. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. ot to makeample use of this valual)le possession isunbusinesslike and un-American. It isespecially necessary, because our youngpeople should not only learn lessons ofscholarship, but also lessons of real natural desire of the young people toplay must be encouraged, and theiractive interest secured in all publicimprovements. I commend to all the excellent adviceof President William II. Taft, as set forthin a recent address: It is in their idlemoments that the yo
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. ot to makeample use of this valual)le possession isunbusinesslike and un-American. It isespecially necessary, because our youngpeople should not only learn lessons ofscholarship, but also lessons of real natural desire of the young people toplay must be encouraged, and theiractive interest secured in all publicimprovements. I commend to all the excellent adviceof President William II. Taft, as set forthin a recent address: It is in their idlemoments that the young contract thehabits that lead them downward, and itis in their leisure that they can maketheir character what it ought to be. I believe that for three years toicn planning is not profitable, thai after ten years ipays, and that after fifty years it is a tremendovs boon to the eommvniiy that adopts >.I do not think it is lack of money that has prevented town planning advancing more qnulclythan it has. I think it is the poverty of imagination m our governors. I licy larl: uica;they lack initiative.^John Burns, M. FORD HALL-AN EXPERIMENTIN CO-OPERATION ELLEN PAINE HULING AT the Birthday gathering inFord Hall last February arose ayoung foreigner. T am a Jew,he began, and I want to say that noth-ing in the history of Boston has shownthe Christian religion in a better light thanthese meetings. It has shown that allof us, of all races and creeds, are brothersand can work together. As FaneuilHall is called the Cradle of Liberty,so I ask leave to christen Ford HallBostons Cradle of Fraternity! It is just this spirit of brotherhood andco-operation, so characteristic of theBoston-1915 movement, which has, fromthe beginning, marked also the FordHall meetings. Here, night after night,come together people from all churchesand no churches, from the professors chair at Harvard and the tailors shopof the West End, men to outward ap-pearance most unlike, but one in theessentials of ser
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