The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-23

The modern city, with it's suppression of all that is sweet natural environments it's en- artificial modes of living, its startling disparities employment it's hideous extremes of self-conscious wealth and ab1ect pow erjy. probably most unlovely sight this planet erty, is probably the most unIoVeIy slsht lIs offer certainly it represents the most uwhole- condition that challenges our thought today.
 For the city concentrates within its limits the of all that is artificial, wayward and unjust n life. It is, it were, the spot where the internal social impurities break out Ill a fostering
 Much discussion devoted to "the prob O part it has shut forth between liking for commun- ity a liking for the companionship of na- ture, between city and the country lover and, course, that is not the question at all
 A city is camp that has become stasnant and which grows by A city is a that has ceased to march, community that has called 
 There will be no argument in this page against bility a settled life Nor will there be any superiority of that phase of ciety where the people followed telr Iocks as lnelr focks moved hther and thther seeking pasture.
 doubtless a milestone of progress when began to plant vineyards. for vineyards have to be tended, and tending them keeps the vine-dresser resident in place.
 But to recognize the advantage of settled com munty life is to put in plea for the modern city. for it is doubtful if the modern city can be considered a. any a community Oh, we call it community of course; we talk great deal community spirit, and the like; but anyone who knows the modern city knows that it is not a community-it is any number of communities, few of them sympathetic one to another
 modern city Is up into communities there are interests in it, and the modern city is the great meeting place Of all our social antagonisns, both those that are engender- ed by differences in and culture and those which out of economic causes. The result is such communities have antagonistic, competitive, mutually exclusive.
 city is classic illustration of what fail to mix the arts.
 great Agriculture, Manufac- and Transportation
 The city automatically excludes agriculture one of arts possible it's inhabitants; it does this because the land whereon stands is too crowd ed for the soil exercise its natural function and it is occupied by buildings 1t is overlaid with pavement
 Manufacture was the center which the city grew. may have been simple form O manufacture first like the making of flour out of grain, making shoes of hides, making of cloth out of wool.
 But wherever productive machine is set up with a roof it and operatives around it, there the city begins
 the community, gress. Man made for solitude. He is gre garious. only hath set the solitary in fam ilies" the Scripture has it, but families also with families. the individual finds his fulfilment in the family the family finds its full filment in the community
 Then, again. progress $ solitary. We do few things alone. Directly undertake to achieve that need help. We discover also that delight work together. that they formed creative cooperation.
 So that it is a far different thing condemn city than condemn the community. The munity natural. The city is
 is he one-sfded, lopsided development of h. dustry industry is represented by the manufac- marly responsible the modern cy-that, the neglect of the other two arts agriculture and ming to up. still what it ought And result, the city is beginning to feel the influence of art that will be one of the chief in it's undoing.
 At first 1t seemed if transportation would the effect of further augmentng the city. but it is effecting spreading out of cities and ulations- The suburban car and the automobile