gave life, force and direction to the popular demand for the preservation of Niagara Falls. It is now fully recognized as the guardian of the people's interest in the great cataract, maintaining a constant watch on the power situation. It originated and is the moving force in the nation-wide effort to restrict the extension of ugliness by having billboards legally taxed, as is other productive property. It has advanced the children's garden movement, and was instrumental in securing a Congressional appropriation for school gardens in the District of Columbia. It has secured the enactment of a model street-tree law in Pennsylvania, and is teaching the intelligent care of trees the country over. It is giving guidance and effective direction to the widespread and rapidly growing movement for the abatement of the smoke nuisance. It helps in progressive city-making, and is continually arousing and fostering sentiment for civic beauty, for clean streets and home surroundings, for convenient and serviceable parks, for playgrounds-in short, for every form of civic betterment. The careful coordination and economical execution of its working plans enable the American Civic Association.to.render.invaluable service at small cost, for it is free from cumbersome machinery of organization and in position to do things to do them speedily, quickly and thoroughly. This is a direct appeal for YOU to become a member. Use the coupon below or a copy of it in remitting. AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION, PHILADELPHIA, PA. J. HORACE MCFARLAND, President WILLIAM B. HOWLAND, Treasurer Recent and Forthcoming Literature The American Civic Association has made many important additions to the authoritative literature of civic endeavor. Other documents of notable value will be published in the early future. Members receive the literature as currently published, without charge. The material they thus obtain in the course of a year in itself is worth a great deal more than the membership fee. Some specimen subjects are as follows: Billboards and Their Regulations. Recreation Centers. By Graham Romeyn Taylor. Removal of Overhead Wires. By Frederick L. Ford. School Gardens. By W. A. Baldwin. Trees in Cities. By Horace McFarland. The Smoke Nuisance. A Symposium. |