JOHN LYNCH NAMED INSTITUTE LEADER; CHISHOLM, EDITOR
An.iual Elections Held Tuesday Evening In Student Union Building.
- At the annual elections of the Institute of Government held Tuesday evening in the Student Union building, John J. Lynch, city clerk of San Jose, was elected president of the 1932 student body. Alexander Chisholm, chief auditor of the Controller’s officer, Los Angeles, was elected editor-in-chief of the Institute Trojan.
Vice-presidents elected from the various sections include A. J. Win-gard, adult probation; Charles Cecil Reed, budgets and accounts; Ralph C. Tilton, county administration; Jean L. Yincenz, city council administration; Kenneth Q. Volk, municipal engineering; Robert B. Heur, public administration; Clarence Arra-smith, taxation; and W. T. Knowlton, water supply and engineering.
Mr. Lynch, student body president represents the section on city clerkship administration.
Associate editors include Ellen Lan-dico, adult probation; R. W. Anderson, city clerkship administration; Albert S. Baker, county administration; E. H. Spoor, city council administration; J. W. G. Hanford, municipal engineering; Alfonso J. Bernal, public administration; John Rylander, taxation; and E. H. Clarkson Jr., water supply and sanitary engineering.
Mr. Lynch, editor-in-chief of the Trojan, represents the section on budgets and accounts.
Sectional Papers Available At Close of Session
Mimeographed copies of the various sections of the 1932 Institute will be available at 50 cents per section for those enrolled who base signed membership soupons.
For those who are not registered in a section the papers will be available at the cost of $1 per section. Additional copies may be obtained by filling out extra order blanks furnished in Mr. Olson’s office.
It imperative that those desiring copies of the proceedings fill out the blanks furnished at the time of registration.
SCHOOL PRESENTS CERTIFICATES AND DEGREES TO SEVEN
Three Seniors Given Degree of Bachelor of Science In Public Administration.
Among the 1645 University of Southern California students who !matched into the Olympic stadium on June 4 to receive their diplomas 1 from President R. B. von KleinSmid were Chester R. Bondurant, Richard • G. Manley, and Lloyd L. Voigt who jwere awarded the degree of bachelor ! of science in public administration.
Bondurant hails from Hickman, Kentucky, Voigt from Independence, Kansas, while Manley resides in Upland, California.
Bruce F. Clark, Francis T. Haw-trey and William A. Lempis received certificates in Police Administration and Training. Amo E. Corpe of El Monte was awarded a certificate in organization and Management.
The School of Citizenship and Pub
__lie Administration was duly authot-
A dinner was held at the Univer- .ized by the University Trustees on sity club, Monday evening, June 13, l^'bruaiy 28, 1929. The professional honoring Dean Justin Miller, dean of
Dinner Given Dean Miller
Adult Probation Group Fetes Visiting Leader At Night Banquet Monday.
the Law School, Duke university, and leader of the Adult Probation section in the Institute of Government. Judge Herbert G. Cochran of the ju-
curriculum provldea leads to the degree of bachelor of science in public administration and there are now four-year and five-year courses leading to degrees in this field. A man
venile and domestic relation court of nia^ s^ur-l> t°’* ,oul years in the regu-Norfolk, Va„ was a special guest. iIar college, get his training in these
Sixty superior and municipal court judges and executives of the Proba-
tion department were in attendance. Mr. K. J. Scudder, probation officer of Los Angeles county was chairman.
courses prepared by public officials themselves and hold his degree in public administration, take some position in the public service, passing various examinations as he goes through. Partime courses are provided for those actually engaged in
1932 INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENT FEATURED BY MANY 1N0VATI0NS
Charles H. Diggs, General Chairman, and Members of Executive Committee Cooperate With More Than 200 Officials In Planning Course.
I inal meetings of the Fifth Annual Institute of Government will be held tomorrow evening when the Hon. Rolland Yandegrift, director of finance of the State of California, and Justin Miller, dean of the law school of Duke university will address a general assembly
* in Porter hall at 7 p.m.
The success of this year’s institute
Mr. Scudder pointed out that near- various forms of public service, The various associate editors have 1 ly 4,000 adults were now on proba- whether municipal, county, state or
had the responsibility of covering their respective sections and writing their copy for the Thursday issue.
