OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES Board of Governors Executive Committee F. Nathaniel Perkins Forum Committee *Chairman 1918-1919 GEORGE S. SMITH, President JOHN WHITE, JR., First Vice-President Art and Library Committee Bulletin Committee *George H. Ellis Charles R. Holman Edward F. McSweeney Hospitality Committee BOSTON CITY CLUB BULLETIN FOR THE INFORMATION OF MEMBERS OF THE CLUB "This Club is founded in the spirit of good fellowship and every men. Mr. Marcosson has just returned from an extended tour of Germany, where he made a thorough study of the unoccupied as well as the occupied sections. He was received in audience by Noske, Erzberger, and Harden, -in fact, all of the strong men of the new order. His address will be an intimate revelation of Germany to-day. Dinner at 6 o'clock. Tickets at the Civic Secretary's office. Monday Evening, December 8 (Forum Meeting) JUDGE A. C. BACKUS of Milwaukee "WHAT SOCIETY OWES THE ERRING" Eight o'clock Thursday Evening, December 11 W. H. MORAN Chief of the United States Secret Service "SECRET SERVICE" Auditorium, eight o'clock HON. THOMAS J. BOYNTON, United States Attorney, presiding. Mr. Moran has worked his way up in the Secret Service, from the bottom to the top, from the position of clerk, where he started thirty-five years ago, to his present post as chief of this important department. He is, without doubt, the greatest expert in this country on counterfeit money. His talk will be descriptive of the work of the Secret Service, illustrated by many personal reminiscences and actual cases which he has handled. Dinner tickets (6 o'clock) at Civic Secretary's office. Thursday Evening, December 18 CHARLES WELLINGTON FURLONG "CHILE AND THE FUEGIAN ARCHIPELAGO" Auditorium, eight o'clock ALFRED R. SHRIGLEY, HON., Chilean Consul, will preside. An artist, author, and explorer, Charles Wellington Furlong is known throughout the country as an authority on South America. He has traveled in Africa, conducted an expedition through the wilderness of Dutch Guiana, up the Orinoco River, and across the llanos of Venezuela, and was the first white man to cross through the heart of Tierra del Fuego. He has also explored the interior of the Azores, Madeira, Desertas, and Canary Islands. The lantern slides used in this lecture were all colored by Mr. Furlong and are alone well worth seeing. Tickets for dinner (6 o'clock) at Civic Secretary's office. Thursday, December 25 CHRISTMAS DAY No entertainment ADDRESS BY LIEUT.-COL. HUGH W. OGDEN October 30, 1919 INTRODUCTION BY HON. ARTHUR D. HILL My part in the evening is a limited one. The less that a man who presents a speaker who is already too well known to need presentation says, the better. But there is just one aspect of Colonel Ogden's work that I want to direct your attention to, and that is the simplicity, the modesty, the freedom from self-advertisement and display, with which it has been done, from the time when he first began to do his part in the preparation for the war. He has never, either in this country or in France, been one of those men who put forward their own personality and sought beyond everything else to be the central figure in a melodrama of their own composition. We have had many such men both here and in France, but, thank God, we also had many others, like our guest to-night, who sank their own individuality in the work, and who were known only by the results of the work which they did. Because this is so, it gives me peculiar pleasure to be able to pay my tribute to a sound lawyer, a gallant soldier, and a good friend. [Prolonged applause.] HUGH W. OGDEN, Esq. I have seen in the last two years, gentlemen, a good many pictures, pictures of devastated France, of battlefields, of devastated villages, of dead and dying men in hospitals. I have seen Belgium and Luxemburg, and Germany as far as the American Army of Occupation went, the other side of the Rhine. Believe me, in all those two years since I had the pleasure of seeing the Boston City Club, I could find nothing that looked as fair, or as interesting, or as wholesome, or as altogether lovable as to see this attendance here to-night. Since modern history began to be written, no great war has ever been fought which did not bring in its train an aftermath of investigation and criticism. Our national history is full of reviews of the War of the Revolution, of the War of 1812, of the War with Mexico, of the Civil, and of the Spanish War. It is doubtless a wholesome thing for the officers of the army, in whom is lodged almost unlimited power during a time of national emergency, to know that, after the conclusion of peace, they will be required to give an account of their stewardship at home. It is not therefore, in any way unprecedented that there should be a large public interest at this time in the subject of my address. A former acting judge advocate general and the present judge advocate general are bitterly opposed to each other upon certain questions of military law and procedure. Senators have taken up the cudgels. Bills have been introduced and are now pending in Congress on the one side and the other. The American Bar Association has investigated the administration of military justice through a committee of five, which split three to two in its conclusions. Whatever, therefore, may be our opinion as to the merits of the controversy, it is obvious that there is a controversy of large size now pend |