Excerpt from Recreation Needs of Chicago: Address by Henry G. Foreman, Delivered on Labor Day, 1904, at Morgan Park, During the Morgan Park Day Exercises Twenty-five years ago it was much easier for an individual to come to the front in America than it is to-day. The invention of countless machines has thrown manual work more and more into specialties. Where one man used to make a pair of shoes, and thus become master of the trade, he now makes only one part of the shoe, and, unless by aggressive outside study, he never ...
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Excerpt from Recreation Needs of Chicago: Address by Henry G. Foreman, Delivered on Labor Day, 1904, at Morgan Park, During the Morgan Park Day Exercises Twenty-five years ago it was much easier for an individual to come to the front in America than it is to-day. The invention of countless machines has thrown manual work more and more into specialties. Where one man used to make a pair of shoes, and thus become master of the trade, he now makes only one part of the shoe, and, unless by aggressive outside study, he never does anything else. Many small manufacturers, who formerly made modest fortunes, now find themselves crowded back into the employe class, because of concentration of capital into great corporations. It is the same with the small merchants. So it is in the professions. The successful lawyer now is not often a general practitioner, but he devotes himself to a specialty. The family doctor, growing scarce in cities, finds it necessary to send his patients to specialists in this, that, and the other form of human disease. And the end is not yet; and no man can foresee it, but I believe firmly that the condition of the masses will grow better constantly. Under such complex conditions, so perplexing and so discouraging to the masses of the people, who are blinded by environment, the local govern ments certainly have a great duty to perform. That duty is to provide every man, no matter how little his equipment for success in life, with means of keeping his health and acquiring knowledge. I mention the foregoing knowing well that, M organ Park Day merely coincides in date with Labor Day as an introduction to a discussion of one Side of the problem of the toiling masses recreation and education for the people as provided and contemplated in public parks in and adjacent to Chicago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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