balcony, with
stairs, $150 installed on new buildings;
$160 on old buildings.

Floors —

Composition Floors — 22c to 40c per sq. ft.
In large quantities, 18c per sq. ft. laid.
Mosaic Floors — 80c per sq. ft.
Duraflex Floor — 23c to 30c sq. ft.
Rubber Tile — 50c to 75c per sq. ft.
Terazzo Floors — 45c to 60c per sq. ft.
Terano Steps — $1.60 lin. ft.

Hardwood Flooring (delivered to building) —
Hx2iA' y,x2- Ax2'
T&G TiS Sq.Ed.

CIr. Otd. Oak $144,00 M $122.00 M $141 .00 M

Sel. Qtd. Oak II8.00M lOI.OOM II4.00M

CIr. Pla. Oak 120.00 M 102.00 M 1 15.00 M

Sel. Pla. Oak 113.00 M 92.00 M 107.00 M

CIr. Maple 125.00 M 113.00 M

Wage— Floor layers, $12.00.

Note — Above quotations are all board measure

except last column which is sq. ft.

Glass (consult with manufacturers) —

Double strength window glass, 20c per
square foot.

Plate 80c per square foot (unglazed) in
place, $1.00.

Art, $1.00 up per square foot.

Wire (for skylights), glazed, 40c per sq.
foot.

Obscure glass, 30c to 50c square foot.

Glass bricks, $2.50 per sq. ft. in place.

Note — if not stipulated add extra for set-
ting.

Heating —

Average, $1.9C per sq. ft. of radiation,
according to conditions.

Warm air (gravity) average $48 per regis-
ter.

Forced air, average $68 per register.

Iron — Cost of ornamental iron, cast iron,
etc., depends on designs.

Lumber (prices delivered to bidg. site) —

No. I common $45.00 per M

No. 2 common 43.00 per M

Select O. P. Common 48.00 per M

1x4 No. 2 flooring VG 80.00 per M

1x4 No. 3 flooring VG 75.00 per M

1x6 No. 2 flooring VG 90.00 per M

11/4x4 No. 2 flooring 85.00 per M

Slash grain —

1x4 No. 2 flooring .$65.00 per M

1x4 No. 3 flooring 62.00 per M

No. I common run T. & S 50.00 per M

Lath 7.50 per M

Shingles (add cartage to price quoted) —

Redwood. No. I $1.20 per bdle.

Redwood, No. 2 1.00 per bdla.

Red Cedar 1.40 per bdle.

Plywood — Douglas Fir (add cartage) —

"Plyscord" sheathing (unsandedj
A" 3ply and 48''x96' $39.75 per M

"Plywall" (wallboard grade)—
'A" 3ply 48"x96" $43.70 per M

"Plyform" (concrete form grade)—
s/s" 5-ply 48"x96'' _ $117.30 per M

Exterior Plywood Siding—

A" S-ply Fir _ $132.00 per M

Redwood (Rustic) rxB" clear heart..$ 95.00 per M
$5 less per M for A grade.

Millworlc — Standard.

O. P. $100 per 1000. R. W. rustic $100.00

per 1000 (delivered).
Double hung box window frames, average

with trim, $6.50 and up, each.
Complete door unit, $10.00.
Screen doors, $3.50 each.
Patent screen windows, 25c a sq. ft.
Cases for kitchen pantries seven ft. high,

per lineal ft., $8.00 each.
Dining room cases, $8.00 per lineal foot.

Rough and finish about 75c per sq. ft.
Labor — Rough carpentry, warehouse heavy

framing (average), $17.50 per M.
For smaller work average, $35.00 to $45.00

per 1000.

Marble — (See Dealers)

Painting —

Two-coat work _ per yard 50c

Three-coat work per yard 70c

Cold water painting per yard lOc

Whitewashing per yard 4e

NOVEMBER, 1943

Turpentine. $1.08 per gal., in 5 gal. cans.

and 95c per gal. in drums.
Raw Linseed Oil— $1.32 gal. in light drums.
Boiled Linseed Oil — $1.35 gal. in drums

and $1.48 in 5 gal. cans.

White Lead in oil

Per Lb.

I ton lots. 100 lbs. net weight Il'/jc

500 lbs. and less than I ton I21/4C

Less than 500 lb. lots 123/40

Red Lead and litharge

I ton lots. 100 lbs. net weight Il'/2C

500 lbs. and less than I ton I2I/4C

Less than 500 lb. lots 123/40

Red Lead in oil

I ton lots. 100 lbs. net weight I2I/2C

500 lbs. and less than I ton H'Ac

Less than 500 lb. lots I33/4C

Note — Accessibility and conditions cause
some variance in costs.

Patent Chimneys —

6-inch _....$ 1 .25 lineal foot

8-inch 1 .50 lineal foot

10-inch 2.25 lineal foot

12-inch 3.00 lineal foot

Plaster

Neat wall, per ton delivered in S. F. in
paper bags, $1 7.60.

Plastering — Interior —

Yard

1 coat, brown mortar only, wood lath $0.70

2 coats, lime motar hard finish, wood lath .70

2 coats, hard wall plaster, wood lath .80

3 coats, metal lath and plaster 1.50

Keene cement on metal lath 1.60

Ceilings with 3/., hot roll channels metal lath

Ceilings with filiiV TolTcliaTrneirmetaT Tath

plastered 2.00

Single partition >/* channel lath I side (lath

only 1. 10

Single partition % channel lath 2 inches

thick plastered - - $2.90

4-inch double partition % channel lath 2

sides (lath only) 2.00

4-inch douDle partition % channel lath 2

sides plastered — 3.50

Thermax smgie partition; I" channels; 21/4"

overall partition width. Plastered both

sides _— _ 3.00

Th.

double partition; I" channels; 4%"
overall partition width. Plastered both
sides _.— __ 4.00

3 coots over I" Thermax nailed to one side
wood studs or ioisis 1.50

3 coats over I" Thermax suspended to one
side wood studs with spring sound isola-
tion clip 1.75

Plastering — E«ter!or — Y»'d

2 coats cement finish, brick or concrete
wall _.. $1.00

3 coats cement finish. No. 18 gauge wire

Wood la7h7if50'ir'$r5d'Ter~T000"Tnot

available)
2.5-lb. metal lath (dipped) (not available)^ .19
2.5-lb, metal lath (galvanized) (not avail.)..- .21
3.4-lb. metal lath dipped) (not available). .22
3.4-lb. metal lath (galvanized) (not avail.)... .24
%-inch hot roll channels. $72 per ton.
Finish plaster. $16.90 ton; in paper sacks.
Dealer's commission. $1.00 off above quotations.

$13.85 (rebate lOc sack).
Lime, f.o.b. warehouse, $2.25 bbl.; cars. $2.15
Lime, bulk (ton 2000 lbs.). $14.00 ton.
Wall Board 5 piv. $50.00 per M.
Hydrate Lime, $25.00 ton.

Plasterers Wage Scale $1.75 per hour

Lathers Wage Scale 1.75 per hour

Hod Carriers Wage Scale 1.50 per hour

Composition Stucco — $1.80 to $2.00 sq. yard
(applied).

Plumbing —

From $100.00 per fixture up, according to
grade, quantity and runs.

Roofing —

"Standard" tar and gravel. $7.00 per sq.

for 30 sqs. or over.
Less than 30 sqs. $7.50 per sq.
Tile, $20.00 to $35.00 per square.
Redwood Shingles, $7.50 per square in

place.
Copper, $16.50 to $18.00 per sq. in place.

5/2 #1-16" Cedar Shingles,

41/2" Exposure 8.00 Square

5/8 X 16" — # I Cedar

Shingles. 5" Exposure 9.00 Square

4/2 #1-24" Royal Shingles.

7/2" Exposure 9.50 Square

Re-coat with Gravel. $3 per sq.

Asbestos Shingles, $15 to $25 per sq.

laid.
Slate, from $25.00 per sq., according to

color and thickness.
1/2 X 25" Resawn Cedar Shakes.

10" Exposure 10.50

3/4 x 25" Resawn Cedar Shakes,

10" Exposure 11.50

I X 25" Resawn Cedar Shales.

10" Exposure 12.50

Above prices are for shakes in place.
Sheet Metal— ~~

Windows— Metal, $1.75 a sq. ft.
Fire doors (average), including hardware.

$1.75 per sq. ft.

Skylights — (not glazed)
Copper, 90c sq. ft. (flat).
Galvanized iron. 40c sq. ft. (flat).
Vented hip skylights 60c sq. ft.

Steel — Structural (None available except for
defense work)
$150 ton (erected), this quotation is an
average for comparatively small quan-
tities. Light truss work higher. Plain
beams and column work in large quan-
tities $140 per ton.

Steel Reinforcing (None available except for
defense work] .
$150 to $200 per ton, set.

Stone— ■

Granite, average. $6.50 cu. foot in place.
Sandstone, average Blue. $4.00. Boise,

$3.00 sq. ft. in place.
Indiana Limestone, $2.80 per sq. ft. in

place.

Store Fronts —

Copper sash bars for store fronts, corner,
center and around sides, will average
$1.00 per lineal foot.

Note — Consult with agents.

Tile — Floor. Wainscot, etc. — (See Dealers)
Asphalt Tile — 18c to 28c per sq. ft. in-
stalled.
Wall Tile-
Glazed Terra Cotta Wall Units (single faced)
laid in place — approximate prices:

2 X A X 12 $1.00 sq.ft.

4 X 4 X 12 1.15 sq.ft.

2 X 8 X 14 I.IO sq.ft.

4 X 8 X 14 1.30 sq.ft.

Venetian Blinds—

40c per square

foot and

up.

Installation

extra.

Windows— Steel

Factory type sash 30c ft.
Ventilators for steel sash $5.00 each.

1 943

BUILDING TRADES WAGE SCALES FOR NORTHERN CALI-FORNIA

All crafts, except plasterers, are now working 8 hours a day. Plasterers' time is 6 hours.

1 Francisco Alameda

BRICKLAYERS' HODCARRIERS

CARPENTERS

CEMENT FINISHERS _ _

ELECTRICIANS _

ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS .....
ENGINEERS: Material Hoist ....

Piledriver _..

Structural Steel .....

GLASS WORKERS

IRONWORKERS: Ornamental ..
Reinf. Rodmen

Structural

LABORERS: Building

Concrete

LATHERS

MARBLE SETTERS

MOSAIC & TERRAZZO

PAINTERS

PILEDRIVERS

PLASTERERS

PLASTERERS' HODCARRIERS ...

PLU M BERS _ _

ROOFERS

SHEET METAL WORKERS

SPRINKLER FITTERS

STEAMFIHERS _....

STONESETTERS (Masons)

Tl LESETTERS

$1.50

$1.25

$1,371/2

$1.12/2

$1.25

1.871/2

l.87'/2

1.50

1.871/2

2.00

1.87/2

2.00

1.40

1.05

1.40

1.43

1.25

1.43

1.371/2

1.25

1.50

1.25

1.70

1.50

1.371/2

1.50

1.37/4

1.41

1.54

1.50

1.41

1.50

1.54

t.50

1.371/2

1.25

1.50

1.371/2

1.421/2

1.371/2

1.25

1.75

1.40

1.75

1.42/2

1.75

1.40

1.75

1.40

1.25

1.121/2

1.25

1.12/2

1.21

1.25

1.50

1.311/4

1.371/2

1.3 11/4

1-37/2

1.31/4

1.25

1.31/4

1.50

1.3 11/4

1.31 'A

I.3IV4

1.40

1.31/4

I.2S

1.75

1.40

1.75

1.50

1.40

1.371/,

.85

.871/2

.821/2

.8 MA

.85

■81/4

.8 1/4

•8 1/4

.80

.871/2

.933A

.90

•81 'A

.92/2

.85

.90

1.75

1.50

1.75

1.40

1.75

1.50

I.SO

1.43%

1.25

1.3 MA

1.371/2

1.25

1.31/4

1.00

1.25

I.I 21/2

1.12/2

1.15-5/8

1.12/2

1.371/2

1.50

1.28-4/7

1.37/2

1.25

1.35-5/7

1.42-4/7

1.50

1.25

1.47

1.40

I.SO

1.40

1.47

1.40

1.44-2/3

1.75

1.44-2/3

1.75

2.00

1.75

1.83-1/3

1.50

1.45

1.40

1.185/4

1.35

1.75

1.40

1.50

1.70

1.50

1.53-1/8

1.50

1.54/4

1.421/2

1.50

1.37/1

1 .371/2

1.371/2

I.I 21/2

1.25

1.371/2

1.25

1.50

1.371/2

1.435/4

1.371/2

1.50

1.37/2

1.25

l.37'/i

\sa

1.371/2

1.25

1.42/2

1.50

l-53'/e

1.50

1.54/4

1. 421/2

1.50

1.75

1.50

1.75

1.50

1.75

1.50

I.SO

1.371/2

1.37/2

1.50

1.371/,

Prepared and compiled by
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA CHAPTER, ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF AMERICA
ind cooperation of secretaries of General Contractors Associations and Builders Exchanges of Northern California.

rith the assistance

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

PRODUCTS FOR POST-WAR PRACTICE

PLYWOOD IN POST-WAR — Em

iphasizing the new developments
Iwhich the war has brought to the
plywood industry, and stressing
the peace-time applications of
:these developments, a new book-
let, "In Service On All Fronts," has
been issued by United States Ply-
wood Corporation. The 16 pages
[include more than 30 photographs
lillustrating the wartime uses of
plywood. These photographs show
not only flat plywood products but
imolded, metal-faced, waterproof,
land tubular plywood products as
iwell. Copy will be sent upon re-
buest, addressing 616 West 46th
St., New York, 19, N. Y.
PRESSURE LUBRICATION — Posi
tive lubrication of all bearings on
machine tools and similar equip-
ment, regardless of condition or
(location of bearings, is claimed for
jthe improved "Multival" system

'Power-operated portable gHn
|eils and 9reases machinery.

jmade by the Farval Corporation,
Cleveland, Ohio. Oil and grease
I under pressure is delivered to the
[distributing blocks by the means of
ja manual or power-operated port-
jable gun which serves as a cen-
|tral pump. Use of the system
Jeffords a number of economical
j advantages, according to the man-
I ufacturer.

GLASS BLOCK AS REPLACE-
MENTS—Methods of replacing
I worn-out windows with Insulux
; Glass Block are described in detail
in a new booklet just released by
the Owens-Illinois Glass Co. Pho-
^ tographs of typical installations
are included along with specifica-
tions, technical data, and typical
construction details. Many advan-
tages are claimed for such altera-

tion. Copy may be obtained by
writing the Insulux Products Divi-
sion, Owens-Illinois Glass Co., To-
ledo, Ohio.

PAINT SPRAYING RULES A wall
chart of spraying rules showing
how to save paint, air, time, power,
fuel, and equipment, reduce time
lost because of sickness or acci-
dent, and improve results, has
been published by the Eclipse Air
Brush Co., 400 Park Ave., Newark,
7, N. J. These rules apply to all
types of spray equipment. Chart
will be sent gratis to anyone re-
questing it.

RESIN GLUE AND WOOD— Giant

laminated wood span trusses are
being used extensively for the roof
supports in military structures. On
one unusual job recently several
three-hinged arches, with each sec-
tion made up of thirty-seven %" x
8" boards, were stretched without
support from ground level to
ground level for over 1 17 feet, with
a rise of 44 feet. These span arches,
which measured 7" x 271/2" in
cross-section, are thought to be the
largest ever built of glue-laminated
wood. Plaskon Resin Glue, man-
ufactured by the Plaskon Division
of the Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass
Co., was used for the laminating
of these arches. Important features
are said to be permanent strength
and weatherproof qualities. In
shear tests the wood shatters leav-
ing the glue intact.

PORCELAIN ENAMELED IRON—

Useful data for product engineers,
designers, architects and others in-
terested in the use of porcelain
enameled iron are presented in a
booklet just published by The
American Rolling Mill Co., Middle-
town, Ohio. Engineering informa-
tion is given on the abrasion and
friction resistance, weather resist-
ance, resistance to chipping, resist-
ance to thermal shock, color fast-
ness and range, finishes available,
chemical resistance and physical
properties of porcelain enamel. Its
physical properties also are com-
pared with those of many other
materials: glass, ceramic white
ware, thermo-setting plastics, hard
rubber, alminum and its alloys,
nickel, copper, zinc, iron alloys

and cast iron. Copies of the book-
let, which is entitled, "Porcelain
Enamel, the Lifetime Finish," may
be obtained by writing The Ameri-
can Rolling Mill Co., Middletown,
Ohio.

THREE-POINT GAGE— A new

pocket size gage for measurement
of all sizes of pipe from Vb" to 12"
is announced by the Three-Point
Gage Co., 3821 Broadway, Chi-
cago, 111. This gage, which is pat-
ented in Canada and for which

Convenient pocket-size gage
for pipe measurement.

patents are pending in the U. S.,
consists of two pivoted steel plates
with edges curved at three points
for contact with the pipe to be
measured, together with scale
which automatically registers not
only the pipe size in terms of inside
diameter but the drill size for tap-
ping.

ABC OF ELECTRONICS— The fun-
damental principles of the six
basic ways in which electronic
tubes function are explained in a
new 36-page booklet announced
by Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Company. Sche-
matic drawings for the tube con-
struction and diagrams showing
the typical circuits for the various
functions are used to explain how
electronic tubes rectify, amplify,
generate, control, transform light
into current and current into light.
Industrial and military uses are
described and illustrated in this
booklet, "The ABC of Electronics at
Work." A copy of booklet B-3260 .
may be secured from Dept. 7 N 20,
Westinghouse Elec. & Mfg. Co.,
East Pittsburgh, Pa.

NOVEMBER, 1943

PARAMOrXT

Built-in Fixtures

USED IN MANY OF
THE BETTER WAR
HOUSING PROJECTS
ARE DESIGNED TO IN-
SURE MAXIMUM EFFI-
CIENCY AT MINIMUM
COST

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HOME BUILDING AFTER THE WAR

Post-war buying intentions of the nation's families
are increasing almost daily and present indications are
that post-war purchases will be far in excess of the
billions of dollars that were in prospect last winter.

Bringing a December, 1942, nationwide survey up-
to-the-minute, the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States reports that, for example, the number
of families now planning to purchase one or more
major articles within six months after the return of
peace has risen from 53 per cent to 64 per cent of
the nation's total.

On the other side of the ledger, 61 per cent of the
people interviewed said they now are able to save. It
was 56 per cent eight months ago. These figures include
only those people who think they are saving. Actually,
84 per cent, an increase of 3 percentage points, are
either accumulating money in a savings account or are
putting it in some other form of savings or investment.

At the same time, the public as a whole believes a
little more firmly that the first year after the end of
the war will be one of prosperity, and that there will
be less unemployment than they believed probable
eight months ago. The Chamber's figures show that
the number of those who have grown more optimistic
has risen from 49 per cent of the people to 55 per
cent. As to the public's appraisal of industry's post-
war capacity to meet the demand for civilian goods,
86 per cent now believe that American factories will
take more than six months to catch up with the demand
for consumer goods.

While virtually all components in the statistics relat-
ing to consumer purchasing and savings intentions went
up In the new tabulation, there has been a noticeable
drop in family planning for such things as furniture and
floor coverings in their homes. There also have been
decreases in intentions to redecorate the interior of
homes, to modernize kitchens, to add new porches and
to renovate bathrooms.

The Chamber's survey shows these major changes in
trends:

3,675,000 families, compared with 2,590,000 in

December, now intend to buy automobiles to cost

$3,307,500,000, compared with $2,331,000,000.
The household appliance field shows an Increase

in buying intentions from $860,185,000 to $1,215,-

910,000, with the greatest jump occurring in radios

and electric kitchen mixers.

Overall home furnishings purchase intentions show

only a nominal increase from $709,905,000, to $711,-

410,000.

1,540,000 families — an increase of 50 per cent —

intend to build or buy a new home within six months

after the war is over. The prospective investment has

risen from an estimated $5,000,000,000 to $7,184,-

800,000.

72 per cent of the people say they feel they are

ARCHITECT AND ENGINFER

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'^ Here's how you — yes, YOU — can carry out a
smashing "pincer movement" against the Axis. Swing
in on one flank with increased production of war goods!
Drive in on the other with redoubled purchases of
jWar Bonds through your Pay-Roll Savings Plan!
' You're an officer in both of these drives. Your per-
sonal leadership is equally vital to both. But have you
followed the progress of your Pay -Roll Savings Plan
[as closely as you have your production?
I Do you know about the new Treasury Department
[quotas for tlie current Pay-Roil Allotment Drive?
Quotas running about 50% above the former figures? You
ifeee, these new quotas are based on the fact that the
Brmed forces need more money than ever to win the
yar, while the average worker has more money than
'ever before to spend. Particularly so, on n family in-
jcome basis — since in so many families several members
'are working, now.

'I Remember, the bond charts of today are the sales
Curves of tomorrow! Not only will these War Bonds
jimpleraent om- victory — they'll guard against inflation,
and they'll furnish billions of dollars of purchasing
power to help American business re-establish itself in
the markets of peace.

So get this new family income plan working at once.
Your local War Finance Committee will give you all
the details of the new plan. Act today!

This advertisement prepared under the auspices of the War
Advertising Council and the U. S. Treasury Department.

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This Space is a Contribution to America's All-Out War Effort by

ARCHITECT and ENGINEER

NOVEMBER, 1943

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at least as well off financially as a year ago, a drop
of I per cent. The figures, broken down, show the
following percentages for the two surveys: East, 65
per cent and 69 per cent; MIddlewest, 74 per cent
and 72 per cent; South, 79 per cent and 78 per cent;
Far West, 70 per cent and 78 per cent.
Not only are people In the higher Income brackets
more likely than others to be saving money, but they
are saving a greater proportion of their incomes, the
Chamber reported. For example, 34 per cent — it was
28 per cent last December — of all respondents say
they are able to save more than 10 per cent of their
monthly income. But, only 14 per cent of people earn-
ing less than $90 a month save that amount, compared
with 32 per cent of those earning from $90 to $160
monthly, and 54 per cent of those earning more than
$210 monthly.

This second survey shows that the percentage of
people buying war bonds and stamps has risen from 69
to 76. The percentage of people in the upper income
groups investing as much as 10 per cent of their in-
come in such bonds and stamps has dropped from 28
to 23; the middle income group has slumped from 35
to 26; the lower income groups has dropped from 28
to 2 I . It is obvious from the Chamber's other figures
that the number of persons who so invest at least 10
per cent of their income has climbed sharply.

Life insurance investments are attracting the funds
of 56 per cent of the people, compared with 58 per
cent in December. The percentage going to savings
accounts windows has risen from 2 I per cent to 26 per
cent.

But only 25 per cent of the nation's families are
saving for a specific purpose. Even so, that figure is 6
points higher than eight months ago. Despite the evi-
dence that many people intend to make immediate,
major post-war purchases, most of them are not, on the
basis of present savings, counting on paying cash.

ASSOCIATED HOME BUILDERS

Associated htome Builders have opened an office in

the Hearst Building, San Francisco, in anticipation of

a home building boom after the war. At a recent

meeting of the directors the following resolution was

i passed on resuming civilian home building:

WHEREAS, according to information received from our Na-
tional Association of Home Builders and the National Association
of Real Estate Boards, metals, critical materials and other mate-
rials used in building construction are more plentiful and less
required by the armed services and are starting to accumulate:
and

WHEREAS, the freezing of home construction for civilians has
now reached a point that has created a dangerous shortage of
said homes in crowded metropolitan centers, working a hardship
upon the civilian population to the point of interfering with the
country's civilian economy, and creating a certain amount of
unemployment among skilled workers connected with this indus-
try; and

WHEREAS, the continued construction of Title VI homes for

Thank You, Mr. Jeffers

For Relief in the Rubber Crisis

Thanks for a hard job, well done, as Rubber
Director. The American Rubber Manufacturing
Company joins its customers in expressing appre-
ciation for this achievement:

Many induifrial rubber products
formerly unobfalnable, may now be
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Lightning Hose Racks,
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at least one meets any
requirement.

For defails,
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immigrant war worlcers in first class residential districts threaten
the post-war property value stability of those districts: and

WHEREAS, the forbidden building of new homes for ctvilil

consumption has taken all competition out of the re-sale markq
thus creating a dangerously Inflated market in said re-sale horr
and

WHEREAS, the under supply of both old and new civllij|
homes creates a situation which may be used by advocates
public housing not only for continued construction of this natuq
but the retaining of emergency public war housing after the '
on the grounds that homes for these people are not avallafe
and will take a long time to provide; now, therefore

BE IT RESOLVED, by the Associated Home Builders of Sail
Francisco that the National Housing Agency program allocations
of civilian new homes to sell up to celling prices of $7500, that
the immigrant war worker directive be set aside for these homes,
and that the War Production Board release materials and grant
priorities for their construction in accordance with the civilian
needs of critical metropolitan centers.

MODULAR PLANNING

Much discussed Modular Planning was the subject
of a talk recently given before a group of San Fran-
cisco masonry contractors and structural clay products
manufacturers. Harry C. Plummer, Director of Re-
search and Engineering of the Structural Clay Products
Institute, was the speaker at the meeting, which was
sponsored by the Northern California Chapter of the
Producers' Council.

Highlight of the program was the enthusiastic recep-
tion given Modular Planning by the masonry contrac-
tors present, who stated that Modular Planning could
reduce brick laying costs as much as 25 per cent on
residential construction in this area. Local architects,
now bottlenecked in their use of brick because of the
cost of detailing such work under today's largely hit-
or-mlss methods, will be enabled to increase their
specification of brick work, through Modular Planning.
Structural clay products manufacturers present an-
nounced themselves as in favor of the plan as a timely
post-war project.

Local manufacturers of glazed structural wall units
are now taking action to establish new standards In
keeping with Modular Planning requirements.

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PRACTICAL PERSPECTIVE DRAWING, by Philip J.
Lawson, Pratt Institute. McGraw-Hill Book Com-
pany, Inc., 330 West 42nd Street, New York 18,
N.Y. Price $2.75.
For the student and practicing artist in the fields of
advertising illustration, fiction illustration, industrial de-
sign rendering, and architectural rendering. A text and
reference book that gives the basic geometrical and
optical principles of perspective, outlines in detail two
methods for making perspective drawing instrumentally,
together with procedures for making freehand perspec-
tive drawings. It then shows how these techniques are
used in the drawing of simple basic forms, actual
objects derived from these forms, and groups of ob-
jects in perspective compositions.

STUDIES IN ARC WELDING, the James F. Lincoln
Arc Welding Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio. Price
$1.50 in U.S.A.; $2.00 elsewhere.
Embraces design, manufacture and construction. The

book had its first printing in August. It may be ordered

through any recognized book dealer or direct from

the Foundation.

PLASTICS, by J. Ft. Dubois, American Technical So-
ciety, Drexel Avenue, at 58th Street, Chicago, III.
Price $3.75.
This is the second edition of a very popular book.
It contains considerable fresh matter as evidenced by
the addition of 144 pages. Practically all of the new
material is devoted to the latest developments in
synthetic rubber.

SLIDE RULE SIMPLIFIED, by Charles O. Harris, B.S.
Published by American Technical Society, Drexel
Avenue at 58th Street, Chicago, III. Price $2.50.
A well written book, easy to understand and emi-
nently practical. Slide Rule Simplified contains 266
pages, is well illustrated and has been written so it
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FORDERER CORNICE WORKS

Monu/acfurers of
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Elevator Fronts and Cabs
Metal Plaster Accessories • Sanitary Metal Base

Flat and Roll Metal Screens
Metal Cabinets • Commercial Refrigerators

269 POTRERO AVE.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. HEMLOCK 4100

STRUCTURAL STEEL

For Class A Buildinss,
Bridges, etc.

JUDSON PACIFIC CO.

1200 SEVENTEENTH STREET
SAN FRANCISCO

E Plants: San Francisco ■ Oakland =

NOVEMBER, 1943

STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP. MAN-
AGEMENT. CIRCULATION, ETC.. RE-
QUIRED BY THE ACT OF CONfiRESS
OF AUGUST 24, 1912 AND MARCH 3.
1933.

Of the Arrhitpct and Enifinoer. published
monthly at San Finniisco, Cnlif., for October
I, 1943.

City and County of San Francisco ) „„
State of California I *''•

Before me. a notary public In and for the
Htate and county aforesaid, perHonally ai>-
peared L. B. Penhorwood, who, havini; been
duly sworn according: to litw, de[)0se» and says
that she i» the Business Manauer of The Archi-
tect and EnKineer, and that the followinK is
to the best of her knowledge and belief, a true
statement of the ownership, nianaitement (if
daily paper, the circulation), etc.. of the afore-
said publication for the date shown in the
above caption, required by the Act of Aufrust
24. 1912. as amended by the Act of March 3.
1933. embodied in section .537. Postal Laws and
Regulations, printed on the reverse of this
form, to wit :

1. That the names and addresses of the pub-
lisher, editor, managins: editor, and business
managers are:

Publisher. The Architect and Engineer. Inc.,
68 Post St., San Francisco. Calif.

Editor. Fred W. Jones. 68 Post St., San Fran-
cisco. Calif.

Managing Editor — None.

Business Manager, L. B. Penhorwood. 68
Post St., San Francisco, Calif.

2. That the owner ie : (If owned by a cor-
poration, its name and address must be stated
and also immediately thereunder the names
and addresses of stockholders owning or
holding one per cent or more of total amount
of stock. If not owned by a corporation, the
names and addresses of the individual owners

nust be gi
pany. or other u
name and address.
individual member.

vned by
jri.orated

1. its

K. P. Kierulfl, 68 Post St.. San Fran

Post St., San Fran-

V. S. Yallop, 68 Post St., San Francisco,
Calif.

E. J. Cardinal. 942 Howard St.. San Fran-
cisco. Calif.

3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees,
and other security holders owning or holding
one per cent or more of total amount of bonds,
mortgages, or other securities are: (If there
are none, so state.) E. J. Cardinal. 942
Howard St.. San Francisco. Calif.

4. That the two paragraphs next above, giv-
ing the names of the owners, stockholders, and
security holders, if any, contain not only the
list of stockholders and security holders as they
appear upon the books of the compaay but
also, in cases where the stockholder or security
holder appears upon the books of the company
as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation.
the name of the person or corporation, for
whom such trustee is acting, is given ; also
that the said two paragraphs contain state-
ments embracing affiant's full knowledge and
belief as to the circumstances and conditions
under which stockholders and security holders
who do not appear upon the books of the com-
pany as trustees, hold stock and securities in a
capacity other than of a bona fide owner ; and
this affiant has no reason to believe that any
other person, association, or corporation has
any interest direct or indirect in the said stock

other securities tha

stated by

5. That the average number of copies of each
issue of this publication sold or distributed,
through the mails or otherwise, to paid sub-
scribers during the twelve months preceding
the date shown above is. (This information is
required from daily publications only.)

iness Mgr.

- . me the 2ilth
day of September

(Seal) CHAS. F. DUISENBERG

Notary Public in and for the City and County

L. B. Penhorwood. Bu

bscribed befor-e
1943.

of San Franc
IMy .

Calif.

JUST HOW BIG IS
A SPECK OF DIRT7

Girl workers at Northrop Aircraft,
Inc., Hawthorne, California, check the
answer to this question on a compara-
tor, a photo-electric machine that
throws an Image of delicate precision
gages, enlarged 62 '/2 times, onto a
screen. These gages are used to check
tolerances of all precision parts used
In fighter plane production — hence It
Is vital that these measuring blocks
be kept free of abrasive dirt.

The hairs and lumps on the gage
shown in the picture above are bits
of dust and lint that accumulated on
the gage when It was left outside the
air conditioned storage room. Foreign
particles such as these are virtually
eliminated from the gages when in
the storage and repair room now, for
more than 90 per cent of all air-borne
dust and dirt particles blown into the
room through the air conditioning
ducts are trapped by a Westlnghouse
Preclpitron, an electric air cleaning
device. Before the recent installation
of this Preclpitron, dirt accumulation,
invisible to the eye, caused damage
by permitting abrasion of the highly
polished surfaces of the measuring
blocks.

xiiires May 22. 1945.)

A. F. MATTOCK CO.

Builders

212 CLARA STREET
SAN FRANCISCO

INCANDESCENT

SUPPLY

COMPANY

647

MISSION STREET

SAN FRANCISCO

Lighting Fixtures and
Lamps, Fireplace Fur-
nishings, Pictures and
Mirrors, Electrical Sup-
plies and Marine Fix-
tures.

Oakland - Fresno
Los Angeles

Independent
Iron ^Torks

Structural Steel

Ornamental Iron

Steel Service Stations

Steel Tanks

Standard Steel Mill Buildings

Bridges

821 Pine Street

Oakland

ANDERSON

&
RINGROSE

General Contractors

32(1 .M;irket Street, Sun Francis
Phone GArfiel.l 2245

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

MULLEN MFG.
COMPANY

BANK, STORE AND OFFICE

FIXTURES— CABINET WORK

OF GUARANTEED QUALITY

CHURCH SEATING

Offic* and Factory:

U-U RAUSCH ST., Itf. 7»h and Bth Stt.

San Francisco

Talaphona UNdarhlll 5BI5

THE TORMEY
COMPANY

GENERAL PAINTERS
AND DECORATORS

Phone UNderbill 1913

563 FULTON STREET
San Franrisco

ABBOT A. HANKS, INC.
Engineers & Chemists

INSPECTING — TESTING — CONSULTING

CONCRETE • STEEL • MATERIALS

CHEMICAL AND TESTING

LABORATORIES

• RESEARCH AND INVESTIGATION •

TESTS OF STRUCTURAL MATERIALS

DESIGN OF CONCRETE MIXES

SHOP AND ERECTION INSPECTION OF

STRUCTURES AND EQUIPMENT

INVESTIGATION OF STRUCTURES

AND MATERIALS

TESTS AND INVESTIGATION OF

FOUNDATION SOILS

FIRE RESISTANCE ANO INSULATION

TESTS

624 Sacramento Street, San Francisco

Robert W. Hunt Company

ENGINEERS

Inspecticin - Tests ■ Consultation

SrIiouU and Other Structures
Are Built as Designed

When Construction Materials are

Inspected at foint o) Uanufaclure

and durtnt Erection by

ROBERT W. HUNT COMPANY

Cement, Concrete, Chemical, MetoUurgical,
X-Ray and Physical Laboratories

Chlcaqo Naw York Pittsburgh

Lot Angalas All Large Cities

San Franciaco, 231 Kearny Street

FLOWING LINES OF
FLUORESCENT LIGHT

Army Air Base for the Air Service
Command, Sacramento, Calif., speeds
vital repairs, hence helps to hasten
victory, by supplying 45 foot-candles
of illumination at bench level. More

Strips of fluorescent lamps
illuminate war plant.

than 850 eight-foot Westinghouse
lighting fixtures, each holding six 40-
watt fluorescent lamps, are installed
in continuous strips spaced 10 feet
apart at a mounting height of 14 feet
in the repair bay.

Power for the lighting load in this
building is supplied from three-phase
transformers rated from ISO to 300
kva. These transformers are suspended
from the ceiling in cages, which per-
mit the productive use of more floor
area and removes the possibility of
injury that might occur from contact
with high voltage equipment.

PLAN NOW FOR YOUR
PEACE TIME HOUSING

Low-rent housing projects sus-
pended during the war will be given
prior consideration in any publicly-
financed program authorized by Con-
gress after the emergency is over,
according to hierbert Emmerich, Com-
missioner of the Federal Public Hous-
ing Authority.

He said that application for other
Federally-aided projects for post-war
construction would be accepted by
F.P.H.A. regional offices, but pointed
out that authority must be granted
and funds made available before any
action can be taken.

"The President has called attention
to the need for preparing plans for
public projects to be undertaken In
the post-war period, and thus storing
up a reservoir of work that can be

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No need to "go to the bank." Nine
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LANDSCAPING

WAR HOUSING PROJECTS

Maritime Commission

Apartments, Richmond

Sunnydale

G. G. Bridge Approach

Roosevelt Terrace, Vallejo

Camp Roberts

Chabot Terraces, Vallejo

Peralta Villa, Oakland

Sausolito

Union Square Garage

Growers and Distributors of

"Superior Quality" Nursery

Stock Since 1878

LEONARD COATES
NURSERIES, INC.

Ray D. Harlman, President-Manager

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA

NOVEMBER, 1943

DI]\WIDDIE
CONSTRUCTIOI^^

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BUILDERS

CROCKER lUILDING
SAN FRANCISCO

HERRICK
IROIV WORKS

STRUCTURAL STEEL
REINFORCING STEEL

IITH AND CAMPIELL STS.
OAKLAND. CALIF.
Phon* SLancourt 1747

G. P. W.
JENSEN & SON

Building Construction

1211 Market Street, San Francisco
Phone: GArfield 2444

JOHN
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—Sines 1886— And Sfill Acfiv,—

Building Materials

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Bunkers

Siith and Ckannsl. San Francisco

Phones: GArfiald 3176. GArfield 3177

useful In providing employment op-
portunities and demands for materi-
als," said Mr. Emmerich. "Many local
housing authorities have already for-
mulated plans for post-war housing
projects and have asked that these be
included in any shelf of public proj-
ects."

Projects are to be accepted for re-
view by Regional Offices, Mr. Em-
merich said, only where the local hous-
ing authority states:

a. That such projects will be con-
sistent with a sound public housing
program for the locality; and

b. That such projects could be put
under construction promptly after
loan funds, contributions and perma-
nent materials are available, but not
more than two years thereafter.

These proposed projects must rep-
resent programs locally initiated by
the duly constituted local agencies,
rather than programs made by the
Federal Government.

PATTERNS OF PEACE

America must "begin to visualize
the post-war problem, not as an ex-
cursion into the realm of fancy, but
as one demanding an immediate sur-
vey of peacetime needs" was the view
expressed by Clyde G. Conley, presi-
dent of the American Institute of
Steel Construction, in his annual con-
vention address at Rye, N. Y., Octo-
ber 19.

Speaking to more than 300 mem-
bers of the Institute, Mr. Conley char-
acterized World War II as "the great-
est dislocation in human history" and
warned that unless industry is able to
anticipate and begin now to plan con-
structively on the basis of "expected
and logical demand," post-war recov-
ery may be seriously delayed. "Indus-
trial research must be doubled — even
tripled," said Mr. Conley. "Planning
for the post-war world must be de-
tailed and realistic . . . must be based
on facts."

Citing industry's record of wartime
achievement, Mr. Conley character-
ized his own industry's part in that
achievement as a vital one. "Geared
to meet a variety of demands, we
have again affirmed our reputation as
a make-to-order Industry. With the

order of the day for victory, the per-
formance of the structural steel fabri-
cating industry may well be termed a
major factor In the defeat that Is be-
ing crammed down Hitler's and Hlro-
hito's throats."

"Today, all of us are engaged in
the fabrication of products entirely
different from those which went
through our plants In the pre-war and
early war period. When the construc-
tion of war manufacturing facilities
and defense Installations neared com-
pletion, the Industry turned to the
production of the actual Instruments
of war. The variety of these products
is astounding to many of those who
did not appreciate the reservoir of
planning ability and versatility within
the Industry."

It has been estimated, Mr. Conley
said, that the average construction
volume in the ten years following the
war's end will exceed the annual vci
ume of any previous decade. Stre:
ing the ability of the steel fabricating
industry to meet all expected needs,
Mr. Conley pointed out that despite
the industry's capacity of 4,800,000
tons as estimated by the Department
of Commerce in 1929, the industry
was called upon during 1941 to fabri-
cate only 2,296,954 tons— with 1941
being the peak year of the entire
period beginning with 1931.

Needed In the post-war period,
said Mr. Conley, will be construction
for "public works, utilities and rail-
roads. Institutional buildings, plant fa-
cilities for consumers' goods, and mul-
tiple housing dwellings." In addition
it was his view that foreign countri
will have even greater need for su;
construction. "Those countries which
have been in the actual fighting zone
will of necessity require a rehabilita-
tion of public and Industrial facilities.

Foreseeing a bright future for the
steel fabricating Industry, Mr. Con-
ley declared: "While these demands
will bring novel problems of engineer-
ing and production, the lessons which
your recent changes In production
methods have taught you should be
of material assistance. It is my feeling
that we have entirely demonstrated
the versatility and the adaptability of
the structural fabricating shops."

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

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POST-WAR DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR S. F. WATERFRONT

STAINED GLASS— PAST AND FUTURE

REGIONAL PLANNING— THE CENTRAL VALLEY PROJECT

\RCHITECT AND ENGINEER

Volume 155

FRED W. JONES
Editor

MARK DANIELS
Associate Editor

MICHAEL GOODMAN
Conmlting Editor

HOWARD MOISE
Post-War Planning

E. N. KIERULFF*
Att't Editor

•In tli« Sarvice

DECEMBER CONTENTS

Running Fire 3

Mark Daniels

News and Comment en Art 4-8

In the News 10

Post-War Development Plan for San Francisco Waterfront 13

L. Deming Tilton

Illustrated with 10 tall-page diagram plata

Stained Glass Past and Future 24

Jeanne+te Dyer Spencer

Regional Planning — the Central Valley Project .... 27

Walter E. Packard

Survey Indicates New Uses for Woodwork in Post-War Homes . 29

Frederick Hamilton

Rainbow Bridge 31

E. L. Durkee

War Housing Project 34

Producers' Council Page 37

State Association Notes 39

Wm. C. Annbrose

Soule Steel Company Wins Army and Navy Award .41

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NEXT MONTH

A memorial chapel by the
office of Michael Goodman is
to be featured as a result of an
individual approach to ecclesi-
astic interior design. The ques-
tion of present-day church de-
sign is a vexing one and con-
fronts all creeds and denomi-
nations alike in their building
programs to meet arising needs.

The chapel may be consid-
ered an alteration job, having
been carved into two and a
half stories of a wing of San
Francisco's distinctive Temple
Emanu-El.

Blazing new trails, the ar-
ticle on "A Modern Architec-
tural Glass Medium for Memo-
rial Windows" by Prof. Good-
man, done for the de Young
Museum, will be a follow-up
to the one on the past and fu-
ture of stained glass by Jean-
nette Dyer Spencer in the cur-
rent issue.

Added to the set by Michael
Goodman is an article on the
"Post - War House - Beautiful"
which Mr. Goodman views
with a disturbed eye.

The story of Barrett & Hilp's
phenomenal success as ship-
builders for Uncle Sam is told
from an original angle, and
The Architect's Future is dis-
cussed with marked frankness
by Miles Colean, member of
the A.I.A. committee on post-
war relations with the govern-
ment.

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ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

tunninG fire

by MARK DANIELS

loBSOLFSCHNCH

I Planning will not eliminate obsolescence. Nothing
■JU until we discover eternal youth. All that can be
hped for is that planning will postpone obsoles-
cence and slow it up to a speed that will enable us
t' prepare for it. Of course, preparing for obsoles-
qnce may be considered as only another form of
pnning but, as popularly used, it is coming to be
(tnsidered a panacea for all the ills of age.
I The widely publicized merits of city planning do
r^t recognize, in print at least, that there are causes
d obsolescence which cannot be controlled by plan-
rng. Styles and customs change, sometimes unex-
pictedly. A whole district may spring up in a resi-
ontial area, dominated by the architectural style
c some Frank-Lloyd-Wrightian enthusiast only to
»bside in a short time to a weed-grown group of
<icant houses. No method has yet been devised that
v;ll control architectural designs within the bounds
ogood taste and sound reason.

■ Nor is the adoption of a fad, or worse, style of
fchitecture, the only stumbling block placed by the
(ichitect in the path of city planning. Frequently he
ccedes to his own or his client's ambition and de-
igns a structure out of all reasonable size for its site,
•hich is doomed to demolition some day to clear
,e path for proper city growth While the city planner
.occupied more with engineering than architectural
■'■oblems it is by virtue of his work intelligently done,
jat the architect can help build a city that will be
;ng lived and a joy to behold, for without the proper
sitting no monumental structures can carry all the
jDwer of creation that went into the design. Here, as
so many other phases of preconceived plans,
:gineering and architecture should work hand in
:ind.

OVERHEARD AT THE SYMPHONY

They were in the slow moving exit jam just be-
nd me.

"I studied that shiny, tall instrument that looks
,<e a periscope in the wind section all through the
pgram. It fascinated me," he said.

"It puzzled me, too. Must have been a double
pssoon or a bass clarinet or maybe that double
pss saxophone that Richard Strauss used in Rosen-
tivelier. The moderns use the double bass a great
teal."

I "Yes, I studied it all evening and I couldn't tell
rhether it was nickel or chrome plated."

I PRISONERS OF WAR

I Writing in the N. Y. Times for November 21, Mr.
. G. AUetson Cook, after reporting that the German
risoners of War have never tried to break out of
le wired compound, goes on to say, "In their modern
itchens I saw piles of juicy hams, plenty of butter,
teaks and sausages. No margarine is served them."
j'robably the only reason for the guards and the high
i/ire fence around the compound is to keep the
hungry OPA'ed citizens from breaking in.

DECEMBER, 1943

• POST- WAR

"Post- War" has been a godsend to the publishers
and advertisers. We have had "Post-War" Houses,
"Post-War" Debts, "Post-War" Factories and "Post-
War" Living. If the final peace is established to end
war I don't know what the press will do to fill the
gap when "Post-War" becomes "Post-Dated."

What will be the breath-taking difference between
"Post-War" Living and "Pre-War" Living other than
food supply and additional comforts? "Post- War"
will undoubtedly mean much to the people of Europe
but in the U. S. it is difficult to see how it can be a
great upheaval resulting in a new epoch of civiliza-
tion such as is implied in our press. Whether we will
sprout wings or horns, eat less and drink more, or
turn nudist, seems still in doubt, but I personally have
a lurking suspicion that we will continue to live sub-
stantially as we have for the past few decades until
we come to "Post-Civilization" Living, which may
not be far away.

• INCREDIBLE

Apparently the radio advertisers are beginning
to fall for the applause of their own mechanical
clacques.

• THE LAST STRAW

I hate to do it, but the OPA should be told of one
item of food that they have not rationed — salt. Here
on the Pacific Coast most of our salt is taken from
seawater, which in turn is under control of the gov-
ernment, for the time being, at least. This would
eliminate the question of priority in the matter of
ownership of raw material.

• PLANNED DECAY

It is questionable whether any people in the world,
other than our own, ever deliberately planned quick
decaying developments. We have done just that
during the past few years under the guise of housing
necessities.

The need for additional housing was a natural
corollary of war but the use of short-lived materials
was not. Nor was it necessary to surround the prob-
lem with restrictions and regulations that made it
impossible for an architect to design structures that
could be used for anything but housing after the
emergency had passed. Neither did it seem neces-
sary to establish a priority system that forced the
people to build shanties in good residential districts.

But there is one saving grace in this planning in
reverse — it may be the last needed condition to prove
to some that city planning MUST be adopted by all.

• PREFABS AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

One of America's leading architects once said,
"If your house develops elements that don't look
right, plant them out." It has been done, extensively
and successfully. That should wipe out the last
aesthetic objection to the prefabricated house. What
is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander in
addition to which the landscape architects should
join the advocates of pre fabrication.

NEWS AND COMMENT ON ART

YOUNG INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS
EXHIBIT AT THE DE YOUNG

Art ol the War's Children is the fitting title of a
new show featuring the de Young's Christmas
Exhibition for 1943.

The exhibition has been organized by the Refu-
gee Children's Evacuation Fund in London. There
are paintings and drawings by youngsters, many
of whom came from countries under the yoke of
Hitler, including children from Germany and Aus-
tria who have found refuge in England. British
children evacuated from raid-ridden areas, young
artists from 6 to 17 years from Belgium, Sweden,
Poland, Spain, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, Holland,
Yugoslavia, Norway, France, Switzerland — also
young Indian, Chinese, Russian, and even Japa-
nese nationals are represented. Some of these chil-
dren have described the war's experiences they so
vividly remember; others have chosen to forget in
the joys found in new and happier environments.
The Spanish children, many of whom have liter-
ally never known anything but exile from a rav-
aged homeland, still can use their brushes to en-
joy the lively dances and the bullfights of Madrid.

Art of the War's Children was originally shown
in London, was then exhibited in various English
cities before being sent to America. Its showing in
San Francisco throughout the current month is
its first appearance in the United States. From
here, under the auspices of the Joint Anti-Fascist
Refugee Committee, it will travel throughout the
country before returning to Britain.

Another interesting exhibit at the de Young this
month is a collection of oils by a widely-known
San Francisco artist, Jane Berlandina. Born in
France where she studied and exhibited before
coming to the United States, Miss Berlandina has
achieved recognition in this country as a painter,
teacher and stage designer. Local opera and ballet
enthusiasts will remember her beautiful sets for
the productions of "Die Rosenkavalier" and "Pel-
leas and Melisande" and visitors will recall her
striking murals at the Golden Gate International
Exposition She recently held a one-woman show
at the Bignou Galleries in New York. Her exhibit
at the de Young includes oils and watercolors and
also two "portable murals," an invention of the
artist's which have never been shown before.

MARK TWAIN AND OTHER

SCULPTURE BY GLADYS BUSH

Commenting on Gladys Bush's recent exhibition

of sculpture at the Dalzell Hatfield galleries in Los

Angeles, "Art Digest" for November prints:

"Among the exhibits is her bust of Mark Twain,
a bronze, first cast of which has been purchased
for the permanent collection of the Metropolitan
Museum. Miss Bush had all the Clemens family
photographs of Mark Twain to work from, and the
assistance of Madame Clara Clemens Gabrilo-
witsch, Mark Twain's daughter, who was present
during the execution of the bust.

"When the bust was completed Madame Ga-
brilowitsch wrote of it to Miss Bush: 'I looked at
your bust of my father and saw his wonderful
spirit shining through the quickened clay. It is a

veritable miracle that in this earthly medium you
have succeeded in revealing the innermost soul
of Mark Twain. The salient characteristics of his
personality you have captured with amazing per-
fection— his intelligence, a certain majesty of sin-
cerity that was his, and even a touch of humor.' "

Other important sitters for Miss Bush's portrait
busts were Arthur Rodzinski, Lotte Lehmann, Su-
san M. Dorsay, Helen Wills Moody, Nina Gabrilo-
witsch, Dorothy Arzner, Ernest Dupont, Mrs. Ed-
ward Small Moore, Mitchell Leisen, Mae West,
George A. Hormel, Marco Stuart.

Gladys Lewis Bush is a direct descendant of
Colonel Fielding Lewis and Betty Washington
Lewis, only sister of George Washington.

Also exhibiting in the Hatfield galleries last
month was Loren Barton, who showed portraits,
figure paintings and landscapes in oil and water-
color, including a series of industrial watercolors
of the Kaiser steel mills at Fontana, California.

SON OF DISTINGUISHED ARTIST
NOT VERY WELL INFORMED

Under the heading, "A Prophet Without Honor,"
the Associated Press reported from Kansas City
the following:

THE LONG WAIT

JANE BERLANDINA

This oil painting of a man and boy in theatrical costume waiting
for their cue to enter, is one of a series of "Back Stage" scenes
typifying the work of the vivacious French-born artist, teacher
and stage designer, whose watercolors and easel paintings are
being shown at the de Young Museum this month.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

' AN EVER CHANGING WORLD

LANDSCAPE FROM A DREAM PAUL NASH

This abstraction is representative ot the work of one of the
founders and leaders of the modern movennent in British art.
The painting is shown at the de Young Museunn.

"T. P. Benton, son of Thomas Hart Benton, noted
artist, was doing fine in an intelligence test at
Kansas University, where he is a freshman, until
they asked him —

" 'What widely-known artist won the first cash
prize in the Metropolitan Museum of Art show last
year?'

"That stumped him. He asked his dad that night
when he got home.

" 'I won it,' the elder Benton replied."

GERMANS LOOT PRICELESS
WORKS OF ART IN ROME

Robert Dowson, United Press staff correspondent,
is quoted in the World Telegram of Oct. 7, under
a London date line, as having received word that
the Germans have embarked on an unparalleled
campaign of looting in Rome — confiscating price-
less paintings, manuscripts and other art treasures
as Allied armies draw nearer the Italian capital.
Wrote Dowson:

"Nazi squads were said to be stripping Roman
palaces, museums and private homes of master-
pieces on a scale dwarfing their sacking of Paris
and Warsaw. The London Daily Mirror reported
that several trains laden with pictures, books,
manuscripts and statuettes already have left for
Berlin. Some, however, were derailed and burned
by saboteurs.

"Reichmarshal Goering frequently has drafted
minute lists of valuable art for transfer to Germany
as soon as occupation of an historic city is com-
pleted.

"First reports indicated that the Nazi looting was
confined to the Italian part of Rome. Vatican City
apparently has not been touched."

BENDER COLLECTION HOLIDAY
FEATURE AT S. F. ART MUSEUM
The Bender collection — oils, sculpture, watercolors,
drawings and prints — are the holiday attraction
this month at the San Francisco Museum of Art.
Some of the works are familiar, some appear for
the first time. Much of the collection has not been
shown for several years, for it is so large that only
a portion may be hung at one time.

FRANCIS DE ERDELY EXHIBITS
WAR DRAWINGS AT DE YOUNG
A concrete result of the recent "Meet the Artist"
exhibition at the de Young Museum, is the show-
ing for the first time on the West Coast of the v^ork
of one of the most dynamic artists represented in
that show, Francis de Erdely, Hungarian - born
artist, who studied, taught and painted for many
years in Europe and who is now living in this
country.

Included are 27 oils, the same number of draw-
ings, and a special group which the artist calls
his "cycle of war drawings." The same bold, free
style in which Mr. de Erdely's powerful self-portrait
was painted, is evident in his landscape, still lifes
and figure studies.

EXHIBITION OF RELIGIOUS ART

Now at San Francisco Museum of Art and con-
tinuing until January is an exhibition of religious
art, consisting of Spanish, French, Italian, German
and Russian carved religious figures; also a few
candlesticks, plaques, furniture and paintings —
from the 14th to 18th centuries.

THE FLOWER VENDOR

DIEGO RIVERA

The Flower Vendor has become the best known painting in the
Albert M. Bender Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Art.
It has been reproduced with unusual fidelity of color in a print
sold widely throughout the United States, while a smaller color
reproduction appeared on the cover of the Book-of-the-Month-
Club News recently.

DECEMBER, 1943

RENOIR EXHIBIT APPEALS TO
HOLLYWOOD FILM COLONY
The Renoir exhibition, recently held in the Am-
bassador Hotel in Los Angeles, was unique in
many ways. The French master has long been a
prime favorite with the motion picture colony, and
the show was offered largely for their pleasure.
The paintings included such notable canvases as
"Baigneuse a Guernsey," "Chapeau Fleurie,"
"Jeune Femme au Chien" and "Roses dans un
Vase Bleu," as well as several important loans
from West Coast collectors.

A special feature was the display of paintings
and sketches given by Renoir to his most famous
model, Gabrielle, who is now Mrs. Conrad Slade,
wife of an American artist. Gabrielle came to live
with the Renoir family in the 1890's and was with
them until the artist's death in 1919. Renoir painted
her from childhood to full womanhood. Mr. and
Mrs. Slade live in Hollywood and it is through
their generosity that these intimate paintings were
shown to the public.

ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL TEXTILE
EXHIBITION, WEATHERSPOON GALLERY
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, N.C., an-
nounces its annual international textile exhibition
March 1 to March 28, 1944. Entry blanks for ex-
hibits must be received by February 1; exhibits
two weeks later.

Jury of Award will consist of (Chairman) Mary
Leath Stewart, Assistant Professor of Art, The
Woman's College of the University of North Caro-
lina, Greensboro; Dorothy W. Liebes, textile de-
signer. National Director Art and Skill Projects,
American Red Cross, San Francisco; Meyric R.
Rogers, Curator of Decorative Arts and Curator of
Industrial Arts, The Art Institute, Chicago.

With the jury alone will rest the decision as to
which textiles shall be accepted or rejected. Each
decision will be based upon the artistic merit of
the entry under consideration.

CALIFORNIA CHAPTER OPENS
GALLERY IN SAN FRANCISCO
Taking over a penthouse gallery in the heart of
San Francisco's shopping district, the California
Chapter of the American Artists Professional
League recently opened as a co-operative venture
for the benefit of chapter members. The gallery is
at 133 Geary Street, less than two blocks from
Union Square.

During American Art Week an invitation show
of the work of better known members was held.
Since then all members have been entitled to show
from one to five pictures, depending on the space
available. A moderate fee is charged.

CONTEMPORARY BRITISH ART
ON VIEW AT DE YOUNG MUSEUM

A new major exhibition, organized by the British
Council in London, went on view at the de Young
Museum November 18th. Comprising over 150 oil
paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints, the
show is being circulated throughout the United
States by the Toledo Museum of Art, where it was
recently shown to the American public for the first
time. Representative and well-known names in

the modern British art scene have all been assem-
bled for a limited showing.

ART BOOMS IN BRITAIN

That terrible summer day in 1940, when the French
Army — termed at the time of Umbrella Diplomacy
the greatest in Europe — broke before Hitler's Pan-
zers, the war was deposited neatly in Britain's
front yard. The survival of our way of life was up
to England alone, and England met the ordeal with
bulldog courage. Her people did not waste valu-
able time asking "what are we fighting for?" — they
knew, the hard way. Which brings me to the point
of this "comment." What did the embattled English
do about art?

Perhaps we Americans, still debating the value
of art in an all-out war, will be helped to a decision
by the following C.T.P.S. dispatch datelined Sep-
tember 20 from London: "A great boom in works
of art is indicated by sales at the summer exhibi-
tion of the British Royal Academy, which has just
ended after the most successful season since 1936.
During the course of the exhibition, 405 works were
sold for $56,105."

Works sold and the total purchase prices in the
five war years are:

1939 :.- 187 for $38,720

1940 137 for 36,310

1941 152 for 20,933

1942 237 for 32,555

1943 405 for 56,105

If the above figures mean anything, it is that the
English hunger for art and beauty, even as they
face the grim reality of war. To them, it is evidently
one of the indispensibles. — Art Digest.

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and economy in erection. It is an axiom;
The more steel used, the stronger and safer
the building.

Here are some of the reasons why you
can't beat steel for building construction.

1 Steel won't burn! The more steel you
use in building construction and
equipment, the more you reduce
fire hazard.

2 steel combines strength and lightness.

Its high strength-weight ratio has
established steel as the ideal ma-
terial for structural uses. This same
basic advantage makes it the natural
choice for many other applications
throughout the modern building.

Q Steel is adaptable. Because it is eco-
nomical and easy to fabricate, steel
is well suited to the requirements of
functional design and building mod-
ernization.

^^ Steel is movable and salvageable.

Prefabricated Steel Structures are
easy to dismantle and move to new
locations.

Many types of cold-formed sections have
been developed for prefabricated construc-
tion. Cold-forming, for instance, makes
possible sound-proof wall panels — easy to
erect, easy to move — providing maximum
flexibility of interior arrangement.

Buildmg modernization is simplified by
wall facmgs, wamscotmg and fixtures made
of Porcelain on Steel, in a variety of colors,
as well as stainless steel for mouldings, trim,
panels and storefronts.

Steel ceilings, floors, windows, doors,
frames, baseboards, etc., all contribute to
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ways, marquees, shower stalls and toilet
partitions are built of steel, they last longer
and reduce fire hazards. In furniture and
equipment, too, steel provides durability,
lightness, compactness and attractiveness.

Just as the mechanisms for war have ad-
vanced in efficiency far beyond our widest
expectations, so have advanced the im-
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WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND?

Letters to the Editor

ENGINEER-ARCHITECT

Editor,

Architect and Engineer:

Apropos to your recent articles relative to
the status of the architect and the engineer.
I ann sending the attached clipping from
the Draftsman, as it seems to confirm, in
the main, a growing feeling that the profes-
sions are becoming more and more in-
separable and that our post-war building
revival will see closer affiliation of the two.
W. ADRIAN

Part of the clipping referred to fol-
lows.— Editor.

"For the past seventy-five years a gap
has been widening between the engineer and
the architect. There was a time when the
titles were interchangeable and all but syn-
onymous, but specialization has driven in a
wedge that has resulted In an all but com-
plete divorce.

"The history of the doctor and the sur-
geon is more or less parallel with that of
the engineer and the architect. Nevertheless,
specialization here also is 'making tittle ones
out of the big ones,' for we are now getting
the eye doctor, the heart doctor and even
the corn doctor where once we had the
general practitioner who did everything.

"The basic training of the medical doctor
bears about the same relation to that of
the surgeon as does that of the engineer to
that of the architect or vice versa. It Is that
of learning to think logically along certain
scientific lines. There is no difference in the
method of thought learned in architectural
training and the method learned in engineer-
ing training. The addition of other factors
In subsequent experience or further training
causes the ultimate divergence In practice.
. "We are prone to think of all forms of
engineering as either structural or mechani-
cal but problems in enameled metals, plas-
tics, paints, hardware and innumerable other
elements of construction are calling for the
development of a type of engineer and ar-
chitect where they were once left to the
general practitioner.

"At any rate we are convinced that there
is only the thin line of aesthetics dividing
engineering from architecture and that there
Is no reason why the qualifications for both
cannot be under one brain pan."

HOME PLANNERS' INSTITUTE

Editor,

Architect and Engineer:

... In reading the October issue of
Architect and Engineer, I was pleased in-
deed to find on Page 34 some reference to
the Home Planners' Institute which is now
being tried out in Portland, Oregon. It may
interest you to know that four classes of
50 members each have already been or-
ganized and by the middle of next week all

of these classes will have had their first
lecture on selection of the homesite, the
speaker being Chester A. Moores. past presi-
dent of the Portland Realty Board, vice-
chairman of the Housing Authority of Port-
land and a member of the City Planning
Commission.

The next subject to be considered by the
home planning classes will be house design,
the lecturers in which will be outstanding
Portland architects selected by the local
Chapter of the A. I. A. It occurs to me that
you might be Interested In having a short
article prepared by one of these architects,
explaining the Home Planners' Institute from
the point of view of the architects.
Very truly yours,

R. T. TITUS,
Director of Trade Extension, West
Coast Lumbermen's Association.
Portland, Oregon,
November 6, 1943.

An article on the subject is being
prepared by Architect Roi Morin for
publication next month. — Ed.

