| Show V B traffic arteries must be planned with care car teaching a community how bow to grow Is one of the businesses that ha wis evolved from this machine age and towns and cities are no longer as self contained as they were their prosperity and development depending to a large degree on the prosperity of an entire area this has brought about the widespread application of city planning und and its big brother regional planning governmental agencies authorized or qualified to do the work for a city and its environs rarely exist whatever Is to be accomplished must come through the activities of the c citizens themselves who can be most effective through the medium of the city or regional onil planning body of all the problems that the community of today has to face that of the automobile and its attendant demands is of most concern Thet the travel ruvel nut fluidity city of the car has caused the suburb and outlying districts to blossom adequate traffic art arteries erlei must bi b built and certainly there must be some directing agency to see that they are built where there Is the most need in days gone by cities and towns grew without intelligent direction streets for the most part were confined to that age old four rod width without proper guidance growing communities will find themselves vei still laying out the same old narrow routes which became inadequate about the time blacks blacksmiths in ithe began giving up the anvil for or automobile tools tree shaded highways highway add to property proper ty value it Is time to consider systematic tree beautification beautifies alon of our highways many of which are unsightly iri in europe the highways are 0 9 delight to the tourist particularly to the Americ tin who marvels at those wonderful tree lined roads says the new york state college ego of forestry at S syracuse syracuse university except for or a few memorials and places where civic organizations organizational have planted trees and where the private owner has taken a pride in the appearance pe arance of his property no organ iced planting on our modern state stata roads has been done since the advent of automobile highways roadside planting seems to have been forgotten at a time it Is most needed no state at present Is setting out avenues of trees on its highways our modern highways might very up appropriately he embellished by avenues of elms or maples and in some places by what Is known as the group plant ing system the expense of this work would be partially offset by the increased values of abutting property owners by esthetic improvements i iby by less pavement maintenance a and id a slower slover deterioration of auto automobile mobile equipment make towns town Op opportunity opportune ty never in the history of this country has your town had the opportune opportunities tle that it has today big business Is looking to the smaller city as it never lias has before the town or city that prepares itself for big things thing swill will greatly profit and every individual citizen will he be bene fitted but the town must be ready the way to be ready Is to be at work building up the morale aggressiveness customer attitude and salesmanship ability of 0 the clerks elti zens of the community in not by erection of monuments or idle talk on town boosting boost lne but by constructive thinking to do something get something achieve something to climb out of the rift ru t to have a city that Is the best in the land in which to live work play and make money to have a city which lias bas eliminated the oppressive ugliness of dormant inactive civic pride anderson ind herald trees tree wantonly injured with trees along its boulevards along streets not under control of the park board and many thousands more more in yards end and in parks kansas city truly Is a city of trees according to 3 W blachly forester for the park department in a report mr blachly Blac lily points out 00 per cent of the trees killed along the boulevard system each year are lost because of carelessness of motorists lie he estimates between SOU ISOO and trees each year are killed because of being injured by motor cars or trucks mr air blachly points out when a tree is s killed it must be replaced by a similar kind as near the same size elze as possible replacing a tree costs from three to fifty times as much as aa jbf original planting color scheme for roof in these days of dawning col ored buildings when the newest color curd card for or roofs includes such a multiplicity of shades as antique brown gray green dusk blue weathered brown heather purple tile red jade green and black pearl opal and multi crome nn an authoritative color harmony chart la Is as necessary in the building world as in the dressmaking world rehabilitation profitable ble rehabilitation of the old home preserves serbei both its use value aad material value |
