Show PARIS KNOWS THEIR VALUE smooth clean highways and beautiful parks are profitable to the city paris has ban accepted unflinchingly the doctrine that smooth and clean highways aro are a wise investment and that so no long as the work la is done in a thorough and scientific manner with an honest and skillful application of means to ends the result Is worth having regardless of cost the expense of maintaining cleaning and sprinkling the streets is greater than in any other european city but the sort of preeminence pre eminence that such a street service helps to secure Is profitable table in a hundred indirect ways writes harvey N sheppard in the outlook paris has by far the richest park equipment of any city in the world the area of parks within an afternoons excursion la Is acres while farther away are more extensive public grounds such ac versailles and fontainebleau it Is impossible to estimate the profits which parts paris derives annually from its parks boulevards and public buildings have estimated that americans spend upwards of GOO million dollars annu ally in for foreign ign countries and it la Is safe to say that paris rec receives elves at least one fifth of this vast surn sum the profits from which are as great as are the profits from pork to chicago Chic ngo shoes to st I 1 louls and beer to milwaukee the experience of paris ought to convince the ho most moat skeptical that there I 1 Is no modern community of civilized men which cannot afford to provide the most perfect public appointments that technical and scientific knowledge have dir discolored covered w wll 11 mado made and clean streets good water proper drainage convenient transit facilities complete schools and thorough sint tary organizations no city should think itself rich bough nough to prosper without hem diem and no city Is IB so poor that it cannot afford thorn thom |