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TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY 



stitute for Senate Bill No. 227, is now before 

 the general court of Massachusetts, for action 

 in accordance with the Constitutional Amend- 

 ment recently adopted which provides for the 

 restriction of such advertising, and 



Whereas, This bill is in harmony with the 

 policy regarding bill-boards, which the Ameri- 

 can Society of Landscape Architects has 

 officially pledged itself to support, be it 



Resolved, Therefore, at the annual Boston 

 meeting of the American Society of Land- 

 scape Architects now assembled that this so- 

 ciety approves of this bill and urges its pass- 

 age. 



Dinner Session. Present: Messrs. Blaney, 

 Brinckerhoff, Caldwell, Dawson, Hubbard, 

 Kellaway, Manning, J. C. Olmsted, Pond, 

 Pray, Shurtlefl, Stiles, Underwood. Guests: 

 Messrs. F. A. Wilson, J. Hugh Smith, William 

 H. Punchard. 



The president announced that he was pre- 

 paring a report on the proposed revision of 

 the By-laws; among other matters included in 

 this revision will be a proposal to eliminate 

 the term "Junior" in classifying the members 

 and substitute the general term "Member." 



Mr. Warren H. Manning was called upon to 

 describe his work for the Massachusetts Com- 

 mission for the Employment of Discharged 

 Soldiers. He said his interest in studying the 

 natural resources of New England began some 

 years ago in preparing reports for the Pana- 

 ma-Pacific Exposition. He stated that he was 

 now indirectly employed by the Soldiers' Land 

 Commission in studying the agricultural re- 

 sources of New England with a view of em- 

 ploying returning soldiers in agricultural pur- 

 suits. It has been found that the available 

 western lands have all been taken up and that 

 it is now necessary to reclaim the agricultural 

 lands of the east. The eastern lands are po- 

 tentially very fertile. The result of the irriga- 

 tion projects of the west have not come up to 

 expectations. Half of the state of Massachu- 

 setts is assessed at only ten dollars per acre, 

 all of which goes to indicate that there is a 

 very fair prospect of success in reclaiming the 

 lands of the east. Mr. Manning said he ex- 

 pected to map the entire state, showing gra- 

 phically the various types of soil. He showed 

 several government geological survey maps 

 which he would utilize in this work, and pre- 

 liminary maps which he had already prepared. 

 It is the intention of the federal government 

 to establish colonies of 100 workers each. The 

 colonies would be run on a co-operative basis, 



with state and federal aid, including long term 

 payments for land. 



Mr. Arthur ShurtlefT, a member of the Bos- 

 ton Committee on War Memorials described 

 his activities and the progress that had been 

 made by his committee. He stated that he 

 was not privileged as yet to announce any of 

 the findings of the committee, but he described 

 in an interesting and humorous way the many 

 proposals that had been advanced, and some 

 of the possibilities. 



Professor Pray stated that the Belgian Com- 

 mittee was now employed in collecting ma- 

 terial on civic and town planning problems 

 from all countries. Our committee has al- 

 ready collected much material, but owing to 

 postal restrictions the committee has been un- 

 able to forward it to Belgium. He stated that 

 there is better opportunity to serve in recon- 

 structing Belgian communities than French 

 communities. 



It was proposed by the Belgian Committee 

 that "City Planning Progress" as published 

 under the editorship of George B. Ford in 1916 

 be translated and included in the cyclopedia 

 which the Belgian Committee is preparing. 

 Mr. Hubbard called attention to the fact that 

 the report of the recent work of the Housing 

 Corporation and Shipping Board would be of 

 greater value than the above publication. It 

 was suggested by Professor Pray that the 

 translation of Mr. Ford's books might proper- 

 ly be put before the American Institute of 

 Architects as it more directly concerned them 

 than the A. S. L. A. He stated, however, that 

 the A. S. L. A. committee is the official rep- 

 resentative of the Belgian Committee in this 

 country. Major Pond referred to the report 

 now being prepared by the Construction Divi- 

 sion covering port terminal work as being 

 particularly applicable to the purpose of the 

 committee as it would have value or use in 

 peace time. 



It was announced by the president that as a 

 result of the joint conference in Philadelphia 

 on Town Planning and Housing held in 

 January last, the following statement had been 

 prepared: 



1. Resolved, That the government housing 

 projects, both of the United States Housing 

 Corporation and of the United States Shipping 

 Board should not be arbitrarily discontinued, 

 neither the houses nor any of the community 

 features necessary to make them really liv- 

 able. 



The senate joint resolution to stop many of 

 the Housing Corporation's projects received 



