Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-10
PUBLIC WELFARE
PLANS OUTLINED
Newark Committee Informed
County Research Work
Would Need $4,000.

Or. William II. Allen. of the Bureau
of Municipal Research, explained to
the members of the public welfare
committee at a meeting in the Board
of Trade chambers last night the best
plans for investigating municipal af-
fairs in Essex County. George Bea-
vers and Ohio G.. Cartwright, both
research experts. followed up Dr.
Aliens remarks by telling of the re-
suits they had accomplished.
DR., Allen spoke favorably of using
a plan in Essex County that had re-
Gently been successful in Ohio. There
the high school girls, Y M. c. A. girls
and many school teachers looked over
the city buildings and departments
and some of the schools and reported
their findings to central station,
where the survey was completed.
Il would like To, see the Ohio
method used, here said DR.. Allen.
'I was hoping that plan would be
adopted by your organization" Then
the talk wandered to the teachers
card system by which reports are
made on whether a public school
teachers voice Is pitched SO high as
to be offensive 70 the scholars:
whether the assignments she gives
out are too vague; whether her ques-
lions are so Framed that the pupils
cannot know what she wants"
Miss Hamblen suggested that there
might be q report on the county
buildings. A suggestion had recently
been made that the county BUILDINGS
might all be grouped so as to bring
greater efficiency and economy and
l. Ill
ment. Perhaps a survey there might
show this to be a good thing, she
said.
There were many things the public
would expect of them and the survey,
Mr.. Scudder said. People will say,
What, specifically, do you mean? 1t
will be complicated work. You
must have inside figures. This sort
of thing is usually put to commits
sion, which reports clearly or vaguely
more often the latter l don't re-
member any that has shown how It
can be done. The freeholders do not
stand out clearly for the people. Can
anyone here name two freeholders
who do SOP
director Evans and Mr.. Malta"
replied Miss Hamblen promptly.
"The actual field examination
should be made simultaneously in
len said. Someone said that some
member of the Board Of ton
name not n1entioned--did not read
the boards reports. There you are,
said DR. Allen promptly; there could
not be a better tabulation than of the
men who do and do not read reports"
This encouraged others to make sug-
gestions. 1t was said that the Board
Of Education, as coon as the Public
Welfare Committee started to make
out record of children in classes
they were averaged to be in, made
out a table of its own on that sub
ject.
You see. the newspapers will pub
fish your survey and your reports"
said DIR. Allen, "and when 1t comes to
the campaign the opposition crowc
will use them. They will be widely
quoted The talk drifted to the cost
of the survey" 1t was a question
of how much can be raised DIR. Allen
conveyed 10 his hearers delicately.
The first survey would be very vail
liable and $4,000 might be spent on
it. Could that be raised?
Miss Hamblen thought $4,000 might
be raised--or perhaps only $4,000
among the merchants "You can
raise $4,000 easier than you can
$1,000 said Or. Allen. Business
men are appealed 10 so much they
are impervious to small requests. If
you can raise that much would
spend $4,000 on the survey 1t is