New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-08-05
Mayor F ! '
AT London Meet
ONE OF SPEAKERS AT SESSION
OF INTERNATIONAL
GATHERING
MANY NOTABLES PRESENT,
MUNICIPAL QUESTIONS
DISCUSSED.

DISCUSSED.
The Morning POST, London, Eng
land, of July 21st carries a column
article on it's editorial page devoted to
a report of the International Municipal.
Congress held in that city at that time:
Doctor L. A. Fritsche attended this
conference as Mayor of New Ulm and
was down for paper on Public Health
and Sanitation" to be read at the after
noon session Of the first day. Among
thesother speakers for the same day were
such notables as DR.. Priestly, Medical
Health Officer of Lambeth, England,
the Earl of Kintore, Lord Rotterdam,
Hon. Sir John A. Cockburn, K. C. M. G.
and Senator D. C. Fletcher of the United
States.
Viscount Peel opened the Congress
which was attended by delegates from
the Metropolitan boroughs of London,
municipalities of England and Scotland,
The Hague, Rotterdam, Antwerp, and
from about one hundred fifty cities in
the United States, besides from numerous
societies interested in housing, garden
cities, sanitation and education. The
subjects discussed the first day of the
conference related to public health
administration and during the week
that followed the subjects of 'Muni-
cipal Trading, Management of "Pri-.
sons, Education, 'Town Planning
and Recreation, "The Control of
Licensing, and the question of sub
sides, were taken up.
81 The Earl of Kintore welcomed the.
Wishing mayors from the United States
and Lord Peel spoke of the benefit that
must accrue from gathering composed
of representatives, from such widely scat
tered communities and said the Congress
would prove clearing house for NUM-
cipal ideas. He declared that, whether
navies and armies should disappear as
a result of Peace Conferences and Boards
of Arbitration, whatever great national
changes must come, municipal adj
must continue to go on
gaining in experience and value, no
matter whether conducted under anarchic
or socialistic conditions. He called at
tention to the fact that in England the
Municipal Boards were free of one re-
straint the Parliamentary rulers had to
bear, that of the Woman question. He
said that women were already eligible
to the Municipal Board in England and
that five of them sit on the London City
Council so that there is no danger of their
smashing up the municipal galleries.
It might have been suggested to the
titled gentleman that if the suffragettes
were so easily pacifed as that, America
can have little sympathy with John Bull
when he does not take the obvious way
out of the difficulty with che women and
give them places on all governing boards.
Lord Peel went on to enumerate the
questions of absorbing, interest to the
public mind at the present time. He
named the question of Trades Unions,
of Capitalization of Power, and Traffic
Problems.
Dr.. w. H. Page, American Am
bassador to England presented to the
visitors view of the help freely given
by England to American visitors who
go to England looking for information
along various lines. Senator Fletcher
said that the American visitors realized
that the older countries of Europe had
solved many of the problems that at the
present confront. American communities.
He presided at the afternoon session.
A suggestion that might we'll be con-
sidered here was given in talk by Mr..
H. D. Searles Wood, Past President Of
the Royal Sanitary Institute. He said
that it had been the practice in England
to do everything possible to interest the
individual in sanitation, to show him
not only what might be done for him but
more particularly what he could ac-
complish for himself. This had been
accomplished mainly by what they call
the Health Week." One week in the
year public attention is directed wholly
to matters of sanitation, sermons are
preached on the subject, meetings are
held every day at which municipal
officers take che opportunity to explain
the details of their efforts for sanitation
and interest the public generally in
methods employed for securing and
preserving the health of the city. Litera-
ture son personal health is issued and
in some cities a model house is used,
showing the best methods Of house