Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-28
WILL SPEAK OF
JUSTICE LEAGUE
PROF. BoKE WILL EXPLAIN
ORGANIZATION
PLANNED TO FORM NATIONAL
FEDERATION
Society Which Originated in San
Francisco Formed to Fight Con-
tinuously Forces of Corrup-
ton in Municipalities

Prof. George II. Boke, head of the
law department of the University OF
California, will speak on the subject OF
.'The Better City and the Work Of the
League of Justice of San Francisco
before the students of the Polytechnic
high school at o'clock this morning,
and at 1890 a. m. he viii address the
women of the Friday Morning CLUB on
the same topic. Tomorrow he VIII
speak before the City club at its noon
day luncheon aud tomorrow night he
will be one of the speakers at Simpson
auditorium, when Mayor Edward X.
TAYLOR of San Francisco will address
a large audience of citizens of Los An
geles on the work of the League OF
Justice.
Yesterday Prof. Boke passed most
of his time in consultation with the
men who are backing the movement in
this city and last night it was an
nounced plans for the proposed league
had taken very definite shape and that
everything would be in readiness for
the presentation at the big meeting 10
be held in Simpson auditorium Satur-
day night, when Mayor Edward X.
Taylor of san Francisco will be the
principal speaker.
Women Enlist in Cause
The work of the league does not con-
template the exclusion of women, who
are to be given part in It as they
are in the San Francisco organization.
As a result many of Los Angeles
women hav enlisted in the cause and
the names of several prominent women
have been placed on the now lengthy
list of active workers who have pledged
their support to the new organization.
As a proof of the interest which the
.,F IT or IA xino in the
organization of the league, Prof. Boke
has been invited to speak this morning
before the Friday Morning club to out
line the plans and purposes of the or
ganization, which has attained such
prominence and importance in the
north.
Prof. Boke. who has been a pronli-
nent worker in San Francisco on the
side of the graft prosecution and who
has helped to extend the work to the
University of California and Stanford
university, where active Leagues of
Justice have been organized, will 40
dress 1000 pupils of the Polytechnic
high school on the subject of Civic
Improvement and the Work of the
League of Justice in San Francisco"
The work of the league being entirely
non political and it being permanent
organization for the protection of the
rights of the citizens. it has appealed
very strongly to college men and to
students in the preparatory schools
who are beginning to take an active
interest in the movement.
Publishes Periodical
The object of the league moreover is
largely educational. At the present
time it publishes in San Francisco q
weekly periodical devoted to the cause
of the graft prosecution and to the
development of a sense Of civic duty
and pride among citizens. THE Liber-
ator," over whose destiny Prof. Bcke
has kept careful guard. now has an
immense circulation, not only in San
Francisco but in Los Angeles and other
parts of the west.
Saturday noon Prof. Boke and Mayor
Taylor of San Francisco will he guests
OF the City club and the former will