Evening star., 1927-12-01
.GROUP TO DISCUSS
CIVIC PROBLEMS
80 Business Leaders Meet
Tomorrow to Plan for
Convention.

Thirty outstanding business men of
the United States will meet at the
Mayiiower Hotel tomorrow, to ''spon-
sor and arrange for two-day national
conference on community rcsponsl-
bility and human welfare" to be held
in Washington next February. The
American Association of Community
Chests and Councils is cooperating
with the committee in planning the
conference.
William Cooper Proctor of Proctor
& Gamble, Cincinnati, is chairman OF
the committee, and Secretary of Com
merce Herbert Hoover is vice chair
man.
Need is Stressed.
The need of such a conference was
explained in a statement by Proctor.
as arising from the fact that the
average American community today
is faced with the problems of increas-
ing Importance affecting its growth.
Officials and professionals cannot
solve them. Effective solution de-
pends upon citizen understanding and
participation.
During the past II years, the Com
munity Chest and Council movement
has become a leader in this field.
Chests or councils have been formed
In approximately 500 cities. An aggre-
gate of $63 900. 900 was raised in 1927.
The budget for the current year total
approximately $65,000,000.
Meeting In Evening.
Tomorrow evening, another meeting
will discuss similar topic at the
United States Chamber of Commerce
Building at o'clock when c. NJ. Book
man, director of the community chest
of Cincinnati and president of the AS
sociation of Chests and Councils, and
William ]. Norton. director of the De-
troit Community Chest, will speak un-
der auspices of the Washington Coun-
Gil of Social Agencies.
Mr.. Norton will talk on "Co-opera.
tive Financing of Social Work." while
Mr.. Bookman's topic will be City
Planning of Welfare Work"
Members of trade organizations, |
civic clubs, citizens associations and !
various persons interested in social |
welfare have been invited to attend. |
List of Visitors.
Among those who will come to !
Washington tomorrow for the May |
flower meeting are:
Senator CouZens of Michigan, Sam |
uel Mather honorary president of the |
Cleveland Community Chest; Fred I
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Of the Morristown, n. j., Chest; Evans |
Woolen of Indianapolis, president of |
the Fletcher Trust Co.; Miss Belle |
Sherwin, president of the National |
League of Women Voters; Charles /
Z. Adams, president of the Cleveland |
Chest and of the Cleveland Hardware |
Co.; Harvey S. Firestone, president of |
the Firestone Tire Co.; c. S. Wool |
worth, chairman of the board of F. W. |
Woolworth & Co.; Henry d. Sharpe, |
president, Brown & Sharpe, Provi- |
dence, r. l.; Secretary of War Dwight |
Davis, Fred w. Ramsey, chairman of |
the board of the Cleveland Stove Co.; |
Ralph A. Amerman, chairman of the |
board of the Lincoln Trust Co., Scran- |
ton. Pa; Mrs. E. II. Steedman, chair |
man of the rehabilitation committee |
Of the st. Louis tornado disaster; |
James Lester Goodwin Of the Whit |
lock Coil Pipe Co. of Hartford, Conn; |
w. H. Schwarzschild, president of the /
Central National Bank of Richmond; |
Henry S. Somers of st. Paul, Mimi; |
Henry c. Stevens of Detroit. j. w. |
Wilkins of Greensboro, n. c.; John |
Lord O'Brian, attorney, of Buffalo, |
N. Y; Julius Rosenwald of Chicago, |
J. Herbert Case. acting governor of /
the Federal Reserve Bank NeW York;
John Stewart Bryan, publisher of the
Richmond News-Leader, and August |
Vogel, president of the Pfister-Vogel I
Leather Co.. Milwaukee,