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an adverse report by the committee in the 

 house, and the Housing Corporation is pro- 

 ceeding as planned. However, apparently the 

 Shipping Board is seriously contemplating 

 closing out its housing projects. 



2. Resolved, That there should be established 

 a permanent government housing and town 

 planning bureau for research and propaganda 

 only. 



Apparently this can be most readily started 

 by the Secretary of Labor creating a division 

 in his office — to take over records and data of 

 the United States Housing Corporation and 

 presumably those of the United States Ship- 

 ping Board. 



3. Resolved. .'\s one means of improvement 

 in housing, readily obtainable, secure faci- 

 litation of housing finance. Owing to the com- 

 plexity of the problem it would seem best to 

 establish a congressional commission to report 

 a complete scheme at a later date. Mr. Olm- 

 sted has been asked by the Senate Committee 

 on Labor and Education to submit a bill for 

 this. The scheme would probably include a 

 Federal Mortgage Bank, which, as the Federal 

 Land Bank does for farm loans, would pool 

 all first mortgage loans, these to be long term 

 and amortizing in form, and sell bonds, thus 

 providing a liquid form of investment. To in- 

 vestors these will be so superior to the pres- 

 ent individual non-amortizing mortgages that 

 they can be floated at a much lower rate of 

 interest. Vast amounts of capital will thereby 

 be released at low rates — the exact converse 

 of the present intolerable situation. 



Mr. F. A. Wilson, of Nahant, Mass., who 

 was a guest of Mr. Dawson, and who has 

 been active as an employer of labor in adjust- 

 ing labor disputes, was asked to speak in- 

 formally on the present labor situation. He 

 referred to the activities of the Master Build- 

 ers' Association of Boston, which had issued 

 a report on the situation. Three alternatives 

 were suggested: 1. Continue to drift. 2. Fight. 

 3. Endeavor to start labor and capital to- 

 gether. 



Mr. Wilson said that the national labor 

 leaders had been lilieral in their views and 

 activities but that local leaders were small and 

 petty and inclined to cause trouble. 



January 6, 1920. Twenty-first annual meet- 

 ing and dinner, .Architectural League, New 

 York City. 



Present: Messrs. Blossom, Brinckerhoff, 

 Caparn, Child, Clarke, Dawson, Desmond, El- 

 wood, Fleming, Gay, Geiffert, Greenleaf, Hub- 



bard, Lay, Leavitt, F. L. Olmsted, Pilat, Tay- 

 lor, Tealdi, Vitale, Wheelwright. 



The annual report of the secretary was 

 read and accepted. This report showed a 

 membership in the society of one hundred and 

 eight, divided as follows: Fellows, 51, Voting 

 Members, 33, Members, 19, Associates, 3, 

 Honorary 2. The report also showed the fol- 

 lowing more important measures passed by 

 mail ballot of the society during the year: 



1. To approve the admission of the Pro- 

 visional Pacific Coast Chapter as a regular 

 Chapter of the A. S. L. A., Inc. 



2. To approve the proposal to establish a 

 medal for meritorious works in Landscape 

 Architecture, Architectural League of New 

 York. 



3. To approve the amendment to the By- 

 laws to increase the annual dues of Fellows 

 to twenty-five dollars per year and of Juniors 

 to ten dollars per year, this measure to apply 

 to current year. 



4. To accept the invitation to join the 

 "Wild Gardens of Acadia." 



5. To approve the adoption of the official 

 code of standardized plant names. 



7. To approve the proposal to ratify all 

 contracts, acts, proceedings, elections, and ap- 

 pointments which have been made or taken 

 liy the Board of Trustees of the society dur- 

 ing the years 1917 and 1918. 



9. To approve the memorandum in regard 

 to payment of bills for nursery stock ordered 

 by landscape architects on account of clients. 



10. To approve the "statement of obliga- 

 tions which are normally implied by the plac- 

 ing, and acceptance of all orders for nursery 

 stock in the absence of specific stipulations to 

 some other effect." 



11. To approve the statement as to "dis- 

 couraging the guarantee of nursery stock" 

 and to approve the standard form of contract. 



12. Policy No. 2 — The A. S. L. A., is op- 

 posed to the erection in public parks of build- 

 ings other than those required for park pur- 

 poses. 



13. Policy No. 3— The A. S. L. A. is op- 

 posed to the diversion of land which has once 

 been set apart for the public recreation until 

 an overwhelming public need for such diver- 

 sion has been convincingly shown, or until it 

 is shown that an exchange of land will un- 

 questionably give the community more than 

 it loses. 



14. Policy No. 4 — The A. S. L. A. favors 

 local regulation and taxing of billboards and 

 other outdoor advertising signs, more es- 



