Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1916 — CITY LOOKING INTO FUTURE [ARTICLE]

CITY LOOKING INTO FUTURE

Billboards and Such Disfigurement* Sternly Prohibited in Prosperous California Town.

We have one city with sufficient civic pride and backbone to say that no billboards shnll be erected within her limits, and that one Is Inglewood, a small city with great hopes and ambitions. It already has a civic center, Starting with a five-block park system flanked on one side by a grammar school and a modern up-to-date high school second to none, and on the other side by city lands reserved for a city hall, fire house, etc,, that In time will give Inglewood a centralized city government of a rare combination of beauty,' usefulness and economy In so far as a municipal plan is concerned. More expenditure is needed on the park system and a great Improvement could be made in the appearance of both building and grounds of the grammar school. With this granted, this little city Is well tow’ard the head of the list in municipal Improvements, and w’hen that new city hall is built will outrank any place of like population known to the writer. And she la deserving of the greatest praise for keeping out the offensive billboard, w’hich desecrates every landscape Incumbered with one. Here’s to a city council with the right sort of nerve. — Los Angeles Times.