Word: problems
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Elder opened the debate. We are to discuss, he said, the transportation problem of the second largest city of the world. The question is of vast importance not only because of the great size of New York City, but because of its peculiar physical character, which makes transportation a daily necessity for the majority of its population. In view of the importance of transportation, the service should be adequate, convenient, and modern. When we examine the existing conditions, however, we find that the service is very unsatisfactory...
...Hart then demanded of the affirmative that some urgent and overwhelming necessity for the change be shown in view of the enormity of the problem. He then outlined the purpose of the negative as being three-fold--to show that municipal ownership is unnecessary, must inevitably be unprofitable, and will be positively injurious to the city. Municipal ownership is unnecessary since what it claims to do can be better accomplished in another way. We admit that there are some evils in the street railway system in New York, but we maintain that those which can be removed...
...finally, we believe in municipal ownership because it offers the only wise solution of the rapid transit problem of the future. In a word the interests of the public are directly opposed to the ownership of a public utility by a private corporation and can never be satisfied short of municipal ownership...
...command in return for his services. It is true that in a large proportion to his qualifications, but at the same time there is much unjustified inequality in salary. A dynamical principle can be developed, in the lecturer's belief, that will govern this most interesting and vital social problem, and form a nucleus for a new science...
...however, have spread a very wrong impression of French life, by depicting almost exclusively the seamy side of society. In reality, the standard of home and personal morality in France is high. By treating sensational subjects the novelist endeavors to furnish relaxation, and generally tries to work out the problem of how a normal human being, placed in a very conventional society, will resist the temptation to follow his personal inclinations. The intellectual candor of the French leads them to discuss this problem openly, whereas our writers generally ignore...