bad law is to enforce it, and enforce it to the limit. I want to offer myself to you in the capacity of a servant. I want to be of assistance to the small communities, if I may be, anywhere in the state of California. And during the next year I invite you to confer and to ask me to assist you in any way that I can in the solving of your problems. I am willing to go anywhere, any time, and do anything that is in my power to promote the city government of any city in the state. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for this honor you have conferred on me. And I might say, in closing that a little woman up here in the Sanatorium is going to be mighty proud, and her heart is going to be made glad for the thing that you have done today. (Applause).

THE VICE-PRESIDENT: We surely appreciate the sentiments which were expressed by you both for yourself and the one in the hospital, and I am sure that with you goes our best wishes, and we hope that the most unqualified success will attend the year that you are President of this organization. (Applause).

DOCTOR BROWNING: (Secretary of the Health Officers' Section.) I am sorry that we did not have the opportunity of making out a full report, as we did last year and on previous occasions, but our sessions have been so strenuous that the secretary has had very little time to devote to anything of that nature. HowHow ever, I would like, just briefly, to make a verbal report on some of the important things that have been dealt with. And the first thing I want to report is that our sessions have been very unusually well attended. Yesterday afternoon we reached the peak of attendance with 259 present at our meeting. In the morning we had 253. The day before we had 233 and so on. The business session only took place this afternoon at half past one, and the important part of that

business session was the last item, which dealt with the question of doing something along a constructive line toward the organization, if possible, in our municipalities of Municipal hospitals, something for which there is a great need at the present time, particularly in our smaller communities. Our President has appointed a strong committee to deal with the matter, study it and report back at our next meeting. I think it would be proper for this body to likewise appoint a like committee in order that they can study the question from the layman's standpoint which is, after all, the important thing. We speak of it and study it from the professional standpoint, but we know very little about the layman's ideas of these things, and if we can get the co-operation of a like committee from this body, dealing with the layman's ideas for a small municipal hospital, that will help solve the general welfare problems of the community as well as take care of tourists coming through the community in their automobiles, from which class we get so much accident work, then I think that we will be able to get something definite and constructive ready for our next meeting so that we can really accomplish something. That is the most important thing that we have started during this year. We have had our election of officers, resulting in the reelection of Doctor Dickie, Executive Secretary of the State Board of Health, as President, Doctor W. B. Wells, of Riverside as the Vice-President, and myself again as Secretary-Treasurer. That covers our report. (Applause).

SECRETARY LOCKE: I was wondering if the City Manager's Section had a report to submit. They are not regarded as a section of the League, although affiliated with this body, so perhaps they do not feel that it is incumbent upon them to report the result of the conference they held this year. I understand that

there were 22 or 23 City Managers present out of a possible 32 in the state of California, our state taking the lead in this form of government, together with the state of Michigan. But, while I am on my feet, Mr. Chairman, I just want to say a word or two in relation to what I spoke of yesterday, and that is the great attendance that we had at this Convention. I prophesied, as many of you will recall, that we would perhaps have a thousand delegates registered at this Convention. The gentleman in charge. of the registration brought one thousand badges with him. Those one thousand badges were exhausted yesterday and those who have come in since to register have been unable to secure badges, so we are certain of the fact that more than one thousand delegates attended this convention. That, of course, includes the guests, but this is the largest Convention ever held in the history of this organization, both in the number of delegates in attendance and in the number of cities represented. (Applause). Furthermore, Mr. President, I think it is safe to say that this is the greatest convention of city officials ever assembled on the American continent, bar none. We have about twenty states in the Union having organizations of this kind, and the state of California, I am happy to say, appears to be in the lead, in point of interest, in point of attendance and in the point of the work that is being done by the organization. I think we should feel very proud of that fact.

MR. SINSHEIMER: I would like to call your attention to the fact that we have separate departments here for City Managers, we have separate departments for attorneys, we have separate departments for health officers, we have separate departments for councilmen and for engineers, but I fail to see whether there. is any department whatsoever for Mayors. And I want to call your attention, and

the attention of the Convention, to that fact, and it seems to me that it might be well and in order that, in addition to the other departments which this League is developing into, to develop one also for Mayors. Their function, in a way, is quite different from the function of all of the other officers. And it seems to me that a separate department would do a great deal of good.

THE VICE-PRESIDENT: The Executive Committee will take note of that.

