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SCHOOL OF CITIZENSHIP AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Southern California droian
Vol. IV
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, June 11, 1931
No. II
AN10UNCE NEW EXECUTIVES
VISITING MAYORS WILL BE GUESTS AT NOON MEETING
City Heads To Be Introduced At Speaker’s Table; Talks Limited To Three Minutes.
Instituting a change in the policy of the program of the noon-day luncheons there will be no chief speaker for this noon’s meeting, but the day has been set aside as '’Mayor’s Day” it was announced by Mr. Olson.
All mayors attending the Fourth Annual Short Course are requested to sit at the speakers table today. Tbey will be introduced, and various mayors will be called upon to give three minute speeches.
Speeches have been limited for the three-minute period, by those in charge to see if a mayor is able to make a short that short. Everyone is urged to attend and watch the result.
Several mayors have come to the Short Course from other states. Mr.
O.	H. J. Seidemann comes all the way from Minnesota, and Greeley, Colorado is represented by Mayor William E. Anderson.
The luncheons have been well attended this week with the average daily attendance reaching 150. The three previous meetings have had principal speakers, so today’s will be an inovation as far as the program is concerned.
MAP OF GLENDALE WATERSHEDSHOWN
Visitors to the Short Course this year have the privilege of inspecting a large relief map of the watershed of the City of Glendale, which was brought to the university and placed in the entrance room in Porter Hall ihrough the courtesy of J. C. Albers, City Engineer of Glendal.e The map will remain on display until after Saturday and persons particularly interested in studying it are invited to discuss details with Mr. Albers or with his assistant engineer.
The map, which was prepared about a year ago entirely by members of Mr. Albers’ office staff, was designed for use in place of regular contour maps, which many laymen find hard to read. It shows the entire City of Glendale and the Verdugo Hills and other surrounding watershed, including: a total of 55 square miles. As the elevations in this section range from 370 to 3126 feet above sea level .the map makes a particularly attractive picture. Superimposed are the locations of major highways, parks, reservoirs and other facilities.
The scale is 400 feet to the inch horizontally and 160 feet to the inch vertically. Five and 10 foot contours are shown.
Wood fiber, in sheets l-16th and l-32nd of an inch thick, was used in building the map. It was constructed in nine sections, each mounted on a wood base. The total weight is approximately one ton.
Since its completion, the map has been taken to Hotel Virginia in Long Beach, for the meeting of the League °f California Municipalities: to Hotel Huntington in Pasadena, for the Water Works convention; and to the University. It is on display reg-ul<trly in the ou'ice of the City Engineer, in the Public Service build-inK in Glendale.
Changes Will Send Two Sections To Science Hall
Correcting an announcement made in Tuesday’s edition of the Trojan, the afternoon sessions of the Water Supply and Engineering and the Municipal Engineering sections will meet in room 159 of the Science building instead of 157 as previously stated.
The change is being made to allow the projection of pictures as the original rooms can not be darkened.
This loom is located on the first floor of science building directly across from the law building. The time remains the same.
Olson Urges Reservations
Civic Progress Luncheon Expected To Draw Capacity Attendance.
Those wishing to attend the Civic Luncheon which is to be held in the social hall Saturday noon as te grand climax of the Fourth Annual Short Course are urged to obtain their reservations early.
“The Civic Progress luncheon is to be attended by several other group besides the short course student body,” Mr. Olson stated, "and for this reason please make your reservations immediately. This capacity of the social hall will be taxed.”
The Progress Luncheon is to be a joint meeting of the 1931 student body, the Western States Regional Conference of the Civil Service assembly of the United States and Canada; Association of City Planners of Los Angeles county; southern California association of City Clerks, Auditors, Assessors, and Treasurers; and the Southern California City Managers association.
