South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-05
SAYS CITIES MUST
BEPLANNED RIGHT
Expert LathrOp Tells Civic
Federation Coordination
One of Requisites

CITY planning is the control OF
circumstance which tend TO better
or deteriorate a city" was the state
uent OF Expert John r. Lathrop i'm
explaining the work being under
taken by the Indiana city planning
commission in their efforts 10 secure
letter cities for the state. at the
meeting Of the civic federation Mon
day night
Lathrop also discussed several
problems concerned in the city plan
ming movement. Streets were called
the most serious question by the
speaker. while terminals sanitation
and health. and food and fire pre-
vention were named as being of CO.
ordinate Importance The speaker
touched only briefly upon any Of the
subjects.
To be effective city planning must
be done by the people themselves
and not bv a select few, Lathrop
told his auditors. Changing COM
merciai. political AMI economic con-
ditions must be considered by those
VINO would plan a city for future
years
Tentative dates were arranged for
the motion picture exhibitions at the
various civic centers by the delegates
present At the meeting In order
10 make the venture a success it will
ne necessary to stage two shows at
each school every time the machine
Is brought 10 the school house. Chill
dren will be permitted 10 attend an
afternoon performance while the
grown-ups will be asked 20 go TO
the night show. a small admission
fee will be necessary TO meet eX-
Ienses.
How Berlin Lived.
sir Lathrop spoke as follows.
Some years ago. a census of Ber-
lin. Germany. disclosed that the l.
zoo. 600 population fell into four
classes each of 800. 900 persons: the
first lived in one-roOm quarters, the
second in two-roOm quarters, the
third in three-room quarters. and
the fourth i'm four or more-room
quarters
Examination Of the vital Stats
ties also disclosed that the death
rate OF those who lived in one-room
quarters was many times that OF
those who lived in the four-room
homes.
Those Germans sought 20 find
the way 20 cure that awful social
ill., Various devices were resorted
10. but none accomplished the de-
sired end Finally. they determined
to go TO the real fundamentals of
city building and government. They
decided that the structure of the
city was wrong. and that there must
bc more or less control of the pow
erful forces that before that time
had caused haphazard growth OF
the cities.
Birth OF City Planning.
Thus the science Of city planning
found its birth-in the large human
consideration: in the desire 20 make
the cities better places in which 20
live. work and play. II was for the
people primarily, and for the peo-
pie it has continued to be direct
ed.
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many municipal movements, each
Commendable and vital 90 the COM
mon good. But they had not been
Co-ordinated. The several groups
were working independently. These
groups became in "a measure antag-
cnistic: that Is, they became habit
uated TO the unwise attitude of each
one regarding his special work as
the only one that need bee empha-
sized They were somewhat like the
physician Of old who always said
when called 20 a sick patient: If ]
can throw this patient into fits
can cure him. for I'm death ON fits
Medical science has learned that
even "a specialist must know the
whole pathology and antony. before
hitting himself for specialist work
Even a dentist nowadays takes a
course in medicine and anatomy
for he cannot understand the dental