Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1914 — HOME TOWN HELPS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOME TOWN HELPS

ADVICE OF EXPERT NEEDED Other Cities Would Do Well to Romember This Counsel Given • to New York. . This city-planning department, while made up of men who have made a study of city planning, should be advised by outside experts, whose salary should be a small percentage of the money saved by their advice. Such a commission or board should have the same power as the bureau of highways or bureau of building, gas and water supply. It should be a permanent organization so that the work once started should not terminate with the termination of the general municipal administration in force. ) It would be the duty of the cityplanning department to co-operate with other departments in order to obtain the best results. At present city planning in New York is being carried-on to a certain extent by a more or less informal committee of the board of estimate and apportionment, which, while including high city officials, contains no expert in city planning, and its. members are largely, if not wholly and necessarily, occupied with other affairs of the city’s administration. Under such circumstances it is impossible for justice to be done the city in the highly Important work of city planning, which affects the future of the city for numberless generations to come. Surely this is a condition which should be remedied. —New York Sun. <■ /