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better one of don't let the rascals in.
Civil service, designed defensive weapon
against intolerable conditions, has been in
police departments largely a restricting in
huence. The more serious existing irregu-
larities defects in it's application to po-
lice matters occur with promotions and there
is little unfairness in original appointments
TO the uniformed force. In short, the fall
ures and shortcomings of the system of APP
pointments, says Mr.. Graper, can usually be
ascribed to carelessness or inefiiciency on
the part of examining authorities, but these,
too, he adds, are generally improving.
What is known as the merit system" of
promotions seems on the face of IL to be
admirable, but while former Commissioner
Woods claimed that 1t stimulated healthy
rivalry and greatly improved the quality OF
service, in his final report he said:
THE system is as yet by no means per-
feet. We believe, however, that promising
start has been made toward evolving plan
by which the good work Of "A policeman
shall be automatically reflected in his record,
thereby making IL possible to promote n man
on the basis of his actual day by day work
instead of by the result Of outside civil SER
vice examinations which have proved about
as successfuf in putting the best men near
the top drawing lots would be-"
In his first semi-annual report to Mayor
Hylan Commissioner Enright criticised the
merit system and IL was abolished IL had
but short trial in New York city. Other
cities adopted IL or various forms of effici-
ency records based on similar principles
and elsewhere 1t has worked very we'll The
factors used In determining the efficiency OF
the police are quality of work. attendance
and discipline Involved in these principles
are those covering removals.
The New York city system of removals
has been explained as an extreme example
Of the tendency to safeguard the tenure of
police officers. The late Mayor Mitchell in
advocating an amendment to the city charter
TO make the decisions of the police commits
sioner final said
"I am firmly convinced that f the power
of absolute removal he given to the police
commissioner we can readily crush and end
the so-called system in the department"
But basing his opinion on wider view
drawn from reports of several cities, Mr.
Graper says: Some sort OF appeal from the
determination Of the head Of the police de-
partment is widely favored"
Recently in New York what is known as
the "shoofly system has been abolished by
the commissioner Of police. He is quoted
on this subject as folows "The so-called
'shoofly' or submarine system Of secret
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vantage. Capitalization of authority in the
hands of a single person-and that person
held responsible for the way in which that
authority is exercised-is the most promising
principle to follow in police departments"
1t was this conviction that led the city
of New York by it's charter of 1901 to follow
the example of European continental cities
i'm placing a single commissioner in charge
of it's police. While a respectable number
of American cities have done likewise the
problem Of what the relationship shall be
between the head of the police department
and other city officials how they shall be
appointed. on whom their tenure of office
depends and how they are controlled by the
people Is differently solved by these cities
In a few Of them the management of the
police force is vested in officers appointed
by the State and thus removed from the
jurisdiction of the city In New York city
a charter provision places the Police Depart
ment under the control Of police commits
sioner who is appointed by the Mayor for
term of Ave years. The Mayor may remove
him and so may the Governor of the State.
"The success OF the Police Department" says
our author, during the Mitchell adminstra-
ton was due largely to the spirit of hearty
cooperation that existed between the Mayor
and his Commissioner OF Police. Whether
such cooperation will result in good or bad
police service will depend of course on the
character of the Mayor"
The widespread adoption of the commits
sion form Of municipal organization began
in 1907 when the Legislature of Iowa passed
law enabling cities to inaugurate this
form and in 1908 Des Moines placed II in
operation. This law provides that an elected
council consisting of mayor and four coun-
cilmen shall exercise all executive. egisla-
tive and administrative powers formerly
vested in the various organs of government.
Up to the present time Buffalo is the larg-
est American city under commission gov
ernment. Legislation making It so became
operative January 1, 1916 Under the char
ter enacted all the legislative and executive
powers of the city were vested in council
of FIVE. Responsibility is divided between the
Mayor and the council in much the same
way as Is customary in cities under the old
mayor and council system.
Appointment. promotion and removal are
the heads included in one chapter, which
will furnish aid to the administrator seeking
to acquaint himself with example and prece-
dent. The system of appointment is contin-
ualy being improved, according to this in
vestigator. and the Improvement is country
wide. Everywhere the old slogan of turn
the rascals out" is being succeeded by the
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AMERICAN POLICE ADMINISTRATION. BY
E d Graper The Macmillan COMPANY.

