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Special Edition For S. C. Institute Of Government
SOUTHERN
DAILY
CALIFORNIA
TROJAN
United Press World Wide News Service
Volume IV
Los Angeles, California, Monday, June 14, 1937
Number I.G. 1
: "Citizens Will Participate In Institute
Evening Civic Program To Be Presenied For Public, Members
Citizens of Lo6 Angeles and the surrounding metropolitan area, following a custom established last year, will participate in the Ninth Annual Institute of Government. An evening civic program, a “Symposium of Governmental Affairs”, will be presented by the university for the public and the members of the
Institute, Thursday evening at 8 p. m. in Bovard auditorium.
This program will bring to the
campus three leading national figures in the field of governmental service to discuss such varied phases of public activity as penology, traffic control, and the library. The speakers are: Sanford Bates, executive director. Boys’ clubs of' America, inc., formerly director of, the United States bureau of prisons; Lieut. F. M. Kreml, director | No-thwestertn University Traffic Safety Institute: Forrest B. Spaulding, librarian. Public Library of Def Moines, Iowa.
The opportunities that this program offers to the public are especially emphasized by Dr. W. Bal-j
lentine Henley, acting dean of the School of Government, since major visttlns, speakers of the Institute
have been procured for it. There will be no charge for this event.
Members of the Institute are urged by Dean Henley to spread information of this evening meeting to { outlying communities. The empha-
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Governor Frank Merriam and Associate Justice Jesse W. Curtis of the state supreme co.urt express pleasure upon report of the plans for the Ninth Institute of Government. Dr. William Green Hale, dean of the U.S.C. School of Law, in the rear,
is conferring with the two state officials.
PUBLIC RELATIONS TALKS WILL BE
NON-TECHNiCAL
By Carle E. Bennett Public Relations
Outstanding experts will explain the basic principles of
sis wlll be placed on the formation public relations expected to prove beneficial to all govern- lem of the Mentally Defective” will
presented from the public’s point mental employees at sesions of the Public Relations section, ** discussed, while during the af-v	H	K ______,•___tt tt tt,_________ --------____ternoon. several Dersons. well versed
Delinquency Experts Will Hear Bates
Section Meetings Under Chairmanship Of Karl Holton
By Heman Stark Delinquency Prevention
Under the able leadership of Chairman Karl Holton, chief deputy probation officer of Los Angeles county, the delinquency sec-; tion of the Ninth Annual Institute of Government commences today when several hundred county and city employes start a “Back-to-the-School” movement on the U.S.C. j campus.
This section should prove particularly Interesting to those wish-' ing to obtain a national viewpoint of the prevention and treatment of j delinquency, since Sanford Bates,
| executive director of the Boys’ clubs of America, Inc., and former director of Federal prisons, will
speak on many of the programs and
will be chairman of several of the meetings throughout the week.
OPENING SESSION
In the opening session Kenyon J. Scudder, probation officer of Los
[ Angeles county, will present Sanford Bates, and in the second morning session, Robert H. Scott, judge
of the juvenile court, will discuss ‘The Function of the Juvenile Court in the Community”. He will be followed by Scudd-i', who will discuss "The Function of the Probation Department in the Community.” Commentators on this session will be Sanford Bates and Henry M. Busch.
Tomorrow morning. “The Prob-
Ninth Annual Institute Opens; 2000 Expected
Direct Institute Program
W. Ballentine Henley, director of the Institute; Kenneth Sampson, general chairman; and Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid, president of U.S.C.: all of whom have been instrumental in planning the Ninth Annual Institute of Government. In an effort to reach everyone m the community, these men have planned a public session which will be held Thursday evening in Bovard auditorium.
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Talks on Office
Management
Will Be Heard
By Marion Voss Office Management Section
according to H. U. M. Higgins, chairman of the section. Higgins said the section’s program has been so arranged
that none of the 17 talks will be+---
on technical subjects which would prove of little value to the average
governmental employee not engaged solely in public contact work. He declared:
“The committee in charge of arrangements has invited speakers who have the ability to help us. as servants of the public, to obtain i
Editor Calls
Noon Staff Meeting
ternoon, several persons, well versed in the subject of recreation, will discuss the “Role of the Public Playground in Relation to Prevention of Delinquency.”
