Show U efu g ON THE GROWTH OF TOWNS if co community M grows fatter faster than pop lation can be 00 assimilated bad results follow communities which think only of growing bigger are arc looking a at only agne one tide side of community life filid and development find and perhaps not the most I 1 important side either the he workers I 1 in n tile the field of rural social nodal organization at the state agricultural college at ithaca point out in calling attention to nn an or ar alf by dr david D vaughan liun of llos box ton university inthe Tnt lie article dr vaughan first asks it if one can estimate thewortha the worth of bf a man by ills his size it if one cue can estimate blied flied he mans value to society by the scales ill jf a man developed it a fifty pound tumor would he boast boadt of itt continues the he writer some towns nr are foolish enough to boast of increasing po population p when the citizens added are a liability instead of nn an asset they may 4 offer an opportunity for missionary work end crid for americanization classes end they may furnish the occasion fir careful planning by religious religion and educational cat ional leaders but often they are hardly a hauls for flamboyant boosting boasting the alze of a city may be increased by y 0 11 s slum firm population but not the tha getil I 1 worth of the city towns ought to grow rid no faster r than the new population can be assimilated of course it la Is not impossible for the new population to be nn an improvement over the old but this to Is not usual economic motives are always at work so that material growth goes on without much encouragement nut bill the life of the soul bout needs to be fostered rind and developed the struggle for food end and for the material basis of life Is a but that does no bojt mean that the things that differentiate men from ant animals m nix fire arc a luxury hence if population la Is doubled by the addition of persons having a mere animal standard of life the be standard already attained by the previous worthy citizenship may be lost and the town go backward instead of forward too often we think we are vetter better off merely because men come to our town to lo buy gro groceries cerle a an and dry goods and real estate why not give thein pom something ething more than very nobes necessary so ry things when they johnus Jol nual nus our town might be better it if it were large provided provide the in increased size made enrichment of life it if peo pie thus found the more abundant ife we should declare that we had find moved forward we therefore will not cast envious eyes upon towns that nrc are merely larger than our town since a town like a person needs something besides size she to make it worthy whether our town increases in population or not it may surely be made to increase in real values and it will if ft a few citizens care and plan and sac sacrifice am I 1 one of them theat REAL VALUE OF GOOD PAVING reduces deduces the cost of hauling and incidentally ci living Rate Test made in chicago chi 1 0 good paying paling cuts hauling costs thereby red reducing neing the cost of living wideawake wide awake teamsters have hae always known that it wilis sound policy to conserve the energy of their horses by driving over streets where the loud lood seemed to pull easiest easle bt they and nil all team owners will be keenly interested in a report no 08 issued by the horse association ot america union dockyards stockyards dock stock yards chicago the tests teals wera were ran tande deat nt chicago in september last by 11 V collins Col llna research engineer elig ineer from the lie iowa experiment station nilon st and representatives of the horse association of america typical city loads leads drawn hy by one two and three horses borses were tested over routes usually used and tile the pull in pounds required by an integrating recording dynamometer it wa found tha that it required less lees effort to move a load weighing weli hing ten and three eighths tons over steel ralls rails thun than to move two and two fifths tons over asphalt it required one sixth less energy to move seven neven and tons over ever concrete paving stian to move three and seven awen tons over asphalt and tile the largest load tested eleven and eleven wenty twenty tons required less energy to pull it over granite block glnn was required to pull six and seven hundredths tons over asphalt only one test over dirt roid ro id was made but this confirmed previous tests test made in california and lowa iowa ap an ex smi nation of such data shows that it Is easier to pull three and one liala tom over a concrete or good granite block pavement than to pull one ton over a firm dirt road |