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and you have an extra bedroom. If you have an unmarried 

 son or daughter, build their rooms with extension rods so 

 that when they marry they can take their rooms with them. 

 "The Plank Panels can be produced by any well equipped 

 lumber mill. Under normal conditions the materials necessary 

 are available locally in every community. And local workmen 

 can erect the house according to a design that fits your needs, 

 your taste, and your pocketbook." 



Tradition Takes a Back Seat 



For a great many generations it has been customary for a 

 man to choose a house in which to live that resembled some 

 style of house used extensively in some earlier period. He 

 might ask the architect to modify the interior according to his 

 personal needs and wishes. But these changes were usually 

 minor ones. The whole process of making this selection of a 

 home was based upon the assumption that the exterior must 

 conform to a certain style and if any comfort at all were 

 feasible on the inside, why, that was fine, but if not, the man 

 and his family would adjust themselves to the house as grace- 

 fully as possible. 



"Except for moving the bathroom inside, improving kitchen 

 equipment and heating and lighting systems, our houses are 

 much the same as they were hundreds of years ago," declared 

 George Fred Keck, a disciple of the school of modern Ameri- 

 can architecture founded fifty years ago in Chicago by Louis 

 Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. 



"Our houses have little checkerboards of glass for windows, 

 because our forefathers couldn't buy a big piece of glass. Even 

 though we now can have a whole wall of glass we don't be- 

 cause architects and builders have preferred to copy the old 

 rather than create the new. 



"Automobile makers," he points out, "weren't satisfied to 



