New Britain herald., 1914-11-18
CIVIC BUREAO
 BE STORM CEN1ER'
Many Reforms to Start in That
 Department Of Chamber.

The most important department of
 the New Britain Chamber of Com
 merce will be organized at meeting of the members to be held Friday evening, at 8 o'clock, in Booths hall Bylaws will be adopted and fifteen
 directors elected as the first step in the organization of the Civic Bureau. All citizens, whether members of the
 bureau or not, are invited to attend
 the meeting.
 The work of the Civic Bureau
 probably will be the most valuable
 as well as the most interesting to the
 general public. Reforms in munich
 pal affairs will be started in this
 bureau, campaigns for the better
 ment of living conditions will be in
 charge of it's directors, and city plan
 ming and educational work are inn portant parts of it's general program.
 A promise of one of the campaigns to be started by the Civic Bureau af- ter it's organization was given by w.
 E. Moore, the organizer, m his talk at the meeting of the Commonwealth club last week. MT. Moore said that New Britain should have the business manager form of government. and among other suggestions said that ward lines should be eliminated. A. H Andrews, the executive secretary, today expressed the belief that com mission government will be carried In New Britain and that as soon as the Civic Bureau takes it up an educa- tional campaign will be instituted that should convince every person of average intelligence of the advantage of commission government over the yyofn TI ic Andrews necessarily includes the elimination of ward politics by the abolition of ward lines.
 The Civic Bureau will be made the largest department of the chamber and it is planned to enlist the supp port of all persons interested in civic betterment. The cooperation of ex- isting organizations and city officials will be obtained and the work of improving conditions in the city will be cent alized under one head.
 One of the preliminary steps to be taken will be a survey of social, po- litical. educational and economic con- ditions and the arrangement of all the facts obtained in q card index of persons and conditions. From this data the needs of the city will be as- certained to some extent.
 However, there are some things every city should have that New Britain does not possess and cam paign for such improvements can safely be begun without first collect ing data on local conditions.
 Smoke prevention, questions of in surance rates and fire protection, building regulations, public utilities, and water works service will be studied with a view to getting the most efficient service. study will be made of city conditions, including housing garbage, sanitation, hygiene, social life and aids, mor- al and physical efficiency, community life. charities, churches, baby clinics m others life and instruction and milk hygiene. The smaller organizations that have been working on many of these matters will be greatly bene- 1 fitted by having a central organization | of citizens representing the whole | to which they can submit | the plans they have worked out and | get cooperation in pushing a specific | program.
 The educational side of the civic ! bureaus work is of great importance, and under this head will come voca- -ional direction, manual training, ln- justrial education, part-time schools, training, office training. ex- tension schools, vacation schools, phy- sical education, library and reading rooms and women's clubs.
 A meeting of the executive commit ee will be held this afternoon to de- tide on decorations for the new rooms n the Sovereign block.