A New Englander and a veteran who has served for two Years on the editorial staff of the Baltimore Sun, EDGAR L. JONES has been freshly impressed by the vigorous efforts which Baltimore has made to clean up the worst of its slums. Together with BURKE DAVIS, who covers the housing problem for the Evening Sun, he makes the point that the Baltimore Plan should be followed by other cities as the first step in a public housing program.
A graduate of Dartmouth who served for fourteen months as an ambulance driver with the British Eighth Army in Africa, EDGAR L. JONES was invalided home in 1943, spent the better part of a year recovering from dysentery, and then was sent as the Atlantic's correspondent to the Pacific, where in company with Ernie Pyle and other tested correspondents he observed at close hand the assaults on Iwo Jima and Okinawa.