ADULT PROBLEMS
On Wednesday, the morning session will be given over to the study of adult probation problems when Bates discusses the “Adjustment of
Mrs. Blanche Gartley. editor-in-
Lib rarians Turn Tables
Instead of Answering Questions They Come To Ask Them
By Bertha Marshall Adult Education
Lai Angd*s Public Library
Who is who?
Where is what?
Can you tell me when?
Day in and day out librarians the Adult Offender Through Pro- scurry around trying to find the bation. Penal Institution and Pa- answer for the information-hun- ;
Sampson
Expresses
Appreciation
Because of the insistent demand the answer to a most common ques- chief of the Institute Daily Tro- 1°^e’ ^bile in the second section of gry public. Now the\ are taking
for a course in Office Management, tion; namely, 'what steps can we jar, has arrange d for a special ^ e ^mornin^,_SeSj!0n’i_____i	as^ a questions^ for
PURPOSE CITED
"Without public relations coun-
in office management has been added to the curriculum of the Ninth Annual Session of the Institute of Government. i	means, in many instances, for car-Keen Interest is being manifest-	rying out extensive publicity earned in this new course of study, not	paigns, it becomes first of all an only by employees of the city,	individual responsibility in cur dai-eounty and state governments, but	ly lives and work to set our house also by representatives of various	in order and to so render our ser-busiiess firms and industries.	vice to the public that the elfi-Sfecial endeavor has been made	ciency and courtesy of ovr con-to offer subjects that will prove	tacts will create the realization to be of inestimable value to those	lhat taxes levied J<nd paid for the who are interested in moulding a	suPP°rt of government c .institutes careijr in this field. Five lectures	rnoney well spent, and wifh this
Kreml Course To Present New Safety Methods
By Wilson Silsby,
Traffk Control
The Institute of Government to*
cai nrifvirmt lorroi	the remaining issues of the week, superior court of Los Angeles coun- 3 Spaulding, librarian of the Des of advancing better government, oped for the section snows no in- day opens another approach to so-
f>ei, Wltnout legal authoilty or _ ^_____.____ ______._____ty. who will talk on “What the	-
a well-rounded and practical pro- take for molding public opinion to luncheon meeting today at noon ...	, ,	, indicative of thp hieh tvnf
grair of lectures and round table a better understanding of public in the Student Union of her staff	x	•	ernment a series of lectures and	pmnlovees interested
iMiferenres dealing with nroblems servants and their nublic service?- of assistant section editors.	C‘ty;	dlscuss ^Supervision of, discussion groups will cater to their Pubhc emPloyees mterested
This meeting will serve to coord-	Adult Probationers, followed by j special needs,
inate the activities of the staff for	Ruben s- Schmidt, judge of the j This m0ming’s lecture by Forrest
Chute, executive director. National themselves. At the Institute of Gov-
As truly as day must follow night, progress follows coordinated individual effort. In a cooperative undertaking of this type we feel that he gains most Who
serves best. The unlimited cooperation of the University, the Executive Committee, the Section Chairmen, and the individual committeemen prompts a prediction that this, the Ninth Annual Institute of Government, will exceed in attendance and value that of any preceding sessions. Such activities as this ars indicative of the high type of
in
career service.
Section To Improve Plans
Administration Course Hopes To 'Carry On'
In Instructive Manner
This Institute serves as a means
By L. Plitt Smeltzer Personnel Administration
Taking the baton from last year's tute sessions.
record breaking public personnel administration course, the Ninth Institute section has high hopes of ‘carrying on” in an even more interesting and instructive manner, according to the committee responsible for this year's section.
While matters controlling wages, hours of work, job security and promotion are of themselves important and attractive enough to account for sizeable gatherings where-ever discussed, the program devel-
Seven-Monl
Preparation
Concluded
Seven months of intensive p;v'| ation by committees whose mi berships total 400 culminate , morning with the opening of
Ninth Annual Institute of Gova ment on the campus of the U versity of Southern California.
Two thousand persons, exceed! last year’s registration by more thl 500, are expected to come to trie
campus today to commence attendance at lectures, classes, and Ukcuo-sions which will consider the wajs
and means of achieving greating
and better public service. Five hundred and twenty-seven administrators and educators will participate in the presentation of materials to the professional students in 20 divisions.
