Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1919 — IMPORTANT FACTOR OF CITY [ARTICLE]

IMPORTANT FACTOR OF CITY

Nothing Really of Greater Moment Than the Question of Proper Transportation. A city Is a big business institution. Not merely in the business it undertakes of its own, but rather in the part It plays in the business of the whole community. Take the comfort of Its citizens, for instance. During the war the lumbermen found they had relatively little labor trouble in camps in which it wbs possible for families to live a normal, wholesome life. Schools, churches, medical attendance, amusements—*ll entered into the labor problem. What was true in the camps is true in every city. The comforts available for people help to determine the business possibilities of the city. Another important business factor is that of the traffic system. In addition to street railway transportation, there must be adequate trafficways to handle business. It must be possible for people to get quickly and easily from one part of the city to another and it must be possible to deliver goods readily. Would a large automobile plant be able to turn out its enormous production of cars daily if it were cluttered up, if its passageways were relatively as narrow and congested as those of Kansas City?—Kansas City Star.