New-York tribune., 1914-11-23
CIVIC FEDERATION
ANNUAL MEETING
Diverse Programme and
Many Speakers for
Two-Day Session.
WOMEN'S BRANCH
AT COLONY CLUB
Ballet, Ball and Tea Dansant
Among the Social
Features.

The full programme for the fifteenth
annual meeting Of the National Civic
Federation, which viii open at the
Astor on December 4, was announced
Yesterday, following tho opening OF
the women's department on the preced-
ing day at the Colony Club.
At tho opening session President Seth
Low will deliver his annual address
and fifteen-minute reports will be made
by August Belmont on provision for
model uniform workmen's compenss-
tion law, John Hays Hammond on the
business situation and its effects upon
unemployment this winter, Judge Alton
b. Parker on the limitation under tho
Constitution OF the rights OF free
speech and public assembly, Vincent
Astor on the effectiveness of the pure
food and drug laws, Miss haude Wet
more on the work of the woman's de-
partment and its various branches,
William r. Wilcox on the growth Of
employers welfare work and Roland
p. Falkner on social and industrial
changes In the last generation.
At the afternoon session Professor
J. w. jerks will give q review of pres
ent day tendencies toward the substitu-
tion OF governmental action for private
enterprise. Ex-Governor Stubs OF
Kansas, and ex-senator jonathan
Bourne, Of Oregon, will open the dis
cussioA on the question "Shall the Gov
ernment Own and Operate the Rail
roads, Telegraph and Telephone Sys-
tens and Municipal Utilities?' Ex-
Governor Stubbs will take the aft firm
ative and ex-senator Bourne the neg
ativc side Of the question as IL relates
to railroads, and Representative David
J. Lewis and DR.. Frederick 9. Howe
viii present the affirmative sides, re-
spectiyely, OF the question as il relates
municipal utilities.
The session on Saturday morning,
December 5, will be devoted 10 the
question of social insurance, George W.
Perkins, chairman of the department,
presiding. The programme will be
opened with the report Of the commits
sion sent to Europe by the federation
in the early summer to study illness
and unemployment insurance and old
ago pensions.
At the close Of this session there will
be q luncheon under the auspices OF
the Workmen's Compensation Depart
mert, 40 which will b. discussed prob
lens arising in connection with the
operation of the workmen's compensa-
tion acts now in force In twenty-five
states.
The afternoon session on Saturday
will be devoted to the consideration Of
the questions OF "Our Preparedness for
War" and "Our Duties Under The
Hague Conference" The speakers will
be DR.. David Starr Jordan, Of the
American Peace Society; Colonel Rob
srt NJ. Thompson, Of the Navy League
OF the Omted States; Franklin d.
Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary Of the
Navy; Samuel GOmpers, president Ct
the American Federation OF Labor, and
IalCott Williams, q rector of the School
OF Journalism, Columbia University.
At the annual meeting of the
woman's department, on Thursday, De
cemOer 3. at the Colony Club, reports
will include plans for rural improve
ments by the country life committee,
the problem of recreation resources
and possibilities for working women by
the vacation committee, the special
work Of the vacation war relief COM
mittae. activities in the industrial field
By the Massachusetts and Rhode Island
section, agricultural problems covered
by the Southern sections IN Virginia
and West Virginia, Alabama, North and
South Carolina and Florida; the nous
ing plan and alley bill Of the District
Of Columbia section. On the afternoon
of Friday, December 4, there VIII DC
tea at the headquarters Of the vaca-
tion committee, 38 West seth ST., at
o'clock. and an exhibit of war relief,
unemployment and vacation resources.
The ballet Of "Pandora's Box will be
rendered under the auspices Of the
vacation committee on Friday and Sat
urday evenings, December and ., and
on Saturday afternoon. The evening
performances will be followed by
ball and the afternoon performance On
Saturday by the dansant. The pro
ceeds will be devoted TO the admin
istration expenses of the vacation and
war relief funds.
The employers welfare department
will give an exhibition in connection
with the opening Of its permanent vel.
fare exhibit on the thirty-ffth hoor or
the Metropolitan Tower on Thursday,
December 3, from 3 TO Z o'clock, 70
which all members and friends or the
National Civic Federation are invited.