Show I CONfERENCE TO tALK I ON CITY V I WASHINGTON May ray 12 A call for fora a conference on city planning has been issued the proposed meeting to be held in ill this city on May 21 and 22 The call caIl eallis is ill signed li ne 1 by Miss Jane Addams of Hull house Louse Chicago United States Senator Burton President Eliot and many others S Asserting that th the problem of congestion congestion con eon in most mORt of our ur large cities has lias become so 80 serious and threatening that it tt has en engaged eel the attention of the numerous numerous nu nu- commissions and anti committees throughout bout the the country country the signers ners say city planning will iII be treated in the widest sense including all the methods which must be used to secure secor a city built along economic aesthetic and an l hy hygienic lines This will involve a consideration of ot the best methods of restricting restricting re re- rc- rc intensive ive building so 80 as to prevent overcrowding o or congestion of population President Taft has hiss promised to td adI address address ad ad- I dress the rell |