Show ilch n s of sees industrial future center in in small towns the america ot of the future hlll willbe be a nation of small towns and villages prophesies prof walter waller B pitkin of columbia university in an article in the household magazine tire community of the future writes doctor pitkin will not be tile tl few hundred pr gr thousand people around the old crossroads it will embrace 50 small towns and the county count y seat scat there will be between and people in this social unit they will not be pach packed ed together like the of the topical modern city of that size they will be spread out over two or three thousand and square miles each family having its own home each village having its own playgrounds motion picture theater and parks america will be dotted with tens of thousands of pleasant i homes having big back yards in which tiny workshops will be busily turning curnin out an indescribable variety of special products all the villages and small towns of 0 the united states will become industrial centers eat cut in a new and better way all their factories will be new perfectly lighted and operated electrically most of them will be surrounded by spacious lawns and flower beds roads will be so good and autos so fast and safe that eliat the owners of large farms between the villages will either live in town or be there much of the time and still manage their acres with ease nobody will live more than ten miles from a town with every convenience and with ft el well vell developed social life it will require not more than 20 minutes for the farthest farmer to reach such a town outside of the rocky mountain and parts of the southwest |