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Excerpt from American Civic Annual, Vol. 4: A Record of Recent Civic Advance With a List of Who's Who in Civic Achievement Among the Members of the American Civic Association Yet it is clear enough that our study of the life and times of Washington has been salutary in this year 1932. Through long years of greater distress than Americans have experienced in our generation, Washington's vision was undimmed and his faith in the future of our Federal Republic was not shaken. He believed that we could go forward upon the principles that prevailed in our pioneer societies; and his dreams took the form of plans. Those plans were related to political and social structures that would insure justice and freedom. He believed that voluntary forces and agencies, with the encouragement of wise public policies, would give expansion and prosperity to our agriculture, our industries, and our commerce. It was a felicitous circumstance that brought together a group of organizations for a joint conference at Washington during the third week of September. George Washington had laid a cornerstone of the National Capitol building on Septem ber 18, 1793. He had selected the site of the Federal district, and had supervised the ambitious plan for what has now become the most beautiful seat of government in the entire world. The annual meeting of the American Civic Association was arranged to coincide with the programs of a bicentennial conference on planning, parks, and government, in which eight National associations participated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.