INTEREST KEEN
Educators who will lecture at the
sessions have come to U.S.C. from all over the country — New York, Ohio. Washington. D.C., Iowa. Arizona, Illinois. Participants in this institute enter upon their deliberations with the knowledge that the highest officials of state, county, and city in California are watchinR with the keenest interest the program of work which is being undertaken.
Dr. W. Ballentme Henley, acting dean of the School of Oovemment. assisted by Lawrence Pritchard, executive secretary of the institute and Edward J. Olstyn, School oi Government assistant, has made the campus arrangements for the insti-General chairman ot
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Its importance was stressed by Mrs.
In the Wednesday and Friday issues of the Institute Trojan, the editors plan to include a column of personals, announcements and short stories of feature interest. Members of the Institute who desire to use this method of getting information to the readers are asked by Mrs. Gartley, ed-
itor either to bring material to and twenty-one round table discus- realization the assurance that it is the office on the second floor slont will comprise the course being ab.> and efficient’y admir- of the Student Union or contact
8ubject matter has been well dis- i^erei Aov their we.tare and bene-tributed to cover every necessary jfit’ asecondly, a collect ve i-e-
the section editors.
Moines public library, will be on Court Expects of the Adult Proba- “Co-ordinating of Library Ser-tion Officer.”	vices,’* a subject which has been
Continued on Page Two receiving the brisk attention of
____Southern California librarians for
some time. Several valuable union catalogs of bound magazines and newspapers, have been compiled and published.
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION Supplementary talks will be given this afternoon by Miss Mabel Greetings of the undergraduate | GMis. state librarian, and Di. Rol-student body of the university are and Hussey, of U.CL.A. oun extended by Gardiner Pollich, preS- j table discussion Will follow, and
later, after hearing something about
Undergraduate Welcome Given By Pollich
so that the public employee may	dication of resting on last year’s	lution of the outstanding problem
command greater respect of the	laurels or of letting the timelines	confronting city, county and state
citizen and the citizen, in turn,	or universal appeal of the goal Of	authorities with the establishment
may become more confident in	"better working conditions ' be thc	of a new course on Traffic Conti ol
ident of the Associated Students to .	.... it
and important phase of the work sponsibiluy through oui employees’ Gartley in view of the tact that the members of the Institute of ^deral statistics. Ubrarians wi l ge_ that constitutes the component organizations to formulate a def- 011jy a part of the staff wa« able; Government, parts of office management. ’	inite P°licy 36 a solid foundation attend the first meeting last
in a huddle and talk things over May I take this opportunity on ' among themselves.
WINDSORS PLAN VISIT
By Lmted Press.
inite policy as a solid foundation ^ attend the first meeting ias„ [	----------------------— i rp.,qnauldine will
upon which the structure of pub- we„k	; behalf of the Undergraduate Stu- Tuesday morning, Spaulding
lie confidence can be built.”	; cDPriai instructions regarding dents and myself to congratulate1 have something to say about e
SERVICE CONTACT	1 coving	I"* «* successful «- ! Library Oovernment a,
The opening day of thi? section of writing will be given. The meet- I deav°rs in the -ield of Public Ad- |0 V1 a	, ,p . or state aid
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.. writing will feature talks by Mrs. Doris ing will commence promptly at m“^ve ^ _t ^ g fmp ^ ^“something. The later address- them ^California, to President von
governmental administration. This brings into application a simple equation, most aptly stated by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Writing in 1844. he said. “The form of government which prevails is thc expression of the cultivation existing in the population which permits it.”
The public employee worthy of a position welcomes this opportunity for self-improvemer.t, and by taking advantage of it improves the service of th? position.
Your general chairman takes this humble means of expvessirg the appreciation of the “student body” to the University of Sou-
sole high lights.
