The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-21
HEADS OF CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS
 CALL MEETING
To Take Place at Strat- field Hotel July 25 for All Interested in Pro- pos e d C h ar t e r Changes.

Heads of five civic organizations
 have called together a small group
 of citizens, interested in the welfare
 of the city. to meet in the parlor of The Stratfteld Tuesday evening, July
 25, to discuss changes in Bridgeport's charter
 The call is signed by Alice Wilson,
 president League Of Women Voters;
 George c. Waldo, president Rotary
 club; Walter M. Bangs. president
 Kiwanis club; Charles Bitzer, presi- dent Lions club; F.. s. Wolfe, pres1- dent Chamber of Commerce.
 The purpose of the proposed char
 ter change Is ito enable the citizens to have a modern if not model instru-
 ment of governm ent."
 The meeting, it was said. will be entirely non-political and Is called by
 those who have the future of Bridge
 port at heart.
 Asked abou: the meeting, Mrs. Wilson, president of the League of Women Voters, said:
 "ometime since our League made an inquiry into problems of munlcip- al government Some of the leading men of Bridgeport addressed us. At our last general meeting, we adopted a resolutions; suggested, in effect, that 1t might be wise to give the people of Bridgeport an opportunity to change their city government from a partisan to non-partisan basis. eith- CT by adopting the city manager plan, or some other modern plan. The women voted that a copy of the resolution should be sent to heads of various civic organizations, political and non-politicai, which was done l dare say that the present movement is to some extent ta fruition of the work which our organization was able to do.'
 The League of Women Voters is an organization without partisan attach ! admitted It has the special work of studying legislation and measures. from the standpoint of the good of | the greatest number.
 George Waldo. president of the Ro, 1 ta-y Club, said that he had joined l in the call in the hope that it might | be possible to get together a group | for discussion of the charter with out
 suspicion of partisanship or ulterior | motives.
 Nearly every citizen who has 1 studied the charter" said MT. Wal do, land most of those who have held
 feeling that some changes are neces-
 sary. The nature and extent o1
 those changes ought to be a matter for non-partisan discussion. I was because I hoped it would remove the
 suspicion that any political group was
 seeking to obtain an advantage over ! any other political group but that, on | ing of minds in the discussion of q | problem that affects everybody alike e
 Except for the fact that the pur- poses of the meeting are To De con- | fined strictly to the call, i. e., discuss | ing the charter. there is no fixed pro- | gram that I am aware of. The Ro- l tary club is in no way committed as | to the outcome of such a meeting but | might accept it, or reject 1t, or ignore l 1t altogether. and I suppose that the | other organizations whose officers 1 have joined in this call stand In much the same relationship to it. But | if the meeting serves no other pur- 1 pose than to bring the charter before 1 them inds of the citizens for serious | consideration. 1t will be useful to that | extent"