MR. ANDREWS: We have with us here. a remarkable man, and the success of this organization is very largely due to the great work and services of this man, Mr. Locke, and while we all recognize and know that, still I like to tell a fellow what I think of him. We all must have the same feeling. The success of this League has been so great. Who has brought that success about? It must be a matter of common feeling and knowledge with us all that it is our Executive Secretary Mr. Locke. Take in connection with the attorney's section of the League: Mr. Locke is a veritable encyclopedia of law in the state of California, and when a question comes up we just naturally and instinctively turn to Mr. Locke for any decisions that have been made upon it, and for advice regarding it, but in all of the sections and in all of the departments of this institution he moves about with such absolute knowledge of it, that I cannot conceive of this institution being so great a success if, by any chance, his services should be taken from us. And those services and the advice that he has given have been so cheerfully rendered and given, and so courteously and kindly, that I feel like offering a resolution that would express our appreciation again to Mr. Locke for his services to this organization. (Applause).

THE VICE-PRESIDENT: That motion. is carried unanimously.

MR. MASON: Mr. President, Doctor

Browning called attention to the activities of the Medical Section and stated that they had appointed a special committee for a particular purpose, and requested that this body authorize a similar committee to represent the layman in the matter which they have under investigation. I am therefore going to move that the Executive Committee be authorized to appoint such a committee whenever the time shall be proper, for the collaboration of effort with this association and the Health Officers Section.

MR. KIERNAN: I second the motion. The motion is unanimously carried. THE VICE-PRESIDENT: There is one part of this Convention that we have overlooked entirely. By far the best behaved force has been the ladies, because they have not taken up any of our time. I do not know just which ones of the ladies are delegates. There are two council women from the city of Richmond, but I certainly would call upon any lady who is a delegate to this Convention to get up and say a word to

us.

You know, this is the time you have a chance to say the last word.

MR. ANDREWs: My wife has been taking in everything that has been offered. I have not had to spend a cent on her in any shape or manner. I do really think that in the matter of the entertainment that has been afforded us, particularly to the ladies of the Convention, that it has been almost more than could be expected or desired. The exertions that have been put forth and the entertainments that have been given. have been beyond our expectations. I offer a special resolution thanking the management for their entertainment of our wives and sisters and sweethearts.

LONG BEACH MUNICIPAL BAND. MR. DU REE: Mr. Chairman and delegates: I take great pleasure in introducing to you Herbert L. Clark, who is

known throughout the musical world as the premier cornetist of the world. He is Director of the Long Beach Municipal Band which we consider, and have no hesitancy in saying, one of the greatest bands in the United States today. Mr. Clark was honored by being called to St. Louis to direct the musical directors there in a great massed band. (Applause.)

MR. CLARK: Mr. Chairman, friends and delegates to the Convention: This is rather impromptu. We just finished our regular afternoon concert, and I am sorry that I have not been able to be here during your convention more, but we are kept very busy trying to entertain our townspeople and guests and tourists who come from all over the country. It keeps us busy twice a day. I would like to say a few words about this municipal band. Long Beach is the only city in the United States of America that supports a band playing the entire year round, two concerts daily except Mondays. The city started this many years ago, I think some 16 years ago. They had a small band of 25 men, and it has increased today to 51 men where we can give proper musical entertainment by playing a class of music that will give the proper tone and coloring, and by having 51 men it is evenly balanced. Of course, people generally do not understand what that means, but you "balance" everything in music as well as in business. We entertain so many people. The old people and the young people come to our concerts. In the fall we play in the auditorium, starting tomorrow, and in the summer time in the band shell for four months. And I hope, in time, that other cities, not only in California but in other states of the Union will adopt the same measure that Long Beach has done. I have only been here not quite two years, and it has been a pleasure to play for the people and to entertain them. Music is a wonderful thing to keep crime

away. It is doing much good to those who are shut in because our concerts are broadcasted every afternoon over Echo station, K. F. O. N. This station commenced last year with a hundred watts, and it is going to be increased this fall to 500 so that the people of the east can hear the music. And we have had letters from Alaska even with our present small broadcasting station and from Samoa in the Polynesian islands and in different parts of Canada that have heard us at times. It is a wonderful thing, for the shutins and those people who cannot come down to the concerts at Long Beach can enjoy the music, and I think that Long Beach is to be highly credited in endeavoring to promote such a wonderful chance for people to hear a good class of music. Our men are all selected, they are picked from the best men I can get in the country. A great many of them are men who have made music their profession and want to come to a climate that is very even all the year round. That is the principal drawing card that we have, and then they love to play a good class of music with other good musicians. I might also mention that the members of the band are under civil service, and they have to conform to the requirements of the civil service, being a municipal band. I just want to thank you and tell you that I am very pleased to be here today, and there are four of my principal men who will try to entertain you in an impromptu number or two. It is my intention, way along in the future sometime when all the cities in California support municipal bands, to have visiting times when the