AMERICAN POLICE ADMINISTRATION. By
E. D. Graper The Macmillan Company.
~ WEN any sort of chance to display
gratitude to It's police protectors, the
- people of every great municipality
show an enthusiasm that does not rhyme
with a cold study of police personnel. New
York, for a gross instance of this tendency,
has persisted in adn,iring it's Finest" even
when the force happened to have fallen,
perhaps Justly, under the expert critics con-
demnation. The belief Of the public in the
general honesty of the force has seemed at
times pathetic but after the findings Of in
vestigations have been summed up and
boned down the people" were found to be
nearer right in their loyalty than we're in
dividual detractors.
The attitude of the American metropolis
toward its police finds a counterpart In other
e,ties OF the country, and as one begins a
study OF comparisons this feeling of pride
stands out: II is one OF the best signs of
vitality I'm n police system. 1t is shown
clearly 20 exist in Chicago, Peoria, st. Louis,
San Francisco and other cities in the valu-
able handbook written and compiled by Mr..
Graper. mainly from material worked mp by
the New York Bureau of Municipal Re-
search. This bureau has devoted thirteen
years 10 the STUDY ol Nnt pTobl'tlS Ol pOhCt
administration and to the making of admin
istrative surveys In many Of the large cities
of the States. Mr.. Graper has refined this
wealth OF raw material and that found In
police reports. State laws and city charters,
and through comparisons and selection sets
forth what he states to be the best practices
prevailing In police administration.
AT once the author throws his opinion in
favor OF a single commissioner type of or
ganization. believing that the arguments in
favor of the board form are not conclusive
Tho work OF supervisor of a police depart
ment. he says with justice. Is almost wholly
of an administrative character. The author
believes that those who find fault with the
New York method in vogue are thinking
rather OF the unfitness of some individual
than of the system. This volume is calm
and judicial in its outlook and almost stately
In It's avoidance OF both personal bias and
pdru prfs. On the point mentioned the
author makes perhaps his most didactic
statement. IL Is this:
''The single commissioner or director who
gives his whole time to the work can super
wise a police department better than can
board OF commissioners. The tendency OF
American cities is a recognition Of this adj
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THE STORY OF CHAUTAUQUA. BY Jesse
L. Hurlbut. G. p Putnam's Sons.
Reviewed by H. L. PANCBORN.