SOUTHLAND WOMEN HOLD CIVIC MEETING
Climaxing a cooperative movement among civic-minded women of the Southland seeking to quicken the general sense of civic responsibility, a Women’s Civic Conference was held March 7 in Philosophy Hall, Exposition Boulevard and University Avenue, Los Angeles, sponsored by the ■chool of citizenship and public administration of the University of Southern California.
Monday morning sessions, continued from March 7 to April 18, dealing with “ The Federal Government and Political Parties.” Mrs. Arthur Shell-horn of South Pasadena, an executive of the District Federation of Women’s Clubs and of her local chapter o^of D. A. R., was general chairman oT the Conference.
“A great American educator was once asked ‘What aspect of American life today touches your individual existence most intimately?’ and without hesitation he answered ‘government.’ This conviction is shared by many thinking people, including an increasingly large number of women citizens,” stated Mrs. Shellhorn. “Leaders in the field of government lectured to members of more than 150 women's organizations from some 25 towns during the spring civic conference. We believe that it is imperative to the maintenance of high standards in federal, state, and municipal government that interested and itelligent citizens also be informed citizens.” Dr. William B. Munro of California Institute of Technology, Dr. Jomn M. Pfiffner of University of Southern California, Or. Ed^Ard M. Sait of Pomona College, and Prof Emery E.
Olson, dean of the school of citizenship and public administration of S. C., were the lecturers.
tion in Los Angeles county, more than 900 individuals to each probation officer. This number represents an increase of 400 percent in the adult probationers in this district since 1927.
Dean Miller addressed the group, following which a general discussion was held concerning probation in general and particularly the reports of probation officers to the courts. Dean’Emery E. Olson also made a brief talk with regard to the School of Citizenship and Public Administration.
Judge Cochran, who arrived in Los Angeles Monday with Dean Miller, came west especially to attend the section on adult probation. He learned of the institute while at a convention in the east through Dean Miller and accompanied him to Los Angeles.
INSTITUTE DRAWS MANY TO COLLEGE
That the 1932 Institute of government has attracted a great deal of attention throughout the State of California is evidenced in the fact that a large number of municipalities have sent their officials to the weeks course.
Not only California, but also outside states are represented at S.C during the present week. Boston, Mass., Durham, N.C., New York city, Norfolk, Va., and Princeton, N.J. are among the states represented.
California municipalities with officials at the Institute include Alhambra, Arcadia, Berkeley, Brawley, Burbank, Compton, Culver City, Encinitas, Fillmore, Fresno, Glendale, Glen-wood, Hollywood, Hondo, and Inglewood.
Lompoc, Long Beach, Los Angeles Lynwood, Monterey Park, Pasadena Redlands, Sacramento, San Bernardino, Sao. Francisco, San. Jose, Santa Ana. Santa Barbara Santa Monica, Santa Paula, Signal Hill, South Gate, South Pasadena, Upland, Ventura, Westmoreland, and Whittier.
national.
Students who have completed the requirements for a Junior, certificate in a recognized junior college or other instition of corresponding rank may be regularly admitted. Stand ards of scholarship are identical with those in other divisions of the University. The strategic location or the downtown division of the School of Citizenship and public Administration at th-3 Civic Center of Los Angeles, where employees of city, county, state, and nation run into thousands, afford unparalleled opportunity for an ever widning service.
DR. LUTZ PRESENTS TAXATION PROBLEMS
“Our governmental scheme harks back to the ‘horse and buggy’ period, but our living and our thinking in all other respects have gone far beyond that period. This is the central cause of our present high tax bill.” declared Dr. Harley L. Lutz, professor of public finance at Princeton University, in his opening address before the fifth annual institute of government at the University of Southern California.
“Our governmental machine was designed to function under a certain set of conditions. These conditions suddenly changed, but the governmental organization and viewpoint did not change. The present high tax bill is the price we pay for this gap between,” said the speaker.
Too much governmental-machinery is one concrete manifestation of the government’s ‘horse and buggy'methods, Dr. Lutz declared. Too much diffusion of responsibility is one result, with no coordination control. Whereas small administrative units were needed thirty years ago, growth of metropolitan areas has changed conditions so that continued use of the old machinery means duplication of service and employment of more men than are needed,th espeak-er pointed out.
Many Cities Represented
Cities Outside of Los Angeles County Represented By Public Officials.