THE MIRACLE HOUSE

Editor,

Architect and Engineer:

The die-hards who scoffed "get a horse"
every time an early automobile broke down
are at It again. They don't believe in "fairy
stories" or in "miracle houses." Like the
harness makers of 1902, they want to stick
to "the good old ways."

The true Miracle House of tomorrow will
be measured by the same yardstick: can It
be built to sell d\ a price the ordinary man
can afford to pay? If not. It will be no
miracle but Just another luxury, even if It
has movable walls that will change the size
and shape of rooms, air conditioning that
will reproduce any sort of climate at the
touch of a button, and electrostatic equip-
ment that will do all the housewife's dust-
ing and cleaning.

For the building Industry, the real miracle
will be the production of substantial, at-
tractive, durable homes within reach of the
Income of every able-bodied working man.

There are many arguments about how
houses can be built, what material can be
used, who will build and sell them. All are
beside the point. The success of the low
cost house will depend, not on whether It
Is built of this material or that, or just how
It Is made, but whether It can be built to
sell at a price the millions who have never
been able to own a home can then afford
to pay.

If a good, attractive low cost house can
be built, the building Industry can reason-
ably expect to double the size of Its market.
These extra 900,000 homes will require the
labor of, at a guess, 1,500,000 workers for

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There are those who say that It will take
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of houses at that price. These are days of
miracles — ships built in days instead of
months, radar that "sees ' unerringly through
fog and darkness, atoms cracked, the riches
of coal-tar chemistry, huge bombers flow-
ing off mass production lines, helicopters
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•Indicates Alternate Months

ALADDIN Heating Corp *

AMERICAN Rubber Mfg. Co 42

ANDERSON & Ringrose 45

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BASALT Rock Company 44

BAXTER & Company, J. H 10

CASSARETTO, John 46

CLARK, N., & Son 8

CLINTON Construction Company 43

COATES, Leonard, Nurseries 45

COLUMBIA Steel Company 7

CROCKER First National Bank; 45

DINWIDDIE Construction Company - 46

FORDERER Cornice Works 43

FULLER, W. P., Co II

GUNN, Carle & Company 9

HANKS, Inc., Abbot A 45

HAWS Drinking Faucet Company 2

HERRICK Iron Works 46

HOGAN Lumber Company 43

HUNT. Robert W., Company 45

HUNTER, Thos. B 46

IMPERIAL Brass Mfg. Co *

INCANDESCENT Supply Co 46

INDEPENDENT Iron Works 8

JENSEN & Son, G. P. W 46

JOHNSON Company, S. T *

JUDSON Pacific Company ..-. 43

KAWNEER Co *

KRAFTILE Company 9

MATTOCK, A. F 44

MULLEN Mfg. Co 45

NORTHERN California Electrical Bureau 32

PACIFIC Coast Gas Association *

PACIFIC Foundry Company, Ltd 6

PACIFIC Manufacturing Company 44

PACIFIC Paint and Varnish Company 40

PACIFIC Portland Cement Company 10

PARAMOUNT Built-in Fixture Company *

PARKER, K. E 2nd Cover

REMILLARD-Dandini Co 44

REPUBLIC Steel Corporation 44

SALL Mountain Company 38

SANTA Maria Inn 44

SIMONDS Machinery Company 44

SISALKRAFT Company 44

SOULE Steel Co Back Cover

STANLEY Works, The *

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TORMEY Company, The 45

U. S. STEEL Company 7

VERMONT Marble Company 44

WASHINGTON - Eljer Company _ *

WESTERN Asbestos Company 38

WOOD, E. K., Company., 42

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IN THE NEWS

BRIDGE EXPERT

E. L. Durkee, who recently entertained the structural
engineers of Northern California with a graphic de-
scription of the Rainbow Bridge at Niagara Falls (see
page 31), has been identified
for a nunnber of years with the
design and erection of some of
the major steel bridges and
"*" structures in the United States

•j^^^ • Jtk and other countries. For his out-
^^f^ ^^^k standing professional achleve-
^^^■■H^^H ments in the field of structural
^^^^^H^^^^l engineering, Mr. Durkee re-
^^^B fl^J^^^H ceived the Construction Prize
pypi^gg Award of 1939 by the American

Society of Civil Engineers.
At present Mr. Durkee is in charge of the erect--
of a 21,000-ton floating steel drydock at the Alamec^
California, plant of the Bethlehem Steel Co., where -
is permanently located as Resident Engineer.
A FLOOR SALESMAN

Chet Cook, for the past ten years with the Sisalkre
Company, San Francisco, Is now associated with E
Banta and the H. hi. Robertson Co., 689 Mills Build-
ing, San Francisco. Mr. Cook, after leaving the
University of Illinois Engineeri-
School, worked out of the C-
cago office of the Sisalkraft Corri-
pany and later out of the New
York office. Five years ago he
came to the Coast to cover the
Northern California territory. He
will be representing the full Ro-
bertson line of Q floors and pan-
els, Robertson protected metal
COOK ventilation units and skylights.

Cook is an active member of San Francisco Chapter.
Producers Council.
UP AND UP

Jay E. Jellick, recently named Sales Manager of
Pacific Portland Cement Company, by President J. A.
McCarthy, has enjoyed an enviable record of execu-
tive responsibility ever since he
was graduated at the University
of Idaho with the degree of
civil engineer. That was back in
1908.

One of Mr. Jelllck's first posi-
tions was with the Department
of Interior on construction work
at the Mogul Indian Reservation
in Arizona. Later he was with
the Washington Water Power
Company, Spokane, then with
the Los Angeles County Road Department as Senior

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

JELLICK

I^esldent Engineer. He also served as District Engineer
^or the Wyoming State Highway Department and
from 1921 to 1941 occupied various positions, from
pleld Engineer to District Engineer and Manager, with
rhe Portland Cement Association.
'. Mr. Jellick was Manager of the San Francisco office
bf the Portland Cement Information Bureau when ap-
pointed to the position of Sales Manager of Mr. Mc-
Carthy's company. Jay belongs to the aggressive type
iDf executives and Is well liked by the leaders of the
puilding industry in the San Francisco area.

j POST-WAR SCHOOL BUILDINGS

' Indications are that school architects are going to
nave plenty of work after the war. Several leading
fchool architects are already discussing the advisa-
tsility of forming a combination of working executives,
:onsIsting of architect, engineer and contractor. This
jtype of working personnel appears destined for a
[strenuous tryout.

1 School districts throughout California already have
set aside $9,000,000 for new school construction In the
post-war period, according to Dr. Walter F. Dexter,
State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Factors making new construction necessary. Dr. Dex-
ler said, are increased enrollment due to population
[gains, expanded plant needs which cannot be met
during the war emergency and "new types of educa-
tional services that will be carried on after the war."

Dr. Dexter said several school districts already have
Sought the assistance of the State Division of School-
[house Planning on contemplated projects. They include
Carmel, Fresno, Fullerton, Kern County, Modesto,
Monterey, Needles, Redlands, San Bernardino, San
Mateo and Stockton.

NEW CODE ON PREFABRICATION

Besides adopting a new Code on prefabricated con-
[struction, the Pacific Coast Building Officials' Con-
ference, at their 21st annual meeting In San Francisco,
(adopted the following resolution:

'Whereas war conditions have necessitated the con-
struction of many substandard types of temporary
[housing facilities by government agencies, resulting
jin depreciation of property values and in many cases
creating a serious fire hazard, the Conference recom-
mends to all interested government agencies the re-
imoval of these substandard buildings Immediately after
the war emergency."

Duncan E. Kennedy, building Inspector of Victoria,
B.C., who has been president of the Conference for
the last two years, was elected president for the com-
ing year.

RETURNS TO SAN FRANCISCO

Donnell E. Jaekle, architect, has moved back to San
Francisco from Los Altos. His new address is 731
North Point Street, San Francisco.

DECEMBER, 1943

In these days of re-
formulations/ due to raw

material shortages and priori-
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ever to seek reliable counsel
and use only dependable prod-
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been preparing for today's
emergency needs. Our tech-
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560 ACRES OF NEW INDUSTRIAL AREA

The level shoreline area between Hunteri Point end
the Embercadero conititutet a logically ettab-
lithed industrial district. Five hundred and siity
acres of valuable new land cen be created by filling

the tidelands.

CONTROL OF EROSION AND ACCRETION

Land slippage injures scenic drives and walks in r"^

Lincoln Park; erosion and sand accretion on the I \

Great Highway are costly. Scientific surveys are \ /
needed as a basis for economical corrective ^^

A 23-MILE CONTINUOUS SHORE DRIVE

Protection and Improvement of the Great Highway
along the ocean; new roadway connections along
the Golden Gate, and a new Freeway on the Bay
Shore are proposed to complete a useful traffic
artery and notable scenic highway around San
Francisco.

REHABILITATION OF FERRY BUILDINGAREA

Remodeling of the Ferry Building, land clearance _X

and street revision will provide a Water Gate to [X

the City; a street car and bus terminal; a tourist- I /
commercial center, with shops, exhibits, recreation |f

facilities, off
fishing trips.

and docks for sight-seeing and

ELIMINATION OF SHORELINE POLLUTION

San Francisco and neighboring cities are polluting
the Bay, creating a health hazard and preventing
full use of shoreline properties. Nearly 46,000,000
gallons of untreated sewage are discharged daily
by this City, spoiling Its own beaches and yacht
basins. A complete system of sewage treatment
plants Is proposed as a post-war project.

NEW RECREATIONAL FACILITIES

New beaches, shore parks and picnic areas; walks, 1^
bicycle paths, observation points; improved park- | \
ing lots, and more accessible and attractive tourist I /
facilities can be created along the shore. Land is '-^
generally available; a comprehensive plan for Its
ultimate development Is now provided.

380 ACRES OF NEW RESIDENTIAL LAND

NEW HARBORS FOR SMALL BOATS

The Marina Yacht Harbor would be doubled in |>
capacity, Aquatic Park developed for boats, and j\
the Ferry Building transformed as a pleasure craft | y
landing. Facilities tor boat building, rowing, and L^r
small sailboats would be located near the new '
Hunters Point residential areas.

Unified Marina and
Aquatic Parks

Enlarged Beach

Picnic Areas

New Parking Areas

Improved
Bayvlew Park

New ParkA'

BASIC PROPOSALS OF SAN FRANCISCO'S SHORE LINE PLAN

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEERi

POST-WAR DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR
SAN FRANCISCO WATERFRONT

by M. DEMING TILTON*

The San Francisco Planning Commission has
complefed and is presenting its first technical
report to the Mayor, the Supervisors, and de-
partment heads. The report outlines a tenta-
tive post-war development plan for the entire
waterfront of the city.

The Master Plan which the City Planning
Commission is now making is to be based upon
a series of such reports. The first preliminary
studies will deal with districts or areas, such
as the business districts, industrial and ware-
house areas, blighted and depressed neighbor-
hoods and residential sections. Other reports
will be concerned with public improvements
such as streets and highways, housing, parks
and recreation areas, street car and bus service
and railroad transportation. Because of the
industrial, scenic and recreational importance
of the waterline of the city, the planning of
these areas has had initial attention.

GENERAL BENEFITS OF MASTER PLAN

The Master Plan in its final form will be com-
posed of many lesser plans properly fitted to-
gether. Single projects, such as have been de-
veloped in the study of shoreline areas, will
have greater value because they are part of a
comprehensive scheme designed to bring im-
provement to the entire city.

The Shoreline Plan and others of similar type,
are expected to have the following general
benefits:

(1) The competitive position of San Fran-
cisco in the fields of industry, business and
transport will be improved.

(2) Conditions under which people live and
work in the city will be better.

(3) Opportunities will be provided for in-
vestment of both public and private funds on
thoroughly sound improvement projects.

The basic purpose of the Shoreline Plan is
the orderly re-establishment of peace-time
enterprise and the continued employment of
the working forces upon whom the city de-

• Director of Planning, San Francisco City Planning Commission.

DECEMBER, 1943

pends for normal, healthy community life.

The twenty-three mile shoreline of San Fran-
cisco is a priceless natural asset. It provides
advantageous sites for transportation and in-
dustry, areas for health-giving recreation and
the enjoyment of scenery, and access to sun-
shine and fresh air. Because of the great social
and economic importance of shoreline areas,
their orderly, systematic improvement is a
major concern of the city. The waterfront of
San Francisco is not yet a finished public im-
provement. It cannot produce maximum re-
turns and benefits until all its exceptional
qualities have been fully capitalized.

BASIC PROPOSALS OF SHORELINE PLAN

Briefly stated, the major proposals of the
Shoreline Plan (see cut) are as follows:

1 . Shallow tideland areas on the Bay, to the
extent of about 730 acres, would be filled for
industrial, transportation, and warehouse and
storage purposes.

2. Sewer projects for the elimination of Bay
pollution should be advanced, and listed as one
of the major post-war reemployment projects.

3. Tidelands South of Hunters Point, to the
extent of approximately 350 acres, could be
filled to provide high quality homesites for em-
ployees of the h-lunters Point Navy Yard and, if
necessary, additional industrial areas.

3. A continuous twenty-three-mile Shoreline
drive should be developed, the section along
the Bayshore to be a Freeway providing direct
high-speed access to the gates of the new
Navy Yard.

5. The Ferry Building and its surrounding
area must be modernized and improved, to
provide the City with an impressive Watergate,
a modern street car and bus station at the
terminus of Market Street, and a tourist exhibit
and recreation center.

6. New recreational facilities can be pro-
vided along the Ocean, Golden Gate, and Bay
shores, on land now largely owned by the City
and on new land to be created by filling tide-

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PROPERTY ACQUISITION IN
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PLANS FOR NORTH POINT
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POST-WAR PROGRAM

STUDIES FOR FERRY BUILDING AREA

land areas. The new facilities proposed would
include bathing beaches, shore parks and pic-
nic areas, walks, bicycle paths and observation
points, improved parking lots, and more acces-
sible and attractive tourist facilities.

7. Harbors for small boats would be in-
creased in size and number, to give greater
encouragement to sailing, fishing, pleasure
boating and other uses of San Francisco Bay.
This would be accomplished by doubling the
capacity of Marina Yacht Harbor, transform-
ing Aquatic Park and the Ferry Building and
providing new facilities for boat building, row-
ing, and small sailboats in protected basins
along the Bayshore at the County line.

8. Complete scientific surveys and investi-
gations should be made of erosion, sand accre-
tion and land slippage along the Ocean shore.
These Investigations are regarded as necessary
for the protection of lands and Improvements
already In public ownership. Completion of
such scientific studies will enable the city to
employ the forces of nature profitably in the
building up of new land, new beaches, and the
creation of new park and recreation areas.

TEN POST-WAR YEARS FOR COMPLETION

The City Planning Commission estimates that
at least ten years would normally be required
for carrying out the proposed plan. If large
scale unemployment appears after the war,
however, the allowance of time for construc-
tion of many projects should be shortened.

The Commission has made no estimates of
the total cost of the plan. These costs will

depend upon the prices of labor and materials
prevailing at the time the work may be under-
taken in the years following the war. The Com-
mission Is confident, however, that the problem
of financing the construction of many of the
proposed projects can be solved because the
City of San Francisco has an excellent financial
record and an enviable position with respect
to its borrowing capacity.

The report points out that certain projects,
such as the tideland reclamation along the
South Bay Shore, have regenerative value.
They create new land, useful facilities for In-
dustry and transportation and stimulate new
types of economic activity. Improvements of
this type may require a large Initial expendi-
ture, but the Commission points out that once
these new lands and facilities have been cre-
ated, they continue to provide dividends for
the community for many years thereafter.

The report concludes with a reminder that
certain hazards attend all efforts to look Into
the future. The City Planning Commission be-
lieves, however, that San Francisco is a city
in which people will always want to live. They
will always want the city to become better,
to be more modern, and more attractive. They
will pay the bill willingly, if the work is well
planned. The labor forces needed to do the
job are here; the resources, machines and
equipment are available, and as soon as the
war Is ended, the people of San Francisco will
have both the will and the need to go ahead
with many reconstruction and improvement
projects of the type outlined In the Shoreline
Plan.

SAN FRANCISCO CITIZENS' MASTER PLAN

The Citizens' Master Plan Connnnittee
of the San Francisco Planning and
Housing Association held its first
meeting Tuesday, Novennber 16, in
the Italian room of the St. Francis
Hotel.

Jerd Sullivan, chairman of the com-

COMMITTEE

mittee, presided and L. Deming Til-
ton, City Planning Director, and
Thomas A. Brooks, Chief Administra-
tive Officer, addressed the meeting.

Members of the Citizens' Master
Plan Committee are: Harry B. Allen,

Hervey P. Clark, S. Waldo Coleman,
Marshall Dill, Morse Erskine, Morgan
Gunst, Daniel E. Koshland, William
G. Merchant, James K. Moffitt, Rich-
ard M. Oddie, Ralph Rodgers, Alex-
ander Watchman, Carl A. Wente,
George Wilson.

DECEMBER, 1943

STAINED GLASS PAST AND FUTURE

by JEANNETTE DYER SPENCER

Stained glass is the glory of the ancient cathe-
drals, the crowning achievement of a devout
world. Today the war threatens to bonnb it
out of existence. If stained glass and the mas-
terpieces of past cultures are destroyed, Europe
will be a dreary place until the arts of color
come to life once more. Will stained glass be
one of the arts resurrected?

The answer is yes, possibly, for three definite
reasons. First, the rules which guided the glass
workers of the middle ages have been redis-
covered and live again because they are an
integral part of our modern standard of esthet-
ics. Second, today is an age of glass and not
only is stained glass the most beautiful use of
the medium so'far developed by man but it is
also the most intense medium of expression
developed in the visual arts considered as a
whole, more intense than painting, sculpture or
mosaic, the medium with which it is most closely
allied. Third, stained glass is a superb instru-
ment for the promulgation of a great message.
Will there be a great message? For the sake
of our sanity we must hope that something
more will come out of the cataclysm of this war
than dadaism, futurism, surrealism and all the
other products of world war number one.

ADAM AND EVE

l-r„m .1,1 ,1 lh,M,ili,m

by Emmanuel Vigeland

Considering first our modern standard of
esthetics, what has it in common with medieval
glass? Two things: a feeling for the material,
that is for glass itself, and an understanding of
color in terms of light. The medieval artists
used glass as a mosaic, forming their designs
with small pieces of glass held together by
lead. Since glass is heavy, leaded panels con-
taining nine square feet or thereabouts were
supported by bars of iron forming an armature,
which was at first a simple gridiron in the win-
dow opening but later, in the storied windows
of the thirteenth century, outlined the form
of the medallions and was itself decorative. In
recent years the evolution of decorative forms
from purely functional prototypes has been
extraordinarily speeded up, though more per-
haps in the field of industrial design than in the
field of stained glass and of the fine arts.

Before the war, stained glass windows in the
technique of the twelfth and thirteenth cen-
turies were being produced both here and
abroad. The technique of the early centuries
of stained glass, measured by our modern yard-
stick, is the finest. The artists then were true
to their medium. They colored the glass In the
crucible and did not paint upon It with enamel
colors as did the artists of the renaissance who
tried to Imitate In glass the great compositions
of the oil painters. The Illustration of modern
work, Adam and Eve In the Garden of Eden,
by Emmanuel VIgeland at Stockholm, is an ex-
cellent example of glass in the style of the old.
Compare it with the thirteenth century scene
of Moses from the Sainte Chapelle at Paris.
VIgeland handles his medium In exactly the
same manner, for he treats It as a translucent
mosaic and produces a powerful design with
the lead lines used to emphasize form and small
pieces of glass used decoratlvely for scintil-
lating effect.

Today we find an appreciation of the true
quality of glass in objects of art of all kinds
and in sculpture. A small head from the Tem-
pleton Crocker collection which was exhibited

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

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Moses places the flowering rod of Aaron
on the altar, Sainte Chapelle, Paris

at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exhi-
bition shows an extraordinary appreciation on
the part ot the artist, Henri Navarre, for the
quality of glass. It is a head, but in addition
it is a heavy, glowing, molten form, the color
of ruffled sea water, pitted on the surface so
that the light seems trapped within it. Here
is an understanding that the irregularities of
the old glass, the rough surface, the bubbles,
the uneven depth was much of its quality.

COLOR IN STAINED GLASS

Stained glass is colored glass. Because light
comes through it instead of being reflected
from the surface as from a painting, some of
the laws governing it are different. When the
painter changes the value of a color he changes
the quality too. Not so the artist working in
glass. He may deepen his color by using a
thicker piece of glass or by plating one piece
with another and not change the hue. Conse-
quently, he may, if he chooses, eliminate modi-
fied tones and work only in the colors of the
spectrum, thus giving his work great brilliance.
In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the
colors used were few: an orange red, a greenish
blue, green, and violet that in bright sunlight
seemed pink. To this were added small quan-
tities of yellow and of off white.

Though color in glass is not the same as on
canvas, painters have enriched their medium
by a knowledge of the laws of light which gov-
erned the medieval artists working in glass.
Impressionism in painting is first and foremost
the realization that color is light. Thus the can-
vases of the impressionists are rich in the three

primaries of the light color theory: orange,
green and blue violet. Often, too, rainbow
hues give luminosity to impressionistic painting.
Renoire especially seems to bathe his figures
in the colors of the spectrum as though the
light upon them was refracted light coming
through a prism.

The post impressionists as well as the impres-
sionists have much in common with the early
window makers. Picasso passed through a
stained glass period in which he used the diaper
patterned backgrounds of the storied windows
of medieval times. Braque in some of his re-
cent very colorful canvases gives value to red
by the use of pink as In stained glass. Roualt,
of all the modern artists, is most profoundly
influenced by glass. In his youth he worked on
the windows of the old cathedrals and when
he changed his medium and applied pigment
to canvas he never forgot the color, the design
or the texture of the old glass.

WARM VS. COOL COLORS

The thirteenth century artists knew that blue
tends to recede, red to advance and In their
windows usually silhouetted the figures against
a celestial blue. When they wished a figure to
appear within a doorway, however, they often
used a red background to make the figure seem
distant, the doorway near. Today it is common
practice for the painter to use warm colors
versus cool colors to give a feeling of three-
dimensional form. The old system of shading
and high lighting has been discarded and paint-
ing has captured a bit of the vitality of glass.

In the scene of Moses placing the flowering

Center of Apocalypse Window,
Sainte Chapelle, Paris

DECEMBER, 1943

rod of Aaron on the altar, the background is
blue, the altar red. Moses wears a gown of
green and a cloak of violet pink. His horns are
yellow, indicating the light that streamed from
his countenance after he talked with God. The
quaint device of the horns was invented by the
actors in the old mystery plays; then it was
adopted by the artists working in glass and by
the sculptors. Michelangelo's Moses has two
marble horns. They are interestingly symbolical
but not at once indicative of radiating light.

Glass is light and today is an age of glass
and an age of light. We have made our win-
dows larger and larger to let in more and more
light and also to capture (within a building) a
feeling of spaciousness and of the out-of-doors.
Medieval builders likewise made their windows
larger and larger, the supporting walls of the
cathedrals narrower and narrower, partly to
let in more light and partly, as today, for the
sake of esthetics, for the sake of the windows
themselves. The middle ages loved color, deep,
rich, glowing color such as no other period has
known. Because the color streams through the
windows like the rays of the sun nothing in
art has so stimulated our sense of sight.

Stained glass was at its height in the days
when the story of Christ's suffering for the re-
demption of mankind was a moving force in
man's daily life. Since then it has languished
for it is too intense to exist merely as an exer-
cise in esthetics. The artist may soar but not
for long unless he touches life. Diego Rivera
was just another able artist before he had a
message to give the world. When he began to
portray the laboring Mexican peons, he grew
to the stature of his idea, namely that labor is
noble. So in stained glass, the rays of red light,
the greenish blue that complements it or
mingles with it to form a rich purple, pour
through a cathedral window like the full blast
of a symphony orchestra in an endless fortis-
simo which would seem but a travesty if it
lacked human significance.

Many artists inspired by an understanding
of mankind will be born from the melting pot
of this war. At the close of world war number
one, Robert Boardman Howard said he wanted

to paint that war because it was the greatest
thing that had happened up to that time, hie
did not do it. Somehow world war number
one did not sufficiently move the American
people. Out of the Spanish civil war, the
bloody preamble to world war number two,
came a new horror, the bombing of defenseless
women and children and Picasso painted Guer-
nica.

THE APOCALYPSE WINDOW

Guernica is apocalyptic and creates a
greater feeling of awe than any of the apoca-
lypse windows of medieval times. These never
equalled the grandeur of the text. The apoca-
lypse window illustrated is the rose window of
the Sainte Chapelle. Only the center of the
window is shown. Saint John kneels at the feet
of the All Mighty, who is seated on a rainbow,
a sword in his mouth. Behind him are the seven
stars and the seven candlesticks symbolical of
the seven churches of Asia which appear in the
petals surrounding the central scene. The glass
is fifteenth century, less colorful than the thir-
teenth but still beautiful. All the scenes of
Saint John's vision of the destruction of the
world and the resurrection are depicted in the
rose of the Sainte Chapelle as a fitting conclu-
sion to the stories of the old testament and of
the life of Christ told in the lancet windows
of the chapel. Stained glass windows of me-
dieval times were the Bible of the poor. Stained
glass was developed as a means of teaching
the people and is the greatest example of the
successful use of one of the visual arts for the
expression of an idea that the world has ever
known.

The ancient apocalypse windows, in spite of
their tragic drama, have the same quiet seren-
ity that permeates all the great stained glass.
This serenity is attributable to the faith of the
artists who saw a promise for the future in the
stories they portrayed. If, after the war, our
artists turn again to stained glass, which in-
deed they may because of the power of glass
to tell a story, its intensity, and its relationship
to modern esthetics, let us hope that they too
may be inspired by a faith in the future.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

REGIONAL

The Central \ ^ Valley Project

by WALTER E. PACKARD

Planning encompasses two fields of research. One of these concerns the problenns of physical
science, including engineering. The other concerns economic and social relationships. This
second field is often neglected, not because it is unimportant, but because it involves con-
flicts of interest which make agreement difficult. The pressing issues which remain to be solved
in the Central Valley Project are economic issues primarily, and nothing is to be gained by
dodging them.

Economics concerns man and the way he makes a living. It may not be a science in the
strict meaning of the word; but effect does follow cause in economics as in physics or chemistry,
which is the important fact. If a certain social objective is to be reached, there must be
appropriate economic action to that end. Man's welfare depends first upon his philosophy of
life, which determines his objectives, hlis objectives, in turn, shape his economic patterns of
action, which ave but a means to an end.

It is assumed as a premise that the principles enunciated in the Declaration of Indepen-
dence and the Constitution of the United States embody the essential aspirations of a demo-
cratic people. The propositions that we are all endowed by our Creator with the inalienable
rights of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of h^appiness, and that Government derives its just
powers from the consent of the governed, offer a sufficiently definite philosophy for present
purposes. What we are interested in primarily, is the character of the economic pattern
developed to implement this philosophy.

The desire for freedom, which has led to the establishment of the democratic philosophy
of the New World was essentially a desire for freedom of enterprise, including the right to
believe as well as act in one's own interest. What was needed at that time was an institutional
device which would place the function of government in the hands of the governed so that
they might create economic rules and regulations to their own liking. Political democracy
was an essential prerequisite to economic progress.

The revolutionary step taken by the backers of the Declaration of Independence reflected
the free atmosphere of a new world. But they were dealing with new economic forces for
which their experience had not prepared them. They were conditioned to the concepts of a
craft economy of an agrarian civilization recently modified by the effects of a rising merchant
class. Modern economic thought was just taking form. It was in the year that Jefferson de-
clared his belief that man possesses an inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of

• Talk delivered at the California Housing and Planning Association dinner meeting in Los Angeles, October 29.
DECEMBER, 1943

happiness, that Adam Smith published his "Wealth of Nations." Machines and new sources
of power were altering not only the mechanics of production but management techniques as
well. Thoughtful leaders were groping for theories to explain the course of changing events
and to define the forces with which they had to deal.

THREE FUNCTIONAL PATTERNS

Three basically different functional patterns emerged from these inchoate circumstances.
Two of the patterns represent a naturally balanced functional unity in which consumer want
is the primary motivating force. The family farm is one of them. The family farm operator is
owner, enterpriser, laborer and manager all in one, and to a degree he is consumer also. Con-
sumer co-operatives form the second of the two patterns in which functions are united. They
include not only the growing number of consumer owned and operated stores and gas stations,
but they include also, municipally owned and operated enterprises of all kinds; irrigation dis-
tricts where water users join in developing their own supply; farmers marketing and processing
co-operatives in which farmers who are users of various kinds of goods and service join in get-
ting what they need; the T.V.A., and other Federal power projects; the forest service, U. S.
post office; the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads, with its vast labyrinth of highways; river and
harbor development; the Soil Conservation Service and the Bureau of Reclamation to men-
tion but typical examples of activities which are motivated primarily by consumer want.

The third functional pattern is the dominant one in the industrial field. It is one in which
the functions of ownership, enterprise, labor and the consumer are exercised very largely by
separate individuals or groups of individuals. Most of the problems of present day industrial
life are concerned with the conflicts of interest of these opposing groups. The interest of the
consumer is the only common denominator. All are consumers, and all consumers want an
ample supply at the lowest possible cost to them.

No planning project can be fully considered without reference to these alternative eco-
nomic patterns. In the case of the Central Valley Project, the law favors the two patterns
representing a unity of function. The Reclamation law, which represents the results of forty
years of planning, favors the family farm and is opposed to large scale corporate organization
In the agricultural field. It favors consumer ownership and enterprise In the power field. Also,
it is important to note that the design in this policy is to support free enterprise by preventing
monopoly ownership of two basic sources of energy, the biological energy of sun, soil and
water upon which agriculture rests, and electrical energy which serves industry and the con-
sumer. If either of these primary sources of energy are monopolized by a relatively small number
of producers, free enterprise will be partially stymied, it will be heavily burdened and the
resulting concentration of income will tend to lessen mass consumer purchasing power.

Most of the controversial issues relating to the Central Valley Project arise because some
individuals favor a pattern of divided functions In both agriculture and in the power field.

DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME

The basic issue involves income. Shall income from land be concentrated in the hands of
a relatively few large land owners or shall It be distributed more widely through the estab-
lishment of family farms or by a land tax on holdings in excess of a family farm unit or by public
ownership as at Boulder City and as provided for in the case of the Columbia Basin Project.
Shall power be owned and distributed by municipalities and districts where the returns to
ownership and enterprise will go eventually to consumers in lower rates, or shall it be distributed
by private interests, in which case the income will flow from consumers into the hands of a com-
paratively small number of stock and bond holders through higher rates.

These are problems which planners must face. The consequences of the possible alternative
lines of action are very far reaching.

28 ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

In analyzing these issues, the econo-
mist and sociologist must use precise
techniques of measurement and valu-
ation in precisely the same way that
engineers gauge the physical feasi-
bility of a project and determine be-
tween alternative courses of action.
Facts should be developed relative
to the economic and social conse-
quences of alternative ways of doing
things. Just what will happen if you
follow one course or another? Will
those results, whatever they are, serve
the general welfare or will they serve
a minority group or groups? Will the
resulting economy balance? Will there
be enough buying power in the hands
of consumers to create a necessary
outlet for the goods and services pro-
duced? Will unemployment and busi-
ness stagnation result from one or
another of possible alternatives?

In addition to the service of trained
economists and sociologists who are
able to apply techniques of measure-
ment and valuation in these economic
and social fields, it is necessary, also,
to have the participation of persons
who by reason of their closeness to
the problem, can provide facts which
are pertinent but which may not be
found through a more theoretical
analysis alone. These practical opera-
tors are specialists although they may
not be technicians. Their knowledge
may not be systematic but it may be
very significant. Their participation
should begin as soon as the tech-
nicians have built the frame of facts.

Then follows the analysis of forces
which influence opinion with reference
to alternative courses of action sug-
gested by the planning group. A study
of a modern rural town shows the
leading individuals are often the man-
agers of the power company, chain
stores of various kinds, transportation
agencies, telephone and telegraph
companies, gasoline stations owned
by large distributors, and by the man-
agers of large processing and dis-
tributing agencies, including creamer-
ies and packing houses whose organi-
zations may be state or nation wide.
The lines of control and of policy for-
mation represented by these agencies
lead to metropolitan centers and to
interests often partial to the system
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SURVEY INDICATES NEW USES
FOR WOODWORKING IN
POST-WAR HOMES

Woodwork, a No. I pre-war building material, will retain a nnajor
place in the plans of those who will build or remodel after the war.
This fact is strongly and factually Indicated In a recent survey,
made by an Independent research organization.

According to authorities in the building field, the survey strikes
a refreshing note of realism at a time when speculation — much of
it fanciful — Is rife concerning "home building materials of the
future."

In addition, the survey contains valuable Information for archi-
tects, builders, and others on those features and conveniences
which post-war home builders will desire most.

For example, as demonstrated by the survey, 83.78% of those
Interviewed want more storage space. Existing closets will have
built-in drawers and shelves with cupboard doors to keep out dust.
Shoe racks built just above the level of the floor will prove helpful.
Double-duty closets, made by Installing a full-length mirror on the
Inside of the closet door, will prove particularly convenient In bed-
rooms or front hallways. And the use of louvered doors — available
In stock sizes and attractive designs — will help provide both light
and ventilation for closets.

Windows, too, are a primary desire. 56.21% of those inter-
viewed definitely want more windows In their tomorrow's home.
Correct use and spacing of windows will make the home of tomor-
row sunnier, more cheerful, more healthful. Use of windows will
also make small rooms seem larger. Enclosure of porches for year
'round living accommodations, as well as the conversion of pre-
viously unused areas In attics, basements, and passageways be-
tween house and garage into additional sleeping quarters or play-
rooms. Is also possible with windows.

Crowded housing conditions today have stimulated a desire
for more bedrooms. As shown by the survey, 47.2% of those Inter-
viewed want more bedrooms in post-war homes. In small homes,
particularly, this desire for more bedrooms will place greater
emphasis on architectural design — particularly on the placing and
grouping of windows and doors. Bedrooms being smaller, correct
selection of doors Is Important as doors can make a room look
smaller, larger, longer or wider. Mirrored or louvered doors can
immensely Improve the "smartness" of the bedroom.

Driving and travel restrictions are opening the eyes of Ameri-
can home owners to the possibilities of the home as a place of
entertainment and recreation. Sixty per cent of those interviewed
prove that statement by declaring a recreation room as a "must"
In their post-war home.

DECEMBER. 1943

WOODWORK RETAINS MAJOR PLACE
IN POST-WAR HOME MARKET,
RECENT SURVEY INDICATES

Sturdy, attractive doors and colorful built-in shelves and cup-
boards will add immeasurably to appearance and increase utility
as well. Dutch doors, for a bedroom — unusual, yes — but they per-
mit a maximum of light and air, yet protect small children by
keeping them within the room when the lower half of the door
is closed.

STEP-SAVING CABINETS DESIRED

With maids and laundry help scarce, Mrs. America has really
learned to appreciate the value of step-saving, built-in cabinets.
Of the people interviewed, 89% insisted on built-in cabinets for
their post-war homes. By planning In advance, the cabinets can
be fitted to the "work-flow" plan. Using stock wood cabinets,
which are delivered unpainted, the housewife can work out any
color or combination of colors she desires. Use af "decals" can
add immeasurably to their appearance. Wood can be redecorated
frequently for, unlike metals, paint on wood does not chip nor does
it become lumpy with frequent paintings as do most metals.

Stock cabinets will prove equally versatile for other rooms.
Linen closets right in the bedroom or cabinets built into the head
or foot of the bed will eliminate the need for large dressers or
bureaus in small bedrooms. Fitted trays installed in combination
with mirror doors in bedroom closets will make a dressing closet
deluxe.

Built-in cabinets in the dining room can be both useful and
decorative. Corner cabinets are especially appropriate for the
display of fine china or knicknacks.

SURVEY VOICES NEED FOR DINING ROOMS

Many of today's families are "eating in the kitchen" for con-
venience and quickness. But they aren't planning to do It tomorrow.
According to the survey, 46.48% are listing a separate dining room
in their homes of tomorrow. Tomorrow's dining room will differ con-
siderably from the gloomy "cave" of the past. New arrangements
and grouping of windows combined with bright decorations will
create a bright, cheery atmosphere and an illusion of large space.

Doors, too, will play an Important part in this post-war dining
room. Flush doors may be used to create an appearance of spa-
ciousness in small rooms. Wood partitions extending partially
across the room will be used in some cases to separate the dining
room from the balance of the home where space is limited.

On larger sized homes, windows and doors will enhance equally
the beauty and utility of the dining room. Modern doors and
windows — casement windows in particular — French doors and cor-
ner cabinets will make the dining room truly beautiful and livable.

REGIONAL PLANNING

(Continued from Page 29)

of divided function. A wide distribu-
tion of metropolitan papers tends tc
emphasize the influence of the cit,
and the interests which may dominat--
it. The conclusions of technicians ma>,
easily be overruled by the pressure
of interests seeking contrary action
in line with their special liking.

WIDE FIELD FOR PLANNERS

When these organizational influ-
ences and interests are measured anc
appraised, planning enters a new anc
more personal field. What do indi-
viduals think about the issues to be
met? What is the attitude of the
representatives of metropolitan cor-
porate interests? What are they do-
ing to promote their views? What
does labor think? What are the views
and interests of the small business
man and the family farm operator?
What do the women think? What
views do the local schools and church-
es hold and what influences do the.
exert?

When these factors have been
measured and evaluated, the demo-
cratic process can be put into motion
and "we the people" can finally di
rect our affairs on the basis of neces-
sary knowledge and understanding.

BILLION DOLLAR BUILDING FUND

The California Senate committee
on post-war reconstruction work, '
meeting in Sacramento December]
13. discussed plans for a billion-
dollar building fund to take care]
of post-war construction needs. On
the subject, State Senator Jesse j
Mayo said:

'I think our committee should
meet with city councils, supervisors]
and others, ask them to immediate-
ly start drawing plans for new
dams, school houses, city halls and!
other public works.

"I believe a billion dollars' worth
of public work con be blueprinted
in that way. Then Congress should ,
appropriate half of that, and the
cities, counties, etc.. match the
half billion.

ARCHITECT AND FNfilNEER

RAINBOW BRIDGE

At a recent meeting of the Structural En-
gineers' Association of Northern California, a
discussion of "The Design, Fabrication and
Erection of the Rainbow Bridge at Niagara
Falls" and a forty-five minute motion picture
showing the erection of this structure, was pre-
sented by E. L. Durkee (see page 10), resident
engineer for the Bethlehem Steel Company,
Shipbuilding Division, Alameda, California.

The new Rainbow Bridge, costing $3,700,000,
connecting Canada and the United States
across the Niagara River below Niagara Falls,
replaces its well-known predecessor, The hlon-
eymoon Bridge, which collapsed under the
pressure of an unusually severe ice jam in Janu-
ary, I 938. This new bridge is the world's longest
fixed arch, having a span of 950 feet and a
rise of 150 feet. It carries two 22-foot road-
ways separated by a 4-foot mall and a 10-foot
sidewalk on the south side toward the Falls.
Concrete approaches span the remaining dis-
tance at each end of the arch span, completing
the 1200-foot length of roadway between the
sheer, vertical, rock - rimmed edges of the
gorge.

Mr. Durkee's presentation included a discus-
sion of a series of sketches depicting the
various stages in the erection of this structure,
which enabled his listeners to visualize the gen-
eral procedure of erection, at the same time
providing them with the background necessary
for full understanding of the motion picture
which followed.

DECEMBER, 1943

Due to the conditions existing at the site, it
was impossible to consider falsework for the
erection of this arch, and it was necessary to
devise a method of erection without the use
of any falsework bents In the river. An over-
head tie-back system of support was devised
for the erection of this structure. Since the
arch ribs were entirely self-supporting, there
being no spandrel truss system, it was decided
to cantilever only the arch ribs and their brac-
ing which would considerably reduce the dead
load to be supported during erection. An in-
teresting feature of this erection procedure
was the utilization of approximately 1000 tons
of fabricated steel, ultimately to be used for
columns and the floor system, in the temporary
erection structures required.

To support the tie-backs a steel tower I 30
feet high with columns 56 feet on centers was
erected on the end of the concrete approach,
on each bank of the river, directly above the
skew backs supporting the arch. These towers
were made up of the permanent spandrel col-
umns later installed in the structure. Anchor-
ages were constructed on shore to which back
stay cables were connected from the steel
tower. Each of the two anchorages back stay-
ing the cable bent consisted of a rectangular
block of concrete weighing 550 tons, bearing
against the natural rock. From the top of the
cable bent, tie-backs were connected to various
points on the arch. Erection proceeded until
the arch was erected from each bank of the

IS THE BEST LIGHT IN YOUR HOME
IN YOUR KITCHEN?

If you have the slightest doubt about how good your lighting is,
try this test. Take your book or your work into the kitchen. Can
you see better? If you can you have proved two things to your
own satisfaction:

1. That the living room lighting is not as
good as it might easily be.

2. That proper lighting fixtures and lamps
need not be expensive. Your kitchen fix-

ture probably cost less than any other

I^^HIjjHMlU lighting equipment in your home.

^^^^sKU^ The production of good light for seeing de-
pends upon certain laws of light and sight.
The kitchen unit gives you good light because:

1. The bulb is enclosed in a diffusing bowl and all light reaching
your eyes is well distributed — glareless and almost shadowless.

2. Light is evenly spread over a large area.

You can have just as good lighting in your living room or any
other room of the home if these same simple rules are observed.

1. Be sure your living room lamps and fixtures have diffusing
units.

2. Have large, wide shades on lamps so that light is well spread
over a large area.

Your existing fixtures, or perhaps even some
which have been "shelved" may need only
simple adjustments such as right sized bulbs
and enclosing globes, ample sized shades with
white lining.

Why not review your home lighting NOW
and see if you can't bring its quality through-
out the house up to that high standard in any
modern kitchen.

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San Francisco, California

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carefully and without waste.

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ERECTION SHOWN PROCEEDING FROM BOTH SIDES OF RIVER. INITIAL TIE BACKS HAVE BEEN REMOVED AND
ADVANCED FURTHER OUT ON THE SPAN AS ERECTION PROCEEDED

river to the crown, where a specially fabricated
keystone piece was inserted.

Each abutment was provided with thirty-two
3-inch dlanneter up-set anchor bolts. On these
anchor bolts was erected a steel grillage sec-
tion, made up of plate girders and weighing
63'/2 tons, to receive the arch sections. A
47 - ton steel skewback section and three
arch sections weighing respectively 65 tons,
75 tons and 58 tons, were then erected on
this grillage and cantilevered out under their
own weight over the river. At this point tie-
backs to the cable bent were attached to sup-
port the structure as additional sections of arch
rib were erected. In general, two sections of
arch rib were cantilevered beyond each tie-
back before installation of additional tie-backs
for the arch support.

Material was received at the end of each
concrete approach by a stiffleg derrick oF
85-ton capacity and lowered from this point
to the abutment below. Rails were placed on
one arch rib section and on a beam supported
on the cross bracing system, and a material
truck operating on these rails was used to haul
the arch rib sections and bracing system from
the abutment out on the span to the end
of the cantilevered portion. At this point a
second derrick moving on the arch rib itself

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Placing of steel grillage section weighing 63'/: tons on
anchor bolts at abutments.

DECEMBER, 1943

WAR HOUSING PROJECT

Santa Fe Box
Cars are made
Into Two Family
Shelters for
Navajo Indians

w m. ,

Wartime emergencies develop a relativity of
needs reminiscent of the empire that was lost,
"all for the want of a horseshoe nail."

We must have ships. But you can't have
ships without men, machines and material.
You can't get men unless men have places to
live. And transportation is another essential
link in the chain.

Good, old-fashioned American ingenuity has
helped the Santa Fe Railroad relieve many of
these jams, an Interesting example being the
housing project known as "Indian Village," near
the freight yards in Richmond, California.

No, not teepees with their primitive charac-
teristics. Instead a row of housing units — ■
clean, substantial shelters, with adequate
plumbing and plenty of room. They required

a minimum of material that could be used for
other purposes.

Although they have completed hundreds of
projects of greater size and cost, Barrett and
Hilp, general contractors, found the Indian
Village one of their most interesting operations.

Santa Fe had some box cars no longer fit
for heavy freight duty. Yet they had some
value. The steel trucks and frames could be
used again as rolling stock if equipped with
new superstructures.

So a plan was worked out to set two of the
box cars on parallel foundations and build bath
rooms, kitchens and a porch between the two.
Such a unit would then accommodate two
families. Completed, the project enabled
Santa Fe to bring in a group of Navajo Indians
from the desert, give them housing and thereby
have the benefit of their labor.

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ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

LIKE HIS ANCESTORS

True to the tribal tradition of his ancestors,
one seven-year-old Navajo resident of the Santa
Fe Indian Village, Richmond, clings to his bow
and arrow.

He's a crack shot, too. Any time the family
wants a pigeon breakfast, the potential brave
provides the piece de resistance.

Not from his own coops though. Those are
his personal pets and he raises them and tends
them most carefully.

But if a stray pigeon wanders into the neighbor-
hood, he's walking right into a Navajo pot pie.

Completed and occupied unit of Santa Fe Indian Village, Richmond

Preliminary surveys revealed one difficulty.
The plol of ground was so low that it could not
be drained into the Richmond sewer system
by gravity.

So it was necessary to construct a sump pit
at a depth which would receive the flow from
980 feet of sanitary sewer. Adjoining the
sump pit was another pit of similar size con-
taining the pumps necessary to lift the sewage
from the sump into the Richmond municipal
sewer system.

It had to be done, so they did it. And the
occupants are enjoying all the comforts of
modern homes. Success of the original project
may prompt its enlargement by the addition
of other units later.

DECEMBER, 1943

Sump Pit showing pump equipment

RAINBOW BRIDGE

(Continued f.om Page 33)

was provided. This consisted of a stiffleg
derrick of sufficient capacity to handle the
nnaximum loads of 53 tons, mounted on a tri-
angular shaped steel underframe. This derrick
was used in picking the loads off the traveler
and setting them in place, and as the erection
proceeded it was moved forward towards the
center of the span.

On the completion of the erection of the
arch ribs, jacking brackets were bolted to the
top and bottom flanges of the ribs at the
crown to support the arch until the measure-
ments could be taken for fabrication of the
I I -inch keystone sections, after which the tie-
backs were removed and the supporting cable
bents dismantled. Erection of spandrel col-
umns and the floor system proceeded in the
usual manner, with loads placed by both der-
ricks, one operating on the deck of the struc-
ture from the abutments, and the other working
back from the crown.

Throughout all erection operations a safety
net, similar to that used on the Golden Gate
Bridge, was suspended below this structure.
Although the erection proceeded during the
winter and under extremely hazardous condi-
tions, an enviable record was established, inas-
much as there were no deaths or serious in-
juries on the project.

Four sections of arch rib erected with one section canti-
levered beyond first tie bock. Note: Rib section being
moved out to derricit by means of traveler operating on
near arch rib.

The bridge was built by a Joint Commission
of Canadian and American members who re-
tained two American firms to design and
superintend its erection — Waddell & h^ardesty
of New York City, and Edward P. Lupfer Cor-
poration of Buffalo, New York.

NEW LIGHTING PRACTICE FOR POST-WAR HOUSING

A real market for fluorescent lighting
after the war will be the nearly two
million stores in the U. S. A. These
stores, according to utility executives,
are chiefly Interested in F-lighting.
Incandescents, however, will still have
considerable use for spot-lighting.

Chain stores alone, one survey
shows, will spend a half billion dollars
in the first year after the war for
store modernization. That divides It-
self into $3,500 per store.

There are three objectives In the
G.E. 3A store-lighting plan: Lighting
for attraction, appraisal, and for at-
mosphere. Of Interest to architects
and manufacturers of slore-front ma-
terials Is the all-glass "visual store-
front" which reveals the whole store
from the street. To accomplish this.

the "visual storefront" store will re-
quire a relatively great amount of
light. Among other markets for greater
amounts of fluorescent lighting will be
the theater and the gas service sta-
tion.

Only one-third of American Indus-
try as a whole Is well lighted today.
That leaves two-thirds of the Indus-
trial market (both large and small
plants) yet to be lighted In accor-
dance with present lighting practice.

Many types of hermetically sealed
lamps are being used on military ve-
hicles, as landing lamps for war planss,
for signaling on the ground, in the
air, and at sea. An exceedingly power-
ful lamp Is being developed for
searchllghting and other military ap-
plications too secret to be revealed

here. With slight modifications,
sealed-beam lamps should find good
post-war applications In the farm and
railroad lighting fields. New oppor-
tunities for improved lighting for out-
door sports and for better drying
methods through Infrared radiation
are indicated as the result of other
lamp types developed for war needs.
"The peace time demand for pro-
jection lamps should expand at a
greatly accelerated rate," according
to Ward hHarrlson of General Electric
Co. The value of movies, as an edu-
cational medium used so extensively
by the armed forces, has been defi-
nitely proved. Doubtless there will be
a wide peace time application of the
V-mall idea for photographing and
projecting of microfilm records.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

Producers' Council ?a\ge

Northern California Chapter

The National Organization of Manufacturers of Quality Building Materials and Equipment
Affiliated with the AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHTECTS

MRS. SCOn'S LITTLE BOY

Past President A. W.
"Fred" Scott, who head-
ed the Producers' Coun-
cil, Northern California
Chapter in 1936, comes
from Australia. Genial,
(with a capital "G") Fred
arrived in San Francisco
in 1902. hHe became one
of Uncle Sam's nephews
in 1905. Incidentally Fred
has been so busy as Di-
rector of Sales, white
lead and oxides, in addi-
tion to his job as head
of the export depart-
ment of National Lead,
that he didn't have time
to have a photo made. In fact, from the look of these
"plus-fours" he's wearing in the picture it has been a
mighty long time since he's had the leisure to play golf.
Fred, National Lead since 1914, is Past-President of
the Golden Gate Paint and Varnish Association and
of the San Francisco Sales Managers' Association,
hie has a daughter with the American Red Cross
Military Service in Australia and another daughter at
home. One son Is a second lieutenant In the Army Air
Corps; and his stepson is a first lieutenant stationed in
Oregon. P.S. — If you run out of "brown points" re-
member this: Fred is a first-rate striped bass fisherman.

We Make a Hop, Skip and Jump from Fred Scott to
that fine group of Past-Presidents — Ken Pinney of Arm-
strong Cork, Ray Brown of Gladding McBean, and
Gano Baker of Westlnghouse. The traditions and
prestige so well established and built-up by that earlier
outstanding group of leaders, with whom we have been
acquainted, has since been energetically carried on
by the newer crop of able Past Presidents.
They Had To Be Good to get where they are. That
is the answer to those who think that business that is
big Is also bad. This was evident to those who heard
Ed Cathcart of Johns-Manville and Clarke Wayland of
Western Asbestos, trace the development of their
companies from small beginnings to their present posi-
tions of eminence.

Without Benefit of Wassail. A recent survey of Rotary
Clubs disclosed that 80/( of the members polled,
placed fellowship as the No. I reason they attended

USE QUALITY PRODUCTS

meetings. The rest rated fellowship second. When
entire groups of clubs In Rotary have a regular at-
tendance of 90% or better, It seems to Indicate that
fellowship is a definite attendance stimulant. Of course,
we don't propose the service club set-up for our
monthly Chapter meetings, but merely to cite it as
an example of its effect. They meet at high noon, In
broad daylight every week, and without benefit of
alcoholic stimulation, sing and relax and enjoy each
other's company. Could be that the Annual Christmas
Jinks at the Engineers' Club provides all the extra-
curricular stimulation we need to last through a year's
Chapter meetings?

Group Goal. As producers of quality building mate-
rials and equipment, we have the advantage of a com-
mon aim. Fellowship can be plenty of help. Let's make
a definite effort to see to it that we always have an
architect, engineer or other interested buying or speci-
fying guest at our meetings.

Beat the Early Bird and get to the Chapter meetings
a little ahead of time, loosen up a little, mill around
and get acquainted. The Chapter provides the back-
ground and the opportunity . . . the rest is up to you.
And if you happen to be a new member, it's a swell
chance to make lots of new friends.
Xmas For Architects. Wrapped up In the little "black-
package" below is a Christmas present for the archi-
tects. The plan was started by the Detroit Steel Prod-
ucts Co., and the Idea is gaining wide popularity In
the Council ranks. In order to constantly remind Chap-
ter members of this practical approach to post-war
planning, this slogan will
appear monthly on the
Producers' Council Page.
Remember this:

NOW IS THE TIME
TO START PLANNING
POST-WAR JOBS!

The Shoreline Plan. Gano Baker, our Chapter repre-
sentative on the Citizens' Master Plan Committee of
the San Francisco hlousing and Planning Association,
reported on a committee meeting held at the St.
Francis Hotel last month. Subject of the get-together
was the Bayshore Highway six-lane project, a part of
the Shoreline Plan (illustrated elsewhere in this issue).
Adequate sewer facilities, to eliminate shoreline pollu-
tion, was also urged by the committee.

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Semi-Annual Meeting held In New York, November
1 0-1 Ith, was the greatest in Council history. A large
part of this can be attributed only to the real interest
in post-war planning. This gathering followed the an-
nual meeting in May which was, up to that time, the
best attended.

Membership Up. Incidentally, here's another signifi-
cant fact. The Producers' Council membership is at an
all-time high nationally, and the Northern California
Chapter is as big, if not bigger, than ever.
A Platform For Post-War Construction was formulated
at the Semi-Annual Meeting. The Producers' Council
believes that if the construction industry is to discharge
full responsibility to national welfare, immediate action
should be taken:

... To create maximum construction employment in the
transition economy, when general industry is retooling
and reconverting to peacetime production, and
... To sustain a high level of useful construction activity
in the years which follow, thereby maintaining high na-
tional income and employment, and
... To achieve proper integration of land, environment,
design, materials, construction, financing, and utilities
to the end that the public will receive good design,
materials of the proper quality, sound construction, low
maintenance and operating costs, safe, convenient
financing, and sales and service responsibility.
Just how it is proposed to gain these objectives will
be outlined in following issues of the Producers' Coun-
cil Page.

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THE STATE ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTS

Northern Section

EDITOR
William C. Ambrose

Address all communications for publication
in this department to W. C. Ambrose, 369
Pine Street, San Francisco.

STATE ASSOCIATION
OfRcersfor 1944

President John S. Bolles

(Northern Section)

Vice-President Robert H. Orr

(Southern Section)

Second Vice-President Russell G. deLappe

(Northern Section)

Second Vice-President Vincent Palmer

(Southern Section)

Secretary Adrian Wilson

(Southern Section)

Assistant Secretary Malcolm D. Reynolds

(Northern Section)

Treasurer Ralph Wyckoff

(Northern Section)

Assistant Treasurer- George E. Gable

(Southern Section)
Directors: Henry H. Gutterson, Regional
Director, A.I.A.; Frederick H. Reimers,
State Board of Architectural Examiners
(Northern Section): Winsor Soule, State
Board of Architectural Examiners (South-
ern Section).

Northern Section

President John S. Bolles

Vice-President Russell G. deLappe

Secretary Malcolm D. Reynolds

Treasurer Ralph Wyckoff

Directors: Norman K. Blanchard (for two
years); Philip S. Buckingham (for two
years); Henry H. Gutterson, Regional Di-
rector, A.I.A.; Andrew T. Hass, Northern
Calif. Chapter, A.I.A.: Vincent G. Raney
(one more year) ; Frederick H. Reimers,
State Board of Architectural Examiners;
Peter L. Sala, Central Valley Chapter,
A.I.A.; . Francis Ward (one more year);
Alfred C. Williams (one more year).

Southern Section

President Robert H. Orr

Vice-President Vincent Palmer

Secretary Adrian Wilson

Treasurer George E. Gable

Directors: Henry H. Gutterson, Regional Di-
rector, A.I.A.; E. Keith Lockard, William
P. Lodge, Charles O. Matcham, Captain
E. Allen Sheet, Winsor Soule, State Board
of Architectural Examiners.

WITHIN THE FAMILY

ESTIMATOR'S GUIDE—

giving cost of building materials,
wage scale, etc., a regular feature of
Architect and Engineer, is being re-
vised and publication will be re-
sumed in the January number. Some
new items are being added and every
effort will be made to make this in-
formation even more valuable to the
architect and builder than it has been
in the past.

Other changes in the magazine are
being planned for the New Year, in-
cluding a new cover design.

A double question is frequently asked by architects v^hen they see a state-
ment for annual dues from the State Association. The question: "Shall I
pay it? What do I get out of it?" The statements for annual dues will soon
be in the mail. Perhaps the architects would like to be reminded:

The State Association Includes every registered architect in the State. It
is the medium whereby he may express himself and use his influence for the
betterment of the profession and for the advancement and protection of his
professional standing. There are frequent assaults upon every profession by
men who figure that they can profit by tearing down a profession and that
they can do a certain amount of looting in the ruins of their demolition.
Practically all of the professions have found it advisable and advantageous
to band together in self-defense, and for the purpose of accomplishing work
which the individuals of the profession cannot accomplish separately. And If
the professional men wait until they have felt the force of an assault upon
them before organizing, they repeat the experience of the unprepared nations
which suffered assault from the Germans and the Japanese.

The Association can do good and resist evil. Do we do good for ourselves
and for the community, and do we resist the demolition gang? The programs
of the State Association for better public and governmental relations which
are constantly in progress to the limit of the funds and personnel available,
and the work of such committees as the Post-War Planning Committee are
examples of the good which the Association does. The record of the activities
of the Association at the last State legislative session is proof that we must
be vigilant.

The officers and executive committee of the State Association are recep-
tive and alert to suggestions from the members. They appreciate your interest
and your desire to help the good cause. May we suggest that you send in
your ideas for action in the same envelope with your dues?

Incidentally, this magazine which you are reading comes to you because
you are a member of the State Association. Your contribution of news items
and suggestions sent to the Editor of this page will be regarded as a measure
of your willingness to cooperate for a more vigorous service to the profession.

,_^ According to a recent news release, school districts
j Are You Alert? | throughout California have so soon set aside
** '• $9,000,000 for new school construction in the post-

war period. It is also stated that several school districts have already sought
the assistance of the State Division of Schoolhouse Planning on contemplated
projects. Among those mentioned are Carmel, Fresno, Fullerton, Kern County,
Modesto, Monterey, Needles, Redlands, San Bernardino, San Mateo, and
Stockton.

The architects of the State welcome the assistance of the State Agencies
in providing latest data on educational processes and facilities. But they
believe that the State assistance should not extend to the length of sup-

DECEMBER, 1943

planting the architect in private practice. One way of
preventing this is for the architect to make sure that
it is not necessary for the local board to depend too
heavily upon State services. The competition with tax-
supported State agencies is hard. But alertness on the
job is quite a help.

»,, At a meeting of

I Association Committees [ the executive
^ "• committee on

November 8, President Bolles was authorized to group
the committees for the year 1943-1944 under three
general headings, and his recommendation that the
chairman of each group of committees be a member
of the executive committee was approved.

The grouping of committees and their respective
chairmen are as follows:

Committee on Public Relations: J. Francis Ward,
Chairman, (Construction Industry, Regional Planning,
Publications).

Committee on Governmental Relations: Vincent G.
Raney, Chairman, (Legislative Committee, Government
in Architecture, Bureaus and FPhHA).

Committee on Professional Relations: Alfred C. Wil-
liams, Chairman, (Programs and Membership, Dues,
Practice of Architecture, By-Laws, Education).

The membership of each committee will be submitted
at the next meeting of the committee.

Manyofthe
7 Producers' Council Hosts T ^^^te Association

*• *• members were

guests at the Christmas Jinks of the Producers' Council,
which was held at the Engineers' Club in San Francisco
on December first. The men of the local chapter of
the Producers' Council lived up to their reputations
as fine hosts and connoisseurs of good living. The con-
cluding entertainment and recognition of the fact that
the next day was a work day left a very happy remem-
brance of a well-spent evening.

ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS MOVE

George J. Adams has moved from 2430 Cascadia,
Glendale, to II 3 East Los Feliz, same city.

hierman A. Bell's address, from Box 1386, Miami,
Arizona, to 1310 West Portland Street, Phoenix, Ari-
zona.

Norman K. Blanchard, from 226 Arguello Boulevard,
San Francisco, to 1494 Plymouth Avenue, San Fran-
cisco.

Al Brinckman, back from Honolulu, Hawaii, recently
in charge there as Associate Civil Engineer, U. S. En-
gineer's Office, has returned to Engineer's Office,

Berkeley. His present address is 2324 Valley Street,
Berkeley.

Sidney A. Colton. from 18 Rico Way, San Francisco,
to Ross, Marin County.

Scofield DeLong has moved from 1331 Garfield
Avenue, Berkeley, to 2656 LeConte Avenue, same city.

W. H. Ellison, structural engineer, from Pacific Build-
ing, to 500 Sansome Street, San Francisco.

Mervyn Gunzendorfer, from 3367 Washington
Street, San Francisco, to 170 Vasquez Ave., same city.

W. Herbert, from 702 Water Street, Port Town-
send, Washington, to 426-29th Street, Oakland.

Herbert C. Howard, from 3422 Hermosa Avenue,
Hermosa Beach, to 2018 North Hobart Street, Los
Angeles.

Reginald D. Johnson, from 5300 Rodeo Road, Los
Angeles, to 507 Architects Building, 816 West Fifth
Street, Los Angeles.

Roger K. Nissen, from 345 Carroll Park Beach, Cali-
fornia, to Maui Grand Hotel, Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii.

Albert M. Pyke, from 6611 Maryland Drive, Los
Angeles, to 1409 West Boulevard, same city.

Amos Randall, from 1414 South Orange Grove Ave-
nue, Los Angeles, to 2605 West Adams Garden, same
city.

Roward Riley, from 1201 Vance Building, Seattle,
Washington, to 406 New World Life Building, same
city.

E. Allan Sheet, from 323 North Western Avenue,
Los Angeles, to 8743 Clifton Way, Berkeley Hills.

S. E. Sonnichsen, from I 14 West North Avenue,
Baltimore, Maryland, to c/o Phoenix Engineering Com-
pany, Halethorpe, Maryland.

Edwin L. Snyder, from 618 Riker Street, Salinas, to
Box 1021, Carmel.

