Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1917 — NEEDS BRAINS OF ENGINEERS [ARTICLE]

NEEDS BRAINS OF ENGINEERS

Underlying All City Planning Is the Necessity to Secure Health and Comfort for the People.

City planners are always busied with civic centers, city halls, libraries, parks, playgrounds, street trees, comfort stations, etc., all grand features, all desirable, all even necessary, yet all incidentals. The first problem to grapple with is availability. Such Work is at present our greatest need, for all oiir so-called main thoroughfares are now too much congested during the busiest hours. This is an engineer’s problem. Storm drains and also sewers are next on the program, also referred to the engineer’s department. After this we need reservations for small neighborhood parks so that every resident may reach i>n& from his home in a ten-minutes’ walk. Now, having made our city available and sanitary to a satisfactory degree we are ready to make it a city beautiful and consider, all the commendable fads put forward by bands of energetic workers who for many years have made large •noises but accomplish nothing. But let us first have the engineer and have him give us a substantial foundation on which to lay the city.—Los Angeles Times.