Sparks, was adopted. The "reflections cast upon this industry and its people are the work of a malignant minority," it read.<ref>[https://search.proquest.com/docview/161103035 "Cinema Fair Play Urged by Council," Los Angeles Times," February 21, 1922]</ref> It was Sparks who introduced a successful resolution into the City Council on January 15, 1923, for the formation of a Board of Freeholders that was assigned to develop a new city charter for Los Angeles. The move was supported by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. He also called on the city to require private hospitals to give emergency care to accident victims to avoid the "long delays in transporting injured persons to the Receiving Hospital at First and Hill streets." In 1925 he voted against a request by the Humane Animal Commission for funding of five additional inspectors: "You know how I stand about animals," said Sparks, a former president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. "All those inspectors do is to pursue poor people for the measly $2 dog tax. Every child should have a dog. yet many children cannot have dogs because of this tax." The next year he opposed placing on the election ballot a measure that would allow animal-control officers to, as he said, "go on the premises of a dog owner and take away any dog not tied up or on a leash. In other words, the ordinance would permit one's personal property to be seized." References Access to the Los Angeles Times'' links may require the use of a library card. Los Angeles City Council members 1871 births 1932 deaths Burials at Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery Matchmakers People from Anoka, Minnesota University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering alumni California Republicans