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NEED FOR CSTY j PLANNING United States Might Well Take a Les son From German Builders Who Have Studied the Work. The marked advance in thought about city planning is indicated by the reception accorded the report o? the New York commission on build ing districts and restrictions. Ten years ago the suggestions made in that report would have been regard ed as highly revolutionary and head ing straight for Socialism. For one thing the report recom mends the establishment of a "zcne system," a method long ago adopted in Germany, and a plan long needed In American cities. The economic waste, the upsetting of realty values, the disturbance of the city's fiscal sys tem, involved in the growth of every thriving American city has been self evident. This has been brought about by the incursion of factories into old residential districts, lowered values, a boom in another section, and then the same story over again, with homes al ways just one jump ahead of the fac tories. City experts abroad provided for that by assigning factories to certain zones, and homes to others. In only a few cities in this country has any such restriction been attempted. New York has other problems to face from which Washington was hap pily freed by an unusual foresight. The skyscraper menace we have avoided. But New York blocks have suffered from the incursion of one high building, then others so built that the early ones had light and air cut off, and their presence resulted in the bottom dropping out of values in the rest of the block. Fortunately limited height and courtyard provisions already have a plaoe in the building laws of most cities. The one feature in the New York commission's report that should appeal to most American cities is the establishment of zones for industries and other zones for homes. CITY TO ADVERTISE ITSELF Mayor of Philadelphia Wants to Spend Half a Million Dollars on a New Idea. Mayor Smith hopes to make Phila delphia one of the most widely known cities in the world as an industrial and commercial center, with a splendid port for foreign trade and unexcelled railroad communications to every part !-5f The c??ntry^ccordi?g ld H? Fhil adelphia Ledger. Tee mayor will advertise tho city on a scale never before contemplated. He will ask for an appropriation of $500,000 as soon as the money can be provided for carrying out his plan. Tte mayor hopes to establish either a bureau of publicity in ore of the de partments or a new department of publicity. A suggestion was made to the mayor at a luncheon given recent ly by the Poor Richard club as to the value of advertising the city, and he promised to consider the project. An nouncing that he would recommend tie plan to the city legislators, he said that the appropriation would go into the newspapers, magazines and other publications-in other words, into printer's ink-where it would do the most good. The campaign of advertising is to in form the merchants and manufactur ers of the world of the advantages of dealing with the world's greatest work shop. The mayor said the expenditure would be a municipal investment that would return the principal with high interest. Looking Always to the Future. An old-fashioned way of looking at the city's situation is expressed by au Indianapolis newspaper, which says: "A city's physical improvements, of whatever sort, have definite value to the city and its property, calculable in dollars and cents. They facilitate busi ness and make living conditions more pleasant. In that way they are an as set for residents and property owners and act also as an inducement to per sons on the outside to come and make their homes here. "Indianapolis ranks favorably with the most progressive cities of its class in breadth and. organic character of park improvements. The parking of waste land among some of the smaller streams and on Fall creek has given an impetus to values of property ad jacent to these improvements. The day is not remote when barren areas along these streams will be most at tractive residence sections." Yellow Ginger Lilies. It is now time to prepare beds for tropical plant-.. Stir the soil deeply and incorporate, by several spadings, a generous supply of thoroughly rot ted stable manure. When planting do not forget to have a clump of one of the yellow ginger lilies. It is the best of several species and may be asked for under the name of Hedy chium Gardnerianum. Plant in a warm sunny spot and keep well sup plied with water and you ay be re warded with .?pikes six or eight inches long of fragrant yellow flowers of dainty form, as may be seen in th? illustration on this page. (Copyright, 1916, by the McClure News paper Syndicate.) Elizabeth Yeaton laughed as she walked around the beech tree and ex amined the markings on its trunk two hearts pierced by an arrow and encircled by the legend, "Pansies for thoughts, rosemary for remembrance." "Were we ever so foolish as that?" she asked herself. Then the laugh died in a sigh as she walked on, push ing her way through the tangle of ragweed that obstructed her path. Be low her. Cabin branch rippled with a soft murmur,. Everywhere were mem ories and mingling with them a soft, clear whistle, once so familiar a sound it occasioned no surprise when she reached the