Show I Municipal Parks One of Today's Great Needs Municipal parks of the larger larcer type which combine the advantages of the great national parks park and the small neighborhood parks parIes are In some respects respects re reo the type most needed by AmerIcan Amerlean Amer Amer- merIcan mer- mer Ican lean cities Karl B. B Lohmann chief chiet of at landscape architecture at nt the college collece of agriculture University of at Illinois says In an article in Parks and Reese Reese- nUon Our great national parks are too far removed from the people In cities to serve them adequately Lohm Lohmann nn points out N Neither r are the small parks which are within with with- in easy reach of at many the Ideal form because they afford so little of what the wearied brain people of at the city elty most demand he adds The rhe type to which we may turn therefore must be one that combines as nearly as possible the advantages es of these two extremes having primarily manly marily scenery on the one hand and accessibility on the other From this we may assume that that- it must be a place of considerable size within faIrly fairly fairly fair fair- ly convenient reach of ot the people anti and offering them a 11 feeling of ot the open country with woods and views over oyer stretches of grass and anti water sufficient to provide refreshment of mind and body for hours at a time Parks are beginning to occupy an outstanding place In the lives of the American people Lohmann says Millions Millions Mil Mu- lions of dollars have been spent In Inthis inthis this country and millions of acres have been acquired for park parl purposes while the demand for parks goes on on Increasing increasing In In- creasing and finds continuous expresion expresIon expression ion sion Ion In n the acquirement of ot new lands and further new developments I Smaller and Better I At the risk of fn Incurring th the scorn o othe of the go-getters go I think that I shall withdraw my support supped from the bigger bigger- better and-better city movement and devote devot It to the smaller-and-better smaller city movement movement move move- ment meat said Mr Cato TherIs There Ther Is nothing reactionary about this r quite on the contrary It Is sive The better and movement I If not as old as s the hills Is doubtless as old as cities The smaller and ter movement mo Is a reform a getting from old bId things a getting away from old slogans as they are so Ineptly Ineptly Ineptly In In- called The better and movement has been in progress for a along along along long time and it has achieved remarkable remarkable remarkable remark remark- able results In the way of ot bigness but bu nothing at all aU In the way of betterment better better- ment It may be that bigness and bet bet- are incompatible lis Ils News |