CHOOL OF CITIZENSHIP AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Southern
Vol. IV
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, June 9, 1931
No. I
EFFORTS OF COMMITTEEMEN ARE LAUDED
AUF0RN1A CITIES REPRESENTED ON 1931 COMMITTEES
Seventy-two Municipalities Have Members On Short Course Committees.
Seventy-two California municipalities are represented by members of the various short course committees a chack of the personnel of the group revealed loday.
Pasadena, Long Beach, and Glendale lead the out-of-town representatives with Alhambra, Burbank, Inglewood, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Ana, Santa Harbara, and Ventura having liberal representation.
Committee members and their home towns include:
ALHAMBRA
VV. W. Nuzum. Chairman City Coun-ril Administration, Commissioned of Finance; Otto Rugen, City Engineer; Mrs. II. C. Baldwin, Recreation Chairman, State of California Congress of Parents and Teachers: T. B. Downer, Superintendent, Water Department; R. B. Wallace. City Auditor and City Clerk; Mr. A. E. Stockburger, Chairman of executive committee of the Short Course.
ANAHEIM
L. E. Miller, Mayor; E. P. Rapgood, City Engineer; Floyd McCracken, Editor, Anaheim Bulletin.
ARCADIA
John M. Walshe, Mayor of Arcadia, Short Course Committee.
AZUSA
A.	L. Meier, Mayor.
BAKERSFIELD
B.	Van Ripper, City Clerk; F. M. Wilkson, Purchasing Agent — Kern County
BELL
R. E. Chadwick, Editor Bell Herald; Roscoe E. Bower, Councilman; Mr. George O. Wheeler, Editor Bell Industrial Post.
BEVERLY HILLS B. J. Firminger, City Clerk; W. E. Record, Councilman; W. J. Hamrick, Playground Superintendent; Arthur Taylor, Consulting Engineer — Sals-bury-Bradshaw-Taylor.
BURBANK W. E. Smith, City Treasurer; ^H. I. Stites, City Engineer; Miss Octavia Lesuer, Chairman Park Board; J. H. Mac Cambridge, Superintendent General—public service department. (Continued on Page Four)
MUNICIPAL PLANNING SECTION CONVENES
The first morning session of the city and county planning and zoning sections was attended by 55 persona representing thirteen cities, twelve in California and one in Oregon.
There was one student from Eugene, Oregon, and one also from Monterey. From the southern part of the state there was a representative from San Diego, one from Uplands, one from San Bernardino County, 38 from Los Angeles city, four from Glendale, one from Claremont, one from Hawthorne, two from Bell, one from Long Beach, one from Pasadena, two from Compton und one irom Anaheim.
Mr. C. J. S. Williamson, chairman of the section, has had to leave unexpectedly for New York, and Mr. Robert B. Taplin, City Planning Engineer, Long Beach, was named as chairman for the week.
The subject for the morning, "Kc-onomics for City Planning,” was handled by Mr. Gorden Whitnall.
Mr. Whitnall sketched the history of the city planning movement and then discussed the economic conditions obtained in our urban communities today when more than half ot our national cities population live *n communities of more than twenty five thousand citizens.
Papers Of Annual Short Course To Be Available
Mimeographed copies of the various sections will be available at 50 cents per section for those attending the 1931 Short Course who have signed membership coupons.
For those who are not registered in a section the papers will be avail-a.ble at the price of $1.50 per section. Additional copies may be obtained by filling out extra order blanks furnished in Mr. Olson’s office.
It Is imperative that those desiring copies of the proceedings fill out the yellow blanks furnished at the time of registration.
Plans Made For Lunches
Noted Speakers To Appear Daily At Short Course Luncheons.
As part of the Fourth Annual Short Course of the School of Clti-zenship and Public Administration, the University has arranged a series of Luncheon programs open to the public with speakers discussing vital problems of government.
Ail luncheons will be held in the Social hall located on the third floor of the Student Union bulding and they will begin at 12:00 noon. Luncheons from Monday to Friday inclusive, ^.re 75c per plate with a charge of 85c for the Civic Progress Luncheon, Saturday noon. For those wishing to reserve places for the entire series, a Special ticket for the Veek can be had for $4.00.
Dr. Russell Forbes, secretary of the National Municipal league and associate professor of government at New York university will speak this noon on "Public Purchasing.”
Concluding the Fourth Annual Short Course will be the Civic Progress Luncheon which will be a joint meeting of the 1931 student body, the Western State3 Regional Conference of the Civil Service Assembly of the Unitfd States and Canada; Association of City Planners of Ix)s Angele^ County; Southern California Association of City Clerks, Auditors, Assessors, and Treasures; and the Southern California City Managers Association.
