Show Benefits in Community Foresight Are Outlined S It pays a city Just as It pays un nu Individual In- In to look ahead and plan its future Most of ot the thc larger clUes cities s of America have accepted the l Idea t u. u Some have hav been heen applying it with goot good results others have c been Inclined to lag In the latter class Kansas City must be Included A few Cew days ago a n promising move for for regional planning In this metropolitan metro metro- politan area aren was started In the city proper planning Is a n familiar t topic Yet Yet- Kansas CIt City remains without a u comprehensive program for development develop elop mont ment through a period of years yeul's with t definite projects listed for attention in Iii the order of their ur urgency enry as us nealy nearly near neal nearly ly y as us can cnn be determined In advance n says bays the tile Kansas City Times limes I That it is practicable to frame fruno suc such sucha I IR a R plan pinn has been shown by other othel cities notably Chicago and mote more recently re reo re- re In the latter a t ten ten- n year program has lias been devised with improvements listed and their approximate linate cost und anti the Dece necessary tax ra rate te determined Another example of a it som somewhat what different type is furnished I Iby by Philadelphia It Is announced d that construction there much of ot It private will Involve an nn expenditure of In the next live five years Through operative co effort the aim arn will be so sot soto soto t to to distribute the work work through gh the years that employment and other conditions con con- affected ed may be reasonably stabilized stabilizer The program Is only In the stage of serious consideration but it invites attention through its obvious possibility ity and benefits It Is said that unemployment un an- employment In the city Is only about 5 per cent rent Thus to provide work worl for all who might desire It would be neither difficult nor burdensome On the contrary It would be sound business business business busi busi- ness procedure It EL t suggests the tile feasibility of f the Hoover proposal for stabilizing employment em em- by o. o erly planning years ahead with a e reserve of construction projects and aDd funds In Its public pUb and 1 private m undertakings the country will hn have e to come around to this better way oy of doing business The rhe cities especially especially es es- es- es are ate In position to exercise foresight and lay their plans for ordeny orderly or or- deny derly businesslike development l |