The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-06
WILLIAM D. FOULKE
TO Be A SPEAKER
Before the National Munich
pal Congress at Los An
geles Next Week.
National News Association)


LOS ANGELES, July 6.-Civic ex-
tperts and publicists from all parts of
the country are here tonight for the
eighteenth annual convention of the
National Municipal League, which will
be opened Monday by Governor Hir-
am Johnson of California The session
will continue until July IL. Mayor AL
exander of Los Angeles will make
welcoming speech and DR.. Albert
Bushnell Hart of Harvard will respond
On behalf of the League.
In addition to it's active member
ship of over $500 men and women the
majority of whom are prominently
identified with local and national
movements for the betterment of civic
conditions, the National Municipal
League has enrolled various associa-
.tions. giving it a total membership
exceeding 10000.
FouIke's Speech.
Expert City Planning will be the
theme of an important address Mon
day by William Dudley Foulke, who
succeeded ex-Attorney General Charles
u. Bonaparte, as president of the Lea
lgue. After the business meeting on
the second day, Secretary Woodruff
will discuss simplicity, Publicity and
Efficiency in Municipal Affairs" This
will be followed by a discussion on
Commission Government for Large
Cities" led by Professor William Ben
nett Monroe of Harvard University
In connection with this discussion the
proposed Los Angeles charter, which
has been drafted by a commission and
will be submitted to a popular vote
next year, will be taken up. Los Ange-
les is the first of the larger cities to
iconsider seriously the question of COM
mission government.
An important feature of the conven-
ton will be civic exhibit treating of
comprehensive city planning, traffic
and transportation, harbor and termi-
nal facilities, water supply, street sys-
tens, parks and boulevards, civic and
social centers, school work, housing
and sanitation, child welfare, civil SER
vice, municipal charters, municipal
taxation and franchises.
The League is clearing house for
ideas of municipal government, and is
strictly nonpartisan in it's membership
and in it's activities.
Among the papers to be read are:
''The Actual Operation of Woman Suf-
frage in Pacific Coast Cities" by Mrs
Charles Farwell Edison, chairman Of
the Political Equality League of Cali
fornia; "Civic Education" by Arthur
w. Dunn, secretary of the New York
Public Education Association; MUM
cipal Finances" by A. C. Pleydell, the
tax expert of New York City; "The
Need for an adequate Civil Service
Law" by Elliott H. Goodwin, secre-
tary of the National Civil Service Re-
form League; Budget Making: It's
Necessity and Significance" by Dr.
Jesse D. Burke of the Philadelphia
Bureau of Municipal Research; State
Versus Municipal Regulation of Public
Utilities" by John M. Eshelman, Pres
ident of the California State Railroad
Commission; Street Railway Fran
chises," by Delos F. Wilcox, franchise
expert of the New York City Public
Utilities Commission.
The League exerts its influence
through the reports of it's yearly
proceedings and the report through
the publication of the National NUM-
cipal Review and other literature and
through the committees in the field.
President Foulke formerly was presi-
dent of the Federal Civil Service Com
mission. Secretary Woodruff is presi-
dent of the Personal Registration
Board Of Philadelphia. The other Off
GERS are: Miss Jane Adams, of Chi
cago; H. d. English, of Pittsburgh;
William Kent, Of California; Camillus