Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1916 — Urges City Improvement. [ARTICLE]

Urges City Improvement.

The American City, a publication reviewing municipal work throughout the country and promoting civic development, urges that cities in this country formulate' a three-year improvement program immediately following the termination of the European war. It points out that such a plan will serve greatly to diminish the ill effects of the sudden stoppage of the heavy operations of munitions and other factories in the country and the consequent throwing of thousands of men out of employment for the time being. The suggestion is a good one, and if generally adopted would, besides accomplishing the effects above Indicated, result In many public improvements that nearly every municipality needs and must have ta the course of time if it hopes to be numbered among the “live ones.” |