The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-11
WILLIAM D, FOULKE
TO Be REFLECTED
President of the National
Municipal League Con-
vention Next Week.
tNaticnal News Association

RICHMOND. Va. Nov. 11.-Dele-
gates to the seventeenth yearly CON
ven1ion Of the National Municipal Lea
que have already begun to arrive. and
indications today are that the opening
meeting Monday will have greater
attendance than any ever before held
in the history Of the organization The
convention will be in session four days
adjourning next Thursday
Early arrivals for the meeting in
clude some of the foremost civic ex-
perts and publicists of the country
Among those who will participate in
the convention are Secretary Of the
Interior Fisher, Mayor Richardson. Of
Richmond: Hon. William Dudley
Foulke, president of the league; Hon.
Charles J. Bonaparte, Of Baltimore.
member of the Executive Committee
and former President Of the League;
DR.. Albert Bushnell Hart. of Cam
bridge, Mass; George Burnham. Jr, of
Philadelphia; Harvey n. Shepard. of
Boston; Thomas NJ Pittman, city at
torney of Henderson. n. c.: Hon. f.
H. Crump, mayor of Memphis, Tenn:
Rear Admiral Chadwick, of Newport,
r. L.; Richard Henry Dana. of Cam
bridge, Mass; Hon. Charles J. Bona
parte, of Baltimore. Nd. former attor-
ney general of the United States;
Thomas H. Mason. Liverpool. England,
author of Civic Art Robert Treat
Paine, of Boston. DR.. Delos F. Wilcox.
franchise expert of the public utilities
ut -
w. s. Peters. Kansas City. president
Of the City Club, Kansas City; Arthur
w. Dunn, of New York; Howard s.
Cans, formerly assistant district at
tornew of New York: Camillus G. Kid
dee, of Orange, N. j.; Hon. William II.
Thomas, of Montgomery, Ala; Law
son Purdy, president board of Taxes
and Assessments, New York; Prof
Robert c. Brooks, of the University of
CINCINNATI; Elliott H. Goodwin. Of
New York, DR.. w. w. Willoughby, Of
the Presidents Commission on Econo-
my and Eficiency;D Dr. James B. Parks,
director, Philadelphia Bureau Of NUM-
cipal Research; Prof Charles F. Get
temy, director Massachusetts bureau
Of Labor: Hon. John NJ. Walton, con-
troller of Philadelphia: Prof. Sells
kaar Gun. Massachusetts Institute of
Technology; Presiding Officer, John
Stewart Bryan, Editor The Richmond
News Leader; William F. Rappard, De-
partment of Government, Harvard Uni.
versity; Reginald Mott Hull, Cam
bridge, Mass.
Some Of the Topics.
This meeting is of particular inter
est" said Secretary Woodruff today,
because of the special reports to be
received from the various committees
appointed to investigate certain new
phases of the municipal problem which
attained prominence within the year.
For instance, among the questions to
be considered will be the employment
of technical experts on municipal work
civic instruction in the schools and COL
leges, the relation of the social evil
and of the liquor traffic to municipal
administration.
In addition to these questions, char
ter making, commission government,
electoral reform, franchise legislation,
condemnation, civil service reform,
the work of civic secretaries and all
other branches of municipal govern
ment will be discussed. President Will
liam Dudley Foulke, of Richmond.
Ind, who probably will be reelected,
will deliver an address on Efficient