COL. ARTHUR WOODS '92 UNION GUEST TONIGHT

Colonel Arthur Woods '92 will speak this evening at 8 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union on "American Citizenship on Trial." He will be introduced by Professor W. B. Munro '99, professor of Municipal Government. Colonel Woods will be given a luncheon by the Signet Society at 1 o'clock today and this evening the Governing Board of the Union will give a small supper in his honor at 6.30 at which the board, several members of the Faculty, and a few undergraduates will be present.

Colonel Woods after graduating from the University went to the University of Berlin for two semesters. On his return he became a master at Groton School where he taught for ten years. Between the years 1905 and 1907 he was a reporter on the "New York Evening Sun" and entered the lumber business in Mexico and later the cotton converting business in Boston.

Was Lt.-Colonel in Air Service.

In the summer of 1905 he travelled through the Philippines with Secretary Taft's party and later made a trip around the world. In the early part of 1918 he was appointed on the staff committee on Public Information for Foreign Propaganda and in the latter part of this same year was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel of the Aviation section. During 1919 he acted as assistant to the Assistant Secretary of War at which time he advocated vocational education for those disabled during the war.

Colonel Woods is well qualified to speak on "American Citizenship on Trial" because of his connection with the New York police force. It was while he was Police Commissioner of New York City from 1914 to 1917 that he did his greatest work, completely reorganizing the police force of that city and making it the most efficient body of its kind in the world.

Colonel Woods published in 1918 two books entitled "Crime Prevention" and "Policeman and the Public." Crime Prevention deals with the conventional police methods, educating the public, and crime and criminals. Policeman and the Public discusses the responsibilities of citizenship.

On Thursday, March 18, Frank A. Vanderlip, former president of the National City Bank of New York, will speak at the Union on "America's Financial Obligations." Mr. Vanderlip is internationally known as a banker and has been at the peace conference.