Denver the mining building. Let Kansas City be the agricultural
building and Jacksonville, Florida, the horticultural building, and so
around the states.

Even as in mediaeval times men rode for hundreds of miles through perils
to the permanent fairs of the free cities, the world-travellers will
attend this exhibit, and many of them will in the end become citizens.
Our immigration will be something more than tide upon tide of raw labor.
The Architects would send forth publicity films which are not only
delineations of a future Cincinnati, Cleveland, or St. Louis, but whole
counties and states and groups of states could be planned at one time,
with the development of their natural fauna, flora, and forestry.
Wherever nature has been rendered desolate by industry or mere haste,
there let the architect and park-architect proclaim the plan. Wherever
she is still splendid and untamed, let her not be violated.

America is in the state of mind where she must visualize herself again.
If it is not possible to bring in the New Jerusalem to-day, by public
act, with every citizen eating bread and honey under his vine and
fig-tree, owning forty acres and a mule, singing hymns and saying prayers
all his leisure hours, it is still reasonable to think out tremendous
things the American people can do, in the light of what they have done,
without sacrificing any of their native cussedness or kick. It was
sprawling Chicago that in 1893 achieved the White City. The automobile
routes bind the states together closer than muddy counties were held in
1893. A "Permanent World's Fair" may be a phrase distressing to the
literal mind. Perhaps it would be better to say "An Architect's America."

Let each city take expert counsel from the architectural demigods how to
tear out the dirty core of its principal business square and erect a
combination of civic centre and permanent and glorious bazaar. Let the
public debate the types of state flower, tree, and shrub that are
expedient, the varieties of villages and middle-sized towns, farm-homes,
and connecting parkways.

Sometimes it seems to me the American expositions are as characteristic
things as our land has achieved. They went through without hesitation.
The difficulties of one did not deter the erection of the next. The
United States may be in many things slack. Often the democracy looks
hopelessly shoddy. But it cannot be denied that our people have always
risen to the dignity of these grea