APPRAISERS' BUILDING

San Francisco's $5,000,000 seventeen-story Apprais-
ers' building, unoccupied for lack of plumbing and
heating equipment for many months. Is at last being
completed and will probably be ready for occupancy
early next spring.

For months the building has stood about 90 per cent
finished because of needed critical war materials,
which have finally been released. Unless the WPV
changes its mind, the huge building will house the
Interior Department, Social Security, Agriculture, Na-
tional Labor Relations Board, regional headquarters.
Navy, Coast and Geodetic Survey, Civil Service, De-
partment of Justice, Department of Commerce, Mari-
time Commission, Treasury and Public Building Ad-
ministration.

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ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

SOULE STEEL CO. WINS ARMY AND NAVY AWARD

On November 19, Soule Steel Company at its South
San Francisco plant, was presented with the Army
Navy "E" award of "Excellence in Production." Rear
Admiral W. L. Friedell, Commandant, Mare Island
Navy Yard, officiated, and present was a large gather-
ing of war workers and their families, business and
civic leaders and Army and Navy officials.

In presenting the Army-Navy burgee, which now
flies from the Soule flagstaff, Admiral Friedell pointed
out that less than 3% of the war plants in America
have qualified for this distinction. In praising the
cooperative spirit that exists between Soule employees
and management, he declared the "whys" of an "E"
award are really demonstrated, concrete, patriotic
efforts. "You might say," he continued, "that the work-
ers who win an 'E' flag are really putting the rein-
forcing steel into the concrete structure of all-oul
patriotic war effort on the home front. You can take
my word for it that lateness in delivery can cause
disastrous ramifications at the war fronts which result
in American young men losing their lives needlessly.
Thus every job you finish ahead of schedule is as surely
a contribution to victory and the saving of American
lives as if you too were at the front behind a gun."
fHe summed up his remarks with "Well done! hHere's
your flag — keep it flying!"

In his acceptance talk Edw. L. Soule, president and
founder of the company, stated: "Never before in
any war have the men on the production line borne
such a responsibility to the men out on the firing line.
Our part here at Soule Steel has been the construction
of landing barges — building 'bridges to victory' be-
tween the mother ships and the beach heads. During
those last few tense moments before the zero hour —
just as the barge is grounded on the beach — the fight-
ing men of America . . . your sons, brothers, neighbors
... are entrusted to the care of Soule war workers.

Rear Admiral W. L. Friedell,
Commandant, Mare Island
Navy Yard (right) presenting
Army-Navy "E" flag to Soule
Steel San Francisco plant No-
vember 19. E. L. Soule, presi-
dent (left), and Ed Eschenauer,
employee representative (cen-
ter) receiving the Award
which was made for "Excel-
lence in war production."

Our work cannot be compromised — for war grants no
second chance."

Lt.-Col. Carlos W. hHuntington, of the Army Service
Forces, San Francisco Port of Embarkation, made the
award of the Army-Navy "E" pins to the workers for
"meritorious and distinguished service to the country
in time of need." In accepting for the employees,
Ed Eschenauer pledged continuance of the record that
has earned the "E" and expressed the determination
of the entire organization to "maintain or exceed the
production that has won the 'E,' thus qualifying for the
service star award six months hence."

Other Soule veteran employees chosen by their fel-
low workers, who took part In the program, included
Charles Bruno, Paul Blickle, Bernhard Dinse, Viola Dex-
heimer, George Fisher and Abel Romero. Max Thelen,
director, Soule Steel Company, served as chairman
of the day. Music was furnished by the U. S. Coast
Guard Barracks Band.

"NEW TOWNS FOR OLD"

The film "New Towns for Old" was shown at the
regular November meeting of Southern Cali-fornla
Chapter, A. I. A., and to make the pictures more Inter-
esting, Miss Margaret Russell, at+ached to the British
Consulate In Los Angeles, described the effects of
bombing on some of London's famous buildings. Miss
Russell having been a resident of the city at the time
of the bombings. The talk was backed by a full
realization of necessary reconstruction work In England
after the war.

MORRIS H. KNUDSEN

Morris H. Knudsen, chairman of the Board of Di-
rector of Morrlson-Knudsen Company, Inc., one of
the West's largest construction companies, died at his
home in San Diego on November 16, aged 81.

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MEXICAN ARCHITECTS IN REVOLT

Newsweek reports, in Its art column, that Mexican
architects have boldly taken In hand a situation which
has been growing ever worse, with the determination
to do something about it right now.

Residential architecture in Mexico City is an artistic
horror, architects say, since It left off being Spanish.
It has become fake-Colonial, with variations. The nou-
veau-rlche are responsible for the new suburban con-
structions built by "post-revolution politicians and
industrialists," who have their houses amateur-planned.
And the style is described by Newsweek as "a fer-
mentation of the United States modern and Spanish
Callfornian" (not Spanish Mission, which is much to be
preferred). These structures are built of inferior grades
of concrete, bricks and mortar; use second-hand fix-
tures, but are bedecked lavishly with expensively ugly
coats of arms and stained-glass.

Education of the public and the modern Mexican
householder. Is the solution of the evil, believes the
Mexican Society of Architects.

So the Society advertised that It would pay $30
to the person who will send in before a fixed time
photographs of the ugliest house In Mexico City.
Camera fans will look for ugliness and they may find
It among the rows and rows of suburbania where ex-
amples of what architects dub Narvarte Colonial,
Tepeyac Colonial and Polanco Colonial abound In al-
most any direction. For 99 per cent of Mexico's homes
are civil engineer or amateur planned.

The 200-year-old Mexican Society of Architects
would give the householder, Instead of "these un-
speakably horrible examples," a simple utilitarian job,
executed with good local materials; floor-length win-
dows, terraces, flat roofs; a front door to the street
Instead of all back doors on courts. It will have central
heating, for Mexico City's climate Is cooling: becoming
"Americanized."

PRIVATE BUILDING COMING BACK

A general strengthening of building permit totals
In the eleven western states and British Columbia
during October offers a reasonable indication of the
wider spread of privately financed war housing and
alteration activity. At the same time, decreases In
permits In the larger centers point to a lessening of
Federal projects as emergency housing requirements
In these communities are reduced.

According to Western Building's Monthly Statistical
Survey, 13,413 building permits were Issued during
October 1943 In 181 cities reporting. These at a value
of $24,612,323. In October 1942, I 1,277 permits were
Issued with a value of $20,325,430. Heading the list
of twenty-five leading cities were Los Angeles with
2,159 permits Issued, valued at $4,379,849, and Seattle,
Washington, where 470 permits were Issued with a
value of $3,677,438.

Permits for alterations and conversions numbered

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

7,612 for expenditure of $4,272,679. The value of the
5,778 alteration permits issued In October 1942 was
$1,935,637.

Returns from 215 cities regularly reporting to Dun
& Bradstreet, Inc., indicated a moderate building ex-
pansion In October. The aggregate for the month at
$48,286,921, was I 1.5 per cent above the September
figure of $43,320,500, and 8.0 per cent greater than
the $44,707,721 recorded in October, 1942. Except
for April and August, the estimated cost of permits
issued in October was the largest since September,
1942. The following table presents the leading cities:

1943 1942

Detroit, Mich $30,503,839 $48,816,485

New York, N. Y 19,605.484 46,965,626

Los Angeles, Cal 19,459,692 57,754,289

Portland, Ore 18,768,985 12,518,430

Washington, D. C 16,749,714 28,989,643

Seattle. Wash 14,270,903 8,902,345

Cleveland, Ohio 12,985,400 21,216,200

Chicago, III 12,181,580 29,194,309

Baltimore, Md 11,602,434 20,404,488

San Francisco, Cal 10,454,125 8,614.921

Philadelphia, Pa 10,294,620 20.879,250

Spokane, Wash 9,874,600 4,480,449

Boston, Mass 8,155,887 9,191,321

Long Beach, Cal 7,099,570 11,811 ,765

Houston, Tex 7,098,645 16,400,755

Oakland, Cal 6,638,971 5,646,052

San Diego, Cal 6,494,336 8,857,734

Jacksonville, Fla 5,798,015 3,651,487

Fort Worth, Tex 5,742,700 10,095,416

Akron, Ohio 5,580,950 12,451,902

OAKLAND POST-WAR PROJECTS

Oakland's playground directors have asked for an
appropriation of nearly $2,000,000 for post-war im-
provements. The list of projects includes $270,000 to
be spent on three city swimming pools, with one en-
closed central pool figured at $150,000 and two open-
air pools in West and East Oakland; rehabilitation of
present recreational facilities and equipment, $ I 20,000;
three community centers, open to the public every
night, including gyms, clubrooms, workshops, kitchen
and showers, and five smaller recreation centers, $475,-
000; night lighting of tennis courts, baseball fields and
other playgrounds, $70,000; central stadium and ath-
letic field, $375,000; dredge and improve boating
facilities In Lake Merrltt, $150,000; improving Lake
Chabot Municipal Golf Course, $100,000.

CONTRACTORS" ANNUAL DINNER

Over 500 members and guests attended the annual
stag dinner of the Central California Chapter of As-
sociated General Contractors at the Palace hlotel
December 3. The speakers included Governor Warren,
Major General Philip B. Fleming and R. L. Nicholson.
Major General Fleming said present plans by all
agencies add up to $7,000,000,000 worth of construc-
tion, $600,000,000 of which could be put into opera-
tion the first year after an armistice.

DECEMBER, 1943

HOGRn LUmBER CO.

Wholesale and Reiall

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MILL WORK • SASH & DOORS

Office, Mill, Yard and Docks

SECOND AND ALICE STREETS • OAKLAND. CALIF.

Telephone GLeneourf 6867

General Contractors

923 FOLSOM STREET • SAN FRANCISCO

SUtter 3440

FORDERER CORNICE WORKS

Manufacturers of
Hollow Metal Products • interior Metal Trim

Elevator Fronts and Cabs
Metal Plaster Accessories • Sanitary Metal Base

Flat and Roll Metal Screens
Metal Cabinets • Commercial Refrigerators

269 POTRERO AVE.

SAN FRANCISCO. CALIF. HEMLOCK 4100

STRUCTURAL STEEL

For Class A Buildings,
Bridges, etc.

JUDSON PACIFIC CO.

1200 SEVENTEENTH STREET

SAN FRANCISCO

=^=^= Plants: San Francisco - Oakland =

The Most Complete Line of

STEELS and BUILDING MATERIALS

Made by a Single Producer

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See Sweet's Catalog File or write its for
full injormation.

REPUBLIC STEEL CORPORATION

GENERAL OFFICES: CLEVELAND, OHIO

DENVER, COLORADO .... CONTINENTAL OIL BUILDING

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA EDISON BUILDING

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH WALKER BANK BUILDING

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA .... RIALTO BUILDING
SEATTLE, WASH WHITE-HENRY-STUART BUILDING

PACIFIC
MANUFACTURING CO.

HIGH CLASS INTERIOR FINISH
QUALITY MILLWORK

142 SANSOME ST., SAN FRANCISCO

GArfield 7755

6820 McKINLEY AVE.. LOS ANGELES

THornwall 4196

BUILDERS EXCHANGE. OAKLAND

[i[MILLAIlD-DANDIKI COMPANY

BRICK AND MASONRY
PRODUCTS

633 Bryant Street, San Francisco
569 Third Street, Oakland

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SANTA MARIA. CALIFORNIA

FRANK

J. McCOY. Owner

On the

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"AMERICAN MARSH"

Redf-Vac Vacuum Heating Pump

SIMONDS MACHINERY CO.

San Francisco
816 Folsom St.

Los Angeles
4SS East Fourth St.

aSALKRAFT

REG. U.S.PAT. OFF.

'More than a building paper"
THE SISALKRAFT CO.

205 West Waeker Drive
Chicago, III.

55 New Montgomery Street
San Francisco, Calif.

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Producers and Finishers

Domestic and imported Marbles

San Francisco and Los Angeles
San Francisco phone: Slitter 6747

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Manufactured by

BASALT ROCK CO.. INC.

NAPA, CALIFORNIA

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MULLEN MFG.
COMPAIN[Y

BANK, STORE AND OFFICE

FIXTURES— CABINET WORK

OF GUARANTEED QUALITY

CHURCH SEATING

Office and Factory:

60-80 RAUSCH ST., Bat. 7th and Bth Stt.

San Francisco

Talaphona UNdarhill 5815

THE TORMEY
COMPANY

GENERAL PAINTERS
AND DECORATORS

Phone UNderhill 1913

56S FULTON STREET
San Francisco

ABBOT A. HAIVKS, INC.
Engineers & Chemists

INSPECTING — TESTING — CONSULTING

CONCRETE • STEEL • MATERIALS

CHEMICAL AND TESTING

LABORATORIES

• RESEARCH AND INVESTIGATION •

TESTS OF STRUCTURAL MATERIALS

DESIGN OF CONCRETE MIXES

SHOP AND ERECTION INSPECTION OF

STRUCTURES AND EQUIPMENT

INVESTIGATION OF STRUCTURES

AND MATERIALS

TESTS AND INVESTIGATION OF

FOUNDATION SOILS

FIRE RESISTANCE ANO INSULATION

TESTS

624 Sacramento Street, San Francisco

Robert W. Hunt Company

ENGINEERS

liispectisn • Tests ■ Consultation

Schools and Other Structures
Are Built as Designed

When Construction Materials are

Inspected at point of Manufacture

and during Erection by

ROBERT W. HUNT COMPANY

Cement, Concrete. Chemical, Metallurgical,
X-Ray and Physical Laboratories

Chicago - New York • Pittsburgh

Loi Angalei - All Large Cities

San Francisco, 251 Kearny Street

POST-WAR KITCHENS
TO BE HOMEY

Post-war kitchens will stress homi-
ness and such "working comforts" as
top shelves that are easy to reach.
There will be a softening of the cold,
laboratory type kitchen and a return
to some of the fundamentals that
made the kitchens of yesteryear so
comfortable and restful, according to
Irving W. Clark, manager of the
Westinghouse Better Homes Depart-
ment.

Mr. Clark explained that better use
of window drapes, bric-a-brac and a
wider range of wall colors will add
personality to the kitchens of the post-
war era.

Livability will be the theme, and
kitchen designing will include a defi-
nite place for the radio, a table and
a comfortable chair. The trend will be
away from kitchens that are so com-
pact and coldly efficient that they
lack charm and warmth. He predicted
that larger windows of Improved de-
sign, plus a better use of floor space
will give an "air of spaciousness" to
kitchens which actually contain a
limited floor area.

While the spacious pantries that
were standard equipment for most
homes in the early I900's will remain
a matter of history, a modern appli-
cation of their best features will again
become an Integral part of the post-
war kitchen.

END FEDERAL CONTROL

Private financial institutions should
prepare to take over, as soon as pos-
sible after the war, all mortgage In-
suring functions now assumed by the
Federal Housing Administration,
Douglas Whitlock, president of the
Producers' Council, told members of
the U. S. Savings and Loan League
at a recent meeting in Chicago.

Whitlock also warned that all
branches of the construction industry
must work closely with War Produc-
tion Board officials in order to make
certain that restrictions on private
building and construction are re-
moved as fast as developments in the
war program permit, thus providing
the maximum amount of employment
for demobilized construction workers

AT THE OFFICE
AND AT HOME

There is no such thing as "bank-
ing hours" with a Mail way account.
You can open one by mail (check-
ing or savings) and conduct it en-
tirely by mail — right from your
home or office to suit your own
convenience. Our special Mailway
envelopes and passbook make this
service fast and safe.
Open a Mailway account by mail

CROCKER FIRST
NATIONAL BANK

0&&Jt 7?aZco>xa£ Va^

Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
ONE MONTGOMERY STREET

LANDSCAPING

WAR HOUSING PROJECTS

Maritime Commission

Apartments, Riclimond

Sunnydale

G. G. Bridge Approach

Roosevelt Terrace, Vallejo

Camp Roberts

Chabot Terraces, Vallejo

Peralta Villa, Oakland

Sausalito

Union Square Garage

Growers and Distributors of

"Superior Quality" Nursery

Stock Since 1878

LEONARD COATES
NURSERIES, INC.

Ray D. Hartman, President-Manager

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA

DECEMBER, 1943

INCANDESCENT

SUPPLY

COMPANY

647
MISSION STREET

SAN FRANCISCO

Lighting Fixtures and
Lamps, Fireplace Fur-
nishings, Pictures and
Mirrors, Electrical Sup-
plies and Marine Fix-
tures.

Oakland - Fresno
Los Angeles

G. P. W.
JENSEN & SON

Building Construction

320 Market Street, San Francisco
Phone: CArfield 2444

JOHX
CASSARETTO

—Since 1886— And Still Active—

Building Materials

READY MIX CONCRETE

ROCK - SAND - GRAVEL - LIME

CEMENT - PLASTER - MORTAR

METAL LATH - WOOD LATH

STUCCO - WIRE NETTING

Service Unexcelled

Bunkers

Sixth and Channel. San Francisco

Phones: GArfield 3176, GArfield 3177

when the war program begins to
slacken.

Granting that the FHA has served
a valuable purpose in the past and
has demonstrated the feasibility of
mutual mortgage insurance, the Coun-
cil president expressed the belief that
the public's post-war housing needs
nevertheless would be met most suc-
cessfully by returning full responsi-
bility for the nation's housing program
to private business and reducing the
extent of Federal control over con-
struction. To that end, he recom-
mended that the insuring operations
of the FHA should be continued dur-
ing the early post-war years until
equivalent facilities can be arranged
by private enterprise.

Referring to the Platform for
Post - War Construction, recently
adopted by the Council, Whitlock
said: "Manufacturers of building ma-
terials and equipment represented by
our organization believe in the prin-
ciple that government should assist
and motivate private enterprise, but
not compete with it, and that we
should work to hasten the day when
government will revert to its true and
legitimate function.

"Our platform states that private
new construction and maintenance
and improvement of residential real
estate, both in urban and rural com-
munities, should be stimulated by the
provision of financial facilities ade-
quate for post-war needs. Encourage-
ment should be given to the estab-
lishment of privately-owned mutual
insuring facilities to gurantee invest-
ments In mortgages and notes, both
for the financing of new and existing
construction and for the financing of
maintenance and repair.

"Such facilities should adopt pro-
cedures designed to enhance the
probability of producing good en-
vironments, sound construction, and
stable investments. Governmental in-
strumentalities which provide finan-
cial guarantees should be continued
only until equivalent services are pro-
vided by private enterprise.

"Financial institutions should be
permitted and encouraged to invest
directly In the production of houses
for sale and in rental projects."

DIXWIDDIE

COXSTRIJCTIOIV

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BUILDERS

CROCKER BUILDING
SAN FRANCISCO

HERRICK
IROX WORKS

STRUCTURAL STEEL
REINFORCING STEEL

I8TH AND CAMPBELL STS.
OAKLAND, CALIF.
Phone SLencourt I7«7

Phone GArfield 1164

Thomas B.Hunter

Consulting Engineer

DESIGNER OF HEATING

AIR CONDITIONING

VENTILATING AND WIRING

SYSTEMS, MECHANICAL

AND ELECTRICAL EQUIP-

MENT OF BUILDINGS

41 SUTTER STREET

ROOM 710

San Francisco California

ANDERSON

&
RINGROSE

General Contractors

320 Market Street, San Francisco
Phone GArfield 2245

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

lRCHITECT
INGINEER

HAWS
Model No. 8
Semi-automatic

^odi

a^ INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
INSTALL HAWS FIXTURES

Numerous new and many well established
industrial plants built or expanded during
the present war emergency have installed
HAWS Drinking Fountains to supply sani-
tary drinking water to their workers.

Jw^-tm^i

To specification writers —
specify HAWS Drinking
Fountains and Faucets.
There is a model for every
particular requirement.

This is an indication of HAWS' ability to
meet the reguirements so necessary in the
maintenance of the workers' morale for
keeping up production.

It is also an indication of American Indus-
try's recognition of the importance of ade-
guate sanitary drinking water for the work-
ers' welfare and convenience.

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1808 HARMON STREET

ERKELEY. 3 • CALIFORNIA

Agents in the tollowin^j cities;

Chicago • Los Angeles • San Francisco e Seattle • Salt Lake City • Portland
New Orleans • Housion • Atlanta o Philadelphia • Worcester, Mass.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

Volume 156

No. I

FRED W. JONES
Editor

MARK DANIELS
Associate Editor

L. H. NISHKIAN
Consulting Editor

HOWARD MOISE
Post-War Planning

E. N. KIERULFF*

Ass't Editor

•In th* Sarvica

JANUARY CONTENTS
COVER PICTURE: St. John's Episcopal Church. Marysville

PHOTOGRAPHY:

Memorial Chapel — Phil Fein
Marysville Church — Van Doren
Matiger House — Esther Born
Myers House — Roger Sturtevant
Duplex Dwelling — Ray Birch

ARTICLES:

Running Fire Mark Daniels 3

News and Comment on Art 4

In the News 9

The Work of Michael Goodman F. W. Jones 13

The Post-War House Beautiful Michael Goodman 22
Our National Post-War Economic Problem

Roi L Morin 32

State Association Notes . W. C. Ambrose 37

Producers' Council Page 39

New Estimators' Guide 41

ILLUSTRATIONS:

Work of Michael Goodman —

Memorial Chapel, Temple Emanu-EI
St, John's Episcopal Church
House for Dr. Edward Matiger .
House for Bertram Myers
Duplex Dwelling

Court Flight

Lady Godiva

18
24
27
30

. John Haley

Elizabeth S. Jones

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER (Established 1905) Is published on the 15th of the
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K. P. Klerulff; Vice-President, Fred'k W. Jones; Secretary-Treasurer and Manager,
L. B. Penhorwood; Advertising Manager, V. E. Atkinson, Jr.

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NEXT MONTH

Vision, if you will, a massive
cafeteria equipped to serve 60,-
000 meals a day; a building
occupying an entire city block
with 65,000 square feet ground
level. Said to be the largest
employee-ovvned-and - operated
"hot food on the job" project
in the country, some idea of
its size may be had from the
statement that the commissary
requires a personnel of 450
persons to operate. The cafe-
teria is in California.

"Parklabrea," the Metropoli-
tan Life Insurance Company's
latest housing venture in Los
Angeles, has been partially
completed and tenants have
already moved into one of the
two completed sections. The
project was originally planned
for 2750 units containing 11,-
000 rooms. Most of the build-
ings have been designed in the
Southern Colonial style. Archi-
tects: Leonard Schultze and
Associates, New York, and
Earl T. Heitschmidt, resident
architect.

West Coast architects played
an important part in the recent
national architectural competi-
tion sponsored by the Kawneer
Company and some heretofore
unpublished details, with pic-
tures of the prize winning
store fronts will be presented.

An article of special interest
to engineers will round out a
truly meaty number.

SHOWER CABINET

A Better Shower — Standard Siie 36"x36"x78"
now available for immediate delivery under
low priority. Conforms to government regula-
tions restricting the use of critical materials.

The No. 85 fills the need for a good quality shower
cabinet for homes, clubs, hospitals and public buildings.
Designed along the lines of our Ensign model, using the
regular Ensign deep type receptor, the No. 85 compares
very favorably with our standard Ensign cabinet and is the
best shower we have been able to build under government
material restrictions. Extra heavy treated fibre board wall
panels are joined on all four corners with the Fiat tension
locking joint which provides a rigid, permanent, water-
proof structure that can be quickly erected on the job, as
no additional fastenings are required for the corner joints.

The No. 85 was originally designed for use in military
hospitals where a permanent type of construction is re-
quired. Many of these showers have been installed and
have proved their value in practical use. Now we are able
to offer this high grade shower cabinet for civilian use
through the plumbing trade.

SPECIFICATIONS— W>«US: Heavy duty 1/4" S-2-S masonite
hard board, coated inside and out with waterproof balced-on enamel.
Metal frame pieces 20 gauge steel. Head rail 16 gauge steel. All
parts formed to eliminate rough edges within the interior of the
cabinet. Furnished in white only.

RECEPTOR: Regular Ensign type, precast, reinforced terrazzo. ji

Height 6" with cast-in wall flange and drain. Leakproof /^^^
and sanitary. ^m^^i

SIZE: Over-all dimensions 36" x 36" x 78". One size only. ^^^

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ADEQUATE Wlilll

— The Key to

The Home of

Tomorrow

Today's acute housing problems are
making people more than ever "home
conscious" and millions are dreaming of
the day when they will live in a home of
their own — a home with electrical con-
veniences lacking in present living quar-
ters.

When the war is over and they start
building and buying homes, they are
going to be far more critical of architec
tural plans than ever before.

Electrical service will be one of the
prime items of consideration, with a de-
mand for sufficient and conveniently
placed electrical outlets and switches,
and, above all, modern and satisfactory
illumination.

Adequate wiring will provide the
key to the home of tomorrow — the
future way of living. Architects, re-
sponsible for the proper planning of
wiring service, are keeping abreast of
advances in the electrical industry now,
and preparing for exacting post'war de-
mands.

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
ELECTRICAL BUREAU

1355 Market Street
San Francisco

Electricity is vital for war production.

Uie it carefully and without

waite.

1205 Roscoe St., Chicago 13. III.
21-45 Borden Ave., Long Island City 1, N. Y.
32 S. San Sabrlel Blvd., Pasadena •, Col.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEEI'

^unninc fire

by MARK DANIELS

\VY DO THEY LIE TO US?

'According to Rupert Hughes two Jewish traveling
iilesmen met on a train leaving Berlin. One asked
\e other, "Vere are you goink?"

"I am goink to Vienna," the other replied.

"Vy do you lie to me!" screamed the first. "I know
bu are goink to Vienna, but you tell me you are
lijink to Vienna to make me think you are goink to
]'ague."

Why do they lie to us Americans? They keep

illing us it is a terrible war and that our casualties

ie going to be stupendous. We know it is a terrible

r and that our casualties are going to be stupen-

us, but they keep telling us that it is a terrible war

d that our casualties are going to be stupendous

make us think the O. P. A. is a good idea.

Vy do they lie to us!

Y-P.iSSlNG THE . IRCHITECT

With the foundation so well established by the
fchitects themselves it did not take the War Depart-
ment long to completely by-pass architecture as a
|ofession essential to the proper designing of struc-
Ires, groups of structures, and community plans.
Jb Percival and Paul Goodman wrote in the Decem-
fer 20th issue of "The New Republic," "The lesson
|awn by the army, however, seems to have been
jat fundamental architecture is not architecture at
h but engineering ..." In support of their claim
{at "Military architecture is stand-pat and has an-
|yzed nothing," the authors state that the date 1917
■tas erased from War Department plans and 1939
ibstituted; that "a good architect would have altered
|e design"; that "in general, there is no distinction
construction for hot and cold climates;" and many
er charges that seem to be well substantiated.
But the public knows little or nothing about the
jmentable results of the by -passing of the architects
the War Department. They merely followed suit
th no waste of time. Even if they did realize that
substitution of the War Department's own en-
eers for practicing architects was a costly failure
[at is no proof that some other substitution would not
■cceed. And so, according to Messrs. Percival and
:ul Goodman, "The most important problem of
.rvival facing the architects is to learn their own
nction and come forward with proofs that they are
dispensable."

A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME
A short time ago Congress was laboring over a
lange in the Food and Drugs Act that would legal-
3 the substitution of "De-fatted Milk" for plain
>kimmed Milk." De-nicotinized tobacco and de-alco-
blized beverages went over all right, if you like
i.em. We might even stand for the de-fatted calf
1 the return of many of our political prodigals but
je-buttered bread, de-beefed meat and de-whiskied
,ew Year will strain even the magic of the O. P. A.

\aDVERTISING it and HOW

It has been said on good authority that, given a
pmmodity with a modicum of merit and an ample
□vertising fund, the American public can be talked

into spending millions of dollars for that commodity
whether they need it or not. As an example, a firm
in Kansas City bought trainloads of lumber in Wash-
ington and Oregon, shipped it to their yards, stamped
it with their firm name and sold it back to those two
states at a marked up price plus freight. But in
instances of this sort the advertising firms always had
something to sell, be it ever so worthless. It took a
global war to bring out the trick of advertising goods
whether you had any to sell or not.

Are these whiskey manufacturers pulling a Hit-
lerian hoax on us with their three and four color full
page ads? Or do they think that some Lady Godiva
will shame the government into lifting the blockade?
Based on results, I think these advertisers are wrong,
for the reaction of most people is turning to resent-
ment and the feeling that the advertisers are making
fools of the public. Of course, if the lack of a Lady
Godiva is holding up the procession and they really
have some of that much advertised straight whiskey,
I am sure that the offer of a case of it would bring in
many applications for the job.

• ./ NEW MAYOR

The replacement of any office holder, political or
otherwise, does not always mean that the ousted
one ceased to be useful. The American people long
have been known as lovers of change, and when
they want one they make it. The people of San
Francisco wanted a new mayor this year and chose
Mr. Roger D. Lapham, emphatically. No matter what
were their reasons for making the change, the city
is 100 per cent behind him.

• WHY DIFFERENT DESIGNS?

Early in the development of the shelter for human
beings, the element of protection began to embrace
the idea of comfort. The mere protection from weather
and danger was not sufficiently all inclusive. How
many centuries elapsed before man became aware
of the need for intellectual comfort no one knows,
but assuredly he did not wait for the discovery of
the psychoanalyst. It is this cry for intellectual com-
fort that creates much of the demand for different
designs for structures that otherwise perform the
same functions. The expression, "I would be mis-
erable in that house," is all too common to be
prompted by utilitarian considerations alone.

Personally I think this sort of reasoning is non-
sense, but I just couldn't live in a Rococo house. It
would drive me nuts.

MEMORIAL EXHIBITION OF
PAINTINGS BY JOHN TUFTS
The late John Tufts began serious painting in mid-
dle life, found a style and manner of his own —
very expressive, very sensitive, decorative and
fresh in its reaction to sensation and experience.
This group of oils and gouaches, in majority late
works, are at once a memorial to a beloved and
highly gifted Berkeley artist and the first survey
of his work in its entirety. At the San Francisco
Museum of Art until February 1.

kNUARY, 1944

NEWS AND COMMENT ON AR

POST WATERCOLORS ADDED TO

BENDER COLLECTION AT MUSEUM

Mother Lode Interior, a watercolor by George Post,

has been acquired for the Bender Collection as the

Annual Memorial Purchase put into effect for the

first time this year, at the S. F. Art Museum.

The collection is especially rich in representa-
tive works in watercolor, and illustrates well the
development and practice of the medium by ar-
tists in the San Francisco Bay Region.

Mother Lode Interior is a notably fine achieve-
ment technically and is an important addition to
this part of the collection. Post specializes in
watercolor, has developed an individual style
within the classic character of the watercolor me-
dium. He had not previously been adequately
represented in the collection. Born in the East Bay,
he studied art in the schools of the region, has had
frequent exhibitions here, traveled and studied
in Mexico and in Europe. His most typical work,
however, concerns the moods of San Francisco
and the picturesque aspects of the Mother Lode
country, depicted very freely and in no tightly
illustrational way. In his best work, as in the
Memorial Purchase, values of abstract design and
color are important.

A Memorial Purchase will be made annually

to be shown at the time of the yearly exhibition ol
the Bender Collection. In the spirit of the late
Albert M. Bender's own purchases from artists and
gifts to the Museum it is intended that the acqui-
sitions shall be representative of art in the Bay
Area.

ART OF WAR'S CHILDREN
CONTINUES THRU JANUARY
The popular current exhibition of paintings and
drawings by young artists from all over the world
which the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee is
sponsoring and which the de Young Museum in
Golden Gate Park has made its special holiday
show, is to remain on view throughout the current
month. A lively and colorful display, complete
with music box, Christmas tree and trimmings, the
exhibit features solely the work of children from
five to fifteen, refugees from their European and
Asiatic homelands. Some of them have vividly
described their participation in the war's grim ex-
periences while others have preferred to forget
in gay scenes of country life, decorative still lifes
and portraits.

Visitors will be interested to know that many of
the pictures have now been placed on sale, pro-
ceeds from which will go to aid these youngsters,
now being cared for in Britain and Mexico.

COURT FLIGHT

by John Haley

Artists' Fund Prize Aword

San Francisco Art Association, 1943

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

I AN EVER CHANGING WORLD

CALIFORNIA ARTIST'S WORK
REVIEWED BY "ART DIGEST"

It is not often in this day of painting that an artist
attempts to further an idea, or an ideal, putting
aside all considerations of self-advancement or
even of sales or subsidies, in the pursuit of ex-
emplifying a truth given unto him to believe.

Although the Argent Gallery in New York is not
the place one would expect to find something en-
tirely new and untried, it nevertheless houses this
month astonishing paintings by just such a cru-
sading artist, a Mrs. Pauline Peavy of California.

Mrs. Peavy has technical equipment equal to
Dali. But instead of using her inherent ability
(developed, certainly, in the cases of both by dint
of long hard work) to give vicarious thrills of the
unnatural and decadent, as Dali does, this artist
tells a tale of the abstract forces of thought abroad
in the world and attempts to give validity to the
belief that the mind is real. She gives form to the
"electronic structure," and these forms are no more
unworldly than Dali's melting watches.

To do this, the artist devised a technique that
defies analysis. She paints plasmas similarly to
Matta's, uses church window colors of intense reds
and blues, creates forms which are neither plant
nor animal nor human. But they are not "non-
objective." For many are built around the figures
of Biblical characters and there is deep beauty
in the faces of the subjects.

By caption, Mrs. Peavy has advanced her belief
in the need for better balance of the parts played
by men and women in the affairs of the world.
There must be more balance of compassion, for-
giveness, peace in thought (all maternal qualities)
than we have now, if wars are to cease, she ad-
vances. Man uses his power for destruction. His
beast instinct is stronger than his urge to con-
tribute to the advancement of humanity. But
woman, the giver of new life, has the power to
build the temples not built by hands. One of the
captions reads like this: "The 'mother' power of
the earth has been as the moon — dimmed, as
always in ages over-lorded by the male."

The keynote of the exhibition of 59 paintings, the
work of the last seven years, is a 14-foot long panel
of "The Last Supper." In colors like Byzantine
enamels, she has .painted the figure of Christ as
compassionate, of pure thought and absolute jus-
tice and the disciples as representing various as-
pects of our character.

Mrs. Peavy is not an impractical mystic. She
studied at Oregon State College, at Chouinard
School of Fine Arts; taught art in high schools in
California and has done a text book on the ele-
ments of anatomy. She has two sons, one 19 and
in the Navy, the other in high school. She believes
that art is not painted for morons by morons but
is done and understood by developed minds. That
it should take long study and much writing and
interpretation before any new form of art can add
to the till of understanding, is only to be expected.
The paintings in themselves might not penetrate
without explanation, she says. — M. R.

Modern Version of Lady Godivo Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones
Lent by Mrs. Otto L. Spaeth, Exhibition of Ronnantic
Painting, American Museum of Modern Art. New York

SAINTS AND MADONNAS STILL
SHOWING AT LEGION PALACE
Saints and Madonnas will continue throughout the
month at the Legion of Honor galleries. Some of
the main exhibits of the show are the beautiful
group of the Madonna and Child, flanked by two
marble Annunciation figures. The Madonna's robe,
decorated with gold, red and blue, has a border
of real lace which has softened and mellowed with
time. In front of these figures is an Italian 1 7th
Century prie dieu, or prayer bench, of old and
worn wood, complete with its original pillow of
brocade. Among the paintings are the two by
Agnola Gaddi, the Clone Madonna and a beau-
tiful Delia Robbia wooden relief of the Madonna
and Child. There are carved wood saints from
Italy, Spain, Russia, Mexico and Germany, each
equally important and typical of its time — ranging
from the 13th to the 18th Century. There are, be-
sides, the very fine 1 5th Century Spanish vargue-
no, or desk, lavishly inlaid in ivory; four very.
fine Renaissance chairs; an interesting ecclesias-
tical coin box of iron and wood.

ADAMS' BEQUEST FEATURED
AT PORTLAND ART MUSEUM
The Portland Art Museum opens its exhibition
calendar of the new year with a presentation of
the bequest of C F. Adams. A devoted and active
trustee of the museum for many years, Mr. Adams
left to that institution his collection of thirty-three
canvases, most of them by the Barbizon group
of painters. The pictures are all small, but excel-
lent examples of the work of these men who were
held together by a similar point of view, especially
towards landscape painting. Practically all the
canvases in the bequest are landscapes, although
a few show animals, and, one or two, human
figures. Perhaps those that would appeal most to
contemporary taste are Boudin's "Harbor of Brest"
and Monet's "Lavacourt." Monticelli's "The Mar-

JANUARY, 1944

riage of the Marquis d'Ambroise" is also particu-
larly noteworthy. Included in this bequest are two
paintings by William Keith, one of them painted
in San Francisco, and two cowboy scenes by
Charles M. Russell

Another January exhibition is "Meet the Artist,"
the collection of self-portraits by living American
artists which recently had so much success at the
de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco.

Continuing into January from December is an
exceptionally charming show of small sculptures,
"Animals of All Ages." This group of fifty animals
range in period from ancient Egypt, China and
Greece to our own day and were especially
brought together as an exhibition for children.
An anonymous benefactor gave a fund last year
for the purpose of building up a children's collec-
tion. The museum expects to purchase a group
of sculptures from those being shown as the first
installations of its Children's Room.

STATE-WIDE ART EXHIBITION
AT SANTA CRUZ NEXT MONTH

The 15th annual state-wide art exhibition at
Santa Cruz will open at the Civic Auditorium Jan-
uary 30, continuing until February 13. The show
will be open to Californians or artists painting in
California now. Media: watercolor, oil, pastel.
Prizes will be given by a special jury of award
Margaret E. Rogers, 99-B Pilkington Avenue, Santa
Cruz, will receive entries.

WHY SO FEW CAPABLE ART
TEACHERS IN OUR SCHOOLS?

Lieut. Lester B. Bridaham, of the U. S. Navy,
formerly public relations director at the Art In-
stitute of Chicago, has written a letter apropos of
government aid to art in the post-war world. He
says:

"The problem, to my mind, is not one of stimu-
lating production of art here, but rather one of
stimulating consumption. We have too much pro-
duction of art in this country. Every good artist has
a studio full of unsold, unhung works.

"Here is one reason why there is no adequate
mass consumption of art in this country. First,
children and their parents obviously should be
exposed to art and have the main barriers to art
enjoyment removed painlessly by the art teachers
in the public schools. That is impossible, under
the present public school system, because creative
artists are not employed as they cannot pass the
normal school requirements.

"For example. Miss Jones, who has just com-
pleted her teaching requirements, wants to teach
mathematics. Upon presenting herself at her school
she is told by her principal that she is to teach
'art.' But, she pleads, I know nothing about art.
The principal is firm. Miss Jones you are the new
art teacher. So she gets some arty cut-out mate-
rials and soon has the kiddies cutting out Easter
bunnies — how she hates all art by this time! She
(through no fault of her own has no interest in, nor
capability for, explaining to anyone in simple
terms what art means— for she has been paralyzed
by it since that fateful decision of the principal.

"Thousands of producing American artists
should have these public school art jobs. How
they and their work would expand with such
useful contact with the public! This would take

care of thousands of artists who would not have
to be wards of the Government.

"As an aid to mass consumption of art we need
mass art education. We spend millions educating
people: not to leave food in the can after opening;
that it is usually fatal to turn on a light switch
while in the bathtub. Yet, relatively little has been
done toward mass art education, in spite of corny
colored reproductions for cigarette ads. Life Mag-
azine has done more toward mass art education
than any other mass medium. I think it is won-
derful that a cowboy in Wyoming can have his
appetite for art whetted for ten cents by good
color reproductions of Chinese paintings and those
of many other cultures.

"Several hundred thousand intelligent citizens
(all potential buyers of art), who might get sold on
art, often get scared off (at that decisive moment
when their nascent interest is aroused) by the
squabbles between the devotees of art which
appear in the press. The nation is divided into
two bitter factions: the modern and conservative
schools, which are always battling in the news-
papers and magazines. Perhaps, the uninitiated
seek in art a release from the horrors of war and
politics; many of them may be frightened off by
the vituperative bitterness of the two feuding fac-
tions. Local art critics do not always assist in mass
art education.

"No honest, vital program of national fine arts
can escape the necessity to solve first the problem
of stimulating the consumption of American art
by the people, before any plans are made to take
care of the artists. Years of experience with the
WPA artists' program has given us plenty of val-
uable experience to deal with that side of the
problem. Let us discuss in these pages how to
stimulate the consumption of art everywhere
throughout the nation." — Art Digest.

AT DE YOUNG MUSEUM THIS MONTH

Paintings by Francis de Erdely.
Art of the War's Children.
Ships and the Artist.
Color Prints by the Silk Screen Group.
Sculpture by Bernhard Sopher.
Prints by Charles W. Bartlett.
A 19th Century Wardrobe.

Photographs of the Art Treasures and Architec-
ture of Russia.
Paintings and Drawings by Boris Chaliapin.
Oils, Pastels and Etchings by Gyula Zilzer.
Oils, Watercolors and Prints by Monty Lewis.

THIS MONTH AT LEGION HONOR PALACE

Dr. Jermayne MacAgy, acting director of the Cali-
fornia Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Fran-
cisco, has announced the following schedule of
exhibitions and special events for January:

Albert Campbell Hooper Collection — January 12

to February 29.
Audubon Prints — January 3-30.
Saints and Madonnas — An Exhibition of Re-
ligious Art — through January 30.
Recent Acquisitions to the Museum's Collection

— January 4-February 29.
The Children's Museum — Design in Nature, as-
sembled by the California Academy of Sci-
ences— January 3-31.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

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How'd you like to "sweat it out" with the
Paratroopers? . . . step off into space on a com-
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it if we had to. But all that Uncle Sam asks of
us is to buy more War Bonds, sacrifice a few
comforts and produce for Victory! * The
Payne plant has concentrated on war pro-
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pre-war standards of design, quality and per-
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enemies, and our expectation, for the
war on the rubber shortage.

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What "flavor" will their new
kitchens be? Certainly, homekeep-
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choice — from the ultra-modern with
glass-enclosed ovens and 3-minute
dishwashers — to the homey farm-
kitchen designs with cleverly
flaged modern appliances.

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■NUARY, 1944

STARTING JANUARY I8IH
IT'S UP TO YOU!

STARTING January 18th, it's up to you to lead the
men and women working in your plant to do them-
selves proud by helping to put over the 4th War Loan.

Your Government picks you for this job because you
are better fitted than anyone else to know what your
employees can and should do — and you're their natural
leader. This time, your Government asks your plant to
meet a definite quota — and to break it, plenty!

If your plant quota has not yet been set, get in touch now
uith your State Chairman of the War Finance Committee.

To meet your plant quota, will mean that you will have
to hold your present Pay-Roll Deduction Plan payments
at their peak figure — and then get at least an average of one
EXTRA $100 bond from every tvorker!

That's where your leadership comes in— and the lead-

ership of every one of your associates, from plant super-
intendent to foreman! It's your job to see that your fellow >
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That won't prove difficult, if you organize for it. Set i
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And here's one last thought. Forget you ever beard of
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IN THE NEWS

HEADS CHAPTER

Herbert J. Powell, who has been named President to

direct the destinies of Southern California Chapter,

A. I. A., this year, is a native of Chicago, where he re-

^^ ceived his early education prior

E^H to cominq to California, hiere
^H he attended Redlands High
1^1 School, and in 1920 graduated
\H fronn the University of Redlands.
^H Obtaining his degree in archi-
^H tecture at Harvard, he won the
^H Shelden Traveling Scholarship
^1 and the A.I.A. medal.

powPN '^''' ''o^®" received his early

training in the nationally-known
offices of McKim, Mead and White and Thomas
Harlan Ellett, New York City. Returning to California
in 1926, Mr. Powell worked with Marston, Van Pelt
and Maybury, of Pasadena, later forming a partnership
with Norman F. Marsh and D. D. Smith. This firm has
designed many of the better schools and public build-
ings in Southern California, including the Hollywood
High School, Newport Harbor Union High School and
the Henry E. Huntington School in San Marino.

Mr. Powell is a Past President of the Oneonta Club
of South Pasadena; the University of Redlands Alumni
Association and the Los Angeles Rotary Club. In
politics, Herbert is Independent; for recreation he
enjoys mountain hiking; his hobby, photography and
sketching. Happily married to Alice I. Morse, of
Bangor, Maine, there are two sons, James and Robert,
and a daughter, Maybelle.

REOPENS S. F. OFFICE

The Donald R. Warren Co., structural and civil en-
gineers, announce the reopening of a San Francisco
office in the Sheldon Building, Carl E. Nelson staff
engineer in charge.

Mr. Nelson has supervised the engineering design
on many million dollars worth of war plant construction.
Some of the most outstanding of these projects handled
by the Donald R. Warren Co. are the magnesium
plants at Manteca, Natividad, Moss Landing and Per-
manente, California. Mr. Nelson served In the capacity
of structural engineer on the design work at the Roose-
velt Fleet Base. Prior to this work he was employed by
the State Bridge Department.

ART TEACHER

Dean Guy Gayler Clark announces appointment of
Charles M. Rieger, Algerian-born architect, to the
faculty of Cooper Union Art School, New York. Mr.
Rieqer will teach architectural presentation.

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AMERICAN Rubber Mfg. Co 7

ANDERSON & Rinqroso 46

ARCHITECTURAL Competition 35

BARRETT & Hilp II

BASALT Rocl< Connpany 44

BAXTER & Company, J. H 40

CASSARETTO, John 46

CLARK, N.. & Son '

CLINTON Construction Company 43

COATES, Leonard, Nurseries 45

COLUMBIA Steel Company *

CONCRETE Grid Forms 36

CROCKER First National Bank 45

FIAT Metal Mfg. Co..
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DINWIDDIE Construction Company... 46

EMANUEL, L. & E 40

GUNN, Carle & Company..

HANKS. Inc.. Abbot A 45

HAWS Drinking Faucet Company 2nd Cover

HERRICK Iron Works 46

HOGAN Lumber Company 43

HUNT, Robert W., Company 45

HUNTER, Thos, B 46

IMPERIAL Brass Mfg. Co *

INDEPENDENT Iron Works 47

JENSEN & Son, G. P. W 46

JOHNSON Company, S. T *

JUDSON Pacific Company 43

KAWNEER Co

KRAFTILE Company

McNEAR Brick Co 44

MULLEN Mfg. Co 45

NORTHERN California Electrical Bureau 2

PACIFIC Coast Gas Association.. Back Cover

PACIFIC Foundry Company, Ltd 38

PACIFIC Manufacturing Company... 44

PACIFIC Portland Cement Company 36

PARAMOUNT Built-in Fixture Company 46

PAYNE Furnace & Supply Co., Inc 7

REMILLARD-Dandini Co 44

REPUBLIC Steel Corporation 44

SALL Mountain Company *

SANTA Maria Inn *

SIMONDS Machinery Company 44

SISALKRAFT Company 44

SOULE Steel Co '

STANLEY Works, The 7

TORMEY Company, The 45

U. S. STEEL Company..

VERMONT Marble Company 44

WASHINGTON - Elier Company '

WESTERN Asbestos Company *

WESTERN Lighting Fixture Co 10

WOOD, E. K., Company 38

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Coming to the United States in 1939 Mr. Rieger
collaborated that year with Norman Bel Geddes in
designs for the General Motors Pavilion Exhibit at the
New York World's Fair. He also was commissioned
by Sabry Pacha, high commissioner of the Egyptian
Government, to collaborate in the interior decoration
and design of the Egyptian Pavilion at the World's
Fair, and to serve as consultant on Egyptian architec-
ture.

NEW PRESIDENT

Clarence E. Seage, newly elected President of the
Structural Engineers Association of Northern Califor-
nia, succeeding Professor J. B. Wells, has maintained an
office for the practice of his
profession in San Francisco
since 1920, except for a short
period when he was employed
on the staff of the San Fran-
cisco-Oakland Bay Bridge as
one of the senior bridge design
engineers, and also as chief
planning and assistant executive
officer in charge of design, con-
SEAGE struction and operation of par-

ticipation of the California
Commission for the Golden Gate International Exposi-
tion at Treasure island.

As a practicing consulting engineer, Mr. Seage's
commissions have embraced public and industrial
structures, the more prominent being the Sacramento
High School and Junior College; First Congregational
Church, Berkeley; Temple Emanu-EI (Henry Dewell,
Associated); St. Dominies Parochial School, San Fran-
cisco, and Brophy College, Phoenix, Arizona.

In the industrial field Mr. Seage designed the Maria
Elena Nitrate Plant, Chili, South America, and only
recently completed a 60,000-ton capacity rolling mill
for the Oregon Electric Steel Rolling Mills of Port-
land, Ore.

Mr. Seage's professional career started in New York
City where he was employed by the American Bridge
Company and Milliken Bros, as draftsman on the Penn-
sylvania Station and the North and East River tunnels
and bridges.

ENGINEERS AND THE UNIONS

Unionism is fast becoming an issue in engineering,
according to Clement J. Freund, Dean, College of
Engineering, University of Detroit, who sums up the
situation with the following conclusions:

'I do not see how engineers, the engineering pro-
fession and labor unions can possibly evade the follow-
ing conclusions:

"I. Draftsmen, testers, technicians. Instrument men,
calculators, operators and others in engineering type
occupations will find it practically Impossible to achieve
full professional standing if they belong to labor unions.

"2. Labor unions are just as appropriate among

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draftsmen, testers, etc., who do not aspire to profes-
sional standing as they are in any other high class,
skilled craft.

"3. If great numbers of professional engineers every-
where affiliate with labor unions, either because they
choose to or because they are forced to, engineering
occupations may continue to flourish, but the profes-
sion of engineering, as such, will most assuredly vanish
from the face of the earth."
HIRING CONSULTANTS

The right of New York City to hire outside firms to
do engineering and architectural work in connection
with the city's planning for post-war construction was
upheld by the Supreme Court of the State of New
York in a decision rendered on October 13. The de-
cision was in a suit brought by the Civil Service
Technical Guild to have the court nullify existing con-
tracts for such work and restrain the city from letting
other contracts. The guild claimed that engagement
of outside firms for this work was in contravention of
the civil service sections of the state constitution.

In his decision Justice Pecora of the Supreme Court
said: "I conclude that nothing contained in the Con-
stitution of the State of New York or in the provisions
of the Civil Service Law prohibits the City of New
York from awarding contracts for architectural and
engineering services to private concerns In connection
with the post-war planning program. This court further
holds that the action of the city attacked herein Is in
line with sound public policy and represents a wise
exercise of discretion. The application, therefore. Is
in all respects denied, and the petition dismissed." —
Engineering News-Record.

OHIO ARCHITECTS ON THE JOB

The blueprints will be ready on V-day on those
needed construction Improvements in Ohio, if the
advice and surveys of architects in that State are
followed. Reports of the Tenth Annual Convention of
the Architects Society of Ohio held In Columbus,
November 19th, showed that architects in practically
every large city in Ohio are working in unison, as they
never have before on post-war planning programs.
They realize the great opportunity that this post-war
program has given the architectural profession and
practically every chapter of A.S.O. as well as the
American Institute of Architects, are working zealously
together with public officials and public spirited citi-
zens in making surveys of the needs of their communi-
ties for all kinds of public building and engineering
projects.

RUSSIAN ARCHITECTURE

Preview of an exhibition sponsored by the
American-Russian Institute, was held at the de
Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, Janu-
ary 7th. The show comprises photographs of cul-
tural, architectural and art treasures in the Soviet
Union, before and after the organized destruction
and looting by the Hitlerites.

THERE IS MORE THAN ONE KIND
OF FAITH IN THIS SANCTUARY

A place of worship is a place of faith, of confidence
in the goodness of men and the thoughtful designs
of nature. Here is where men and women turn
with the knowledge that they can find comfort and
strength and inspiration.

That faith, during years of peace, has been en-
shrined by many a creed and denomination in
settings founded on another kind of faith — faith
in the builder's fidelity to the architect's design, in
his use of durable materials and sound structural
methods. The impressive Memorial Chapel in
Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco, embodies both
kinds of faith.

We, as builders of that Chapel, have still a third kind of faith —
faith in the future. The coming of war turned all our manpower
and facilities to the momentous tasks created by the emergency,
but the coming of a New Year brings hope that the day is near
at hand when triumphant peace-loving people may again call
upon their builders for the places they desire.

BARRETT «k HILP

Builders for 30 Years
918 Harrison Street • San Francisco, 7, California

Temple EmaiiuEl, San Francisco

JANUARY, 1944

WINDOWS IN MEMORIAL CHAPEL. TEMPLE EMANU-EL
San Francisco

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

MEMORIAL CHAPEL, TEMPLE EMANU-EL. SAN FRANCISCO, LOOKING TOWARD THE ARK

WORK OF MICHAEL GOODMAN

When work in progress was severed by the war a half score of offices in this country not only summed
up the past but also set landmarks to inspire peace-time designers.

In these days of demountables and emergency restrictions, continued recognition is given to the
work of the office of Michael Goodman for just such manifestly expressive designs executed during

the trying days of Pearl Harbor. Thus, with the above in mind,
Architect and Engineer is reproducing in this issue some exam-
ples of work in which Mr. Goodman blazes trails in the tech-
nique and application of a glass and concrete construction.

He insists that his design is unfortunately experimental in
many instances. "Let others improve on the detail." His
explorative urge, he claims, is prompted by the necessity to
seek solutions pertinent to the building of the day. "A martyr's
existence," he adds enthusiastically! Mr. Goodman believes,
for instance, that in this "age of plastics" the use of concrete
promises an equally great and romantic future. He refers to
Prefabrication as a snare and cliche in its popular acceptance.

Lithuanian born and Russian educated, Mr. Goodman brought
to this country a cultivated appreciation of wood. He developed
an affection for local woods and furthered the possibilities of
the use of Redwood when he saw Maybeck's early work in
Berkeley. Times have changed rapidly, he recalls, referring to
the reluctance of the loaning institutions back in 1934, to finance
his designs employing unpointed Redwood exteriors, plywood
lining, gravel roofs, and a multitude of other features in house
design.

Professor Goodman is very proud of the wartime achieve-
ments of the graduates of the School of Architecture of the
University of California, of which he is a faculty member. "The
Teaches and practices architecture. [Turn to Page 17)

JANUARY, 1944

fl MODERN RRCHIT

Clay full scale study (9 feet high)
of glass panels for window dedi-
cated to the Holy Holidays.

by Michael Goodman

Because the installation of two unique pi
Tennple Emanu-EI in San Francisco ma>
because of interest taken by eminent aui
and Engineer is reprinting on these pag:
which appeared In a recent issue of the <
Memorial Museum.

The manager of an ornamental glass factory in Venice confided to me
during working hours that, "they really can do glass in the United States
if they only cared and were not afraid of indulging in sentimentalities."

I ventured to add that a tendency to narrow specialization and our
slight accomplishment in the absence of established traditions, explain
why we have so few names in modern glass-making. Besides, let it be
said in whispered tones, the restraint of glass-makers in this country may
have had a good deal to do with the fact that "American inheritors"
of the French revival and their successors produced little work of merit
as regards quality and design.

Functionalists will say that until recently mass production of sheet
and plate glass, and that gift of small time decorators, the glass block,
stifled interest in craftsmanship and experimentation in the manufacture
and design of glass. Possibly what prevented industrial manufacture of
varieties of glass in this country was the stigma attached to early "highly
personalized" creations, often depending for their beauty on chance
effects, and not infrequently degenerating into feats of technical virtuosity.

The existence of too much tradition and weight of accumulated
precedent also may have been a hindrance to the blazing of new trails
by these unsentimental American manufacturers. I know that glass-
makers of today have returned to more basic methods of production,
with greater attention to the "feel" and perfection of the metal. The
glass-linteled entrances to the Rockefeller Center already are dated,
heroical deeds in the new direction. But sandblasted glass, icy looking
and frosty, chilled off any desire by architects to continue specifications
in this medium. The designing departments sadly conceded the truth of
the matter in the course of discussions on the subject.

I recalled the suggestion of my Venetian friend, that with the anneal-
ing facilities In this country, I should be able to get heavy slab glass made

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

RflL GLASS MEDIUM

Ikvs in the new Memorial Chapel of the
6w technique in architectural glass, and
B^lass industry and the art world, Architect
■^t's own story of this new glass nnedium
l^iew, published by the M. H. de Young

For artistic purpose, on an architectural scale, "if they care to do It,
Tiind you." If the dream of the last two centuries was the achievement
3f the whitest and most transparent metal, why not do what the medieval
rraftsman must have wished for In their prayers — obtain deeply colored
glass so thick that any cutting-In will have Induced a prismatic effect,
j^fter a wonderful occasion presented Itself in my designing practice,
'he first two windows of the Temple Emanu-EI Chapel were Installed —
,'Ad Majoren Dei Gloriam" — one dedicated to the Five Books of Moses,
I'he other to the Holy Holidays.

Be It noted here that all deeply colored glass I '/2 inches thick, as In

•his case, appears black In slab form. In cutting through with metallic

particles to various depths we obtained colors from near-black to tones

Df red, through gold, to almost silver at the last eighth of an Inch. The

pffect obtained Is pellucid In quality, unlike the surface of sculpture.

vioulding of the symbolic patterns from steel dyes would have been

rohlbltlve and wasteful. Consequently, sketches were made with casts

xecuted in "jello" from full-sized models. Then new drawings subject

o spot-Improvements were transferred to the rough slabs for blasting.

and-blasting allowed using a variety of under-cuts Impossible to achieve

y moulding at the factory. After this work was done, the slabs were

elted down mechanically to regain the former lustre. They are about

2 Inches high each, and 25 Inches wide. The finished slabs were set up

n felt on brackets In metal frames to reduce excessive vibration.

I carved a thick piece of Cobalt glass to find, much to my delight, at
certain depth of cutting, a warm purple glow between a black area
and shades of blue and silver. This hint may point to the possibilities
of the "techniques to come" In architectural glass. In specifying the
glass to the makers, we asked them to reduce the amount of seed and
bubble by chemical additions, thereby enabling the slab glass to take the
ibuse of hand processing.

lANUARY, 1944

Clay full scale study of window in
Memorial Chapel, Temple Emanu-
EI, symbolizing the five Books of
Moses.

MEMORIAL CHAPEL. TEMPLE EMANU-EL, SAN FRANCISCO. LOOKING TOWARD VESTIBULE

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A U D I Torz. I U M

PLAN OF CHAPEL

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

yiEMORIAL CHAPEL, TEMPLE EMANU-EL

San Francisco
Michael Goodman, Archifecf

I The Chapel was built-in, or rather carved into a two story class-
oom wing of the distinctive Tennple. Since the street noises created
n acoustical hazard, the "shell" of the Chapel was suspended and
solated. Largest dimension of the Chapel is 76 by 19 feet. The
icoustical condition is one of the most notable features of the new
tructure.

All the interior detail of lighting, metalworic, furniture and the
windows were designed in the office and executed from office models.

It was mandatory to avoid the use of indirect lighting as well as
^e old-fashioned exposed-source type of units. The chandelier units
re composed of three seven-branch candlesticks, 5 feet in diameter.
\ "dimming variety" of lighting was obtained to fit the type of
iervice held.

: To emphasize the value of the window decoration at night, lighting
trips and reflectors were placed between the old, outside windows
nd the new ones. The five glass panels in each window are supported
t two points only, with felt strips filling 3.' 1 6 inch spaces between.

The dignity of the Chapel is maintained by its proportions and
3ck of ornamentation other than in the parts designed for service
ise. The walls are of English lacewood, redwood cored veneer panel-
ng hung on isolators over layers of deadening, etc. The vault ceiling
ind all other plaster surfaces are of acoustical plaster.

The Ark containing the sacred scrolls is designed along the type
sf the ancient sacred cylindrical containers which, Mr. Goodman be-
lieves, later may have developed into variations as used in Europe.

The Chapel is heated by steam heated air blown down, with ex-
austs at floor level, ultizing the acoustical hollow spaces in the walls
'or recirculation. Space above the ceiling vault is used as a plenum
nd is acoustically insulated.

Upper right: One of two
chandeliers, rheostat con-
trolled, in chapel.

Executed by Western
Lighting Fixture Connpany.

Center: Alms box.

Below: Vestibule grille.

Left: Plan of Temple, show-
ing location of the new
Chapel.

WORK OF MICHAEL GOODMAN (Continued from Page 13)

.'experience of our graduates will be valuable to us to reorient
architectural education after the war," he asserts. His popu-
ilarity stems from a friendship built up toward him by his
students and a recognition in this country and abroad of his
.ability to think creatively in materials. Mr. Goodman sums up
|on Architecture by stating that, "we should know the past, but
not advance the charms of extinction against the claims of real
life; that in order to achieve nobility in design, we have to do
a lot of wrangling with trial and error." — F. W. J.

JANUARY, 1944

ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH. MARYSVILLE. CAirFORNIA
General view of group.

Michael Goodman, Architect

PLAN OF GROUP

Legend: 1. Covered entrance court; 2. Church building; 3. Vestry and Sacristy;
4. Class rooms; 5. Guild Hall; 6. Kitchen and service: 7. Kindergarten; 8. Service
court. Dimensions of building, 134 x 96.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, MARYSVILLE, CALIFORNIA
View of center court.

A loosely connected "group plan" was adopted by the building committee at the time, due to:

a. Budget program limitations and

b. The looming emergency building and labor restrictions.

Low height units were connected with covered walks due to excessive climatic heat. The highest wall
measures 23 feet; the lowest 8 feet 6 inches.

Because of the limitations, traditional decorative features were sacrificed in favor of obtaining maximum
usable space. Provisions were made for future installation of memorial and decorative bequeathments. Fur-
niture and equipment, as well as the leaded windows, were reinstalled from the original church building now
dismantled.

A distinctive contribution in the plan was made by the introduction of the Court for out-of-doors service.
The Chancel is large. Some of the wood construction Is easily Interchangeable. The building group represents
the minimum requirements of the Congregation with the possibility of Inexpensive alteration in the future.

The building covers an area of 100 feet by 157 feet of the total plot.

Construction features: Hard rock concrete, low soil pressure foundations. Above, walls of light weight,
low water content, designed mix concrete. Floors are mostly wood joist construction with pine finish. The roof
has wood "carpenter" trussing with asbestos shingle covering.

