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Show TOWN PLANNING. We are tnUl that, a rage haa hroken out among, the people, of the east, to make over their ritie. They rail it "town planning," and in the last throo weeliH Philadelphia haa had the largest conference ou the atihject ever helrl in thia country or in any other. There ia school in Liverpool called the st hool of civic design, which readers will find Ae-wrihed Ae-wrihed in the current " ntimher of "Landscape Architecture," the critical organ of the American Society of Landscape Architects. The, have lecture lec-ture courses which deal with ,the intellectual, administrative- and recreative needs of the towns. The other auhjects are landscape design, reference to parks and gardens, public health acta, engineering engineer-ing and esthetics. The i.ohool also runs a magazine, maga-zine, which gives the public the result of its researches, re-searches, and haa a lecture hall in which are given popular lectures for the benefit of the laymen. Among the multitude of duties which oppress the ordinary business man, ha should keep in mi ad the.t Salt Lane City is to be one of these days, when . we get done quarreling over prohibition that does not prohibit and the mixing of church and state. Salt Lake City, we say. is to be the most beautiful of cities, and there ahouid lie. no mistakes uiaja now. Everything should be done with a design, and some leisure morning there should be a commencement com-mencement made to-see if any changes are needed in the present plana. We have beautiful wide streets, we have unwieldy blocks, a good many good and bad features, and they should be considered, consid-ered, because, as we say. Salt Iake must he the most beautiful of all cities after a whilv. |