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valuable lessons. The two buildings which we see here are 

 known as the old and new town hall in a little town of southern 

 Germany. The new one, on this side, was built two or three 

 hundred years ago, and the old one long before that. They 

 are both pretty good buildings, and when we remember that the 

 poor people who built these buildings five or six hundred years 

 ago were working for wages of ten cents a day or less, and 

 that out of these meagre incomes they were able to save the 

 money to build such magnificent town halls, it rather puts us 

 to shame that we with our greater wealth and our greater 

 opportunities, and the greater productiveness of our land and 

 labor are not able to do better things in this country. I men- 

 tion this somewhat freely here in Portland where you have 

 done something splendid, something magnificent in the way of 

 a town hall. There are not many places that have done as well 

 as Portland, and there are very few indeed in this country 

 which can compare with anything in the old country in the way 

 of a town hall. 



This is one in a little country town. It shows an old town 

 hall, built many years ago, and still fine and well kept. The one 

 in Hamburg is in a large, modern, prosperous city, but it is a 

 fine building with a nice plaza in front of it which opens out 

 onto a fine water front. The city hall in Dresden is the latest 

 one to be built. It was finished within the last few years and 

 is regarded as the very last word in city halls, a splendid 

 modern building in every respect. 



And here is one of the school buildings. We think a great 

 deal of our schools in this country and suppose that they are 

 the greatest in the world, and yet the men who study the school 

 problems tell me without any reserve that the German schools 

 are better than ours, and I can say with great emphasis, having 

 visited a good many of them, that the school buildings are 

 certainly better than ours. This is a typical example of a 

 building I knew very well. This is an example of a girls' 

 school in one of the German cities, and shows the fine type of 

 architecture which one sees over there in the public school 

 buildings. Here is a public building which has always inter- 

 ested me a great deal. It might be an art gallery, but as a 

 matter of fact it is a department store, a splendid department 

 store in the center of Pierlin. It might be out in the country, 

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