The concrete forms used were of movable type, made of aluminum 20 inches deep. In most cases they
were removed after 15 minutes to an hour, depending on conditions. The batch was tamped in uniformly.
The placement of the reinforcing steel had a feature of "inducing of a plane of cleavage" in order to keep
cracking and shrinkage under control. The 30 day strength averaged 3500 lbs. per sq. in. with a lean mix.
Early strength would show low. The texture of the placed mix provided good bond. A large proportion of
labor used was unskilled, but within regulations.

Surfaces outside and inside are finished with two coat waterproof cement stucco with integral color.

JANUARY, 1944

Tamping concrete into slip forms,
showing lock with hard rock foun-
dations.

Showing wall panels in process of
erection.

Tamping of typical form lift.

TWO DETAILS OF ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SHOWING
KINDERGARTEN AND YARD INCLOSURE

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

♦ lA

THE POST-WAR HOUSE BEAUTIFUL

by MICHAEL GOODMAN. Architect

Much has been written on post-war housing which is technically impractical to achieve, by

with seenning uncertainty. In most cases the the way), tent-like projects and constructions

medley of reports and programs presented to borrowed from the idiom of the airplane wing,

the public added to the general confusion. Competitions must be held during critical

Out of the still mounting discussion of things periods. The entrants, like other poets, reacted

to come after the D-day, one thing persists, to the complexity of the times by establishing

and it is the house "for all" free of all shackles, their personal systems, which are particularly

one of the other Freedoms, as Churchill said interesting in the manner in which they, the

recently. designers, have projected new concepts of

While most of the evangelists and prophets building "for all," whoever they may be, out

have been heard from, evidence tends to point of current cliches and practices,
to the fact that little change may be expected I hold that at the present stage, plans for

in the hazy firmament of housing. Perhaps mere construction systems and particularized

faintly gradual in either the shaping of pro- designs is a comparatively minor matter in the

grams or establishing the necessary controls face of the urgency for an all-embracing plan

to achieve results for the common good. In for the future, hience, a competition of this

general, my point rests on the fact that while sort in which values are lacking in reinforcement

I, too, desire clarity, I would rather be confused by facts, it is just as well to accept a cheerful

by confusion than by false clarity. point of view. The whole thing, in summing

The architects, too, are being called in to up, is that life Is easy to arrange under any

expend effort on working out our future housing condition provided all the working detail had

salvation — or damnation. One of the most In- been disregarded; which is a legitimate theme,

teresting and eloquent of such reports to the The spirit of the terms of the contest point to

public were the results of a nation-wide com- the fact that "shocking design" is welcome,

petition which I viewed in a local museum a thereby supporting the oft repeated conten-

few months back. The contest was conducted flon that all generations are alike in that each

by a Southern California magazine with the Is convinced Its elders did not go far enough

purpose to gather suggestions for post-war and that its younger contemporaries are going

houses. It is unimportant here that you may too far.

not have seen it. You will not escape it, for It We see and read that the millennium of the

was given good publicity. The drawings pro- prefabricated and standardized house, or

voked much thought In my mind. types of housing, Is to come along with the

I regretted the small number of winning de- millennium of the common man. That the prod-
signs which fact was possibly not due entirely uct will wed itself with the rollicking country-
to the war situation; rather, I thought, the side. At a lower ebb last year, equally con-
reason was due to the basic difficulty of an vincing were panicky statements that post-
inherent condition that in order to be a prophet war architecture will be an expression of the
one must have Inordinary foresight as well as "Bomber Age" crouching and clinging to
knowledge of the past. mother earth — by design, a child of conceal-

The highlight of this competition was that ment.

by means of the "drawn essay" the competl- THE FUTURE

tors dared to pin down the future to concrete As to the future of the House It Is my opin-

conditions. One might, on studying the draw- Ion, and not hope, that In the peace emergency

Ings, escape their conclusions and reject their to come the situation will appear not unlike the

solutions, some of which are singularly incon- one after the first war. The American soldier

elusive. They, the designers, boldly proclaim back from this war, and settled, as well as the

a packaged house (to cite the winning case future tourist discovering Europe, or what is left

22 ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

of It, may desire the sentimental house, the kind
they saw overseas. French, English, Spanish, not
to mention our own Cape Cod strain of cot-
tages, will be revived. In whichever way they
may be constructed (or stamped) they will be
offered with good kitchens, bathrooms and
equipment.

Objectively stated, I think the following
should be considered: The solution cannot be
localized by any one agency or by a limited
narrow set of conditions, but will emerge grad-
ually from the complexity of our vast potential
resources, plants and money. Even the anti-
planners are making post-war plans to end all
guesswork. This job must be, as some writers
stated, along a plan the originality of which
must first lie in the political implications to be
promoted. There is no large demand by the
public as yet on political changes to effect such
a plan; but there is a great recognition that the
hlouse must be better and more accessible for
the brave world to come.

It was stated that for some time the post-war
house will be little different from the pre-Pearl
Harbor models, just as the car of the future
may be much like the 1942 model. My con-
tention is that only those improvements in the
house and related planning activities with their
controls established during the war, will be
carried over into the coming stages of peace.
In other words, the new setup will, to a large
extent, be the presently existing one. Post-
ponement may have to be sought for other
improvements and betterment of living.

The New Yorker Magazine reported recently
that at a symposium held by the Society of
Automotive Engineers, one of the speakers re-
marked while displaying a picture of a car that
looked like a pale-green teardrop wept by a
giant, — "here we have the general trend of the
air-brush designers." Obviously, there is a con-
fusion existing between the prophets and those
who embrace the sidewalk.

EMULATION

Assuming that automobile and aircraft prob-
lems are in different spheres of technique and
economy, the House needs some other essen-
tial terms and philosophy. The profession has
yet to initiate independent terminology instead
of borrowing terms idiomatic of other technical

sciences and arts. The designers developed
a fawning admiration for engineering terms,
slang and techniques, probable and imaginary.
The Engineers on the other hand suffer from
the same doubts as the airbrush professions.
If both the said Engineers and Architects could
get together and agree on what they are re-
belling against, perhaps things may shape bet-
ter In perspective.

The New Yorker turns to a car which is In
no need of guesswork — the jeep, and states
that this thing will be certain in the post-war
scene, I suppose, because we tend to go by
hindsight. Possibly that's why, confident of
public acceptance, there Is an indication that
a manufacturer will present the Cape Cod
cottage in plastic materials with some detail
changes; or it may appear before the buying
public stamped out in such plastic. Horrible
thought! We are just getting over our dislike
of one-piece cast-iron building fronts.

PROFESSION'S FUTURE

Many architects expect that their lot will
consist either of rendering clerical services to
the Industry, or be, a romantic idea, planners
for a reorganized society.

In the first case those designers accustomed
to work only within the limits of their imagina-
tion may find themselves, when confined to a
narrow cage, at the pleasure of their entre-
preneurs. In the past they leaned heavily In
the direction of individual design as an ac-
tivity of esthetic satisfaction, since the House
in general was considered merely a matter of
a mechanical solution. In the future if they wish
to work Independently of corporations they
must pay a personal price for the pleasure of
a creative activity in response to this urge of
balancing utility and delight. Otherwise they
will be purveyors of services with desks in and
out of the corporations.

It is said that pre-fabrication is the only hope
of the building industry's sustained growth
after the war. I am not afraid of that or of
standardized practice as such. I do, however,
have misgivings of the consequences It may
Induce. Should we train our architects to be-
come virtuosos of handbook assembly, or to do

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JANUARY, 1944

HOUSE FOR DR. EDWARD MATZGER

SOUTH VIEW OF HOUSE FROM STREET

G. P. W. Jensen i Son. Buildert I

SAN FRANCISCO. CALIFORNIA

North-South, as In many Instances In San Francisco,
the house Is open to the South and affords a superb
marine view to the North.,

MATERIALS:

Foundations — Concrete.
Superstructure — Wood frame.
Stucco (buff) North and South walls.
Trim and wood surfaces painted cream white.
Heating — Warm air, gas fired, semi air-conditioned.
Wiring — Conduit.
Sash— Steel.
Floors — Oak, tile, linoleum.

Walls — Combed white pine; painted canvas and
grasscloth; Interior stucco tinted; matched
French walnut panels and cabinets in dining
room.

PLANS

Left: Entrance court
and basement.

Above: First floor.

Top: Bedrooms.

HOUSE FOR DR. EDWARD MATZGER

4. Breakfast end of
kitchen.

5. Master bedroom
cabinets.

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HOUSE FOR BERTRAM MYERS. PIEDMONT

VIEW FROM ENTRANCE DRIVEWAY

A distinctive feature of this house is the study-office floor between qaraqe level and
main floor, all placed at half levels.

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Left: Service walk, showing
Concrete Grid Walls.

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lEDMONT. CALIFORNIA

DUPLEX DWELLING FOR MISS BEULAH LEMK

VIEW FROM STREET LEVEL

An interesting duplex built in anticipation of the war impact on this industrial area.

The Albany City Council cooperated by rezoning the district to accommodate the first architect-designed dwelling.
Hillside patios are provided for both apartments.

Detail of step-bock living rooms and garage
exterior treated in natural Redwood.

Plans

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEERl

LBANY, CALIFORNIA

LIVING ROOM OF UPPER DWELLING

Fireplace: Common brick; walls and ceiling light cream stucco; cabinets painted.

Hillside view

Combined kitchen and laundry

JANUARY, 1944

OUR NATIONAL POST-WAR ECONOMIC PROBLEM

By ARNOLD A. WErTZMAN, A.I.A.

"Behold I create a neiv heaven and a new earth and the
former shall not be remembered nor come into mind."

-(Isaiah LXV-17.)

I know that many people upon reading this
article, will ask thennselves: "What does he
want? Isn't there such and such a board, and
such and such a committee active?" Yes, in-
deed there are many, and -from the architec-
tural profession very active and excellent ones!
But the criticism uttered in the last article, con-
cerning such boards and committees, has even
gained more significance by the accelerated
pace with which events have been moving since
that time. In It the complaint was made that
while architects all over the country have joined
in sincere and concerted effort and are pro-
ducing marvelous results, there is as yet no
means created for converting this effort Into
actual use as soon as the necessity for such
work arrives after cessation of hostilities in
Europe.

It seems that few people realize the enormity
of the problem which this nation faces imme-
diately after the command — "Cease Firing" —
has been bugled. This problem is infinitely
greater than what we faced during the last
depression, unless effective measures are taken
to solve the question of unemployment. In fact
it will be the continuation of the depression
which raged during the thirties and never ended
when the war started in Europe. Unless we
manage to create a solid peace prosperity the
war prosperity will have been a mere interlude
caused by the war and which will end with the
finish of the war.

This depression. If negligence and compla-
cency on the part of those who are in respon-
sible charge of this nation's welfare allow it to
recur, will be deepened by the addition to the
ranks of the unemployed of a big segment of

Editor's Note— Mr. Weitzman's first article was published in Architect
and Engineer for November under the heading "Actually Planning Post-
war Work?" Both articles were originally prepared for the Weekly
Bulletin of the Michigan Society of Architects to which we are indebted
for permission to use.

our population (17,000,000 women) which have
been transformed from housewives into indus-
trial workers. They will continue to be job seek-
ers and no government under democratic
processes can drive them back Into the kitchen!
This is besides the, according to statistics,
natural annual increase in job seekers of about
two million during the last four years. On the
other hand, technological advancement, with
its accompanying more labor-saving devices,
has been stepped up enormously, owing to the
war production fever. These advanced meth-
ods on the field of production, the new eco-
nomic status into which a large part of our
population has entered as a result of the war
and an attending new social status, these are
factors that must enter the equation whenever
the near economic future of our nation Is being
appraised.

The New World, about which we hear so
much of late, as a future promise, is here. We
live in it already. "The former shall not be
remembered nor come Into mind." Regardless
of what statesmen will do or will not do, the old
world has passed and the new is not to come
after the war, but is here now. It has been born
out of circumstances which no one can alter
now. hlowever, instead of making it a better
world, our inactivity, or activity in the wrong
direction may make it into a much worse one
than the one which we saw passing. We should
now resolutely form economic circumstances
so that they are in consonance with this new
world. Above all we must be serene and not
permit ourselves to be carried along by mere
slogans and nice phrases into a feeling of
"everything will be all right!" Such readjust-
ments as are required now do not just happen
by themselves!

We should not fix the nation's hope on "con-
version of industry" as an important factor to
continue employment after the war. This would
at best create a flashlike prosperity. Also in

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many cases conversion of industry fronn war to
peace production entails a mere reorganiza-
tion; an expenditure of time only and even a
temporary work stoppage; instead of that
feverish and work-absorbing activity that peo-
ple have been taught to think of in connection
with "conversion." Also the much-talked of
home building does not form a major source
of employment to come. It may some day be
a disappointment to many to find that a lot
of the much-talked-of small housing building
has been accomplished by the government in
the form of war housing. It is hardly thinkable
that all war houses, although they are not of
substantial construction, will be scrapped after
the war.

The surest solution to the problem of con-
tinued activity, as far as the building industry
is concerned, lies in an extensive and well
planned public works program and an expand-
ing utility development program. There are
many such projects which are self-liquidating in
nature and are very necessary. Under this head-
ing come:

1 . Electrification of railroads wherever such
a conversion from steam power is technically
feasible.

2. Development of waterways.

3. Facilitating credit for home building.

4. hlousinq proiects.

CIVIC IMPROVEMENTS

1 . Development of abundant playgrounds
and parks.

2. Resume the program of building schools,
community centers, hospitals and other public

buildings. Also this program was Interrupted
by the war.

3. Road over-passes and under-passes. (This
very urgent work had only a good start when
it was entirely stopped. The highways and
city arteries are full of life-endangering spots
and the number of victims for which these
danger points are responsible, is enormous
thoughout the nation.)

4. Resumption of an extensive highway and
bridge building program.

These projects must be immediately ar-
ranged for by the Federal, State and City
governments to be put into actual operation
as soon as the war is over and material and
labor can be diverted. In spite of the war,
time and effort must be applied to this task,
which Is very urgent, for winning and alike for
keeping the peace. Mere assertions of what
we could do and even promise to do, is not
sufficient; may they come even from the high-
est authorities In the nation. Things will have
to be done, and even by methods that will
appear to many of us unorthodox. Thus Is the
verdict of history, of the eternal power that
destroys old worlds and builds new ones on
the ashes of the old. As we are In a new world,
new ways must be adopted and "the former
shall not be remembered, nor come into mind."

Architects and engineers, who are the cre-
ators in the building industry, which, with Its
ramifications comprises 45% of the country's
economic activity must teach, tell and tell
again the American people, to make this still
a better world, to live in it and for It.

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS' ANNUAL MEETING

At the annual dinner meeting of the Structural En-
gineers Association of Northern California, December
7, election of officers and reports of the various com-
mittees featured the business session which preceded
an Illustrated talk by John E. Rinne on the Canol Proj-
ect, a part of the U. S. Army Engineers' war program
In Canada and Alaska. Mr. Rinne Is structural en-
gineer for the Standard Oil Company of California.

The Canol project, currently controversial. Involves
oil production In the Mackenzie River valley and a
pipe line to the refinery In Alaska. Color slides illus-
trated Mr. RInne's description of construction prob-
lems peculiar to the climate and geography of the
Northland. At the outset of his talk the speaker

explained that he did not propose to debate details
of the current controversy regarding the Canol project,
which is reportedly under investigation, since his com-
pany Is acting only as agent for, and is under specific
orders of, the U. S. Army Engineers.

Retiring President J. B. Wells, professor of struc-
tural engineering, Stanford University, presided during
the business session at which Clarence E. Seage, con-
sulting structural engineer of San Francisco, was elected
president (see Page 10), while J. G. Wright of Berk-
eley was elected vice-president. Consulting Structural
Engineer John J. Gould was the third addition to the
board of directors, while hold-over directors are M. C.
Poulsen, secretary Port Costa Brick Works, and Theo-
dore P. Dresser, Jr., manager of Abbott Flanks, Inc.

JANUARY, 1944

THE POST-WAR HOUSE BEAUTIFUL

(Continued from Page 731

creative design? The former is a clerical occu-
pation.

The architect will have to face the choice
between the city planner, the engineer or in-
dustrial designer. All these activities are within
his possibility. The profession must turn into
an action group not unlike labor and industry
and identify itself with a scheme of orien-
tation, long-term by necessity. If we are to
serve the masses, or the "one-third of the na-
tion," we may have to deal with government
agencies and dictates by standards. We will
have to learn how to deal with city and state
governments and their bureaus. If we are to
participate in public works programs, will It
be through a combination of private enterprise
and pools of equipment, or government con-
trol, or a combination of both? We have no
answers; many facts are known, however.

INDUSTRY

The recently built up prestige of pre-fabri-
cation Is based on an unanalyzed reputation.
The industry was set up in business to meet
emergency problems at the time when the
officials were beholden to European examples.
Its current standards may discredit the excel-
lent lesson learned from Its practice. It does
not save time or money. The demountabillty
factor Is a saving device. Some suspect that
the pre-fabrlcated house exists in the imagina-
tion of enthusiasts and by tax-exempt adver-
tising. Standardization Is as old as Adam, ex-
cept to those who just discovered it. Meeting
post-war requirements for a public will be more
difficult because It will tend not to tolerate
a type of building "by omission." On the other
hand, high standards set up for mass accept-
ance proved not profitable so far.

To each dozen of construction formulae con-
jured up, there is no suggestion as to what will
finance do to help solve the more pertinent
questions of the future. The field of housing
offers a vast opportunity, reports Mr. Amiie
in the Nation, if we peg our national income
at $150,000,000 or $200,000,000, but If we
permit it to drop back to $70,000,000 or $80,-
000,000 then we are overhoused — not in terms

of human needs but in terms of what we can
afford. I do not know whether I will be able to
afford a Monocoque, a Mast hung, a Mechani-
cal Core or a Modified Conventional house as
the Michigan Society Weekly Bulletin sum-
marized.

Nowadays a house Is defined as a collection
of catchy detail fostered by advertising. We
have to educate first the houseless people in
the art of the use of the domicile and Its livabil-
ity. The General Electric promises a future
demand by women for automatic household
equipment. This is probably true, since the
stage was set before the war. Who will supply
the hHouse? Materials, gadgets and equipment
will come and go mysteriously after a spell,
only to reappear again in modified or Improved
guise backed by guarantees. Thus the purchas-
ing public would have participated In the im-
provement of the product and pay for it.

PLANNING

Business and Industry is doing Its own plan-
ning now, as reported by Advertising Age,
and is urging its membership to conform to Its
provisions.

Are houses to be offered on a "retirement
time-plan" or on the same antiquated basis?
Will tax, insurance, and servicing of the offered
house be made part of a plan involving land
cost as well as a saner purchase scheme of
furnishings and equipment for the consumer,
"ready to move In." Will there be an Industry
comparable to the automotive which will ac-
tually take over the present sprawling mam-
moth house building field.

A neighborhood store system established by
the large building materials companies in par-
ticipation with the government may emerge.
Services of site-fitting architects, landscapers
and engineers should be included In the deal
with guaranteed maintenance. A sort of ex-
panded WPA based on the best of bygone
experience. The lessons of the past emergen-
cies must be utilized, for If the government
subsidized war production and regulated man-
power, why not continue to a degree during
the first hardships of the peace emergency?

Why not now offer "house purchase saving
bonds for people's houses" if saving as econ-

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ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

ARCHITECTS GREET
NEW A.I.A. PRESIDENT
AT LOS ANGELES

■■^occci.-'^^

Architects on the Pacific Coast have had an oppor-
tunity this month to personally meet the new Institute
President, Raymond J. Ashton of Salt Lake City. A
member of the A.I.A. since 1929 Mr. Ashton is best
known as of the firm of Ashton, Evans and hlodgson,
architects of many notable buildings in the Middle
West, including the Mountain States Telephone & Tele-
graph Company Building, Salt Lake City, and the Geo.
Thomas Memorial Library, University of Utah.

At the University Club, Los Angeles, the evening
of January llth, the new Institute president was
greeted by an enthusiastic assemblage composed of
Southern California, Santa Barbara and San Diego
Chapter members and State Association Southern
Group members.

Prior to the dinner Mr. Ashton was in brief confer-
ence with the Chapter Executive Committee for dis-
cussion of Institute affairs.

Later the architects participated in an open forum
at which problems facing the profession were dis-
cussed.

At 6:00 a reception was held for the president,
followed by dinner at 7:00. Public officials from the
city, county, and state governments and leaders from
the principal professional, business and civic organi-
zations were guests of the Southern California Chap-
ter, and special recognition was paid Sylvanus Marston,
hiarold Chambers and Winchton RIsley, who have been
elevated to Fellowship In the Institute.

The new officers of S. C. C. were installed and
hHerbert J. Powell, president elect, outlined briefly the
program for the activities ahead. Mr. Ashton spoke
on the importance of solidarity in the architectural
profession and of Its relationship to other elements of
the construction industry and to government.

HUGE FLOOD CONTROL PROGRAM

The Pacific Division, Office of the U. S. Engineers,
Sacramento, has endorsed a $690,000,000 post-war
dam construction program and Is seeking Immediate
construction of two dams for flood control in the Butte
basin at Stony Creek and Table Mountain.

The post-war project includes construction of seven
multiple purpose dams on the Sacramento and Amer-
ican rivers at a cost of $190,000,000 and a general
expenditure of $500,000,000 for power and Irrigation
development and flood control In the Sacramento and
San Joaquin valleys.

Announcement!

COMPETITION FOR

SANATORIUM IN

IRELAND

COMHAIRLE CATHRACH ATHA CLIATH, EIRE
DUBLIN CORPORATION, IRELAND

The Dublin Corporation invites com-
petitive designs for a new tuberculosis
sanatorium (to accommodate 320 pa-
tients) to be erected at Ballyowen,
Lucan, County Dublin.

The competition is open to all quali-
fied architects who are members of the
Royal Institute of the Architects of Ire-
land, the Royal Institute of British Archi-
tects, the American Institute of Archi-
tects, Registered Architects In any of
the above countries or who are mem-
bers of a similar body or society else-
where.

The assessors are Messrs.

Harry Allberry, A.R.I.B.A. (Chairman)

Vincent Kelly, B. Arch., President, R.I.A.I.,
F.R.I.B.A.

John Murray Easton, F.R.I.B.A.

Ralph Byrne, F.R.I.A.l.

Dr. A. J. Walsh, M.B., B.Ch., D.P.H., Resi-
dent Medical Superintendent, Crooks-
ling Sanatorium, County Dublin.

The premiums are ^500, ■>; 350, £250, £150.

Application for the conditions should
be made to The City Manager and
Town Clerk, Corporation of Dublin,
Public hHealth Department, Municipal
Buildings, Dublin, and should be re-
ceived by him not later than the I 3th
March 1944.

A deposit of three pounds and three
shillings made payable to the City
Treasurer, Dublin, Ireland, should ac-
company the application.

Deposit will be returned on receipt of
a bona fide design or on the return of
the conditions.

P. J. HERNON

City Manager and Town Clerk

JANUARY, 1944

THE POST-WAR HOUSE BEAUTIFUL

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omists hold, is good now, and spending will be
healthy for the U. S. after the war?

What will the building industry labor be like?
Will labor engulfed now with speedup building
programs think about returning to traditional
craft ways? Why not bring the fabrication to
the job or site? This method may turn out to
be more up-to-date with new erection machin-
ery and techniques. New skills or diversifica-
tion of labor may be needed for this type of
fabrication. The present depletion in the ranks
of the traditional building trades may require
substitution by less skilled labor and mechanical
methods. With the possible post-war WPB
ministrations and restrictions, labor reports on
its own planning suggesting release of building
materials to make jobs with least lag and upset.

It is a two-way obligation for, if those re-
sponsible are unable to deliver. It may look as
if a solemn promise had been broken.

In conclusion, we must Investigate the whole
problem in the light of present conditions and
see how they can play their part in the future.
We need a purpose and a plan to integrate all
concerned to it; for the question of planning
is the question of expert knowledge and under-
standing of problems involved and not tinker-
ing. It Is a matter of a long process of educa-
tional measures for the public. John Mill said,
"Where the object Is to raise a permanent
condition of a people, small means do not
merely produce small effects — they produce
no effects at all."

S. F. ARCHITECTURAL CLUB

Plans for the new year were discussed at the last
regular meeting of the San Francisco Architectural
Club when the new officers presided for their first
session.

The February 2nd meeting will be an open one and
will feature a travel movie In technicolor and some
very Interesting news reels. The show will be put on
by Henry Snyder and Charley di Cristina.

All draftsmen are invited to attend the club's open
meetings which are held at the Builders Exchange, 666
Mission Street, at 8:15 on the first Wednesday of
each month.

Newly installed officers are as follows: President,
Clement A. Mullins; vice president, Hans Schickele:
secretary, Leo F. Daly: treasurer, John Wasley: direc-
tors, John H. Arndt, A. M. Cantin, Robert Page:
trustees, Leiand Hyde, E. J. Rybicki and Ira H. Springer.

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ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

THE STATE ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTS

Northern Section

EDITOR
William C. Ambrose

Address all communications for publication
In this department to W. C. Ambrose, 369
Pine Street, San Francisco.

STATE ASSOCIATION

Officers for 1944

President John S. Bolles

(Northern Section)

Vice-President Robert H. Orr

(Southern Section)

Second Vice-President Russell G. deLappe

(Northern Section)

Second Vice-President... Vincent Palmer

(Southern Section)

Secretary Adrian Wilson

(Southern Section)

Assistant Secretary Malcolm D, Reynolds

(Northern Section)

Treasurer Ralph Wyckoff

(Northern Section)

Assistant Treasurer George E. Gable

(Southern Section)

Directors: Henry H. Gutterson, Regional
Director, A.I.A.; Frederick H. Reimers,
State Board of Architectural Examiners
(Northern Section): Vv'insor Soule, State
Board of Architectural Examiners (South-
ern Section).

Northern Section

President John S. Bolles

Vice-President Russell G. deLappe

Secretary Malcolm D. Reynolds

Treasurer Ralph Wyckoff

Directors: Norman K. Blanchard (for two
years); Philip S. Buckingham (for two
years); Henry H. Gutterson, Regional Di-
rector, A.I.A.; Andrew T, Mass, Northern
Calif. Chapter, A.I.A.; Vincent G. Raney
(one more year); Frederick H. Reimers,
State Board of Architectural Examiners;
Peter L. Sala, Central Valley Chapter,
A. I. A.; . Francis Ward (one more year);
Alfred C. Williams (one more year).

Southern Section

President Robert H. Orr

Vice-President Vincent Palmer

Secretary Adrian Wilson

Treasurer George E. Gable

Directors: Henry H. Gutterson, Regional Di-
rector, A.I.A.; E. Keith Lockard, William
P. Lodge, Charles O. Matcham, Captain
E. Allen Sheet, WInsor Soule, State Board
of Architectural Examiners.

ARE WE WASTING THEIR MONEY?

COMPETITION

See Page 35 for official
announcemenf of Irish Sana-
forium Archifecfural Compe-
tifion.

The last time you wrote a specification for a residence (remember that far
back?) did you cheat your client by making the house cost too much? Did
you specify that at least one vent pipe should extend through the roof, with
a diameter of not less than four inches all of the way? Did you specify that
the studs should not be more than sixteen inches on centers? Did you specify
that all soil pipes should be not less than four inches in diameter? If so, why
did you do it?

Of course we know the answers — you specified those things as you did
because the ordinance said that was the way they had to be. We wonder
whether such an answer reflects very highly upon our professions. Some day
we will be specifying things for houses again, and unless something Is done
about It, you will be specifying the same way that you did long years ago
before the first bomb landed on the USS Oklahoma. In the meantime lots of
things have happened even In the building of residences, and some more
should be made to happen.

What we are trying to say Is that it is about time for us to re-examine the
standards which the building codes have made into law. If we are to build
that fine new world about which we have filled so many pages of news print.
Isn't it about time that we get busy In finding out whether our pre-war
standards are fit for use in that new world? Were our building code standards
formulated from the demands of pressure groups so that their materials would
be used In reckless abundance, or were they the result of scientific investiga-
tions?

We believe that the architectural and engineering professions, through
their organizations and by individual effort, should be the leaders In making
sure that the bases from which they work have the firm foundations of facts.
Many an architect who has worked on war construction must wonder whether
steel has a greater strength for five years of war service than It has for fifty
years of peaceful life; whether there is reason to believe that a soil stack three
inches In diameter can serve three years without clogging and not serve thirty
years; whether studs In houses should be spaced to fit spans for laths when
the house isn't going to have any laths; whether four Inch studs are necessary
on one story houses provided they are properly designed with three inch
studs; and on, on, through a long list. It seems a little odd that we build a
wall of glass with only an occasional support and if, Instead of glass, we use
a substantial bracing material to cover studs, then the supports must be sixteen
Inches on centers.

It may not be advisable to advocate whole new sets of building codes;
we have too many of them already. But some house cleaning of the codes
which we have is long overdue. We are fond of reciting that the architectural
and engineering professions provide professional service. Might It not be a
good Idea to ask ourselves whether we are giving full measure of professional
service when we make no effort to bring the technical standards under which
we work to be in line with modern material characteristics and techniques?
While we continue to use antiquated formulae we cannot truthfully say to
our clients that we are not wasting their money.

JANUARY, 1944

We Are Punled

We are sometimes puzzled
by data which happens to

K '• flow across our desk. We

don't like to be captious, much less do we wish to be
"smarty," but we do not quite understand the trend of
events, at times.

Before us is a communication signed by Mr. Horace
W. Peaslee, Secretary, Technical Board, Office of
Civilian Defense, relating to the formation of technical
committees to become acquainted with the problems
of Civilian Defense, and to be ready for action on
those problems when the occasion shall arise. We are
assured that we must be vigilant.

Along side of this we read, in the construction re-
ports of a public circulated newspaper, that plans
are in process for the removal of camouflage where
camouflage measures were deemed essential a few
months ago. The camouflage Is being removed, it may
be assumed, by a branch of the service also having
to do with the defense of our country. It just doesn't
make sense.

An in nova -
jj ?i

I New Committee Organization ! tion m com-
^ °' m i 1 1 e e or-

ganization was inaugurated at the meeting of the Ex-
ecutive Board of the State Association of California
Architects, Northern Section, on December 13, when
President Bolles submitted lists of committee chairmen
to the Board and received the Board's approval of his
selections.

The committees for the ensuing year are divided
into three main groups with each group under the
direction of a Board member as general chairman. The
general chairman of each group and the chairman of
each special committee were approved as follows:

Public Relations, J. Francis Ward, chairman; Con-
struction Industry, Wilbur D. Peugh; Publications, David
H. hlorn; Regional Planning, Carl F. Gromme; Exhibits,
Ernest Born; Federation of Arts, Francis E. Lloyd.

Governnnen+al Relations, Vincent G. Raney, chair-
man; Legislative, Keith O. Narbett; Local Government
Bureaus, William Mooser; Federal Agencies, Andrew T.
hiass.

Professional Relations, Alfred C. Williams, chairman;
Program and Membership, Loy Chamberlain; Profes-
sional Practice, Chester Root; By-Laws, James Ft.
Mitchell; Education, Howard Molse.

PAYNE GIVEN "E" AWARD

Payne Furnace & Supply Company, Inc., are a new
advertiser this month. The company's Beverly Hills
plant is running full time supplying war products and
last November It received the Army and Navy "E"
award for outstanding excellence in war production.
When Uncle Sam no longer needs Payne war products
the company will again turn to the manufacture of
furnaces — new, even finer post-war models.

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Norfhern CalHornIa Chopitr

The National Organization of Manufacturers of Quality Building Materials and Equipment
Affiliated with the AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHTECTS

Raymond H.
Brown was the
last of the dou-
ble - duty Secre-
tary - Treasurers,
but so accus-
tomed Is he to
extra effort that
he still carries a
double share of
active interest in
Chapter affairs.

R. H. RAY BROWN
Architectural Ambassador

As President in
1941, Ray's ad-
ministration achieved the then unique distinction of
being the first to operate on a balanced budget.

Ray was born in Virginia City, Nevada, in 1893
(would you believe it?), soon removed to San Francisco.
World War I interrupted studies at Mark Hopkins Art
Institute and Ray served his country as an officer in
the U. S. Navy. The war changed his plans for study-
ing architecture at the University of Pennsylvania so
he characteristically went to work. From a cub drafts-
man he advanced through the granite business to cast
stone to terra-cotta with Gladding, McBean & Co.,
where he is still close to his first love as head of the
Architectural Products Department.

Ray lives in Corte Madera, is married and has a
son, Donald, age 13. Family and golf are his hobbies
and parenthetically speaking, he has been known to
play a little poker come Friday night.
Look 'Em Over, the new set of officers for 1944.
President, hlorace L. Pickett, National Lead Company;
Vice President, George B. Quamby, Detroit Steel Prod-
ucts Co.; Secretary, E. E. "Ed" Cathcart, Johns-Man-
ville Sales Corp.; Treasurer, C. A. "Chat" Cook, hi. H.
Robertson Co.

To Hear the outgoing officers tell it, the Chapter
had quite a successful year judging from the reports
given at the annual meeting this month. Certain it is
that Chapter members proved they were no "fair-
weather" friends in the past disrupted year. Ties with
architects and engineers were strengthened as evi-
denced by the tendency of various groups to look to
the Producers' Council for support and backing.
President of the A. I. A., Raymond J. Ashton, writes
of this relationship in the October issue of "The Octa-

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gon" under the title "Our Affiliate — The Producers'
Council." Mr. Ashton in reviewing the early beginnings
of the Producers' Section of the A. I. A. states "The
architect and the producer have a common interest in
many more subjects today than at the time The Pro-
ducers' Council was founded."

Elimination of Wastage in informational material was
the initial motive that brought the two groups together.
A Broad Program of service to architects and engi-
neers, the entire building industry and to the public as
set forth in the Council's Articles of Incorporation
resulted.

Mutual Advantages result in the benefits of the Ar-
chitects Consultation service to Council members on
the use and fabrication of quality materials and the
review of advertising matter. Council Chapters serve
the Architect by extending Council influence into local
communities. Informational meetings have come to be
looked upon as a fixture in Chapter activities. Dimen-
sional Coordination is a cooperative effort, the result
of which will simplify detailing of building projects for
the architect and engineer and reduce the variety of
sizes of materials and equipment for the manufacturer,
all of which should give the owner better performance
at reduced cost, the most practical approach to this
very desirable objective yet devised. Project A62, of
the American Standards Association — Coordination of
Dimensions of Building Materials and Equipment is a
joint A.l.A. and P.C. sponsorship. The Small hHome
Problem was jointly attacked by the two groups with
the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Contribution to
the huge war construction programs was another joint
effort and now as Mr. Ashton says, "Perhaps the great-
est opportunity for collaboration by the two groups
Is afforded In the field of Post-War Planning. The
Council's comprehensive program Is a natural com-
plement to the Institute's program — to direct the tal-
ents of the architect Into the technical planning phases."
The Year Ended with a big back-log of goodwill and
ample working capital financially. It was not the policy
of your outgoing officers to try to build up the Chap-
ter's cash reserve materially but to do all possible our
finances permitted and wind up with an ample balance
for future contingencies.

Architect Guests at our annual meeting remind us that
Al Evers and Fred Meyer were present at our first

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CONSULT AN ARCHI1ECT

organizational meeting, and have met with us at annual
meetings ever since.

Truscon Steel has joined the crusade for encouraging
post-war planning now. Quoting Major General Philip
B. Fleming, F W Administrator, "There will be no im-
mediate postwar construction unless plans are made
now." "Start planning with your Architect and Engi-
neer right now," is their slogan.

To achieve ifs objectives the Producers' Council pro-
poses a 2 1 -point-post-war planning program divided
into four major divisions. It is interesting to note in
this connection that the Council does not concern
itself with such problems as termination of war con-
tracts, adequate provision of reserves, disposal of war
plants, incentives for venture capital and other prob-
lems common to all lines of manufacture, the province
of over-all business and industry organizations. The
Council's Post-War Planning Committee recommends:

To Facilitate Reconversion to Peacetime Economy

1. Advance planning of Private Construction.

2. Work Pile Plan (a San Francisco ideal.

3. Preparation by Industry.

4. Resumption of Civilian Construction — as fast as v/ar re-
quirements for critical materials and manpov/er decrease.

5. Advance planning of Public Improvements.

6. Disposal of Government Surpluses for rehabilitation abroad
or through established trade channels.

Next Month we'll tell you about Council plans to ex-
pedite Technical advancement.

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Giving Cost of Building Materials, Etc.

AMOUNTS GIVEN ARE FIGURING PRICES AND ARE MADE UP FROM AVERAGE QUOTATIONS FURNISHED BY
MATERIAL HOUSES TO SAN FRANCISCO CONTRACTORS. 2% SALES TAX ON ALL MATERIALS BUT NOT LABOR

BONDS— Performance — 50% of contract.
Labor and materials — 50% of contract.

BRICKWORK—

Common Brick— Per IM laid— $50.00 to
$60.00 (according to class of work).

Face Brick— Per IM laid- $120 to $150
(according to class of work.)

Brick Steps— $1.60 per lln. ft.

Brick Veneer on Frame BIdg. — Approx.
$1.30 per sq. ft.

Common Brick — $19.00 per M, truckload
lots, f.o.b. job.

$19.00 per M, less than truckload, plus
cartage.

Face Brick — $40 to $80 per M, truckload
lots, delivered.

Cartage — Approx. $4.00 per M.

BUILDING PAPER—

1 ply per 1000 ft. roll $3.50

2 ply per lOCO ft. roll 5.00

3 ply per 1000 ft. roll 6.25

Brownskin, Standard, 500 ft. roll 5.00

Sisalkraft, 500 ft. roll 5.00

Sash cord com. No. 7.... $1 .20 per 100 ft.

Sash cord com. No. 8 1.50 per 100 ft.

Sash cord spot No. 7 1.90 per 100 ft.

Sash cord spot No. 8 2.25 per 100 ft.

Sash weights, cast iron, $50.00 ton.

Nails, $3.42 base.

Sash weights, $45.00 per ton.

CONCRETE AGGREGATES-

The following prices net to Contractors unless
otherwise shown.

Gravel, all sizes —
$1.95 per ton at Bunker; delivered $2.50

Bunker DeI'd

Top Sand $1.90 $2.50

Concrete Mix 1.90 2.45

Crushed Rock, '/," to y," 1.90 2.50

JANUARY, 1944

Crushed Rock, 3/4" to M/;" 1,90 2.50

Roofing Gravel 2.25 2.80

River Sand 2.00 2.45

Sand-
River Sand 2.00 2.45

Lapis (Nos. 2 & 4) 2.85 3.15

Olympia (Nos. I & 2) . 2.85 3.10

Del Monte White . . 84c per sack

Cement —

Common (all brands, paper sacks), carload
lots, $2.42 per bbl. f.o.b. car; delivered $2.72.

Cash discount on carload lots. lOc a bbl.. lOth
Prox.; less than caHoad lots $3.20 per bbl.
f.o.b. warehouse or delivered.

Cash discount 2% on L.C.L.

Atlas White \ I to 100 sacks, $2.50 sack

Calaveras White < warehouse or del.: $7.65
Medusa White I bbl. carload lots.

Forms, Labors average $200.00 per M.

Average cost of concrete In place, exclu-
sive of forms, 35c per cu. ft.; $10 cu.
yd.; with forms, 60c.

4-Inch concrete basement floor

30c per sq. ft.

Rat-proofing ^'/2'^

Concrete Steps $1.25 per lin. ft.

DAMPPROOFING and Waterproofing-

Two-coat work, $3.50 per square.

Membrane waterproofing — 4 layers of sat-
urated felt, $7.00 per square.

Hot coating work, $2,50 per square.

Medusa Waterproofing, $3.50 per lb. San
Francisco Warehouse.

Tricocel waterproofing.

(See representative.)

ELECTRIC WIRING— $12 to $15 per outlet
for conduit work (Including switches).
Knob and tube average $3.00 per outlet.
(Available only for priority work.)

ELEVATORS—

Prices vary according to capacity, speed
and type. Consult elevator companies.
Average cost of Installing a slow speed
automatic passenger elevator in small four
story apartment building, including en-
trance doors, about $6500.00.

EXCAVATION—

Sand, 60 cents; clay or shale $1 per yard.
Teams, $12.00 per day.

Trucks, $22 to $27.50 per day.

Above figures are an average without
water. Steam shovel work In large quan-
tities, less; hard material, such as rock,
will run considerably more.

FIRE ESCAPES—

Ten-foot galvanized Iron balcony, with
stairs, $150 installed on new buildings;
$160 on old buildings.

FLOORS—

Composition Floor, such as Magnesite,

33c to 50c per square.
Linoflor — 2 gages — $1.25 to $2.75 per sq.

yd.
Mastapay — 90c to $1.50 per sq. yd.
Battleship Linoleum — available to Army

and Navy only — '/g" — $1.75 sq. yd.

fs"— $2.00 sq. yd.

Terazzo Floors — 50c to 70c per square.
Terazzo Steps — $1.75 per lln. ft.
Mastic Wear Coat — according to type —
20c to 35c.

Hardwood Flooring —

Standard Mill grades not available.
Victory Oak— T & G

33 X 2'A" $143.25 per M. plus Cartage

i/z X 2" 122.00 per M. plus Cartage

Vl X 11/2" 113.50 per M. plus Cartage

Prefinished Standard & Better Oak Flooring

M X 31/4" $180.00 per M. plus Cartage

'/2 X 21/2" 160.50 per M. plus Cartage

Maple Flooring

U" T & G Clear $160.50 per M. plus Ctg.

2nd 153.50 per M. plus Ctg.

3rd 131.25 per M. plus Ctg.

Floor Layers' Wage, $1.50 per hr.

Single Strength Window Glass ,20c per n ft.

Double Strength Window Glass 30c per Q ft.

Plate Glass, under 75 sq. ft $1.00 per □ ft.

Polished Wire Plate Glass 1.40 per Q ft.

Rgh. Wire Glass 34 per Q ft.

Obscure Glass 27 per Q ft

Glazing of above is additional.
Glass Blocks $2.60 per D ft. set in place

HEATING—

Average, $1.90 per sq. ft. of radiation,
according to conditions.

Warm air (gravity) average $48 per regis-
ter.

Forced air, average $68 per register.

IRON — Cost of ornamental iron, cast iron,
etc., depends on designs.

LUMBER — All lumber at O.P.A. celling

prices —
No. I Common
No. 2 Common
Select O. P. Common..

S49.00 per M
.. ^y.TB per M
.. 52.75 per M

Flooring —

Oelvd.

V.G.-D.F. B i Bir. I « 4 T & G Flooring $80.00

C I X 4 T i G Flooring 75.00

0 I X 4 T & G Flooring 45.00

D.F.-S.G. B i Btr. I x 4 T S G Flooring il.OO

C I X 4 T & G Flooring 59.00

D I X 4 T & G Flooring 54.00

Rwd. Plastic— "A" grade, medium dry 82.00

"B" grade, medium dry 78.50

Pl^ood—

Under }200 Over $200

"Plyscord"— 3/e" $49.50 $47.55

"Plywall"— Vi" 45.15 43.30

3 ply— 2/s— 'A' 48.55 46.60

■■Plyform"-%--

Unoiled 124.50 121.45

Oiled 127.90 122.75

Above prices delivered If quantity is sufficient
to warrant delivery.

Shingles (Rwd. not available)—
Red Cedar No. I— $4.75 per square; No. 2, $5.75;

No. 3, $4.45.
Average cost to lay shingles. $3.00 per square.
Cedar Shakes— Tapered: Vz" t° Vi" « 25»— $8.95

per square.

Resawn: %" to I'A" x 25"— $10.65 per square.

Resawn: %" to I'A" x 25"— $10.65 per square.
Average cost to lay shakes, $4.00 per sq.uare.

MILLWORK— Siandard.

O. P. $100 per 1000. R. W. rustic $100.00

per 1000 (delivered).
Double hung box window frames, average

with trim $6.50 and up, each.
Complete door unit, $10.00.
Screen doors, $3.50 each.
Patent screen windows, 25c a sq. ft.
Cases for kitchen pantries seven ft. high,

per lineal ft., $9.00 each.
Dining room cases, $9.00 per lineal foot.

Rough and finish about 80c per sq. ft.
Labor — Rough carpentry, warehouse heavy
framing (average), $40.00 per M.
For smaller work average, $40.00 to $55.00

per 1000.

MARBLE— See Dealers)

PAINTING—

Two-coat work per yard 50c

Three-coat work per yard 70c

Cold water painting per yard lOc

Whitewashing per yard 8c

PAINTS—

Two-coat work 50c per sq. yd.

Three-coat work 70c per sq. yd.

Cold water painting per yard lOc

Whitewashing 8c per sq. yd.

Turpentine $1.03 per gal. in drum lots.
$1.08 per gal. in 5-gal. containers.
Raw Linseed Oil — not available.

Boiled Linseed Oil — $1.38 per gal. in
drums. Available only to work with high
priority — $1.48 per gal. in 5-gal. con-
tainers.

Use replacement oil — $1.86 per gal. in
I -gal. containers.

Replacement Oil- $1.20 per gal. in drums.
$1.30 per gal. in 5-gaL containers.

A deposit of $6.00 required on all drums.

PATENT CHIMNEYS—

6-lnch $1.20 lineal foot

8-inch 1.40 lineal foot

10-inch 2.15 lineal foot

12-inch 2.75 lineal foot

PLASTER—

Neat wall, per ton delivered in S. F. in
paper bags. $17.60.

PLASTERING (Interior)—

Yard

3 Coats, metal lath and plaster 1.50

Keene cement on metal lath 1.80

Ceilings with % hot roll channels metal lath
(lathed only) 1.20

Ceilings with % hot roll channels metal lath
plastered 2.20

Single partition % channel lath I side (lath
only 1 .20

Single partition % channel lath 2 inches
thick plastered _ 3.20

4-inch double partition % channel lath 2
sides (lath only) 2.20

4-inch double partition % channel lath 2
sides plastered 3.85

Thermax single partition; I" channels; 2'/i"
overall partition width. Plastered both
sides 3.30

Thermax double partition; I" channels; 4%"
overall partition width. Plastered both
sides ..._ _ 4.40

3 coats over I" Thermax nailed to one side
wood studs or joists 1.65

3 coats over \" Thermax suspended to one
side wood studs with spring sound isola-
tion clip _ 1.90

Note— Channel lath controlled by limitation

orders.

PLASTERING (Exterior)—

Yard

2 coats cement finish, brick or concrete
wall _ $1.00

3 coats cement finish, No. 18 gauge wire
mesh ..._ 2.00

Lime— $3.00 per bbl. at yard.
Processed Lime— $3.10 bbl. at yard.
Rock or Grip Lath— %"— 20c per sq. yd.
1^" — 19c per sq. yd.

Composition Stucco — $1.80 to $2.00 sq. yard
(applied).

PLUMBING—

From $100.00 per fixture up, according to
grade, quantity and runs.

"Standard" tar and gravel, 4 ply — $8.00

per sq. for 30 sqs. or over.
Less than 30 sqs. $9.50 per sq.
Tile, $30.00 to $40.00 per square.
Redwood Shingles, $7.50 per square in

place.
5/2 #1-16" Cedar Shingles. 4I/2"

Exposure $8.00 square

5/8 X 16"— # I Cedar Shingles, 5"

Exposure $9.00 square

4/2 #1-24" Royal Shingles. T/i"

Exposure $9.50 so.uere

Re-coat with Gravel $4.00 per sq.
Asbestos Shingles, $23 to $28 per sq. laid.
1/2 x 25" Resawn Cedar Shakes,

10" Exposure .. $10.50

3/4 X 25" Resawn Cedar Shakes.

10" Exposure 11.50

I X 25" Resawn Cedar Shakes,

10" Exposure 12.50

Above prices are for shakes In place.

SHEET METAL—

Windows— Metal. $1.75 a sq. ft.
Fire doors (average), including hardware.
$2.00 per sq. ft.

SKYLIGHTS— (not glazed)
Copper, 90c sq. ft. (flat).
Galvanized iron, 40c sq. ft. (flat).
Vented hip skylights 60c sq. ft.

STEEL— STRUCTURAL (None available ex-
cept for defense work).
$150 ton (erected), this quotation is an
average for comparatively small quan-
tities. Light truss work higher. Plain
beams and column work in large quan-
tities $140 per ton.

STEEL REINFORCING (None available ex-
cept for war work) .
$150 to $200 ton, set.

Granite, average, $6.50 cu. foot in place.
Sandstone, average Blue, $4.00. Boise.

$3.00 sq. ft. in place.
Indiana Limestone, $2.80 per sq. ft. in

place.

STORE FRONTS (None available)

Ceramic Tile Floors— 70c to $1.00 per sq. ft.
Cove Base— $1.10 per lin. ft.
Glazed Tile Wainscot— $1.25 per sq. ft.
Asphalt Tile Floor '/s" & A"— $ .18 to $ .35 per

sq. ft. Light shades slightly higher.
Cork Tile— $ .40 to $ .75 per sq. ft.
Mosaic Floors — see dealers.
Lino-Tile, $ .35 to $ .75 per sq. ft.

Glazed Terra CoHa Wall Units (single faced)
laid in place — approximate prices:

2 X 6 X 12 _ _ _ $1.10 sq. ft.

4 X 4 X 12 1.25 Sfl. ft.

2 X 8 X 14...
4 X 8 X 14...

1.20 sq. ft.

1.40 sq. ft.

VENETIAN BLINDS—

40c per square foot and up. Installati(
extra.

WINDOWS— STEEL (None available).

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

PLASTICS FOR ASPHALT ROOFS

The building indusfry appears to afford a large field
for post-war synthetic plastics, even with apparently
small items, especially if costs are redi'ced as a result
of tonnage production. Dr. John M. Weiss, New York
industrial chemist, says in a report to the American
Chemical Society.

"For example," says Dr. Weiss, "felt-base asphalt-
saturated roil roofing and shingles, often coated with
slate or other colored mineral granules, is a very pop-
ular type of residential roofing, especially in low-cost
housing construction.

"It is doubtful if, from a material standpoint, pre-
pared roofing based on synthetic plastics will ever
reach the price levels of asphalt felt-base roofings, but
cost of the roofing is only part of the story. Freight,
sales expense, and especially the cost of applying the
roofing also enter the picture. Effective life is another
factor, since properly prepared synthetic plastic prcd-
ucts should give longer service than the average felt
base-asphalt products.

"The final criterion should be the average cost of
the roof per year of service. Judged from this stand-
point, the price of certain synthetic plastics is ap-
proaching the range where their adoption In certain
parts of this field may be soundly justified. Moreover,
unique decorative effects may be obtained with syn-
thetic plastic products, which are not attainable with
present roofing and siding materials.

"At present, the output of felt base-asphalt roll
roofing, shingles, and siding aggregates about 3,000,-
000 tons per year. A relatively small percentage of
this corner of the building Industry would form the
basis for at least a 100 per cent expansion of the
synthetic plastice production.

"Extending our imagination to the replacement of
wood in certain uses by rot-proof, termite-proof, non-
inflammable, and washable compositions, the possible
field for expansion of the synthetic plastics Is ex-
tremely large."

30% BUILDING RISE PREDICTED

According to a recent analysis of the Post-war build-
ing market by Wilson E. Wright of the Producers'
Council, construction costs are expected to rise 30 per
cent over 1940 levels. A $5,000 residence built In
1940 will cost after the war approximately $6,500.

The figure of $146.3 billion is arrived at as the best
approximation of the average annual "gross national
product" for years 1947-51, using 1940 prices as yard-
stick. If current prices are used Instead, the estimate
rises to $194 billion. Post-war construction estimates
in the table are given In terms of both price levels,
and total respectively $12.49 billion and $16.24 billion
per year.

The committee estimates that the above figures
would allow for 972,000 dwelling units annually on the
average for the year 1947-51, at a current cost of
$6.38 billion per year.

HOGfln LUmBER CO.

Whofesale and Retail

LUMBER

MILL WORK • SASH & DOORS

Office, Mill, Yard and Docks

SECOND AND ALICE STREETS • OAKLAND. CALIF.

Telephone GLeneourt 6861

OF OALIPOHNIA

General Contractors

923 FOLSOM STREET • SAN FRANCISCO

SUtter 3440

FORDERER CORNICE WORKS

Manufacfurers of
Hollow Metal Products • Interior Metal Trim

Elevator Fronts and Cabs
Metal Plaster Accessories • Sanitary Metal Base

Flat and Roll Metal Screens
Metal Cabinets • Commercial Refrigerators

269 POTRERO AVE.

SAN FRANCISCO. CALIF. HEMLOCK 4100

STRUCTURAL STEEL

For Class A Buildings,
Bridges, etc.

JUDSON PACIFIC CO.

1200 SEVENTEENTH STREET

SAN FRANCISCO

■ Plants: San Francisco - Oakland ^^^^=

JANUARY. 1944

The Most Complete Line of

STEELS and BUILDING MATERIALS

Made by a Single Producer

, ii ,

I REPUBLIC I

See Siveet's Catalog File or write us for
full information.

REPUBLIC STEEL CORPORATION

GENERAL OFFICES: CLEVELAND, OHIO

DENVER COLORADO .... CONTINENTAL OIL BUILDING

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA EDISON BUILDING

SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH WALKER BANK BUILDING

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA .... RIALTO BUILDING
SEATTLE, WASH WHITE-HENRY-STUART BUILDING

BRICK AND MASONRY
PRODUCTS

633 Bryant Street, San Francisco
569 Third Street, Oakland

PACIFIC
MANUFACTURING CO.

HIGH CLASS INTERIOR FINISH
QUALITY MILLWORK

142 SANSOME ST., SAN FRANCISCO

GArfleld 7755

6820 McKINLEY AVE.. LOS ANGELES

THornwall 4196

BUILDERS EXCHANGE, OAKLAND

HAYDITE

used for light-weight concrete on

St. John's Episcopal Church,

Marysville

(Illustrated in this issue)

The designed concrete mix specified

SELECTED HAYDITE LIGHT WEIGHT

AGGREGATES

Manufactured by

NcNEAR BRICK CONPANY

Rialto Building, San Francisco

"AMERICAN MARSH"

Redf-Vac Vacuum Heating Pump

SIMONDS MACHINERY CO.

San Francisco
816 Folsom St.

Los Angeles
455 East Fourth St.

SSALKRAFT

REG. U.S.PAT. Off.

'More than a building paper
THE SISALKRAFT CO.

205 West Waeker Drive
Chicago, III.

55 New Montgomery Street
San Francisco, Calif.

uERmoni
mflRBLE compflnv

Producers and Finishers

Domestic and Imported Marbles

BASALITE

CAMBERED SHINGLE TILE

PERMANENT • FIREPROOF • STORM-
SAFE • COLORFUL • ECONOMICAL

Manufactured by

BASALT ROCK CO.. INC.

NAPA. CALIFORNIA

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

MULLEN MFG.
COMPANY

HANK, STORE AND OFFICE

FIXTURES— CABINET WORK

OF GUARANTEED QUALITY

CHURCH SEATING

Offic* and Factory:

M-M RAUSCH ST.. B«t. 7th and BIh Sts.

San Francisco

Talaphon* UNdarhlll 5IIS

THE TORMEY
COMPANY

GENERAL PAINTERS
AND DECORATORS

Phone UNderhill 1913

563 FULTON STREET
San Francisco

ABBOT A. HANKS, INC.
Engineers & Chemists

INSPECTING — TESTING — CONSULTING

CONCRETE • STEEL • MATERIALS

CHEMICAL AND TESTING

LABORATORIES

• RESEARCH AND INVESTIGATION •

TESTS OF STRUCTURAL MATERIALS

DESIGN OF CONCRETE MIXES

SHOP AND ERECTION INSPECTION OF

STRUCTURES AND EQUIPMENT

INVESTIGATION OF STRUCTURES

AND MATERIALS

TESTS AND INVESTIGATION OF

FOUNDATION SOILS

FIRE RESISTANCE ANO INSULATION

TESTS

624 Sacramento Street, San Francisco

Robert W. Hunt Company

ENGINEERS

Iriopection • Tests - Consultation

Schools and Other Structures
Are Built as Designed

When Construction Materials art

Inipected at foint of Uanulacture

and durtng Erection by

ROBERT W. HUNT COMPANY

Cement, Concrete, Chemical, yetatlurgicai,
X-Ray and Physical Laboratories

Chicago Naw York Pittsburgh

Los Angelas All Large Cities

San Francisco, 251 Kearny Street

LAMPS LIGHTED BY
RADIO BEAMS

To help plan the better homes,
hotels and public buildings of tomor-
row a group of prominent architects
and designers were recently shown
lamps lighted by wireless electronic
power, a 10,000-watt mercury vapor
lamp one-fifth the brightness at the
surface of the sun, and watched an
electric lamp cook bacon and eggs.
The demonstration of laboratory mod-
els of new lamps, and of wartime and
possible post-war uses of lamps and
light, was conducted by Samuel G.
Hibben, director of applied lighting
for the Westinghouse Lamp Division,
at the Waldorf-Astoria, in New York
City.

Walking about the room carrying
brilliant, vari-colored fluorescent
tubes fully lighted although they were
unconnected to sockets or electrical
wiring, Mr. Hibben said:

"Although practical use of electric
power transmitted without wires — ex-
cept for signal purposes — is probably
many years away, the spectacular
strides in development of electron
generating tubes we have made dur-
ing World War 11 seem to be leading
in that direction.

"Actually, these lamps are not con-
nected with any power source. They
are electronically harnessed to a beam
of high frequency radio energy gen-
erated here in this room by a pre-war
diathermy set such as your doctor
might use to treat a cold in your
chest.

"Generators vastly more powerful
than this therapeutic apparatus are
serving in wartime radio and com-
munications equipment by transmit-
ting radio waves in beams. This
engineering advance, now applied
v/holly to fiqhtinq the war, conceiv-
ably may bring about the peacetime
expansion of wireless power," the
lighting expert continued, adding:

"Baby brothers of the fluorescent
lamps now so widely used in war
plants are illuminating bomber cock-
pits and airplane instrument panels.
After the war, these six-inch long and
other miniature fluorescents will have
many safety and comfort applica-
tions. Because they use less current
than an electric clock, they can be

SUNDAYS OR
HOLIDAYS

W'rile for injornutlion

CROCKER FIRST
NATIONAL BANK

Ca£^<n.n^a4 O&^t VaZioy^ Va^

Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
ONE MONTGOMERY STREET

LANDSCAPING

WAR HOUSING PROJECTS

Maritime Commission

Apartments. Rielimond

Sunnydale

G. G. Bridge Approach

Roosevelt Terrace, Vallejo

Camp Roberts

Chabot Terraces. Vallejo

Peralta Villa, Oakland

Sausalito

Union Square Garage

Growers and Distributors of

"Superior Qualify" Nursery

Sf ocic Since 1 878

LEONARD COATES
NURSERIES, INC.

Ray D. Harlman. President-Manager

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA

JANUARY. 1944

Built-in Fixtures
for the Post-War Home

ParamnuiU Kixturrs \x ill tit
your post-war needs . . . in-
vestigate our ne\x kitchen
ideas which make for conven-
ience and efficiency.

Paramount Built-in Fixtures
meet the most exactinji re-
quirements. Our "Deluxe,"
"Moderne" and "ICconomy"
cabinet fixtures are distinctive
in design and construction
and may be had in stock sizes
or built to order.

Ciilaloy fur the /istiitt/

cLTLajilaurLL

BVILTliS FIXTURE COMPANY
5107 Broadway. OaklanJ, California

G. P. W.
JENSEN & SON

Building Construction

320 Market Street, San Francisco
Phone: CArfield 2444

JOIIiV
CASSAKFTTO

—Since 1886— And Still Active—

Building Material.-

READY MIX CONCRETE

ROCK . SAND - GRAVEL - LIME

CEMENT - PLASTER - MORTAR

METAL LATH - WOOD LATH

STUCCO - WIRE NETTING

Service V nexcelletl

Bunkers

Sixth end Channel. San Francisco

Phones: GArfleld 3176. GArfield 3177

left burning night and day for such
jobs as lighting clock faces and house
numbers.

"Meanwhile, we have a fluorescent
laboratory development, admittedly
crude, devised from two glass pie
plates. It shows that fluorescent lamps
are not limited to tubular shape. Such
lamps as these, with their cool and
shadowless light, offer both practical
and decorative advantages for hotel
halls and public buildings.

"And we've also discovered that
we can use the tubular-shaped fluor-
escents In other than the conventional
straight form. Because we can bend
the tubing, circular lamps are a possi-
bility for post-war homes."

PLAN NEW HOMES NOW

Many families hoping to acquire
new homes Immediately after the war
face prolonged delay and disappoint-
ment unless they complete soon ar-
rangements for starting construction
at the first opportunity, according to
a statement by Russell Crevlston, gen-
eral post-war chairman of the Pro-
ducers' Council.

As soon as war-time restrictions on
residential construction are removed,
builders, architects, contractors, and
material and equipment dealers will
be swamped by the pent-up demand
for construction of all types, with the
result that many prospective buyers
of new houses will be forced to wait
as long as a year or more before their
hopes can be realized, Crevlston said.

"A recent estimate by the Market
Analysis Committee of the Producers'
Council Indicates that only about
350,000 new dwelling units will be
constructed by builders -and con-
tractors during the first twelve months
after the end of the war, while nearly
2,000,000 additional housing accom-
modations will be needed Immedi-
ately after the war ends to house
new families formed since 1941," the
statement pointed out.

"Builders In cities and towns
throughout the country are now plan-
ning their operations for the post-war
period. Until their organizations can
be completely mobilized and until
materials and equipment are freely
available, these builders can take care
of only a small part of the potential

DI]\WIDDIE

C01\STRUCTI01\

COMPAl\Y

•

BUILDERS

CROCKER BUILDING
SAN FRANCISCO

IIERRICK
IROI\ WORKS

STRUCTURAL STEEL
REINFORCrNG STEEL

I8TH AND CAMPBELL STS.
OAKLAND. CALIF.
Phone GLencourt 1767

Phont GArfield 1164

Thomas B.Hunier

Consulting Engineer

DESIGNER OF HEATING

AIR CONDITIONING

VENTILATING AND WIRING

SYSTEMS. MECHANICAL

AND ELECTRICAL EQUIP-

MENT OF BUILDINGS

41 SUTTER STREET

ROOM 710
San Francisco California

ANDERSON

&
RINGROSE

General Contractors

320 Market Street. San Francisco
Phone GArfiel.1 2245

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

demands for homes. Prospective
home owners who want quick action
should see a builder without delay and
make all necessary advance arrange-
ments.