The program will consist of addresses by Col. Carlos W. Huntington, director of the department of professional and vocational standard0,, who will speak on “The Interest of the State in Local Government;” Mr. Hollis R. Thompsan, city manager of Berkeley, who will discuss “The Organization of the Personnel Work in Berkeley;” and Dr. Charles A. Beard, author, publicist, and former head of the National Institute of Public Administration, who will talk ou ‘‘Eoeal Government as a Factor in the Development of American Civilization.
SCHOOL TRUSTEES MEET AT DINNER
Members of the School Trustee'* Problem section under the direction of Prof. Osman R. Hull, professor of educational administration at the University of Southern California, held a dinner meeting last night in the social hall of the Student Union building. *
Judge Raymond G. Thompson of the board of education of the Pasa dena City schools, presided at the banquet which started at 6:00 p.m.
“Why School Boards?” was the question discussed by Mrs. Elysabeth L. Clark of the board of education of Los Angeles. A. R. Clifton, Super lntendent of lx>s Angeles county schools, spoke on the same subject
MANY ENROLLED IN CIVIC CONFERENCE LECTURE PROGRAM
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Series Of Twelve Lectures Offered Women’s Organizations From April 27 to June 1.
In response to requests from wo men's organizations throughout the Southland, the University of Southern California, in conjunction witb interested women in nearby communities, provided a series of 12 comprehensive lectures on “American Government and Women’s Responsi bility Thereto” which started April 27th at 10:30 a.m.
“The question is frequently asked, ‘Now that women have the ballot., what are they doing with it?’ ” states Professor Emery E. Olson, director of the School of Public Administration of S. C. “Interested and in telligent citizens are imperative to the maintenance of high standards in municipal, state, and federal ad ministration. One of the obligations of a democratic form of government is the continuous and intelligent uso of the ballot. The desire to learn ls the first step toward understanding. The enthusiastic cooperation of many women’s committees has made pos sible a series of six Monday morning lectures (April 27 — June 1) Lecturers for the Monday morning sessions Included Dr. William B. Munro of California Institute of Technology; Dr. John M. Pfifrner of the School of Publica Administration of S. C.; Professor Edward M. Sait of Pomona College; Roy O. Knox, director of the Bureau of budget and Efficiency of the city of Los Angeles; Professor Stanley Howell of the Trojan School of Law; and Honorable Victor R. McLucas, Judge, California Superior Court, member of the California Judicial Council.
Philosophy of American govern ment; administration of Justice; or ganlzation of local government; revenues, expenditures and budgets; and party government in the United States were among the lecture-top-Ics.
Those attending the Women’s Civic conference include:
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Abbott, Mrs. H. B., Los Angeles;
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HOW MANY MILES HAVEYOUCOME?
How far did you travel to attend the 1931 Short Course? After a hasty glance at the registration statistics yesterday it was found that many have come to the Trojan campus from the northern part of California and even from neighboring states.
The Short Course Trojan would like to bring these travelers to light. Ad dress an envelope “to the editor” and leave lt in Mr. Olson’s office. Let us know if you came on foot, automobile, boat, airplane or what have you?
William C. Clubb, city engineer of Eugene Ore.; and William E. Anderson, mayor of Greely, Colo., are two out-of-state delegates. The Trojan reporter failed to learn if these two '"Billfi'* became travelers by at tending Elk conventions.
California officials who have cov ered miles include: Harry H. Hume city manager of Chico; Burt N. Kirk, mayor of Corcoran; Bills J. GrofT state department of finance fct Sacramento; Henry J. MacFarland, division of personnel and organization of the state department of finance at Sacramento; Ernest Rolison, city manager and C. L. Dimmitt,> city engineer of Redwood City; and W. Barle Duclus of the public health department of Monterey.
We have stated that the examination of the registration statistics was a hasty one. You have probably been overlooked, so remedy it by addressing your letter now!
1931 SHORT COURSE SUCCESS WON THROUGH COOPERATION
Members Of Executive Committee, Advisory Board, and 360 Workers, End 4 Month’s Preparation For Fourth Annual Short Session.
Class Heads Named Today
Student Body President And Editor To Be Elected At Luncheon.
Elections will be held this morning of student body ofTlcers to head the 1931 annual Short Course. Each class will select a vice president and an associate editor.
At noon today the winners of thu class elections will meet at luncheon and elect from their respective groups a Short Course student body president, and editor-in-chief of the Trojan.
Two more editions or the Short Course Trojan will appear during the week, the second Issue Thursday moring and the final one coming out Saturday.
