Arizona republican., 1913-06-29
THIS IS MOVEMENT
 WITHOUT SELF|SHNESS
Why Phoenix Should Install a Civic
 Center

l Why Phoenix Should Install a Civic Center
 To the Editor of The Arizona Re
 publican:
 Sir It is a fine thing for Phoe- nix to have ideals, and still finer l thing to give expression to them. 1 The man or city is to be piticd that
 cannot turn aside once in a while l from the purely sordid to give the 1 soul more play, or the artistic mind greater practical freedom, or the l sense of the beautiful d larger field 1 Sending the old soldiers to Cettys- l burg means vastly more than eyer l could be expressed in the small sum | of money involved. Without meaning 1 it, or even thinking of it. those who l made the incident possible revealed i q finer appreciation of life. and no 1 doubt encouraged hundreds to feel more hopeful and brave, and renewed 1 their faith in humanity It was one | rI those things that strengthen hope | IF the brotherhood of man, and
 teaches that We are capable ot living | by the Way as We gu through life Something akin to this thought | comes home as one contemplatts the l civic center plan which is brought l forward and urged by 20 many of 1 our citizens There is not q dollar 1 in II for any of them. No selfish rcss can be found in their motives l They are thinking Of the beautiful 1 siue of our city. and what the plan | means in comfort and pride to all | people in the future. They would l not "nIN mak. sure that the school l children are provided for in u man l n'f +erNng every phase of the p1ac- | uraI and beautiful but that the en- 1 tire procc~s shall bring forth an ideal | pointing to the best patriotism The | clNlr center idea bN no means neg | locts the practical. but it would it | th" same tuu,. dedicate to the peouIe ! "l Phoenix q monument to unselfish 1 service for the common good IL i *"uId place the stamp ot merit upon
 "u! community spirit. What Kind of
 'itz"n>hIp have you in Phoenix 2"
 asks the wuyfarcr. Look at our
 civic center and answer the question
 A"ufScIf, could well be the reply
 It may sound paradoxicaI to sly
 that the greatest danger to tht. civic center plan heretofore has been the | proposition itself. or in one or two of it's phases Many who natur,,If, 1 i.eNor the civic center idea ptrhaps
 ircf that they are being rushed off 1 l"tIr feet, so to speak, not so with reference to th" Central site. but in 1 regard to what iS proposrd iIl con hrctlon With the. two blocks op Washington street The Centr,i | block suits them as the location of the public building. but perhaps tbev itvI that they have not been given 1 "h"u&a time L. look into tho Wash | hSt"n street side uf the qu..tiot, | H"!T opinions are to b. reeu.ct..a
 and their motives are not to h.. .,lI..e- uohrt. If they vote for leasing !,
 VIII Hot b. becau~. the plan to Iaa4.
 o'HSIdtFed by itself appeals to them
 aH better than the civic center plan hey want to know more than tb.ay ! H". and they are faced with the p'IS M"ndaN. perhaps thinking that they know less than they shou}d in 1 9fdtr tO decide such a largo ,u.. 1 i"n It would be unfortIlnat.. if tb. | tHahIpn~ of leasing to private and | selfish interests depend for mo J'rItN upon this class of estimahI. 1 citlzenS, and, while time is now. ver,. 1 snort every effort should be mad.
 :" IeasSurc them It is right to look
 upon the 'INIc center ideal as spring Ing wholly from patriotism and ci,ic 1 IrIdc of the very best Kind hrt we nave q business proposition over on WaShington street that is not going |" be neglected or treated lightly h 1 lS t'o bad that the urgent need of the Central school district did moi 1 permit of q longer campaign of dis
 cuSsion but fl the civic center plan
 wins Monday, the citizen who is l troubled with doubt for the reason 1 stated can b" sure of two things. ! llrst, that the school demands will be
 attended to promptly second. that the 1 Washington street business matter
 will be approached with the utmost Celiberation.
 | GEO II ALLEN