Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1916 — Municipalities Need Power. [ARTICLE]

Municipalities Need Power.

Thomas Adams, English city-plan-ning expert, on a recent visit to this country, emphasized the necessity of proper legislative steps to give municipalities power to carry out townplanning scfiemes. He pointed out that, to have a successful application of restrictive regulations, there must be co-operation between the owner and the municipality. “If you leave the control of your building development until the buildings are up, the owner is not going to submit to restrictions which will take away his property. If you go to him 12 years before, he will join you in the proper health regulation which will help him to properly control and restrict the property so long as you restrict everybody else in the district accordingly.” In closing, Mr. Adams said: “Somebody said yesterday that you. In America, have no w’nr. Have you not? You have got war with potential degradation and slum life just as we have in Europe, and you huve to fight it. You have war with all these difficulties that breed preventable diseases ; with those difficulties that always confront us. 1 want to appeal to the American Civic association to be up and doing. Not only let it be said that this hemisphere is a place where there is liberty and freedom, politically speaking, but it is also a hemisphere of home.”