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"Well, you understand," he explains, condescendingly, "that this is a very bad fall for building,-the strikes, you know, and all that, so we were compelled, in gettin' out our little booklets, to resort in some cases to the architects' drawin's. As I have tried to impress on you already, sir, to appreciate Mapledell you must look forward.

"It is the future, sir, that we are livin' and workin' for. It is to make Mapledell a city of homes, a place where a nice man will be proud to live, a place for him to bring up his children, that's why we have made the enormous sacrifices necessary in order to get the land into shape. It has been a tremenjus undertakin'; it's took brains an' brawn; but, gentlemen, we've been workin' toward a ideal."

Let us rejoice that the day of the idealist is not yet over. They may talk to us about the materialization of our society: about the lack of a high sense of honor in business transactions: as for me, I point to the real-estate man, and assert that while he remains we shall not lack some one to talk to us of fundamental principles, of ideals, and social responsibility.

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