Show CRISIS IN OUR AMERICAN TRY No 1 ! : f A A am !''P''-‘- LI ‘ NJ" 4 073 er 4: tO 'am CI 1! 41 sr-- ) i44 J LAST CHANCE TO II c) SAVE OUR CITIES - 'p1' (See Page Two) V -- 1 t- I Woe t from ce311 -I 10- 1 The nest 10 years will bring unprecedented growth plus the terrific headaches that go mith it But private enterprise can lick them says this expert Here is his bold and challenging program — by JOSEPH W LUND s4rwrst 1 I 4 llov - UP live in work in or even visit That's a black forecast but fortunately by acting now we can keep it from coming true The action we must take is the kind of action which private enterprise can undertake on a basis rather than waiting for directives from city-by-ci- ty ' Washington Here is what's happening to our cities e 11319 tanner president National Association of Real Estate Boards: "Our national reper is at stake" utation tor MEM W sell-rellan- t 111 1 iplzr:r 'y today: Recently a Kings County Grand Jury violations in New investigating housing-laYug k City OW ged The greatest city in the world is surely but not slowly being permitted to deteriorate and decay Slums are being created faster than they are being eliminated" A city neighborhood on the downgrade is a pressing sight The houses go first Bricks are thick with grime Screens are rusty Hallways are littered with trash letter boxes tarnished signs go up over doorbells back yards are unmentionable Small apartments are divided in two families double up merIn the shopping section cheap-jac-k chants move in fast Store windows are - s t -- 1963 unless we act now most of our cities will be places few people will want C: Ar J Lwingwe w 911 4 :1111 1104 0 i 4 AdommENIr idiniN1 01111110111 r Ple — V"' ''' aogng It once-dece- nt jammed with gewgaws and tawdry merchanhovels and saloons open close dise Hot-do- g change owners and open again Offices which once were leased to sound business or professional people now stand empty Movie houses that once played only family-typ- e pictures turn to horror thrillers and pornographic still shots are pinned up in the lobbies At the local school there are not enough books or desks to go around Broken windows are patched with cardboard and there are gapfence Petty crime ing holes in the school-yar- d is on the rise It isn't safe to leave jeour car unlocked In the little neighborhood park children still Play and mothers sit with baby carriages but the grass is gone the hedges have turned brown and no one ever comes 0 Jilt CITY MODEL 'halving skyscrapers slums traffic arteries and polio - around to sweep up yesterday's newspapers Can you see it beginning to happen in your neighborhood? On your street? At the rate we are going every city will have at least some sections which are at the seams iredlimgict that in 10 years experts barring fast action now we city dwellers — and our suburban neighbors—will be swamped by the results of our own shortsightedness Here Ire the factors which are building up to a crisis: Real-estat- e 4 Record Rousting Shortage By 1963 our population will stand at more than 175 million The first of the World War 11 baby married and house crop will be grown hunting We won't be able to provide new houses fast enough for them even if our 10 ? - present construction rate ia grMdly increased by technological advances Bigger end Better Traf- - Their Snarls fic a nearly insurmountable problem today will be even 25 Per cent more auto- mobiles will be choking the city 'streets Zooming Local rases City authorities to spend huge sums to replace buildings sewers sidewalks and other municipal facilities that even a few years before could have been repaired and saved will be forced Spreading Slums Thousands of square blocks of dwellings that are now on the down-u- p grade but still worth salvaging will be by then no longer habitable by any decent standards In the past year I have visited 85 cities in -113 r |