l.. Hurlbut. G. p Putnam's Sons.
Reviewed by H. l.. PANCBORN.
w YHEN Lewis Miller and the Rev.
M/ John Hey Vincent started the
modest Sunday School Teachers
Assembly" in 1874 on the camp meeting
grounds at Fair Point. Chautauqua Lake.
they were far from foreseeing the gigantic
proportions to which their undertaking was
destined to grow, but the germ Of develop
ment already lay deep in the mind of at
least one of them: seed Of enormous fer
tility that was to sprout four years later
when Vincent evolved the idea of the Chau-
tauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. In
its inception the scheme was aimed at nor
NAL training for Sunday school teachers, as
a step toward systematiZation and improve
ment of methods of Bible study. Vincent
was already leading figure in the Sunday
School Union. executive and editor; Miller
was a highly successful business man of
Akron Ohio, whose chief interest lay in the
development of the Sunday school which he
had built up. But the aspirations of each
went beyond this and already touched secu-
lar education.
Each of these founders a man of
keen, vigorous intellect, of dynamic person
and each had missed the advantage of full
academic education, though ardently desir
Gus of it. They were thus embodments of
the ambition for betterment, for wider
knowledge and understanding. They were
veritable incarnations of the spirit of an
America which was then still a young thing,
busily engaged in growing up and eagerly
determined to make the best possible future
for itself. That was the beginning of the
Chautauqua spirit.
The experiment came at a fortunate time,
era Of growing prosperity, peace and OPP
portunity. The people were still compare
lively little mongreized, and the old
ligious faith was still a domnantly vital
force In most lives. 1t has often been said
that such an institution as Chautauqua could
have grown up nowhere else and probably
at no other time. 1t Is the most distinctivey
American Of all our great institutions, bor-
rowing practically nothing from older ex
perimento and working out it's destiny for
itself.
When DR.. Vincent planning his extern
sion of secular study, In 1877, a course Of
four years reading and home study, with
forty minutes day as each days task, in
various branches of knowledge, analogous
to four years college course, he summoned
DIR. Hurlbut to talk the scheme over. DR..
Vincent asked:
""How many do you think can be depend
ed on to carry on such a course is pro-
posed?"
"'Oh, perhaps hundred / answered."
says DIR. Hurlbut, but "the doctor sprang up
from his chair and walked nervously across
the room. L tell you, Mr. Hurlbut, the time
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idea, although it derives also from the
growth of university extension and the need
of normal training for teachers. But the
initial credit remains with chautauqua.
The original Chautauqua has always kept
its supremacy among the similar institu-
tions. DR.. Hurlbuts final summary, giving
what he holds to be the reason for this, is
based on the fact that the original high
ideals have never been lowered. Says he:
I'm it's plans from first to last there was
a unique blending of religion, education and
recreation No one of these three elements
has been permitted to override the two
others, and neither of them has been sacri-
feed to win popularity, although on the
other side popular features have been sought
for within just limits. Never has the aim
of Chautauqua been to make money; 1t
has had no dividends and no stockholders.
1t has shown the progressive spirit,
while firm in it's principles, open to new
ideas willing to listen to both sides of every
question 1t has maintained unshaken
loyalty to the Christian religion with
out flying the flag of any one denomination
of Christians
And it has thus far remained wholly, un-
qualifiedly American; a product of the soil;
crude. perhaps, but racy, buoyantly alive
and capable of growth under changing con-
dtions. 1t has been, and still is. truly
conservative force in the preservation of
old ideals On the other hand, it has stmu-
lated effort and opened way to very many
thousand seekers after self-improvement
and true education. DR.. Hurlbuts presenta-
ton and Interpretation of this mighty insti-
tuition is a stimulating and suggestive book,
with its lesson for students of the existing
movements of current history
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will come when you will see a thousand
readers in the c. l.. S. c."
And only few years later there were en-
rolled over $4,000 readers with perhaps as
many more unregistered. Now, after more
than forty years the total whose lives have
been directly. and many of them deeply,
touched by this c. l.. S. C. must total over
million. No more widely efficient instru-
ment of popular education has ever been de-
vised 1t had, and has, it's obvious defects;
some absurdities, even a 'lunatic fringe"
and good deal of its work may be superb
cia1. But the net gain is so tremendous,
the good it has done and is doing so enor-
mously greater than any possible harm,
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DIR. Hurlbut has made admirably good
job of his rather difficult task in sketching
the origin and growth of this institution.
He was identified with It from it's second
year; he has grown up with it and knows
1t throughout. He has avoided too much
detail. though he has covered a great deal
of ground with surprising comprehensive
ness. And 1t is a live story. Naturally he
believes in the thing, but he is not afraid
to criticise. The greatest value of his ac-
count. however, lies in it's genial, vivid hu-
man quality. Dr. Hurlbut has a sound mar
rative gift, and a something more in the
ability to make one see the people and things
he describes actualties. Naturally the
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that there can be question of its value.
Probably the best answer to criticism of it
Is the fact that it has gained. from the start,
the approval and assistance Of nearly every
eminent educator in the country, well as
that of many foreigners; such leaders as
President Harper of Chicago, Principal
Fairbairn of oxford, Alice Freeman Palmer,
Phillips Rrooks Edward Everett Hale, DIR.
Lyman Abbott, DR.. w. T. Harris, Theodore
Roosevelt-to choose a few names at
dom from the hundreds who might be cited.
In fact, to list the eminent men and women
who have taken part in the Chautauqua
movement is almost to call the roll of the
leaders of thought in America for the past
half century
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Pioneer college
English teacher

A MEMORIAL TO CALEB THOMAS WIN
CHESTER - 1S47-1920 ~ PROFESSOR OF
ENGLISH LITERATURE IN WESLEYAN
UNIVERSITY. Midletown. Conn. Wesleyan
University Press.
- T THINK" said Professor Winchester
himself in a speech included In this
memorial volume I'VE shall do well
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story is literally interlarded with anecdote
but not tco much 1t often calls up.
vividly, figures of the past-men who bulked
large in their day but scarcely more
than a name to the present generation:
Bob" Burdette, John Habberton (author of
"Helen's Babies'O. the Jovian Joe Cook,
"Pansy" Alden Anthony Comstock and a
host of others. A sample of Cooks stento-
rian eloquence is worth quoting. In 1877
he was lecturing on the causes of the civil
war, and referred to Webster:
Had 1t been given to Daniel Webster
to live until the guns were fired
upon Fort Sumter there would have been
end of compromise, He would have
stamped that mighty foot with sound that
The New York herald., 1921-07-10

