Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-26
COMMONWEALTH CONFERENCE.
Report of Gathering at Eugene Last
Week.

University of Oregon, Eugene, May
21.-The Fifth Annual Common
wealth Conference closed Saturday
evening, May II, after a two days
session held at the University of Ore
gon.
During the first days session lee
lures were given by representatives
from different parts of the northwest
on topics concerning the business,
civic and social life and interests of
the people of Oregon. Among those
who took part in the discussions of
the morning were: Herbert Sands
of the New York Municipal Exchange,
Mayor E. E. Gray of Astoria, Her.
man Brauer of the University of
Washington, and L. H. Weir, field
secretary of the Playground and Re-
creation Association of America.
Cooperation was the special theme
of the afternoon session. Hon. H. B.
Miller took up cooperative produc-
tion and marketing in agriculture,
horticulture and dairying, while l..
w. Cummerford discussed co-opera-
tive stores. Porter j. Neff of Med
ford spoke of municipal markets.
The evening session was devoted to
state and city planning.
On Saturday morning educational
problems we're discussed. President
Kerr of the Oregon Agricultural Col
lege, President Foster of Reed Col.
lege, Professor E. P. Cubberly o.
Stanford University, Eugene Brook
ings, president of the Citizens Edu
cational League of Oregon, and Su
perintendent Francis of Los Angeles
were among the speakers at this ses
sion.
About $50 guests were met at the
special train Saturday noon with au-
tomobiles, and, after short ride
over the city, were taken to the
mems gymnasium. where the Uni
versity of Oregon Alumni Association
served luncheon. During this hour
music was furnished by the mems
and women's glee clubs of the uni.
versity.
After luncheon the editors of Ore.
gon assembled at Mcclure Hall for a
conference. A similar meeting was
held by the engineers of Oregon al
the mems gymnasium, and one by the
women was held in Willard Hail. Al
o'clock two scenes from Peer Gynt
and one from Midsummer Night!
Dream were given under the direc'
tion of Professor A. F. Reddie.
The session closed with two ban
quets, one for the women at the Ho-
tel Osburn, and one for the men
held in the Commercial Club rooms
AS result of this conference, five
definite actions have been started:
A committee OF seven member:
from Oregon institutions of higher
learning will be an auxiliary to tn,
Oregon Citizens Educational League
and will aid this body in the worl
of educational readjustment in Ore
gon.
A committee of seven members will
be organized to investigate co-opera
tive systems of business organization
A commission of fifteen member
will undertake the investigation O
the problem of the development o
Oregon's water power resources
This committee shall draw up plan
to embody state policy.
A committee of seven men wi
plan the organization of an Orego
municipal league for cooperate
among Oregon cities.
The announcement of plan to- Ell
large the faculty of the University {
Oregon by bringing experts in bus
ness lines, such as Oregon banker
merchants, sociologists, engineer
and others, to lecture to the studen
in Eugene.
Appointments of the first thr,
commissions are to be made by Ho
II. b. Miller, while Professor F.
Young will soon name the membe
of the fourth commission. The a
nouncement OF broadening the scol