New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-25
MAYOR TALKS Of LOVE
TO SCHOOL CHILDREN
Tells the 946 Boy and Girl
Graduates He Has Decided
That Nobody Cares for Him.
EXERCISES AT NO. TAT
Gaynor Pleased When Group
of Girls Give Parody on City
and Police-They Need
Educating, He Says.

Mayor Gaynor has decided from a care
full perusal of the ragbag newspapers that
nobody loves him. His honor conflded his
loveless state TO GAG boys and girls who
we're graduated yesterday from Public
Schools IS, SO, 43. 141, 147, "A. rs, 1913
and AS.
In order that the whole 946 might have
the Mayor with them the exercises were
Jumped and held at Public School 147.
II was a little quotation recited by a
boy that set the Mayor off about love
The quotation was. Love myself last"
do that" he said. and you will have
in return the love Of all whose love is
worth having. But it seems as If every
body in this city loves himself first
When / read the ragbag newspapers /
make up my mind that nobody loves me
first. Nobody loves me at all, think
His speech was one of those character
istic little efforts Of his. touching on nearly
everything from religion to how he hoped
the girls would always trim their own
hats.
Miss Grace Strachan introduced him in
brief talk, nominating him to succeed
himself as Mayor.
The Mayor began by demolishing the
common error that poverty exists In New
York.
Il have gone about a great deal" he
said, land the notion spread ny too talk
ative persons that there is much pow
erty in this city is erroneous. Why, look
at these children You are well nourished,
we'll dressed and clean, yet the district
around this school is one Of the poor dis
tricts. No. what poverty there is is due
to drink or to laziness so extreme that
the persons afflicted with il will not work.
You children have honest parents who
will support you. and the schools are
educating you to earn your own livlngs
That and TO give you intelligence is the
object of the schools, and they won't fail
unless some of the prerequisite people
in our midst succeed in making them
fail"
In the first part Of the programme a
group of girls from Public School 147
showed how the officers Of their school city
met and some boys from School Nation
Public School 43 had a Cabinet meeting
The Mayor confessed that the report OF
lnc 1OlSe commissioner tpuNHIu Hlli
most
You reported he said to the chubby
girl who was Commissioner Waldo, that
the police needed educating not TO arrest
for every little thing. My police are like
your police: they need educating in that,
too. However, there are 100000 less ar
rests a year now than when began being
Mayor
But as to that graft in the police force
that you see so much Of in the red. head
lines OF the newspapers. why, there is
more graft among the lawyers. The rag
bag newspapers don't see the good In the
police force. The reduction in the num-
Der of arrests-you don't see that in the
headlines"
Mr.. Gaynor wound up with religion and
dressmaking.
GO to church." he told the boys and
girls. "I don't care where. but go
you boys, / am glad to see from your
school nation that you know how to vote
and govern, and I'm glad that the girls
can do their part.
"And I'm glad" ended the Mayor that
you girls made your own graduating
dresses"
The exercises ended with singing and
folk dances and an old-fashioned spelling
match