Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-30

| thoriIics are even empowered To pur
! chase lands compulsurily for these pur
| poses. Money may be borrowed bv
local authorities throughout the cbun.
| try for the purpose of building towns
| in accordance with the highest ideal.
| Wisely administered, this government
measure will usher in new and
| splendid era
London. as it exists today. Is an
! enormous magnet and II might be s,il
that the people who are attracted Ia
! this vast city, and indeed 10 all nthor
! great cities are human needles which
/ are drawn almost irresistibly by This
great magnetic force. What we pro-
| pose TO do in building towns that com
hinc the advantage of the city with
the country is practically to dcmag
retiza cities like London.
DEMONSTRATING LONDON.
IF, with our town plannng, we c,n
make our new cities SO attractive thai
they form opposition magnets To Inn.
don. we have solved the problem. W.
are not building cities but are maxim.
what we call Town Countries
THE demagneti2ing OF London and
other big cities by forming ceuters nf
counter attraction MI over England
where men can pursue their lives untlar
healthier conditions will be follower
by some very remarkable results b
the first place, the ground values or
London. SO enormous today. win di.
appear. The spell of London viii bc
broken, and the great bubble burst
Today the life aud earnings OF Lon
doners are in pawn to the owners of
it's soil who kindly permit them 10 live
upon it at enormous cost.
HIS ARGUMENT.
"N lille the removal of a vast BODY
OF people from London to our Town.
planned cities will reduce the value
OF land in London, the rates will fan
on smaller number of people. and
even these people will ultimately bs
forced away from the metropolis AS
the land of London is not owned by its
inhabitants but by private landlords
the consequence VIII be that the peo-
pie cannot afford to live I'm the metro
polls and will go to our towns. where,
they cnn have an interest In the prom
erty which they will own as part of
their municipalities. In time the bond
holders who today are masters of Lon
don will be unable to collect their in
terest, and as the bottom will have
already dropped out of land values
by the migration of people, so will tho
rate collectors have to reduce their
rates or get none at all. The con-
sequence Will be that all people now
dwelling i'll slums win have large
number of good houses at their disposal
at cheap rents and lowered rates, Ana
thus the problem of London overcrowd-
ing will be solved
Already proposals for the recon
struction of a new London have been
projected. Tho late William West
garth offered the Society of Arts $4,000
for the best plan of a remodeled Lon
don on Garden CITY lines
EFFECTUAL CHECKS.
To-day there are several tube rail-
ways which have been projected but arc
not carried out because the London
county council is making through par
lament such demands that capitalists
will not go on with ventures owing 10
these restrictions. These checks u1pou
private enterprise have begun 10 ar
feet the growth of London even now,
and make 1t less rapid than II other
wise would be.
But when the untold treasures Of
our land are unlocked and the people
now living in London discover how
easily vested interests, without being
attacked may he cIrcumvented then
the land owners OF London and those
who represent other vested interests
had better quickly make terms or Lon
don. besides being what Mr.. Grant AL
len terms a saualid village, may be-
come a deserted one
Well, the next step In human pro-
greSs. so the venerable Francis Gal
ton says, is to apply pretty much the
same principles to- children as It Is
now proposed to apply to towns-plan
them beforehand That Is what the
much discussed system which he has
christened ''Engencs" amounts 10.
w. Il. NORTHROP