"Individuals who want a specially
designed home should arrange now
for architectural service, have plans
and specifications prepared, select a
site, and make other necessary ar-
rangements so that construction can
be started with the minimum of delay
after restrictions are removed.

"The home buying public tends to
forget that four to six months often
must elapse between the time when
they first approach their architect and
the time when actual construction can
begin. The intervening time Is re-
quired for drafting and approving
plans and specifications, selecting
equipment, obtaining bids, and get-
ting the work under way."

Advance planning of residential
construction also will help greatly to
reduce the temporarily heavy period
of unemployment which is predicted
for the months Immediately after the
end of the war with Germany when
factories now engaged In manufac-
ture of war goods are reconverting to
production of civilian requirements,
Crevlston stated.

"If advance planning of residential
construction continues at the slow
rate Indicated by recent reports, the
country may face the unfortunate sit-
uation where both employment and
the volume of construction will fall
well under the attainable maximum In
the early post-war period. This might
easily lead to large-scale resumption
of a WPA program under which fur-
ther huge sums of Federal money
would be spent for non-essential
made-work projects."

RADIANT HEATING

Unlike most of the revolutionary
changes suggested for the immediate
post-war period, many of which may
have to wait years for development,
radiant heating by means of floor,
wall or celling pipe coils already has
achieved some 600 successful Installa-
tions of record In homes, factories and
commercial structures.

Radiant heating, in the opinion of

many competent authorities, has ar-
rived at a stage In its development
that entitles It to consideration for all
types of structures when resumption
of private building Is allowed.

Recently a national magazine
mailed a questionnaire to several
thousand subscribers and one of the
questions asked was, "What type of
heating system would you like to
have?" When the returns (which were
unusually high) were tabulated, it was
found that better than 40 per cent
wanted a radiant heating system. The
circumstance which makes this result
so surprising Is the fact that no one,
so far as known, has even spent a cent
to directly promote with the public
the use of radiant heating.

Charles A. hiawk, with the engi-
neering service department of the
A. M. Byers Company, in an address
before the Engineers' Club of Omaha,
described radiant heat as nothing
more than a system of producing
comfort conditions by means of large,
warm, room surface areas instead of
depending on the movement of rela-
tively high-temperature air currents.

Commenting on the floor type sys-
tem the speaker said:

"In the structural sense the floor
type radiant heating system Is ex-
actly the same as the conventional
forced hot water system except that
pipe coils are substituted for radia-
tors. The same boilers, expansion
tanks, circulators, etc., are used, and
you may safely consider the Integra-
tion of these elements to be exactly
the same for the radiant heating sys-
tem as for the conventional hot water
system.

"Among the questions most often
asked about floor type systems are,
'Doesn't the floor get too hot?' and
"Will it work with wood floors or
rugs?' The answer to the first question
Is that a properly designed system
will never produce floor surface tem-
peratures above 85 degrees and this
temperature — based on the experi-
ence of hundreds of Installations — is
not excessive. As a matter of fact,
it Is almost impossible to tell where
the heat Is coming from in a prop-
erly designed Installation even though
floor temperatures do reach 85 de-

What's On Your Mind?

ALOHAI

Editor,

Archifect and Engineer:

May I take the liberty of up-to-datlng you
on your "Architects Still On the Move"
column? Ensign William B. McCormick is
no longer at address given in your October
issue. New address is: Lt. Cmdr. William B.
McCormick, U.S.N.R.. Comcenpac Staff, c/o
Fleet Postmaster, San Francisco.

In his absence, I send you his Aloha!
Sincerely,
AGNES A. McCORMICK.
241 7A Sonoma Drive,
Honolulu 54, T. H.

YOUTH LIKED IT

Editor,

Architect and Engineer:

Congratulations on your November Issue.
It certainly appealed to the younger genera-
tion of architects. An all around good num-
be..

Yours for more like it,

J. R.
San Francisco,

THE WEITZMAN ARTICLES

Editor,

Architect and Engineer:

In answer to your letter of Dec. 3. the
articles referred to were both prepared for
the Weekly Bulletin of the Michigan Society
of Architects and It will be appreciated If
you give our publication a credit line.

I thank you very much for your compli-
ment and encouraging words. The articles
were written as a part of my activity as a
member of the "committee on practice and
education," of this state's Society,

Your publication has special appeal to me
for I strongly adhere to and often talk for
the Integration of architecture and engi-
neering,

ARNOLD A. WEITZMAN,
Detroit. Dec, 9, '43.

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grees. This surface temperature ques-
tion also bears a relation to the ques-
tion of floor construction and cover-
ings. However, I believe it is safe to
assunne — again basing the assunnp-
tion on the results of a great many
installations Involving all types of
floor construction and coverings —
that just about any of the common
materials can be used.

"The matter of insulation is one
which should receive just as much at-
tention in a house having a radiant
system as is given to the same prob-
lem when a conventional heating sys-
tem is used."

In regard to cost of installing a
radiant heating system perhaps the
best index can be had from a com-
parison of the costs of actual com-
plete installations with the total cost
of the structures involved. This pro-
vides a figure which in turn can be
compared with the same cost ratio for
conventional systems. On this basis,
it has been demonstrated that radiant
heating systems will average from 6
to 10 per cent of the total cost of the
structure. Consider these three ex-
amples, all 6-room houses:

House No. I cost $8,000 of which
the radiant heating system accounted
for 6.8 per cent.

House No. 2 cost $6,500, the heat-
ing system accounting for 7.5 per
cent.

House No. 3— $5,200, with 9.6 per
cent going into the heating system.

These figures compare favorably
with any good conventional system.

Naturally when comparing the cost
of any two heating systems care
should be taken to see that the com-
parison is made on an equal basis.
Where such refinements as zone con-
trol, anticipating thermostats, aqua-
stats, etc., are involved, they should
be either allowed for or Included in
all systems being studied.

Comparative operating costs have
also been a little hard to pin down,
according to Mr. Hawk, but available
data indicates that measurable econ-
omy, in some cases as much as from
1 5 to 30 per cent, can be expected.

FEDERAL HOUSING

During the last several months, gov-
ernment financed housing for war
workers has been completed at an
average rate of 1,000 units a day, ac-
cording to the Federal Public Housing
Authority.

A total of 236,697 units were com-
pleted in the first seven months of
Iv43, twice the nur ' er ^f >'e,' I
in the last seven months of 1942, ac-
cording to Herbert Emmerich, FPHA
Commissioner. A total of 174,306
dwelling units were under construc-
tion at the end of July, and contracts
were yet to be let for 60,747 more
under the present program.

Since July I, 1940, a total of 470,-
924 units have been completed, of
which 32 1 ,380 were family units, I 22,-
137 dormitory units and 27,407 trailer
units.

These production records do not
include the dwelling units to be made
available through government con-
version of existing homes and other
structures under the National Housing
Agency's home use program. As of
the end of August, 26,109 such uits
were under lease to the government
for conversion, some 15,531 of which
are completed or under construction.
— Engineering News-Record.

START PLANNING NOW

Architects will be kept busy
throughout the country during the
current year if home builders, local
officials in charge of public works,
and business concerns planning post-
war expansion read the handwriting
on the wall, L. C. Hart, member of the
executive committee of the Producers'
Council, asserted in a talk before a
joint meeting of the Philadelphia
Chapter, American Institute of Archi-
tects, and the Philadelphia District,
Pennsylvania Assn. of Architects.

Hart pointed out that war develop-
ments may make It possible to resume
certain types of private construction
in a relatively short time and that
those projects which have been fully
developed and carried through to
the blueprint stage naturally will be
the first to get under way when war-
time restrictions are removed and
building products and construction

labor again becomes available.

"In view of the vast amount of con-
struction, both private and public,
which Is contemplated for the imme-
diate post-war period, architectural
services will be in great demand, and
many projects which could be devel-
oped In detail at the present time, in
advance of the removal of restric-
tions, will have to wait their turn if
the decision to get plans started is de-
layed," he said.

"Lack of complete information
about the nature of post-war building
products need be no obstacle to im-
mediate planning of construction.
Changes in prospect will for the most
part be evolutionary. Architects are
safe in assuming that practically all
pre-war lines of materials and equip-
ment will reappear on the market In
the early post-war months, and that
changes for the most part will consist
of improvements and refinements on
products available before the war.
If necessary, minior revisions in plans
and specifications can be made at the
last minute to accommodate the rela-
tively few materials and equipment
which will be greatly changed from
pre-war designs.

"Manufacturers of building prod-
ucts have many new lines In prospect
for post-war use, but most will require
further perfection and testing before
they can appear on the market.

"Research and development are
going on continuously and over the
past twenty years a long list of Im-
provements adding comfort and con-
venience to the average home have
been moved out of the luxury class
and made available in the ordinary
low priced residence. As a result of
this development work, private con-
struction enterprise has produced val-
ues second to no other industry In
return for the consumer's dollar in-
vestment."

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\RCHITECT AND ENGINEER

Volume 156

No. 2

FRED W. JONES
Editor

MARK DANIELS
Associate Editor

L. H. NISHKIAN
Consulting Editor

MICHAEL GOODMAN
Post-War Planning

E. N. KIERULFF*

Ass't Editor

•In the Service

FEBRUARY CONTENTS

COVER: Residence of William R. Dorr, Polos Verdes

Winchton L. Risley, Architect

PHOTOGRAPHY:

Ryan Aeronautical Co.

Parklabrea Apartments: Southwest Builder and Contractor

Store Fronts: The Kawneer Co.

Kitchen of Tomorrow: Courtesy Libbey-Owens-Ford

ARTICLES:

Lonq Span Wood Roof Trusses for War Plant . .15
Lockheed Builds Nation's Largest Cafeteria .16

Parklabrea Apartments .19

New Trends in Post-war Store Fronts .24

The Post-war Kitchen 26

Fireproof Wooden Hangars for Patrol Blimps

Frederick Hannilton 29
When Architect's Acceptance of Check Spells Pay-
ment in Full .... Leslie Childs 23
Architects. Get Busy . . Miles A. Colean, A.I.A. 31

ILLUSTRATIONS:

Bowspring Roof Trusses .14

Lockheed Commissary Club

Parkinson & Parkinson, Architects 16
Parklabrea Apartments

Leonard Schultze & Associates, Architects 1 9
Store Front Designs ....... 24

Kitchen of Tomorrow ....... 27

Blimp Hangar for U. S. Navy .29

Los Angeles OfRce: 403 W. Bth Street, Robert W. Walker, Manager.

NEXT MONTH

An Oakland architect de-
signed a pre-war church that
is not without its post-war ap-
peal. Photographs and plans
will enable you to form your
own conclusions.

"Architecture and City Plan-
ning in Societ Russia," and
the story of the Nazis' destruc-
tion of many priceless works
of art and architecture, with
first publication in America of
some of these buildings, will
constitute an outstanding fea-
ture of the March issue.

ESTIMATOR'S GUIDE

The two pages of building ma-
terial price quotations which
have been a feature of Archi-
tect and Engineer for more
than twenty years and are par-
ticularly valued byGovernment
officials. Chambers of Com-
merce executives, and research
authorities for their accuracy,
have been revised, checked and
double checked, and as pre-
sented in this issue offer a de-
pendable guide for those in
need of this type of informa-
tion. Architects, engineers and
building contractors in par-
ticular will find today's Esti-
niatoi's Guide highly valuable
as a reference aid. While most
of the quotations given are ap-
proximate, they should be use-
ful for the average preliminary
estimate.

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chltecf and Engineer:

Time was in rural America when the Stork

d welcome signs on farm houses every
[ine he brought a new installment. Time is
jcity America when even a pregnant woman
I turned away from a prospective apart-
tnt. "When the baby comes, it'll be a

Sid. madam! This apartment house doesn't
e children." (To quote from a true San
ncisco story). Time always is that women
led children to complete their lives and
fthers need sons and daughters to perpefu-
6 the race. Time will be when city and
untryside alike will welcome the arrival
the Stork.

That time is practically upon usl It is
irely a matter of architecture! The mate-
Is are at hand now to solve the ancient

(oblem of race suicide in cities. The mate-
Is are at hand to develop a new post-war

pilding industry — the sound-proof room!

IWhy are babies not wanted in apart-

pnts? Because they are a noise nuisance to
air too close neighbors. (Even on farms,
sir wailing is a nuisance to distracted
rents.) Why are growing boys not wanted
apartments? Because they, too, are a
isy nuisance!

jUp to the very present, nothing could be
ine about crying babies except not have
when there was no place to offer
;m to live afterwards. But men, women,
tCHITECTS, today there is the broad-
sting studio! Sound proof! Does that sug-
st anything?

Why not a sound-proof room in every
use? Certainly one in every family size
artment! A sound-proof room where a
)ther could place her baby when it begins
cry. where the child later can play natural-
and noisily yet be unheard outside the
bm walls, where the budding musician can
jctlce bugle calls or saxophone wallings,
ere father and mother can entertain their
ends as late as they please, as merrily
they please, without worrying over slum-
ring fellow apartment house dwellers.
Because a mother must make sure her
by Is still alive when she can't hear It and
at Junior is practicing piano lessons when
it Into the sound-proof studio, this room,
most broadcasting studios, must have a
sss or plastic transparent wall giving onto
5 adjoining room.

The scientific knowledge, the materials are
ill be immediately after the war —
allable. All that's needed now Is to get
B price for sound proofing right for house
d apartment building.
What a revolution that will be for Mr.

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Stork! What building jobs that will create
In post-war adjustment days! What a boon
that will be for future war brides! (Or pres-
ent ones, after their heroes come home
again!) Anyone with two eyes can see that
the Stork is extremely welcome universally —
except by the apartment owner.

But architects, you can change all that!
Make plans now!

HELEN HAINES STUART.
San Carlos, Jan. 12, '44.

WAR-SUBSTITUTE FOR STEEL

Editor,

Architect and Engineer:

Asbestos-cement tubular framing Is now
In commercial use In Great Britain, as a
war-substitute for steel angles, tees, and
bars.

A measure of permanent effect on future
construction Is possible, as the material has
merit and considerable strength in its own
right.

Current examples of the new framing are
of normal design and Include light roof-
trusses, having all-tubular members, or tubes
combined with tension rods.

Joints are simple and convenient, being
formed chiefly by slotting small into larger
tube sections: These are secured by bolts
and pins, or assembled with small connect-
ing-plates. Fewer shop drawings and work
sheets probably are required. Ridges, pur-
lins, bracing and rafter members also are
tubular sections, overlaid with light cement
preformed slabs or composition sheathing.

The trusses may be demountable and of-
fer advantages against fire and corrosion,
besides dispensing more or less with pre-
servative painting. Condensation and noise
are minimized by the natural insulating quali-
ties of the material, and the appearance Is
attractive.

Minor Incidental uses of asbestos tube
members. Include various forms of framing
for heavy duty benches and shelving, with
slabs and divisions also pre-formed to match.

Asbestos-cement material is of long stand-
ing in U.S.A. and Canada, in many varieties,
but usually is adopted for fire resistance or
special services, apart from cost. Except as
scaffolding, even steel tubing has not been
exploited for framing. In America, to any
great extent, and Is a promising field.

CHARLES CRESSEY, Architect.
San Diego, Calif.

SEHLED

Editor,

Architect and Engineer:

Many thanks for the mention In your De-
cember Issue. It seems that 1 am in the

same boat as a great many of my fellow
architects — continually on the move. How-
ever, I believe the below-mentioned business
addresses will be permanent; at least as per-
manent as anything can be these days: 201
South Market Street, San Jose, and 1202
Hearst Building, San Francisco.
Again thanking you, I am
Very truly yours,

DONNELL E. JAEKLE.
January ID, 1944.

NEW CONCRETE BLOCK

Editor,

Architect and Engineer:

In connection with our post-war plans, we
have been approached by an inventor who
has a machine for making a new and im-
proved type of pre-cast reinforced concrete
block.

Through the use of this block, unusual
structural strength is claimed. Instead of
using mortar at the top and side of the
block, the mortar Is poured Into channels or
grooves In the block, In this way joining the
blocks together In a permanent manner.
Steel strengthening rods are also suggested.

Other advantages claimed are high insu-
lation value; a positive dry wall (since the
block is formed at very high pressures);
cheaper construction than brick and tile,
frame, or monolithic cement; attractive out-
side or Inside wall effects.

We would like to submit samples to some
25 architects throughout the country, for
their opinion as to the value of this Idea,
and Its commercial possibilities, and would
greatly appreciate your suggestions as to
whom we should write.

Very truly yours,

LOMBARD GOVERNOR CORP.
W. B. Greenlaw.

Address the Lombard Governor
Corp., Ashland, Mass., and sample
will be mailed free. — Ed.

THE FACTS OF LIVING

Two recent stories underline the necessity
for public housing better than any oratory
we've heard In a long while.

In Philadelphia, the minimum shelter rent
for new houses started during the first half
of 1943 was $47.50. And only 21 per cent
of the new homes were for rent at any price.

In Wilmington, Del., not many miles down
the line, the average shelter rent paid by
the city's slum dwellers is $20.99.

How many slum dwellers could be re-
housed by private enterprise under condi-
tions anything like these? — A. L. C.

NEWS AND COMMENT ON AR

OSKAR KOKOSCHKA'S WORK
AT THE S. F, MUSEUM OF ART
The work of Oskar Kokoschka, impressionist
painter, was the center of interest at the San Fran-
cisco Museum of Art during late January and
early February.

Kokoschka's early graphic work was repre-
sented in the show by a nude done in watercolors,
still showing a strong influence by Schiele. The
later years of his Viennese period, were repre-
sented by the lithographs illustrating the Bible, of
which the "Last Supper" deserves special atten-
tion, and the three sanguine drawings, done in
1917, depicting impressions of the war. The post-
war years contributed the "Illustrations for a Bach
Cantata" and a number of magnificent portrait
studies. Finally, the exhibition showed important
water colors and drawings from the time of Ko-
koschka's stay in Europe.

Oskar Kokoschka is now living in London. Many
of his pictures have found their way to American
museums and collections during recent years.
The Nazi regime's antagonism against all true
art has opened for the artist a path to the New
World after his genius had long been universally
recognized in Europe.

Kokoschka is represented in this country in the
following museums and art collections:

Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Art Institute of Chicago

Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, D. C.

Art Institute, Detroit

Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo

William Sotheron, the Younger, of Darrington

by George Romney (1734-1802) English School
This painting is one of fhe outstanding examples included
in the recent gift of Mr. Albert Campbell Hooper, of Palo
Alto, to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor.

THE MONKEY MAN by Gyula Zilie

One of many black and whites, oils and pastels shown in the one-
man exhibit at de Young Museum by the imaginative Hungarian-
born artist, now residing in Los Angeles.

Collection Elmer Rice, New York City
Collection Joseph von Sternberg, Hollywood
Collection Robert H. Tannahill, Detroit
Collection Wright Ludington, Santa Barbara
Collection, Mrs. Adolph Mack, San Francisco

and other private collections in Cincinnati and

Hollywood.

DE YOUNG MEMORIAL MUSEUM
ACQUIRES RUBENS MASTERPIECE

The M. H. de Young Memorial Museum announces
the purchase of a magnificent oil painting by the
famous Flemish master, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-
1640). The large painting (74% x 56% inches) is
now being displayed inside the entrance of the
park museum in a specially constructed frame-
work. The subject of the painting is "The Tribute
Money," and the composition of nine life-size
figures seen to the knees, illustrates the passage in
the 22nd Chapter of St. Matthew, 16th to 2 1st verses.

DRAWINGS BY THOMAS ROWLANDSON
AT THE LEGION PALACE NEXT MONTH

Approximately seventy-five drawings and prints
by the celebrated etcher, Thomas Rowlandson,
will be on view at the California Palace of the Le-
gion of Honor in San Francisco from March I to 30.

Thomas Rowlandson was bom in London in
1756. He attended Dr. Barrows' Academy in Soho
Square and even at this early period showed a
talent for caricature. He studied for a while in
Paris, returning to London to the Royal Academy.

Rowlandson found a good market for his prints.
The excitement of the famous Westminster elec-
tion of 1784 carried him into political satire and
he found similar inspiration in the career of
Napoleon.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

J AN EVER CHANGING WORLD

"The Miseries of Life," "Comforts of Bath," "Cries
of London," and the "Dr. Syntax" series were
among his most famous works.

THREE RECENT PURCHASES BY

THE SAN DIEGO ART GALLERY

The San Diego Fine Arts Gallery has announced

three recent purchases from funds bequeathed to

the Gallery by Helen M. Towle, as follows:

Doris Rosenthal's painting, "At the Blackboard,"
acquired from the Midtown Galleries in New
York; Karl Zerbe's encaustic painting, "Marion
Square," from the Downtown Gallery at the same
time, and Charles Reiffel's "Early Morning, No-
gales, Arizona." This canvas was presented to
the Gallery by friends of the artist as a proper
memorial to the painter and for its obvious high
value as "a splendid record of the era the picture
celebrates." Alfred R. Mitchell headed the com-
mittee of 50 that raised the necessary purchase
price.

PRICE'S CALIFORNIA PAINTINGS ARE
WILLED TO OREGON STATE COLLEGE

The widow of William Henry Price, California
miner who began to paint pictures of the Pacific
surf and the great Sierra mountains after he had
retired from active employment at the age of 56,
has given the collection of 70 paintings remaining
after his death to the Oregon State College.

Mrs. Price's gift is intended as a tribute to her
husband's memory and as an aid to others "in
their quest for nature's beauty." The College ac-
cepted the gift as a nucleus for a permanent gal-
lery for the school. Social functions have been
arranged around the paintings which attracted
more than 700 people on opening day.

WILLIAM L. GERSTLE COLLECTION
AT SAN FRANCISCO ART MUSEUM

Two interesting exhibitions opened at the San
Francisco Museum of Art the middle of the month
and will continue to March 5. One of these ex-
hibitions consists of paintings, watercolors and
prints collected over a period of years by William
L. Gerstle, San Francisco art lover and one of the
Museum's staunch supporters.

Also as part of the Museum's selection for show-
ing in this exhibition is a fine and comprehensive
group from the W.P.A. Allocation which the Mu-
seum was honored in receiving last year at the
close and dispersal of the W.P.A. program.

Posters, mostly of the war theme, donated to
the Museum by the Government, are all American.

Fine photographic work from the Museum col-
lection is also on view, including work by Ansel
Adams, Edward Weston and others.

Selected Native Crafts from Latin American
Countries is another new exhibition this month.
These crafts, gathered during many trips to the
Latin American countries by their lenders, are
part of three local collections. Because of the gen-
eral familiarity of Mexican crafts, they are not
included in this showing. The emphasis is on the

FEODOR CHALIAPIN by Boris Chaliapin

This drawing of the great Russian singer in the role of Boris
Godounoff is one of a number of portraits of his fannous father
and other notables which Boris Chaliapin is showing this month
at the de Young Museum. Born in Moscow, the artist has achieved
recognition since coming to this country in 1935 through his
portraits of celebrities, many of which have appeared on the
covers of "Time."

Andean countries, where the Indian tradition per-
sists, strong despite successive overlays of Euro-
pean origin. These fine crafts in weaving, silver-
work and pottery give the visitors of the Museum
an excellent survey of the great imagination and
skill of the Indians, developed to a very high point
of artistic value though devoted to every day use.

CHINATOWN ARTISTS' CLUB'S
THIRD ANNUAL EXHIBITION

Following their custom inaugurated a few years
ago, the members of the Chinatown Artists' Club
are holding their third annual exhibition of oils
and watercolors at the de Young Museum, San
Francisco. The names of most of the nine artists
exhibiting are familiar to gallery visitors through
former showings.

Dong Kingman is represented by four water-
colors, including a lovely still-life as well as his
more familiar landscapes. Jake W. Lee, who last
year held a most successful show at the Raymond
& Raymond Galleries, has contributed three wa-

FEBRUARY, 1944

tercolors, two glimpses of familiar San Francisco
scenes and a landscape, "Santa Cruz Ranch."

The many oils and watercolors by Chee Chin
S. Cheung Lee, who recently exhibited at the
Legion of Honor, are extremely colorful. Hu Wai
Kee's landscapes in the two media are interesting;
his oil, "Ocean at Night," is particularly fine.
Chang Shu-Chi, the professor from Chungking who
recently held a large one-man exhibition, has con-
tributed four of his charming nature studies. David
P. Chun, president of the club; Siu Chan, George
Chann and Goodman Loy have each contributed
at least two paintings to the Annual, which boasts
a total of forty works in all.

MARCH EVENTS AT CALIFORNIA
PALACE OF LEGION OF HONOR

The California Palace of the Legion of Honor an-
nounces the following special exhibitions for the
month of March:

Prints and Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson.

Opening March 1 — closes March 30.

Paintings of American (Navajo) Indians and Pol-
len Ceremonial Paintings by Maud Oakes. Open-
ing March 1 — closes March 30.

Oriental Stencils. Lent by Mrs. Herbert Law-
rence. Opening March 1 — closes March 30.
The Hooper Collection. Through March.
The Children's Museum. Work done by Chil-
dren in the San Francisco Public Schools. March
1 to 30.

"The Arts of Today," lectures for March, will be
as follows:

March 1 Painting — Dr. Jermayne MacAgy
8 Sculpture — Dr. Jermayne MacAgy
15 Materials (Plastics, etc.) — Mrs. Elizabeth
Wisner Fuller
^ 22 Mobiles— Mrs. Elizabeth Wisner Fuller
29 Industrial Design — Mr. Walter Landor
'The Arts of Today" will continue through June
covering painting, sculpture, industrial de-
sign, flower arrangement, interior decoration, glass
and silver, jewelry, textiles and weaving, and
ceramics.

LUCIEN LABAUDT'S TRAGIC DEATH
Lucien Labaudt, California artist who was killed
on Sunday, December 12, in a plane crash in
Assam, near the Burma border, had been in India
since mid-November as a war artist-correspondent
for Life Magazine. The plane in which he was
traveling to a new assignment in China, crashed
at dusk during an attempted landing and all on
board were killed, the eleven others being Army
personnel.

Labaudt's paintings, done during his assign-
ment in India, are believed to have been destroyed
in the crash.

West Coast artists held Labaudt in high regard.
He was a good leader among students and as-
sociates and was known widely as a host.

Lucien Labaudt is the third American prominent
artist to meet his death in this war. McClelland
Barclay and Tom La Farge, both attached to the
Navy, were killed last year.

COMING EXHIBITIONS

Los Angeles, California

Fifth Annual Exhibition, April 23-May 28. Los
Angeles County Museum. Open to artists residing
in Los Angeles or within a hundred mile radius.
Media: oil, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, metal
work, leather work, wood carving. Entry cards,
work due April 18. Write James Normile, c/o Los
Angeles County Museum, Exposition Park, Los
Angeles, California.

San Francisco, California

Exhibit of contemporary work, living California
master artists, California Chapter, American Art-
ist's Professional League, at the Penthouse Gallery,
133 Geary Street, San Francisco. Daily from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m., except Sunday. Tuesday and Thurs-
day evenings, 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Annual exhibition of prints and drawings of San
Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco
Museum, February 29 to March 19.

Seattle, Washington

Northwest Printmakers Sixteenth International
Exhibition, March 8 to April 2, 1944. Seattle Art
Museum. Open to all artists. All print media. Fee
$1.00. Jury. Entry cards due Feb. 23; entries Feb.
28. Purchase prizes. Entry cards from R. C. Lee,
Secy., 534 East 80th, Seattle 5, Wash.

Laguna Beach, California

Third Annual Print and Drawing Exhibition. May
1 - June 1. Laguna Beach Art Gallery. Open to
American artists. Jury. Prizes. Entry cards availa-
ble March 1, due April 20. Work due April 25.
Norman Chamberlain, Director, c o Laguna Beach
Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, California.

Oakland, California

1944 Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings. March
5 -April 2. Oakland Art Gallery. Open to all.
Media: oil and tempera. Jury. Prizes. For further
information write Oakland Art Gallery, Municipal
Auditorium, Oakland, California.

HUNGARIAN-AMERICAN ARTIST'S
WORK IS SHOWN AT DE YOUNG

The de Young Museum is now showing a com-
prehensive one-man exhibit of the works of a noted
Hungarian artist, Gyula Zilzer. (See cut.) This ex-
hibition covers the period from the early 20's when
Zilzer first achieved success on the European con-
tinent to the present day.

Born in Budapest of a celebrated family of paint-
ers and musicians, Zilzer received his art training
in his native city, graduated from the Royal Hun-
garian College and the Royal Academy of Arts.
His success as a graphic artist dates from 1924
when his first series of lithographs was published.
In Paris, in 1925, he made a special study of etch-
ing, working under Charles Leblanc.

Since coming to the United States in 1935, the
artist's revulsion to the horrors of war has made
him turn to the more placid and peaceful land-
scapes of American rural life, and most of the oils
and pastels, which make up a major portion of the
present exhibition, are without political implica-
tions.

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Pin-up picture for the man who "can't afford"
to buy an extra War Bond!

You've heard people say: "I can't
afford to buy an extra War Bond."
Perhaps you've said it yourself . . . with-
out realizing what a ridiculous thing it
is to say to men who are dying.

Yet it is ridiculous, when you think
about it. Because today, with national
income at an all-time record high . . .
with people making more money than
ever before . . . with less and less of

things to spend money for . . . practi-
cally every one of us has extra dollars
in his pocket.

The very least that you can do is to
buy an extra $100 War Bond . . . above
and beyond the Bonds you are now
buying or had planned to buy.

In fact, if you take stock of your re-
sources, and check your expenditures,
you will probably find that you can

buy an extra $200 ... or $300 ... or
even $500 worth of War Bonds.

Sounds like more than you "can af-
ford?" Well, young soldiers can't afford
to die, either . . . yet they do it when
called upon. So is it too much to ask
of us that we invest more of our money
in War Bonds . . . the best investment
in the world today?' Is that too much
to ask?

Let's all BACK THE ATTACK!

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8 ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

IN THE NEWS

DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

California's new State Director of Finance, James
S. Dean, is remembered by the architectural profes-
i r .1 a former practicing architect in Sacramento,
member of the firm of Dean &
Dean. "Jimmy" Dean was busi-
ness head of the firm while his
brother, "Charlie," a brilliant de-
signer, was responsible for the
production department. Schools,
commercial structures and pri-
"i^^HKiyi vate homes, designed by Dean
DEAN 3( Dean, stand as fine examples of

their work throughout the Sacramento Valley.

Born in Belton, Texas, in 1885, James Dean gradu-
ated from Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College,
as an architectural engineer and later became an
instructor in drawing at the same school. He served
as Deputy State Architect in California from 1913
to 1920. He practiced architecture with his brother
from 1920 to 1930, during which time he held mem-
bership in the A. LA. and from 1925 to 1930 served
on the State Board of Architecture. In 1930 Mr. Dean
returned to public life as City Manager of Sacramento,
doing a splendid job up to the time of his resignation
last year to accept the position of Deputy State Direc-
tor of Finance. When John F. Hasler resigned as
Director of Finance to enter the banking business in
Oakland, Mr. Dean was named his successor by Gov-
ernor Warren. hHe began his new duties February
first.
HOUSING IN BRAZIL

At a recent luncheon meeting of the San Francisco
Housing and Planning Committee, Gardner A. Dailey
gave an interesting account of his six months' stay in
South America, as head architect and engineer for
the Rubber Development Corporation (R.F.C.).

The Amazon Valley, he told his listeners, is rich in
resources, offers a boundless hope for the future. "In
that country," Mr. Dailey declared, "lies a real solu-
tion for some of our post-war problems. It possesses
a limitless market of raw materials which we may ex-
change for our peacetime goods. After the war thou-
sands of small shelters may be fabricated here and
sent down there to help Northern Brazil in its housing
problem."

Gardner A. Dailey was born in St. Paul, Minn. After
serving in the Air Service during the first World War,
he took up ranching in Mexico. He became interested
in city planning and acted as consultant for Stanford
University and the San Francisco Park Department.
Following extensive architectural study in Europe, he
commenced his practice in San Francisco and is now
noted for his residential work and the workingmen's

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CLINTON Construction Company 45

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HANKS, Inc., Abbot A 47

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HERRICK Iron Works 48

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FEBRUARY, 1944

SHOWER CABINET

A Seffer Shower— Standard Siie 36"x36"x78"

new available fer Immediate delivery under
low priority. Conforms to government regula-
tions restricting the use of critical materials.

The No. 85 was originally designed for use in military
hospitals where a permanent type of construction is re-
quired. Many of these showers have been installed and
have proved their value in practical use. Now we are able
to o£Fer this high grade shower cabinet for civilian use
through the plumbing trade.

SPECIFICATIONS — W>»LIS: Heavy duty W S-2-S masonite

hard board, coaled inside and out with waterproof baked-on enamel.

Metal frame pieces 20 gauge steel. Head rail 16 gauge steel. All

parts formed to eliminate rough edges within the interior of the

cabinet. Furnished in white only.

RECEPTOR; Regular Ensign type, precast, reinforced terrazzo.

Height 6" with cast-in wall flange and drain. Leakproof

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IN THE NEWS

housing units in Nevada and Arizona.

Architect and Engineer plans to devote an eary
issue of the magazine to some of Mr. Dailey's most
recent work.
A MERITED HONOR

The cover picture this month is a house at Palos
Verdes Estates, Southern California, built some years
ago for Wm. Ripley Dorr from plans by Winchton
L. Risley, architect of Los Angeles, who was recently
honored with two other Los Angeles architects by
being elected to fellowship in the American Institute
of Architects. The Palos Verdes house was one of
several residences designed by Architect Risley which
drew honor awards by a jury of Institute members.

For three years in succession, 1937, 1938 and 1939,
Mr. Risley's work in domestic architecture received
prize awards in House Beautiful competitions. A na-
tive of Delphos, Orio, Mr. Risley studied two years at
Maami University, Oxford, later graduating in the
School of Fine Arts, Columbia University. His early
architectural training was in the office of the late
Bertram G. Goodhue. Mr. Risely has been practicing
architecture in Los Angeles since 1921, most recently
in partnership with Stanley R. Gould.
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

Due to commitments of material scheduled months
in advance, coupled with limited space because of
paper curtailment by the Government, it was neces-
sary to hold over several important articles in the
December and January issues. In the meantime some
of the material has appeared sparsely in other pub-
lications. The articles referred to are published In
this issue. They describe the Lockheed cafeteria in
Burbank and the Ryan Aeronautical plant at San Diego.

Magazines, as well as newspapers, are confronted
with many vexing problems these hectic times, not the
least of which is the paper shortage. Another annoy-
ance is slow mail delivery. Regular subscribers are
asked to please bear in mind the Post Office is doing
its utmost to deliver your magazine on time despite
the shortage of labor and uncertain transportation
facilities.
AN ARCHITECT'S LEGACY

A classic example of Italian Renaissance architec-
ture, believed to have been a part of an altar and
constructed between 1575 and 1600, has been pre-
sented to the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of
Decoration by Whitney Warren, Jr., of New York City.

The wooden structure, fourteen feet in height, came
from the estate of the late Whitney Warren, archi-
tect. It was used as a doorway in his Park Avenue
apartment. Though dimmed and cracked with age,
the original carving, gilding, and paint are intact.

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electrical apphances in the modern home,
It has been supplied in the wartime re-
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And on every hand remarks are made
by people planning future homes, that
the one first requirement of the new
home is that it be completely equipped
electrically.

This means that the architect will
require thorough knowledge of electrical
wiring that will provide adequate and
convenient service on a scale never
known before for the average priced
home.

Planning electrical service is no
longer a matter that can be slipped in at
the last moment. It must now be a prime
consideration.

Many architects are taking advantage
of present conditions to inform them-
selves thoroughly on modern electrical
wiring planning and practices.

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IN THE NEWS

The embellishment of angels and the liturgical motifs
on the columns and arch indicate to the research
specialist of the Museum, Dr. Rudolf Berliner, that it
may have been used as a retable, the superstructure
of an altar, containing a painting, in one of the Renais-

jsance cathedrals.

I Another notable addition to the Museum's exten-

isive collection of working papers of the masters con-
sists of four volumes of Whitney Warren's original

'drawings, a gift from his daughter, Mrs. William

[Greenough, of New York.

Two volumes, executed In Europe from 1887 to 1890,
contain pencil and watercolor sketches of fishing craft,
gondolas, staircases. Iron lamps, church spires, village

;,streets, and typical examples of European architecture.

[Many sketches carry the working comments of Mr.

IWarren.

JCITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING

i The City Planning Division of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology is sponsoring a short training
course in City and Regional Planning during the spring
of 1944, in addition to Its regular program of under-
graduate and graduate work. The training course,
which will be open to men and women with profes-
Isional experience In architecture, landscape architec-
ture, civil engineering, political science, or public ad-
ministration, will commence on Monday, April 3, and
will continue for a period of twelve weeks. Lectures
and seminars will be held on principles and techniques
of planning, social and economic aspects of planning,
and planning legislation and administration. These will
be supplemented during the entire period by a pro-
gram of practical experience.

The fee for the training course Is $125, payable at
the time of registration, and participants will be en-
rolled as special students at M. I. T. Further Infor-
mation concerning admission requirements, lecture
schedule, etc., may be obtained from Professor Fred-
erick J. Adams, Division of City Planning, Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 39, Massa-
chusetts.
NEW METHOD OF AWARDING CONTRACTS

A bill calling for the establishment of a new method
of awarding Government construction contracts is
pending In Congress. It is designed "to replace the
present cost-plus and other systems of contracting for
public construction by a system of negotiated lump-
sum contracts."

The proposed legislation, "The Negotiated Contract
Plan," evolved by Frederic W. Lord, founder of the
fifty-year-old Lord Electric Company of New York,
promises to save the Government much priceless time
and many millions of dollars annually, during the war
and after peace Is restored.

FEBRUARY. 1944

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200-FOOT BOWSPRING ROOF TRUSSES FOR RYAN AERONAUTICAL PLANT. SAN DIEGO
Large photo shows four crones lifting huge trusses into place. Upper
right, two trusses being subjected to load tests. Upper chords ore
laminated, lower chords ore solid timbers.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

LONG SPAN WOOD ROOF TRUSSES FOR WAR PLANT

Some months ago the Ryan Aeronautical Com-
pany completed a final assembly building at
Its San Diego plant embodying several unusual
structural features, Including a series of 200-
foot span clear wood trusses, believed the long-
est of their type ever built. Following many
requests for technical Information and photo-
graphs, permission was finally granted by both
the Army and Navy for publication of some
of the structural details and illustrations. While
the photographs show the plant in the con-
struction stage, the building has been com-
pleted and occupied for some time. Due to
military security regulations, pictures of the
finished structure have been censored.

The entire building is one large room, 570
feet long, 200 feet wide, 35 feet clear height
under the trusses, and 60 feet to the crown of
the roof, there being 3 1 trusses spaced 19
feet apart. Trusses are 26 feet high at the
center, the height thus being one-eighth of the
span. The upper chords are laminated, per-
mitting the use of smaller sizes of timber (quite
a consideration) and which, of course, makes
curved chords relatively easy to build. The
lower chords are solid timbers, joined with
steel splice plates, and construction details
throughout are of orthodox design. Trusses are
designed to sustain customary dead and live
loads, plus certain moving crane loads applied
to the lower chord. The various component
parts of the trusses were made at the truss
company's plant and shaped to template and
were interchangeable. These parts were num-
bered, shipped and assembled on the job.

Deflection of wood trusses, due to "com-
pacting" of the various joints under the influ-
ence of time and loading and also to timber
shrinkage. Is a major consideration, especially
in long spans. To minimize shrinkage difficulties
In the new green lumber, all parts were treated
in a hot solution of wood preservative, which
had the effect of removing surface sap and

replacing with preservative so that seasoning
would proceed without abnormal checking or
distortion. Excellent workmanship was required
at the dapped joints of the diagonals, and
where steel keps were employed at the heel
joints and lower chord splices, space was pro-
vided in the daps for pouring in melted lead,
which not only Insured dead fits, but also
equalized distribution of stresses among the
keys. The resulting stiffness, and uniformity of
deflection proved very satisfactory.

It was felt that, as a matter of principle, it
would be well to test these trusses under load,
a procedure rarely adopted where spans are
shorter and less apt to incur scepticism. Ac-
cordingly, two trusses were set up on the
ground, with blocking under the ends, and a
sort of bridge constructed, upon which was
loaded sufficient tonnage in such a manner
as to simulate full design load conditions. Under
this test a maximum deflection of 4% inches
was observed at the middle, quite small for
this span, and while the trusses appeared struc-
turally adequate, it was found advisable to
reinforce the heel plates of the end panel
points.

The problem of lifting into place to a height
of from 35 to 60 feet, a single unit of this size
was not so much a matter of the 16-ton weight
of the truss, as avoidance of excessive distor-
tion and similar mistreatment. Reversal of
stresses Incident to hoisting had been provided
for in the design. At the start, four "crawler"
cranes were employed, until a sufficient num-
ber of trusses were in place and tied together
by the horizontal and vertical bracing system
to laterally support those following. Thereafter
three cranes were sufficient, one at the center
and one at each quarter point. To maintain
equal distribution of load while maneuvering
into position, the closest coordination was
necessary between the cranes.

FEBRUARY, 1944

LOCKHEED BUILDS NATION

ARCHITECTS: PARKINSON & PARKIN^

DETAIL OF ARCADE. LOCKHEED COMMISSARY
BURBANK. CALIFORNIA

Equipped to serve 60,000 meals a
day, six days a week, over the steam
tables and counters of a massive
central cafeteria and from 22 can-
teens serving every Lockheed factory
in the metropolitan area of Los An-
geles, the new $500,000 Employees'
Recreation Club Commissary is said
to be the largest employee-owned-
and operated "hot food on the job"
project in the country.

The main cafeteria, served by six
lines, seats 1700 at one time and is
equipped to serve 24,000 meals
every 24 hours. It is closed only on
Sundays. An additional 36,000 hot
meals can be rushed each 24 hours
by specially designed insulated "hot
and cold" trucks to the 22 canteens,
some of which are miles away in
cities where branch plants are
operated.

Built and equipped by the Lockheed
Company, the property was turned

GENERAL VIEW OF COMMISSARY OF LOCKHEED EMPLOYEES-
RECREATION CLUB, BURBANK, CALIFORNIA

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

\RGEST CAFETERIA

i ANGELES

Part of the main dining room equipped to serve 60,000 meals
a day. Seating capacity 1700.

over as a gift to the employees' club to own and operate.
The nnain cafeteria building, where all the food for the
several canteens is prepared, is located on Empire Avenue,
across from the main factory In Burbank. It occupies an
entire block, 450 feet by 144 feet, with 65,000 square feet
ground level in addition to 3000 square feet of office space
on a balcony overlooking the main dining room. The latter
is 144 by 100 feet with extra space for closed-off private
dining rooms for special departmental luncheons or dinners.
One small room is reserved for company executives.

Designed by John Parkinson and Donald B. Parkinson, all
exterior walls are of reinforced brick with a concrete slab
roof supported by reinforced concrete columns and beams.
The Interior partitions are terra-cotta tile.

Underground boiler rooms are fireproof, walls and slabs
being of reinforced concrete. The transformer

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FEBRUARY, 1944

TWO ROWS OF GIANT KETTLES OPERATE LIKE DOUBLE BOILERS. UTILIZING
STEAM RATHER THAN BOILING WATER FOR LIQUID COOKING

VENTILATORS

GAS AND OIL FIRED BOILERS PROVIDE STEAM HEAT

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

TYPICAL LANDSCAPED COURT. PARKLABREA PRIVATE HOUSING
PROJECT, LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA

PARKLABREA APARTMENTS

Two of the better type of private housing projects
will shortly be ready for occupancy in California —
one in Los Angeles, the other in San Francisco.
Financed and owned by the Metropolitan Life In-
surance Company, which is investing more than
$25,000,000, the projects were originally planned
to provide accommodations for 2500 families, but
due to priority restrictions on certain materials, the
owners elected to complete only portions of the
two undertakings. The Southern California project,
"Parklabrea," is in the hiancock Park District, while
in San Francisco the improvements are near Lake
Merced and have been appropriately named "Park-
merced."

None of the San Francisco buildings have been
opened to tenants as yet, but they probably will
be very shortly, at which time they will be featured
in this magazine. The same architects, Leonard
Schultze & Associates of New York, and the same
builders, Starrett Bros. & Eken, also of New York,
planned and built both "Parklabrea" and "Park-
merced."

The accompanying pictures of Parklabrea are
shown by courtesy of Southwest Builder and Con-
tractor, whose photographer succeeded in obtain-
ing some excellent views despite the fact that con-
struction and landscaping were in an unfinished state.

ARCHITECTS:
Leonard Schultze and
Associates

RESIDENT

ARCHITECT:

Earl T. Heinschmidt

BUILDERS:

Starrett Bros. & Eken

OWNER:

Metroplitan

Life Insurance Co.

APARTMENTS ARE ALL INDIVIDUALLY PLANNED

FEBRUARY, 1944

The Los Angeles project was originally planned for
2750 units (I 1,000 rooms). Tightening war restrictions
limited building operations to only two sections; one
at the southwest corner of the I 73-acre site on Fairfax
and Sixth Streets, the other on Third Street, east of
Fairfax.

All of the two-story buildings are grouped around
courts to provide privacy for each apartment, some
having entrances off the courts, others from private
streets. The architectural motifs are Southern Colonial.

To avoid monotony, the architects have broken up
the usual conventional pattern by introducing diagonal
streets, staggered offsets in the building walls, and
studied variations in architectural treatment of featured
facades. The architectural details throughout are a re-
freshing Improvement over certain other housing ven-
tures of recent date.

Of particular interest in the planning is the conceal-
ment of service areas from the apartment courts and
the streets. The garages are entered directly from the

PARKLABREA APARTMENTS
Los Angeles

Upper and lower views show
Colonial street facades.

Center: Staggered walks and
landscaped court.

Tommy Tomson,
Landscape Architect,

streets and are walled enclosures between apartment buildings. Extended open shed roofs
shelter the cars, providing ample space to maneuver vehicles entering or leaving the garage.
A one-story connecting building between the garages houses a community laundry for each
block of apartments and this structure and the rear garage walls form an enclosure to be
used for a playground.

All buildings have concrete foundations on spread footings and concrete floors on a com-
pacted earthfill. Walls are reinforced brick construction with Class C interior and roof con-
struction except for stairways which are hollow monoliths with reinforced brick walls and
reinforced concrete treads and risers. These stairways, built before erection of the buildings
was started, also rest on concrete foundations. Windows and doorframes are steel and doors
are wood, all specially designed and milled.

Exteriors of all the buildings are painted, while the interior walls and ceilings are plas-

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PARKLABREA APARTMENTS
Los Angeles

All the two story buildings are
grouped around courts to in-
sure privacy.

Pictures show studied treat-
ment of apartment entrances.

Note protecting canopies over
entrances.

Height of apartment structures flanking garages is accentuated and
roofs are hipped architectural variations. Garages are concealed
from courts in this view.

Below, Colonial staircase in a six room apartment. Living room and
kitchen ore on the ground floor with bed rooms and both above.

Two front entrances to apartments. Note
ventilators over windows. Walks fringed
with shrubbery.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

WHEN ARCHITECT'S ACCEPTANCE OF

CHECK SPELLS PAYMENT IN FULL

by LESLIE CHILDS

There is no point of comnnercial law better tract, and the only object sought to be ob-
settled than that the acceptance of a check, tained was the construction of the building
tendered as settlement in full of a disputed which was in fact built. While plaintiff may have
account, will constitute payment in full. Yet been entitled to maintain an action upon quan-
business and professional men are continually turn meruit for extra services rendered, the
tripping over It. And, as an example of the various claims were so interwoven as to con-
application of the rule to a dispute over an jtltute an unliquidated demand, and, when
architect's contract, the following will serve: coupled with the contentions by defendants,

h^ere the plaintiff, an architect, contracted and which they introduced testimony to sup-
to draw plans and superintend the erection of port, show that none of this claim was In fact
a building. Plaintiff received payments from liquidated, and when plaintiff accepted the
time to time, and upon completion of the work check with the conditions under which it was
submitted a bill for a balance due of $470.80. tendered, he must be deemed to be bound by

The defendants, owners, refused to pay this those conditions. * * *

claim, on the qrounds that it was excessive, and ,,,, . n i .i j j.l j. l i • •

^ It IS well settled that, where a claim is un-

countered with an offer of $245.80. The plain- |. • i , i . ,. , , i

'^ liquidated or in dispute, payment and accep-

tlff declined to accept this offer, and the dis- ,^„^^ r ^ i ^^ ^,,^ 4.l^„ ^1=;,^^^ ;„ .=4.;.4:=,^+;^„

" tance ot a less sum than claimed in satistaction

pute dragged along for some time. , jja-xi.-***

f ^~3 ^ operates as an accord and satistaction.

Finally the defendants mailed the plaintiff |^ ^^^ ^^-^^ ^^^ affirmative defense is sus-

a check for $245.80. which carried a notation ^^-^^^ ^^ ^^e evidence, and the judgment will

upon Its face that recited: "In full of a/c." ^^ reversed, with directions to dismiss the

Along with the check the defendants detailed ,• .. ,-^,0 n o/n \

^ action. (208 r. 260.)

their objections to the plaintiff's charges, and

I .. I ,1 , ,1 II I ■ L So ended the case with the plaintiff, archl-
made it clear that the check was being ten-

j J , ,| I • r 11 r 11 I • I tect, being denied any recovery upon his claim

dered as settlement in tull ot all claims under ^ ' ' ^

J.L J. J. for additional payment. Too, his acceptance

Ti I . ,.rr I I ii • I I 1-, I ii of the check, tendered as settlement in full of
I he plaintitr cashed this check, credited the

, , J .1 x-i J -i. X J.L the disputed account, also barred him from

amount on account, and then tiled suit tor the '^

11 1 ijj J TLJXjj. even litigating the justness of his contention

balance he contended was due. I he defendant ^ ^ '

,.^4- ,.^ =„ =0^^.^ =„^ .=+;..f=^+:^ ^„ +u^ fl^at he was entitled to a balance due.

set up an accord and satistaction, on the

grounds that by accepting the check plaintiff On the foregoing, it is obvious that an archi-

was barred from thereafter collecting anything tect may well be cautious In situations of this

additional. kind. If a check so offered is less than his claim.

Plaintiff had judgment in the lower court, and he is not willing to accept It as payment In

On appeal, however, the higher court In re- full, It promptly should be returned. For, as

versing same and in directing the dismissal of Illustrated herein, if accepted it may constitute

the action reasoned: an accord and satisfaction and result In the loss

"In the present case there was but one con- of valuable legal rights.

FEBRUARY. 1944 23

NEW TRENDS IN POST-WA

Recognized for its originality and splendid presentation, this design by Robert Bezzo, of Pullman, Washington,
suggests a type of small shop especially suited for Pacific Coast or resort use. The walls at entrance could be solid,
as indicated, or transparent to reveal the interior.

As indicated in this magazine some months ago, Pacific Coast architects played a prominent part
in the national architectural competition sponsored by The Kawneer Company, of Niles, Michigan —
originators of the modern store front — and the New Pencil Points.

Maynard Lyndon, of Los Angeles, won third prize for his outstanding store front design. Donald
E. Olsen and Alvin Fingado, of Berkeley, received honorable mention, as did Stanley Sharp and Jedd
Reisner, of San Francisco. Special commendation of the jury went to Whitney R. Smith and Robert
W. Dickinson, of Pasadena. The design entered by Robert Bezzo, of Pullman, Washington, and shown
above, was purchased by The Kawneer Company.

Store fronts that reveal the interior of the store, sheltered "window-shopping areas" that allow
prospective customers to avoid sidewalk traffic, and free-standing and movable exterior display cases
that lure the pedestrian into such areas, are some of the trends uncovered in the competitive drawings.

The architects have based their suggestions not only on good architecture and good taste, but
also on other considerations, such as store identification, pedestrian traffic, buying habits, and the
primary store-front problem of attracting the interest of the passerby and getting him into the store.

The entire store, in fact, has been considered as a device for selling goods or services, and func-
tional design has been employed to this end. Thus, the store front of the future will be an even more
practical sales tool for the retail merchant than ever before.

First, there is the trend to the "Open-Face Front," which reveals the interior and makes a dis-
play theater of the whole store by the use of transparent materials and the elimination of the con-
tinuous show window back. This is an attempt to get away from the psychological obstruction of
the conventional "closed type" front, and more effectively invite entrance. Display windows, how-
ever, both large and small, continue to be used In the "open-face" type. jj^,„ ^^ p^ 34)

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

STORE FRONTS

STORE

Priie-winning store front design entered by Maynord Lyndon
of Los Angeles. From the report of the jury: "This pictur-
esque solution attempts to combine building-line display
with a general central arcade. There is a good sweep to
the projecting marquee, and a good anchor for this feature
in the projecting restaurant . . . the most noteworthy
feature of this design is its lighting system. Surface reflec-
tion on window glass has always been a hindrance to clear
vision of store interior. Here, it is counteracted by the
shadow of the projecting roof and by an excellent system
of combined daylight and artificial jight just inside. The
designer has skillfully combined a glass brick skylight with
combined flood and spot-lighting for the window displays.
In the case of the restaurant, "invisible" glazing supplies
o view of the interior . . . the store interiors themselves
ore the display."

RESTAURANT

Honorable Mention design submitted by Donald E. Olsen
and Alvin Fingado of Berkeley. From the jury's report: "This
entry shows a new and imaginative system of store front
construction, with unlimited possibilities for flexibility in
advertising and display. The structural members of the store
walls are the only permanent feature. On these may be
clipped opaque or translucent plastic panels in whatever
pattern the designer wishes — from an open-front to a solid
poster wall. Since the panels are of stock size and make,
it is possible to vary the design of any store front from
time to time. The signs would also build well, preferably
as neon tubing. The designers have not forgotten that roof
signs are chiefly valuable from a distance. They have also
shown small store front lettering for closer vision. . .

FOOD STORE

Design by Stanley Sharp and Jedd Reisner of San Fran-
cisco, Honorable Mention, and characterized by the jury
as "perhaps the most sophisticated rendering presented in
the entire competition . . . and excellently detailed."
Further, "The staggered system of store fronts is a good
idea . . . the food store interior is nicely handled. The
signs, the display systems, and the lighting are excellent."

IN THE OPEN

This design by Whitney R. Smith and Robert W. Dickinson
of Pasadena, won Special Commendation of the jury which
characterized it as "imaginative and beautifully presented
. . . based on the supposition that science will some day
permit control of weather, without use of enclosing walls."
in this design the storekeeper finds that customers hove
free access to the store — something now possible only in
a public market. Yet in the market or department store the
individual storekeeper loses his independence. . . . The
group plan is well handled. Public circulation is excellent.
Signs, displays, vistas are the best of their kind. Freedom,
flexibility, and spaciousness result from the treatment of
the store party-walls as low, free-standing screens. . . .
Even with the gloss fronts and glass screens (from party
walls to ceiling) which would probably be needed if such
a project were to be built today, this would still be
distinguished architecture,

FEBRUARY, 1944

^^mm

THE POST-WAR KITCHEN

The kitchen of tomorrow may not be revo-
lutionary, but the one of day-after-tomorrow
is sure to be a lulu, If expectations of Jared
A. Hill, domestic utilization engineer of the
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, come true.

"Immediately after the war we will have 're-
sumption-models'— really 1941 or 1942 models
on which the machinery is ready to go," Mr.
Hill says. "In some cases manufacturers even
have their pre-war factories set up for imme-
diate production. Others may take as long as
six months for reconversion. At any rate, 're-
sumption models,' with little or no change, will
be ready for the consumer in short order.

"As to new, strictly post-war models," Mr.
Hill says, 'it's still too early to know what to
expect, except in general terms. Certain it
is that most manufacturers will have automatic
washing machines. These may be similar to the
few pre-war models on the market or they may
go much further. One manufacturer is said
to have a complete automatic unit, consisting
of washer, dryer and ironer — a fully equipped
automatic laundry capable of doing everything
but put the clean linen away.

"While there will always be a market for
portable, 'plug-In' laundry equipment, It seems
certain that the bulk of home laundry appli-
ances In the future will be permanently installed
• — fastened to the floor and connected to elec-
tricity, hot and cold water and drains, as much
a part of the house as the bathtub."

Kitchens are due for surprising changes, ac-
cording to Mr. Hill, who looks for an era when
both refrigerators and ranges will be divided
into parts and placed where they will offer the
most convenience.

"Refrigerator compartments," he states,
"may be situated in various parts of the kitchen,
with different temperatures suitable for dif-
ferent types of storage. For instance, the ice
compartment might be close to the sink, left-
overs by the pantry, and, near the stove, frozen
foods, cabinets for which will no doubt be In
every home. The compressor unit, under this
arrangement, could be in some remote place,
such as the basement or a storage closet. These
new refrigeration units, scattered about, will
probably have top openings (to prevent loss

of cold, dehydration, etc.) and might even be
in the form of drawers, which would pull out
and provide complete visibility of contents, as
well as ease in placing or removing foods
therein."

The breaking up process for the kitchen
range — particularly the electric range — also
offers plenty of pleasant surprises, Mr. Hill
suspects. Cooking surfaces may be scattered
— possibly two or three burners together, and
one off by Itself for the convenient simmering
of sauces, gravy or frosting. No more stoop,
no squat, no nylon runs, no charley horse In
the cook's torso to Inspect the beautifully

streamlined, to be sure, but d Inconvenient

broiler hovering near the floor. New broilers
and ovens, unhampered by the general effect
of the stove chassis, will come popping out at
elbow level or any other spot the home builder
may designate in the architect's blueprints.

In the kitchen, Mrs. America will be able to
do three-quarters of her work sitting down.
She'll hardly ever have to stoop or bend. She'll
have no pots or pans to wash, will cook in the
same dishes used for serving, and will be able
to go out for the afternoon while automatic
timers stand guard over the dinner as it cooks.
She'll even have a special cabinet that dries
dish towels with the heat generated by the
compressor that refrigerates her food!

Another kitchen improvement will be pedal
operated faucets at the sink, leaving hands
completely free for other tasks. Kitchens of
the future will probably go fluorescent, with
cove or general overhead lighting, plus localized
lighting over working surfaces furnishing higher
illumination for the kitchen than ever before.

Mr. Hill says the post-war contractors and
home builders are considering the idea of sell-
ing "packaged" equipment — a home complete
with built-in refrigerator, dishwasher, stoves
and laundry equipment — all part of the house
and figured Into its selling price, just as plumb-
ing is today. This would add little to payments
and would provide owners of small homes the
convenience of owning all appliances at once.

With the new use of electricity and a wider
variety of appliances, adequate wiring would
seem to be a "must" in homes of the future.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

THE KITCHEN OF TOMORROW (Cut I)

As Visualiied by a Libbey-Owens-Ford Engineer

In the past, the kitchen and dining room have constituted
the greatest area of waste space In the average home be-
cause their utility has been limited almost entirely to the
preparation and serving of food. Thus, a large part of the
time they stood Idle.

The Kitchen of Tomorrow Is a 'round-the-clock room. All
equipment used for the preparation and cooking of food-
stuffs Is so designed as to allow It to be closed when not
In use. The natural wood finishes on all cabinets harmonizes
with other furniture in the house and this area now becomes
just as attractive as the living room. Between meals, it can
be converted into a study room, game room, buffet bar or
other extra living space.

After an exhaustive study of conventional kitchen equip-
ment and analysis of Its efficiency, H. Creston Doner, head
of L-O-F's department of design, developed suggestions for
new equipment radically different from anything that had
been seen before. Bending and stooping is practically elimi-
nated by hanging all cabinets and fixtures from the wall at
proper working level. Ample foot space beneath the cabi-
nets permits the housewife to do 75 per cent of her work
sitting down.

KITCHEN AND DINING ALCOVE (Cut 2)

Spacious, bright and colorful, the Kitchen of Tomorrow
and Its adjoining dining alcove represent a long step forward
In the concept of the part these rooms can play In domestic
living. Walls are of richly colored Vltrolite glass, offset by
softly glowing translucent panels and huge windows that
welcome sunshine and the outdoors.

The handsome cabinet separating kitchen and alcove Is,
In reality, the refrigerator, built horizontally so that one end
serves as a convenient counter while the other supports a
glass-shelved, indirectly Illuminated china cabinet. Both re-
frigerator and cabinet have sliding doors on each side, mak-
ing them accessible from either room.

The striking "mural" on the alcove wall is actually the
dining table. The decorated glass top swings up against the
wall when the table is not In use. Its design forming a mural
which Is framed by the folding legs.

REFRIGERATOR UNIT (Cut 3j

Built directly below the service counter separating kitchen
and dining alcove, the refrigerator follows the principle of
food store cabinets by being divided into a series of indi-
vidual compartments with controlled temperatures for each.
It has a capacity four times that of the average present-day
home refrigerator. Sliding transparent Thermopane doors
make stock-taking and food selection easy and provide ex-
ceptional Insulation. In the center of the refrigerator a re-
volving turntable, with shelves of Tuf-flex or clear plate glass
and divided Into four sections, is used for frequently-needed
foods — custards, salads, cream.

The end of the refrigerator unit next to the work top
would normally be waste space, but here the space is used
to house the refrigerator unit. A small towel cabinet between
the refrigeration unit and the refrigerator proper uses the
waste heat from the refrigeration unit to dry the kitchen
towels.

ROOM FOR PLAY (Cut 4)

With table swung up against the wall, the full floor area
of the dining alcove immediately becomes available for play
pen, games, sewing or other activities that would otherwise
be difficult or impossible. Both doors on the alcove side of
the refrigerator could be of opaque material If desired.

FEBRUARY, 1944

LOCKHEED CAFETERIA

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room and balcony are reinforced concrete, and
the ground floor is a plain concrete slab. The
floor slopes from north to south, with a drop of
approximately four feet in the 450-foot length
of the building.

The average ceiling height is sixteen feet.

There are specially designed floor drains to
take up water used in steam cleaning the
kitchen and storage areas which occupy four-
fifths of the entire building. These drains
divide the floor into sections for quick, easy
drainage.

All materials in the building were of minimum
requirements in accordance with WPB limita-
tions on scarce or critical products. A 3000-
gallon concrete oil storage tank is located un-
derground. The boilers normally are operated
by gas, but oil is used as a standby in case the
gas company requires a temporary shut-down
to save the consumption of gas. The burners
are so designed as to be able to use either
gas or oil.

