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Los Angeles, California, Monday, April 14, 1930
NUMBER 2
PLANNING SECTION AGAIN HEADED BY L. DEMING TILTON
Intelligent Guidance of City Planning Made Subject of Intensive Study.
The city—what it may become ,rith intelligent guidance is to be the theme of the work of the eection in planning nnd zoning which is under the direction of L. Deming Tilton, national authority on city planning.
Subjects to be treated during the week’s meeting will include the city planning commission, the solving of planning com mission, the solving of planning commission problems, the city plan—how it should be made and what it should contain, details of a master plan, a closeup of well balanced planning program, and planning accomplishment —what cities have accomplished and how they ha »-e secured results.
Deming is director of planning of Santa Barbara, and has been coauthor of planning reports for countless cities throughout the United States and Canada.
Among those who have cooperated with the university in shaping the 1930 program are: C. J. S. Williamson, chirman of the committee, Lela V. Ackerman, J. C. Albers, T. D. Aliin, W. E. Allworth, Donald M. Baker, Thomas Blair, Carl Bush, Chris Campbell, J. Mortimer Clark, William D. Davies, Charles H. Diggs, W. J. Fox, Kenneth Gardner, B. A. Garlinghouse, George Gibbs, Henry S. Gierlick, Stanley Goode, J. J. Jessup, J. M. Kemmerer, Mrs. Mary A. Lowther, J. A. McCahill, J. A. Mellen, H D. Mosely, A. N. Multer, J. M. Paige, Mrs. Joseph Powers, Hugh R. Pomeroy, A. E. Stoclcburger, It. B. Taplin, Col. E. F. Underhill, George H. Williams, and G. Gordon Whit-nail.
SCHOOL CATALOGUES MUNICIPAL REPORTS
Nearly 1050 government and municipal reports from controllers and auditors in leading cities of the United States have just been received by tlie new government research library of the school of citizenship and public administration.
With 232 state, 325 city, und 481 county pamphlets, the material includes state budget, utilities, water commission, police department, civil service commission, auditor, public works commission, and city manager reports.
The new section of Ihe S. C. library was recently established so tliat students specializing in the science of government might, have authentic information concerning public administration.
The S. C. P. A. of S. C. is also accumulating city charters representative of the various forms of city government in America.
TROY 10 CELEBRATE
VARIETY of courses given
Evening classes at the S. C. P. A. cover bucIi fields as engineering, highways, surveying, city building codes, municipal government, social surveys and research, municipal budgets, evidence and court procedure, criminal law administration, police report writing, juvenile welfare, public building management, library reference work, public personnel administration, special assessments, and water, light and power administration.
Semi-Centennial Ceremonies to be Observed at Close of Present Semester.
Founded a half century ago, in 1X80, the University of Southern California is preparing to commemorate its fiftieth birthday by a fitting and significant semi-centennial celebration in June. Graphically stressing the university’s highest aims and achievements—scholastic end.e avor academic advancement, worthy research, and moral idealism—the anniversary celebration will occupy a week. The program is under the direction of Dean Rockwell D. Hunt, appointed general chairman by President R. B. von KleinSmid.
Educators of note, Trojan alumni, scientists, and citizens of this and other countries will gather in Los Angeles to pay homage to those whose work contributed to the development of the university, and to witness the re-enactment, in pageant and song, of events in the history of the institution.
FIFTY YEARS AGO It was in August, 1880, that the incorporation of the western educational institution was achieved. Then a trio of donors presented 308 lots in west Los Angeles to a pioneer board of directors to finance the proposed school. By the articles of incorporation, the state of California granted the name, the University of Southern California, to the new institution, and the policy of coeducation was established.
Classes began in October, 1880, under the guidance of Dr. Marion McKinley Bovard, the first president of S. C. Later his brother, Dr. George Finley Bovard, a graduate of Uie class of 1884, served as president for 18 years (and is now president emeritus.) For the past eight years Dr. R. B. von KleinSmid has been president, while Col. Warren B. Bovard, son of Dr. George F. Bovard, is vice-president and comptroller, and Dr. Frank C. Touton is vice-president and educational director. TWENTIETH CENTURY GROWTH When the University of Southern California opened its doors, 55 students gathered in the first trame building under the supervision of 10 instructors. Los Angeles was at that time a frontier town of tlie southwest with a population of 11,183 and with 43 teachers in its school system. City and university have grown (Continueu Un Page Four)
AIRPORT STUDIES BEING CONDUCTED
Various phases of Airport management are to be discussed during the week by members of the section on Airport Management which is being conducted under the direction of Karl W. Hill, lecturer in trade and transportation at the University of Southern California.
