SOUL OF A CITY.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 169, 28 April 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

SOUL OF A CITY.

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Mr. James Schernierhorn, the publisher of the ''Detroit Times/' made a remarkable speech on "The Soul of a City" at the annual dinner of the Pittsburg Real Estate Board. "Cities generally have not yet found the r souls,'' he said. "There is nothing sublime in what men do for gain; and the booklets that cities put out are mostly the record of what men have wrought for gain. Cities are bound to expand and wax mighty on the material side so long as there i= money to be made in tail buildings and far-stretching factories. These make up what we might call the body of the city—and it is nccissarv that. the body be taken care of that it may he a lit and lasting temple of the soul. "But it is the fine and se't-forgotful things done in the .spirit of brotherhood and c'vic zeal that belong to the soul of a city. It ; s the elimination of the great tragedy of metropolitan lifo which is its colddionrtednoss, man's aloofness from his fellows. It is the infusion of the warmth of human sympathy and neighbourliness, wheer now there is selfishness and coldness.

"The city with a-soul is tendor'y watchful ot tho least oi these, the boys and girls. Ii guarantees them a. sent in school and wholesome recreation out of school. What is the groat essential of a city with a sou)? It is a citizen with a sou! -hundreds of thousands of hini a r.oul ahovc niero receptivity, (-elf-soekhig, and accumulation. A citizen who reflects on what hi! can put into h's city, not what he clvm got out ol it."