Asrfbciate editors will be held responsible for Beeing that news of their section gets into Mr. Olson's office, room 251 Administration building, by eleven o’clock the day preceeding publication. All material that is to appear in Thursday’s edition must be in by W’ednesday at 11 a.m. and Saturday’s material is due on Friday at the same time.
In order that each section receives its proper amount of space the following rules should be observed: all copy must be typewritten, double-spaced; stories should be of newsy type that will interest the leaders; name of associate editor submitting the article is to be included on copy.
With a large and enthusiastic enrollment, the Fourth Annual Short Course of Public Administration ami Citizenship got under way yesterday. The course has been made possible only by the hard work of the Executive committee of eleven aided by 300 coni-
'¥ mittee members.
72 California municipalities were represented ou the committees which arranged for the details of the course. Work has been going on for the pas' four months in making preparations for the one-week instruction period.
The various committees have been holding conferences with the S. C. Co-ordination office, with from 3 to seven meetings being held each week.
These discussions have actually been seminars in public administration. COMMITTEE MEMBERS Members of the executive committee who are responsible for the success of Ihe 1931 Short Course are: Mr. A. E. Stockburger, chairman of the 1931 Executive committee.
Mr. Clifford N. Amsden, manager of the civil service department of Los Angeles, chairman of the Public Personnel Administration section.
Mr. Arthur E. DeMott, city engineer of Glendora who is chairman of the section on Municipal Engineering.
Mr. F. E. Dickson, purchasing agent for the City of Glendale, head of the section on Public Purchasing.
Mr. Joseph M. Lowery, chief auditor, city controller's office, Los Augeles, chairman of the section on Budgets and Accounts.
Miss Pearl Merrill, president of the board of education, Culver City, who heads the School Trustees Executive committee.
Mr. W. W. Nuzum, commissioner of Alhambra, who heads the section on City Council Administration.
Mr. Chester A. Smith, consulting en gineer of the Burns-CsDonnpll-Smith Engineering company, of Los Angeles, chairman of the Water Supply and Sanitary Engineering section.
Mr. H. C. Pleffer, city clerk of South Gate, head of the City Clerkship Administration section.
Mr. O. J. Renfrew, superintendent of parks and recreation of the City of Glendale, chairman of the Recreation section.
Mr. C. J. S. Williamson, manager of the Real Estate and Civic Development Department of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, head of the City and County Planning section.
PROGRESS Work this year has been accomplished with the minimum of delay. The various committee members have shown a willingness to plunge into their work with a spirit of whole-hearted interest and cooperation. Speakers, subjects, and the thousand and one details of the organization of a 8hort Course section have been arranged and have materialized.
Cooperating at all times with the committee chairman has been the advisory board whose membership is made up of men and women vitally Interested in civic improvement.
The Advisory Board includes! Joseph M. Argabrite, A. L. Boyden. Mrs. C. Raymond Bradford, C. A. Buff-um. Judge Gavin W. Craig, Walter F. Dunn, Oeorge L. Eastman, W. E. Evans, William Garland, Sam M. Greene, Alfred Harrell, J. A. Hartly, Dr. Milbank Johnson, James A. Johnston, J. A. H. Kerr, Ed Lyons, Samuel G. McClure. Dr. Charles Nelson, E. J. Nolan, Charles H. Prisk, Fred Reed, David J. Reese, Almon E. Roth, Frank Taggart, Robert E. Tally, N. W. Thompson, and Harry S. Webster.
DIRECTIONS GIVEN TO SECTION ROOMS
In order to facilitate the location of rooms of the various sections the following schedule will be of use:
All luncheons will be held in the Social hall of tlie Student Union, 36th and University avenue, third floor.
All general assemblies will be held In Porter hall, third floor of the building, 3660 University ave
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nue, each day for the entire week.
Principles of Government Section: Porter hall.
Functional Analysis and Depart mental Relations, Porter hall.
Budgets and Accounts, Room 306 Bovard administration building
City and County Planning, Bovard administration building, room 352
City Clerkship Administration, Room 307, Bovard administration building
City Council Administration, Room 304, Bovard administration building
Muncipal Engineering, Room, 206. Bovard administration building (Thursday changes listed on front page).
Public Administration, Room 307, Bovard administration building.
Public Health,’ Room 350, Bovard Administration building.
Public Personnel Administration, Room 353, Bovard Administration building.
Public Purchasing, Room 303, Bovard Administration building.
Recreation, Room 351, Bovard Administration building.
School Trustee’s Problems, Room 352, Bovard Administration building
Water Supply and Sanitary Eugin eering, Room 206, Bovard Administra tion building.
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