Evening star., 1928-01-29
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

The other day announcement va:
made OF an enterprise for the creation oi
Cityward nelShoorhood Of New
Mov.usrt York. Self-containeG
movement community afYordins
business opportunities and agreeable
residences for 2S.00o people This Is
regarded as evidence OF O movement
away from the big cities. Fifty years
ago however. the cityward tendency IL,
the American people was markedly In
evidence. In The Star OF January a
1878. is the following;
Man Is city-ioving animal His
social instincts cause him 10 be at
tracted 10 those places where his fel-
lows most do corgregate,' Some men
delight In cities from the business op-
poTtun!ties they offer; some. from the
inspiration which the whirl and cease
less activity Of the Surroundings afford
others dwell In cities because Of the
convenient nearneSS Of the church. the
SchoolhouSs. the lecture room and the
theater, stili others gather where they
VIII md the most numerous victims OF
every kind OF plundering scheme. Tt
Is this last class whose presence In
overwhelming numbers constitutes the
principal evil Of an cvercrcwded city.
Partly Tor the reasons which have been
above suggested. our cities are growing
diSproportionately 10 the increase In
country population. and that, too. not
alone III the East. with its exhausted
lands but in the West also where the
fertile fields tempt men IL their culti-
vation The percentage Of increase In
population from 1880 % 1870 In the
afA2 RRH
Massachusetts. city 81. country -. for
New York. city los. country Is. for
PENNSYLVANIA. eity 100, country 10. for
Illinois, city e7s. country lSS; for In
diana, city sac, country SIS; for ohsI,.
city los. country IL, In view o1 the
fact that IN our late years Of depression
agriculture seems ~ have been the only
industry that has f.ouriShed tc any eN-
tent and that has proved \ resource III
the Nations disficultieS. it eeSNNneS evt~
dent that We are neglecting one N our
most valuable means " pcStponiag
business crises and cf rcnoing them
largely ot their hGrttul effects, What
We want II more producers and fewer
molders and tranSrosterS Of material
products"
Half century ago the Library Of
Congress had outgrewn les quarters in
vn the Capitol Building
Library OF ana \ move Was made
Consress tM move adequate
housing ~ the great
hSak collection IL waS however. IL
years before the new building was eena.
rlsted and nearly - wears eegcFv IL was
occupied The selscwmS appears m
The Star t january IS. 1878;
"A meeting NJ the tnint committee aa
Library VAS held to-day t. give MIR, SISss~
forSt, the Congressional librarian. an og,,
paftunitS 10 present his annual reINAgt,
Mr. Slsaiyard urged ulNon the eosanligtee
the pfesSioG neSNSStty to9 the e<a.Ssr,l<~
tten of new Library M SUFFICIENT
capacity ta contain the eNsaAS esl,Nssglaa
IL the Congressional Library. IL il said
that Senators Howe and RAnSSaa tavy1
an appropriation for the es~etsoN ot a
new ealldlng Senator kAlinuadS be-
heNeS that ali addition NJ 100 feet can
ee rnt upon the nvSent Library, aVNtll-
lng thereby che expense d srestnAE A
aew building rhe c>ssNmlttee viii meet
Ia three er tyN DAYS ta take into CNNa-
Sderattn thu whole Snalees NJ q pg<..
slsiea tpa the iIeGasS,"