PILGRIM TRAILS. By Frances Lester War
ner. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press
II OR the three hundredth anniversary of
- the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers
- haU ba q
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1921-12-02
WAR VETERANS
TO PUT ON REAL
WILD WEST SHOW
Days Benefit Is
Planned, Beginning on
December II

For -four days. from December -
to 10. Albuquerque Will have "a real
wild west camp planted In It's midst
slippery Gulch ana High links" will
be the name Of a show which win IN
cludo everything wild ami wooly from
Calamity Jane s dance hail To AlkGli
ike's saloon, 20 b. nut on nj the
Atmory by tho Veterans ~ Foreign
Wars FOR the benefit OF their charity
fund.
The show will run cysry night
during the -four days opening 90
so % clock and closing around mid
night. 10 viii Boz, ga continuous pore
Torrance. Tho proceeds oi this
show viii go Goo tur charity work
which b Organization does Cor ,N-
service men ana tholr families. The
work OF this sort has become heavy
In the past few months. and extra
funds are needed tu take care OF o.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1921-12-02
Old Wolf, Foe of
Stockmen, Finally
Killed by Poison

An cid wolf, believed BY trappers
Of the northwestern part Of the state
70 be the grandmother OF all the
wolves In that section. has been killed
By the p%oisoner hired by the associa
ton OF stockmen OF the region. ac-
cordinR TO Charles r.. Bliss. chief OF
the biological survey In this state.
who has just returned from a trip to
Chnma.
The wolf had lost one foot and
several toe on OF another in several
experiences with traps which have
been set for her. FOR five years she
has been doing "a great cal Of
damagc to stock on tho Winter ranger
In the south part OF Rio Arriba and
Fan Juan county. but she has boon
TOO trap-wiso TO be caught.
she was finally killed several
weeks & by g. C. Popc. who has
been hired by stockmcn OF the region
to poison predatory animals. by
means ~ poisoned bait. fn addition
10 this wolf. the trappor has aver
ngcu about 80 coyotes u month fol
the past few months.
u u believed that the poisoned bait
solved the problem Of the tuup-
wise wolf and coyote. who refuse SO
BE- caught in traps. Reports FROM
Arizona Indicate that poisoned bait
h. being used there with great surceaI
he getting both coyotes and wolves.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1921-12-02
lMllkn nlIlDl VIII
IVUIliN uUIDE With
GIVE EVIDENCE TO
AID MRS. SIlLNAA


MONTREAL. Dee 2--Fred Beau
vals indian s1ide. charged by James
a. rliilman. mailoaaire New York
iani.nr. with the paternity o. bahy
Guy sillmnn. and nsmcd correspond
mt In his divorce Aeairst Mrs Anne
y. sfnlman. today fahmitted lhirty
affidkvits and navcral phc,nffephs 20
sir1 a~tiiiui@='a astnfnefs 20 aid IN nor
ma indian conferred with John r.
Inn chief Of cOunsel for Mrs
eslfIrnnn. and John =. MACK guardian
al LAW for the child. who came here
~ nrfnnre TO- the taking Of depoal-
tlons cnncerninE incidents which oc-
curred IN the Ssillman Canadian ledge
ana on wkiet Ssrt OF b piaintiffH
case n based.
molde Mas reported ~ defendant
counsel 10 b. n rrfutatinn Of a iarre.
part 81 the testimony OF the wit
nesees called ~ the bankers lawyers
from GRIND Anse. Quebec whore the.
stllrhan umme- home h located.
Musf of ,he thirty affidaylts Beau
vaia obtained were from pefhons In
Grand Ansc who were Intimately ac-
onnlated w.th Mrs. stlilman and her
children. The p~hutographs werp Of
tbr Stiilman lodge.
Tho affidatitr and the photographs,
the attorneys for Mrs SsilimAn said.
ronfrsdlrt o Htntemcuts Of Ha-fy
GreEnan. painter and FerdlnaIti
Page. cnrnenfcr. That While wofktnR
on a scaffold outside the house In
Iuiv. 1918. they saw Renuvais Ia Mrs
Stillman's DOM.
witnesses located b. tho guide who
WI BE- called 10 testify before the spe-
cinl commirElon not yet appointed.
viii swear. the defense claimed, that
theirs was no scaffoldinE on the stii-
man home during the time speeififd
ly Grennan and Page. Beauvais de-
ciined ia discuas the ease with news
papef men. He asserted. hqwcve-,
that he would 20 anywhere Ia Canada,
n need Re, to get witnesses that mlsht
aid Mra 9tiilmnn'a defense.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1921-12-02
Masons 20 Bring
Two Prominent
Speakers Here

