Show GREATE I M MAY IN AlA I M i p I Ji sro So 1 p Y l t r. r r l y w 8 PAUL t d' d Pre Press I JE SiEM PC d t. t Aug J oL 6 If rg hv tb the out are re c l. l Tr I tc In the W pUa- pUa llan hiatt i t L 1 Industrial rf where CIO closely fy a dozen lg Ig to toW p aU nU Ut hord border e- e eon on each other s gradually Iut e eating TIP P farming lar larid aa ath th they j The Th development some Ing and 11 n a centers rs' rs has been phen phenomenal and has l been ex cx o only II b by the th growth ts of such American cities cites a as D Detroit tolt Chicago ago or Los Ios ls A Angeles hausen F Easen Essen sen se sen em held Hamborn lambor Duls Dul burg were ere small fages villages a a a hundred years cars A-a A ago no now tet have avo front from A to inhabitants This development has been particularly pronounced pronounced- in the smoke belts belt in tile the Ruhr valley ancY between ee Duisburg and Bochum along alon a a. stretch b of OC about twenty miles long on Green landis hi alre dy scarce in this utis re region ro- ro glon gion where smokestacks line th tin horizon According to statisticians the whole region sooner or later wll win revolve oho regon Into ono one Industrial l unit haying having about b ut inhabitants M Many n cities in 18 I industrial du area a lre already y haye hays a absorbed surrounding villages lages whose administration however has remained ind Independent order to m mako maIco o adminIstration tion more nore efficient the government ton ho govern en haa 18 set Bet up a a. a plan for tor simplifying the whole urban system of ot the In Ind industrial In- In d area area Under this plan many Ind Independent towns if wilt will bo Inc rp rated with cities s with wah which they In fact already ate are united The Toe first action of will bo bc the tile into merging one or of thin tha twin t ln towns Elberfeld and amid Barmen For d decades It i has ha taken an exper expert to to 6 say ay l whore where Barmen ended am ard and Elberfeld begun besun yet ct both cities hav hate cuns- cuns clung to to their independence AU AH All at attempts attempts' at uniting them were cre thwarted thwart d by tho the resistance of oC the citizens ns of C the te two towns to Recent Recently however the thie Prussian diet voted v ted abil uniting Elb with This event precipitated I ted a a local revolution In Jn Barmen Bar Bar- I men ten tenI It I Is s true tre barricades I were built buIt buli nor were any arty windows but Abut the local I c 1 bran branch h of ot the tho C Catholic C Centrum party paty which l Is thi hB the trong strongest st party party In In Barmen Barmen passed a a. l' l resolution B 1 condemning the deputies l of ot dio arty art sitting In t e voted for tho the union Q f tho the two towns The he Prussian diet decided at the he same time that the Ham Ham- am- am born jorn a a manufacturing center whose development has ha primarily been duo to to o the thc growth of or the s shall l. l be Incorporated ed wih with rg Th merit mert caused an outburst of rage rage-In rn All Al coal pits ha fated their fla flags s the tle Th Thyssen ss n works even I flew a a black flag Furthermore ore lh he the street street cars of t the city st stopped for or five minutes as a protest st against tho the decision The Tho electric current curren curent was turned off oct and work ceased eased In Inman inmany man many nany work shops Crowds gathered In n the streets and angry comments on the governments government's pla 1 were ut t red To o juds-o by the tho evidence furnished fur fur- I P by tJ these thi so cy events the creation Uon of ot the giant gIant City o of the Ruhr fluhr mn may l not after aCer all aU besuch an easy job i as the statisticians dreamed It ft would be I |