farm gate to see a man stretching out a hand to open it. "I thought, you would come," he said quietly. "The years have made no change in you. You are not one day older. Your eyes are sparkling and your mouth has the same adorable kink at the corners that-" He came through the gate and stood beside her. "You received my let ter?" - "No. Did you write?" "Then I owe my good luck to Provi dence. I asked you to meet me here. But ? had hoped for a different recep tion. Elizabeth, won't you give me a word of welcome?" "I have first to forget years of ab sence and silence." she said slowly. She smiled at him with unconcerned eyes. "What, have you been doing all the years you have forgotten friends and country?" "Working hard. I wanted a "home. When I needed recreation I cultivat ed flowers. You should see my gar den." "That would indeed be pleasant. And your wife?" she asked courte ously. "You are still an adept at fencing, Elizabeth," he interrupted. "Are we to continue the same old game?" "I do not understand. We are too old to play pussy wants a corner and hide and seek. Those are the only games I remember. Perhaps I will recall others later on," she said. "It will be pleasant to rummage among old memories," he laughed shortly, "but at present I am interest ed in knowing when you received my wedding cards." "They rever reached me. But a home suggests a wife, doesn't it?" "Not necessarily. The purchase was the result of a settled purpose. May I trespass upon your hospital ity? For the first time in year6 I can treat myself to a short vacation." "You are most welcome," she re plied cordially. "You have been sad ly missed." w-V-T4iai*-y?^^?84K^Voi c&4feen--irehi-" its first note of friendliness. I was beginning to feel homesick. Eliza beth, will you let me give you lessons in gardening during my stay?" She threw back her head and laughed heartily. "It would be wasted effort. Plants never thrive for me, so I leave the borders to Uncle Pink." "Perhaps you have never tried hard enough. I want to talk and I am curious. Aie you really as indiffer ent tbrut chat letter as you would have rae believe?" "I had forgotten it" "Then, I presume, since the letter is so easily forgotten, memory will be at fault in regard to several things I have been hoping you would remem ber." "I remembered you," she replied pleasantly. "Ten years is long to keep one in mind, especially-" 'Especially?" "When one tries hard to be forgot ten." She brushed the litter from her dress, a here was a finality in the movement that made him stretch out a detaining hand. ! "Don't go. It is very pleasant here even if I am disappointed in the warmth of my greeting, and I do so wish to tell you of my garden." She shook her head even as she paused, "I am afraid you ride an old man's hobby. Come to the house and tell me in the firelight. The air is getting frosty." "No. I must tell it here." He hesi tated a barely perceptible instant. "It is a hobby. Dear, you should see my beds of pansies and rosemary." The color flared into her face. "You had prepared me for a garden of or chids, but even old-fashioned flowers can be an outlet for surplus energy. You always did throw yourself body and soul into whatever you undertook to do." "Why not, Elizabeth? This is Mon day. I must be in my office Thursday morning. Importaut business requires my attention, else I would remain here and begin at the beginning of things. Ten years is a long time, but you have never been absent from my thoughts. I would have written, but there was nothing to say. I had noth ing to offer you. The best I could do was to work for a home for you. It has takan me ten years. Will you ac cept it? Will you go back with me Wednesday?" Her eyes swept the fields. She paused so long that the man beside her caught his breath and grasped the rail of the gate until his knuckles showed white. Then she turned to him. "It will be a delight to see those old-fashioned flower borders," she said simply. WHY ENDURE SUMMER COLDS? It isn't necessary to bave a stuffed head, running ncse. To cough your head off as it were. All yon need do is to use Dr. Befl's Pine-Tar Honey. The soothing* and healing balsams open the clogged air pas sages and in a short time you get relief and start on the road to re covery. Your nose stops running, you cough iess and you know you are getting better. Get a bottle, use as directed. Keep what is left as a cough and cold insurance. 2 WINTHROP COLLEGE. SCHOLARSHIP and ENTRANCE EXAMINATION. Prudential Rates: Age The examination for the award of vacant scholarships in Winthrop College and for the admission of 1 new students will be held at the County Court House on Friday, July 7, at 9 a. m. Applicants must not be less than sixteen years of ago. When Scholarships are va cant after July 7 they will be award ed to those making the highest average at this examination, provi ded they meet the conditions gov erning the award. Applicants for Scholarships should write to Presi dent Johnson before the examina tion for Scholarship examination blanks. Scholarships are worth *100 and free tuition. The next session will open September 20, 1916. For further information and catalogue, Address Pres. D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill, S. C. DR J.S. 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