Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-22
From The battle-ground Of Thought.

Foollshncss one OF the older pocts
In the Plans had II that God made
OF Old Cities. the country but man
made the town" There
1 are n lot of people who are hot on the
trail OF that man. II they laid hold OF
| him once they would trounce him as a
| Jerry builder and a dub But as that Is
| cut OF the question and OF no profit
and as we are all, after all pretty
much rcsponsible-they have set to with
n Will at the recasting of cities. The
movement has gone on mcrrily IN Eng
land. and continental Europe for some
time past and now has invaded a group
of the foremost American cities In
serious thoroughgong and an infec-
tious way. II Is the work OF the pio-
neers of this new urban movement that
is the text of a special number or
Charities and the Commons dealing
with city planning. City planning has
to do With the frame work OF a COM
munity. The city planner is the mu-
niclpal osteopath. Your civic evangelist
may take a crack at towns ideals
and your health doctor at its sanitary
His; but here are practitioners whose
concern Is the bony frame work--the
streets and open Spaces the traffic en-
tries and public squares and outlying
park areas. They show us the stupidity
OF those old senboard cities, where the
trucking distance between the center
of the town and the wharves is all but
doubled because the streets lie In rect
angles They show the foolishness OF
insisting as has been done in many
an inland hill city, that streets run
straight no matter what the contour of
the land, making ugly cuts and fills and
bad grades for all times. They show
us the loss of civic life in scattering
public buildings instead OF grouping
them where they will give expression
TO towns character They show US
the social cost of leaving to land specu-
lators the whole concern Of developing
outlying areas; and the shortsighted-
ness of all recognizing railroads as an
Integral part of a towns plan instead
of making II necessary for them to
ram an irreconcilable way Into the
heart of the city which has left them
out of consideration There is not q
social III which congestion OF popula-
ton does not accentuate: and there IL
nothing that makes more persistently
for congestion than a ground plan of
ill-devised physical elements. But the
preachment and practice of the city
planners is not all destructive. They
are working out methods and achiev-
ing changes on. the face OF things
which will make for the right living of
the future--economy in a towns time,
channels for its life currents, focal
points for the expression of Its mes
sage as a municipality, and more
generous measure of physical decen-
cies and the beauty of life for the dwell
ling areas that encircle it.--Charities
and the Commons for February.
The North The breath Of the geld
Is Magic north, like the magic
Fairy Land wand of a tabled elm,
in some OF it's ever vary
ing moods transforms the landscape In
to very fairy-land, wreathing 1t in q
garb of sparkling beauty, and chang
ing a bleak and somber prospect into a
garden of ice-howers and sylph-like
trees and shrubs. and crystal bedecked
ornature. The hedgerows, bereft of To-
liaga and numbered with innumerable
dead creepers, yesterday comparatively
unattraotive-if II hedgerow which has
happily escaped the vandal pruning
knife can be unattrsctive-today are
festooned with snow-White, glittering
chaplets and bespangled tasseis; the
long rambling sprays and runners of
the black Dryony or the travellers joy
enveloped In plumes of crystals flash
ing In the feeble rays of the winter
run, While the seed pods of the former
are transformed into pendent clusters
of spangled fairy gems. The blades of
coarse couch-grass at foot are decorat-
ed along their whole length with a
beautiful hlletted tracery which when
examined with a magnifying glass Is
found TO be a geometric design of ex-
treme beauty. while here and there n
clump of heather Is adorned with
profuslon of pure white tufts, which at
a short distance exactly resembles q
plant of the coveted white heather In
full bloom. The pathway is now Dor
dered by winding rivulet. not now
gurgling and eddying, but its surface
frozen hard while its banks here and
tod ~.
slender ice-needles depending from the
over-hanging brow of its shallow chan
mel; the track soon skirting the banks
of a lake upon which a number of per-
sons are indulging in the delightful
occupation of skating. After passing a
stretch of heather, which the now less
feeble rays Of the MONDAY sun have
made even more beautiful by melting
the crystal tufts into tiny drops of
water, which sparkle and glitter like
diamonds and rubies, the outlet of the
lake into a mill stream Is reached:
ordinarily cascade of foaming wayer,
but now very fairy bower. partly
encircied by row of symmetrical cIus-
tered Ice columns, resembling q mirla-
lure stalactltic cavern of pureet ala
baster Aye, truly, all was beauty ON |
that bright winter morn; but alas, the |
evanescent beauty Of a moment: today
loNely ana attractive: tomorrow effac- |
ed and vanished. But not such Is the \
never ending Respondent aureola OF |
beauty and majesty with which those |
viii be eternally crowned. who. having |
fought the good fight Of faith. and |
having laid hold OF eternal life. through
the eApiratory atonement OF the re-
deemer For that crown of righteors.
ness VIII be for ever.--A Banker.
How Can Man To teach person TO look |
Control HIS at facts and call them
Own Destiny by the right names Is the
best OF education and
prepares him TO cope with destiny. II
must have been Emerson, believing as
he did In the wind of destiny which
blew ever toward the necessary and
The right, who suggested that If we
could but throw in our desires to run
the same course with the stars in their
orbits, we could harness these heaven
ly forces to our purposes. But 20 In
Il cross current and one runs the risk
of being crushed every minute. The
way of the stars, according TO that,
would be the way of right and neces-
sity, but the danger would come In any
mans fancying that the wishes and
opinions OF the masses were the forces
of the universe. The masses are tho
units waiting a leader to unity them.