Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-11
TEXAS DAILY PRESS LEAGUE
Foreign Advertising Representatives
Problem of the Great City

New York has a serious probIem-that Of deem
Trailing population and industry. ever 100000
people reside within a radius OF fifty miles from the
New York city hall. Manhattan Islsnd is the central.
izsd point for this vast population. Within the metro
pclitsn area industries Of every character have crowded
upon each other. Gigantic skyscrapers tower hundreds
Of feet above the city p~svsmsnts.
The traffic commission Of the city has announced
that something must be done to eliminate the conges-
ton Of traffic, congested housing conditions. the crowd
ing Of industrial plants. As far as new avenues tyr
transportation are opened, they are Immediately
svamped by the additional traffic created during the
months they we're under construction. The Jersey
tube, estimated TO care for traffic for a quarter Of a
century, in two years has become 80 congcsted that its
efficiency IL greatly impaired. Traffic has been speed
ed up; new subways, elevated railways. elevated mo-
tor tracks, have been constructed. but the problem j.
no nearer solution today than il was twenty years ago.
The New York newspapers, taking cognizancc Of the
report Of the commission, have assumed the anomalous
position that the population Of the city should be re-
ducsd. That does not mean that New York's impor-
lance a. a commercial and industrial center will be
reduced in accordance. The Times suggests that New
York be made the metropolis for a number Of smaller
cities, each a unit which will comprise industries and
ell the rest Of the things that 20 to make up a modern
city. Transfer of industries to points 50 TO 100 miles
from New York is recommended, each industry 70 build
up It's own community OF NOrkerS IA cdCn community
to have transportation connections which will make
Il an individual unit in the great metropolis.
That some system Of this character must be worked
out in both New York and Chicago is very apparent.
Real estate in the cities and adjacent suburbs have at
tanned a figure undreamed OF a quarter Of q century
ago. AS a result the home-maker, the industrialist, the
commercial firm, or any other individual or corpora
ton acquiring the high priced sites - carrying an eco
monte burden Of great weight II y an economic an
possibility for any city 10 continue 70 thrive under
such conditions. and the evil effects are nationwide
In recent years far-siShted industrialists have
avoided the larger oenters Of population IN selecting
.it.s for plants. They have sscsrtalned that locations
nearer the sources OF production Of raw materials
where sites can be secured Al moderate costs and thelf
.mplovees can live under better conditions, are essen
tiaI 10 reduce costs or production. The next quarter
Of . century will witness the gradual decline OF the
crssent congestion in a few centcrs or population ana
the great cities Of the future will be merely . ee"i-
tion Of smaller cities. each . separate unit ana each
proyidinr for its population far more facilities ana %
portunlties to enjoy the better things e Llc than INC
large cities now provide.