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June 28, 1941.
By Walt Disney
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MJONES BUYER
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A City in Anguish Reveals Its
I doubt it.
the
teenth century.
Soul
THOSE evacuated towns- fante, the flaneur, the creator, charges of shallowness and false people who have fallen and the merchant. In it you values. It has shown that it in love with country life , may find whatever you want at has heights and depths. Never has my own London been so will they, I wonder, be as many short notice. It is the centre of alive, so revealing of itself. Its as those country people who things. In town you live in 1941 brooding indifference has been year by year flock to the big with all the accumulated treasure shed. It and its people are one. towns, and, having once felt the of the past. In some parts of
The wounded streets, the fascination of the town, never the country you have to live in
battered buildings, the wrecked go back to their valleys, how the hampering mode of the seven-homes, the sightless windows, ever green?
the burnt-out churches and his- toric monuments have caused a In the case of London, The constant flow of life in fusion of the soul of the city and bulk of the population is of the town's streets-the spell of the soul of the people. They country descent, and this is its shops-the emotional glow have come together in under- tribute to the city's eternal of its million homes-can, as standing and intense feeling. spell. It is an answer to those Lamb said, move one to tears There is nothing "unnatural” erities who say that town life is from fullness of joy at so much about London life to-day, We "unnatural"; that it cannot give life. These things help to form are living through a spiritual you what the soil of the country the townsman, and he is as true experience. The aloof monster can give. Nothing in it, they to the types and traditions of has thrown up the strength of say, is rooted. All is transient his territory as the man of the the ages against the peril, and
the easy-going, unmoved and unsatisfying. But if that Derbyshire dales or the Cumber- döner has been moved to were true, the towns, would land fells:
this strength in the air and in the stones, and to be forlified hardly keep drawing people
The stones of the city are by it. from the soil. London would not, every year, as it does, re- kindly stones. They have ab- new its stock from the village sorbed the sentiments of genera und the field.
Different people need differ-" ent settings for their develop ment. Some need the meadows and the sky; others need the powerful heart-beat of human- ity which is found in a great city.
KEEPING IN TOUCH
Lon-
feel
Nothing like this has happen. ed before, and still our
townis
tions of men, and they effuse and cities are not bowed. Look
By THOMAS BURKE
the London-born Novelist, who has never lost his enthusiasm for towns
them to the men of each new GENERALLY, one may generation and make them social
say that the country is and civilised.
down upon London from the lics-battered a bit, but posed Northern Heights, and there it as proudly and serenely as ever,
SUPER
-WAT DISNEY
a good thing to be in contact at this time with this soul; better than being in the quiet and un- touched valloys.
not for young people; it is for The townsman is never driven as calm as Nature itself. It is the elderly and retired. To in upon himself. When he is young-people, monotony is tor unable to enjoy himself there are ment. They need the contact millions of other people to enjoy of mind and mind, a succession As, to some dull minds, a prim.
interests.
spurs to
rose is just a primrose, so to achievement, all those enthu- some a city street is just a ginsms (ephemeral perhaps) street.
But to the true towns- which germinate and grow in a ran it is something more. It is are they stony-hearted step- a symbol, a crystallisation of mothers. They are, as I say,
of
city.
new
GREAT BEINGS.
ITIES are not only places for making fortunes, nor
In town you are in touch with humanity, and its daily pro- great beings, and London above all that is doing in the world, cession of souls is as moving a all has been made by the hands and all that the spirits of the spectacle as the procession of and spirits of the men of all of past have given to that town. the seasons across the fields. You can become. as firmly root-
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A NEW STIMULUS ··
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Townsmen of to-day are not the crude, rootless creatures they are thought to be. In stay. AT dawn, at mid-day, at ing with their city as they are dusk, even in the black doing in this time of peril they
productive of steadfast
door and have for weeks as night, you can plunge into these are showing that town life is much solitude us in any village. highly-charged streets, and lose as You can meditate in its byways there all your troubles and character as rural life. As the yeomen are showing the mettle as undisturbed as in the most gather new stimulus in contact of their pastures, so they are either with your fellows or with showing the mettle of. their
remote lane.
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has
lifo
been so in- teresting, so It is a great being with n
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