Steam heat is carried through one- to four-
inch insulated pipes and radiators are placed
at floor level. There is also a circular-type
overhead radiator system.

Incandescent fixtures are used for lighting.
In the main dining room the fixtures were de-
signed for war, being simple wooden boxes
with a high gloss enamel with the lower part
of the bulb frosted to give an indirect light
at low cost and minimum use of critical mate-
rials. Each fixture recedes about 14 inches into
the ceiling and uses a 250-watt bulb.

The $300,000 kitchen equipment includes a
$65,000 refrigeration system.

There is a ventilation fan under each of three
hoods located directly over the three sections
of cooking equipment (gas ranges, fry-kettles,
soup kettles and steam pressure vegetable
cookers). These hoods are of special design

and supplied with filters to eliminate the gath-
ering of grease.

There are complete public address and inter-
communicating systems throughout the plant.
Total personnel of the Commissary approxi-
mates 450 persons.

PARKLABREA APARTMENTS

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tered and painted. All floors, except in kitchens
and bath rooms, are hardwood paraquet blocks
laid in mastic. The bathrooms have white tile
floors and wainscot; kitchen floors are covered
with linoleum. The fixtures include enclosed
sinks with cabinets, gas or electric ranges and

Typical private garage for tenants of Parklabrea
Apartments, Los Angeles

electric refrigerators. There is an individual
gas-fired forced-air heating unit for each apart-
ment and a central gas - fired water - heater
serving each block of apartments.

There are from three to six rooms to each
apartment, some complete on one floor and
others with living rooms and kitchen on the
ground floor and bedrooms and baths above.

Earl T. hieitschmidt of Los Angeles was as-
sociate architect of the project with Paul Jef-
fers structural engineer, and Ralph E. Phillips
mechanical engineer.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

«a*!^^j«<a«Jfti-<

BLIMP HANGAR UNDER CONSTRUCTION FOR U. S. NAVY

FIREPROOF WOODEN HANGAR FOR PATROL BLIMPS

by FREDERICK HAMILTON

The score or more giant flameproofed wooden hangars for the coastal patrol blimps, which
have recently been completed for the Navy under the Bureau of Yards and Docks plan, are
said to have few, if any, structural precedents. The timber frame hangars consist of an oval-
arched roof, stiffened by a series of arch ribs, and two-end doors. The dimensions run: 1000
feet long, 170 feet high at the crown, nearly 300 feet wideat ground level.

Doors for the huge openings at either end of the hangars
were unusual engineering problems in themselves. It was neces-
sary to construct them to be independent of the main building
so that they would not weigh upon the hangar framing. This
framing could not be built to resist either the weight of doors
generally used for steel hangars of similar shape, or the wind
pressure which would be transmitted from the doors of such
immense area. Meeting these design problems, two types
were finally selected: (I) a flat sliding door with separate sup-
port, and (2) a semi-dome door which would be self-supporting
in any position from open to closed.

Twin reinforced-concrete pylons support an enormous,
square, built-up timber girder to guide the flat, sliding door

Five-eighth-ineh Douglas fir plywood panels were chosen for covering frame-
work to gain maximum rigidity with minimum weight in the doors. Plywood
flame-proofed by Minalith system.

FEBRUARY, 1944

type. Multi-leaf electric operators will close
and open the six sections of the doors at the
touch of a button. The leaves are 120 feet
high and are supported laterally by guide rails

Flame-proofed wood sheathing is nailed fo pHrlins on a
steel door leaf.

at the top. They roll on flanged steel wheels
over railroad - type tracks. The operating
mechanism is so engineered as to move the
several segments, or leaves, at different rates
of speed — the second traveling twice as fast
as the first, and the third three times as fast
— causing all three leaves to arrive at open
or closed positions simultaneously. Maximum
speed of the flat door is 75 feet a minute,
making it possible to open or close these doors
In less than two minutes.

The basic requirements of rigidity, light
weight, and large size offered a design prob-
lem which was met at three different bases by
three different combinations of materials, in-
cluding one new product, which has an ex-

tremely important future — flameproofed ply-
wood. One solution to the problem of door
construction uses steel frames (actually box
trusses on end) faced with pressure-flame-
proofed 1x6 tongue-and-groove pine sheath-
ing, nailed to purlins on the truss face. Another
design incorporates steel longitudinal mem-
bers stiffened with wood braces which furnish
the base to which asbestos-cement boards are
fastened. At the Santa Ana base, the door
retains the all-steel truss frame, but is sheathed
with flameproofed Douglas fir plywood, mount-
ed on steel angles bolted to the frame.

Because of its light weight, and the large
size of the panels, the treated plywood sheath-
ing permitted faster, simpler erection than
either of the two other types. No scaffold was
required in mounting the plywood sheets on
the door panel trusses; the sheets were handled
by a Moto-crane with an extended boom, two
or three men placing and bolting up the panels.
Materials used throughout the hangars were
fabricated.

Each set of doors, built in six sections, closes
an opening about 120 feet high and 220 feet
wide. The leaves, in effect, are box trusses on
end with plywood covering S/s'if^ch thick on
the outside bolted to steel framing members.

Exterior (waterproof) type fir plywood In
sheets 12 by 4 feet were supplied to the door
prefabrlcator who assembled them into sec-
tions 12 by 16 feet. En route from the ply-
wood factory to the door builder, the panels
were flame-proofed by the Minalith system.

Design and construction of all the hangars
(referred to in Navy parlance as "docks for
llghter-than-alr craft") was supervised by Rear
Admiral Ben Moreel (CEC) chief of the Bureau
of Yards and Docks, U. S. Navy. Private con-
tractors have carried out the bulk of the ex-
panded work of the bureau with James I.
Barnes, Santa Monica, California, general con-
tractor for the Santa Ana hangar.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

ARCHITECTS, GET BUSY!

by MILES A. COLEAN

Chairman, A. I. A. Commit+ee on Post-War Relations with Governmenf

The war has struck the architectural profes-
sion about as drastic a blow as did the financial
collapse of the early thirties. It has left it
high and dry, empty-handed, with little hope
of immediate relief. But there is at least one
very important difference between the two
catastrophes.

The depression not only disrupted the pro-
fession, it destroyed the profession's clients.
In the almost complete coma into which the
economic system had fallen, private initiative
languished, private funds were dissipated or
frozen in fear, private construction sank to an
all-time low, local public works programs were
ended, and the Federal government was left
as the only instrumentality with resources
enough to set the wheels of industry again in
motion.

In those confused and discouraging years,
the architect, if he was able to obtain a job
at all, was forced to look directly or indirectly
to the government. He might be selected to
design public works or public housing projects;
he might take a job in a Federal or local gov-
ernmental agency for which his talents suited
him; he might develop some project financed
with Federal funds or with the aid of Federal
mortgage insurance; he might twiddle his
T-square in the hope of a better day; he might,
at worst, go on relief. But usually his normal
sources of employment were just not to be
found.

The war, for all the present difficulties re-
sulting from the prohibition of private work
and the current rapid cessation of public build-
ing, has restrained but not destroyed the archi-
tects' prospective clients. Back of the neces-
sary restrictions of wartime are generally large
numbers of houses, shops, schools, hospitals,
and in many places office buildings, hotels, and
factories — all waiting to be built.

It is helpful to recall that, when the war
struck, construction was only beginning to show
full recovery from the disastrous depression

years. Housebuilding, with only three new
dwellings built for each five new families (net)
formed between 1930-1940, was still far be-
hind the potential demand. The general real
estate situation was just reaching the point
where the need for commercial buildings of
various sorts was making itself felt. Municipal
improvements in many cases were still lagging.

The complete shutdown of these activities
(except where they could pass the rigid re-
quirements of war necessity) has served to
increase the potentialities of demand. Cities
have continued to grow, and existing structures
have continued to depreciate. In fact the diffi-
culties encountered in carrying on even normal
repair and maintenance has accelerated depre-
ciation above normal rates.

But beyond the basic facts of increasing
growth and depreciation, there is another,
probably even more fundamental. There should
be money available with which to build. In spite
of taxes and mounting living costs, people have
been able to save. The down payment problem
should be at least somewhat lessened in the
early post-war period and the more favorable
income situation should relieve the almost hope-
less situation we faced in meeting the relatively
low income demand of the thirties. Cities also
have been able to save. Tax collections have
improved and municipal debt has declined. The
means for improving and adding to municipal
facilities should consequently be available.
Many businesses, in order to adapt themselves
to the post-war market will need new buildings,
and will have, even after all wartime deduc-
tions, funds to proceed. Financial institutions
will have ampJe resources to supplement equity
investment. Interest rates in all probability will
continue low.

The prospect is certainly a brighter one for
architects to face in a time of inactivity than
they had in the bleak days of the last decade.
Good as it is, however, it should not provoke
unalloyed cheerfulness, for in it there are sev-

FEBRUARY, 1944

eral Important ifs. If the transition from war
to peacetime activity Is bungled, if capital Is
not to be enabled to get rapidly to work, if
unemployment should become serious, the
pleasant prospect might very quickly fade.
Then again we might be In the old cycle of
relief and made-work, with construction, as
usual, trailing In the recovery procession.

Whether the favorable prospect Is realized
or not will depend in no small measure on those
in the construction industry. It is now being
frequently said that construction should play
an important part in post-war readjustments
because construction can be more easily re-
converted to normal operations than any other
industry. This is true, but it Is true only on a
strictly mechanical plane, In that the labor and
tools and management necessary for war con-
struction are precisely the same as are needed
for the works of peace. But the possibility of
taking advantage of this convertibility depends
on having ready the plans from which to build.
Plans come first; and plans take time.

The architects, therefore, are at the very
spearhead of a successful transition period.
They must not only make plans but they must
sell their prospective clients the Idea that it Is
vital to have plans ready when the first break
in the labor and material supply occurs.

Aside from the Bureau of Public Roads, no
federal agency has at this time any funds for
the preparation of plans for public works. There
is legislation pending In Congress, but it Is likely
to continue pending for several months, with
a subsequent period of organization for action
when and if the legislation Is passed. After that
may come more delays before funds are ap-
propriated and allocations made for actual
construction. Few of the states and cities have
real planning under way. Private business, still
preoccupied with the war effort, Is apt to be
either slow to recognize the necessity for
prompt action when war demands decline or
without the facilities and personnel to deal
effectively with postwar problems.

Lack of plans made It Impossible In the early
thirties to get a useful economical public works
program promptly Inaugurated, with the result
that a hastily Improvised PWA became neces-

sary. Lack of plans tomorrow may lead to a
similar result. "Dreaming," as General Flem-
ing reminds us, "is not planning," and plans
are something more than "vague, generalized
Ideas." Plans are the hard stuff of working
drawings and specifications, of soil tests and
engineering details. They presuppose the ac-
quisition of definite sites. They imply careful
cost estimates, evidence of economic sound-
ness, and financial arrangements. Such prepa-
ratory work will take months of work before the
construction Industry, easily convertible though
It may be, can dip a shovel or lay a brick.

Architects know all this, but too often they
are willing to wait for others who do not realize
It so well to take the initiative. And then, out
of fear of losing a job, they are too likely to
minimize the time that should be allowed them
for designing and other preparatory work. It
will not be safe to make these errors in the
period ahead.

It Is proper for architects, individually and
through their societies, to urge upon govern-
ment-— Federal, state and municipal — the ad-
visability of making Immediate provision for
preparing plans and acquiring sites for useful
public works. (Note General Fleming's admoni-
tions in August issues of the "Architectural
Record.") More important, however, is the
work that architects might now be doing In
stimulating action by their private clients.

Preparation for private work Is Important for
several reasons. Private operations can be got
under way much more rapidly than Is possible
with work carried on under the cumbersome
procedures of government. They can bring into
the picture a more varied group In the con-
struction industry than can public projects.
They can more quickly get a wide geographic
spread. And, most vital of all, the extent to
which private construction is ready will largely
determine the amount of public work that will
be necessary.

Every architect who can now persuade a
client to authorize plans for a house to be built
at the earliest feasible time is making a real
contribution to the post-war world. Every ar-
chitect who can now assist an operative builder
In laying out his land and planning his dwellings
to meet postwar needs Is doing the same. And

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

the same applies to the new apartments, shop-
ping centers, theaters, commercial buildings,
and important alterations that await a slacken-
ing in the materials situation.

Initiative in getting plans under way requires
more than exhortation, although plenty of ex-
hortation may be needed. The architect must
bring to his client a good knowledge of the
building needs and the economic prospects of
his community. This he can acquire through
information obtainable from his local FhIA of-
fice, from his bank, from special reports pre-
pared by the Bureau of Census, the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce, the Bureau
of Labor Statistics, and from such private or-
ganizations as the Committee for Economic
Development, the local Chamber of Commerce
and Real Estate Board. In reverse, he should
be prepared to persuade the local FHA office
(if it is involved) and the local lending institu-
tions (which almost certainly will be) of the
practicability of his projects.

The architect must also keep himself con-
stantly current with the labor and materials
situation. Labor for private construction work
will not become available in all areas or In all
trades at the same time, nor will all building
materials be obtainable In normal quantities at
once. Plans must be made in view of the fact
that surpluses will appear more or less gradu-
ally and unevenly. The architect who, through
exact knowledge and clever specifying, can
take advantage of these surpluses as they ap-
pear and avoid serious demands on materials
that may still be critically scarce will be the one
who gets his projects started first. He should
consequently keep In touch with WPB repre-
sentatives, with contractors and material deal-
ers, who are in close touch with the materials
market and regulations affecting it.

The architect will also have to keep informed
about new materials and appliances. Some-
times he will be able to find a new product
available In sufficient quantity to provide a
practicable substitute for a scarce article.
More often, unfortunately, he will have to be
prepared to persuade his client that the ec-
static tales of the startling Innovations to be
had when the war Is over are so much moon-
shine. Innovations there will be — in time — but
few of them will be ready when construction is

FEBRUARY, 1944

ready to start again, and most of them will
filter into the market without any revolutionary
effect on existing structures.

In preparing for future work, there is yet
another activity that architects may helpfully
engage in. The general programs that are dis-
cussed for the post-war era too often skip the
period of transition and the problems involved
in moving from a war to a peace footing. But
before any nonwar building can take place
there are first of all to be faced the grim
realities of L-41 and other WPB and OPA re-
strictions. How are these orders to be succes-
sively modified so as to smooth out the diffi-
culties of transition? to prevent unemployment
in areas where war activity may slacken? to
aid In the reestablishment of private construc-
tion enterprises? and to assure an equitable
distribution of surplus materials?

The solution of these very practical problems
Is the first step In an overall post-war construc-
tion program. And the time to begin thinking
about It Is at hand. Architects, through their
societies, should work with engineering, builder,
and real estate groups to answer these ques-
tions and to advise In respect to them with the
Federal authorities. A procedure for transition
must be thoroughly worked out before transi-
tion can begin. And none of us knows how
soon this beginning may properly occur.

The activities suggested here should In no
way detract from a vigorous prosecution of
the war. The contribution of the architect, as
such, to the war effort is largely over. His time,
his effort, and his imagination are available for
the next step, and he Is doing his country no
disservice in making use of them to that end.
On the contrary, the architect can and should.
If properly engaged, be able to relieve those
of his clients who are still busy with war work
of much of their concern with the tasks that He
ahead. He should expect to undertake much
of the work of Investigation and of site and
financial negotiation that, under norma! cir-
cumstance, the client might do for himself.
Without pressing any move that would In the
slightest way disrupt our present concentration
on war production, he can be prepared to press
with the utmost vigor when such disruption Is no
longer a danger.

NEW TRENDS IN STORE FRONTS

(Concluded from Page 24)

Another trend is toward the use of exterior
free-standing display cases, often movable —
which provide an additional "side-show" to
whet the shopper's appetite. The impact of
new displays can be thus enhanced by changes
in the position of the display cases themselves.

Group Planning of stores is also favored.
The obvious advantages of a well-planned shop-
ping center are gained for all the stores in the
group. Control of signs contributes to the
general effect, and a Sheltered Window-Shop-
ping Area is provided for individual stores, or
for the group, by moving the entrance back
from the building line and, in effect, widen-
ing the sidewalk. In other words, part of the
normal store area is covered, but not enclosed,
and people find themselves practically inside
the store before they know it. In Many of the
designs this sheltered window-shopping area is
protected by an overhang; in others, by various
devices which take the place of the canvas
awning.

A revolution in store equipment is not im-
probable. As to lighting, competitors suggest
more intense lighting of the show window and
store area immediately behind it. This added
lighting, combined with greater protection
from direct sunlight on the outside, is intended
to do away with distracting reflections on the
show-window and display-case glass.

Greater flexibility of the entire store front
is recommended, so that changes can be made
without major expense, or alterations. In some

cases, interchangeable wall panels are provided
— with choice of opaque or transparent panels,
and of various colors and materials. Thus, the
nature of the front could be altered, from time
to time, to meet new merchandising require-
ments or for satisfying, more specifically, the
needs of new tenants. Provision is even made
for the removal of certain walls, so that the
store or restaurant can be opened up In favor-
able weather.

In the past, the sales efficiency of many
store fronts has been actually lowered by the
use of poorly planned, and over-flashy, signs
of various types. The new trend is to plan the
necessary signs as part of the architectural
scheme, and keep the whole front in harmony
and good taste. If properly executed, this de-
velopment does not mean the elimination of
signs but rather a better, more exciting use
of them — to attract attention, gain quick
identification, both from the street and side-
walk; and avoid unnecessary competition with
good merchandise displays.

Looking into the future, it is obvious that
store front manufacturers will offer many new
and startling developments after the war. Ac-
cording to The Kawneer Company, that or-
ganization is now engaged in extensive research
with the purpose of providing progressive mer-
chants with the most effective sales tools that
modern methods can create. Announcements
will necessarily have to await the winning of
the war, for this company's entire production
facilities, like many others, are today harnessed
100 per cent to the war effort.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

BOOK REVIEWS

PRECAUTIONARY CAMOUFLAGE— United States
Office of Civilian Defense, Washington, D. C:
O.C.D. Publication 2019, Sept., 1943; U. S. Gov-
ernment Printing Office, Washington, D.C. Price,
15 cents.

The authors state that this booklet is intended for
civilian rather than for military consumption. It should
serve as a foundation for those who may be technically
responsible for the designing and execution of camou-
flage projects, come next war.

The problems of Camouflage, or Protective Con-
cealment, are ever green, so to speak. While principles
persist and basic writings still govern from your book-
shelves, added to the current knowledge of the sub-
ject are new ideas developed in the light of recent
study and experience.

Civilian camouflage, if one can name it so, may
currently appear to be in neglect. The fact is that
we have gone over to the offense. Another reason
was the scarcity of materials and labor which prevented
elaborate schemes of "corrective camouflage." The
tendency in this booklet is to develop and treat the
activity in the field of "precautionary camouflage," a
planning effort without much dependence upon arti-
ficial and critical covering materials. To sum up it is
a "preventive" policy in planning and performing — a
watchfulness of measures which, if properly taken care
of at the beginning of a design of construction or site
plan, will bring dividends later in terms of economy
of material and labor. The authors also state that, "the
urgency of actual corrective camouflage, though im-
portant in special instances, is generally less important
than the urgency for precautionary planning in terms
of camouflage." The authors point out that "actually
there lies before us a vast field of study and activity
applicable to the attainment of low visibility." Because
of this need, and because of the fallacy of continuing
to neglect it, this booklet has been prepared. Its pur-
pose is to focus attention on what today looms as
practicable, workable measures by which may be at-
tained low visibility, siting and planning, thus fore-
stalling the subsequent demand for covering up. "If
a goal is not now established, what will be left on
which to build, except another vacuum such as fol-
lowed the first World War?" the author asks.

The question arising in my mind is, how can we plan
in advance for war when we are not a nation planning
for war for years to come? — not even for revenge. The
principles stated rather generally in the booklet are
perhaps impossible of achievement, at least not for
some time. They belong to a class of speculation in
which broad problems of regional control of our civilian
activities are involved. Suffice it to say that good

general planning is reciprocal with good camouflage
planning. In effect it is an attempt to revise much
of the problems of concealment by means of rational
planning. Long-range regional and local zoning pro-
hibition of construction and general design of facili-
ties with a view to decentralization, dispersion, ob-
scuration, etc., is a job to be controlled by the military
with some central authority. By accomplishing such
planning we shall have lessened the damage that can
accrue from bomb hits and the consequent damage
from fire. This is based on the contention that we
cannot achieve the approach to perfect concealment.
We, therefore, must deceive or divert the attention
of the bombardier, and thus retard his decision, or
throw him off his track.

It must be said that to a great extent other means
have replaced the need of camouflage. They are bet-
ter warning devices and more skilled defense organiza-
tion based on fluidity of deployment of forces and
action.

The thinking expressed in this booklet is in direct
connection with comprehensive laboratory studies con-
ducted in the United States. Interesting pilot projects
were designed for some target areas and cities. In
England application of camouflage on the same gen-
eral basis developed recently to serve pertinent needs.
Unfortunately military camouflage is a secret of which
we shall hear after this war, or come next war.

Note must be made that in addition to the novelty
of using current planning expressions, the booklet in
no uncertain terms advocates the use of capable archi-
tects, planners and landscape men instead of the old
dabblers.

In conclusion, credit must be given to those workers
of the Camouflage Section of the 9th Regional Office
of Civilian Defense in San Francisco and their labora-
tory associates in Los Angeles, due to whose efforts
this thinking originated, and which may form the basis
of things to come in Protective Concealment.

— Michael Goodman

THE NEW A.I.A. JOURNAL

Announcement in recent issues of The Octagon that
this long-standing house organ was to be superseded
by a new journal more representative of and useful
to the architectural profession, had aroused both in-
terest and curiosity. January has brought the answer
in Volume I, Number I of the Journal of the American
Institute of Architects.

Perhaps the moment is unpropitious for launching a
new venture in publications. Perhaps the editors feel
that rise from a modest start is in the long run a safer
policy than decline from a sudden flash. Barring change
In format and elimination of the specifically "house
organ" material, there is not a great deal by which
the new publication is to be distinguished from the old.

The articles are commendably realistic, illustrations
few, but good. Improvement with age may naturally
be expected. F. W. J.

FEBRUARY, 1944

ARCHITECTS INDORSE HOME PLANNERS' INSTITUTE

by ROI MORIN, A.I.A.

Most people have no conception of the importance
of having an architect design their home. By most I
mean the average American who will be building the
million homes in the $4500 range after the war. Many
of these people look upon the architect as a visionary,
an artistic genius, the playfellow of the rich who builds
a $50,000 home.

This average man never meets an architect. When
he decides to build a home, he works out his floor-
plan with some carpenter or contractor friend who,
more than likely, adapts a house design from some
stock plan. Thus the owner has a home which is not
suited to the individual needs of this family or his
particular tastes.

It is just as foolish to have a carpenter design a
home as it would be to have the linotype operator
compose one's story.

But now a national movement has been set in motion
for teaching prospective home owners how to build
an ideal home. Since night school enrollments are
booming during these war years, night classes in home
building are being conducted by an organization called
the Home Planners' Institute. This plan was described
briefly in the October issue of Architect and Engineer.

Classes started in October in Portland, Oregon.
Enthusiastic groups of home owners meet in the lobby
of the Equitable Savings and Loan Association. The
enrollment was so large that different sections were
formed, and these sections meet on different week-
nights. Soon the two lumber organizations — the West
Coast Lumbermen's Association and the Western Re-
tail Lumbermen's Association — will make the Institute
available to cities throughout the country.

The Oregon Chapter of the A.I.A. is giving the
Institute its genuine support and cooperation. The
executive committee of the Home Planners' Institute
came to our president, Pietro Belluschi, for speakers
and Mr. Belluschi referred the selection to me. Glenn
Stanton, past president of the Oregon Chapter of the
A.I.A., was chosen to give the first lecture; subject,
architecture. Mr. Stanton spoke on the business and
contractual relations of the architect, explained how
to select an architect and what the functions of the
architect are.

The class responded very enthusiastically to Mr.
Stanton's talk. As soon as he finished, they asked
dozens of questions. Following the class they gathered
around to see his blueprints, copies of specifications and
contracts.

Other speakers from the Oregon Chapter will in-
clude Van Evera Bailey and Herman Brookman. These
men will confine themselves to design. They will explain
and contrast the traditional and the functional. Later
if more speakers are needed, Mr. Belluschi and Mr.
Hollis Johnston will conduct class sessions.

We, of the Oregon Chapter, think this Institute is
one of the most progressive movements ever started in
America. We are backing it 100 per cent and think
it highly desirable that A.I.A. Chapters In other states
cooperate and support the idea.

Through this plan the architects are given an oppor-
tunity to explain how important is their function to
groups of people who are definitely planning to build
a home after the war.

SUPPORT RED CROSS WAR FUND

The millions of volunteer donors who have visited
American Red Cross blood donor centers have helped
save the lives of great numbers of our soldiers and
sailors. These centers are equipped with up-to-the-
minute scientific apparatus, and their operation is
financed from Red Cross funds. Readers of this maga-
zine are urged to support the 1944 Red Cross War
Fund and thereby help save the lives of the boys at the
front. The goal is $200,000,000 and the campaign
starts in March.

MORE HOUSING

The housing situation in San Francisco is still acute
and more projects have recently been authorized by
the local Housing Authority. The new projects will
provide temporary living quarters for 240 families.
Construction of a lOOO-seat theater at Hunter's Point
by the Fox West Coast Theaters has also been author-
ized at a cost of approximately $85,000, with an addi-
tional $30,000 for equipment.

OAKLAND HOSPITAL ADDITION

A $1,000,000 addition to the Kalser-Permanente
Hospital in Oakland is one of the larger 1944 building
projects promised. The present hospital, badly over-
crowded, was planned by Architects Birge M. and
David Clark of Palo Alto who have also prepared
drawings for the proposed addition.

SIR EDWIN LUTYENS

Sir Edwin L. Lutyens, famous British architect and
president of the Royal Academy since 1938, died at his
home in London after a long illness. He was 74 years
old. His works Included the new British embassy In
Washington.

PRINTMAKERS' SHOW

The Northwest Printmakers 16th International Exhibi-
tion will hold forth at the Seattle Art Museum March 8
to April 2. Entry cards may be obtained by addressing
R. C. Lee, secretary, 534 East 80th, Seattle 5, Wash-
ington.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

UNIFICATION PLANS
NEW PUBLICATION
ANNUAL CONVENTION

In line with the A.I.A.'s unification plans, Detroit
Division of the Michigan Society of Architects has
automatically been abolished and its membership will
hereafter be merged with the Detroit Chapter, A. I. A.
Some 88 per cent of the combined membership of
the Division and the Institute were Institute members.
The merger should strengthen the profession's stand-
ing considerably in the Detroit area. It is believed
that before long the remaining divisions of the State
Society will become Chapters of the Institute.

The A.I.A.'s official publication, "The Octagon," is
no more. Its December number, late in coming out
(our copy reached us in the middle of January), was
the last issue to carry the name, "The Octagon." In
its place is a new publication taking again the name
of "Journal of the American Institute of Architects,"
a pocket-size magazine carrying limited pages of ad-
vertising. Henry H. Saylor, A. LA., veteran editor of
many other architectural periodicals, heads the Jour-
nal's editorial staff. To provide a voice for the pro-
fession will be the aim of the new Journal. (See Page
35 for review.)

Frederick H. Reimers of San Francisco and Roi L.
Morin of Portland, Oregon, are members of the Na-
tional Unification Committee appointed by President
Raymond J. Ashton to work out a program of unifica-
tion of Society and Association membership, so that
Institute membership may become universal for all
architects in good standing.

* + *

The Committee on Awards and Scholarships of the
A. I. A. has recommended that there be no 1944 awards
of the Edward Langley Scholarships, School Medals,
Henry Adams Scholarships or the Milton M. Medary
Scholarship. The Institute Directors have approved the
report and the architectural schools, members, chap-
ters and others concerned are asked to take notice of
this announcement.

The 76th annual meeting of the American Institute
of Architects will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, May
3, 4 and 5. A program will be developed in keeping
with the practical needs of the profession.

Technical Service: Harry J. Devine, Sacramento; Will
G. Corlett, Oakland; Irving G. Smith, Portland, Ore-
gon; William P. Lodge, San Diego; John F. Murphy,
Santa Barbara; Earl T. Heitschmidt, Los Angeles; Harry
C. Welier, Spokane, and William Aitken, Seattle,

Washington.

CHAPTER DINNER MEETINGS
Southern California Chapter, under the aggressive
management of its new board of officers, headed by
Herbert Powell, president, has inaugurated a unique
plan to insure good attendance at all of the Chapter
dinner meetings. Tickets are being sold in advance
for the remaining monthly dinners this year, at a sav-
ing to the purchaser.

SAN FRANCISCO ARCHITECTURAL CLUB

Believing that a draftsman's value increases in direct
proportion to his knowledge of materials, the San
Francisco Architectural Club will endeavor to bring
material manufacturers and draftsmen together in
a series of open meetings this year. The next gathering,
March I, at the Builders Exchange, will feature
Columbia Steel's movie, "Steel, Man's Servant."
The film is narrated by Edwin C. Hill and has a musical
background by Robert Armbruster's orchestra. Further
comment on the subject will be made by J. R. Gruptill
of the Columbia Steel Company.

Those wishing to stay down town for dinner will find
the boys at 609 Montgomery Street, at 6: 1 5 p.m. sharp.

A. S. C. E. NOTES

The regular dinner meeting of the San Francisco
Section, American Society of Civil Engineers, was held
at the Engineers' Club, Tuesday, February 15. The
technical program which followed the dinner featured
an informative talk by A. M. Rawn, chief engineer of
the Los Angeles County Sanitation District, on "The
Committee on Employment Conditions."

President-elect Thor Corwin has appointed the fol-
lowing committee chairmen for the current year:

Program and Excursion, R. B. Rothschild, Jr.; Profes-
sional Conduct and Objectives, C. G. Hyde; Publicity,
J. M. Server, Jr.; Membership and Reception, E. N.
Murphy; Sanitation, L. B. Reynolds; Registration, R. L.
Allin; Soil Mechanics and Foundations, S. S. Gorman;
Legislation, L. H. NIshkian; Juniors, J. G. Wright;
Salaries, T. A. Perrott; Building Code, A. W. Earl; Test
on Exposition Building Details, H. B. Hammlll; Civilian
Protection, I. C. Steele; Post-War Construction, H. D.
Dewell.

Past-president I. C. Steele, formerly chief of the
Division of Civil Engineering of the Pacific Gas and
Electric Co., has been appointed chief engineer of
the company, and past-president Walter Dreyer has
been promoted to Mr. Steele's former position.

The following Pacific Coast architects have been Newton D. Cook reports that the San Francisco

selected to represent this territory upon the A.I.A. Office of the Engineering Societies Personnel Service
committee for collaboration with the Department of registered 679 men (and a few women) in 1943 and

FEBRUARY, 1944

made 225 placements, which leaves some engineers
still available.

Henry J. Brunnler has been elected secretary of the
Commonwealth Club of California.

Franklin P. Ulrich left the Section area temporarily
on February 1st for Washington, D.C., and an ex-
tended trip to South America.

* * *

The 74th meeting of the Junior Forum was held
at the Engineers' Club of San Francisco on January

27th, with Norman Riffe presiding.

* * *

J. Henry Baird is now president of the Cal-Vada
Construction Co., Reno, Nevada, in charge of a large
F.P.H.A. housing project in that city.

Following up the recommendations of the recent
Los Angeles meeting of the Society that committees
for advance planning for the post-war period of re-
adjustment be appointed by each Section, the follow-
ing committee has been appointed:

Chairman: Henry Dewell.

Members: Walter Dreyer, Harold B. Hamlll, Walter
L. Huber, John S. Longwell, Chas. C. Morris, James
H. Turner.

* * *

At the January 14th meeting, the California Student
Chapter heard an interesting Illustrated discussion on
Grand Coulee Dam, presented by Professor J. W. Kelly.

Professors C. T. WIskocil, H. E. Davis and H. D.
Eberhart are not teaching during the November, 1943-
March, 1944 semester, the last two being engaged in
war research work.

NAMED CONSULTANTS FOR MASTER PLAN

Saarlnen and Swanson, world-renowned architects
and town planners, have been engaged by the New
Castle, Indiana, Planning Commission as consultants.

This is the result of action taken by the city council
when it authorized and requested the planning com-
mission to make a contract with Saarlnen and Swanson,
of Detroit, to make the master plan which will guide the
development of the city In all Its phases.

The survey on which the new plan will be based will
Include studies of disease, crime and other social prob-
lems of the community. It will take up the matter of
traffic, the Inadequacy of parking facilities, the danger-
ous presence of heavy-traffic on residential streets, the
failure to provide through streets on which fast traffic
can move.

ARCHITECTS AT CAL TECH.

The following architects are doing educational work
at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena:
Palmer Sabin, Garrett Van Pelt, Donald MacMurray,
Fitch Haskell, William Stone and Elmer Grey.

World Trade Center For San Francisco

PROPOSED WORLD TRADE CENTER
William G. Merchant, Architect

Much is being heard in San Francisco regard-
ing the city's projected "World Trade Center."

The plan comprises moving San Francisco's
wholesale produce district to a larger and more
accessible area. No site for the district has as
yet been selected, but several locations south
of Market Street have been recommended. The
new market will require a minimum of fifteen
acres.

The World Trade Center to be located on the
site of the wholesale produce district would have
as its nucleus the Customs House, the new Ap-
praiser's Building and the Federal Reserve Bank.
It would be a Rockefeller Center of World Trade.
A number of modern office buildings would be
constructed to house the offices and display rooms
of manufacturers, exporters and importers.

The World Trade Center forms an integral
part of a plan to lift San Francisco's face. It can
help materially to provide more than a tem-
porary solution for the problems of the post-war
era. The March issue of Architect and Engineer
will describe the proposed center more fully.

OUR LATIN-AMERICAN CONFRERES

The following item from Colombia has been translated for pub-
lication in Architect and Engineer as of special interest to the
alumni of the School of Architecture, University of California at
Berkeley, since Jose Gnecco Fallon and Alvaro Hermida are
graduates of the school and have many friends in the San Fran-
cisco Bay region:

"BOGOTA, Jan. 15 (UP, for El Pueblo)— It is confirmed that
next Monday the members of the Bogota delegation, composed
of 15 architects, will leave for Medellin to attend the Congress
of Architects. Among this group are Jose Gnecco Fallon, Dean
of the Faculty of Architecture of the National University; Manuel
Robayo, Architect of the Department of Cundlnamarca; Gabriel
Canchez Grillo, Chief of the City Planning Department, and Sec-
retary of Public Works of Bogota, who will inform the engineers
of the elaborate ultimate plans for the beautification of the
Capital. Alvaro Hermida and Gabriel Serrano, from the con-
struction firm of Cuellar Serrano Gomez, will also attend the
Congress."

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

THE STATE ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTS

Northern Section

EDITOR
William C. Ambrose

Address all communications for publication
!n this department to W. C. Ambrose, 369
Pine Street. San Francisco.

STATE ASSOCIATION
Officers for 1944

President John S. Bolles

(Northern Section)

Vice-President Robert H. Orr

(Southern Section)

Second Vice-President Russell G. deLappe

(Northern Section)

Second Vice-President Vincent Palmer

(Southern Section)

Secretary Adrian Wilson

(Southern Section)

Assistant Secretary Malcolm D. Reynolds

(Northern Section)

Treasurer Ralph Wyckoff

(Northern Section)

Assistant Treasurer George E. Gable

(Southern Section)

Directors: Henry hi. Gutterson, Regional
Director, A. I. A.; Frederick H. Reimers,
State Board of Architectural Examiners
(Northern Section); Winsor Soule, Stale
Board of Architectural Examiners (South-
ern Section).

Northern Section

President John S. Bolles

Vice-President Russell G. deLappe

ecretary Malcolm D. Reynolds

[Treasurer Ralph Wyckoff

[Directors: Norman K. Blanchard (for two
years); Philip S. Buckingham (for two
years); Henry H. Gutterson, Regional Di-
rector, A. I. A.; Andrew T. Hass, Northern
Calif. Chapter, A.I.A.; Vincent G. Raney
(one more year); Frederick H. Reimers,
State Board of Architectural Examiners;
Peter L. Sala. Central Valley Chapter,
A. I. A.; . Francis Ward (one more year);
Alfred C. Williams (one more year).

Southern Section

iPresident Robert H. Orr

Vice- President Vincent Palmer

Secretary Adrian Wilson

Treasurer George E. Gable

Directors: Henry H. Gutterson, Regional Di-
rector, A.I.A.; E. Keith Lockard, William
P. Lodge, Charles O. Matcham, Captain
E. Allen Sheet, Winsor Soule, State Board
of Architectural Examiners.

BREAKDOWN AND BUILDUP

That a new era is dawning in the relations of the architects to one another
was confirmed at the joint meeting in San Francisco of the State Association
of California Architects, Northern Section, and the Northern California
Chapter, American Institute of Architects, on the evening of the 31st of
January. The reason for the joint meeting was to break bread together and
listen to what was heralded as a very important message to be delivered by
C. Julian Oberwarth, chairman of the Institute committee on membership.

It was an important message delivered with a good natured and impres-
sive sincerity that proved Mr. Oberwarth the ideal ambassador. His mission,
briefly, was to give a picture of the possibilities of improvement in the pro-
fession by co-operative effort. We had all heard of co-operative effort
before, but too often the co-operation which was expected was the "or-else"
kind which the private is expected to give to the Colonel. The difference in
this case was that Mr. Oberwarth, who is a Director of the Institute, hao
been sent to the Coast to urge the Institute Chapters to do some co-operating
and to invite all reputable members of the profession to membership in the
Institute.

The fact Is there has long been a feeling among many architects that
the Institute considers itself an elite corps, and that its principal activity
has been that of basking in its own radiance. Whether the diagnosis has
been accurate or not, the feeling has been fostered by an "exclusive" policy
in regard to Institute membership, and has retarded the effectiveness of
its work.

Mr. Oberwarth brings the message that the Institute directors have con-
cluded that an exclusive policy is not in the best interests of the profession,
that the interests of the profession must be paramount, and that the "exclu-
sive" attitude must be replaced by dynamic action by the profession.

The social revolution through which the world is going is terrifying to
those who have lost the capacity for a new idea. For those conservatives
who are still resilient, it Is a challenge to their ability to assume leadership
in making the revolution orderly and beneficial. We are glad that the Institute
is not confused.

.o „ The joint meeting above referred to also reached a

I Improvement | high mark in the manner of presentation of ideas.
°* °* The report of Warren Perry for the Committee on

Post-war City and Regional Planning was not only a record of unusual activity
on the part of a committee under the leadership of architects, but was a
carefully prepared document, read from a manuscript, to be sure, but inter-
esting on account of solid content and intelligent reading.

John Bolles, In his maiden speech before his home folk as President of
the State Association, was clear and concise in his language and positive in
his manner of stating his convictions.

FEBRUARY, 1944

Mr. Oberworth held the attention of the large as-
semblage for the better part of an hour with a well
organized exposition of his subject. His talk was given
rich color by his simple, unaffected sincerity, and
lightened by the best kind of American grass-root
humor.

The introducers (Ted Spencer and Abe Appleton)
deserve applause for introducing the guests and let-
ting the programmed speakers do the speaking. Alto-
gether the meeting was an adult one to which one
might have taken a guest without apology.

The new dues schedule of the State As-
I Dues I sociation had not been determined upon
^ ^ when we wrote, a couple of months ago,

about why the architects should pay their dues. What
we said then still applies. A lot of work has to be
done for the benefit of all. If it is not done well, if
the Investment is not sufficient, then the work is a
failure. We have confidence in our officers — we can't
let them fail.

,,, Eldridge T. Spencer, was

I A. I. A. Officers [ re-elected as President of
°* • the Northern California

Chapter of the American Institute of Architects at
the Chapter meeting held on January 31st at the Engi-
neers Club. Elected to serve with President Spencer
for the coming year were:

Vice-President — E. Geoffrey Bangs;

Secretary-Treasurer — Andrew T. Hass;

Directors — Wm. Clement Ambrose (3 years); A.
Appleton (2 years); Irwin Johnson (I year).

The complete Board of Directors for 1944 consists
of the above listed newly elected members, and hHer-
vey P. Clark who is serving an unexpired term.

F. EUGENE BARTON

F. Eugene Barton, until commencement of World
War II, a practicing architect in San Francisco, died
the latter part of January at the home of his sister
at Bel Air, Los Angeles, following several months' Ill-
ness. Mr. Barton for a number of years maintained
an office in the Crocker Building in San Francisco, and
during that time designed quite a number of fine homes
in the Bay area, particularly Piedmont. He was also
architect of a string of warehouses for the Bekins Van
and Storage Company in San Francisco and Southern
California. A native of Salt Lake City, Utah, Mr. Bar-
ton is survived by a widow, daughter, a sister, Mrs.
Dorothy Bekins of Bel Air, and brother, Claude B.
Barton, architect, of Oakland.

OPEN NEW OFFICES

H. L. Gogerty and Associates, architects and en-
gineers, are occupying new offices at 6353 Yucca
Street, Hollywood.

Paul R. Williams, architect, has opened new offices
for the practice of the profession at 3757 Wilshire
Boulevard, Los Angeles.

QUALITY AND DEPENDABLE

Service

are the factors that Influence archi-
tects and contractors when selecting
lumber and mil! work — Quality of
merchandise — Integrity and Ability
of the firm — Service in pnysical equip-
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All these factors contribute to a
speedy and satisfactory completion
of construction with minimum of time
and expense.

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Producers' Council Page

Northern California Chaptor

The Nafional Organizafion of Manufacturers of Qualify Building Materials and Equipment
Affiliated with the AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHTECTS

Gano R. Baker
climaxed years
of enthusiastic
and faithful
service in the
Chapter by ab-
ly leading the
gang in 1942, a
year nnarked by
transition of In-
dustry to a full
war - time basis.

picture before
Up — up, I .

him as an ac-
tive Past President, Gano has this past year served as
liaison with various planning groups.

Gano first made his appearance In Denver, Colo-
rado, In 1898. A little too young for the Spanish-
American War, he almost made the next one, served
his country In the SATC. Graduated from University
of Colorado BS (EE) in 1920. Gano started right up
the trail with Westlnghouse, a trail that has led from
Pittsburgh, Pa., to San Francisco, where he has spent
the last 20 years, more or less. During that time, Gano
has Identified himself with the civic life of the com-
munity. He was a member of the original Board of
Directors of the San Francisco Junior Chamber of
Commerce, and Is an enthusiastic Scouter.

Home Is 968 Grosvenor Place, Oakland, where he
lives with his wife and two daughters, young ladles
of 14 and 16.

As would be expected, his hobbies pertain to out-
door life, camping, fishing and skiing.

Fellowship Again was stressed at the annual meeting
of the Northern California Chapter, A.I.A. As em-
phasized by Mr. C. Julian Oberwarth of Frankfort,
Kentucky, chairman of the Institute's Membership Com-
mittee and guest speaker on that occasion, "the No. 1
object of the A.I.A. Is to promote fellowship between
all architects.

Commodity, firmness and delight were listed by Mr.
Oberwarth as the three essentials that architects must
keep In mind to guide them through all the welter of
ideas revolving around post-war planning.

In an aside to the producers, he also pointed out
that any company that likewise falls to Incorporate

these three essentials In their products, were flirting
with economic death.

He Said It . . . Horace Pickett Is the first one to try
to reduce to words as a statement of policy the guid-
ing thought that all of us Past-Presidents have had in
mind in conducting our respective administrations, but
which we either couldn't adequately express or else
would have taken all meeting to do It.

"To continue to encourage and perpetuate the
good will and friendship between architects, en-
gineers and producers of quality building and
construction materials to the end that the prin-
cipals In the Industry who are responsible for
specifying and using our products may do so with
confidence. Also, that we may at all times merit
such confidence and relationships rendering them
mutually beneficial to the firms we represent and
all principals concerned In a building project where
our products or services are employed."
Hard working Horace Pickett represents the second
member company to be honored with a double shot at
the Presidency, being preceded by Fred Scott In that
organization.

Precedent breaker was Otis Elevator with Ray Kings-
land, Founder-President and himself a precedent
breaker (three times). Later came Vic Anderson in
1940, now in Otis' Los Angeles Office.

Chapter Organization Is announced by President Hor-
ace. But don't forget you're all on one big committee,
so don't hold back; he can use your help. And Inci-
dentally— you get out of the Council in proportion to
what you put in. So let's go. It's your party, too!
Here they are:

Membership & Attendance — Chairman, Harry Le-
mos, P. G. & E.; Norman Brown, Bell & Gossett Com-
pany, and Jack Peelle, The Peelle Company and Dahl-
strom Metallic Door Company.

Program — Chairman, Nick Nicholas, Crane Co.
That's it boys, the human dynamo.

Fellowship — Chairman, Jim Turner, Westlnghouse
Electric & Manufacturing Co.; Lou Saylor, Vermont
Marble Co.; and "Scho" Schofield, Libbey-Owens Glass
Company.

Post-War Planning — Chairman, Chuck Kraft, Kraf-
tile Company; Ray Brown, Gladding, McBean & Co.,
liaison with Technical, Marketing and Finance develop-
ments; Dan Anzini, General Electric Co., liaison with

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USE QUALITY PRODUCTS . . . CONSULT AN ARCHITECT

HOW RED CROSS SERVES MAN IN UNIFORM

By JUSTINE WOODRUFF

Home can wear many fronts — according to taste,
available supplies, geographic location, bank balance,
an architect's training and skill. For one and all, how-
ever, the reigning spirit of home Is one of ease and
relaxation, and is dependent upon one quality — the
desire to make and have a home.

Providing places all over the world where every
American service man may relax and be at ease, where
he can talk things over and meet his friends, is the
achievement of the American Red Cross. To maintain
this record, the goal for the 1944 Red Cross War
Fund Drive Is $200,000,000. Of the national quota,
thirteen per cent will be devoted to activities on the
home front; all of the remaining eighty-seven per cent
will carry Red Cross services to the man in uniform.

THE RED CROSS CLUB

Sometimes it looks like this

and sometimes like this.

High on the list of these services Is "building" him
a home away from home. Undertaking to provide a
home for 10,000,000 service men Is undoubtedly the
largest order ever to come across a contractor's desk.
It is a particularly difficult order when one member
of the firm works in a South Pacific jungle, a second
battles desert sands for a site, and still another con-
tends with Alaskan tundra.

A Red Cross club or recreation room Is born under
widely varying conditions. Sometimes an adequate
building is available. Then the problem arises to pre-
sent the most attractive setting for the service man's
off hours. Furniture, In every stage of disrepair, is
donated to the Red Cross. Earnest, enthusiastic volun-
teers, with an eye for line and color, re-upholster and
finish the pieces, which are then sent, through the
Red Cross Camp and hlospltal Council, to embellish
sparsely furnished day rooms, sun rooms In hospitals,
camp recreation rooms, and clubs.

In other theaters of war, however, easily convertible
structures are few and far between — all too often,
there are no buildings at all.

The story goes that one seasoned outfit, already
familiar with Red Cross services, was transferred —
somewhere In the South Pacific. Several of the men
were asking for the Red Cross Club. After inquiring
without satisfaction among their fellows, one of them
tracked down the Red Cross field director.

Busy with the thousand details that always confront
a field director, he nevertheless found time to listen
to the boys.

"Look, fellows," he said, after hearing their story,
"we're going to have a club just as soon as our supplies
get here. You know what transportation Is now. But
don't worry, we'll have a Red Cross building."

"But what are we going to do until the stuff arrives? "
asked one lad. "Gee, everywhere we've been, there's
always been a Red Cross Club."

Realizing that he was face to face with another of
those situations which test a field director's Ingenuity,
the Red Cross man said, '"Well, just a minute, boys,
don't lose heart yet. The Red Cross has solved tougher
problems than this — and will again. Stick around, and
I'll see what can be done."

Approval from the commanding officer was the first
step on the program. That obtained, the field director
enlisted native and Gl assistance. In record time, the
men cleared a space of luxuriant but unco-operative
jungle vegetation. The site for the Red Cross club
was established. And presently, a building rose. With
split trunks for joists and studs, bamboo poles for
beams, and grass for a roof, this particular Red Cross
Club came into being.

Still, there remained the problem of furniture.
Wooden crates served as tables and chairs; cardboard
boxes, placed one upon the other, acted as book and
file cases; more split tree trunks provided not too
comfortable benches. And for draperies and extra
decorative details, mosquito netting took over for
more conventional fabrics.

These members of the armed forces had "found"
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ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

Estimator's Guide

Giving Cost of Building Materials, Etc.

AMOUNTS GIVEN ARE FIGURING PRICES AND ARE MADE UP FROM AVERAGE QUOTATIONS FURNISHED BY
MATERIAL HOUSES TO SAN FRANCISCO CONTRACTORS. 21/2% SALES TAX ON ALL MATERIALS BUT NOT LABOR

All prices and wages quoted are for San
Francisco and the Bay District. There may be
slight fluctuation of prices in the Interior and
southern part of the state. Freight cartage,
at least, must be added in figuring country
work.

BONDS— Performance— 50% of contract.
Labor and materials — 50% of contract.

BRICKWORK—

Common Brick— Per IM laid— $50.00 to
$60.00 (according to class of work).

Face Brick— Per IM laid— $120 to $150
(according to class of work.)

Brick Steps— $1.60 per lin. ft.

Brick Veneer on Frame Bidg. — Approx.
$1.30 per sq. ft.

Common Brick — $19.00 per M, truckload
lots, f.o.b. job.

$19.00 per M, less than truckload, plus
cartage.

Face Brick- $40 to $80 per M, truckload
lots, delivered.

Cartage — Approx. $4.00 per M.

BUILDING PAPER—

1 ply per 1000 ft. roll $3.50

2 ply per 1000 ft. roll „ 5.00

3 ply per 1000 ft. roll _ 6.25

Brownskin, Standard, 500 ft. roll 5.00

Sisalkraft. 500 ft. roll _ 5.00

Sash cord com. No. 7 $1.20 per 100 ft.

Sash cord com. No. 8 1.50 per 100 ft.

Sash cord spot No. 7 1.90 per 100 ft.

Sash cord spot No. 8 2.25 per 100 ft.

Sash weights, cast iron, $50.00 ton.

Nails, $3.42 base.

Sash weights, $45.00 per ton.

CONCRETE AGGREGATES—

The following prices net to Contractors unless
otherwise shown.

Gravel, all sizes —
$1.95 per ton at Bunker; delivered $2.50

Bunker DeI'd

Top Sand $1.90 $2.50

Concrete Mix 1.90 2.45

Crushed Rock, I/," to %" 1.90 2.60

FEBRUARY. 1944

Crushed Rock, 3/^" to P/j", .. 1.90 2.50

Roofing Gravel 2.25 2.80

River Sand 2.00 2.45

Sand-
River Sand 2.00 2.45

Lapis (Nos. 2 & 4) 2.85 3.15

Olympia (Nos. I & 2) 2.85 3.10

Del Monte White 84c per sack

Cement —

Common (all brands, caper sacks), carload
lots, $2.42 per bbl. f.o.b. car; delivered $2.72.

Cash discount on carload lots, lOc a bbl. lOth
Prox.; less than carload lots $3.20 per bbl.
f.o.b. warehouse or delivered.

Cash discount 2% on L.C.L.

Atlas White \ I to 100 sacks, $2.50 sack

Calaveras White ] warehouse or del.; $7.45
Medusa White ( bbl. carload lots.

Forms, Labors average $200.00 per M.

Average cost of concrete in place, exclu-
sive of forms, 35c per cu. ft.; $10 cu.
yd.; with forms, 60c.

4-inch concrete basement floor

30c per sq. ft.

Rat-proofing ^'/zo

Concrete Steps $1.25 per lin. ft.

DAMPPROOFING and Waterproofing—

Two-coat work, $3.50 per square.

Membrane waterproofing — 4 layers of sat-
urated felt, $7.00 per square.

Hot coating work, $2.50 per square.

Medusa Waterproofing, $3.50 per lb. San
Francisco Warehouse.

Tricocel waterproofing.

(See representative.)

ELECTRIC WIRING— $12 to $15 per outlet
for conduit work (including switches].
Knob and tube average $3.00 per outlet.
(Available only for priority work.]

ELEVATORS—

Prices vary according to capacity, speed
and type. Consult elevator companies.
Average cost of installing a slow speed
automatic passenger elevator in small four
story apartment building, including en-
trance doors, about $6500.00.

EXCAVATION—

Sand, 60 cents; clay or shale $1 per yard.
Teams, $12.00 per day.

Trucks, $22 to $27.50 per day.

Above figures are an average without
water. Steam shovel work in large quan-
tities, less; hard material, such as rock,
will run considerably more.

FIRE ESCAPES—

Ten-foot galvanized Iron balcony, with
stairs, $150 installed on new buildings;
$160 on old buildings.

FLOORS—

Composition Floor, such as Magneslte,
33c to 50c per square.

LInoflor— 2 gages— $1.25 to $2.75 per sq.
yd.

Mastapay — 90c to $1.50 per sq. yd.

Battleship Linoleum — available to Army

and Navy only — l/j" — $1.75 sq. yd,

i\"— $2.00 sq. yd.

Terazzo Floors — 50c to 70c per square.
Terazzo Steps — $1.75 per lin. ft.
Mastic Wear Coat — according to type —
20c to 35c,

Hardwood Flooring —

Standard Mill grades not available
Victory Oak— T & G

M X 21/4" $143.25 per M. plus Cartage

'A X 2" 122.00 per M. plus Cartage

"/z X 11/2" 113.50 per M. plus Cartage

Prefinished Standard i Better Oak Flooring

U X 31/4" $180.00 per M. plus Cartage

'/z X 21/2" 160.50 per M. plus Cartage

Maple Flooring
M" T & G Clear $160.50 per M. plus Ctg.
2nd 153.50 per M. plus Ctg.
3rd 131.25 per M. plus Ctg.
Floor Layers' Wage, $1.50 per hr.

GLASS—

Single Strength Window Glass 20c per O ft.

Double Strength Window Glass 30c per O ft.

Plate Glass, under 75 sq. ft $1.00 per Q tt.

Polished Wire Plate Glass .„ 1.40 per Q ft.

Rgh. Wire Glass 34 per Q ft.

Obscure Glass 27 per Q ft.

Slazing of above is additional.
Glass Blocks _ $2.50 per Q ft. set in place

HEATING—

Average, $1.90 per sq. ft. of radiation,
according to conditions.

Warm air (gravity) average $48 per regis-
ter.

Forced air, average $68 par register.

IRON — Cost of ornamental Iron, cast iron.
etc., depends on designs.

LUMBER — All lumber at O.P.A. celling
prices —

No. I Common ..$^9.00 per M

No. 2 Common _ _ 47.75 per M

Select O. P. Common 52.75 per M

Flooring —

Delvd.

V.G.-D.F. B & Btr. I X 4 T & G Flooring $80.00

C I X 4 T & G Flooring , 75.00

D I X 4 T & G Flooring 65.00

D.F.-S.G. B & Btr. I X 4 T & G Flooring 61.00

C I X 4 T & G Flooring 59.00

D I X 4 T & G Flooring 54.00

Rwd. Plastic— "A" grade, medium drv 82.00

"B" grade, medium dry 78.50

Plywood—

Under J200 Over $200

"Plyscord"— %» $49.50 $47.55

•■Plywall"— %" 45.15 43.30

3 ply— 2/5—1/," 48.55 46.60

■•Plyform"-ye"-

Unoiled 126.50 121.45

Oiled 127.90 122.75

Above prices delivered if quantity is sufficient
to warrant delivery.

Shingles (Rwd. not available) —
Red Cedar No. I— $6.75 per square; No. 2, $5.75;

No. 3, $4.45.
Average cost to lay shingles, $3.00 per square.
Cedar Shakes— Tapered: '/z" to %" x 25"— $8.95

per square.

Resawn: %" to \'A" x 25"— $10.65 per square.

Resawn: %" to I'A" x 25"— $10.65 per square.
Average cost to lay shakes, $4.00 per square.

M I LLWORK— Standard.

O. P. $100 per 1000. R. W. rustic $100.00

per 1000 (delivered).
Double hung box windov/ frames, average

with trim $6.50 and up, each.
Complete door unit, $10.00.
Screen doors, $3.50 each.
Patent screen windows, 25c a sq. ft.
Cases for Icitchen pantries seven ft. high,

per lineal ft., $9.00 each.
Dining room cases, $9.00 per lineal foot.

Rough and finish about 80c per sq. ft.
Labor — Rough carpentry, warehouse heavy
framing (average), $40.00 per M.
For smaller work average, $40.00 to $55.00

per 1000.

MARBLE— See Dealers)

PAINTING—

Two-coat work per yard 50c

Three-coat work per yard 70c

Cold water painting per yard lOc

Whitewashing per yard 8c

PAINTS—

Two-coat work 50c per sq. yd.

Three-coat work 70c per sq. yd.

Cold water painting per yard lOc

Whitewashing 8c per sq. yd.

Turpentine $1.03 per gal. in drum lots.
$1.08 per gal. in 5-gal. containers.
Raw Linseed Oil — not available.

Boiled Linseed Oil — $1.38 per gal. in
drums. Available only to work with high
priority — $1.48 per gal. in 5-gal. con-
tainers.

Use replacement oil — $1.86 per gal. in
I -gal. containers.

Replacement Oil — $1.20 per gal. in drums.
$1.30 per gal. in 5-gal. containers.

A deposit of $6.00 required on all drums.

PATENT CHIMNEYS—

6-inch $1.20 lineal foot

8-inch 1.40 lineal foot

10-inch 2.15 lineal foot

12-inch 2.75 lineal foot

PLASTER—

Neat wall, per ton delivered in S. F. in
paper bags, $17.60.

PLASTERING (Interior)-

Yard

3 Coats, metal lath and plaster 1.50

Keene cement on metal lath 1.80

Ceilings with 3/, hot roll channels metal lath
(lathed only) 1.20

Ceilings with y, hot roll channels metal lath
plastered 2.20

Single partition % channel lath I side (lath
only 1 .20

Single partition % channel lath 2 inches
thick plastered 3.20

4.inch double partition 3^ channel lath 2
sides (lath only) 2.20

4-inch double partition % channel lath 2
sides plastered 3.85

Thermax single partition; I" channels; 21/4"
overall partition width. Plastered both
sides 3.30

Thermax double partition; I" channels; AVa"
overall partition width. Plastered both
sides 4.40

3 coats over I" Thermax nailed to one side
wood studs or joists 1.65

3 coats over I" Thermax suspended to one
side wood studs with spring sound isola-
tion clip : 1.90

Note— Channel lath controlled by limitation

orders.

PLASTERING (Exterior) —

2 coats cement finish, brick or concrete
wall $

3 coats cement finish, No. 18 gauge wire

esh

Lime— $3.00 per bbl. at yard.
Processed Lime— $3.10 bbl. at yard.
Rock or Grip Lath— 3/e"— 20c per sq. yd.
A"— 19c per sq. yd.

Connposltion Stucco — $1.80 to $2.00 sq. yard
(applied).

PLUMBING—

From $100.00 per fixture up, according to
grade, quantity and runs.

ROOFING—

"Standard" tar and gravel, 4 ply — $8.00

per sq. for 30 sqs. or over.
Less than 30 sqs. $9.50 per sq.
Tile, $30.00 to $40.00 per square.
Redwood Shingles, $7.50 per square in

place.
5/2 #1-16" Cedar Shingles, A'/i"

Exposure $8.00 square

5/8 X 16"— # I Cedar Shingles, 5"

Exposure $9.00 square

4/2 #1-24" Royal Shingles, 7I/2"

Exposure $9.50 sq.uare

Re-coat with Gravel $4.00 per sq.
Asbestos Shingles, $23 to $28 per sq. laid
1/2 x 25" Resawn Cedar Shakes,

10" Exposure $10.50

3/4 X 25" Resawn Cedar Shakes.

10" Exposure I 1.50

I X 25" Resawn Cedar Shakes,

10" Exposure 12.50

Above prices are for shakes in place.

SHEET METAL—

Windows— Metal, $1.75 a sq. ft.
Fire doors (average), including hardware,
$2.00 per sq. ft.

SKYLIGHTS— (not glazed)
Copper, 90c sq. ft. (flat).
Galvanized iron, 40c sq. ft. (flat).
Vented hip skylights 60c sq. ft.

STEEL REINFORCING (None available ex-
cept for war work) .
$150 to $200 ton, set.

Granite, average, $6.50 cu. foot in place.
Sandstone, average Blue, $4.00. Boise,

$3.00 sq. ft. in place.
Indiana Limestone, $2.80 per sq. ft. In

place.

STORE FRONTS (None available).

Ceramic Tile Floors— 70c to $1.00 per sq. ft.
Cove Base— $1.10 per lin. ft.
Glazed Tile Wainscot— $1.25 per sq. ft.
Asphalt Tile Floor 1/,- & ^"—i .18 to } .35 per

sq. ft. Light shades slightly higher.
Cork Tile- $ .40 to $ .75 per sq. ft.
Mosaic Floors— see dealers.
Lino-Tile, $ .35 to $ .75 per sq. ft.

Wall Tile-
Glazed Terra Cotta Wall Units (single faced)
laid in place — approximate prices:

2 X 6 X 12 _ -...$1.10 sq. ft.

4 X 6 X 12 1.25 sq. ft.

2 X 8 X 16 _.. 1.20 sq. ft.

4 X 8 X 16 1.40 sq. ft.

VENETIAN BUNDS—

40c per square foot and up. Installation
extra .

WINDOWS— STEEL—

30c per square foot, $5 for ventilators.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

RED CROSS SERVICE

(Concluded from Page 42)

their Red Cross club. If purpose could erect a building
out of tree trunks, bamboo, grass, and mosquito net-
ting, that same purpose could make it a place of good
fellowship, where the order of the day is "at ease,"
a home away from home. "Call it what you like,"
remarked one lanky soldier stretched out on a tree
trunk — turned bench, " 'pre-primitive orange crate
period' — still, it's got what it takes."

