Show f f J Smaller Cities Are Now Coming Into Their Own America Is showing a distinct reaction reaction rear rear- tion from the tendency toward big cities dUes The modern methods of ot telephonic tele tole- phonic and anti telegraphic communication the railways and street cars the lighting lighting light light- ing and sewage systems that made great grent cities poss possible ble now now are ure helping the large cities clUes to develop residential J and The rIbe automobile automobile automobile automo automo- bile has tended to take the people back to the country In all nIl our larger titles clUes people who can fight congestion by moving away from the do downtown town districts are arc doing so The tendency to centralize business and Industry and amI higher education In Ina ina I a few great centers is s giving place to to the more sensible plan of or distribution tion New York for instance pace once the clothing center of this country has bas strong rivals In Cleveland Chicago Cincinnati and other older cities Shoe man manufacturing and other Industries also are scattering Boston as the r of American culture has lost its laurels laurels laur laur- I els to a thousand and one cities But the tendency toward the cities during has not halted halted halted halt halt- the last twenty-five twenty years ears ed though the drift to the few bigger cities has been less pronounced The chances of a city the size of or Cedar edar Rapids are better toda today than ten years ago The complex social and ond industrial problems of the metropolitan metropolitan metro metro- politan centers are turning the attention attention atten atten- tion of large business ent enterprises es to small cities clUes The economic struggle In the great cities clUel tends to make malie the tile wage earners lOOK loox toward the smaller cities clUes where opportunities for home borne life Ufe and contentment are greater The smaller city Is coming Into Its own The gigantic city has not proved to to be the most successful experiment In civilization The chances of su success and happiness In any good city of from from fifty to one hundred thousand population population tion are greater grealer than In the very large Cedar city Cedar Rapids Ia la Gazette |