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Show Predicts the Rebuilding of Cities to Meet the Newer and Speedier Life WALTER P. CHRYSLER, Automobile Manager. The city of tomorrow will be as different as the cars you see on the street today are different from those of 25 years ago. Three influences are at work in America to make our transportation facilities just as different. dif-ferent. Those influences include electricity, motor vehicle use, and radio. The year 1950 wiJ regard 1925 as one marked by a great wave of city rebuilding re-building and replanning, and the reconstruction is going to mean heavy taxation. The family of tomorrow will live in a small house or apartment, but that home will be absolutely fireproof, scientifically heated, illuminated by electricity, and thoroughly comfortable. In the city of tomorrow there will be no ice man. Refrigeration will be done in every home by electricity. Every home will be equipped with radio. Motion pictures will lie broadcast, as well as much of the news of the day. Universities will broadcast instruction by radio, churches will broadcast broad-cast their messages, and telephoning will be done by wireless. Picture! sent by electricitv will be one of the fine arts. Great cities will be made up of small towns and business will be decentralized. Tomorrow streets will be 120 to 340 feet wide and capable of handling han-dling six to eipht lines of traffic. The same will t; true of county and termin highways lending" into centers of population, such as our Lincoln Lin-coln highway, Dixie highway, Sheridan road, and like artcriri. In addition there will he grat, wile art"r's of travel running directly di-rectly to tlie city's c-r.ttT. I U'lieve that in ni"-t cities ra;i (raTic will be underground. There will Le no surfd'-e or t trains. Inst'-ad t! pro will le overhead motorways fur all vehicular tr.::Tc. Tomorrow the -destrian will reign Supreme on the street level and need fear little Mlt"t than the dropping of nicnkey wrenches and like impedimenta from s-. ing airplanes. I |