CONSTRUCTION FORECAST 1944

(By Market Analysis Committee, Producers' Council)

Estimate of the cost of new construction during 1943, and
in 1944, based on the assumption: (I) that there will be no

post-German armistice construction during 1944, and (II)
that post-German armistice construction will occur after
July I. 1944.

If 43 1944

Armistice

No Armistice Basis Basis (c)

Type Total 1st 2nd 2nd

Half Half Total Half Total
Private Construction

Residential 792 225 175 400 400 625

Industrial 126 30 20 50 120 150

Farm 125 65 80 145 120 185

Public Utility 485 170 170 340 300 470

All Other 65 30 30 60 100 130

Total Private 1,593 520 475 995 1,040 1,560

Public Construction

Residential 800 240 220 460 175 415

Industrial 2,150 388 332 720 302 690

Military & Naval

(Continental U. S.) 2,860 710 595 1,305 460 1,170

Highways 400 180 205 385 350 530

Other Pub. Const 215 80 80 160 120 200

Total Public 6,425 1,598 1.432 3,030 1,407 3,005

Total Construction (b). 8.018 2,118 1,907 4,025 2.447 4.565

Notes: (a) The statistics given in the table represent an extension of
the new construction series compiled by the Department of Commerce
and reported in the Survey of Current Business.

(b) Does not Include maintenance and repairs.

(c) In developing the estimat Total II it was assumed that a
German armistice would have occurred prior to July 1st, and that a
rise in construction would be possible after that date. This estimate
has been made for the sole purpose of Indicating how much of a rise
in construction might be expected after a German armistice occurring
at the time indicated. It was assumed that the war with Japan would
be continued.

NEW BRITISH BUILDING CODE

The first draft standard under the British Building
Codes and Practices program is now being circulated
by the British Standards Institution before considera-
tion for final approval. It recommends the minimum
loads which should be taken into account in the designs
of buildings, for use with working stresses based on the
properties of the various materials. No account has
been taken, however, of constructional loads. One
section of the proposed standard makes recommen-
dations for dead and superimposed loads and forces
induced by wind, and is for conditions that are normal
for Great Britain. The effect on buildings of enemy
action in time of war is considered in the second
section, and buildings are classified in terms of their
resistance to such action.

Hocnn LumBER co.

Wfio/atale and Refalf

LUMBER

MILL WORK • SASH & DOORS

Office, Mill, Yard and Docks

SECOND AND ALICE STREETS • OAKLAND. CALIF.

Telephone OLeneeurt 6861

or CALirO^ffilA

General Contractors

923 FOLSOM STREET • SAN FRANCISCO

sutler 3440

FORDERER CORNICE WORKS

Manufacturers of
Hollow Metal Products • Interior Metal Trim

Elevator Fronts and Cabs
Metal Plaster Accessories • Sanitary Metal Base

Plat and Roll Metal Screens
Metal Cabinets • Commercial Refrigerators

269 POTRERO AVE.

SAN FRANCISCO. CALIF. HEMLOCK 4100

STRUCTURAL STEEL

For Class A Buildinss,
Bridges, etc.

JUDSON PACIFIC CO.

1200 SEVENTEENTH STREET
SAN FRANCISCO
= Plants: San Francisco • Oakland =

FEBRUARY, 1944

The Most Complete Line of

STEELS and BUILDING MATERIALS

Made by a Single Producer

ireIjbIici

See Sweet's Catalog File or write us for
full information.

REPUBLIC STEEL CORPORATION

GENERAL OFFICES: CLEVELAND, OHIO

DENVER. COLORADO .... CONTINENTAL OIL BUILDING

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA EDISON BUILDING

SALT 1>KE CITY, UTAH WALKER BANK BUILDING

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA .... RIALTO BUILDING
SEATTLE. WASH WHITE-HENRY-STUART BUILDING

PACIFIC
MANUFACTURING CO.

HIGH CLASS INTERIOR FINISH
QUALITY MILLWORK

142 SANSOME ST.. SAN FRANCISCO

GArfleld 7755

6820 McKINLEY AVE., LOS ANGELES

THornwall 4196

BUILDERS EXCHANGE, OAKLAND

PRODUCERS' COUNCIL

(Concluded from Page 41)
Industrial. Consumer and Governmental Relationship
phases.

Some comment In passing might be of Interest on
our Post-War Planning set-up. Your Executive Com-
mittee feels that the subject offers a very effective
public relations approach. Post-War Planning has ad-
vanced to the stage where we have a double duty —
to keep the public informed on what we are doing
about It.

Building Industry Conference Board representative
Is Past President '39, Ken Plnney. Armstrong Cork
Company, alternate Is Ture Tulein, Johns - Manville
Sales Corporation.
AND This is a good
place to remind you
to encourage your
prospects to . . .

Interesting programs
are In prospect with a
continuation of the in-
teresting member talks

of past years Interspersed by talks from representatives 1
of other organizations svlth whom we maintain liaison, ,
relative to the set-up and workings of their groups.

D. H. BURNHAM'S SON KILLED ,

Lieutenant Spencer Otis Burnham. son of Daniel H. |
Burnham. was killed while on maneuvers near Scotts-
ville, when a car In which he was riding overturned.

START AN ARCHITECT

"AMERICAN MARSH"

Redi-Vae Vacuum Heating Pump

SIMONDS MACHINERY CO.

San Francisco
SI 6 Folsom St.

Los Angeles
455 East Fourth St.

SKALKRAFT

REG. U.S.PAT. OFF.

"More than a building paper
THE SISALKRAFT CO.

205 West Waeker Drive
Chicago, III.

55 New Montgomery Street
San Francisco, Calif.

uERmonT
mflRBLE compflnv

Producers and Finishers

Domestic and Imported Marbles

Writ, for new pamphUt d.tcribing our
Marbl. Toilets and Show.ri

San Francisco and Los Angeles

San Francisco phone: SUtter 6747

BASALITE

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Manufactured by

BASALT ROCK CO., INC.

NAPA, CALIFORNIA

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

N. CLARK
AND SONS

Manufacturers of

Quality
Architectural
Clay Products

During this stage of ttie war,
our principal energy Is to nnan-
ufacture products required by
the various war agencies. We
still can supply some pre-war
materials for civilian needs.

401 PACIFIC AVENUE

ALAMEDA. CALIFORNIA

San Francisco • Los Angeles

Salt Lake Cify • Portland

ABBOT A. HAIVKS, INC.
Engineers & Chemists

INSPECTING — TESTINS — CONSULTING

CONCRETE • STEEL • MATERIALS

CHEMICAL AND TESTING

LABORATORIES

• RESEARCH AND INVESTIGATION •

TESTS OF STRUCTURAL MATERIALS

DESIGN OF CONCRETE MIXES

SHOP AND ERECTION INSPECTION OF

STRUCTURES AND EOUIPMENT

INVESTIGATION OF STRUCTURES

AND MATERIALS

TESTS AND INVESTIGATION OF

FOUNDATION SOILS

FIRE RESISTANCE ANT INSULATION

TESTS

624 Sacramento Street, San Francisco

Robert W. Hunt Company

ENGINEERS

Inspection • Tests ■ Consultation

Schools and Other Structures
Are Built as Designed

When Construction Materials are

Inspected at point oj Manufacture

and during Erection by

ROBERT W. HUNT COMPANY

Cement, Concrete, Chemical, Metalluriictl,
X'Ray and Physical Laboratories

Chicago • Naw York • Piltiburqh

Loi Anqtlai All Larga Citias

San Francisco, 251 Kearny Street

LIGHTING CALIFORNIA
SCHOOLS

Of interest to architects, as well
as educators, is a new 19-page illus-
trated bulletin, entitled "Recom-
nnended Practices for Lighting Cali-
fornia Schools," recently issued by
the California State Department of
Education, Division of Schoolhouse
Planning.

It was prepared by the research com-
mittee of SightConservation Council of
Northern California, consisting of Dr.
R. S. French, president of the Council
and principal of California StateSchool
for the Blind, Berkeley; Dr. Charles
Bursch, chief. Division of Schoolhouse
Planning, State Department of Edu-
cation, Sacramento; Dr. Leiand hf.
Brown, associate professor of elec-
trical engineering, Stanford Univer-
sity; John Lyon Reid, associate ar-
chitect, Ernest J. Kump Company,
San Francisco; and Clark Baker, execu-
tive secretary. Sight Conservation
Council of Northern California, and
lighting counselor. Northern Califor-
nia Electrical Bureau, San Francisco.

Broad in scope, the bulletin includes
comprehensive discussions of such
subjects as the severity of the seeing
tasks in the classroom; sustaining the
efficiency of the eye to see during
classroom hours; the quantity of the
light; desired levels of illumination
for the several parts of the school
plant, such as class and library rooms,
auditoriums, corridors and stairways,
laboratories, sewing, drafting and art
rooms, etc.; object brightness and
surround brightness and its close rela-
tion to the subject of glare, which is
more or less a sensation of discomfort
resulting from over-brightness in the
two fields of seeing; evenness of il-
lumination throughout the classroom,
which discusses clearly orientation of
windows for natural light and instal-
lation of artificial lighting equipment;
classroom furniture and seating ar-
rangements are effectively discussed;
a goodly part of the bulletin is de-
voted to maintenance, with one or
two concrete examples of losses of
light which in reality are losses in the
ability of the class student to perform
his seeing tasks effectively and effi-
ciently.

FOR BUSINESS AND
PERSONAL ACCOUNTS

Merchants, professional people, of-
fice workers . . all types find our
Mai I way service the most conven-
ient way of banking. They make
deposits any time, night or day,
Sundays or holidays. Our special
Mailway envelopes and passbook
assure quick and safe service.

Open a Mailtvay account by mail

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ONE MONTCO.MERV STKEET

Independent
Iron IVorks

Structural Steel

Ornamental Iron

Steel Service Stations

Steel Tanks

Standard Steel Mill Buildings

Bridges

821 Pine Street

Oakland

ALADDIN

Healing Corp.

Specializing in

QUALITY HEATING
EQUIPMENT

2222 San Pablo Avenue

OAKLAND

TWinoaks 1022

FEBRUARY, 1944

MULLEN MFG.
COMPANY

BANK, STORE AND OFFICE

FIXTURES— CABINET WORK

OF GUARANTEED QUALITY

CHURCH SEATING

Offica and Ftcfory:
MM RAUSCH ST., (•». 7»h and Ith Sh.

San Francisco
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THE TORMEY
COMPANY

GENERAL PAINTERS
AND DECORATORS

Phone UNderhill 1913

563 FULTON STREET
San Francisco

G. P. W.
JENSEN & SON

Building Construction

320 Market Street, San Franciaco
Phone: GArfield 2444

JOH]\
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—Since 1886— And Sfill Active—

Building Materials

READY MIX CONCRETE

ROCK - SAND - GRAVEL - LIME

CEMENT - PLASTER - MORTAR

METAL LATH - WOOD LATH

STUCCO ■ WIRE NETTING

Service Unexcelled

Bunkers

Siith and Channel, San Francisco

Phones: GAr{ield 3176, GArfield 3177

INDUSTRY'S POST-WAR
OBLIGATION

After pointing out the ability of
American industry to meet all ex-
pected demands, Clyde G. Coniey,
president of the American Institute
of Steel Construction, said: "As I
believe it is the obligation of indus-
try to think and plan now in terms of
meeting both this domestic and for-
eign demand, I believe that it is the
obligation of Government to recog-
nize the compatability between its
own humanitarian aims and our de-
sire to make the fullest use of our
resources and abilities. To a certain
extent the leaders of democracy have
articulated what they feel to be the
needs of the future. Industry can meet
these needs. For this reason I think it
is clear that excessive taxation and
other handicapping legislation which
would hamper and put obstacles into
the way of this development, are not
in accordance with this program."

BANKERS TO URGE THRIFT

"The banks of the country are work-
ing on a plan to induce millions of
Americans who are now saving regu-
larly for the purchase of war bonds, to
continue the same schedule of thrift
when peace comes," according to
Glenn Griswold of the Griswold News
Service, 299 Madison Avenue, New
York.

"The idea is to continue without
interruption the program of payroll
deductions, the proceeds to be used
for the creation of life estates under
the guidance of the individual banks
in which savers have their accounts,"
Mr. Griswold revealed. "Despite low
interest rates prevailing today, lead-
ing bankers feel that the government
is now taking over the job of creating
a real sense of thrift in America on
which banks have spent millions with-
out too much success in the past.
When interest rates return to normal,
a tremendous volume of business will
be made to order for them."

A. F. MATTOCK CO.

Builders

212 CLARA STREET
SAN FRANCISCO

DEVWIDDIE

COXSTRVCTION

COMPANY

•

BUILDERS

CROCKER BUILDING
SAN FRANCISCO

HERRICK
IROIV WORKS

STRUCTURAL STEEL
REINFORCING STEEL

irrH AND CAMPBELL STS.
OAKLAND, CALIF.
Phone GLancourt I7t7

Phone GArfield IIM

Thomas B.Hnnier

Consulting Engineer
DESIGNER OF HEATING
AIR CONDmONING
VENTILATING AND WIRING
SYSTEMS, MECHANICAL
AND ELECTRICAL EQUIP-
MENT OF BUILDINGS

41 SUTTER STREET

ROOM 710

San Francisco California

ANDERSON

&
RINGROSE

General Contractors

320 Market Street, San Francisco
Phone GArfield 2245

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

a^ciini^CT
Engineer

Your RED CROSS is at his:

MARCH, 194'

1^.. -

ON A FINE JOB, WELL DONE!

' I ^HE Treasury "Star" Flag— the bond-
-L buying counterpart of the Army-Navy
"E"'— marks plants with at least 90% of
personnel participating in the Payroll
Savings Plan to at least 10% of gross
payroll, and also having reached, or
topped, a War Loan Drive quota!

Tlie successful close of the 4th War
Loan Drive finds many more"Star"Flags
than ever before flying over the indus-
trial plants of America. To all these, go
the heartiest thanks of the nation, and
the deep appreciation of the Treasury
Department for a great job ! And to those
who may not quite have qualified for the
"Star," go equally sincere thanks — and
the confidence that soon they, too, will
join the ranks of the "Star" fliers.
One thought that many concerns have

found helpful in stepping up the intake
from their Payroll Savings Plans is tiiis.
In many cases the Treasury Representa-
tive in a plant has been able to point out
the fact that during Loan Drive periods
the employees have found it possible to
spare much more than they had counted
on when setting up their original suii-
scription, and that— lo/ien properly ap-
proached—Sl very substantial fraction of
such employees will decide they can well
afford a distinct increase in their current
Payroll Savings Plan.

Talk this over with your Treasury Rep-
resentative-it offers important possibili-
ties when correctly handled. And again
accept the Treasury Department',? con-
gratulations for your fine work in help-
ing to put over the 4th \^'ar Loan.

LETS ALL KEEP
BACKING THE ATTACK

WITH WAR BONDS

The Treasury Department acknowledges with appreciation the publication of this message by

ARCHITECT and ENGINEER

77i(s is an official U. S. Treasury advertisement — prepared under auspices oj Treasury Department and War Advertising Council.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

Volume 156

No. 3

FRED W. JONES
Editor

MARK DANIELS
Associate Editor

L H. NISHKIAN
Consulting Editor

MICHAEL GOODMAN
Post-War Planning

E. N. KIERULFF*

Ass't Editor

•In the Service

MARCH CONTENTS

COVER: Administration BHilding for Kaiser Co., Inc., Fontano,
California

BIrge M. and David B. Clarlt, Architects

PHOTOGRAPHY:

Waters & Hainiin Studios: St. Margaret's Church and

Residence of Stuart Hawley, Piedmont
Murray Knowlton: Kaiser Co. Buildings, Fontana, Cali-
fornia

ARTICLES:

Running Fire

Mark Daniels, Architect

News and Comment on Art

Design of Pre-Wor Church Has Post-War Possibilities
Kaiser Builds Steel Plant and New Hospital
New Ideas Should Not Be Discounted in Future Build-
ing Plans

Bror Dahlberg
Rebuilding Devastated Areas of Soviet Union
Russian Art Treasures Destroyed by Nazis .

Dorothy Newman
Post-War Heating and Air-Conditioning

Samuel R. Lewis, M. E.
SttHCtural Steel Standard

4-5
14
18

ILLUSTRATIONS:

St. Margaret's Church, Oakland 14-16

Wm. E. Schirmer, Architect
House for Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Hawley .17

Wm. E. Schirmer, Architect
Architect's Sketch of Proposed Additions to Per-
manente Hospital, Oakland 18

Birge M. and David B. Clark, Architects
Buildings for Kaiser Co., Inc., Fontana, California

Birge M. and David B. Clark, Architects
Russian Architecture 22-29

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NEXT MONTH

An Eastern architect who has
designed a number of fine
homes in New York State has
come to California to live. Al-
though he has been here less
than three months, despite
transportation difficulties, he
has been around. Architect
and Engineer has asked for his
impressions of what he has
seen thus far of California do-
mestic architecture. You will
be interested in reading his
observations which are both
flattering and condemning.
For example:

The newcomer is keenly
aware of the cleanness of Cali-
fornia towns.

Laguna Beach in normal
times has more smart archi-
tects per square inch than any
place in the West.

Los Angeles is too much of
an octopus city.

Santa Barbara is intriguing
... its court house is the epit-
ome of the city's architecture.

Monterey and Carmel are
spotty with a surprising
amount of work that seems
mediocre.

The East Bay, beyond the
tunnel, offers some unique
homes. There are houses in
Orinda, Lafayette and Walnut
Creek that appear to have been
designed by "architects with
ideas."

BOtS.«» iwiit'^'*'

TAUS"*

tlll»**

Ihe surgeon's goal is lasting recovery. The architect's
and builder's goal is permanent liveability. So many
thousands of home owners are happy with their gas
heating, cooking, hot water service and refrigeration,
who can doubt that the most popular post-war specifi-
cation will be "All Gas"? -i^ Meanwhile, War "Bonds!
THE PACIFIC COAST GAS ASSOCIATION

OS f''

TIME TESTED TODAY.

.IMPROVED FOR TOMORROW

^ SERVING THE WEST IN WAR AND PEACE

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

RunninG fire

by MARK DANIELS

• FRANK C. WALKER, ESQUIRE?

That would hardly be the way to address Mr.
Walker these days, would it? If such a grouping of
words were to be found in the mails it might create
the impression that Mr. Walker had struck a com-
promise with "ESQUIRE," which would appear about
as logical as Mr. Walker's ruling out that magazine
from second class postage. But absurd and silly
as is Mr. Walker's action in the ruling against
"ESQUIRE" there is encouragement in it for some.
If he can make it stick he may be persuaded to rule
out from second class mail all but one in each class
of publications. What an honor it would be to con-
tribute to the only journal of its class in America!
(ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER manfully refrains from
raising subscription rates.)

• EXTREMES

The top sergeant had been trying for several days
to report to the colonel the amounts of priorities that
had been preliminarily approved in the technical
office. Finally he cornered him in the cafeteria.

"That eight million order for cement; is it O.K.?"
he asked.

The colonel grunted.

"How about the three million dollars on steel
I-beams?"

"O.K.," said the colonel.

"And the three hundred and fifty thousand dol-
lars of one-inch W.I. pipe?"

"Oh, don't bother me with items under a million,"
the colonel said, impatiently.

"Well, I hate to do it," said the sergeant, slowly.
"But can you lend me fifty cents to buy my lunch
with?"

I had already ordered an extra piece of pie.

• THE ARCHITECTURAL CART

Too many architects are getting the cart before
the horse. Not that that may not be a good idea,
sometimes, depending upon the horse, but they ask
themselves, "How can I design a house so that I
will use all the new materials, gadgets and wrinkles
that are coming out?" It would be the better method
to determine what the problems are and then decide
whether new devices would best serve the purpose.
A sleeping porch would be more useful than radiant
heat in every room in the tropics, and I fear that
refrigerators will not be at a premium at the north
pole.

• ANOTHER LATE CLOSING

For the small sum of twenty cents sent to the
Superintendent of Documents in Washington any-
one may get a copy of the export control bulletin
that will tell what may be exported. The last one
published is particularly interesting and encouraging,
for it adds a very long list of edibles and other com-
modities that now may not be exported in quantities
valued at more than one dollar, except to the armed
forces or under special license. Without the aid of a
slide rule it can be figured that most of these are
on our lists of rationed goods.

The exportation of such goods as edible fats, dried
fruits and processed meats to our allies and armed
forces is a necessity, but why we should have been
doing it for Mexico, Central and South American
countries for so long while the O.P.A. continued to
boost the cost of our home supplies, has been a
puzzle to many of us. But much of that has been
stopped — the door is closed. It remains to be seen
whether the horse is gone.

•HOW ABOUT BOOKS?

If modernism makes a clean sweep of it, if styles
of architecture of the past are done away with, if
period furniture is abandoned, if ornament becomes
purely functional, and if the house does become
just "a machine for living," what will become of
those beautiful books such as Pugin's Gothic, An-
thony's Mosaics, Foley's "Period Furniture," Mac-
quoid's & Edwards' beautiful three volumes on Eng-
lish Furniture, and the hundreds of other works that
go to make up an architect's reference library? Of
course, monuments to the past will probably be built
now and then and museums may be erected to show
what fools the world has tolerated for the past several
thousand years, but the publishers will be put to it
to get out an entirely new reference library. Histories
of architecture, such as Banister Fletcher's and F. M.
Simpson's, will go by the boards; Church Woodwork
and Church Symbolism may appear occasionally in
a large public library and the works of great archi-
tects of the past hundred years may be found on
the shelves of friends or descendants of those men;
but I fear that Nick Carter is on his way back.

• THE LITTLE MAN

The Little Man elbowed his way through the small
throng that cluttered the bar. He was quite disheveled
as he absent-mindedly tossed off my old fashion
before I could order one for him.

"War is very trying," he said as he helped him-
self to my olives. "Before you know it we are using
the jargon of the press in every-day conversation. I
just told my friend there (he pointed to a tattered
specimen who stood teetering from heel to toe at
the doorway), why I was late. I told him that I
launched into Geary Street, followed a fat woman
who spearheaded through the mob, pincered an
opening at the comer, annihilated two beers at Sam's
and slaughtered a newsboy who blocked my way.
Now I shall dig in," he finished and he did, with
gusto and my knife and fork.

• NOT ON THE RACE

I can understand the feeling of a soldier at the
front who is trying to write a letter home just before
he goes over the top. His mind certainly cannot
be on descriptions of the scenery or the opera he
saw in London on the way over. Just how to write
something that might be of interest to a bunch of
architects when the papers are full of raids in the
south seas, the advance of the Russians in Poland,
the critical position of American troops in Italy

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MARCH, 1944

NEWS AND COMMENT ON ART

NEWS NOTES FROM THE
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM

The major exhibition this month presents the Art
of the Indians of the Pacific Coast who comprise
a multitude of tribes representing many groups
and cultures: the Eskimos of the far north, the
hunting and fishing people of the west Canadian
coast, the mixed cultures of Oregon and Wash-
ington, and the basketmakers of northern Cali-
fornia. Since each of these groups has its char-
acteristic expression, essentially based on its way
of living, and expressed through the available and
indigenous material, the exhibition has great
variety, both in objects and spirit. . . .

Almost everything shown was made for the
use of the people in their daily life, or for their
winter ceremonies and dances. But the objects in
the exhibition have been carefully selected from
many hundreds of similar types so that the show
might truly be an exhibition of art. There are ex-
quisite bone carvings from the Eskimos, as well
as some of their fantastic and delicate masks; fine
slate and wood sculptures from the Northwest
coast people, as well as the masks, horn spoons,
pipes, rattles and blankets used in their cere-
monies; baskets of fine craftsmanship, and those
remarkable stone sculptures from the Columbia

De Young Memorial Museum

SILVER TANKARD, made in 1790-1791 by Charles Aldridqe

It is pari of fhe Albert Campbell Hooper Collectiori.

OIL: CLAUDINA VAN GROENENDIJK

By Paulut Moreelse (1571-1638)
This is one of the newest additions to the Museum of the Cali-
fornia Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco. The author
was distinguished as a painter, architect and engraver. He died
in 1638.

River basin (which still confound archaeologists
as to their date and origin) representing Oregon
and Washington; and, finally, the extraordinary
and delightful baskets made by the Porno Indians
of northern California. . . .

The core of this exhibition is the Museum's own
carefully acquired Indian collection. This has been
supplemented by objects from the important col-
lection of the University of Washington State
Museum, and from the fine collection of the Heera-
maneck Galleries in New York, as well as by a
number of isolated items from local private col-
lections.

The Museum has purchased a number of fine
animal sculptures to be the foundation of a pro-
jected Children's Collection, for which an anony-
mous fund of $5000 was donated last year. Acqui-
sitions include a splendid mediaeval aquamanile
in the form of a Lion; a small bronze Greek Horse
(about 8th century); a number of ancient Chinese
sculptures — a terra cotta Dragon, a bronze Hare,
a terra cotta Sow, and a pair of early terra cotta
Swine.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

N AN EVER CHANGING WORLD

Also showing in March are on exhibition of War
Posters, circulated by Artists for Victory, and a
group of photographs, "Our Navy in Action," spon-
sored by the War Department.

An exhibition on City and Regional Planning
will be held at the museum from April 1st to May
15th.

CERAMICS AND SILVER BY
CARLTON AND KATHRYN BALL
Ending March 20 at the San Francisco Museum
of Art, after a successful run of nearly a full month,
the exhibition of Ceramics and Silver by Carlton
and Kathryn Ball, has resulted in fresh praise for
these two native-born Californians, who are do-
ing so much to cultivate interest in the two crafts.

Kathryn Uhl and Carlton Ball met each other
as students at the Sacramento Junior College.
After their marriage they began working together
in ceramics, her interest in drawing adapting itself
to the decoration of the forms created by Carlton
Ball in clay and glass.

Their work at Mills College as teachers moti-
vates their investigation into varied forms of ex-
pression and methods in the use of media. To
encourage art participation amongst a great num-
ber of people they have worked to establish a
craft service, with the support of Mills College
Administration and Mr. Ball's students in occupa-
tional-therapy and recreation. With a station wagon
filled with equipment and volunteer students, they
give art-in-action demonstrations before neigh-
borhood groups, USO centers, military hospitals
and in co-operation with the American Red Cross.

ARTIST BAND RETURNS EAST
AFTER CALIFORNIA SOJOURN
Max Band, whose work has not been shown in
New York for three years, has returned from a
sojourn in California and is now holding an exhi-
bition of paintings at the Lilienfeld Galleries
(through Feb. 19). This artist, whose canvases
have been included in public and private collec-
tions in America, Europe and Palestine, continues
to paint with the verve that has previously dis-
tinguished his work, so that one feels he is con-
stantly drawing on new, inexhaustible sources of
inspiration. Yet while there is a passionate inten-
sity in Band's paintings, which makes itself felt
as a reflection of his own delight in creative work,
there is sound structure in his designs and sig-
nificance in his forms.

In the landscapes of California orchards and in
many of the still lifes, he uses a heavy impasto of
pure, jewel-like color employed with tact and dis-
cretion in its relations, for all its brilliance of swept-
up surfaces. Snapdragon, Double Petunias, Early
Spring or the thrusting branches and rich greens
of The Tree are examples of the artist's ability to
combine lyricism and simplified, powerful design.
Woman in Red with its smoothly brushed surfaces
and clarity of definition is in a completely different
form of expression, but the arrangement of the
figure and the latent richness of the color display
the same personal usages of design and color
pattern.

The majestic figures of Day of Atonement or the
emotional fervor of Sinai convey deep spiritual
significance, in which the religious content and
the pictorial expression are completely congruous.
— Margaret Breuning in Art Digest.

JEAN GATES HALL HOLDS A
ONE-MAN SHOW AT DE YOUNG
On exhibit at the de Young Museum throughout
the current month is a group of wotercolors and
oils by the young California artist, Jean Gates Hall.
Mrs. Hall, though born in Tennessee, received
most of her art training at the Chouinard School
in Southern California, later to work for the motion
picture cartoon studios in Hollywood. Since her
marriage six years ago, the artist has made her
home in San Francisco where she is known through
numerous group and one-man shows held at the
San Francisco Museum, Paul Elder Gallery and
"Art in Action" section at the City of Paris. Also,

STILL LIFE: FLOWERS AND PRICKLY PEARS

Oil on canvas by Pierre

, 1884

August Renoit

MARCH, 1944

San Francisco Museum of Art
OIL: TO SAN FRANCISCO By Tom Lewis

This painting, now on exhibition, is included in the William L.
Gerstle Gift to the Museum. The painting is by a young Califor-
nian, now a resident of San Francisco, who has achieved dis-
tinction for his water colors as well as oils.

her work was on exhibition during the World's
Fair on Treasure Island.

The present exhibit is full of variety, both as to
style and subject matter. Since the war, the ar-
tist's husband, a recruiting officer for the U. S.
Maritime Service, has had to travel extensively,
and Mrs. Hall has followed him "from transfer to
transfer, painting the changing scene as she goes."
Landscapes of the San Francisco Bay region, the
Nevada deserts, the Puget Sound country and
Canadian lakes and rookies, still lifes, figure
studies and portraits, in watercolor and oil, are
included.

ARTHUR BEAUMONT WATERCOLORS
AT DE YOUNG G. G. PARK MUSEUM

Recently painted for the National Geographic
Magazine were a group of twenty-four watercolors
showing the U. S. Army and Navy in action during
maneuvers. These works by Arthur Beaumont,
which have received a favorable showing so far
in Los Angeles, San Diego, Long Beach and Se-
attle, now are to be seen at the de Young Museum.

WIDENER GIFT TO NATIONAL
GALLERY APPRAISED AT $7,141,000

A. S. W. Rosenbach, Philadephia art and rare book
expert, has appraised the Joseph E. Widener col-
lection which was given to the National Gallery
at $7,141,000. The appraisal, which was made
for tax transfer purposes, was commissioned by
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Mr. Rosen-
bach valued Raphael's "Small Cowper Madonna"
at $400,000 and Rembrandt's "The Mill" at $350,-
000.

LIONEL BARRYMORE HONORED BY
ARTISTS PROFESSIONAL LEAGUE
The American Artists Professional League has
elected Lionel Barrymore to its National Execu-
tive Committee. In making the announcement at
the League's Annual Dinner at Salmagundi Club
in New York, Albert T. Reid, its National Vice-
President, recalled Barrymore's intentions to fol-
low a career in art. Mr. Reid said

"It is my honor to make this formal announce-
ment that Lionel Barrymore, an outstanding figure
of the American stage and screen, who with his
brilliant and talented family has won everlasting
fame in the theatre of the world, has graciously
accepted a place on your Executive Board of the
American Artists Professional League.

"It is because he has achieved outstanding skill
in the profession of art — his first great love and
ambition that he had to relegate to a second place
in order to make a living.

"Comparatively few of his millions of admirers
are aware of his art and most of those who knew
anything about it looked upon it as a hobby. So,
the League, fully conscious of Mr. Barrymore's
ability in the line of his greatest ambition, and
with a desire to help point the finger of recognition
to his art, is now doing honor to him — though we
feel in all humility, he is honoring us."

STAN PORAY. CALIFORNIAN. HAS
NOTABLE NEW YORK EXHIBITION
Stan Poray, having established himself firmly in
California art circles and before that won esteem
in Europe, is now making his debut in America's
artistic Big League, on 57th Street, New York — in
a March exhibition at the Grand Central Galleries.
Dominated largely by colorful still lifes and lush
Western landscapes, the show has as its common
denominator sound craftsmanship supported by a
love of subtle color harmonies and an imaginative
mind.

RUNNING FIRE

(Concluded from Page 3)

and the raids of the R.A.F. over Germany, has me
stumped. But after all, why worry. The entire
architectural profession is in about the same boat.
With priorities still to be met, with the government
paying less and less attention to the needs of the
profession and with a fat income tax staring us
in the face, anything I could say would be of little
interest, if it ever was.

• THE NEW JOURNAL

The first issue of the Journal of the American In-
stitute of Architects in its new format has my O.K.
I like its shape, size, style and contents. I hove
always missed good illustrations, particularly in a
journal of a profession which deals so much in the
creation of the beautiful.

About thirty years ago The Octagon, which then
held a place beside the large magazines dealing
with similar subjects, published some of a series
I was writing under the title of "Antique America."
Quite naturally at that time I predicted a bright
future for the journal and at last it seems to be on
the way. I don't know how they did it, but now
that they have secured the services of Mr. Henry
H. Saylor to direct the destinies of the Octagon we
will all start reading it again.

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IN THE NEWS

DAILEY SUCCEEDS STONE

Gardner A. Dalley, architect,
has been appointed by Mayor
Lapham, of San Francisco, to
:.~_ succeed Douglas Dacre Stone,
L -i_ -^i ^^ member of the San Fran-

cIsco City Planning Commis-
sion. Stone, an appointee of
l" '^ the Rossi Administration, was

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Presidio of San Francisco, and the United States Mer-
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STATE BOARD APPOINTEES

Governor Warren has reappointed Frederick hi.
Reimers, of San Francisco, a member of the California
State Board of Architecture. Mr. Reimers served as
President of the Board under the last Administration.
The Governor also appointed William C. Ambrose, of
San Francisco, and Herbert J. Powell, of Los Angeles,
new members of the Board. The two are well known to
the profession, both having been active In Chapter
and Association affairs for some time. Powell Is Presi-
dent of the Southern California Chapter, while Am-
brose is a Director of Northern California Chapter,
A. I. A.

Holdover members of the Board are Louis J. Gill,
of San Diego, and Richard J. Neutra, of Los Angeles.
The latter Is not practicing in the State at the present
time.

PROMOTES SLUM CLEARANCE

Catherine Bauer (Mrs. William W. Wurster) is vice-
president of the National Public Housing Conference,
devoted to slum clearance and low-rent public hous-
ing. The Conference maintains an office at 122 East
22nd Street, New York.

The Housing Conference Is expected to assume a
leadership in post-war housing plans which will vitally
affect labor, builders, contractors, producers, finance
institutions, local and Federal governments and or-
ganized citizens. All of these groups are urged to
keep war production records in mind when estimating
the potential scope of post-war housing. For example,
in 1943 the nation produced about 10 times as much
merchant shipping as in the entire four years preceding

Pearl Harbor.

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"Surely if only a due share of this mind and muscle
is turned to the housing job after the war, we can
produce 1,000,000 or 1,500,000 new houses each year,
we can make them better houses than we have ever
had before, and we can make them available at prices
serving the needs of all groups within the American
people," Is the belief of Administrator John B. Bland-
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has been taking post-graduate work at Harvard.

COURSE IN TIMBER DESIGN

The University of California War Training Center
offers a 14-week, every Thursday, two-hour evening
course In timber structural design, under the tutelage
of Henry J. Degenkalb, structural engineer with the
Summerbeli Roof Structures of Northern California.
The course will start at 7:30 p.m., March 23, in the
Engineering Building, Berkeley Campus. For further
Information call or write the War Training Center,
U. C, California Hall, Berkeley, or 20 Second Street,
San Francisco.
KINLEY MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP

The trustees of the University of Illinois announce
the 1 3th annual consideration of candidates for the
Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship, 1944-45, and
requests that applications be filed not later than May
I, 1944. The fellowship, valued at $1,000, is open to
graduates of the College of Fine and Applied Arts
of the University of Illinois and to graduates of similar
Institutions of equal educational standing. Applicants
should not exceed 24 years of age. Blanks are available
by addressing Dean Rexford Newcomb, Room I 10,
Architecture Building, Urbana, Illinois.
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Early opening of the new College of Engineering at
the University of California, Los Angeles, Is foreseen
by President William Sproul, who Is quoted as saying:

"A special committee under Dean Gordon S. Wat-
kins of the College of Letters and Science has been
examining the qualifications of distinguished engineers
whose names have been presented in connection with
the deanship of the new college, and Its recommenda-
tions are to be submitted In the near future."

According to Dean Watklns, the task of selecting
a dean for the college Is proving extremely difficult.
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like, and impress as architecture as well as function
practically. Here is another man who tells us. He is
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the faculty of the University of Chicago; a past presl-
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War-workers living in trailer or temporary-housing "projects"
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reality. Many of these war-workers swear that they'll spend weeks
in bed, once peace is declared. This promises a good crop of
future customers for bedroom hardware.

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IN THE NEWS

dent of Clarkson College of Technology; past president
of the Chrysler Institute of Engineering, and now he
is called simply technologist.

Doctor Thonnas tells us that soon after the war there
will be millions of new houses that cost only $1600
apiece and contain dozens of new developments.
Among these developments he enumerates unbreakable
glass plumbing; filters that transform noises outside
into music Inside; refrigerators that have everything
including murals; and a living room that can be re-
decorated completely by pressing a button. (A lot
of baloney, we'd say!)
RADIO-NEWSPAPER BUILDING

The Chicago Tribune has announced that after the
war It will build a six-story newspaper plant combined
with a 2000-seat radio theater to be operated by sta-
tion WGN. Plans for the building, which with equip-
ment, will cost several million, are now being prepared
and will be ready for contractors to figure with the
declaration of peace.

The National Broadcasting Company has announced
It will build a million-dollar short wave station In the
San Francisco Bay area after the war.
ILLINOIS ENGINEER'S ACT VOID

A decision of prime importance, especially to the
Engineering and Architectural groups of Illinois was
handed down by Judge Victor hiemphlll, November
30, 1943, in which the present Illinois Professional En-
gineer's Act was declared unconstitutional.

This decision Indicated that laws passed by the State
Legislature must have sufficient clarity and concise-
ness to enable their proper administration. It has also
made clear that administrative bodies can not indulge
in their own expedient law making to Interpret acts
that are vague. Indefinite, and uncertain In their con-
tent.

In addition. It gave the opinion that the qualifica-
tions In one particular field of engineering would not
give licensed rights to engage In other engineering
fields that by schooling, training, and experience are
entirely foreign to such qualifications.

ENGINEERS HOLD JOINT SESSION

The annual joint meeting of the Member Societies
of the San Francisco Engineering Council was held at
the Pacific Gas and Electric Company auditorium In
San Francisco, Thursday evening, February 24. Ralph
R. Beal delivered an address on "Radio-Electronlcs in
the Post-War World." He cited post-war possibilities
and applications of the new broadcast services of FM
and Television, also electron microscope and industrial
applications, electronics and radio thermlcs. Preceed-
ing the open meeting, members and their guests dined
at the Engineers' Club.

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DESIGN OF OAKLAND CHURCt

This pre-war church and parochial residence for St. Margaret's Parish in Oakland, was designed
•for the needs of a growing congregation of 500 people in a well populated neighborhood in that city.
Post-war church planners will find it a well studied ecclesiastical structure possessing many features
applicable to present and future needs. Built of reinforced concrete of graduated thickness, the
structural material Is of the type that architects are most likely to favor in their post-war church plans,
especially where funds are available for fire and 'quake resistant structures. The Norman-English style
of architecture chosen by Architect Schirmer, may be simplified or modernized, but the general
plan and materials used are quite suitable for the post-war era.

Annexation of the parochial house to the church has its advantages. Is especially convenient
for parishioners who may wish to consult the pastor before or following services or on week days.
Entrance to the house from the church is by a cloistered passageway.

A graduated concrete wall along one of the two street frontages gives a certain amount of
privacy yet, at the same time. Is not high enough to obstruct a view of the landscaped grounds In
front of the two buildings.

The ecclesiastical feeling is carried out In the timber truss design of the auditorium ceiling and

ST. MARGARET'S CHURCH, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA
William E. Schirmer, Architect

flAS POST-WAR POSSIBILITIES

ST. MARGARET'S CHURCH AND PAROCHIAL HOUSE, OAKLAND. CALIFORNIA

the Gothic treatment here is further accentu- room, the ground floor contains dining and

ated in the design of the cement cloisters and breakfast rooms, kitchen, pantry, study and

leaded glass windows. The nave is acoustically maid's room. There are three bedrooms on

treated and air conditioned and, besides ex- the second floor.

cellent window lighting, bracket lights are pro- Exterior of the house is rustic, brick and plas-

vided on the sides. Pews and pulpit are hand- fer with French windows and stationary green

carved oa

painted blinds for decorative effect. Roof is
shingled shake. — F.W.J.

Mr. Schirmer's hiawley house in Piedmont,
Is a fine example of early California architec-
ture— a style that was as popular five years
ago as Spanish was in the late twenties.

The owner desired generous outdoor living
areas and to this end the architect provided
abundant yard space, featuring an outdoor
barbecue pit, flowers, shrubbery and sheltered
garden furniture.

The plan, as will be seen by referring to the
cut, has a loggia off the spacious living room,
the loggia and second story balcony contribut-
ing largely to the attractive appearance of the
street frontage of the house. Besides the living

Editor's Note — Henry Worthman, Chicago arcfiitect, in his new boolt.
"The Advent of Church Architecture According to Bible History," holds
there are three and only three styles of architecture for Christian
churches — Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic — and Gothic, he adds, is
THE style of church architecture.

Plan, St. Margaret's Chyreh and House, Oakland

Baptistry, St. Margaret's Church, Oakland

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William E. Schirmer, Architect

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HILLSIDE HOUSE FOR MR. AND MRS. STUART HAWLEY. PIEDMONT
William E. Schirmer, Architect

KAISER BUILDS STEEL PLANT AN[

ARCHITECTS SKETCH OF PROPOSED EXTENSIONS TO PERMANENTE
HOSPITAL. OAKLAND. CALIFORNIA
Birge M. and David B. Clark. Architects

Present hospital (a four story building) is pictured in left foreground.
The new two story wings will provide 110 additional beds.

PHYSICAL TESTING LABORATORY. KAISER STEEL PLANT. FONTANA
Birgo M. and David B. Clark, Architects

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

NEW HOSPITAL

The photograph shown below is one of several
excellent views just released of the Adnninis-
tration Building at Fontana, California, for the
Henry J. Kaiser Company, Inc. Designed by
Birge M. and David B. Clark, architects of Palo
Alto, the building is one unit of a group of
eight or more major structures erected since
the war began for the manufacture of steel.

The one-story office building (see cover) is
built around a central patio in which a Roman
brick fountain was dexterously worked into the
landscaping plan. The main entrance is flanked
with a brick pylon and pilaster which, with
slightly overhanging cornices around the en-
tire building and liberal window space, reflect
a dignified handling of modern trends.

Some idea of the size of the building may
be had from the statement that more than
4,000 cubic yards of concrete were poured

Plan, Administration Building
Kaiser Plant, Fontana

into 260,000 feet of form work. Irregular in
shape, its extreme dimensions are approximate-
ly 3 1 2 X 244 feet. All windows have steel sash
and the building is completely air conditioned
and fluorescently lighted.

PATIO. ADMINISTRATION BUILDING. KAISER STEEL PLANT

FONTANA, CALIFORNIA

Birge M. and David B. Clark, Architects

MARCH. 1944

STREET VIEW OF ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, KAISER STEEL PLANT
FONTANA, CALIFORNIA

NEW IDEAS SHOULD NOT BE DISCOUNTED IN
FUTURE BUILDING PLANS

by BROR DAHLBERG

The greatest opportunity in history is about
to drop in the building industry's lap.

The equivalent of 15 to 20 million housing
units will be needed in this country during the
next ten years, and Europe, to repair the rav-
ages of war, will require something like 100 to
125 million new homes. The United States, of
course, will not build these, but undoubtedly
will do a fair share in supplying some of the
materials and manufactured parts.

Along with the new housing which the United
States will require will be the need for new
stores, schools, theaters and a multitude of
other facilities, as well as factories and produc-
tion plants, all of which will call for a tremen-
dous amount of construction and reconstruc-
tion. The late Albert Kahn, Industrial archi-
tect, estimated that more than half the fac-
tory buildings in this country will have to be
rebuilt or reconverted if the companies operat-
ing them are to maintain their place in the com-
petitive race.

There will be more than enough building
business for everyone — manufacturers, build-
ers, craftsmen and architects.

Yet, in certain quarters, the future is viewed
with foreboding. Repeatedly voiced is the
dread that the public, hypnotized by stories of
miracles, will stage a buyers' strike unless it
gets a so-called "Miracle House" within sixty
days after the end of hostilities.

It is time to pull this bogey-man from under
the bed and look at him in the clear light of
common sense.

To fear a buyers' strike after the war is mis-
judgment of the public's buying habits. The
public has been subjected for years to the most
skillful advertising magic. It takes wonder
stories in stride, separates the wheat from the
chaff and forms its own judgment. It will no
more hold back from buying a home because
it lacks all the miracles that have been de-
scribed than it will hesitate to buy a 1942
model automobile after the war, even though
it knows there may be radical improvements
in motor car design within a couple of years.
The stories of television never cut down radio
sales.

The so-called housing "miracles" have played
a major part in capturing and holding public
attention. The tremendous interest aroused

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

during the past year did not grow like Topsy.
A nation with its nnind fixed on winning a war
does not dream about a future home unless
stimulated to do so. That stimulus has been
supplied by thousands of magazine and news-
paper stories about better and less costly
dwellings.

Now the public is being told that all such
miracles are "fantastic figments of the imagina-
tion." There have been statements that home
costs would be 25% to 35% higher after the
war, and that there will be few if any improve-
ments for years to come.

Such statements are untrue when applied
to homes for the people who really need homes
and can result only in mental confusion. If
anything can hold back home building after the
war, which I do not believe, such confusion and
uncertainty will do it.

Furthermore, fantastic ideas should not be
discounted except with extreme caution. Ideas
have built our modern world.

Bring to mind just a few one-time fantastic
Impossibilities:

Motion pictures, radio, television, radar, the
electric eye, the radio guiding beam and the
radio controlled rocket bomb.

Surface cultivation of the soil and synthetic
cattle breeding.

Radium, insulin, the sulpha drugs, penicillin.

Aluminum, magnesium, plastics, synthetic
rubber, wool from rock, silk from wood.

The automobile, the airplane, stratosphere
flying, the jet propulsion plane.

Automatic refrigeration and air condition-
ing.

And, most fantastic of all, the thing that has
brought all these miracles within reach of all
the people, the American system of mass pro-
duction.

The man who first invented mass production
was stoned by his neighbors. Yet, every time
you step in your car, or snap on your radio, or
make a long distance telephone call, you should
salute that man. For without his contribution
these wonders might have been Invented, but
they would never have been produced on a
scale so that you and I would have been able
to enjoy them.

Likewise, a great part of the American peo-
ple can never afford substantial, comfortable
homes until these same methods produce them.
Some day the building industry will learn which
side of the railroad track its bread is buttered
on. It will adapt the mass production tech-
nique to its needs and become, for the first
time, America's No. I Industry.

Some say such methods cannot be used for
homes. The same was said of aircraft three
years ago, yet mass production of planes by
assembly line methods today is carrying us to
an earlier victory. For every 100 workers
needed to build a Douglas A-20 in 1940, only
nine were needed in 1943. In 1940, it took 444
workers a year to build a Liberator; today It
requires only I 7.

Since Pearl hHarbor, we have begun to learn
the difference between building one or two
houses at a time and building 100 or 500 or
1000. We have found that we can build more
economically on the quantity basis, which
should come as no great surprise because every
other American industry has long known and
practised that method.

None of us need fear the advent of new
methods. It will occur gradually, starting with
low-cost homes which the industry has never
before supplied. It will continue to evolve for
ten, twenty-five, a hundred years, so long as
men are free to progress.

Those of us who prefer doing things the tra-
ditional way will have full opportunity to do so.
Home owners' tastes will not change over night;
it took years to get the buggy front off the
automobile.

But those who wish to continue the old tradi-
tions should not interfere with the progress of
others. It is particularly important that all arti-
ficial hindrances be removed before the indus-
try takes up its post-war task. The vigor of
new blood and new ideas must be pumped into
the industry if it is to reach the peak of ac-
tivity that will represent for it the difference
between full employment and prosperity or
unemployment and want.

The future of free enterprise and democratic
government may well be advanced or ham-
pered by the performance of the building in-
dustry in the next ten years.

MARCH, 1944

FRUNZE MILITARY ACADEMY, MOSCOW
THE WEST POINT OF SOVIET RUSSIA

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

ALL-UNION AGRICULTURAL EXPOSITION IN MOSCOW. 1939-41
Pavilion of the Republic of Uzbek

REBUILDING DEVASTATED AREAS OF SOVIET UNION

As revealed recently to the American public concerning the growing innportance of the con-
stituent Republics of the Soviet Union, the accompanying designs based on regional motifs,
are particularly illuminating.

Soviet architecture is confronted with ex- gineers and technicians, plus difficulties in ob-
tremely difficult problems in the restoration of taining building nnaterials, particularly lumber,
cities destroyed by the German invaders, which must be shipped from far distant points.
Sonne idea of the quantitative amount of devas- j^ coordinate the work of architectural plan-
tation caused by the enemy may be had in ning, a Committee on Architecture, exercising
the statement that each of the ravaged Soviet the rights of a special People's Commissariat,
Ukrainian and Byelorussian regions is equal in was recently established by a decision of the
territory to one of America's largest states. Soviet Government. This new government

The year 1 943 began, as everyone knows, with
one of the greatest battles in the history of wars
— the Battle of Stalingrad. Despite the fact that
the Germans suffered a crushing defeat, the
damage done to the city was appalling. But
the Russians faced the emergency with con-
fidence. The Academy of Architecture imme

organ is charged with coordination of the work
of the various organizations dealing with city
planning and architectural design, approval of
the general city plans, the providing of archi-
tects for rehabilitation work, exercising archi-
tectural supervision and control, confirmation
of standard designs for residential and public

diately began work on a new general plan for buildings, and the protection and restoration

rebuilding the city and that plan is now being °^ ^^'s+°^'^ architectural monuments.
carried out as speedily as it is possible con- The Soviet's decree on the establishment of

sidering the shortage of stone masons, car- this new committee particularly emphasizes its

penters and laborers, to say nothing of en- primary task — to insure superior architectural

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BEFORE AND AFTER. SHOWINi

work In all new construction and in the restora-
tion of demolished cities.

The Union of Soviet Architects, with 4000
highly-qualified members — • all of whom are
ready and eager to devote their energies to
the rehabilitation of cities and communities
devastated by the enemy — is rendering great
assistance to the Committee on Architecture
and other government bodies engaged in the
preliminary work of restoration. On its own
initiative, and by commission from the govern-
ment, the Union is now working on a whole
series of special problems dealing with archi-
tecture and engineering.

Competitions for designs of projects have
been programmed by the Architects' Union.
Public showings of the work of its members are
held, at which the work is subjected to friendly
criticism. Special courses for advanced study
in certain branches have been arranged. The
Union also assists in the proper distribution of
architectural personnel and has been active in

sending groups of architects to newly-liberated
cities. These groups enter a city immediately
after the Red Army, help the population to
carry out urgent rahabilltation measures, and
then proceed with the further planning and re-
building of the city.

A conference of leading Soviet architects
held in Moscow recently discussed the two
main problems of war construction — new hous-
ing and reconstruction of liberated towns. It
was stated that although the main work of
Soviet architects during the first year of the
war was concerned with camouflage and con-
struction of military facilities, more than 10,000
new buildings have been built in the Soviet
Union since the beginning of the war. All
architectural colleges and the building industry
in general are studying United States methods
of construction of apartment blocks.

The cities of the U.S.S.R. have stood the test
of war supremely well. The wisdom of many

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ITY PLANNING OF MOSCOW

previously questioned decisions has become
apparent. The spacious marble-lined subter-
ranean stations of the Moscow subway have
proved themselves as the world's best air-raid
shelters; not only safe, but also healthy and
cheerful. On the wide asphalt-covered sur-
faces of the great boulevards, which several
years ago replaced the tree-shaded prom-
enades, the motorized searchlights and A. A.
guns move freely. Concussion from explosions
has demonstrated that it loses its force in the
wide open spaces of the squares and super-
blocks, and that it is easier to clear the roof
of one 8 story apartment house from incendiary
bombs than four roofs of four 2-story houses.

For the design of the small house of the
future the architects and planners of the U.S.
S.R. are looking to American precedents. They
feel that there is much that they can learn
from the United States.— F. W. J.

Red Army Sanatorium in Sochi on the '
Coast of the Black Sea

MARCH, 1944

MOSCOW HOTEL. MOSCOW

An Example of Modern Classical Interpretation by

Russian Architects

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

ALL-UNION AGRICULTURAL EXPOSITION, MOSCOW, 1939-41

PAVILION OF THE GEORGIAN REPUBLIC

PAVILION OF THE UKRAINIAN REPUBLIC

PAVILION OF THE CENTRAL REGIONS: KALININ, SMOLENSK. OREL. YAROSLAVE. IVANOV

ZNAMENSKY
CATHEDRAL
1682-1 688

and the Spas-na-
llmene Cathedral,
1374. One of the
finest examples of
the prime of Novgo-
rod architecture. The
interior if the cathe-
dral wus decorated
with frescoes by
Theophanes the
Greek, the great
painter of Rpssian
medieval times.

RUSSIAN ART TREASURES DESTROYED BY NAZIS

by DOROTHY NEWMAN

In these days of World War II, when human
life seems of little value, the deliberate and
purposeless desecration of the great monu-
ments of history appear even more fantastic
than the killing of people. In sheer vandalism
the Nazis have surpassed any possible competi-
tors. With true efficiency and thoroughness
Fascist soldiers have carried out their directives
to shatter and destroy some of the world's

most valuable and best preserved architectural
and artistic treasures.

According to German war prisoner Forster,
". . . before leaving for Russia, Major von
Kunsberg gave us the order of RIbbentrop —
thoroughly to 'comb' all scientific Institutions,
libraries and palaces, properly to leaf all
archives and lay hands on anything of definite
value." And on December 10, 1941, General
Relchenau stated that "historical artistic treas-

VOSKRESENSKY
CATHEDRAL
from the southwest
side. The Hitlerites
destroyed the tent of
the rotunda, the cu-
pola of the cross-like
church and the belfry.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

CHESMENSKAYA
GALLERY

One of many ex-
quisite halls com-
pletely demolished
by the Nazis.

ures in the East are of no consequence what-
soever." It was through their adherence to
these slogans that the German armies sys-
tematically destroyed the most outstanding
examples of architecture in the occupied ter-
ritories.

At the Peterhof Palace which Peter the Great
built and which stands outside of Leningrad,
every Czar left his predecessor's room as he
had found it — and added one more of his own.
Fountains and statuary graced the outside —
water flowing over gold-plated steps. All this
had been preserved by the Soviet Govern-
ment as part of Russian history and culture and
was visited by thousands of people every year.

Now the palace is a burned shell — the rooms
plundered, original bas-reliefs and statues
stolen, the inlaid floors pulled up, the many
beautiful mosaics, ornaments and works of art
sent to Germany.

Magnificent churches and cathedrals in Nov-
gorod, Pskov, Kiev and Chernigov, some of
them dating back to the 12th and 13th cen-
turies, were razed and looted. One of the
finest examples of 14th century Novgorod
architecture, the Spas-na-llmene Cathedral,
whose interior was decorated with frescoes by
Theophanes the Greek, the great painter of
medieval time, and the 17th century Znamen-
sky Cathedral which once stood beside it, are

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now heaps of rubble. Only the shell of the
Voskresensky Cathedral remains, the dome of
the rotunda, the cupola of the cross-like church
and the belfry having been completely de-
stroyed (see cuts). The great Cathedral of St.
Sophia, erected in the I I th century; the Spas
Nereditsy Church, the interior walls of which
were covered with frescoes executed by Nov-
gorod masters in I 199; the Cathedral of St.
George; and the Novgorod Kremlin, built in
1443, now lie in ruins.

The famous Pechora Abbey in Kiev, one of
the oldest Russian monasteries, has been de-
molished. In it was the Cathedral of the As-
sumption built in 1 073, and considered by many
to be the crowning achievement of Russian
baroque achitecture. The monastery buildings
contained the collection of several museums —
priceless Icons, pieces of embroidery, books
and manuscripts. The New Jerusalem Monas-
tery had stood since the I 7th century. Before
retreating from istra, the Nazis bombed the
parts of the monastery that were the most
priceless from an architectural and historical
viewpoint. Explosives were placed under those
parts of the building which supported the whole
structure.

The homes of the greatest of Russian writers

and composers have been preserved through
the years as libraries and museums for visitors
from all over the world. The names of Tolstoy,
Chekov, Pushkin and Tschalkowsky occupy im-
portant places in the cultural heritage of the
world. Their homes and studies have now been
destroyed (see cut). Not only shrines to litera-
ture and music have been desecrated, but great
works of art, and the galleries which housed
them, have not been spared. A. M. Serasimov,
Chairman of the Organization Committee of
the Union of Soviet Artists, reveals the feeling
of the Russian people regarding these art treas-
ures and their worth: "Works of art are our
weapons! They are not only records of our
national glory and the genius of our people;
they are also formidable and potent weapons
In the fight against the dark forces of fascism.
. . . Nobody has yet succeeded, or will succeed
in destroying Russian culture, the culture of the
Soviet people. . . ." The Chesmenskaya Gal-
lery, pictured here, is one of many such ex-
quisite halls now completely demolished.

Editor's Note— During the month of January, through the courtesy of
the American-Russian Institute of San Francisco, the de Young Museum
displayed on its walls many excellent photographs which vividly showed
these historic monuments, churches, shrines and other buildings both
before and after Naii destruction. In conjunction with the exhibition,
the Institute has published a well-illustrated booklet. "Vandalism." which
is obtainable through its offices at 101 Post Street. San Francisco.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

POST-WAR HEATING AND AIR-CONDITIONING

by SAMUEL R. LEWIS, M. E.

Most engineers have been so very busy on
design of war plants and the housing facilities
for the employees of such plants that there has
been little time to consider what changes there
will be in heating after the war ends. One does
experience a primary Impression that changes
may be due more particularly to use of new
construction materials, such as plastics, devel-
oped under stress of substitution for critical
metals.

It will be a distinct relief to engineers when
a reasonable factor of safety, now prohibited
by Washington authorities, again may be ap-
plied; particularly as to pipe sizes, boiler out-
put capacity, electric motor horsepower, etc.

The restriction on Freon, the refrigerant used
in most medium size air cooling plants, has ter-
minated the construction of refrigerated air
ventilating systems except for ultra special pre-
cision manufacturing plants.

All competent designers of such systems will
be kept exceedingly busy serving the dammed-
up needs of offices and homes, theaters and
public buildings with year around air condi-
tioning for several years after the war.

There seem to have been no radical new
discoveries in air conditioning for comfort ex-
cept perhaps in condensing unit details. The
tendency in design is toward provision of bet-
ter control and toward maintenance of a re-
duced dry bulb temperature differential. That
is, to have the Indoor air delivered at a higher
temperature but less damp than was the ten-
dency before the war.

Thousands of small houses have been built
for war workers. Many of these designs show
the effect of intensive architectural study. The
tendency during the war Is to heat these homes
with mechanically circulated warm air. The fur-
nace, really a good sized, jacketed stove with
an electric fan to force air around It, usually
Is placed in a small room on the ground story.

' From the Monthly Bulletin, lllmois Society of Architects.

Air supply ducts usually have been run over-
head, concealed within a furred-down ceiling.
This construction has caused plenty of fire de-
partment trouble. Domestic hot water prefer-
ably Is heated by gas or electricity.

I have fought to get at least the furnace
room of fireproof construction, with a cement
floor and masonry walls and ceilings. The fur-
nace rooms In the charming small houses I have
Inspected, after being occupied for a short
time, become the repository for brooms, old
newspapers, mops, empty cardboard boxes,
extra groceries and the thousand articles which
are demanded by modern living, but space for
which Is very short In these little compact
houses. The door between the kitchen and the
utility room usually Is of wood. The fire menace
Is obvious.

Even when gas or oil is burned in the furnace,
the fire hazard in these utility rooms is serious.
(Richmond, California, has had at least six bad
fires in its war housing projects.) I suggest that
the heating apparatus always should be below
the first story, with enough room to handle the
fuel, leaving the first story utility room for Its
Inevitable function of store room and catch-all.

In many of the small homes I have observed,
where oil is the fuel, the oil tank is exposed
above ground out of doors near the outside
door of the utility room. There wasn't enough
space within the house for the oil tank, and
there wasn't enough money, or not enough
something else, to bury and protect it.

In many cases the promoter has attempted
to foist on the purchaser a gravity oil burner,
In which the oil Is supposed to trickle down a
hot plate and somehow keep from clogging
with carbon.

I sincerely hope that the small house of the
future may have Its heating plant in the base-
ment. When the war is over the present re-
strictions attempting to limit the heating of
such buildings to hot air will be lifted. Then
the more efficient and more easily controlled

MARCH. 1944

heat transmission via a liquid, such as water, the only good that seems to be available about

largely will supersede hot air. solar heating through windows is a possible re-

The common, free standing, cast iron radi- duction in seasonal fuel cost,
ator probably will not return to universal ac- It Is evident that any room having windows

ceptance. Installations employing radiant heat- except those facing north always has received

ing by means of piping imbedded In the floor heat in winter from the sun and the fuel saving

or ceiling construction and carrying water at due to this reception has been realized, fi auto-

relatively low temperature, undoubtedly will mafic devices or careful humans, throttle the

Increase. This method has been used exten- fire and thus prevent over-heating,
sively in buildings of various types, with entire jhgre has always been some difficulty in heat-

satistaction. j^g ^^^ cooling rooms, as to control of the tem-

Our clients like a room which Is delightfully perature. The building keeps turning a differ-

comfortable at 65 degrees while the outside ent face to the sun and to the wind, so that

temperature Is — 10 degrees, with the baby constant readjustment of the heat input or

crawling anywhere without being subjected to removal is necessary for the rooms on each

a draft, and without any dirty and unsightly orientation. The basic answer to this situation

radiator or convector or warm air register. Is to provide a heating and cooling plant capa-

Tests in such rooms Indicate a knee-high tem- big of varying the rate of heat supplied to or

perature warmer than that around the feet or removed from any room Independently of the

head, an interesting phenomenon, but one ^^^^ ^f ^eat at the same time for any other

which attends radiant heating. ^^^^_ j^^^ -^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ has a thermostat to

The fact that radiant heat acts In a manner do the controlling, reasonably satisfactory re-
similar to the heat which accompanies bright suits can be attained.

sunlight has led to consideration of utilization , , ... , • ii r -i i

^ . . hHowever it is not commercially teasible,

of solar energy to warm houses. There is no . n • ■ i i i- i i- .

