New Britain herald., 1925-08-15

The Observer, ever observing for the benefit of those fortunate read CTS, who, each Saturday night, ob. serve his observations, has d!scov- cred a menace which Is threatens ing this city and is slowly turning its fair faco into vile N!sage. As ignorance is not bliss in this case, We pass along our words to our readers.
 The first result of this menace is the disappearance Of trees. Good old ens and chestnuts which were set out by men wearing knee brooches and powdered wigs are falling to make way for stores sell ing to fappers wearing knee brooches and powdered faces. Nat ural shade is but a shadow of its former self. The idea seems to be 10 replace the trees with tall office buildings, which really do give more solid shade.
 The business section is creeping | ubl W tl VI. lh4IG l1 S ON III uilN more and more streets are being posted with colored signs sgnifying restricted parking, Another batch Of streets was recently added to the list, and we wonder what the now pleased residents will say when they find their own cars tagged be- fore their very doors, It is getting so that when q man sets out to driye 10 the office in car all he can really do is back out of the garage and walk the rest of the way.
 ] The fine old dirt roads are giving way 10 streets of asphalt, brick, or macadam. While the holes in the dirt were larger, those in the pave- ments are moro numerous. In an- 1 other year the public works depart- mcnt will have to give up filling in the holes and merely cut down the ridges.
 The residential sections are being forced farther and farther from Central park. Willie Plant. ugo Frigerio, or any champion long distance walker would be hard put to it to walk from home to work. First one chain store moves into a neighborhood and then its competi- tor, a bootblack or barber sets up his shop, and all the people who really are people move out another mile. Part of the back 10 nature movement, we guess. The only trouble is that pretty soon there won't be any nature to get back to. At best, the forest primeval is now city park with baseball diamonds, bdndstand, and benches, while more , probably it has become tenement district. Longtcllow's poem Is anti quated, for there are no trees for the woodman 10 spare.
 The roads are so congAsted that the quickest means of travel is 10 step from one car into another. Ac- cidcnts will soon grow fewer and the only possibility of mishap will he when a pedestrian runs into 6 standing car. The roads to Plain vile, Hartford and Berlin are SC blocked with automobiles that wed buy an airplane if there was any room left for landing flel1s- The bicycle may come back InuO use for worming in and out of traffic, but the width of the handlehars will have to be cut down. And no bow. legged man will be able to ride one People telephone so much that the lines are always busy. telegra pt so frequenty that a letter would arrive before your blank reaohe. the top of the pile on the operator : desk. Movie goers demand new pic lures so often that all possible : themes have been exhausted while the best vaudeville acts are the olc ' favorites who are always different 7 Radio, the great boon to humanity \ keeps one half the world awake trying to get station xxx and thu other half awake trying to droTr
 out the noise.
 7 So you see, dear readers, tha , civilization is menaced, and th' = name of that menace is - civiliza = tion.
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