Col. Carlos W. Huntington, director of the department of professional and vocational standards, will speak on “The Interest of the State in Local Government” as part of the program of addresses scheduled. Mr. Hollis R. Thompson, city manager of Berkeley, will discuss, “The Organization of the Personnel Work in Berkeley.” Dr. Charles A-Beard, noted author, publicist, and former head of the NaUonal Institute of Public Administration, will talk on "Local Government as a Factor in the Develporaent of American Civilization.
MINNESOTA SENDS MAYOR TO COURSE
The appeal of the Trojan for information of representatives wrho have traveled the greatest number of miles to the short course seems to have obtained results.
A card was left in Mr. Olson’s office informing us that Mr. 0. H. J. Seidmann has come to the short course, from Morningside, Minn. He is mayor of that municipality.
So far this seems to ta«te thc grtuid prize for cummuting. However, there must be a few more who have come to Los Angeles from greater distances.
In the final edition of the Trojan which is to appear Saturday, the staff would like (0 print the names of delegates from Ch«na, Alaska, Sweden, or any foreign country that is further than Minnesota.
Leave your name and town in Mr Olson’s office, room 251 Administration building, and address it "To the Editor.”
SPEAKER PRAISES PURCHASING PLAN OF GOLDEN STATE
Russell Forbes States California Is Leader In Centralized Governmental Buying.
California leads the world in irt-ilzing real business methods in public buying for state, county, and municipal governments.
This was the statement made by Russell Forbes, Nationally known authority on public purchasing and secretary of the National Municipal League, before a joint luncheon meeting with members of the Los Angeles Purchasing Agents association, held last Tuesday in the social hall.
“Centralized government purchasing has developed in the United States during the past twenty-five years and deserves a place along with the city manager plan and the system of special assessments as America’s contribuUons to local government,” stated Dr. Forbes who has come to Los Angeles from New York university to conduct the section on public purchasing.
“It wasn’t so long ago that governments spent their money in a haphazard manner, and the efforts to control and centralize expenditures was opposed by two classes.
Public officials were the fiist They looked with disfavor upon the idea of turning over their funds io be spent by one man. Organized business also frowned upon it for it resulted in economy in buying.
Public opinion of the government purchasing agent was not very favorable fifteen years ago, Dr. Forbes explained. He was considered a politician and was not admitted to membership to private purchasing agents’ associations. Of late there has been a closer spirit of cooperation between individual buyers and government purchasers. They havo been admitted to the various associations and in a majority of cases hoia the executive positions today.
“Centralized public purchasing has proven itself,’’ the speaker Concluded. "It has demonstrated that it can create savings of from 10 to
15	percent in an efficient manner, and without decreasing service.
“This movement of establishing: staff agencies will undoubtedly be carried into other fields of government. I predict that in the near future such work as that of inspection, now scattered among numer-(Continued on Page Three)
IRVING G. COOLEY, PRESIDENT, MRS. MARION SIBLEY, EDITOR
Newly Elected Officers Presented To Student Body At Yesterday’s Luncheon By Mr. Olson. Each Section Is Represented.
Irving G. Cooley, purchasing agent for Pasadena, was elccted student body president of the Fourth Annual Short Course in Public Administration at a special meeting of the vice-presidents of the student body held after the close of Tuesday’s luncheon meeting. Mrs. Marion G. Sibley, secretary ____.#of the Parks and recreation department of the city of Glendale, was
Taxation Cut Plea of Carr
New City Manager Suggests New Type of Competition;
Details Given.
U.S. CIVIL SERVICE MEETING PLANNED
State and city officials, university faculty members, and others interested in personnel problems, will speak at a meeting of the western states conference of the Civil Service Assembly of the United States and Canada, opening on the campus tomorrow morning.
Rolland A. Vandegrift, state director of finance, will speak at the luncheon meeting on “The Personnel Work and Program of the State of California.”
W. A. Johnstone, president of the state civil service commission, will lead a discussion the second afternoon on "Things a Civil Service Commissioner Should and Should not Do.”
