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road matters and it dawned upon us that Jackson County was only on one side of Kansas Cits and that the city is in the midst of the worst growing pain it ever ex* perienced. We went to chicago and looked over their Plan and had their Manager come doin and explain it to us. We obtained literature from Detroit and Philadelphia and it occured to us that now is the time for the or- ganization of a complete highmay plan for this whole region and a scientific study for the proper growth of all this area. We asked Mr. Kingery the manager of the Chicago Plam to come down and tell Chicago! a experience) HE advised us to get all the governing bodies in the proposed re- gion into an organization, get a plan started and put it over. That is what we propose to do. The surrounding Gace wiften paragraph. counties are enthusiastic Kansas City has wakehed up and has started to work ona ten year plan. If we can get Kansas City's Ten year Plan and the Plan of the G Greater Kansas City Region hooked up with Missouri's Highway Plan and Kansas' Highway Plan and the Park Plans inland of both States we'll have the greatest city in the world. Protin written paragraph Washington, Paris, Buenos Ayres nor any of the other heamy bother situated great ones will day on for utility, living condi- tions or beauty.