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Show SIMPLY MATTER OF BUSINESS Thrifty Citizens of Parle Well Aware That It Paya to Spend Money In Improving the City. While tho residents of Chicago are still in doubt as to the practicability of trying to carry out the plans of tho "Plan of Chicago" the residents of Farla have given quite convincing proof of their confidence that a beautiful beau-tiful city not only pays artistically, but commercially as well. The municipality of I'arls asked the citizen citi-zen ft of I'arls to subscribe a loan of 2.riO,n00,0no francs (about $47,000,000), the money to be used In beautifying the city. The jieople promptly responded re-sponded by oversubscribing the amount thirty times. The illuminating point Is that tho people of Paris hnvo been taxed more than the people of any other city in the world for civic Improvement, municipal beautiflcatlon. Perhaps they were so willing to subscribe for another loan that would mean additional addi-tional taxes because they had already paid out enough to know they would get it back many times over. Hack of the desire of the Parisians for a beautiful city there Is a strong artistic artis-tic impulse. Hut back of both there are powerful business considerations operating to make the people of the French city realize the commercial benefits of a city beautiful. |