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...plans. The camp now decided on will be situated on the reservation of the Edgewood Arsenal, the permanent post and proving grounds of the Chemical Warfare Department. A large portion of the territory is taken up by the chemical plants, railroads, and pipe lines, but there is an area set aside for R. O. T. C. Artillery and infantry units, National Guard troops and R. O. T. C. instructors...
Camp Devens has been selected again this year by the government as the site for the annual Citizens' Military Training Camp for the First Corps Area, which includes the entire New England section. Men intending to be present at this camp, which will extend throughout August, must file their applications with their local representative by next Wednesday...
...years a definite plan; the burden of accomplishment is then shifted to the people themselves. Needless to say, the plan will represent the best efforts of engineers, artists, architects, social workers, and economists. Four exhaustive preliminary surveys have been organized; analyzing living conditions: existing law in control of the area; topographical and physical facilities; and the economic and industrial potentialites and limitations of New York. These surveys will act as a foundation upon which to build. In the meantime a search has begun and men of promise are being specifically trained to do for New York what L'Enfant...
...other words, just as the street system increases in proportion to the land area covered by the city, so should the city transit system do likewise. This means that when it becomes necessary to open up a new area for the growing population, the transit system and the street system should spread out over the new territory simultaneously--the two systems should expand together. Then the other services, such as water, sewers and light can follow. But transit is the first essential. With all of the other services mentioned, but without transit, a new city area is almost useless...
...area basis of developing city transit had been followed from the beginning, many of the most objectionable features of city life would not exist today. Population congestion, housing congestion, business congestion, manufacturing congestion, amusement congestion, and the great bogey of our transit problem--the rush hour congestion, all would be reduced to a minimum or eliminated. Everybody would be more comfortable, healthier and happier. Our people would not be living so much in layers. Instead most people would be in their own homes spread out through the open country, thus making living conditions more ideal