A KANSAS TOWN FEELS ITS OWN PULSE

Lawrence, Kas., was not ill. Most of its citizens did not even think
it was ailing, but there were some anxious souls who wondered if the
rosy exterior were not the mockery of an internal fever. They called
in physicians, and after seven months spent in making their
diagnosis, they have prescribed for Lawrence, and the town is
alarmed to the point of taking their medicine.

That is the medical way of saying that Lawrence has just completed
the most thorough municipal survey ever undertaken by a town of its
size, and in so doing has found out that it is afflicted with a lot
of ills that all cities are heir to. Lawrence, however, with Kansas
progressiveness, proposes to cure these ills.

Prof. F.W. Blackmar, head of the department of sociology at the
University of Kansas, and incidentally a sort of city doctor, was
the first "physician" consulted. He called his assistant, Prof. B.W.
Burgess, and Rev. William A. Powell in consultation, and about one
hundred and fifty club women were taken into the case. Then they got
busy. That was April 1. This month they completed the examination,
set up an exhibit to illustrate what they had to report, and read
the prescription.



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(_Popular Science Monthly_)