New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-08
Take Zoo Out
OF City Hall,
Curran Urges
Tells Great Brooklyn Audi
ence Hylan, Craig and
Hubert Turned People's
Work Into a Menagerie
Women Aid Candidate
With Anti-Tammany Es-
cort He Makes Whirlwind
Tour of Staten Island

Henry H. Curran, Republican-coa1i-
tlon candidate for the Republican
mayoralty nomination, last night at
the 18th Assembly District Republican
Club, 447. Manhattan Avenue, Brook
lyn, told packed audience, there never
would be any more sound city govern
ment in New York until the voters
made up their minds that City Hall
must not be used for menagerie but
for the legitimate business of admin
istering the city's affairs.
In the afternoon the candidate. ar
companied by 100 members of the
Women's Anti-Tammany League. toured
Staten Island, and was enthusiastically
cheered at half dozen street meet
ings.
81 ask you what sort of city govern
ment can you expect when the Mayor
calls the Comptroller hard names one
day and the Comptroller calls the
Mayor harder names the next day
One day later Murray Hubert calls
toth Of them worse names than any
they have been able to think of, hav-
ing ready wit and large vocabulary.
Warns Against False Issues
"The voters of New York City ought
to be fooled by false issues no longer
One of my opponents for the mayor
atty talks all the time about direct
primaries and what he did four years
ago. Another hangs his. hat on pro-
hibition, and as to that it's a false
issue in city affairs. The law is the
becomes a Congressional matter. 1t
can only be changed at Washington.
~ think, and you know, that there is
plenty to be done in handling the legit-
innate affairs of city government with
out injecting issues into it that have
nothing to do with good government.
The fact is that | am not sure either
of my opponents knows what the joe
of being Mayor really calls for. It's
a working job when it is handled
properly.
Ready to Start From Scratch
'Two Of the gentlemen who are op-
posing me have never served in the
City Hall. l very much doubt whether
they wouldn't get lost in the place.
One of the candidates had year and
q half under me in the City Hall; but
I'll say / am not at all sure he has
protited by what he ought to have
learned there.
what have to offer my constituents
is not alone my selection by the party
leaders, but my rather considerable eX-
perience in city government have
been connected with the government of
this city for ten years. / don't know
it ALTAR be it from me to assert that
/ do-but what l can say is that it
will not take me three out of four
years to learn nay job. | am ready to
start from scratch.
ools-why, of course, we need
more schools. We are just one hum
dred schools behind in the schedule of
sheer necessity, and that's calamity.
Don't make any mistake about it. 1t
is about the worst calamity that can
happen to a city to be caught short in
facilities. We are not get
ting better in that regard, my friends
we are getting worse.
"And houses--well, in the last six
months have helped through the laws
which have been passed to put $l50,0Oo,-
600 into new home construction. Sew
enty-fve per cent of this construction
is actually under way, SO that's some
100 900 added to the population of New
York City every year for the last forty
years we ought to have had warning
enough of what we would some day be
with Now we've got to go
at the thing in big way and do away
with conditions that are sin and a
shame.
"Reverting to school conditions, let
me say that no child in the City of
New York should be forced to take
half-time schooling. That is an un-
mixed evil. Every child should be able
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