The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-12
Huonen Learn Much
4 /. About City Plan
XII From Fine Talks

8V888 $500
I1ombers OF the city welfare de-
16tment -henceforth to BE- known
~ he civic department Of tho Rock
& Va woman's club as the name
~ changed back to the original
69Sssor this group at yesterday
xsltng-learned yome very def-
Sho facts about q city planning sys-
Ism and It's benefit, and about the
indiyidusl's part in making the plan
3 success. Olof z. Cervin, chairman
q the Rock IslGnd city planning
commission, and l.. W. Ramsey OF
Davenport, local representative OF
the Bennett Parsons company OF
Chicago. which company is direct
Ing the activities here. were the
speakers.
sNr. Cervin was the first speaker
a11 he dealt principally with the
r&Isons for trying some sort OF a
phh which would improve the city,
While Mr.. Ramsey spoke on the
thiigs that individuals can do to
pssh the city plan.
I I'VE have not had the advantage
Of good planning" said Mr.. Cervin.
The city has grown rather haphaz-
ardly. Some opportunities have
besu lost while others which have
not been brought out can be i'm
proved even now. Nature did won
defs for the community in the way
u y river front, but this has been
Lost. There is very little left since
railroads have usurped it. The city
plait 10 trying to see if some OF this
Oann0t be gotten back. There is
only one thcroughfare between
Rock Island and Moline. Often
times this thoroughfare is crowded,
eyen congested. The town has
grown by guess mostly. A city plan
would make streets straight where
they are crooked and crooked where
they are straight and should be
winding. I
There has been no grouping OF
city buildings. This idea is grow
ine rapidly. and is proving most
satisfactory also. The entrance
into the city frop the bridge could
b{ made mcuh more impressive"
Nj, gCervin also spoke Of the en-
trShces into the city from the
s0ayth and west and of the coming
plhh. suggesting that the same
thought and care and order be ap-
piled In planning a city as in run
ming a home. I'VE need prop
agunda to enable US to accomplish
anything In city planning he con-
cluded.
Mr.. Ramsey stated that city plan
ming had Just started when the
plans were made. I'VE must tell
the people about it and get them be-
hind the plans. Only whore this
has been done has the plan proved
successful. The river front here
can be anything you want to make
\ Il. Yet the vision OF the future, tina,
yd6L plans are going to work out as
euth - is to come tomorrow's sun
AZ the children interested in it, ge
thefa to writing essays and star
yxrd ard garden contests. 70,
wfll find this will help. Unless 20,
TT the individual home-the uni
wAtch makes up the city-back o
tho plan. the city cannot be attrac
TIVE
Among the things which Mr.
HSmsey suggested which, if avoided
By the home gardner, will hell
greatly TO make for a more beauti
ful city. was the abandonment. O.
the round flower bed in the middle
o. the front lawn. He suggested
the lawn ebe left open. He sug.
geeted the elimination of rustic
verk, iron dogs and iron flower
uFns, the avoidance of planting oil
oddities. and sticking to the old
feShioned shrubs which are aftel
ali the best: OVERRIDING combina-
tons of pleasing arrangements
from various gardens which are
not to be combined: and not plant
ing trees SO that they shut of the
view Of the house. He urged the
cooperation CT neighbors in the
planting of shrubs along parkings
ana the use of only low shrubs
where high ones would be liable to
cause accidents, especially in park
ineS.
irs. E. A. Applequist. accompan-
led by Miss Catherine Heimbeck
GaSe two vocal numbers and re-
opepded to an encore.
q The girls scout movement was
1resented by Miss Pansy Jones,
&ho with Miss Elizabeth Sharpe
end Miss Miriam Walker form the
committee which has organized the
work here. The home bureau re-
port given by Mrs. c. ]. Searle
showed that the 200 members nee
aseary from Rock Island have been
secured. Mrs. C. L. Thompson,
chairman of the hospital commit
~, announced that the room at the
AooDttal Is available for any woman
IN the city. and not limited to men,
hees OF the Rock Island Woman's
clut, rs 10 generally supposed. Per-
Miaoton 10 use the room at q cost
~ Sig a week, can be secured by
Merely telephCning the chairman of
the committee. Mrs. Margaret
Archer gave the travellers aid re-.
PERT and IT was moved that the
street vigilance committee be in
struggled to confer with the COM
2lssioner Of streets, Franh WITCH,
relative to cleaning the alleys OF
~ city. Changes in the. rulings
which were suggested last time, to
Aeef at 2::30 instead Of 8 o'clock
AZ to change the name Of the de-
poftnent to the civic department
vpre voted upon favorably. A mo-
ttea was made that the department
- - record as protesting against
e1S9egtive motion picture plans and
TIT the department recommend TO
~ hoard Of education that lights
l. placed over the entrances to
lincoln school. The department
yoted TO ask Rev. J. A. Chapman
deliver his talk. THE Conserve