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Show yu SWARMS OF PEOPLE. You see houses -.prinjr up on vacant, lots in the city and you comment "Property is building up solid. I won dcr how far this congestion will go Pretty 6oon. we'll be packed in like sardines." The popular notion about civilized congestion is exaggerated. We are getting the bouses closer to- ! gether, but living quarters are not as oongested now as they were 72 yean ago. Striking an average, the census bureau bu-reau finds" five persons to each dwelling. dwell-ing. In 1850 the average home had six Ol I uijants. li Is probable, too, that the average home it larger now than in 1S50 Tbe had many big mansions in those das but a great many more small homes, including log cabins In vrhlch kltch-an, kltch-an, dining and living rooms were combined com-bined In one Wf moderns take a larger lioor space, partition it off into a greater number of rooms Wo observe the smallness of each room and get the notion that we are headed toward an existence In piano boxes. ou see a man build his home on a small piece ol property in the congest ed district, in preference to a larger property farther out, where the cost Qilght be lower, certainly would no' be higher. If you are in a philosophical frame ' of mind, you see that human beings have a swarming instinct like bees, i ants, schools of fish and herds of cari-D01L cari-D01L Fear is back of this swarming instinct. in-stinct. Men first banded together in a com-1 munlty for mutual protection against wild beasts. Later It was for protection against Other communities of men. It was dis 1 covered that it was easier to build a i wall or stockade around a village of' 1000 people than to build individual walls or stockades around each of 1000 separate dwellings. The swarming instinct, a form of fear, started civilization. Banded together, to-gether, men discovered that each had natural knack for some one task. Specialization followed, then barter the primtlve form of business. Misery loves company. So does Joy. The swarming instinct crops out inevitably inev-itably in everything worth while, also everything futile Let half a dozen pedestrians pause to Inspect an unusual auto parked at a curb, and the crowd grows like flies around sugar. The chlof reason for such Bwarmlng is the monkey instinct of Imitation. We talk a lot aboui being individuals, individ-uals, but ready at all times on nearh every tongue-Hp Is, "Come on, Join the crowd," There Is no great lesson to bo learned from studying the human swarming Insiinci. It Is Just one of the peculiar natural laws that canno' be altered by philosophy part of the "destiny that shapes our ends, rough-hew rough-hew them how we may." |