MOSHER TO LECTURE
In Rob Wagner’s “Script.” weekly	Haney Jones, chairman of th. San-	12:15.
magazine of the film colony, today	ta Monica personnel board, and
decUred he had almost positive con-	Clifford M. Amsden. secretary and	STAR STARTS STABLE
firmation that the Duke and Duch-	chief examiner of the Los Angeles	By United Press.
ess of Windsor will visit California	county civil service commission.	Hollywood’s growing
of spirit for true democratic-mind- e6 and round table discussions ed citizens u> group togethei to should joggle ideas around into a i furnish inspiration and new in for- definite pattern to take the place craze for maiion to the puohc administrators I °f wishful thinking.
KleinSmid and co Dean Henley for providing this opportunity.
Kenneth Sampson. General Chairman
and Safety to be conducted by Lieut. F. M. Kreml. director ot th? Northwestern university traffic Following out the plan of spe- gafety institute
cializing on particular phases of	Lieutenant Kreml has received
personnel administration rad.er	national recognition and many hoi>-
than generalizing on the whole	Qrs jQr j^s success m reducing tral-
field. the program committee has	fic accidents His services as con-
followed the policy established last	sultant are m constant demand by
year by selecting the section topic	cities and safetv organization*
of "Incentives To Continue in the	throughout the country.
Public Service.	“Because of Lieut. Kreml'.' re
In addition to its own efforts and	markable record in the field of traf-
of others on the Institute’s staff,	fiC accident reduction, the Traffic the committee confesses that a j Control ind Safety Committee
great degree of good luck entered	the School cf Government unani-
into its success in obtaining the	mously dem3r»cieu his serv;.c?s for
much sought-after services of Dt-	Lhis very importarf course,” Ne\"-
William E. Mosher as .the morning	ton J. Kendall, chainnan of the
lecturer throughout the course.	committee and Los Angele® assist-
WAGE, SALARIES	ant city attorney, announced.
As a lead-off to the personnel	1 section’s program, at 10:00 a.m. today, in 353 Administration, Dr.
Mosher discusses from the stand-
this year.
PRESIDENT
EXTENDS
GREETINGS
The enthusiastic response made last year to the Institute of Government indicates that public officials realize the magnitude oi their responsibility, and that government, in turn, is dependent upon the calibre of the men and women by whom it is managed.
The University of Southern California is again pleased to place its resources at the disposal of Public officials of the western states in creating the Ninth Annual Institute of Government. It it our desire to co-ordinate national and local leadership in approaching our common problems.
I am honored to welcome you to the ninth annual session of the Institute of Government on the campus of the University oi Southern California, and to express the wish that this educational experience will be informative and inspirational.
'•iffiied) Rufus B. von KleinSmid. ItMklfBt, The UniTersity of Southern California.
Mrs. Jones will discuss those pub- owning racing stables gained an- ! and we know that with this type of	WEDNESDAY SESSION
lie service contacts that contribute oth«r convert today. Water Con- high minded citizens, coming from Le0 Jones, chief, lecture and for-______
to public relations and indicate nell5'- veteran star, revealed he will all parts of the United States to	um division, California Association
weak points in these contacts. Steps enter the racing game “in a modest par icipate, that in a few years,	for Adult Education, will be the T-rN A W ^ (T HD A^D A kA
that can be taken by governmental wa*'- with one horse.” in time to public officials will be free from	speaker at the Wednesday session. |	| J r Kv/VJ IX/A i Tl
units to improve their relations see his blue and white silks go to the attacks aimed from persons in	His topic is “Are Librarians of
with the public will be outlined at lhe P°st in the motion picture hand- all walks of American life.	Public Libraries Educators?’ Elea'
icap which will feature the July 9 “Once again may I express my	nor Hitt> of the state library, and Continued on Page Two card at the Del Mar Turf club. I mcst sincere congratulations, and	Clifford N. Amsden of our county ------------------ i hope that your visit to t’.e Uni-	civil service commission will dis-
HENLEY EXPLAINS
PURPOSE
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TODAY’S PROGRAM LISTED BY HOURS
9 to 10 p.m. Lecture— Government in the Modern States:
New Theories. Functions
\ercity of Southern California will cuss classification of library per-sliow you he fine spirit of South- sonnel.
ern California, and Will mark the There will be something said
radio after Spaulding's lecture on “Gauging Reading Interests.” Mrs. Mary Duncan. director of the School of Library Service. U.S.C., will participate in the Thursday meeting.