At Monday’s round table meeting the selection, layout, and the zoning of fields will be made the subject o study. On Tuesday, Professor Hill will lecture on "Buildings and Equipment ’’ at the 10 o’clock meeting to be followed by papers on communication, meterology. and hangar construction at the afternoon session.
Those who will present papers include Herbert Hoover Jr., C. C. Spicer, the Austin company. Dr. Bishop of Western Air Express. Dr. Ford Carpenter, and C. C. Cole of the Western
Air Express.
Professor Hill is chairman of the State Advisory committee on Aeronautical Education and a member ol the National Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce. He is also national president of Alpha Eta Rho, national aviation fraternity founded on the S. C. campus last year for the promotion of aviation.
Shift Announced In Meeting Place Of General Group
With one exception, all general assemblies will meet in the social hall on the third floor of the Student Union building on the comer of 36th and University avenues. Dr. Munro’8 Thursday 11 o’clock lecture will be held in room 206 of the Administration building. This room is located in the right wng.
Dr. Munro's assembly will meet every day from 11 to 12 o’clock while the general assembly on functional analysis and departmental relations conducted by Harvey Walker will be held every afternoon from 4 to 5 p. m.
Many Attend Civic Dinner Held April 1
Dr. William B. Munro and Northcutt Ely Principal Speakers at Banquet.
Twenty-o n e southern California municipaliUes were represented by 128 public officials at the civic progress banquet sponsored by the school of citizenship and public administration which was held in the Student Union on Tuesday evening, April 1.
Acting as a forerunner to the short course tlie banquet was arranged by members of Uie special committees from the various sections.
Dr. William B. Munro of Harvard university, short course lecturer, and Northcutt Ely, execuUve assistant to the secretary of the interior were the principal speakers of the evening. Emery E. Olson, director of the school of citizenship and public administraUon, acted as toastmaster.
The delegates attending and the municipalities which they represented are as follows:
ALHAMBRA
H. M. Bachle, superintendent, water department; E. Burlingame, commissioner of public safety; Chris Campbell, mayor; John H. Coulter, purchasing commissioner; 1. B. Downer, chief engineer and superintendent, water department; W. W. Nuzum, (Continued on Page Four)
S. C. Summer Session Schedule Released
Dates of the 25th annual summer session of the University of Southern California are announced by Dr. Lester B. Rogers, dean, as follows:
Eight-weeks session, June 16 to August 7.
Six-weeks session, June 30 to August 7.
Three-weeks or post summer session, August 8 to August 30.
Established in 1905. the summer school of the University of Southern California celebrates its silver anniversary this year, although the institution itself, founded in 1880, reaches its golden anniversary or semi-centennial in 1930.
Bringing to the Trojan campus na* tion-wide experience, 57 visiting professors from leading educational institutions Uiroughout the country are to come to Los Angeles to assist the regular faculty at S. C. in the conduct of the quarter-century summer school.
Expeditions to museums, galleries, libraries, observatories, and studios; to outdoor dramatic and musical performances; to parks, orange groves, oil field?, his toil c California missions. and to the Los Angeles harbor sue planned as a supplementary program .luring the "Silver Summer Session” of the University of Southern California.
LEADERS TO APPEAR T
Lectures to be Given by Governor C. C. Young, B. F. Shambaugh, and Buron Fitts.
Governor C. C. Young and Buron Fitts have been scheduled to speak before members of the third annual short, course according to Emery E. Olson, director of the School of Citizenship and Public Administration.
Governor Young will address the general assembly at 4:00 p. m. Tuesday, ln the social hall of the Student Union building, 36th and University avenues on "Co-ordination and Reorganization of Departments in State Government.”
Benjamin F. Shambaugh, head of the Political Science department of Iowa State university, and president of the American Political Science association, will speak at a special luncheon Wednesday. All special luncheons are to be held in the Student Union building.
