Judge — June 15, 1929 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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Declaring Our Dependence notier thing we have long expected has come to A pass. In West Paterson, No man has been arrested for kissing his wife in public. Not only that, but even after he proved to the court that she was his wife, he was fined $27.50 nevertheless. The way things are going, we all night as well sign the new Declaration of Dependence, as drafted by Mr. Arthur Garfield Hays. “AL created wicked and are endowed by their Creator with certain limited privileges. Among these are the right to live (if you don’t drink), to liberty (if you conform) and to the pursuit of gloom, these privi It runs as follows: men are To secure instituted n and derive their just powers from the consent of ' the Ku Klux Klan, the es governments are mong Anti-Saloo: vice societies and every variety of busybody, meddler and crank.” On the street the other day, we met our little daugh ter and paused to pat her pretty head, but stayed our guilty hand just in the nick of time. We saw a pair of pigeons billing and cooing but averted our eyes in modesty. Made reckless by the spring sunshine, we started to laugh aloud, but choked it with a solemn sob. We threw mud at a billboard which pictured a rl watching a man smoke a cigarette. down a that advertised slapped the face of a cursing truckman., We pros- trated ourself before a cop. We stuck out our tonguc in the direction of the Statue of Liberty. may we have another lump of su go to bed early? We ripped sign jee-cream soda, We nw please rif we promise to Make Big Plans M ake no little plans,” said Daniel H. Burnham in a famous. pass: “They have no magic to stir men’s blood, and probably themselves will not be realized. Mak aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble logical diagram onc recorded will never die.” Such is the regional plan of New York and its en- virons, announced after seven years of work that cost the Russell Foundation a million dollars. Noth- ing like it has ever been seen in the world’s histor, An areca of thousand square covering every place within a radius of fifty miles of the City Hall, re peyond Bridgeport in Con necticut, above Beacon on the Hudson, past) L: more than five on the west, below Spring Lake on the ast, and out to the tip of Long Island—all this iS comprised in the region for which the plan is now complete. A program to cover the next half century is laid down, tentatively and subject to for local needs and sentiment. ‘The purpos: is not primarily beauty, but the preservation of civ- ilization and civilized standards of living. By 1965 there will be twenty million people in this arc he study has proved that it will be possible family to have change for every 1 house of its own on a lot forty by a hundred feet, with plenty of air and sunt till three-fourths of the resi it. and land unoceupicd by Highways, parks, bridges, tunnels, airports—all types of building projeets—are taken into account, The twelve volumes of reports, maps, charts and drawings have been created by experts in architecture, engineering, law, medicine, economics, transportation, logy and every other vocation that has to do with aking life more abundant. And most extraordinary is the assertion that this mighty plan can beec an-actuality by the use of amount of money that is now being spent hy the communities involved, and wasted in unseien tific developments that have to be placed the same andoned or re Hit-or-miss, helter-skelter, lick-and-a-prom ise building has been the curse of American growth. Individualism in construction has run wild, in neigh borhoods and between rival towns. We are fast com ing to the collective point of view. We must grow to gether, not apart, making big plans and by the very bigness of plans making savings in wealth as well as tremendous gains in health, comfort and happiness. Errata in re Free List H ARD indeed is it for a weekly paper to give ager readers the service they deserve in k ing up with the tariff bill. a partial list of items in that brief category quaintly known as the free list. No sooner had we put that to press than they went and changed it onus. ‘They took off the free list our special pets, “gloves and mittens of fabric made on warp knitting machines. As a partial offset, however, they added to the free list the following In the last issue we paving stone, h nd codliver-oil « We'll try to keep you informed, even though tardily. R.ILW, fence posts, carob comicbooks.com