Show Re reestablishment establishment of old fashioned town meet ing in american life by DR HENRY E JACKSON social engineer the engineer physicians remedy for the iho ills that new york and other cities are heir to is a simple one it is nothing more than the rd le establish ment of the old fashioned town meeting in american life the ordinary individual would bo be social if he be had an opportunity and a place to fao be so he would operate cooperate co with other individuals and make himself felt buts but ut at presen present the he cant he be is powerless and lie ho might as well weh be inarticulate ono one person cannot make himself felt among five million unless ho he can find fina others who think as he does in a word unless ho he is is organized organize cL but you cannot organize five millions of people either you get them all together in one place consequently it ik is planned to new york up for the ilia purpose of the town meeting project into the villages from which she grew you see a village is not no only tonly a geographical expression it is also an ali idea we will reconstruct those villages socially along the old lines of village elife life each centering around its ita meeting then mr average citizen and 11 his is follows fellows will no longer be submerged but will bo be able abl e to make maka themselves felt in the right way the town meeting will give people a chance to practice citizenship all the time |