Speakers of no smpll standard are
20 uppru' In Albuquerque Do middle
o. this month uutcr the auspices 1t
Che Mnaous and tho scottish iJtt.
Or. a. a. Mills 81 LAS Vegas. who
~ making "a tour uf az" state. ia To-
sp"nk IN Albuquerque on December
10. DC present plans OF Mlsuu are
carried out Ills subject Orb tu o. The
hattlcilelds ot 40" |lppnhiic lie is
.lcnkins under tha aufpioss a. tho
Masonic lodges
o. s. HATCH nf pueblo whu BE- tour
ing D state 20 "a. rNpant ct ne
scottish Rite be- fn BE- Boo Aibuuu, puo
December a. o. aud lG Tor ga ..ri.s OF
Lectures He Be- Co speak tu TOYS Of
hG tchupi ugr. ono tu mothers ru
ueir dutloa Ice then d4urNt.r.. ONCE
to boys than o. Years dId aud
once 10 men.
A cumiulttoc of Temple Lodge 40. C.
which hns been appointed To- make
necessary ARRANGEMENTS Tor the sneak
err consists OF Peter Cameron. chair
mhn; G. ~ Hn-her aud j. 4. nlohl.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1921-12-02
May Robson Coming
Here in the Play,
1t Pays to Smile

May Robson comes TO the Crystal
Opera house pm Thursday. December
!. IN her latest success; 1T Pays 10
SMITH, written by Nina Wilcox Put
nam and published In the Saturday
Evening Post as a serial.
Tho dramafixatiOn was made by
Ethel Watts Mumford and Augustus
riiou Inc. secured II FOR Miss Rob
sons sfnrrinE vehicle Cor this seasol.
NltH Robson ~ more than delighted
with her nov role and has worked
inds fatlkatly on Il 10 assure as per-
feet a characterization OF Freedom
Talbot as could be imagined.
Around a qunin; old fashioned New
England splnster OF hirh birth and
no money. a Californian with plenty
or money but no education. "A girl
who has grown up like n wild flower
among the oranee groves an Italian
noblcnan whose loyalty 10 his coun-
M Ia uppermost In hi mind. a rich
old man whose hobby - Art and the
mysterious abduction OF a Raphael
mAste rpicce--the ssDry OF 1T Pays
10 Smile" has been deity woven into
a beautiful play which fairly
sparkleH with NE ana comcdy.
Sale az sratE. TUESDAY. Dec. G.
Attend the Red Star oil stove
demonstration at Raahc q Mau-
gers tomorrow.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1921-12-02
Is Backache Making
You Miserable?

are you dulI. tired Bono aDug-UufN.
cred with a bad back? Do you lack
ambition; suffer headaches aud dizzi-
ncss-foel "all worn out 9" IIkeN
your kidneys are 10 blame. Lamen,s1.
sharp, stnhhlnr pains. hnrkarhe ard
annoying urinary disorders are all.
symptoms Of weakened kdnpyH. Don't
wait Tor moro serious trouble. Get
,ucE your health and keep 10, I'He
Iloan's Kidney Pulls Homo folks tell
tNNII mT.f. AJAX fH|Hr uH HH#..."H
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1921-12-02

MrH John lIuuoy 10G s. Arno
s., says; "Duan's Kidney Pills have
been used Iu our family lar y.,rs
ana wh'u my kidneys got out OF or.
der. took them with thu host of re-
suits. J was troubled with dun Mains
across Tho small Of my back unI
often ] foIt dizzy ana had rorvoiia
n~cndnche7 Ms liduoys acted lrreri-
lhrly too. b0o''s Kidney pms
wer'n't long in rohsyius Do, Of Md
The Washington times., 1921-11-03

ENVOY from Skip-Stop-
plan Islands escaped into
Washington today with re-
tinue Of six blood hounds,
five sheriffs, two lawyers
and one dozen accomplices.
The Washington times., 1921-11-03

".,tt.. ,ub.uid
~ iH' v II "a j.. ~ .au,y
= ere "a cNNu tun. Ole interest
iu the l.aUdru case. due &C. e. e1.
I ~ .". uJTiJcr OF vpni N % wu.
iut u'r .. ID. t'. mar
g, up
nnd
;yly
t..,. , ne estaoisheu facts oos-
cprning missing women.