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tTerm "City Beautiful" Has Been Much [ Misunderstood-Real Ends to Be Attained. } That term "the City Beautiful" ?sounds like tying pink ribbons around }lamp posts. Even as applied to civic iert, ae distinct from city planning, the (name is sufficiently misleading. It is ftfce idea indicated by that unfortunate, (falsifying phrase that Raymond Un rwin, in his admirable 'Town Planning (?n Practice." lampoons. "Civic art is too often understood to /consist of filling our streets with ?marble fountains, dotting our squares Iwith groups of statuary, twining our tlampposte with wriggling acanthus ?leaves or dolphins' tails, r.::d our Ibuildings with meaningless bunches of ?fruit and flowers tied up with impos Isible stone ribbons." It is not the prettifying of cities t>.at ?Is thc object or city planners. The ?building of intraurban, intercity and ?Interstate transit facilities, the con struction of sewers, of gutters, of gar bage disposal plants, the destruction iof insanitary areas to be replaced by 'decent hot sing, the development of .port facilities, the upbuilding of the ihealth of the city through the crea tion of playgrounds and parks-parks [primarily os health agents, not pretti ification measures-all of these and fothers are the chief aims of city plan king. There will, of course, he a nec essary improvement in the appear (ance of the city as the natural result tof skill in city building, and that im provement is an entirely proper ob ?ject, but it ought not to be permitted ?to paralyze the whole movement through the ere? ion of an entirely in correct understanding of the ends to ?be attained. Other phrases have been suggested, rwhlch are useful as antitoxins to that ."City Beautiful" phrase, but they gen erally accent 6ome one phase of city jplanning at the expense of the others. ."The City Practical," "The City Use ful," ?T2je city Scientific" are exam ples. One of the best is negative. It ?was coined by Robert Yv*. De Forest and represents the movement as aim Hng to exterminate the "Unregulated {City Hideous." ??ito-1 iiree nas beer planted i:i tue streets in ?arge numbers will feel considerable interest in some remarks made con cerning that ?tree by an Australian pa per, from which the following is an extract: "If you are planting orna mental tree.-; beware of the planes. In the height of the summer's heat many people will be found coughing and sneezing, and, incidentally, blasphem ing the wealt?er and the season gen erally. What has been the cause of the epidemic? The victims have in haled thc emanations or ejections of the insidious plane tree. An English authority on forestry, Dr. Henry, takes the popular view to be correct, and another authority adds that as far back as 187o the newly installed Ger man authorities in Alsace were warn ed against the danger. Nurserymen .complain of ailments brought on them by contact with the mild looking Cpas .tree. A London paper brings classic lore to the theme of abuse. The an cient Greeks, we are told, were proud of their plane tree, which Xerxes muon admired; but their great physicians fwere well aware of the noxious na-- j jture of the plane."-London Globe. Traffic and the City Plan. There was a time when the city planning movement touched the prob lem of transportation very gingerly. About the railroad company hung an lawful air of "touch me not." The jmost that the timid city planners [could hope to do with the railroad company was to persuade it to plant a few shrubs about the depot and to hire a one-legged switchman to keep the grass cut But now, praise be, the | city planning movement is growing , to be what its nam? implies. It is not .afraid to move a railroad around when ft needs to. Indeed, the very first C~)lem which it attacks, in a given lity, ls the problem of transporta tion. How do travelers get into the : city? How do the workers get to their work? How do the commuters ar -<riTe and depart? -. { Bad Feature of Pavements. S That of the wood block pavement < ?with which many streets of Manhat jtan are relaid exude creosote on hot {days and causes the tracking of much Joli into hotels and business places (in the uptown section, became known {through a number of complaints re ceived by William H. Edwards, street cleaning commissioner, urging that the department desist from "oiling the streets." The Btreets have never been (oiled. Edwards will take the matter up with the commissioners of public works. They hope to persuade the J contractors who laid the pavement to * .sand the streets.-New York Post. * F if Notice of Final Dis charge. To AU Whom These Presents May Concern:" Whereas, Dr. Geo. M. C. F. Mood ha9 made application unto this Court for Final Discharge as Administrator in re the Estate of Mrs. Emma Bettis Mood deceased, on this the 12th day of January, 1914. These Are Therefore, to cite any and all kindred, creditors, or par ties interested, to show cause be fore me at my office at Edgefield Court House, South Carolina on the 14th day of February, 1914 at ll o'clock a. m., why said order of Discharge should not be granted. W. T. Kinnaird, J. P. C., E. C. S. C. January 12, 1914. ( iitafion. The Slate of South Carolina. County of Ed ge field. By W. T. Kinnaid, Probate Judge. Whereas, J. Wm. Thurmond, Esr] , made sr.it to me, to grant him Letters of Administration of thc Est .".te of and effects of Mrs. Mary J. Thurmond. Those Are Therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kin dred and Creditors of the said Mary J. Thurmond deceased, that they bc and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Edgofield on Monday 2Gth day of January next, after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the fore noon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my Hand, this Cth day of January, A. D., 1914. Published on the 7th day of Jan uary 1914 in The Edgefield Adver-, tiser. W. T. Kinnaird, P J E C. Jan. 6-3t. NOTICE. I have bought the Johnson Brick Warehouse near old depot site and have another hou.^e near in chan:?* and will handle Hulls and Meal, -C.n.i] and Brick. 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