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action and a provision for right things 
that is of inestimable value. 
It is toward the insistence upon com¬ 
munity planning that I have been com¬ 
ing this evening. It is the function of 
the American Civic Association, in con¬ 
nection with its great work for Ameri¬ 
can building, to insist upon city planning, 
and its offices in Washington are always 
open to those who inquire concerning 
ways and means of accomplishing this 
notable good. 
In order that responsibility may be 
properly placed, I conclude with the fol¬ 
lowing bit of doggerel: 
WHO IS "THEY”f 
Why don’t they keep the streets a little 
cleaner ? * 
You ask with deep annoyance not 
undue. 
Why don’t they keep the parks a little 
greener? 
(Did you ever stop to think that the$ 
means You?) < 
How long will they permit this graft 
and stealing? 
Why don’t they see the courts are 
clean and true ? 
Why will they wink at crooked public 
dealing? 
(Did you ever stop to think that they 
means You?) 
Why don’t they stop this miserable child 
labor? 
And wake the S. P. C. A. up a few? 
While thus you gently knock your un¬ 
known neighbor, 
Did you ever stop to think that they 
means You?) 
