May 15, 1928
TO MEMBERS OF THE BOARD:
Mr. Gavit sails on Saturday for Germany to gather materials for our anniversary number next November -- Ten Years of the German People Under Democracy. His address throughout the summer will be c/o [Weltreise-Bureau] Union, 22 Unter den Linden, Berlin. As you know, our arrangement with Mr. Gavit is a part-time one -- his summers were to be free, and his own. He is chipping in next summer as his contribution to what he regards as our extraordinary opportunity to perform a creative public service in this place of international [interpretation?]. (His prospective enc.)
I am sailing June 8th from Montreal, at the expense of The Survey, and am to speak at the 1928 Cambridge Congress of the International Association for the Study and Improvement of Human Relations and Conditions in Industry; and at the International Conference of Social Work in Paris. Thereafter I hope to spend a few days at Geneva and the balance of my time in Germany with the Gavits. Back in New York on August 25th. Address c/o American Express Company, London -- June 25 to July 7; Paris -- July 8 to 15; Geneva -- July 16 to 21; Berlin July 21 to August 14.
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The leading article of our June Survey Graphic is the work of Miss Loula D. Lasker. It deals with the new crisis of the Palisades -- one which grows out of the building of the Hudson River Bridge, and which seems likely to half undo the results of the fight put up thirty years ago to preserve the face of the cliffs against the ravages of the quarrymen. As she points out, when the bridge opens in 1932, New York may look out on a "gap-toothed sky-line with skyscrapers, water tanks, billboards and Coney island above." Miss Lasker has had the collaboration of [page 2] key people in the Port Authority, the Palisades Interstate Park Commission and the Regional Plan of New York and Environs (Russell Sage Foundation).
This is in a sense a curtain raiser for Miss Lasker so far as The Survey is concerned. Beginning next fall she will serve as a volunteer associate editor of The Survey on a part-time basis in the field of community work -- with special emphasis on the mounting developments in city and regional planning. Miss Lasker has had experience as chairman of the Committee on Immigrant Aid and Immigrant Education of the Council of Jewish Women, New York section; as supervisor, Home Service Section, New York Chapter of the American Red Cross, curing the War; and as member of the United States Commission to Investigate the Condition of Immigrants at Ports of Entry. More recently she has held a post in the Publicity and Investment Department of the Manufacturers and Trust Company.
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Enclosed is Miss Amidon's scratch outline for a special number opening up the unemployment problem in a constructive way. This is tentative. Mr. Bruere, Miss Van Kleeck and others have made interesting suggestions, and we should be glad to have yours.
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I am happy to say that Mr. Gavit has engaged as field worker and assistant in the Membership Department, beginning October first next, Miss Nancy Lane, daughter of former Secretary Lane, who strikes us as having inherited not a little of her father's breadth of sprit and capacities.
PAUL U. KELLOGG
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