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Show "WE'RE SATISFIED New York City has just taken a census of her population, and it shows a total of 6,103,384, or more people than can be counted count-ed in Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and San Francisco combined. com-bined. No other city now approaches ap-proaches it in population and 10 tell the truth, no. other city appears to be sorry along that line. New Yorkers are happy, even though their happiness comes largely through ignorance ignor-ance of the blessings they could enjoy if they lived in smaller cities, or even in towns the size of Delta. It is a case of "what 1 they dont know, dont hurt them," and of ignorance being bliss. There is but one New . York, and of course the United States is glad to possess that one. It gives us some place to point to when we want to compare com-pare community blessings. But after the comparison has been made, we of the smaller cities and towns something like 105,000,000 of us prefer not to live in New York. |