New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-23

buildings, where parents spoke against
| the Gary system and the high cost or
| living.
The police are admittedly at a loss
how TO cone with the situation should
the strikes continue. They declare 1t
is impossible to arrest sufficient strlk-
ers to make an impression on the rest.
President William G.. Wilcox of the
Board Of Education said yesterday that
he had no corrective measures in prep
aration.
Copies were obtained yesterday of
the circulars which have been dis
/ tributed by thousands among parents
of pupils where the strikes have been
, most violent.
One of them is headed: "Do you
want efficient schools or the John d.
Rockefeller kind?" 1t then says:
"You pay the money but you must
make the choice at the polls. Stand by
your children! Every vote against
John Purroy Mitchell and William A.
Prendergast is vote against school
with a Steel Trust name.
what New York educators say about
the Gary plan: Thomas W. Churchill
who was president of the Board o.
! Education when the Gary experiment
|
/ strosity developed under rush TO-
as Mayor Mitchell said, put it all over
New York DR.. William II. Maxwell
| Superintendent of Schools: There are
! in this plan some features which
forced upon us as they have been with
out due consideration and without ade-
quate preparation, have worked meal
culable injury to the schools and the
children of this city,
THE Mitchell Prendergast combina-
ton has almost stopped the building
of new school houses. Did
the adoption of the pay-as-you-go pol
icy of finance, which was forced upon
them by the Rockefeller Morgan COM
bination of the moneyed interests, COM
pel them to economic? Was
the enthusiastic acceptance of the So
called Gary plan developed in a little
town in Indiana under the benevolent
supervision of the United States Steel
Corporation due to the fact that 1t
was identified with Judge Gary, chair
man of the Steel Trusts executive COM
mittee and recently chairman of the
Mayors relief committee
The only information given on the
circulars TO indicate their source is
Peter J. Brady, 923 World Building,
President Allied Printing Trades Coun-
Gil of New York State"
Walter II. Fitzpatrick, who presided
last night at meeting of school super
intendents in the rooms Of the Board
of Education, said that soapbox ora
tors had caused the unrest in the
schools, and that he intended to punish
the instigators of the riots.
The Federated Neighborhood Asso-
Citations. Inc. warned the Federation
! of Neighborhood Associations. an anti
Gary plan organization. to find a new
name or application would be filed for
an injunction, together with suit for
/ $4,000 damages. alleged to have re-
suited from the similarity of names.
after watching the Federation of
Neighborhood Associations confuse the
public mind for months by the use of a
similar name" said Edward II. Pfeiffer
chairman of the Federated Neighbor-
hood Associations, Inc, "the Federated
Neighborhood Associations, Inc, has
sought legal advice and is prepared 10
/ fight this mushroom growth"
Mr.. Pfeifer explained that his or
ganization was not political one and
had taken neither side in the Gary plan
controversy.