The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-18
Women to
Assists at
Cincinnati
a Indianapolis Members
of Voters League
Are Assigned.

-Four Of the five Indianapolis wom-
en- who are TO represent the Indiana
League Of Women Voters at the ma
tional convention in Cincinnati April
% to May are to serve as co-host-
esses with women of national promi-
nence April 30
They are TO greet delegates to the
% little dinners, where conversation
topics have been assigned by con-
vention chairmen.
Indianas representatives are to be
Mrs. Richard Edwards, Mrs. Walter
s. Greenough, Mrs. s. N. Campbell,
Miss Evelyn Chambers and Mrs.
Virginia Moorhead Mannon.
Woman viii Lead Discussions
Mrs. Edwards, Indiana chairman
OF the government and its operation
department, is TO lead a discussion
on public personnel management.
Mrs. Greenough, national chairman
OF the same department, is to disuss
taxes. Mrs. Campbell, Indiana
league president, is to talk on leg
islative lobbying, and Mrs. Mannon
is to be leader in discussion on
uses and abuses of publicity.
Miss Chambers is to serve as a
reporter for Convention Briefs"
which is prepared to supplement
the delegates notes, and to bring
details of the convention to mem
bers unable to attend
Problems confronting administra-
tive units of government and their
relationship to adequate school f.
nance and equalization of educa-
tional opportunity are to be major
governmental topics under direction
OF Mrs. Roscoe Anderson, st. Louis,
education chairman.
500 to Hear Speakers
Eight hundred delegates from all
parts Of the country are 10 attend.
Prof. John Guy Fowlkes, education
professor, University of Wisconsin,
is TO discuss the increasing need for
reorganization of school units.
Charles P. Taft, Cincinnati, who
has made prolonged study of gov
eminent reorganization, is to speak
Wednesday, April 30, on general
problems in reorganization of local
units.
Emerging issues of the presidential
campaign, principally relating to
proper functions of governments, the
Constitution, taxation, internation-
al, economic and peace problems,
also are to be discussed.
Peace Is Topic
Carlos Davilo, former president of
Chile and former ambassador to the
United States, and DR.. Gustav
STOPPER, editor and news correspond
ent, member of the Reischstag from
1929 to 1882, and economic and
financial counselor since 1898, are to
speak. Both are to talk on "Ameri-
ca and Europe Search for Peace"
Clarence F.. Dykstra, Cincinnati
city manager; Karl N. Llewelyn, Co.
lumbia University law professor and
Max Lerner, editor of the Nation,
are scheduled to debate.
Their topics are to deal with is
sues revolving around the changing
scene of governmental relationships,
the proper role and functions of
government, and the Constitution
j. Roy Blough, economics pro-
fessor at the University of Cincin-
natl, is to talk on Paying the Bill
for Public Services" discussing tax
alton.
Floyd w. Reeves, University of
Chicago education professor, and
former personnel director, Tennessee
Valley Authority. is to sound the
keynote in the Trained Personnel
for Public Service" at the opening
session, April %.
The Leagues campaign to elimi-
nate the spoils system and substitute
the merit method of appointments
is to be emphasized under direction
of Mrs. George Gellhorn, st. Louis,
campaign chairman.