Show I ILL Ll HOLD CONVENTION IN RICHMOND I f ati nal Municipal League Annual Convention in inI m I Southern City K KILL TILL ILL DISCUSS SOME IMPORTANT QUESTIONS eague ue Has Membership of Nearly WorKers BY Y FREDERIC J. J HASKIN A o time has the d desire siro for more 1 nt nt government been so keen as as 1 lent cut but toe the desire lesin to o be proof pro pro- et o G of the best practical results st be o intelligently guided This r r ri Bs s s being carried on by various arious an one of the most effect- effect A 0 which is th the National l In J I j gue ague which will hold its it's seven seven- nt ni earl early carly convention con in Ric Richmond mond U n it t t week j I ving that tb the enJi enlightenment t p public sentiment is tho the true means pi ro ing existing conditions the thet t tion n l l' l Municipal lea league proceeds b thorough inquiry into and study conditions and su suggested ested reforms l rou h it its various arious agencies dis- dis nij at s the information thus acHt acred ac ac- ac- ac red Ht J It is a clearing bou house e for the r lan e o of idea and positions Its activities arc aro purely P and f nonpartisan in the sc seventeen enteen years jears it a factor for the advance- advance O- O better etter things has been Nearly t its ts active o membership p is is' is Ir mostly men and women in affairs in affairs rs in in all the leading rs s f all volun- volun sac and many of them aced aeJ ac- ac sl J dd ed experts in in some somo phase of 1 problem In addition p e Is 5 an SU affiliated membership of o 0 O represented by the various various lo- lo associations attached to the ional organization National Municipal league ue was wasu outgrowth u of a national conference Jr Tu Philadelphia ia m Ui v when en the thet the thelin t n of better r municipal govern- govern t nd administration was consid consid- a lin President x Hoo Roosevelt ev lt Garl farI f arl II G J r J part Richard Riehard Watson Gilder GlIder and andr r stil men participated in meeting nJ It was then theng g tb that t. t however great eat the dilt di- di lt of opinion as us to t the o precise h hods dc of c. a sustained ofas cf- cf as S necessary to success l-dS l til It Is Threefold Threefold t e yearly conventions contentions on were t d froni n city to cit city public pubic int in- in etlin t tiri n the tho Jea leagues league's ues ue's work increased I and influential men men everywhere c gave o aYe indorse indorse- t to o tho educational policy of the In a general way if its ar be thus summed up h it iti yearly arly conventions Cables I workers for better municipal t to meet tog tog- together ther and discuss I r news r.-news s ien-s and experiences I through its active commit- commit l aeu one of which deals with a aing aing ing phase of the municipal tho league brings to together ether the t t experts an and publicists h and obtains reliable res re- re s 8 tiro arc aro the basis for practical e e. e i IW through its is executive c officers lea Jea league ue is in constant touch with movement local ocal and national s concerned with city building i I. I thus supplier the tho ue needed del or co-or- ion and operation co-operation between bet or- or j alt ions of of sun sundry rv types and the pill I communities communities' working t toward or cc It puts tho ex peri- peri 1 0 all 1 t. t I at the disposal a i and supplies an efficient and U I relationship to being the oldest or or- of 01 its kind the National al league ue probably has the tho most 1 distributed membership and it Uth th more moro phases of tho municipal turn n than any similar as association u lon of pol policy lY the Jea leagues league's ues ue's en- en ship m acts in In the yearly yearl but ut the principal conduct ff rest reef with tb the f executive pit ee e of forty forty five There is also of six sixty which sounds public senti inti various communities and nd makes jons A committee of civic chic see sec y Wf ITI Ions i all actually rn engaged in ill c civic i Ik another adjunct To ro facilitate understanding of municipal Ibon tion exalt t soil and trustworthy in in- in- in n of tho the experiences of cities I ID D 1 This bis is a committee work jI hR reports are arc of great reat help to all 3 the le work 1 Program a a. Success SIl of f the Pst known pi pieces of work eague ue K II it itc It municipal program l s-as s adopted at Columbus in mu i M p I and nd which hll has since sinco been the chart r making makinA in more more than This program comprises a ar r and tied a constitutional amend amend- Defining l special ll legislation and anti j i the principle of home The Tho program is eminently here hern j IK is no point that has not well ivell considered and no provision Ii h Ihas has baa not been a conspicuous sue sue- In orne ome I 3 her her- et committees committe's de dealing lin th th- the administrative nd aad fiscal f f government aro are Cit City ices and budgets of which 1 George Georgeham f ham halO Jr prE president id nt of tho the Philadel- Philadel ity y club and treasurer of the KaI Na- Na U W league is chairman I pal franchises with Robert Hobert Treat I of Boston ollo on man chairman municipal libraries Dr Horace E. E Flack I library chairman chirman tax tax- Qt benefits caused p by tho the growth ro tyl fu and excess condemnation Law Law- president of the New York pf t assessments chairman J alUm alth and sanitation of which Dr aker o o- o of the Montclair N. N J. J l of t health h ill is m Chai chairman police Conti Continued ed on pa page e 4 |