Among the prominent public officials attending the Institute of Government from cities outside Los Angeles county are William H. Nicoll, chief adult probation officer of San Francisco; C. R. Raeder of the state department of finance, Sacramento; J. P. Plover, state supervisor of probation; Nichael H. Antonacci, city planning engineer for San Jose; and Jean L. Vincenz, commissioner of public works, Fresno.
Westmoreland, in Imperial Vally is represented by Miss Elizabeth Cummings, city clerk, Owen H. O’Neill, county engineer, and George D. Geib, city clerk, are here from Santa Barbara. Miss Ruth Meilandt, city clerk; Frank T. Murphy and Clay Claberg of the county probation office are emong the Ventura delegation.
Other persons attending include .Miss Agnes Arthur of Brawley; E. A. Vaughn, manager of the light and water department at Lompoc: W. C. Brown, superintendent, San Dieguito irrigation district, Encinitas; C. Arra-smitli, city manager, Fillmore; E. H. Spoor, councilman, Redlands; Philip N. Hood, accountant, Santa Ana; Mrs. Charles S. Taylor of the Fresno city planning commission; Harry N. Jenks consulting sanitary engineer, Berkeley; Floyd M. Ransdell, auditor, and Claude L. Yarbrough, city clerk, Santa Paula; Bernard C. Plover, assistant supervisor probation department, Santa Rosa; W. C. Pyle, city treasurer, Whittier.
ASSEMBLY ENDS 1932 INSTITUTE
Tomorrow evening’s assembly will bring the 1932 Institute of Government to a close. Members of the combined sections together with members of the Women’s Civic Con ference will crowd Porter hall on the third floor of the law school building to hear the double lecture.
The assembly will begin promptly at 7 p.m. as customary during the past week.
The Hon. Rolland Vandegrift, director of finance for the State of California will give an analysis of the state budget—"The source and uses of State Revtnue.” Mr. Vandegrift has appeared on the S. C. campus before and his talks have been well delivered and enlightening.
“The Social Aspects of Government” has been selected as the final topic to be delivered by Justin Miller, dean of the School of Law of Duke University who has traveled across the continent to head the section on adult probation. Dean Miller was formerly head of the S C. School of Law.
ROOM CHANGE
The Budgets and Accounts Section
will hold all of its sessions on Thursday, June 16 and Friday June 17, in room 306, Bovard Administration Building.
has been largely due to the efforts the Executive committee and the several hundred members of the section committees who have been holding conferences throughout the year planning the work of the various sections.
Under the leadership of Charles H. Diggs, chairmarf of the executive committee, and his assistants numerous innovations have been made in the work of the Institute.
Requests from many persons employed in public work and desirous of availing themselves of attending the special short course in public administration, but unable to get away during the entire day, have been responsible for the establishment of evening sessions to enable a wider attendance on the part of government officials.
Previous sessions of the one-week school were held during the morning and afternoon hours. The change ln class hours not only makes possible more widespread attendance but also gives an opportunity for individual and group consultation with national authorities.
Sections on adult probation, coordination of governmental agencies, and county administration have been added to the curriculum of the Insti tute to widen the scope of the one week educational session.
Outstanding authorities throughout the United States who are appearing for the first time at the Institute include Harrison P. Eddy, municipal engineering; Ray F. Goudey, water sup ply and sanitary engineering; Dr. Har ley L. Lutz of Prinector ™ taxation and budgets Dean Justin Miller of Dul adult probation; and 1 ro Williams of Columbia vn.
Prof. Edwin A. CotLeil t. university returns to head the section on city council administration and principles of government and to assist in the section on budgets and accounts.
Dr. John M. Pfiffner and Russell II. Ewing of the S. C. School of Citizenship and Public Administration augment the teaching staff.
Those active in assisting general chairman Diggs in planning the work of the Institute include the following heads of committees:
K. J. Scudder, probation officer, Los Angeles county, head of the adult probation section.
John W. Donner, assi^int director, bureau of budget and efficiency of Los Angeles, chairman of the budgets and occounts section.
George H. Cooper, city cle/k of Signal Hill, head of the city clerkship administration.
L. E. Olson, councilman of the City of Glendale, chairman of the city council administration section.
H. A. Payne, audtior of Los Angeles county, head of the county administration section.
H.	I. Stites, city engineer of Burbank, chairman of the municipal engineering section.
W. L. Pollard, Los Angeles attorney, head of the section on taxation.
Peter Diedericb, superintendent ot water, power and light service ot Glendale, chairman of the section on water supply and sanitary engineering.
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