Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1918 — HOME TOWN HELPS. [ARTICLE]

HOME TOWN HELPS.

PLAN FOR FUTURE GROWTH Reasons Why Town’s Development Should Be Looked To Many Years Before It May Come. This is the spirit of the publication, but under the heading “Prevision, Prevention and Preparedness” the editor lays down certain principles that apply generally and will be' repeated In all sorts of variations at the joint housing and planning conference. These principles run as follows, and are worth quoting: “City planning Is the exercise of municipal imagination. It is the scientific and expert vision of inevitable city growth and the preparation of plans to provide for that growth. It is municipal prevision, municipal prevention and municipal preparedness. “City planning is the civic sense that refuses to build today what must be torn down tomorrow; that refuses to believe that the future will, not be greater than the past; that refuses to act on the theory that the growth of ten years gone by will equal the growth of ten years to come. “City planning Is the wisdom that Insists the distrust of the future Insures distress In the future; that doubt of future growth insures beyond doubt an unhealthy growth; that lack of preparation for growth means future expense In correction of unregulated growth. “City planning Is economy. It is not the economy of doing without. Doing without is not economy. It may be extravagance. A city that does without parks and playgrounds in abundance is extravagant in life and health. A city that ignores an opportunity for the acquisition of the things that make for health and happiness may lose the opportunity altogether.”—M Inneapolls Tribune.