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Show nlng and nooelng. through acquisition of large tracts land to be divided and sold In building lota for working-men's working-men's houses. In many other wars the exhibition, which we owe to deorge McAneny and the Merchants' associa-tlon, associa-tlon, should be highly stimulating. More than forty among the 200, American Ameri-can citie participating, and 1 among the Canadiau, have city, planning commissions, com-missions, while In Massachusetts, New-Jersey New-Jersey and Pennsylvania helpful legis-. latlon has been enacted. Our administrators adminis-trators cannot afford to lag in forei sight behind those of Toronto and Philadelphia. The exhibition should, contribute to the enlightenment or thousands of citizens upon our clvi. problems. New York Evening Post ACTION SHOULD BE GENERAL New York Post Heartily Indorses the City Planning Exhibition Being Held There. . Especial interest attaches to the city planning exhibition from the fact that the probable ratification of the excess condemnation amendment will enlarge the possibilities before New York. Ex.. cess condemnation has probably-worked probably-worked to best effect in Ohio, where Cincinnati and Toledo have entered upon large programs of city building; while Cleveland, as the current Survey records, has "undertaken the first municipal, mu-nicipal, experiment In suburban plan- |