The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-13
CIVIC ASSOC, NET
At CAPITAL TO-DAY
Opening Session Was Devot-
ed to Subject of Ma
tional Parks.
(National News ASsociation)

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.--A strenu-
GUS campaign to further interest in the
national parks OF the country was in
augurated here today by the American
Civic association at the opening SeS-
sion OF it's seventh annual cOnven-
ton. Before the convention aGjOurns
Friday evening, it is expected that
much sentiment will have been Great
ed in favor Of these distinctly Ameri-
can institutions.
A comprehensive handling Of the
entire subject viii be undertaken by
the associations president, J. Horace
Mcfarland, at tonight's session. His
subject is Are National Parks Worth
While" Secretary Of the Interior,
Walter L. Fisher will preside at this
session, which will be attended by
President Taft.
1t Is the announced intention OF the
association to seek enactment by con-
gress Of Legislation creating a federal
bureau of national parks to be attach
ed to the Interior Department.
Ser. Smoot to Speak.
Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, will
make an address on the topic What
National Parks Mean to the West;
Mr.. EnOs A. Mills. OF Estes Park, Colo
RADIO, will tell "A Story of the National
Parks" and Mr.. Herbert w. Gleason.
OF Boston, massachusetts, will de-
liver an illustrated lecture on Some
Picturesque Features of Our National
Parks"
At the opening session this morn
ing. Hon. Cuno RI. Rudolph, president
Of the Board of Commissioners of the
District Of Columbia, extended
Washington Welcome" and on the
general topic Related Civic Ad-
vances.' greetings were expressed by
various national organizations. Mrs.
Philip North Moore, of St. Louis,
president of the General Federation Of
Women's clubs, spoke on What Or
ganized Women Are Doing Earnest
Thompson Seton, chief scout of the
Boy Scouts of America discussed
1.-The Relation of Boy Scouts to Civic
Improvements" The address Of 1rv-
ing X. Pond, president of the Ameri-
can Institute Of Architects, Chicago,
Ill.,, was "The Architect and the Com
munity." Hon. William Dudley
Foulke, president OF the National Mu-
nicipal League. Richmond, Indiana,
spoke on "The Daily Life OF Frank
fort"
Other speakers at the session were
J. Locke Wilson. Secretary of the
horticultural association, Toronto.
Canada, on "Civic Improvement in
Canada" and Samuel S. Thorpe, presi-
dent of the National Association Of
Real Estate Exchanges, OF Minneapo-
lis, on "The Relation Of Real Estate
Men to City Planning"
Discussion of national and state
parks occupied the afternoon session,
and there was presented the dram OF
q bill, the passage of which will be
urged at the coming session of con-
gress creating the much desired Fed.
eral Bureau Of National Parks.
Tho Thursday Session.
Introduced by report on 1.-THE
Years Work." by Richard b. Watrus,
secretary of the American Civic asso'
citation, the session of tomorrow morn.
ing will be devoted to the transaction
OF the business of the association to-
gether with an election of officers and
of the executive board. THE Com
munities We Live In" will be the
topic for discussion. 1t will be open
ed by an address on washington. A
Model City," by Major William V. Jud
son, Corp of Engineers, u. S. A., En-
gineer Commissioner, District Of Col
umbia. Arnold w. Bremen, Of New
York City. will present The Business
Side of City Planning"
The topics for Thursday afternoon