THE CURE FOR MUNICIPAL ILLS
The Cure for Municipal lis "THE AMERICAN city does not stand as a failure in democracy because democracy has never been tried in the American city. The cure for all of the ills of the American...
...They are the political bosses of the cities, the state legislatures, and the public service corporations...
...We can't have the ideal city as long as we take from the many to give to the few...
...A city doesn't exist just because a great number of people congregate together...
...Referring to the community idea that is beginning to change the character of our cities, Mayor Whitlock said...
...Mayor Whitlock said there are "three over lords" whom the people must eliminate...
...The cure for all of the ills of the American city is more democracy...
...they should be of sufficient elasticity to enable it to discharge all these functions as they arise...
...There is a great difference between a private corporation and a municipal corporation," he said...
...This was the note struck by Mayor Brand Whitlock of Toledo in his speech at the Institute of Municipal and Social Service, in Milwaukee, October 17...
...A private corporation is for the purpose of making profits...
...A municipal corporation is for the purpose of rendering service, and it should have all the functions necessary to rendering service...
...A city exists when all those people develop a sense of oneness, a sense of solidarity, what Frederic C. Howe has called a city sense...
...We can't build a city in a businesslike manner so long as every city in the land presents these extremes—the slum and the districts of vice, on the one hand, and the marbled avenues, on the other...
Vol. 2 • October 1910 • No. 43