. . . especially in residence heating and cooling, to

question but that the air in a room or a green- , , ,, , , . _,

I . . I .||. , |. 1 , have a separate thermostat in every room. I he

house receiving brilliant sunlight on even a very , r ii n

III .11 , ,1 ii x-i • tendency IS to install apparatus tor these smaller

cold day will get warmer than the outside air ' | |. . , |

.J- I , . I 1. J 1 ii • J. II J plants which can deliver air or can transfer heat

even it no heat is delivered by the installed '^

L ,• I J. i_i L L J ■ J -j-L only at one temperature for the whole house,

heating plant. rHouses have been designed with ' '^

large glass areas capable of receiving solar Then comes the fun of deciding where In a

energy In winter and careful observations have ^°^'^ +° 1°^^+^ +^^ all-important thermostat

been made of the very considerable heat thus ^^^^ controls the boiler, furnace or refriger-

obtalned. The weakness of the scheme Is that ating system. Sometimes there is a central

the sun shines only during daylight hours, that hall, never exposed to direct sunlight. In which

its intensity varies with the angle of light Im- a reasonably successful thermostat can func-

pact and with clouds and dust and fog, and fion. Frequently, however, the condition of

thattheangleof reception changes continually, heat input which suits the hall causes one or

Tu J.L ^ ,^^„- ,; ^^1=^ u«=4- ^4^+^r, ,.,;!! more of the other rooms to be too warm in the

I hus the room receiving solar heat otten will

I , „ J 4.L ,4.„,,^„ ^t u^.,4. ;„ forenoon and too cool in the afternoon,

become too warm and the storage ot heat in

the walls, floor, contents, etc., may be so great The best answer to this difficulty, and one

as to continue the excess temperature long which is receiving increasingly favorable atten-

after the rate of reception has been reduced, tion, is to control the heating plant by a ther-

Again the room may be too cool, and the sun- mostat placed in the shade, or out of doors,

light in Its constant traverse may not linger perhaps hitched up electrically with another

for a time long enough to Increase the tem- thermostat against a radiator or in a warm air

perature. Since the solar reception is not duct. Then If the distribution of heat to the

present at all hours there must In any event be various rooms is reasonably well balanced,

an adequate auxiliary heating plant, so that there will be little overheating In any room.

32 ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

In the general heating of buildings there will and this type of heat transmitter might as well
be, I hope, an end to the built-in convectors not be present with water at 150 degrees. This
made of finned or gilled sheet metal, circu- is because there remains not enough tempera-
lating air within the room and depositing the ture difference to bring about an adequate
dust on the walls above the warm air outlets, thermally induced air circulation in the room.
These unfortunate devices lack the virtues of the There will doubtless be increased employ-
old sectional cast-iron exposed radiators in that ment of mechanical air circulation as exempli-
the latter give off beneficial radiant heat and fied in convectors combined with electric fans,
continue to do so even if the surface tempera- popularly spoken of as unit heaters. The facility
ture approaches that of the air in the room, with which unit heaters can be controlled with
The dirty convector, however, commences to relatively inexpensive electric thermostats and
lie down on the job as soon as the temperature the high rate of transmission inherent to their
of the tubes and gills falls below 2 I 2 degrees design militate strongly In their favor.

STRUCTURAL STEEL STANDARD

by T. R. HIGGINS, C. E.

Approval of the American Standard for Oddly enough, the movement for greater

Structural Steel (Riveted, Bolted, or Welded standardization in the structural steel fabrlcat-

Connections), A57.I-I943, as one of a related ing industry, the fruits of which have been

series of basic standards having to do with given recognition by the American Standards

building code requirements, marks an impor- Association in the midst of World War II, owes

tant milestone towards the goal set by the its beginning largely to experience gained in

American Standards Association to develop World War I. For It was the pressure for more

standards for all the subjects commonly in- and more production during that emergency

eluded In municipal building regulations. which focused attention upon the handicaps

Most post-war programs assign such an Im- resulting from a lack of uniformity in design

portant role to new construction that the and fabricating practice. To be sure, conslder-

modernlzation and standardization of all of able progress had been achieved in the field

these building regulations Is highly deserving of of bridge engineering. But It was obvious that,

early attention. Nearly all students of our na- In a number of ways, the practice with respect

tional economy are In agreement that lack of to buildings was, of necessity, far from analo-

uniformlty among the hundreds of building gous with that which had been developed for

codes now In force and. In many cases, failure bridges.

to keep abreast of modern trends and devel- In view of the Industrial climate which existed

opments have placed a serious handicap on the at the close of the last war and which was so

construction Industry. Now that we appear largely responsible for the Institute's Specifl-

to be approaching a period In which a large cation for the Design, Fabrication, and Erec-

volume of construction will be required — al- tion for Structural Steel — a climate in which

most all of which will come within the jurlsdic- all important Industrial practices were being

tion of local building codes — action is Impera- studied with an eye to insuring the maximum

five. industrial output in the event of a future war

emergency — it may at first seem strange that

Condensed from an article on "Structural Steel Standard Is Milestone .. , . .

in Building Program." when the ppesent emergency did arise It was

MARCH, 1944 33

not the Standard Specification which was pated prior to the war; in fact it did not arise
finally to govern the use of structural steel but until the construction part of the war program
a National Ennergency Specification. Yet, when was well advanced. And, even had it been
all the facts are considered, it will be seen that foreseen, it is debatable whether any wide-
the objective fixed in those early post-war years spread support would have been given a pro-
did, in fact, fulfill expectations when +he emer- posal to adopt the higher stresses in advance
gency arose. of the emergency which dictated their use.

In the first place much of the construction || ^ay be of interest to note that, when this
required in this war had already been engi- situation became apparent, the War Produc-
neered prior to the developments requiring flon Board, acting through the organization al-
the adoption of the War Production Board's ready set up by the American Standards As-
Emergency Specifications. And, thanks to the sociation and assisted by the affected branches
standardization which had been achieved in of the armed services, was able to provide
the intervening years, none of the confusion emergency regulations in a remarkably short
with respect to design and fabricating prac- space of time. Only because of the vast
tices, experienced in the earlier emergency, amount of study which had already gone into
existed at this time. the development of nation-wide standards to
STRESSES CHANGED TO CONSERVE STEEL cover the activities of this vital industry was
As a matter of fact, in only one important such speed made possible. And, only because
respect does the Emergency Specification dif- f^^e quality of the product of this industry had
fer from the Institute's standard specifications, been enhanced through unification of practice
Because of the unprecedented demand for was there sufficient assurance of safety when,
steel generated by the gigantic war program, in order to economize to the utmost on the use
it became necessary to conserve this vital ma- o^ f^^is precious commodity, working stresses
terial wherever possible. The established work- were increased to a limit some 50 per cent
Ing stresses for structural steel, therefore, were higher than that which was in use during the
increased in the Emergency Specification, in '^^t war.

some cases by as much as 20 per cent, so that, Thus, in a period of but two decades, this

by assigning more work to a given amount of movement for standardization had made a

steel, an over-all saving would be realized. Such truly great contribution in making America

a contingency could hardly have been antici- strong.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

ujHflT'sonYOURmmD?

ARCHITECTS— YOUR OPPORTUNITY

Editor,

Architect and Engirieer:

One of our clients, a large paper manu-
facturer. Is preparing a series of very elabo-
rate booklets on post-war developments.

Their next book in the series will be on
Buildings — Public and Institutional — such as
hospitals, libraries, office buildings, museums,
etc.. and will include therein all of the ad-
vancements that will be made In such build-
ings In the future.

We have been given the assignment of
collecting the material for this publication.
If you have photographs of buildings you
would like to have appear, please send same
with a short description and credit line you
wish used.

If you could make any suggestions as to
where we would obtain materials of this type,
we would greatly appreciate sources.

Thanking you in anticipation of your co-
operation, we are

Sincerely yours.
The National Research Bureau, Inc.
V. PLESSCHER. Research Director.
320 N. LaSalle Street,
Chicago, Illinois.

naliy rocolvod you will find that Frank L.
Hope, Jr. was the architect and Stanley
Burne was the engineer.

Sincerely yours,
FRANK L. HOPE, JR.,

Architect/Engineer.
San Diego.

COMPETITION DATE EXTENDED

Editor,

Architect and Engineer:

Your January issue contained an adver-
tisement entitled "Competition for Sanato-
rium In Ireland." The advertisement stated
that "applications should be received not
later than the 13th of March, 1944."

I am now informed by my Government
that the date of application for conditions
has been extended to May 31, 1944. I am
also advised that the closing date for the
receipt of drawings is June 30, 1945.

I should be glad if you would give pub-
licity to the above change of dates in your
next issue.

Yours very truly,

MATTHEW MURPHY,

Consul.
San Francisco.

CREDIT FRANK L HOPE, ARCHITECT

Editor,

Architect and Engineer:

In reading over the February issue of
Architect and Engineer, to which I have been
a subscriber for some time, I notice an
article regarding the long span wood roof
trusses for the Ryan Aeronautical Company,
San Diego, California.

I was quite surprised to notice that the
names of the architect and engineer were
not mentioned, especially as your magazine
Is supposed to represent the architectural
and engineering profession. I think that If
you will check on the Information as origl-

END "OR EQUAL" CLAUSE

Editor,

Architect and Engineer:

I would like to take this opportunity to
call your special attention to the work of
the Producers' Council In developing and
publicizing an improved Bidding Practice
for Building Materials. This new procedure
was approved at the annual meeting held
in Detroit In 1942, and following that was
placed before the American Institute of
Architects' Committee on Contract Docu-
ments, which concurred with the idea and
brought It before the A.I.A. convention in
Cincinnati last year, where they adopted
the plan. The whole Idea has been wrapped
up and packaged In the form of a pamphlet,
important passages of which are:

"I) All basic bids are to be based on
exactly the same materials and equipment,
thereby being truly competitive.

"2) The specifier may name one or sev-
eral makes of a particular building product,
but If more than one, he Indicates which
one is to be used as the basis for the
regular bid.

"3) The specifications also permit any
bidder to submit an alternative price on any
other named or unnamed material or equip-
ment which he thinks will meet the require-
ments. He does so by submitting what ad-
ditions or deductions from his basic bid
should be made if such alternates are used."

Members of the local Chapters of the
A.I.A. and the Producers' Council have ex-
pressed themselves as being interested In
seeing something like this used in place of
the time-worn — and shop-worn "Or Equal"
method.

Yours very truly,

C. W. KRAFT.
San Francisco.

Editor's Note — To put the plan in
operation, meetings will be sponsored
by local Chapters of the Council in
twenty-one Council cities so that the
details may be considered by archi-
tects, engineers, contractors and
others.

war apartment house planning, make pro-
vision for a glassed-in soundproof room in
every apartment. Such provision should
sound the death-knell for the "no children
wanted" rent signs.

And permit me to add another sugges-
tion for architects. In the years after the
war, when new buildings, houses, subways,
etc., are being built, why not Incorporate
air raid shelters and first aid stations as
a part of this new construction? The added
expense would be small and we would at
least have the satisfaction of feeling pre-
pared in case of another Pearl Harbor.

ROSS THOMAS.
Oakland.

DISAPPOINTED IN THE JOURNAL

Editor,

Architect and Engineer:

Your question regarding what happens
to the Weekly Bulletin under the unification
plan Is one that has been asked by several
people. The Bulletin will continue just as
before, as will the Michigan Society of Ar-
chitects, except that the Society will be
made up of directors from Chapters of the
Institute Instead of from Divisions of the
State Society.

What do you think of the new Journal
of the A.I.A.? Frankly, I was greatly disap-
pointed, as this subject had been one of
great interest to me, and I had made some
definite recommendations for it. After serv-
ing on a committee to formulate it, the
Board did just about everything that I didn't
want done. I see that they are now Issuing
separate Bulletins to inform the members
of official matters. Why this should be neces-
sary is more than I can see.
Very truly yours,

TALMAGE C. HUGHES.
Detroit, Michigan.

AIR RAID SHELTERS

Editor,

Architect and Engineer:

I think Helen Stewart has something when
she suggests that architects. In their post-

ARCHITECT'S PRESENT QUALIFICATIONS

"There Is of course every reason for the
architect to be a good citizen and, particu-
larly at present, that means study of all of
the problems of these changing times. He
needs to know something of the character
and cost of municipal services as affected
by real estate development, something about
taxation. He needs to have a detached, in-
formed and fair point of view as to the
best way to spend public money. He should
not be too much Influenced by reformers
and "better world" advocates who do not
care where the money comes from. An il-
literate and civically inexperienced architect
is not likely to be very effective as a leader
In bringing forth a better society by mere
assertion of his importance."

—CHARLES W. KILLAM.

MARCH, 1944

ENGINEERS AND ARCHITECTS ASSOCIATION

Frank A. Mourltsen, associate director of disputes
of the War Labor Board, was the principal speaker
at the February 24th nneeting of the Engineers and
Architects Association in Los Angeles. His subject was
"Collective Bargaining Processes, Present and Future."

Much discussion has followed the recent talk on
"Materials For the Post-War Era," by Dr. David E.
Adelson, research chemist for the Shell Oil Company
and International vice-president of the Federation of
Architects, Engineers, Chemists and Technicians, C.I.O.
affiliate.

Dr. Adelson suggested plant adaptation for our
Western aluminum and magnesium metal production
where the process cannot compete, to produce oxide
paint fillers and alloy material. He recommended that
organizations turn a part of their effort to channelling
the thought of their members to place the emphasis
on our present basic material output to convert the
supply to beneficial uses. Dr. Adelson also outlined
the benefits accruing to organized employees of cer-
tain companies through participation in the pooling
of their patent rights by virtue of collective bargaining
contracts.

Mr. Green, chairman of the qualifications committee
of the local section of the American Society of Civil
Engineers, outlined the Society's present position In
collective bargaining to date. He stated that the Los
Angeles Section had voted 337 to 16, in favor of the
Section embarking upon some plan of collective bar-
gaining. The Section Is now endeavoring to deter-
mine a line of procedure to solve the economic prob-
lem of the engineer.

The Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists
and Technicians, Chapter 25 (CIO) was named bar-
gaining agent for employees of the Cutter Labora-
tories, Fourth and Parker streets, Berkeley, at a con-
sent election held February 20. The vote was 308 for
the union to I I 2 for an open shop.

area. An enjoyable evening was rounded out with a
few remarks by John Reeber who presented an exhibit
of the Reeber plan.

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS MEET

Regular meeting of the Structural Engineers As-
sociation of Northern California was held at the En-
gineers' Club, San Francisco, March 7, with a good
attendance. The speakers were Rex Nicholson, Western
Regional Director, Federal Works Agency, whose sub-
ject was "The Construction Industry Can Lead the
Way," and Louis Lundberg, General Manager of the
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Nicholson
is from Texas and is a general contractor. He is well
informed on problems pertaining to the construction
industry in the Western States, as his address indicated.
Mr. Nicholson has recently been invited to head the
post-war program for the Federal Works Agency for
the entire United States. Mr. Lundberg's talk had to
do with post-war markets and conditions in the Bay

WHO WAS THE ARCHITECT?

The following notice appeared recently in several
issues of the San Francisco Chronicle:

INFORMATION NEEDED

Regarding whereabouts of lady who wore a silver fox scarf fo-

gether with a BIZARRE TULLE HAT with a large feathered bird

between the hours of 8 and I I P. M., on the evening of

DECEMBER 10.

She spent this time at a popular bar and at a legitimate theatre

in the company of a prominent architect.

She has Information of the most extreme Importance to our

client without being aware of this.

This man guarantees that the utmost discretion will be used and

that It is not his purpose to in any way do anything which will

be embarrassing to her. — BOX 667.

Our guess: A publicity stunt for the new moving
picture "Phantom Lady."

ARCHITECTS MOVE

John S. Butler has moved from 8920 Olympic Boule-
vard, Beverly Hills, to 555 TIgertail Road, Los Angeles.

Roland E. Coate has moved from 701 Architects'
Building, Los Angeles, to 305 Canterbury Lane, Bir-
mingham, Alabama.

Nathan Coleman, from 2088 Mountain Boulevard,
Oakland, to R.F.D., Lafayette, California.

Mario F. Corbett, from I I Star Route, Redwood
City, to 50 Edwards Avenue, Sausallto.

Arthur Froehllch, from 441 North Beverly Avenue,
to 2244 Beverly Glen Place, Los Angeles.

Edward Glass, 1350 Filbert Street, San Francisco,
has moved to 965 Union Street, same city.

C. Harold Hopkins has moved from 416 West Eighth
Street, Los Angeles, to 1707 East Bay Avenue, Balboa,
California.

Albert O. Treganza, from 25 Kemp Street, San Diego,
to Box 97, Lemon Grove, California.

Walter E. Wagner, from 1221 Blake Street, Berkeley,
to 775 Vincente Avenue, Albany, California.

TESTING MATERIALS ENGINEERS MEET

Members of the Northern California District, Ameri-
can Society for Testing Materials, gathered at the En-
gineers' Club, San Francisco, Wednesday evening,
March 15, to welcome Dean Harvey, president, and
C. L. Warwick, secretary-treasurer of the Society.
Harvey made a splendid talk on "The Place of the
National Engineering Society in Industry," citing some
of the new accomplishments in the field of materials
and their post-war possibilities. Mr. Warwick reported
on general activities of the Society. Theo P. Dresser,
Jr., Is secretary of the Northern California District
Committee.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

MEMBERSHIP DRIVE -^M^^fmo
E. T. SPENCER HONORED

BY SO. CALIF. CHAPTER

At the February meeting of Southern California
Chapter, A. I. A., the following committee was named
to conduct a three-year membership drive in line with
a national movement of the Institute to increase the
corporate membership of the A.I.A. to at least 80
per cent of all qualified architects: Charles Matcham,
Henry Withey, Warren Dedrick, Richard Farrell, Stan-
ley Gould, Vincent Palmer, Byron J. Tharaldson, hienry
Eggers, Breo Freeman, Howard Morgridge, and Her-
bert Riesenberg.

Herbert J. Powell, assuming the office of president
of the Chapter, had his baptism under parliamentary
fire and came through with flying colors. With the in-
tent of adding more interest and practical value to
the meetings, Mr. Powell suggested the reading of
selected papers on technical subjects related to archi-
tecture, such as "Standard Details, Specifications,
Drafting Room Short Cuts, etc."

The annual convention of the Institute will be held
this year at Indianapolis, Indiana, on May 3, 4 and 5.
Members nominated by the executive committee, from
which eight or nine will be selected to attend the con-
vention, are: Herbert J. Powell, Paul R. Hunter, John
C. Austin, Welton D. Becket, Theodore Criley, Jr.;
Henry Eggers, Stanley Gould, John Landon, Samuel
Lunden, Earl Heitschmidt, Winston Risley, Whitney
Smith, Paul R. Williams, and Adrian Wilson.

The speaker of the evening was C. Julian Ober-
warth, Institute membership secretary. Among other
things, Mr. Oberwarth said that membership in the
American Institute of Architects is now over 4000,
raised from 3000 in the last two years.

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER

Northern California Chapter showed its apprecia-
tion of the fine leadership of its 1943 president,
Eldridge T. Spencer, by holding him for another year.
The Chapter is gaining in membership and its meetings
are being well attended.

President Spencer is a native of California and a
graduate of the University of California in Berkeley.
He served as a first lieutenant in the Army Air Corps
in World War I. Other honorary positions to which
Mr. Spencer has been called includes the presidency
of the board of directors of the San Francisco Art
Association. Mr. Spencer is married to Jeanne Dyer,
well known in San Francisco art circles.

STAY PUT, YE ARCHITECT!

A doctor can move to a brand new town,

Buy out a practice and settle down;
When a minister moves from one spot to another

All whom he meets just call him "Brother."

An author can live In most any place,

His troubles are not with the human race.

('Course a banker or lawyer would never dream
Of walking away from a moneyed stream!)

Plumbers, carpenters, or chaps from the farms
Are welcomed anywhere with open arms.

It's only the architect, so far as I know, '

Whose moving can deal him a body blow.

Why did he change? What building fell down?

Why should he leave the old home town?
Has he run off with somebody's wife?

His clients' funds? Oh, rumors are rife!

It surely could never, never be

That he would just like California to see!

The lure of the sun, the charm of the new
Might teach him better houses to do.

And if California does him beguile

So he decides to stay quite a while.
We hope that you will help us pray

For the soul of an architect . . . gone astray!

SEWALL SMITH, A.I.A.

Editor's Note — Cornell University graduate, Sewall
Smith recently moved to California from Niagara Falls,
N.Y., where he practiced architecture for eight years.
Besides many fine homes. Smith designed the Niagara
Falls transmitting station and studios for WHLD. Fol-
lowing a brief stay in Palo Alto, Mr. Smith and Mrs.
Smith, who is a sister of Major General SIbert, Still-
well's first assistant, have permanently settled In La-
fayette where they have purchased a home. Mr. Smith
expects to divide his time between Lafayette and San
Francisco.

S. F. ARCHITECTURAL CLUB

At the April 5th meeting of the San Francisco Archi-
tectural Club, Fred Barss, architect, will speak on the
subject, "Housing with Relation to City Planning."
Mr. Barss, formerly in the office of William Wurster,
has delved deep Into the study of this vital subject
and invites discussion.

Leiand Hyde, designer with Henry Kaiser and re-
cently returned from the East, will relate some of the
highlights of his trip.

Club quarters at the Builders' Exchange have been
rearranged to the surprise and delight of the mem-
bership. Pool and billiard tables are now set up.

MARCH. 1944

THE "SACRED COW"
IS DYING

The "Sacred Cow" of the electrical
industry— -No. 14 wire — long vener'
ated as the answer to any wiring need,
seems ready for an early demise.

Adequate a quarter of a century
ago, when there were fewer appliances
and less demand on electrical service,
No. 14 wire today is inadequate to
cope with the electrical necessities of
modern living. It has been found too
small for high voltages of lamps and
appliances now being used, a condition
which is certain to be aggravated
when still higher voltages appear on
the postwar markets.

Adequate capacity wiring for maxi-
mum electrical convenience will be a
"must" on blue prints of the future.
Architects and builders who foresee
and supply this need will enjoy a repu-
tation for satisfied, enthusiastic clients.

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
ELECTRICAL BUREAU

1355 Market Street
San Francisco

EleetrMty h vital tor war production.

Use it carefully and without

wasto.

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS

Syracuse University announces the following scholar-
ships available to entering students in the School of
Architecture:

One $400 and four $200 scholarships to be granted
by competition on Saturday, July 15, 1944. The com-
petition will be in two fields — drawing and preparatory
school record. (I) Contestants must send to the Col-
lege of Fine Arts not later than Thursday, July 6th, a
portfolio containing not more than 20 examples of
their work in free-hand and mechanical drawing, to-
gether with three letters of recommendation as to per-
sonality, character and general fitness. Judging the
drawing by a committee of the Architectural Faculty
will take place on Saturday, July 15. (2) The High
School records of all contestants will be carefully ex-
amined by the Director of Admissions and the Archi-
tecture Faculty Committee to determine fitness for
a course in architecture. Special attention will be
given to ability in high school mathematics.

Each portfolio of drawings, etc., must contain the
name and address of the student contestant and a
statement from the student's high school principal that
the drawings, etc., in the portfolio are the original
work of the student submitting them. All portfolios
sent in by art and architecture contestants will be
returned after the contest by express collect unless
other arrangements are made with Dean H. L. Butler.

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS' NOTES

James E. Mackie, C.E., of San Francisco, recently
attended a technical conference of the U. S. Forests
Products Laboratory on "Glued Laminated Lumber
Standards" at Madison, Wisconsin, and on to Wash-
ington, D. C.

D. C. Willett has been in Texas with his family where
Mrs. Willett christened a new destroyer, the S.S. Ken-
neth M. Willett, named in honor of their son.

Frank A. Johnson, of SEAOSC, has returned to
Sacramento as supervising structural engineer in charge
of design for State institutions. Department of Archi-
tecture.

A. L. Enger, also a former member of SEAOSC, is
now in the Capital city as office engineer. Structural
Section, in charge of the School Section, Department
of Architecture.

Harry W. Bolln, member of San Francisco Section
on leave, has been with the Navy at San Diego. He
was supposed to be returned to the Los Angeles office.
State Department of Architecture, on February I, but
the Navy refused to release him.

William Adrian and Mrs. Adrian have been sending
some interesting postal cards to their San Francisco
friends from Mexico City.

Messrs. Hall & Pregnoff have moved from 350 Cali-
fornia Street, to 251 Kearny Street, San Francisco.

H. J. Brunnier is not only treasurer and director of
the California State Automobile Association, but is
secretary of the Commonwealth Club.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

Producers' Council Page

Northern Coll/ornlo Chapter

l^he National Organization of Manufacturers of Quality Building Materials and Equipment
Affiliated with the AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHTECTS

GEORGE QUAMBY

Vice-President, George
Quamby, is no new-
comer to Council ac-
tivities, having served
as a committee mem-
ber in past years on the
important Program
Committee.
Canuck George was
born in Windsor, On-
tario, in 1897, where he
went to school at Wind-
sor Collegiate Institute.
His was another bud-
ding architectural career nipped by World War I.
After 18 months' service in France with the 25th En-
gineers Corps, First Army, George returned home,
then got a job across the river as estimator and drafts-
man in the Fenestra Division of Detroit Steel Products
Company.

Upon graduating from the company's specialized
school for branch engineers, he was sent to San Fran-
cisco in 1921, where he was branch engineer until
1925, when the district office was formed at the plant
in Emeryville. George then became district engineer.
In 1929 he was transferred to sales in the San Francisco
area and at the present time has charge of Fenestra
window sales in San Francisco, and marine products
in all of the Bay area.

Fighting this war out on the home front, George's
outside interests have centered particularly on Civilian
Defense activities and American Legion affairs.

Home is in the Parkside District of San Francisco
where he lives with his wife and daughter.
Says Gordon Hay, national vice-president of the Coun-
cil, "After the last war there was such a flood of new
materials — some very good, some not so good and
some very rotten — that the architects, in their des-
peration, asked the manufacturers to fashion some
instrument through or by which the architect would
know the 'wheat from the tares.' And so — the Pro-
ducers' Council."

How like the situation we are coming into again, when
some manufacturer will "reconvert" not to products
they manufactured before the war, but to fields new
and untried for them, with much experimentation on
the public.

USE QUALITY PRODUCTS

START AN ARCHITECT

iM^

The Architects may well be expected to place even
greater reliance on the integrity of members of their
Affiliate in the days ahead.
What's More, as a
practical expression of
our foresight, don't for-
get

Gano Baker leaves the
Bay area with the well-
wishes of many friends
ringing in his ears. ™
Out of sight, but not

out of mind, we expect that Gano will not be long
in crowding us from the South and other aggressive
Angelenos. On February 18, Gano became manager
of the Los Angeles Branch of Westinghouse Electric
Elevator Company.

Art Skaife shouldn't be overlooked in the deal, as
tolerant and unenvious a boss as a man ever had. Art
carries on in San Francisco with expanded duties as
Pacific Coast manager for the eleven Western States;
in fact. Art isn't just sure how many he has under his
wing.

The Annual Meeting has been set for Indianapolis,
May 3, 4 and 5, to be held concurrently with the
Annual Convention of the A. LA. More than ever be-
fore this gathering will see a merging of the activities
of the two groups throughout the meeting. The tenta-
tive program calls for a joint dinner as well as a joint
session.

Company Channels will be used to acquaint branch
office personnel with your company's policy on the new
bidding practice for building materials, eliminating
the "Or Equal" clause. This has all been buttoned up
by the Technical Cooperation Committee and pre-
sented in pamphlet form.

Council Doing Something about "Construction In
the Post-War Economy." Under that title President
Doug Whitlock presented a statement based on the
Council's post-war program, to the Committee of Pub-
lic Buildings and Grounds of the House of Representa-
tives, on January 27.

Congratulations are in order to the entire Chapter on
the nice turn-out at our monthly meetings and special
mention should be given Harry Lemos on his consci-
entious and systematic reminder system.
(Turn to Page 40)

CONSULT AN ARCHITECT

Are You Interested In whether any one else goes or
not? You are asked to nnake just one phone call. How
long since you had an architect, engineer or other
guest to a monthly meeting? Share these interesting
and Instructive meetings with a friend outside the
Chapter — bring a guest every time.
The Journal of the American Institute of Architects
supersedes "The Octagon." Pocket size in format, the
Journal differs from its predecessor in that it will accept
up to 12 pages of advertising. Dedicated to the con-
viction that the post-war need for the architect will
be greater than ever. Vol. I, No. I came out in January
to help the architect to a clearer understanding of
the road ahead.

We Started to tell you about the Council's definite,
tangible 2 I -point program for Post- War Planning back
in December, but since that time it has gotten crowded
off the "Page." Following a six-point program to
facilitate reconversion to peace time economy, the
next section deals with how To Expedite Technical
Advancement —

1. Building Product Development

2. Dimensional Co-ordination

3. Revision of Building Codes

4. Reduction of Costs

5. Merchandising

6. Responsibility for Authentic Information

TO END "OR EQUAL" CLAUSE

As a means of improving competitive bidding prac-
tices in the construction of homes, factories, and other
building projects and of preventing dissatisfaction on
the part of ultimate owners, the Producers' Council,
national organization of manufacturers of building
materials and equipment, proposed a new "Bidding
Practice for Building Materials" to replace the con-
troversial "or equal" clause commonly used in the
past. (See Mr. Kraft's communication on page 35.)

The plan has been approved in principle by the
American Institute of Architects, according to the
announcement by F. J. Plimpton, chairman of the
Council's technical co-operation committee, and is
recommended for general adoption by architects, en-
gineers, contractors, sub-contractors, material con-
cerns, and others involved in bidding on construction
projects.

"Use of the 'or equal' clause," the announcement
explained, "has permitted contractors and sub-con-
tractors to figure their bids either on the makes of
building products named in the specifications or on
other products which they consider acceptable as
offering equal quality and value. In many instances,
this practice results in differences of opinion as to
whether the alternative material or equipment actu-
ally is of equal quality and too often results in the
use of a lower quality of product than the owner had
intended to purchase.

BUILDING PERMITS UP

January building permits in the United States showed
an upward swing with a 17 per cent gain over a year
ago. According to Dun & Bradstreet, the twenty cities
in the U. S. with the greatest permit valuations during
January are listed below. Los Angeles with almost
$3,000,000, had the largest amount. Detroit, Long
Beach, Chicago, and San Diego followed in the order
named. , ,

January January

1944 1943

Los Angeles, California ....$2,963,654 $1,714,039

Detroit, Michigan 2,452,660 1.704,889

Long Beach, California 2,042,275 884,760

Chicago, Illinois 1,500,768 712,730

San Diego, California 1,310,708 105,480

Dallas, Texas 1,217,017 158,921

Oakland, California 1,155,881 920.485

Portland, Oregon 963,495 2,042,905

Seattle, Washington 875,035 350.705

Cleveland, Ohio 858,000 422,700

San Francisco, California 830,080 132,484

Memphis, Tennessee 705.600 80,954

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 616.600 363,640

St. Louis. Missouri 522,906 137,200

Houston, Texas 488,200 125,565

New Orleans, Louisiana 477,180 67,658

Alcron, Ohio 433,074 352,146

Hartford, Connecticut 418,256 119,600

Dayton, Ohio . 370,655 97,195

Washington, D. C 359,770 2,728,718

NEED FORESEEN FOR ARCHITECTS

Plans for expansion and development of the Colum-
bia University School of Architecture in the post-war
period have been presented to President Nicholas
Murray Butler in the annual report of Dean Leopold
Arnaud of the architectural school.

Demands for trained architects for reconstruction
work will be hard to meet in view of the 75 per cent
drop in registration during the war years, Arnaud said,
and will place a heavy burden on all schools for sev-
eral years after the war.

Though it may be necessary to continue the present
shortened course to meet these demands, Arnaud said,
the faculty Is "unanimous in its belief that this system
of instruction is very poor and must be discontinued
as soon as possible.

Arnaud recommends that the University plan a new
building to house the school and its libraries in view
of the anticipated enrollment increase. He also urged
that training of landscape architects be included in
the regular course and studies to replace the certifi-
cate now offered.

HEADS ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Dr. Kenneth C. Reynolds of Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, nationally known for his studies in
hydraulic engineering, has been appointed head of
the department of civil engineering at Cooper Union
with the rank of full professor, it is announced by
Dr. Edwin S. Burdell, director of the Union. He suc-
ceeds Professor Edward S. Shelry, who has resigned.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

PLANS POST-WAR EXPANSION

One of the first steps in carrying out the present
annbltious post-war expansion plans of the Hammel
Radiator Engineering Company of 3348 Motor Avenue,
Los Angeles, was the appointment of L. M. hlull as
sales manager of the heating division.

Mr. Hull, a heating engineer with long experience
in the design and merchandising of gas and oil heat-
ing equipment, has been especially assigned to the
job of developing post-war heating equipment and
laying plans for national extension of the company s
sales activities. His previous experience with Payne
Furnace & Supply Company and Pacific Gas Radiator
Company Is well known to the trade.

Hammel Radiator Engineering Company Is a co-
partnership in which A. S. Martinson and S. D. Crozier
are the principals. Recently this company took over
the plant facilities and manufacturing business of the
Hammel Radiator Corporation of which Mr. Martinson
was vice-president and general manager. The com-
pany has been active In the manufacture of gas heat-
ing equipment in California since 1912. Present ac-
tivities of the plant are devoted largely to war work
plus the manufacture of the Hammel oil burning dual
type wall furnace for defense housing.

CHEAP ELECTRIC POWER

At a huge public meeting at Redding, California,
Regional Director Charles E. Carey of the U. S. Bu-
reau of Reclamation offered electric power from the
Central Valley Project to the city at five mills per
kilowatt hour. This figure Is 2I/2 mills cheaper than
the price the city now is paying the Pacific Gas and
Electric Company.

In outlining the background of the negotiations with
the Redding City Council, Mr. Carey said that "from
the very beginning the Bureau of Reclamation pro-
posed that Redding adopt the principles of distributing
power at cost, first for the benefit of the citizens of
Redding and, second, as a base for negotiating a con-
tract with the Bureau of Reclamation for its power

supply."

DAVID KNICKERBOCKER BOYD

David Knickerbocker Boyd, member Emeritus and
Fellow of The American Institute of Architects, col-
lapsed in his Philadelphia office on February 21, and
died shortly afterwards In Hahneman Hospital. He was
72 years old.

Mr. Boyd was a graduate of Friends' Central School
In Philadelphia and attended the University of Penn-
sylvania, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
and the Spring Garden Institute.

Mr. Boyd was a lecturer and writer on construction
economics, a consultant on building codes and during
the last war he was chief of the Materials Information
Section of the U. S. Housing Corp., Washington.

Following World War I, he originated and organized
the Structural Service Bureau. He was a member of
many national and local professional organizations.

oLJistinctli/e oLiantin

luted

CHANDELIER IN CHAPEL OF TEMPLE EMANU-EL, SAN FRANCISCO
Michael Goodman. Architect

EXECUTED BY

WESTERN LIGHTING FIXTURE CO.

Designers and Manufacturers of

HIGH GRADE LIGHTING FIXTURES

BRONZE WORK AND MIRROR

FURNITURE

WESTERN LIGHTING
FIXTURE COMPANY

E. J. FLETCHER

WM. H. HOLLOPETER

70 IVY STREET
SAN FRANCISCO

MARCH. 1944

QUALITY AND DEPENDABLE

are fhe factors thaf influence archi-
tects and contractors when selecting
lumber and mill work — Quality of
merchandise — Integrity and Ability
of the firm — Service in physical equip-
ment — Experience and Personnel —
All these factors contribute to a
speedy and satisfactory completion
of construction with minimum of time
and expense.

MANUFACTURER OR DEALER IN

Douglas Fir — Redwood — Sugar and
Ponderosa Pine — Plywood and Con-
crete Form Panels — Sash and Doors
— Millwork — Insulation — Builders'
Hardware.

E. K. UIOOD LUmBER CO.

PARAMOrXT

Built-in Fixtures

USED IN MANY OF
THE BETTER WAR
HOUSING PROJECTS
ARE DESIGNED TO IN-
SURE MAXIMUM EFFI-
CIENCY AT MINIMUM
COST

PARAMOUNT FIXTURES are
recognized by architects and
builders for their distinctive appear-
ance and superior workmanship.

aTLajTiaurLL

BVILTII\ FtXTVRE COMPANY
5107 Broadway. Oakland. California

Phmc Urdmoni KIOO

BUILDING MATERIALS FOR FARM NEEDS

Building materials for the maintenance and replace-
ment of essential farm structures must be provided in
greater quantity in the immediate future if maximum
production of food and other vital agricultural prod-
ucts needed in the war program is to be assumed,
according to James W. Follin, managing director of
The Producers' Council, national organization of manu-
facturers of building materials and equipment.

Reports from many sections of the country indicate
that farm buildings are deteriorating rapidly, owing
to difficulties in obtaining materials with which to make
repairs, while the construction of new barns, poultry
houses, and other needed farm buildings has been held
at a low level for two years as a result of limitations
placed on non-military construction by the Federal gov-
ernment, Follin said.

To assist in making plans for meeting current farm
building needs and to aid in establishing a sound post-
war building program for the nation's farmers, the
Producers' Council has appointed a Farm Building
Committee with Chris L. Christensen, Vice President
of the Celotex Corporation and formerly Dean of Agri-
culture at the University of Wisconsin, as chairman.

STILL MOVING AROUND

Bernard R. Maybeck has moved from 2751 Buena
Vista Way, Berkeley, to Twain hiarte, Tuolumne County,
California.

Earl J. Osborne has moved from 1910 California
Street, San Francisco, to 907 Kohl Building, 486 Cali-
fornia Street, San Francisco.

Olive K. Chadeayne from Rancho Santa Fe, Califor-
nia, to 14160 Erwin Street, Van Nuys.

William Allen & W. George Lutii have moved from
5655 Wilshire Boulevard to 6112 Wilshire Boulevard,
Room 200, Los Angeles.

Henry W. Howell's new address, formerly Box 54,
Salt Lake City, Utah, now Box 1273, Santa Barbara.

S. E. Sommichsen from Halethorpe, Maryland, to
7308 Planklngton Building, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Julian F. Everett has moved from Vista, California,
to 48 I I Keniston Ave., Los Angeles.

GLASS TANK USES

One of the most important advances in the glass
industry has been the recent remarkable development
of glass tanks or vats, for Industrial use, according to
R. B. Tucker, a director of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass
Company. Dozens of industries are turning to glass
for their tanks, and the installation of new tanks and
the relining of existent units with glass is increasing
rapidly, according to Mr. Tucker. Because the glass
used for these tanks Is tempered and strengthened,
making for permanency, he believes the acceptance
of readily installed glass tanks will be widespread in
the post-war period.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

ARCHITECT AMD ENGINEER

Estimator's Guide

Giving Cost of Building Materials, Etc.

AMOUNTS GIVEN ARE FIGURING PRICES AND ARE MADE UP FROM AVERAGE QUOTATIONS FURNISHED BY
MATERIAL HOUSES TO SAN FRANCISCO CONTRACTORS. 21/2% SALES TAX ON ALL MATERIALS BUT NOT LABOR

BONDS — Perfornnance — 50% of contract.
Labor and nnaterials — 50% of contract.

BRICKWORK—

Common Brick— Per IM laid— $50.00 to
$60.00 (according to class of work).

Face Brick— Per IM laid— $120 to $150
(according to class of work.)

Brick Steps — $1.60 per lin. ft.

Brick Veneer on Frame BIdg. — Approx.

$1.30 per sq. ft.
Common Brick— $19,00 per M, truckload

lots, f.o.b. job.

$19.00 per M, less than truckload, plus
cartage.

Face Brick— $40 to $80 per M, truckload
lots, delivered.

Cartage — Approx. $4.00 per M.

BUILDING PAPER—

1 ply per 1000 ft. roll - — - $3.50

2 ply per ICOO ft. roll 5.00

3 ply per 1000 ft. roll -... 6.25

Brownskin, Standard, 500 ft. roll 5.00

Sisalkraft, 500 ft. roll - 5.00

Sash cord com. No. 7... _...$!. 20 per 100 ft.

Sash cord com. No. 8„. _ 1.50 per 100 ft.

Sash cord spot No. 7 1.90 per 100 ft.

Sash cord spot No. 8 2.25 per 100 ft.

Sash weights, cast iron, $50.00 ton.

Nails, $3.42 base.

Sash weights. $45.00 per ton.

CONCRETE AGGREGATES—

net to Contractors unless

Gravel, all sizes —
$1.95 per ton at Bu

delivered .
Bunker
. $1.90

Concrete Mix 1.90

Crushed Rock, '/i" to %" 1.90

...$2.50
DeI'd
$2.50

Crushed Rock, %" to IVi" I-'O 2.50

Roofing Gravel 2.25 2.80

River Sand 2.00 2.45

Sand-
River Sand ..._ 2.00 2.45

Lapis (Nos. 2 & 4) _ 2.85 3.15

Olympia (Nos. I & 2) 2.85 3.10

Del Monte White 84c per sack

Cement —

Common (all brands, paper sacks], carload
lots, $2.42 per bbl. f.o.b. car; delivered $2.72.

Cash discount on carload lots, 10c a bbl.. 10th
Prox.; less than caWoad lots $3.20 per bbl.
f.o.b. warehouse or delivered.

Cash discount 2% on L.C.L.

Atlas White \ I to 100 sacks, $2.50 sack

Calaveras White i warehouse or del.: $7.65
Medusa White ( bbl. carload lots.

Forms, Labors average $200.00 per M.

Average cost of concrete in place, exclu-
sive of forms, 35c per cu. ft.; $10 cu.
yd.; with forms, 60c.

4-inch concrete basement floor

30c per sq. ft.

Rat-prooflng ^Vl^

Concrete Steps $1.25 per lin. ft.

DAMPPROOFING end Waterproofing-

Two-coat work, $3.50 per square.

Membrane waterproofing — 4 layers of sat-
urated felt, $7.00 per square.

Hot coating work, $2.50 per square.

Medusa Waterproofing, $3.50 per lb. San
Francisco Warehouse.

Tricocel waterproofing.

(See representative.)

ELECTRIC WIRING— $12 to $15 per outlet
for conduit work (including switches).
Knob and tube average $3.00 per outlet.
(Available only for priority work.)

ELEVATORS—

Prices vary according to capacity, speed
and type. Consult elevator companies.
Average cost of installing a slow speed
automatic passenger elevator in small four
story apartment building, including en-
trance doors, about $6500.00.

EXCAVATION—

Sand, 60 cents; clay or shale $1 per yard.
Teams, $12.00 per day.

Trucks, $22 to $27.50 per day.

Above figures are an average without
water. Steam shovel work in large quan-
tities, less; hard material, such as rock,
will run considerably more.

FIRE ESCAPES—

Ten-foot galvanized iron balcony, with
stairs, $150 Installed on new buildings;
$160 on old buildings.

FLOORS—

Composition Floor, such as Magnesite.

33c to 50c per square.
Linoflor — 2 gages — $1.25 to $2.75 per sq.

yd.
Mastapay— 90c to $1.50 per sq. yd.
Battleship Linoleum — available to Army

and Navy only — Yg" — $1.75 sq. yd.

A"— $2.00 sq. yd.

Terazzo Floors — 50c to 70c per square.
Terazzo Steps — $1.75 per lin. ft.
Mastic Wear Coat — according to type —
20c to 35c.

Hardwood Flooring —

Standard Mill grades not available.
Victory Oak— T & G

H X 21/4" $143.25 per M. plus Cartage

'/z X 2" 122.00 per M. plus Cartage

Vz X M/z" 113.50 per M. plus Cartage

Prefinished Standard i Better Oak Flooring

H X 31/4" - $180.00 per M. plus Cartage

Vl X 21/2" ...- 160.50 per M. plus Cartage

Maple Flooring
M" T & G Clear $160.50 per M. plus Ctg.
2nd 153.50 per M. plus Ctg.
3rd 131.25 per M. plus Ctg.
Floor Layers' Wage, $1.50 per hr.

GLASS—

Single Strength Window Glass 20c per D ft.

Double Strength Window Glass 30c per Q ft.

Plate Glass, under 75 sq. ft $1.00 per Q ft.

Polished Wire Plate Glass.... 1.40 per Q ft.

Rgh. Wire Glass _ 34 per D ft

Obscure Glass — _ .27 per Q ft.

Glazing of above is additional.
Glass Blocks $2.50 per Q ft. set in place

Average, $1.90 per sq. ft. of radiation,
according to conditions.

Warm air (gravity) average $48 per regis-
ter.

Forced air, average $68 per register.

MARCH, 1944

IRON — Cost of ornamenfal iron, cast iron,
etc., depends on designs.

LUMBER — All lumber at O.P.A. celling
prices —

No. r Common $«,00 per M

No. 2 Common „ 47.75 per M

Select O. P. Common 52.75 per M

Floorinq—

Oelvd.
V.G.-D.F. B i Btr. I x 4 T & G Flooring $80.00

C I II < T & G Flooring 75.00

D I X 4 T S G Flooring 45.00

D.F.-S.G. B & Btr. I x 4 T & G Flooring 41.00

C I X 4 T & G Flooring 59.00

D I X 4 T i G Flooring 54.00

Rwd. Plastic— "A" grade, medium drj 92.00

"B" grade, medium dry 76.50

Plywood —

Under $200 Over $200

"Plyscord"— %" $49.50 J47.55

"Plywall"— %" 45.15 43.30

3 ply— 2/5— I/," 48.55 46.60

•'Plyform"-y,»-

Unoiled 124.50 121.45

Oiled 127.90 122.75

Above prices delivered if quantity is sufficient
to warrant delivery.

Shingles (Rwd. not available)-
Red Cedar No. I— $4.75 per square; No. 2 $5.75-

No. 3, $4.45.
Average cost to lay shingles, $3.00 per square.
Cedar Shakes— Tapered: '/j" to %" x 25"— $8.95

per square.

Resawn: %" to MA" x 25"— $10.45 per square.

Resawn: %" to Wt" x 25"— $10.45 per square.
Average cost to lay shakes, $4.00 per square.

MILLWORK— Standard.

O. P. $100 per 1000. R. W. rustic $100.00

per 1000 (delivered).
Double hung box window frames, average

with trim $6.50 and up, each.
Complete door unit, $10.00.
Screen doors, $3.50 each.
Patent screen windows, 25c a sq. ft.
Cases for kitchen pantries seven ft. high,

per lineal ft., $9.00 each.
Dining room cases, $9.00 per lineal foot.
.Rough and finish about 80c per sq. ft.
Labor — Rough carpentry, warehouse heavy
framing (average), $40.00 per M.
For smaller work average, $40.00 to $55.00

per 1000.

MARBLE— See Dealers)

PAINTING—

Two-coat work per yard 50c

Three-coat work per yard 70c

Cold water painting per yard lOc

Whitewashing per yard 8c

PAINTS—

Two-coat work 50c per sq. yd.

Three-coat work 70c per sq. yd.

Cold water painting per yard lOc

Whitewashing 8c per sq. yd.

Turpentine $1.03 per gal. in drum lots.
$1.08 per gal. in S-gal. containers.
Raw Linseed Oil — not available.

Boiled Linseed Oil— $1.38 per gal. in
drums. Available only to work with high
priority— $1.48 per gal. in 5-gal. con-
tainers.

Use replacement oil — $1.86 per gal. in
I -gal. containers.

Replacement Oil— $1.20 per gal. in drums.
$1.30 per gal. in 5-gal. containers.

A deposit of $5.00 required on all drums.

PATENT CHIMNEYS—

6-I"cfi $1.20 lineal foot

8-inch 1.40 lineal foot

lO-inch 2.15 lineal foot

12-Inch 2.75 lineal foot

PLASTER—

Neat wall, per ton delivered in S. F. In
paper bags, $17.60.

PUSTERINS (Interior)-

Yard

3 Coats, metal lath and plaster 1.50

Keene cement on metal lath. 1.80

Ceilings with 2/4 hot roll channels metal lath

(lathed only) _ 1.20

Ceilings with % hot roll channels metal lath

plastered 2.20

Single partition % channel lath I side {lath

°"'y 1 .20

Single partition % channel lath 2 inches

thick plastered 3.20

4-inch double partition % channel lath 2

sides (lath only) 2.20

4-lnch double partition % channel lath 2

sides plastered 3.95

Thermax single partition; \" channels- 2%"
overall partition width. Plastered' both

sides 3.30

Thermax double partition; \" channels- 4%''
overall partition width. Plastered ' both

sides 4.40

3 coats over \" Thermax nailed to one side

wood studs or joists 1.45

3 coats over I" Thermax suspended to one
side wood studs wittl spring sound isola-

*i°" <^liP 1.90

Note— Channel lath controlled by limitation
orders.

PLASTERING (Exterior)—

Yard

2 coats cement finish, brick or concrete

*^ ' I - $ 1 .00

3 coats cemsnt finish, No. 18 gauge wire
mssh _ 2.00

Lime— $3.00 per bbl. at yard.
Processed Lime— $3.10 bbl. at yard.
Rock or Grip Lath— a/e"- 20c per sq. yd.
A"— I'c per sq. yd.

Composition Stucco— $1.80 to $2.00 sq. yard
(applied).

PLUMBING—

From $100.00 per fixture up, according to
grade, quantity and runs.

ROOFING—

"Standard" tar and gravel, 4 ply — $8.00

per sq. for 30 sqs. or over.
Less than 30 sqs. $9.50 per sq.
Tile, $30.00 to $40.00 per square.
Redwood Shingles, $7.50 per square in

place.
5/2 #1-16" Cedar Shingles, 4I/2"

Exposure $8.00 square

5/8 X I5"-#I Cedar Shingles, 5"

^'Posure $9.00 square

4/2 #1-24" Royal Shingles. 7/2"

^'P°""e $9.50 sjj^uare

Re-coat with Gravel $4.00 per sq.
Asbestos Shingles, $23 to $28 per sq. laid
1/2 X 25" Resawn Cedar Shakes,

10 Exposure $10.50

3/4 X 25" Resawn Cedar Shakes,

10" Exposure 1150

I X 25" Resawn Cedar Shakes,

10" Exposure 12.50

Above prices are for shakes in place.

SHEET METAL—

Windows— Metal, $1.75 a sq. ft.
Fire doors (average), including hardware,
$2.00 per sq. ft.

SKYLIGHTS— (not glazed)
Copper, 90c sq. ft. (flat).
Galvanized Iron, 40c sq. ft. (flat).
Vented hip skylights 60c sq. ft.

STEEL REINFORCING (None available
cept for war work).
$150 to $200 ton, set.

STONE—

Granite, average, $6.50 cu. foot in place.
Sandstone, average Blue, $4.00 Boise

$3.00 sq. ft. In place.
Indiana Limestone, $2.80 per sq. ft. in

place.

STORE FRONTS (None available)

TILE—

Ceramic Tile Floors— 7Cc to $1.00 per sq. ft.
Cove Base— $1.10 per lin. ft.
Glazed Tile Wainscot— $1.25 per sq. ft.
Asphalt Tile Floor >/>' & A"-$ .18 to $ 35 per

sq. ft. Light shades slightly higher.
Cork Tile— $ .40 to $ .75 per so. ft.
Mosaic Floors— see dealers.
Lino-Tile, $ .35 to $ .75 per sq. ft.

Wall Tile-
Glazed Terra Cotta Wall Units (single faced)
laid in place — approximate prices:

2 » ' X 12 -- .$1.10 sq. ft.

^ « * » 12 - - 1.25 sq. ft.

2 « 8 X I4..._.. 1.20 sq. ft.

4 X 8 X 14 1.40 sq. ft.

VENETIAN BLINDS—

40c per square foot and up. Installation
extra.

WINDOWS— STEEL—

30c per square foot, $5 for ventilators.

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

POST-WAR TRANSITION FOR CONSTRUCTION

The construction industry of the United States will
be able to swing into the transition from wartime
to peacetime economy without difficult conversion
problems, and will be able to provide a volume of
activity in the years of the first post-war decade even
greater than that experienced during the boom that
followed the first World War, according to the F. W.
Dodge Corporation which has made an extensive analy-
sis entitled, "Construction Potentials; Postwar Pros-
pects and Problems," under the direction of Thomas
S. Holden.

"There is no conversion problem for the construction
industry as such," the report declares. "Quick adapta-
tion of techniques and facilities to new types of projects
is part of the regular stock-in-trade of the industry.
Architects, engineers and contractors engaged on the
war construction program were able to expand their
organizations overnight and to carry out the largest
construction program In the history of this or any other
country with the utmost speed, overcoming unusual diffi-
culties and in a vast number of cases completing proj-
ects ahead of schedules."

It Is estimated that total construction volume in the
ten years following the war will average approximately
double the average volume of the 1930-39 decade
(the decade of depression and slow recovery). This
would be an increase of about 5 per cent over the
prosperous 1920-1929 decade. The estimate expresses
post-war volumes in terms of pre-war cost levels.

Within this increase, residential building volume is
expected to average three times the average resi-
dential building volume of the 1930-39 period; non-
residential building would Increase about 70 per cent
over Its 1930-1939 average; heavy engineering con-
struction would Increase about 50 per cent.

The rate at which the Industry will swing Into Its full
peace-time volume will be conditioned by several fac-
tors, principal among which are time-schedules for
release of critical raw materials to building-product
manufacturers; the reconversion problems of some
building product manufacturers; manpower problems;
release of price, wage and rent controls and the dis-
posal by the government of surplus property.

WATERCOLOR AND PASTEL ANNUAL

The Eighth Annual Watercolor Exhibition of the San
Francisco Art Association at the Art Museum, although
small In size Is broad in scope and fairly representative
of contemporary American watercolor painting. Water-
color painting as a medium because of Its very nature
can but inadequately represent contemporary art of
the western states, but it has become closely asso-
ciated with this region since so many watercolorlsts

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SUfter 3440

FORDERER CORNICE WORKS

Monufoeturert of
Hollow Metal Products • Interior Metal Trim

Elevator Fronts and Cabs
Metal Plaster Accessories • Sanitary Metal Base

Flat and Roll Metal Screens
Metal Cabinets • Commercial Refrigerators

269 POTRERO AVE.

SAN FRANCISCO. CALIF. HEMLOCK 4100

STRUCTURAL STEEL

For Class A Buildinss^
Bridses, etc.

JUDSON PACIFIC CO.

1200 SEVENTEENTH STREET
SAN FRANCISCO
= Plants: San Francisco - Oakland ^

MARCH, 1944

The Most Complete Line of

STEELS and BUILDING MATERIALS

Made by a Single Producer

See Sweet's Catalog File or terite us for
full information.

REPUBLIC STEEL CORPORATION

SINERAL OFFICES: CLEVELAND, OHIO

DENVER, COLORADO .... CONTINENTAL OIL BUILDING

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA EDISON BUILDING

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH WALKER BANK BUILDING

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA .... RIALTO BUILDING
SEATTLE, WASH WHITE-HENRY-STUART BUILDING

live here and some of the best work in this medium Is
produced by them.

The medium may well become a good means of In-
troduction to the more profound art expression of
western artists because of its general use among artists
of all schools and more specifically Its popular appeal
to the small home and apartment-house dweller who
can better afford to own a watercolor than an oil
painting. Also the characteristics of the medium. Its
lightness and clarity of color, its spontaneous and
perhaps its gayer approach to painting has a more
direct appeal to the average public. — F. W. J.

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MANUFACTURING CO.

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142 SANSOME ST.. SAN FRANCISCO

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SANTA MARIA, CALIFORNIA

FRANK J. McCOY, Owner

ORVILLE E. SAMMAN, Manager

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SSALKRAFT

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Chieaqo, III.

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San Francisco, Calif.

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Producers and Finishers

Domestic and Imported Marbles

San Francisco and Los Angeles
San Francitca phone: SUfter 6747

BASALITE

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PERMANENT • FIREPROOF • STORM-
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Manufactured by

BASALT ROCK CO.. INC.

NAPA. CALIFORNIA

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

N. CLARK
AND SONS

Manufacturers of

Qualify
Architectural
Clay Products

During this stag* of the war,
our principal anergy Is to man*
ufacture products required by
the various war agencies. We
still can supply some pre-war
materials for civilian needs.

401 PACIFIC AVENUE

ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA

San Francisco • Los Angeles

Salt Lake City • Portland

ABBOT A. BANKS, INC.
Engineers & Chemists

INSPECTING — TESTING — CONSULTING

CONCRETE • STEEL • MATERIALS

CHEMICAL AND TESTING

LABORATORIES

• RESEARCH AND INVESTIGATION •

TESTS OF STRUCTURAL MATERIALS

DESIGN OF CONCRETE MIXES

SHOP AND ERECTION INSPECTION OF

STRUCTURES AND EQUIPMENT

INVESTIGATION OF STRUCTURES

AND MATERIALS

TESTS AND INVESTIGATION OF

FOUNDATION SOILS

FIRE RESISTANCE ANO INSULATION

TESTS

624 Sacramento Street, San Francisco

Robert W. Hunt Company

ENGINEERS

Inspection • Tests ■ Consultation

Schools and Other Structures
Are Built as Designed

WktH Construction Materials are

Inspected at point of Manufacture

and during Erection by

ROBERT W. HUNT COMPANY

Cement. Concrete, Chemical, Metallurgical,
X-Ray and Physical Laboratories

Chlcaqo New York Pittiburgh

Loi Anqalai All Large Citiei

San Franciico, 231 Kearny Street

MEXICO'S ARCHITECTURE

"Building activity started in 1521,
immediately after the Conquest, and
lasted until the beginning of the dis-
turbances which terminated in the
Independence of Mexico in 1821. The
province enjoyed a period of unex-
ampled prosperity, free from war or
civil dissension of any kind, for nearly
three centuries, which may be desig-
nated as the Vice-Regal period, dur-
ing which its wealth increased to an
astonishing extent. . . .

"The Cathedral of Mexico City is
probably the largest church in Ameri-
ca, (387 feet long and 177 feet wide),
and, all in all, perhaps the finest. Its
rather low and heavily buttressed fa-
cade and majestic towers seem to ex-
press the very essence of Latin Ameri-
can spirit. The church deserves to be
better known; I question if a more
satisfying Renaissance cathedral ex-
ists in the world. The original design,
laid out by Castaneda, was supple-
mented after the corner stone had
been laid, in 1573, by a new project,
the work of Juan Gomez de Mora,
who was sent from Spain by Philip II.

"The introduction of glazed faience
was followed by its use for the decora-
tions of domes, towers and walls, and
its brilliant coloring, seen against the
intense blue of the sky, added another
note to the already dazzling scheme.
The surprising fact is that throughout
all this riot of elaborate decoration
and color, the innate Spanish good
sense always retained ample surfaces
of plain masonry as a background and
frame for the ornament, even in the
most extravagant buildings, and the
particolored domes invariably rose
above a base of severely plain stone,
so that the effect of the whole was
never confused. In this respect alone,
Mexican architecture is worthy of
the most careful study. Even such
structures as the "House of Tiles" in
Mexico City, or the Casa del Alfen-
ique at Puebia, which are among the
most beautiful buildings in the world,
show a balance of elaboration which
could only have been conceived in
an atmosphere of architectural sanity.

"But after all matters of detail have

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Independent
Iron ^^orks

Structural Steel

Ornamental Iron

Steel Service Stations

Steel Tanks

Standard Steel Mill Buildings

Bridges

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ALADDIN

Heating Corp.

Specializing in

QUALITY HEATING
EQUIPMENT

2222 San Pablo Avenue

OAKLAND

TWinoaks 1022

MARCH, 1944

MULLEN MFG.
COMPANY

BANK. STORE AND OFFICE

FIXTURES-CABINET WORK

OF GUARANTEED QUALITY

CHURCH SEATING

Offic* and Factory:
) RAUSCH ST.. lat. 7th and itii St<.
San FrancUco
Talaptiona UNdarhlll 5115

THE TORMEY
COMPANY

GENERAL PAINTERS
AND DECORATORS

Phone UNderhill 1913

563 FULTON STREET
San Francitco

G. P. W.
JENSEN & SON

Building Construction

320 Market Street, San Francisco
Phone: GArfield 2444

been taken Into consideration, the
distinguishing fact remains that the
one dominant feature of Mexican Co-
lonial architecture Is the dome, which
was universally utilized and of which
literally thousands exist, all built of
solid masonry. Placed over the cross-
ing of naive and transept churches,
or roofing the Innumerable chapels
and shrines. Its use Imparts a singular
sweetness and beauty to the skyline
of the cities, almost unique in the
world. . . .

"A Mexican town house of the old-
er type Is approached from the street
by a great Iron-studded door and
a cavernous zaguan,' reminiscent of
Toledo or Segovia, which led to the
'patio.' The lower portions of the house
are devoted to service, storage, and
habitation of a sort for the porter, and
maybe several turkeys. Under the ar-
cades, which once sheltered the family
coach, Felipe or Vicente will perhaps
be found washing the car. A stone
stairway swings nonchalantly up to the
balcony which is gay with flowers,
vines, red peppers, and colored rugs.
Brilliant colored birds in wooden cages
hanging from the roof add to the life
of the scene. From the balconies,
open lofty, possibly rather bare cham-
bers, running through to the street.
If the house Is In the plateau country
another stair leads to the brick paved
azatea' or roof. In the country the
house is likely to be even more pic-
turesque and the flowers more pro-
fuse. . . ."

—From Walter H. Kllham's "Mexican
Architecture of the Vice-Regal
Period."

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SAN FRANCISCO

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REINFORCING STEEL

liTH AND CAMPIELL STS.
OAKLAND, CALIF.
Phona GLancourf 1747

Phone GArfleid ll«4

Thomas B.Hnnter

Consulting Engineer
DESIGNER OF HEATING
AIR CONDITIONING
VENTILATING AND WIRING
SYSTEMS, MECHANICAL
AND ELECTRICAL EQUIP-
MENT OF BUILDINGS

41 SUTTER STREET

San Francisco

California

JOHIV
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—Since 1886— And Still Active—

Building Materials

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METAL LATH - WOOD LATH

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Service Unexcelled

Bunkers

Sixth end Channel, San Francisco

Phones: GArfield 3176. GArfield 3177

REMILlARD-DAilKI Co.

Brick and

Masonry Products

633 BRYANT ST., SAN FRANCISCO

569 THIRD ST., OAKLAND

ANDERSON

&
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General Contractors

320 Market Street, San Francisco
Phone GArfield 224S

ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

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