Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-20
TALKS IN SUMMIT
ON CITY BEAUTIFUL
The First Step, Lecturer Says,
Is in Caring for Ones
Personal Attire.
Especial to the Newark start

SUMMIT. Feb. 20.-Due TO weather
conditions only a small audience last
night heard Henry Turner Bailey, OF
Situate Mass, speak on zones Per-
sonal Relation to Municipal Beauty
iE Lincoln School auditorium.
The first step toward municipal
beauty sBr. Bailey said, should begin
with ones self. Neat dressing makes
for personal beauty. and personal
beauty naturally leads 10 a desire for
municipal beauty. he declared. Re-
fering to women's dress, Mr.. Bailey
regretted to see large women attired
in costumes of gay colors, when solt
colored combinations in dress would
add so much to the women's charm.
The present day style of dress of
women, Mr.. Bailey said. while not by
far the ideal. he believed Is leading
gradually to the more healthful ccs-
tunes and is tending to make women
less ashamed to show the charms of a
healthy physical body. Dress that
will lead more to outdoor life is what
is needed, the speaker declared.
America Just Awakening.
AS TO municipal beauty. the speaker
said. America is just awakening to its
accomplishment. The first move for
ward in this direction was made at
the centennial in 1876 and was greatly
advanced at the Columbian EXPOSE
ton in Chicago in 1893. Previous to
the centennial and the exposition,
said Mr.. Bailey, it was necessary to
go abroad to view art. Since that
time there have been more public
parks. boulevards and Fairgrounds
laid out than ever before In the his
tory of this country.
Tribute to Summit.
Mr.. Bailey paid tribute to this
city for its reputation as an artisti-
cally laid out municipality. The fact
that there are few straight thorough
fares or squares here. he declared. is
commendable. and adds greatly to tho
beauty of a city. That the one pub
lie park here is not sufficient was the
opinion of the speaker.
Urges Instruction In Dress.
Mr.. Bailey urged that teachers In
the schools should educate children
more as to their personal appear
ance and responsibility relative to
the beauty of the municipality in
which they reside. To the end the
speaker said childreh should be re-
quired to care for school grounds,
and Fairgrounds Thirty
years hence, said the speaker, the
children of today will have the re-
sponsibillty of caring for the munich
pality, and the time to inculcate ideas
of that responsibility in the children
is now. Mr.. Bailey advocated neigh
borly architecture in designing dwell
ings with a view to harmony in de-
sign, thereby obtaining greater
beauty. He believed homes in the
rural sections should be designed to
harmonic with the region of the
country in which they are erected.
Beauty in Buildings.
To attain artistic beauty in the
erection of homes and public struc-
lures Mr., Bailey would have a civic
council, composed of a representa-
tive of each civic association in a
to work in conjunction
with the newspapers in urging those
the erection Of a home
or other building to plan for har-
mony and beauty in design. No one
civic association can accomplish this
object, he said.
Concerning BiIIboards.
Referring to billboards Mr.. Bailey |
declared the plan followed in a town
N South America, where there is but |
one public billboard, to be a good |
one. From this billboard, Mr.. Bailey |
said, SOS, 900 in license fees was col |
ected by the town in one year. In
Belgium, Mr.. Bailey said, a tax is
imposed for billboards according to
the size OF the letters used in the
The lecture was given under the
Joint auspices of the Board of Trades,
Club and the Town Inn
Association. William SEQ
field Day, president OF the trade
board, presided.