Evening star., 1933-10-08
.|CKES TO ADDRESS
Joint CONVENTION
ON PUBLIC WORKS
National Conference on City
Planning and Civic Group
to Meet.
BALTIMORE SLATED
FOR FIRST SESSIONS
Banquet Scheduled in Washington
at 7:30 O'Clock Wednesday
Night at Cosmos Club.

Uc tIle PRIME CONSIDERATIONS at the JOlnC
meeting of the National Conference on
City Planning and the American Civic
Association. which will hear Secretary
of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. when its
sessions open tomorrow at Baltimore,
Md. In the middle of the week, the
convention will come to Washington.
where a Federal City dinner at the
Cosmos Club will be held on Wednes-
day evening, with Frederic A. Delano,
president of the American Civic Asso-
citation and chairman of the National
Capital Park and Planning Commis-
sion, presiding.
A wide variety of subjects will be dis
cusSed during the four-day session, en-
bracing Slum clearance and city plan
ming. roadside improvement. large-scale
regional and rural land planning. the
Tennessee River Valley project, the de-
velopment of Washington. the Civilian
Conservation Corps. park and forest
work and the construction of public
roads. The delegates will tour the re-
Gently completed public buildings here
and will be advised of plans for imme-
diate new Developments.
With headquarters at the Southern
Hotel in Baltimore. registrations will
start at am. tomorrow. The morn
ing meeting. beginning an hour later,
will hear Herbert L. Badger. general
manager of the Bell Telephone Co. of
Pennsylvania. discuss Public Works
Planning and Capital Budgets" He will
be followed BY John H. Millar, editor of
Millar's Housing Letter Of Chicago. Ill.
whose topic is Federal Grants for Plan
Making" Russell " Black. planning
consultant Of Princeton, N. j.. will lead
| a forum on the subject: Planning Cen
, siderations in Various Kinds of Public
Works" A round-table luncheon at noon,
led by Alfred Bettman. president of the
National Conference on City Planning
will tackle the program: The Organi-
| Zation and Administration of City and
! Regional Planning" and during this
/ the new Baltimore planning ordinance
| will be discussed.
; Afternoon Session.
The afternoon session will be given
! over to considerations of planning
! Arthur c. Comey. assistant professor
at the Harvard School of City Plan
ming at Cambridge. Mass. will speak on
| What is National Planning?' Charles
/ W. Eliot. ID executive officer Of the
| newly formed National Planning Boar d
here, will take the topic: The Or
ganization of the Planning Functions
of the Federal Government" The SUBJ
| ject, National Plannings and Trans
| portation" will be discussed by DR.
Harold G. Moulton. president Of the
Brookings Institution here.
The civic dinner will be held tomor-
| row evening at the Southern Hotel
with Mayor Howard W. Jackson Of Bal
timore as POSTMASTER Secretary IckcE
will speak on the subject: National
Planning and Public Works" Follow
ing the cabinet officers address, Mr.
Delano will talk on National Planning
and the American Civic Association
Mr.. .Bettman will then address the con-
vention on City and Regional Plan
ming in Depression and Recovery"
! Tuesdays sessions will be given owe!
to the general topic Of slum clearance
and city planning. with outstanding
! authorities on these questions speaking
| Among them will be Robert D. Kohn
director of housing of the Public Works
! Administration, who speaks at an eve
ming session at the Maryland Institute
| with the Municipal Art Society OF Bal
| timore being host.
| Lieut.. Col U. S. Grant, Sd, Corps Of
Engineers. United States Army, former
director of public buildings and public
parks of the National Capital, and now
a student at the Army War College
here. will speak late Tuesday afternoon
at a roadside improvement dinner or
THE String Slum Along Rural ane
Suburban Highways" Miss Lavinia M
Engle. member of the Maryland House
of Delegates from Montgomery County
Md will tell of enforcement of the
Maryland law restricting outdoor adver-
tising.
Dinner Here at 7:30.
Wednesday sessions will be held ir
Baltimore, the delegates boarding buses
at $50 pm at the Southern Hotel fol
! Washington, where the Federal City
dinner is to start at 7:30 pm. Speakers
will include Mr.. Bettman. who will
speak on THE Essential Service of the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission; Gilmore D. Clarke. mem
Der of the Fine Arts Commission, who
will speak on "The Place of the Com
mission Of Fine Arts; Arno B. Cam
merer, director of the Office of national
parks. buildings and reservations. In
terror Department. whose topic will be
Larger Opportunities for Public Serv-
ice Under the New Office of National
Mr.. Kohn. whose address will be PROF
/ ect to Replan Area and Replace Alley
Dwellings of Washington"
The auditorium of the Interior De-
partment Building will hold the Thurs
day morning session with Col. H. M
Waite, deputy administrator of the Pub
| lie Works Administration, presiding
Robert Fechner, director of emergency
conservation work, will speak on THE
c. C. C. Boys and the Work They Are
Doing" John D. Coffman forester OF
the Office of National Parks, Buildings
and Reservations, will talk about The
Emergency Construction Program in
! the National and State Parks" Robert
Y. Stuart, chief of the Forest Service
OF the Department of Agriculture, will
be heard on Emergency Work in the
National Forests" Wilbur H. Simon
son. landscape architect of the Bureau
of Public Roads, Department of Agri-
culture. will speak on Recovery Pro-
gram for Public Roads"
| There will be an exhibit of plans and
maps, in use for planning emergency
construction projects, in the Interior
Department. Interested officials will
explain their exhibits and answer oues-
tionS.
Luncheon will be held on Thursday
here at the Cosmos Club, where news
reels, including that depicting the visit
Of the President to the c. c. c. Camp
in Shenandoah National Park, will bt
| shown.
Thursday afternoon has been sci
aside for tour of the buildings oI
Washington and the convention will
then be brought to close.
Will Address Sunday School.