Evening star., 1933-10-09
|CKES TO ADDRESS
BALTIMORE DINNER
City Planning and Civic Asso-
citation Group to Visit
D. c. Wednesday.
BY q Stan Correspondent of The Star.

BALTIMORE. October 9-Lookj1g
forward to hearing Secretary Ickes rem
der an account Of his stewardship as
Public Works Administrator. at a civic
dinner tonight at the Southern Hotel
here. the joint convention of the Ma
tional Conference on City Planning and
tine American Civic Association swung
into action today for four-d session
that will bring the groups to the Ma
tional Capital late Wednesday,
The delegates who were registering
through the morning. learned that Mrs
Roosevelt will receive them at the White
House on Wednesday evening at
o'clock The City of Baltimore is CO.
operating in the convention and Mayor
Howard W. Jackson is to be toastmaster
at tonight's dinner.
Topics Include Recovery.
Planning and national recovery were
the prominent topics today and the
convention listened to addresses on va
rious phases of the subject, at the
morning session. delivered by Herbert
L. Badger, general manager Of the Bell
Telephone Co. of Pennsylvania. who
spoke on Public Works Planning and
Capital Budgets; John H. Millar,
editor Of Millar's Housing Letter of
Grants for Plan Making" and then
Russell " Black, planning consultant
Of Princeton, N. j.. led a forum on
Planning Considerations in Various
Kinds Of Public Works" Participating
in the discussion were Jacob L. Crane
Jr.. planning consultant. who has Just
completed conservation plan for the
State of Iowa. and Myron Downs,
planning consultant Of Hamilton
County, Ohio. Progress reports on
planning were heard from various
quarters Of the Nation.
Community Improvement.
Alfred Bettman, president of the
National Conference on City Planning,
who presided at the round table lunch
con on the general topic The Organi-
zation and Administration of City and
Regional Planning" pointed to the
problem Of transplanting into actu-
ality the paper plans for community
improvement. One of the main prob
lens in city planning. he said. is how
to arrange planning in the structure
Of government. This. he pointed out.
depends on the relation Of the planning
organism to the administrative and
legislative agencies. In the National
Capital. he asserted. the planning body,
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Commission must be co-ordinated with
the District Commissioners and Con-
gress In most communities the mayor
and city councils must be dealt with.
Cooperation Essential.
There must be worked out some plan
whereby the administrative. legislative
and planning bodies work together CO.
operatively, SO that the plan that has
taken shape in the minds Of engineers,
civic experts and designers will be actu-
ally applied. Mr. Bettman said.
The luncheon heard how the program
is working out in the communities of
the various speakers. One of the cardi-
nal questions presented was, Is an in
dependent planning commission the
best device?
Mr.. Bettman informed his colleagues
that when it comes to regional planning,
such as the Maryland National Capital
Park and Planning Commission is con-
cerned with. the problem becomes more
complex, because there the planners are
dealing not with one legislative body,
but with dozens, in the cities and towns
affected. The difficulty is to co-ordi-
nate all Of these into a smooth working
organism, he asserted