Long Beach band can go to another city and the other city band will come to Long Beach so that our cities will not be deprived of music, on the same principle as baseball clubs visit around. It will create a great deal of interest among the people, and when this can be thoroughly done in the different cities, it will be a wonderful thing, not only for the public, but for other people. And it will be possible to do these things if the townspeople of the other cities will adopt the same methods that Long Beach has adopted. I might say, for the benefit of the delegates to the Convention, do not try to experiment, if you want to form a municipal band in your town, come to Long Beach, sit with our city fathers who will explain how it is done and how easily it is done. Thank you. (Applause).

After the rendering of some numbers by members of the Long Beach Municipal Star Band, and the playing of the Spangled Banner the Convention adjourned sine die.

BRIDGEPORT TRAFFIC SPOTS

The Bridgeport Brass Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut, has recently placed on the market a new device for use in traffic marking. The device consists of brass cups of from three to four and one-half inches in diameter, which are embedded in the pavement with an iron tamper or a road roller after being laid out in the desired designs. The markings made by the use of these devices are permanent, and the cost of installation is quite moderate.

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down town today as they were more than half a century ago-three-quarters of a century ago and yet we have piled upon those streets a demand for their use which

is a thousand times greater than the streets were originally planned for. And thus we get congestion, that is, a condition where the movement of population through the streets is retarded. And, of course, when you get a movement that is retarded, a slow movement, you get a costly movement, and, after a while, you get a situation which is impossible. And then our cities must change their character and begin to come in, as it were, instead of spreading out into individual homes. The problem of street congestion is the thing which causes density of population, as much or more than any other factor.

Congestion adds to the cost of living in the cities. In New York City a sack of potatoes can be carried from Michigan, about 1,500 miles distant, as cheaply as that same sack of potatoes can be carried from the terminal to the consumer. That is what street congestion has done in the city of New York. It is what it is beginning to do in the cities of the Pacific Coast, which are growing so rapidly. And it does not only mean that congestion is a detriment in the larger cities. It means also that, in the smaller cities it has also a retarding effect. I know of no city around Los Angeles, large or small, that is suffering from traffic strangulation more than the city in which we are at the present moment, the city of Long Beach. Congestion, therefore, is one of the problems which. the automobile has brought.

There is another problem, and that is the problem of safety. I am not going to harass you with the details of the accidents and the tragedies upon the streets of our cities today. You know those problems in your own communities, and

there is no community in this state so small, that it does not have its toll of accidents and fatalities some time during the year. Last year there were killed, in the use of automobiles, 22,000 people, probably a number equivalent to a fourth of the permanent residents of Long Beach. Imagine what that means in the today amount of tragedy in this country! And not only that, but 648,000 people were seriously injured in automobile accidents, so seriously injured, at any rate, that a permanent record was made of the accident. It is a crying shame, it seems to me, that our cities have not taken hold of the problem of traffic regulation and traffic safety more energetically than they have. I think probably the chief answer to it is this: that the problem has come upon us so quickly, in the last few years, that we have not had time to plan for it as we have in our other scientific branches of city engineering, such as water engineering and sewage and waste disposal.

This is some problem which has arisen. How are we going to take care of it? It does not do any good to point out a problem of this character, unless you also point out the way to remedy it. The first remedy is represented by Mr. Pomeroy and Mr. Whitnall, exponents of city planning, which movement is concerned in designing proper arteries of communication within the city, so that they will carry this burden which has been thrust upon them. And in their hands lies the ultimate solution of the traffic problem.

But there is another factor. If we had to wait for a redistricting of our cities before we could begin to solve this. problem, it would be a very sad thing. Indeed, I will go so far as to say, that city planning alone will never entirely. remedy the condition, although it lays down the basic solution for it. You may have a boulevard, 500 feet wide, three