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Show THE CITIZEN it mjs LAKES . ensyn 1 (sekhtek 0 to its credit or WHETHER Salt Lake is a to its city has without a real civic center. It its parks, its golf courses, its private auditoriums and meeting places, and it has its civic buildings, but there are no two built together and no provisions for such building. Last week, the strides of Denver, San Francisco and Los Angeles were discussed as typical of the centralizing movement of those cities. In this following brief discussion Salt Lake's program will be outlined, detailing the direction of the work taken. YOUNG America has been the concern of Salt Lake's civic expansion movement for the past several years, and as a result the wide system of parks and playgrounds for which the city is justly famed is the only monument to civic enterprise in which this people can claim any participation as a community. Under the guidance of Commis sioner Harry L. Finch, the program for the past four years, or nearly four years, has been one of amplification of those parks and playgrounds. We believe that it is much more important," Mr. Finch says, to keep the children off the streets, to send them home tired from hard play, than it is to launch into an extensive building program for adult accomodation. Salt Lake's playgrounds play a tremendous role in the build- i |