Evening star., 1924-03-29
REALTORS DUTIES
WILL Be STRESSED
Responsibility to Community
to Be Discussed at Con-
vention Here.

The real estate board as the body
responsible to the community for au-
thoritative real estate information
and for civic leadership in the direc-
tfon of sound Industrial, commercial
and residential growth will be the
leading topic to come before the real
tor secretaries division of the Ma
tional Association of Real Estate
Boards when II meets as one section
Of the annual convention of the Ma
tional Association here June 3-6.
the division meetings will bring
together the men who make up the
executive agents through which real
estate boards of the association carry
out their function In 495 cities of the
united states and Canada. It will be
national experience meeting not
only on what boards can do and
should do in relation to the real es-
tate business and to the public, but
on how they can do 1t and are doing
II. Every man who has as his Job the
programlng of this work and the put
ting of the work across will have a
chance to tell what he has found in
his own boards activities and to ask
what he wants to know about how
the newly developed ideas are work
ing out in the boards which have mi
tiated them.
To Outline Service.
hicHdru ~ Cnitt1ck, executive sec
retary of the Real Estate Board OF
New York. Will outline the service of
the real estate board as an authorita
tive source of real estate Information.
Fred b. Brunyate, secretary of the
Nortoik Real Estate and Stock Ex-
of the subject. Cass Connaway, sec
retary of the Buffalo Real Estate
Board, has been asked to open the
symposium on what civic activities a
reaI estate board should undertake
Thomas L. Healy. executive secretary
of the Kansas City (Mo.) Real Estate
Board. Will lead the general discus
sion of civic relationships.
Drawing into the support of the
work of real estate boards repre-
sentatives of the great group of prop
erty owners and of business groups
concerned with the general interests
OF real estate will be the third tonic
OF the opening session of the division,
Plerce Jones, acting executive secre-
tary OF the Chicago Real Estate
Board. will talk on the development
or this non-broker type of member
ship. Perry Powell, secretary of the
milwaukee Real Estate Board, will
lead the subsequent discussion,
Income sources which can be de-
veloped to enable a real estate board
10 carry on Its work will be a leading
TOPIC or the second days convention
program for the secretaries division.
W. l. Greene, executive secretary of
the Miami Realty Board. will outline
income possibilities. Leslie E Burks,
executive secretary of the San Fran
cisco Real Estate Board, has been
asked to lead the further discussion.
Appraisals of real estate values by
real estate board committees has be-
come an important feature of the
work which the boards OF the Ma
tiona1 Association are doing. F.. B.
Bicknell. executive secretary of the
Cleveland Real Estate Board. will
tell. on the basis of the experience of
the Cleveland board, how calls for
appra1sais can be secured and how
good appraisal work may be handled.
n. J: Miller, secretary of the Mime
apoiis Real Estate Board, will lead
discussion on appraisal work.
IN the enforcement of the realtors
code OF ethics by real estate boards
and in the arbitration through the
board of differences that may arise
between members the secretary of the
board finds one of its most important
professional functions. John A. Petty,
executive secretary of the Washing
ton Real Estate Board, will discuss
what the relationship of the secretary