New-York tribune., 1920-10-15
Hylan Opposes
Teaching and
Nursing Fads
Plea for Money for Motion
Pictures in the Schools
and tion for
Mothers Brings Rebuke
Refuses Pay Increases
No Funds to Raise Salaries.
Declares the Mayor at
Hearing on the Budget

FuC!lc hearings yesterday on the tenta-
tive budget for 1921. Most Of the minor
departments we're called ard passed, as
no one appeared to make pleas before
the board. When the requests Of the
Park Department of Manhattan were
taken up. Comm issioner Francis D. Gal
latin declared that the Park Commits
sioners receive less pay than clerks in
many other departn ents. He called at
tention to the action cf the Legislature
IN leaving it within the discretion Of
the Board of Estimate to increase sal
aries, and asked that the Park Com
missloners be advanced to $500 from,
$4,000. the present rating.
Mayor Hylsn cut short the discus
sion by informing Mr.. .Gallatin that.
Wills he sympathized with the com
missiorsrs, the money to increase sal
ar'es this year was lacking, and i
could not be done. When the Stree!
Cleaning Department wac called, Frank
4. Eschmann, deputy commissioner,
asked for thirty more sveepers to
handl: tbs abandoned contract from
fourteenth Street to the Battery, on
Broadway. Thomas r. Fitzgerald, husi
ness agent of the various unions rep
resented n the departnene asked that
the street cleaners wages BE advanced
from $3.50 g day to So He submitted
table Of rates g pay for the board
to consider.
Mayor Cnpcse. Motion Picture.
This board then went back t. the
department OF Education, Mrs. Woaa
Allen Chapman was present With in
form, alton requested BY the board re
gard,ng the films that could De used
= ths Usual educst,onal program
n'ng from $50 10 / 200 feet or hutter-
ay life: the action ot the heart and
several biological subjects.
- read cf swarm, Of arts, millions
Of then said the Mayor, moving
+ro.n The Pacific Coast eastward. Eave
you heard anything o4 ths~,p
NO, sip" said Mrs Chapman, "T
Rave not, but sna pleased to hear Ct
this and will look into ie~
MAY BE they are Corning from the
national convention" suggested Bor-
ongh President Connolly, Of Queens
Mrs Chapman was allowed 10 pro-
eeeed and told, tbs board hat a pro
fessor Of biology hsd asserted that
visual education would be much
quicker in storing the mind of the
child with knowledge than the ordi-
nary processes.
II can't gee how you expect to get
al this In the child's mind" said
Msvor Rylan. "There are 81 marv
side shows, fad.. taking M the time
cf the children that i seems to ne
theT have no tine for the fundaren
tails I thev ere 70 put N their tim.
on moving pictures and other Like
th-ngs, when will they learn to sreIl
and to calculate tn. multiplication
"Edgcasion a By moving pictures. ,.
ss.d Borough President Connolly Of
York should not only participate in the
The Mayor and Comptroller Craig
were insistent that something definite
should be shown whereby the economy
claimed by the advocates Of this sys-
tenn would be made apparent. Mrs.
Chapman said Che director hoped, with
IN year or so, to be able to indica te
this, but just now th- plan is not suf-
hciently developed 20 give in detail
where or to what extent there would
be saving Of non.y.
Hylan's Views on Nursing
A representative Of the Red Gross
, appeared IN regard 70 the schedule
tor nome nursing. IN which the nurse
visited tt. homes and aided mothers to
cars for their babies, teaching them,
prorer methods. The work has been
dons by Red Cross nurses, but is to be
turned over to this Dspartn snt Of Edu-
cation. and it was urged that the board
keep the schedu!e IN the budget.
Some Of you people" said Mayor
Hylan. seem to be deIuding yourselves
into the belief that mothers do not
know how to bring up their babies.
WHARF come from, # somebody should
go to home and attempt to try even
70 show = mother how to tax. csre Of
ly thrown out cf tn. house Wat with
The lighting teacher, the ho-ne nurses
the sanitary visitor and the v.-Sous
other visiting agencies in this city,
don't see hcw . woman .ar have time
20 DO her homework; she would have
to be continually answering door bells
for some Of these people
Tn. chaafeurs Of the Municipal
Taxicab Service asked to be PIT on the
They said they worked an acreage Of
subject 10 call at any hour Of the DAY
or night. The Mayor declared chat i
his chauffeur should say anything
to him about eight hours a day he
would BE- retired that same night.
Mselstrate Alexander Brough .p-
ueared 10 advocate the cause Of She
maelstrates' courts. He urged the
board to increase the number Of pro
baton officers. The Mayor asked him
f the wanted the salaries Of the mag
,strates increased. Magistrate Brough
said ne thought they had always been
underpaid.
"Yonr honor knew this" he said, sd
dr. .rs the aMyor, 'and got out Of
the Job, and you had very easy court
n Brooklyn, too.
Upstate Machine Attacked
Magistrate Brough declared that If
the board did net grant increased pay
to the magistrates ne would go TO the
Legislature for mandatory legislation
and could get it.
When the rotten Republican ma
chime upstate" said Aldermanic Pre.i-
dent La Guarda. "joins hands with
Tanamsny Halt for mandatory legisla-
tion. Or any other purpose, God help
tn. taxpayers of New York City"
The Beard Of Estimate will meet in
regular session to-day and afterwa I'd
hold another public hearing on the
tentative budget The final public
hearing TIL ne held and then the