Evening star., 1915-12-26

conditions and needs. Of the country's s
Fairgrounds. Notion pictures taken
by Robert s. Yard Of the Interior De-
partment.e
Reports of Special Committees.
At the conclusion of business ses-
sion Wednesday morning special COM
mfttees of the association will report
on what has been accomplished toward
restriction of the display of billboards.
toward the abatement of the noise
nuisance. and for the improvement of
markets. The reports will be made,
respectively, by E. L. Millard of Chica-
go. Mrs. Imogen B. Oakley of Phila.
delphia and Mrs. Elmer E. Black OF
New York city
The function of the school centers in
the making of citizens from the raw
immigrant material that has been
pouring into the country will be dis
cussed by Raymond F. Crist, deputy
commissioner Of naturalization of the
Department of Labor, who has had a
large part in the adaptation of night
classes all over the country to the work
OF preparing men and women for nat
uralization. The actual workings of
certain community centers will be de-
scribed by DR.. Charles E. North of New
York city. and the theme in fiction will
be illustrated by Miss Zona Gale by
the reading of short story of which
she is the author.
Surgeon General William c. Braisted,
u. S. N, will preside over the joint
meeting Thursday morning with the
pan-American scientists for the dis
cussion of city planning. The speak
ers will include Frederick Law Ohm
stead of Brookline, Mass, who will
of Cambridge, Mass. Aspects Of Land
Subdivisions: DR.. J. N. Hurry of the
board of health of indianapolis. Ind.
Rural Hygiene; President ]. Horace
Mcfarland of the American Civic AS
sociation. The Human Side of City
secretary of the American Civic AS
sociation. City Planning Admins
tration."
Other Important Addresses.
planning for Mushroom Industries"
VIII be the subject of an-address by DIR.
Caroline Hedger of the national Ameri-
canization committee at the session
Thursday afternoon to be devoted to
discussion of Better Industrial Hous-
ing" >-
Other addresses at the session will be
Industrial Town Development" by Perry
R. MacNeille of New York city. and
Housing Safeguards" by Lawrence Veil
ler. secretary of the National Housing
Association. At meeting, devoted to
planning for the Small Town." the same
afternoon, Edwin T. Fiske, mayor of Mt
Vernon. N. Y, will present for discus
sion paper on 1.-THE Practical Problem
of City Planning for the Small City"
Discussions will be by DIR. John Nolen,
Thomas Adams. town planning adviser to
the commission Of conservation. Ottawa,
Canada; Frederick Law, Olmstead. and
Others
session on the morning of the closing
day of the convention, December 81. will
be devoted to the associations newest in
terest, Country Planning" The subject
will be presented by Dr. Frank A. Waugh
of Massachusetts Agricultural College in
a paper on Country Planning: What 1t
Proposes" How New York Educates its
People Through the Landscape Extension
Service" will be the subject of an ad-
dress by Prof. Henry R. Francis of the
New York State College of Forestry.
Cyrus Kehr of Knoxville, Tenn, will
speak on "A National System of High
ways and Landscape Designing The
will close with general dis
cussion of community details.