Mr. O. E. Carr, enroute to Oakland where he is to assume the position of City manager, was an interested visitor at the short course yesterday. He visited Professor Cottrell’s section on City Council administration.	«
Introduced to membera of the
Short Course at the luncheon, the new dty manager stated that he disagreed with Professor Cottrell’s plan of a cabinet working in cooperation with the city manager. Mr. Carr pointed out that he tried the system out for 90 days and he found that the various city officials held too diversified views to work in close cooperation.
“Cities today are competition just as large business concerns,” the visitor added. “In an effort to attract industries, to increase population, they increase their bonded debt which ultimately drives away those they seek to attract.
"We should enter into a npw phase of city competition. Cities should seek to compete with each other in offering the industries, and/prospective taxpayers, the lowest tax rate possible.”
PERSONNEL GROUP SPONSORS DINNER
All members of the Annual Short Course are invited to attend a dinner meeting sponsored by the section on Public Personnel Administration. and the Western Regional Conference of the Civil Service Assembly of the United Staten and Canada to be held in the Student Union tomorrow evening at 6:15.
There seems to have been the understanding that this meeting was open only to members of these two groups, but those in charge have extended a cordial invitation to all those who care to come. A program of speakers has been arranged that should interest any who attend.
Professor Samuel C. May, IM rector of the Bureau of Public Adminstra-tion of the University of California, will present the “Similarities and Differences in the Civil Service Sys-^ tems of Great Britain and the United States.”
‘Where Are We At, and Where Do We Go From Here?" will be answered by Charles P. Messick, president of the Civil Service Assembly of the United States and Canada, chairman of the board of directors of the Bureau of Public Personnel AdminstrtUion, and chief examiner and secretary of the Now Jersey State Civil Service commission.
elected editor-in-chief of the Short Course Trojan at a meeting of the Associate editors held at the same time. 4
Elections had been held earlier in the day in each section. A vice-president and associate editor were selected from each group to act as representatives for the remainder of the Short Course.
Associate editors of each section have been made responsible to see that their section gets into the news and have begun their duties with this issue.
Mrs. Sibley enjoys the distinction of being the only Short Course student to hold a major office for more than one session. She was editor-in-chief of the Trojan at the Second Annual short course held on the Trojan campus in the summer of 1929. During her editorship she conducted a breezy column of personal sketches which attracted much attention.
The vice-presidents elected Tuesday include: Burt N. Kirk, 'mayor of Corcoran; J. Thomas Webb, auditor of South Gate; Willis S. Peflfer, city engineer of Inglewood; Robert
B.	Taplin, city planning engineer of Long Beach; Miss Mattie H. Scherer. director of Service recordB, City Civil service department of Los Angeles; H. B. Park, chief examiner for the City of Los Angeles; A. W. Langley, city clerk of Monterey; Gilbert Skutt, superintendent of parks of Pasadena; Fremont E. Davis, city engineering department, Los Angeles; and N. S. Mangold, educational secretary of the Lob Angeles' County Health department.
EDITORS
Associate editors chosen and their sections include: W. P. Reese, city council administration; C. G. Cahill, (Continued on Page Four)
GOVERNMENT NEEDS PERMANENT HEADS
S. S. McClure, guest of honor and speaker at the midweek luncheon session held yesterday noon in the social hall of the Student Union building advocated permanency of position for public officials.
“Among eighteen separate modern governments which I have studied, all successful governments I find are in charge of people who are trained and who are as secure in their positions as the employees of banks, railroads, or other large corporations,” stated Mr. McClure,* in addressing his audience.
“Municipalities will only secure efficient employees by making their jobs careers of a permanent nature. Our judges, for instance get only approximately 40 per cent of w'hat a judge in England is paid.
“Democracy is infinitely Uie strongest form of organization. The United States gave democracy to the world, and the United States is the only nation that refuses to benefit by it,’’ the noted publisher concluded.
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