Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until his death in 1888 Henry Bergh stumped the U. S. lecturing on humanitarianism, urging others to set up their own local organizations. In 1877 John G. Shortall, president of the Illinois Humane Society, called a meeting in Cleveland to co-ordinate those organizations, formed the American Humane Association. Last week the American Humane Society held its 50th anniversary meeting in Milwaukee, Wis., and did honor to Henry Bergh...
Friendly toward the A. S. P. C. A. and the American Humane Association, although the friendship is not entirely reciprocated, are numerous national and local antivivisectionist societies which devote their energies to attacking scientists who use animals for experiments. To them antitoxins and serums produced by infecting animals with disease are anathema. Most prolific distributor of antivivisectionist literature is the Vivisection Investigation League, headed by 81-year-old Sue M. Farrell, who learned her humanitarianism direct from agnostic Robert Ingersoll; anti-vivisectionists also include such unusual celebrities as Fannie Hurst, George Arliss, Ellen Glasgow, Mahatma Gandhi. Irene Castle McLaughlin...
...Michigan Avenue, route the main flow swiftly north & south along the very edge of the Lake away from the city's downtown streets. Land was bought, drained, beautified. Sixteen hundred acres of lake shore: were filled in. To the north, Michigan Boulevard was widened into a four-lane local and a four-lane express highway. To the south on manufactured land, a chain of smooth drives converged toward the city. By 1935 the whole vast project, costing an estimated $100,000,000 was completed-except at the city's most vital point, a scant quarter mile stretch...
Speaking at 7:30 o'clock, Professor Lambie will consider in his talk the need for greater coordination among the various local units of government in order to alleviate the burden of taxation placed on the average American...
...hopes for Localism to prove a barrier to the tide of Centralization in the coming years through a reform of the condition of local government...