Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-01
PROF. zEUBLIN URGES CLUB
WOMEN TO WORK
SEES NEED OF BIG REFORMS
Ugly Surroundings Of Railway Sta
tions, Uttered Doorsteps and Nu-
merous Telephone Poles Make
Los Angeles Ugly

LOS Angeles should buy the beaches.
"If the city is to be worthy of its
high ambitions 1t must provide wisely
for its 100000 or its half million inhabi-
tants now.
THE seaside resorts should not be
permitted to pass into the hands Of real
estate spectators, who III time will put
property beyond the reach Of people Of
ordinary means"
Prof. Charles Zeublin, who occupies
the chair of sociology in the University
Of Chicago, faced an assembly Of club
women and their men friends yesterday
afternoon in the big living room Of Mr..
and Mrs. George Drake Ruddy, 2711
Wiltshire boulevard, and In earnest
tones warned all who have the interest
of the city at heart to value the ocean
air as one of the chief factors OF
municipal growth.
Prof. Zeublin is still young man
and he has for ten years enjoyed the
reputation of being one Of the foremost
leaders in the American movement for
municipal reform. He was the guest
yesterday of the Civic Federation and
the club women to whom he appealed
for aid in the work Of civic improve
ment, which he said was much needed
in Los Angeles
Railway Stations Depressing
fs1,,- ri, anCf
depressing idea of the city of which
every tourist has had beautiful
Dreams" the visitor from Chicago de-
clared accusingly. "There should be
either a union station. surrounded with
we'll kept gardens, or each railway
should make for itself a stopping place
which will fittingly introduce strangers
to Los Angeles. Persons who travel
from crowded eastern cities expect to
alight in tropical park when they
reach the metropolis of Southern Cali
fornia, but instead of flowers and palm
trees they behold mazes Of telephone
and telegraph lines and forests of troll
ley poles. ones first glimpse Of Los
Angeles IS dredQ1ul
Work for Club Women
The speaker declared that almost all
civic Improvement movements could be
found to center in one woman or In
women's clubs. He thought the wo-
mems method of work wise because it
put the responsibility of reforms on the
men. The women exercised the power
behind the voters. If great things or
small things were to be accomplished
men and women must work together.
He said that municipal ownership
should be extended. The city should
buy the beaches. Los Angeles should
demonstrate that it was worthy Of its
high ambitions. If it was to grow
rapidly it should make itself fitting
home for the tens of thousands 1t ex-
pected.
When asked whether he approved OF
the plan to put the public library i'll
Central park, Prof. zeublin answered
mo- most emphatically. A library or
a railway station should face a. park If
possible, but parks should be open
spaces. He said no greater mistake
could be made than to put the Los An
geles public library in Los Angeles
public garden.
Papers on Our Doorsteps
II am surprised to find that Los An
geles permits the distribution of front
doorstep advertising papers" Prof.
Zeublin remarked sadly. Your lawns
and gardens. are disfigured by handbills.
1t is9 astonishing that householders
patiently eisSe , this nuisance"
Mrs. Willoughby Rodman, chairman
of the outdoor art committee Of the
Civic Federation, and Mrs. J. E. Cowles,
president of the federation, received the
guests at the afternoon meeting. Mrs.
Ruddy served iced punch after the lee
ture, when the club women discussed
the arrangement of a course of lectures
to be delivered next winter by Prof,
Zeublin.