Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1920 — Hone Town Helps [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Hone Town Helps

GARDEN CITIES HELP TRAFFIC Transference of Part of Population Relieve* Congestion on Car* In London. Dense morning fogs have combined with the now chronic congestion of passenger traffic to make Londoners realize too vividly the Inconveniences of an over centralized population, remarks the London Times. London is undoubtedly too large for health, for happiness and for economical living and production; and, although the amenities of life in this and other great cities have in some ways been increased by providing dormitories at a distance from the work room, the problem of daily transit has been proportionately intensified. Much is to be said for the garden suburb, but even more for the garden city. The two are often confused or falsely identified, but from the point of view of transport the difference between is fundamental. Garden suburbs represent an extension of the daily traffic of a great town to a more distant circumference; garden cities, a permanent transference of a section of the population to a less crowded center. Every inhabitant of a garden suburb who works in the city contributes twice a day his or her share to the ever increasing problem of traffic congestion. The colonist of a garden city, on the other hand, definitely relieves the overcrowded centers of the duty of transporting him to and from his work and catering for him and his. Dwellers in garden suburbs are excursionists ; the garden citizen is an emigrant. It Is of the nature of the community to which he belongs that he shall not only sup, sleep, breakfast and occasionally play lawn tennis and grow beans or roses there, but * shall work there as well; and for his reward as a pioneer he escapes the strains and stretches of the straphanger.