LISTED BY CLASSES
Administrative and Legislative Problems
The Ninth Annual Institute of Government is a tribute to the high caliber of public officials in the western United States. Four hundred individuals have served on the committees since December, 1936 in order to make th* 1937 Institute program of th^.'
mcst srccessful in your past eight about libraries and years of hard work.”
Gardiner Pollich,
ATTENDANCE
and Problems. Dr. Carlton C. Rodee. assistant professor of public /"CpTIEIfAT1-^
of Government 103 RHrfoc 4Hminictra. V»Clx I lrlV»M I
Administration. U.S.C. School of Government. 103 Bridge. Administra tive and Legislative Problems.
Lecture Adjustment of Juvenile Delinquents Through Juvenile Courts. Probation Departments and Correctional School,” Sanford Bates, executive director. Boy s Clubs of America Inc New York 206 Administration. Delinquency—Prevention and Treatment.
Lecture—“Fundamentals of a Good Accounting System.” Carl H. Chatters. executive director. Municipal Finance officers’ association of the United States and Canada, social hall. Women's Residence hall. Financial Administration.
Leeture—“The Coordinating of Library Services.”'Forrest B. Spaulding, librarian, the public library of Des Moines. Iowa. Porter hall, Libr-ianship.
Lecture—''Scientific Principles of Office Management.” Dr. Benjamin R. Haynes, professor of commerce and education at U.S.C., 302 Administration. Office Management.
Lecture—“The Planner—What About Him?” C. B Whitnall. secretary, public land commission, Milwaukee, Wis., 112 Bridge, Planning.
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IMPORTANT
Books on Government Will be on Display
Certificates of attendance are issued on the basis of attendance | A collection of some of the most coupons, therefore, each member recent books on government poli-is urged to see that the monitor tics and economics will be on dis-of his section receives one coupon play all this week, on a table at for every hour and twenty mm- the entrance to the University ute session of attendance. No bookstore in the Student Union, according to Dan MacNamara, head I of the University bookstore.
The books are representative of all the modern writers in the field of government, according to Mac-Namera, and are conveniently pric-
high caliber that it is. Five hundred experts are participating on panels, debates, round table discussions and delivering addresses. Fourteen outstanding national authorities are assuming the leadership of various sections.
Study guides have been provided to enhance the educational
certificate of attendance will be issued except upon the basis of twenty-one attendance coupons. Lawrence D. Pritchard, Executive Secretary, Institute of Government
Today
i 10-10:50 a.m. Lecture—"Government in the Modern State: New Theories,
Functions, and Problems,” Dr. Carlton C. Rodee, 103 Bridge.
Tomorrow
10-10:50 a.m. Lecture—“Problems in the Administration of Justice.” William Q. Hale, dean School of Law, Universtiy of Southern California,
103 Bridge.
Deliquency—Prevention and Treatment Today
9-9:50 a.m. Chairman: K. J. Scudder, probation officer, county of Los value of this one week’s intens Angeles, 206 Administration.	iye study program. The Institute
Lecture—“Adjustment of Juvenile Delinquents through Juvenile is not a convention. We have Courts, Probation Departments and Correctional School,” Stanford Bates.
10-10:50 a.m. Chairman: Karl Holton, chief deputy probation officer, county of Los Angeles.
Addresses—“The Function of the Juvenile Court in the Community,”
Honorable Robert H. Scott, judge juvenile court, county of Los Angeles; “The Function of the Probation Department in the Community,” K. J. Scudder, 206 Administration.
1-2:20 p.m. Summary of morning lectures.	„
Paper: “The School Approach in Handling Behavior Problems. Dr.
Willard Ford, deputy superintendent, Los Angeles city schools. 206 Administration.
2:30/3:50 p.m. Discussion of Dr. Ford’s paper.
Panel: Emmet Clark, superintendent of schools, city of Pomona;
Mrs. W. R. Goddard, president, California Congress of Parents and Teachers, Los Angeles; Karl Holton; John R. Hunt, superintend
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tried, wherever possible, to eliminate all the features of a con-' vention. It is the wish of the exs ecutive committee and of tht university staff that each member of the Institute not only will gain added information relative to his own technical work, but also that he will renew his dedication to the high purpose of professw governmental service.
Dr. W. Ballentine Director of tile 1