Show GREATER SELF GOVERNMENT IN CITIES SEEN Governor Declares Political Political Political cal Problems Deal DealY With Y th Urban Life ChARLOTTESVILLE Va Aug 12 Dy By By The Associated Press A A strong drift toward a larger measure of self government and self deter for Tor the American city in Inthe the he next few years ears was predicted to today to- to today today day by Governor Oo Albert C. C Ritchie of Maylan before he xe In In- In Institute of public affairs at the Uni- Uni University of Virginia As guides in that direction he listed various home rule movements and what he described as lIS asa lISa asa a liberal tendency in legal decisions such as those affecting city zoning powers GROWTH OF OP CITIES Declaring that the most vital phase of contemporary American history Is the he amazing growth of the the cities which now embrace e almost 60 per percent percent percent cent of the population Governor Ritchie said the city is now more than thana a It mere corporate creature of the leg leg- I My proposition 1 I he said that the he major political problems ms of the future revolve around the cities and urban life r rd d 1 that the cities must be ba b heard and perhaps must m st lead in solving them Soon I 1 believe bellee we ve will wUl conceive e of our cities not merely as lIS corporate entities with hard hardI I 1 1 fast charters and by laws emanating from without but as political entities with the right to exercise such rights with with- without without without out external conflict POLITICALLY STERILE And indeed in respect to the ever ever- broadening influence which the city Is s having upon American Americ politics I Ibell believe belleve bell eve that not only the future of municipal government gO but the tes t f r. r ure of American democracy as well in involves In- In vol es enlarging the political self gov powers of our cities cilles If this sounds a bit revolutionary I answer an that an urban democracy will wUl not be I politically sterile and Indifferent as lIS it its ItIs itIs Is s now in too many cities Describing fascism and syndicalism as born of city city conditions Governor Ritchie said urbanites and were becoming class con con- and continued It probably explains in part that sort of social anlage Ism lem and bitter bitter- bitterness ness fleas that manifests Its In such movements as the Ku Klux Klan or or fundamentalism ad sd that hat underlies the various phases of such religious and racial conflicts and as as unhappily still ex exist ex- ex ext let t |