A native nf Greenville, Mississippi, and a graduate of Yale, DAVID L. COHN followed the American axiom that only a young man can afford to retire. He scored a quick success in the retail trade of New Orleans, inrested his earnings in a chicken farm, and then net on, to enjoy and report on the world. He is the author of a penetrating study of the White and the Negro entitled Where I Was Born and Raised; a critique of our tariff policy, Picking America’s Pockets; and two volumes of entertaining reminiscence. Love in America and The Good Old Days.

Home-building in the United Stales is still paralyzed by high prices, crippling regulations, and old-fashioned methods. While we tolerate rickety tenements, cheeseboxes, and jerry-built new construction, we stubbornly disdain the great possibilities of prefabrication. England has created almost 200,000 pre-fabs since the war, whereas our best post-war year produced only 37,000. Such is the finding of ANTHONY F. MERRILL, who during his recent residence in England visited the building sites of every type of new post-war house and interviewed many of the urban and rural housing authorities.