Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-25
SEEK PROVISIONS
WHICH WILL PERMIT
| IMPROVED STREETS
Rousing Addresses Mark
Close of League of Vir-
ginia municipalities.
RESOLUTION APPROVED
CALLING FOR RECONSTRUCTION
Speaker Says That If Influenza
Returns Churches and Theaters
Will Remain Open.
CITY MANAGER GIVES TALK
Norfolk Official Declares Greater Re-
. suits Arc Obtained Under Com
mission Form Of Government.
RESOLUTION APPROVED
CALLING FOR RECONSTRUCTION
CITY MANAGER GIVES TALK
Especial to The Tim es-p!spa,ch. ]

DANNlLLE. VA. Sept. 2t-Thc four
tccn,h annua! convention Of the
League OF Virginia aIunici palt!es closed
tonight with two rousing addresses
at the Country Club. In one Of ,hese
Dice II. Anderson. OF Richmond. said
taat the city government OF Richmond
was moving 10 better things and as
sailed the bicameral form OF govern
ment in any city.
Resolutions adopted before the close
included memorial to the Legisla-
h ,hn mat inc Constitution be 50
changed that communities can make
special assessments for street Improve
ncnt Ihis squeezed through by "A ma
Jofiy OF one vote. Another designed
Richmond while the Legislature meets
was not adopted, but one appealing for
the redistribution OF the State was
Colonel c. r. Kelley this afternoon
deploEcd the appointment Of doctors
on heaith boards and said that II in
huenza returns this year the theaters.
churches and schools VIII not be
closed.
Charles e. Ashburne-. city manager
OF Norfolk. born in India. educated in
Germany and Fra nee, but long time
resident OF this country. contributed
this morning an interesting paper on
the success which has followed tho
adoption OF the city manager form OF
government In Norfolk AS cxpoundcd
by him, II IS nothing more than a
concentrated municipal government
plan where the best busin ess talent is
enlisted In the administration and i'm
portant civic matters dealt with more
cSped!tiously than by tho older forms
OF government
Cites Galveston Plan.
Galveston. Tex, was the first city
TO adopt the manager plan. immcdia te-
ly after the tidal wave. and S,aunton
Va, was the next. with Mr.. Ashburner
as the manager. Since the Staunton
experiment. tho Virginia Constitution
has been SO amended and l!beralized as
TO make the plan far more feasible
Even now, however. some OF its warm
est advocates, Mr.. .,shburncr said. are
not making extravagant claims for it
because ii has been prcjudiced by the
old theory that it was revoiutionary
and dangerously radical.
Pointing 10 concrete results M-.
Ashburner said that hremen and po-
licemen in Norfolk are paid $1,000 a
year. greater efficiency In service re-
aulting Other outstanding features OF
tho city manager plan. the speaker
said, arc the rapid dispatch of bust
ness which cannot be accomplished
with a eons,itutiona!ly dictated form
icy shines AT its best under the plan
rhe greatest benefit from the city
manager form. the speaker frankly
admitted, was the elimination of log
; rolling and war politics generally.
Discuss Tnx Pinn..
Mr.. Ashburncr was followed by Nav
or RoNston Jester. OF l.ynchburg. who
gave thoughtful and forceful presen-
lation OF the theme REHABILITATION OF
Taxes" OF which he is well-kmown
advocate. He suggested practical re-
forms. showing how this might be
brought about.
At this afternoons session. the last
business session. the following officers
- Of the organization were elected:
r. II. Angel, Roanoke. president.
5. ;. Fife. Charlottesville first vice
g. i. Moss. Newport News. second
j. " Moore. Richmond, third vice
Frank Talbot. Danville. fourth vice
president.
/. c. Crimson. Portsmouth. secretary
T. +. steed. Norfolk. assistant secre-
tarv
Member Of S.,,h the ,no exec1t,ys ns; committee
George Mason. Petersburg.
Committee Is Named.
Legislative Committee-W. II. Ser
geant,, Jr. Norfolk; Royston lester.
SPss Spsso"JEEh j. t. Appsi B. RiaSMond RnNiss E ffiGn fiji
tucker Roanoke.
Membership. committee by congress
l%ewnort News: Second. G. L. Ashburn-
mond; Tonrth /, ] r. ,si King Pets5s:
cnth, L. NJ, Smith. Charlottesville:
Ninth, r w. Calfex. Pulaski: Tenth.
paul J. r. Murphy Clifton Forge.
putlicitv representative, George
3Greenc, Clifton Forge.
Next meeting place, Roanoke. date to
[ be set by president.
Compensation Act Discussed.
The attention OF the delegates this
afternoon was taken UP with papers
land discussions on two important mu-
micipal problems. the workmen's COM
4nensation act being discussed by Dr.
| II tucker. chairman of the Industrial
commission Of Virginia and public
health by Colonel c.. r. Kelley, fold
secretary for the Virginia Council of
'ett'' 81 o'clock the delegates entered
automobiles and they were taken
through tho city and given sample
of solnc Virginia roads also of the last
cord in road improvement. the latter
| helnc f1ve-mile stretch between De-
sign and Chatham on the main high
way running north and south through
this section. They were shown Dan
yiles industrial plants notably tho
| nan River Mills and the handsome
buildings which have sprung UP in the
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