Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-09
"UPL|FT" ENDED
IN NEW JERSEY
Politicians Pleased by Resigna-
ton of DR.. Allen from Re-
search Bureau.
HIGH FEE in HUDSON
HEADED IT OFF HERE
How $4,000 Was NeedIessIy
Appropriated for "Deporta-
ton of Aliens"

TRENTON, Nov. 9.-The resigna-
ton of DIR. William H. Allen as
director of the New York Bureau of
Municipal Research caused some sur
prise, not unmixed with qualification.
in certain sections OF New Jersey in
which the uplifters were securing a
foothold. The pleased persons can
not quite understand what 1t is all
about, but they realize that present
danger of being Surveyed has
passed and are hopeful that when DR..
Allen completes his work with the
University of Wisconsin he will find
other employment in tho West.
Politicians and institution managers
In Hudson and Essex counties were
alarmed a few months ago by the
news that the municipal researchers
were planning to make surveys" and
inyestigate tha work - oertai~ leoa ~ c
and commissions. Quite number of
prominent anu y - lo-,4. -...S.4.-
were interested in the movement 1t
was necessary to interest them, for
without them strangers could hope to
politicians, and money was necessary
to pay for the work and the salaries
and expenses of the workers, for this
new philanthropy is not given away;
1t must be paid for.
So far as can be learned, the only
damage done in New Jersey was to
the financial hackers of the woman
suffrage movement, who paid to the
researchers fancy fees for keeping
them posted on the status of the pro-
posed suffrage amendment to the
State constitution. The legislative
committee of the suffragists had
found by experience that something
more than intelligence. watchfuI
waiting and persistence were required
il they hoped to be successful. and.
therefore, they gave up several hum
dred dollars for information that
could have been obtained from the
daily papers or that any one of the
sdozen or more Legislative agents.
who hang about Trenton when the
Legislature is in session would have
been glad to furnish for $40 or SIS.
suhragists Did Not Know.
But the suffragists did not know.
They had seen their amendment
passed by both houses by practically
unanimous vote at the 1918 session,
only to learn along in July of that
year that the concurrent resolution
had never reached the department of
, state and no preparation had been
made to advertise it. Then there
was trouble, and when the amend
ment was finally recovered from the
safe in the executive department
with the explanation that somebody
had Numbered 1t was too late for
the official advertising. To protect
themselves against any further 'mis-
takes" the committee in charge en-
ployed an agent of the uplifters.
No doubt the news of the exor-
bitant fee charged served to dis
credit the research movement in
Hudson county. What headed 1t off
in Essex is something of a mystery.
1t must have been the discovery that
DR.. Aliens assistant proposed to send
out small army of young men and
young women just out of school to
gather statistics and information con-
corning the public schools, churches,
libraries, industries, charitable and
reformatory institutions and agencies,
the county and municipal govern
ment. This information was to be
sent in to the central office, where
it was to be tabulated and analysed
by experts, and the conclusions
reached were to be furnished to the
public for its enlightment. The
municipalities thus aided were to TO
assessed a few thousand dollars for
the labor.
Surveys had been made in Pitts
burgh and Reading, Pa, and In at
least one New Jersey town, without
discovering the existence of certain
agencies that were engaged in prac-
teal work; and when the municipal
researchers recommended that such
agencies be introduced they were
1StOlIndaH learn that their VO1If n.
full canvassers had failed so miser-
ably. Such news spreads rapidly and
the bureau of municipal research no
longer carries the weight that so inn
pressed the pear statesmen and that
great body of citizens who are
anxious to improve conditions and
their fellows.
For several years New Jersey has
been suffering from the uplift dis
ease that broke out In Wisconsin
twenty years ago and has nearly run
its course there. 1t was about that
long ago that DR.. Mccarthy intro
duced his Legislative Reference Blu
reau in a little room in the capitol at
Madison, and when the professors
and instructors in the University of
Wisconsin began to draft bills and
put up to the Legislature their
schemes for lettering the govern
ment and society. Men are much
like sheep, and most of the other
States have followed Wisconsin's OK
ample. Now when DIR. Mccarthy adj
mits that his Legislative Reference
Bureau was not properly organized,
New Jersey has adopted it in modi-
fled form, and next winter we may
expect to have introduced in our