Buron Fitts, Los Angeles district attorney, will talk at a special luncheon meeting Thursday noon on “Organization and Administration of the District Attorney’s Offlce.” It is because of this luncheon that the Thursday 11 o’clock general assembly has been changed to room 206 of the Administration building.
DR. PAUL W. IVEY
Dr. Paul W. Ivey, professor of merchandising at the University of Southern California, is to conduct a salesmanship institute which will consist of five Tuesday evening classes beginning April 15, at the hotel Alexandria.
Dr. Ivey, a national authority on salesmanship and author of numerous books on business, will discuss the following subjects during Uie course: painting mental pictures, creating values, appealing to buying motives, handling different types of customers, selling one's personality, winning an interview, the sales talk, closing the sale, and selling the suggestion.
Although Dr. Ivey has been a university professor for many years, most of his work has been along the line of training sales forces for well-known corporations throughout the country. He has conducted in Los Angeles for (he past, six years an annual public class in salesmanship with capacity enrollments.
LAWYERS DONATE GIFT FOR LIBRARY
More than one thousand volumes donated by Los Angeles city and county attorneys have just been added to a comprehensive research collection of legal treatises in the li brary of the Trojan school of law, according to William R. Roalfe, librarian at the S. C. legal scliooL
Local firms and attorneys who have made contributions are: Biby and Biby, S. L. Carpenter, Henry E. Carter, Chapman and Chapman, C. C. Davis, George I. Cochran, John W. F*ulton, John W. Hart, Blake Franklin, The Pacific Mutual Life Insurance company, David D. Sales, J. F. Schwartz, Edward A. Stuart, Judge Cajl A. Stutsman, and Gesner Williams.
For the use of the general public, students, and faculty members, the current statute law for each of Uie forty-eight states and the American possessions is on hand in Uie S. C. laws school building at 3660 University avenue. A number of session laws and statutory compilations have also been received by the law library and added to this class of legal material.
WATER TECHNICIAN BROUGHT TO COAST FOR SHORT COURSE
F. H. Waring Comes to Campus by Means of Braun Corporation Lectureship.
F.	H. Waring who heads tihe sections on waiter supply and water purification, comes to the short, course by the means of tlie lectureship established by the Braun corporation which each year brings a nationally know engineer to the Trojan campus to discuss the various phase® of water problems.
I .ast year F. W. Mohlman, chief chemist for the sanitary district of Chicago, was brought to California for tlie short course. Waring is at the present time chief engineer of the Ohio department of health whose duties consist of the general supervision of the public water supply, water purification, sewerage, treatment, and industrial waste disposal. He is a mejnber of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Public Health association, American Water Works association, and the Engineers club of Columbus, Ohio.
It is only because of the courtesy of J. A. Hartley, president of the Braun corporation and the sense of public spirit of this business organization that the University of Southern California is in the position tn bring Mr. Waring to the Pacific coast this spring.
Some of the important, phases of water supply to be discussed this year include the Colorado river, dam site conditions, underground storage, sewage works as part of the water works, sewer design, ventilation, gas and outfall sewer problems, distribution problems, plumbing regulations, construction of service reservoirs, industries and water Bupply, water softening, underground polution, reclamation of Bewage for industrial purposes, pumping equipment and testing, well construction, development and testing, watershed protection. California water rates, and meter records and accounting.
During Uie week field trips are to be made to the Beverly Hills filter plant, Franklin canyon ohkmnator, and the up(>er Franklin canyon pumping plant.
TAX METHODS TOLD BY JAMES TUCKER
James I. Tucker, assistant to Uie director of the school of citizenship and public administration, has le-cemtly published “Special Assessments in California," a simplified discussion of special taxes in this state.
This book is the first treatment of the Bubject from any standpoint except a legal one. It presents the principle in a readable and understandable way, each legal point encountered being carefully developed and explained.
Mr. Tucker is a civil engineer and has also liad training in law. He has written several textbooks, and is a teacher of long experience. Besides acting as assistant to Uie director of the Bchool, he also teaches several courses.
WATER SUPPLY IS STUDIED
Water supply for public consumption, purification, sewage disposal, and conservation are being made the subject of scientific study in the spring term of Uie school of citizenship and public administration which opened March 31 with a program of 25 night college courses providing continuation training for city, county, and state employees.