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Report on Modular Coordination , Now Available

New advances in a system for achieving construction economies by establishing uniform size standards is de- scribed in a report on "modular coordination" now avail-

' able from the Office of Technical Services, Department o{

Commerce.

'.' Th" report was prePared by the Modular Service Asso- r ciation of Boston which carried out a project in the field with the assistance of funds supplied by the Office of

Technical Services as part of its $1,500,000 research pro- gram in I94G1947 to aid U. S. industry. f,, According to the rePort, modular details have now been applied to chimney flue linings, stone sills, and two proprietary window products. These items are either on the market now, or expected to be shortly. Modular sizes have also been proposed for aluminum windows, kitchen equipment, toilet partitions and shower stalls. Now under development are steel stair units, ceramic tile, porcelain enamel, steel lockers and certain types of hospital equipment. Work is continuing on brick veneer walls and various types of masonry units.

Modular coordination calls for standardizing building i, dimensions on a four-inch and four-foot module. It is a system Tor simplifying plans in commercial, industrial and residential construction by establishing uniform component sizes for the guidance of materials suppliers, engineers, architects and builders.

"Grid Lines" a magazine published by the Modular Service Association as part of its contract with the Office of

Technical Services was widely distributed and is now available in most public libraries. Its continuation is to be provided for by the American Institute of Architects with th" .oop.r"tion of the Producers Council.

Despite the growing iriterest in modular coordination, the Modular Service Association points out that various difficulties have hindered its full adoption. Although'certain manufacturers, for eiample, have announced "modular sizes," these sizes have not always been coordinated properly with other materials. Furthermore' even true modu' lar materials cannot be employed to their maximum usefulness unless the builder or architect is 'fully acquainted with the entire modular system. The Association believes that the work done under the recent contract has helped to overcome these difficulties.

PB 88834, Dimensional Coordination of Buildings, and Materials and Equipment, on the Modular System;96 pages including committee studies and sample sheets, is available from the Office of Technical Services, Department of Commerce, Washington 25, D. C., at $2.50 per copy' ,Orders should be accompanied by check or money order payable to the Treasurer of the United States.

Tully-Bcrttiste

G. R. (Jefi). Tully was married October 19 to Grace Battiste at the Onward Ranch, owned by his sister, near 150-mile House on the historic Cariboo Trail, in British Columbia. Mr. Tully is sales manager of the fir department of Hallinan Mackin Lumber Company, San Fran' cisco. He flew north early in October on a two-week vaca tion. and he and his bride returned to San Francisco by air'

Iohn W. Dcniel's Tribute To Lee

He lt/as Well Inlormed

(On June 28th, 1883, there was ceremoniously unveiled In the tavern of a small town three men were discussing at Washington & Lee University at Lexington, Virginia, a gentleman who had died several years previously. They a recumbent figure of Robert E. Lee. tvtajor John W. all agreed that the deceased had been a selfish,- grasping, Daniel's oration at this unveiling was one of the greatest miserly, mearr, disagreeable, and even ,cruel citizen. sustained fights of oratory in att .human history. Here A stranger interrupted the discussion. "I think you are are excerpts that prove thai fact:) alt wroflg," he declared.quietly.' "The gentleman you refer

Locksley Hcll , By

Alfred Lord TennYdon

For I dipt.into the future faf as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all thc wonddr that would be;

Saw the heavens fill with cornmerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly' bales;

.,A people is its own judge. Under God there can be no to was kindly, courteous' lovable, thoughtful, and generhighei judge for themio seek, or.court, or fear. In the .ous.'' supreme moments of national life, as in the lives of indi- "He was a fiiend of yours?" asked one of the critics of viduals, the actor must resolve and act within himself the dead' alone. The Southern States acted for themselves-the Oh, no, I never met him." Northern States for themselves-Virginia for herself. And "But if yog've never met him, how do you khow so when the lines of battle formed, Robert Lee took his place much about him?" in.61,sline,beside,his people,"his. kindred, his.children-hic-..* "f should know,'f insisted the stranger. "I married his home. Let his defense rest in this fact alone. Nature speaks widow"' it. Nothing can strengthen it. Nothing can weaken it. The historian can compile ; the ,casuist may dissect; the i'i' statesman may expatiate; the advocate may plead; the jurist may expound; but, after all, there can be no stronger or tenderer tie than that which binds the faithful heart to kindred and to home. And on that tie, stretching from the cradle to the grave, spanning thb heavens and riveted through eternity to the throne of God on high, and underneath in the souls of all good men and true-on that tie rests stainless and immortal, the fame of Robert Lee.

"Come we then today in loyal love to sanctify our'mern' ories, to purify our hopes, to make strong all good intent , by communion with the spirit of him who, being dead, yet speaketh. Come child, in thy spotless innocence; come veor.nan, in purity; come youth, in thy prime; come m:ur' hood, in thy strength; come age, in thy ripe wisdom; cotne - citizen ; come soldier; let us strew the roses and lilies of ; June around his tomb, for he like them, exhaled in his life nature's beneficence, and the grave has consecrated that life, and given it to us all. Let us crown his tomb with the oak, the emblem of his strength, and with the laurel, the emblem of his glory, and let these guns, whose voices he knew of old, awake the echoes of the mountains that na- ture herself may join in his solemn requiem.

"His sword beside him is sheathed forever. But honor's seal is on his brow, and valor's star is on his breast, and the peace that passeth all understanding descenils upon him. Here, not in the hour of his grandest triumph of earth, as'when amid the battle roar shputing battalions followed his trenchant sword and bleeding veterans forgot ,their wounds to leap between him and his enemies:but here in victory, supreme over earth itself, and over death, its conqueror, he rests, his warfare done. And, as we seem to gaze once more on him we loved and hailed as chief, in his sweet, drgamless sleep, the tranquil face is clothed with heaven's light, and the mute lips seem eloquent with thi message that in life he spoke:-'There is a true glory and a true honor; the glory of duty done; the honor of the ,integrity of principle."'

Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew

From the nation's airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm,

With the standards of the peoples plrrrrging thru the thunder storm; '

Till the war-drum throbbed no longer and the battle fags were furled,

In the Parliament of Man, the Federation of the world. Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let ' us range,

Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change.

Thro the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger days,

.Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathays.

Followed Orders

"Good morning, Mrs. Kelly," said the Doctor, "did you take your husband's temperature as I told you?"

Mrs. Kelly said: "Yes, Doctor. I borrowed a barometer and put it on his chest. It said 'very dry' so I bought him a pint of beer and he drank it, and he's gone back to work."

, Mechcnicclly Specrking

One 'chick hatched' out in the electric incubator. It looked around and remarked: "tookg like I'll be an onlf child. Mother's blown a fuse.'f :