New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-07
More Homes
And Schools.
Curran Greed
Continued from pauo one)

wranglng between the Board of Esti-
mate and the Board of Education and
build schools. We need better repairs
Tor the schools that we now have. /
FAVOR greater degree Of financial in
dependence for the Board Of Education
and nave put forth plan of my own
Tor that. | was in favor Of the Lock
wood Donahue teachers salary law
and am still in favor of it, | believe
IN a Board of Estimate that will keen
ITS hands off school teaching, and a
Board of Education that will keep it's
fingers out of politics.
%. More Fairgrounds, parks and
beaches. The children of our city grow
up in the streets. The game thew learn learn
10 play is hide and seek with the motor
trucks. III they are not killed, thew
VIM That is the game. We need a
vigorous and continuous policy of pro-
Elding more safe recreation grounds
Tor the city's children. The children
come first. They have no vote: but
they should have the same chance we
mad when we were children ourselves.
More subways in Right Places
"a. Better transit for tive-cent fare
To-day we have worse transit for a
~ and 10 cent fare than we used 70
nave Tor fve-cent fare. We must
bu'ld more subways and build them in
.he right places. And we must bec;n
building at once. The present nolicv
OIL petty political obstruction gets us
nowhere. five-cent fare il erouoh
put 1T is no good without a subway TO
use it on, SUBWAY ~
o. Home Rule. We realize the
sphere of the sovereign State of New
FORK but we insist upon the right to
manage our own local affairs. without
constant interference by the State
she..,l1 The 1921 transit law
snouia De amended to give back to US
'h 70 rights en-, 1t took away from us.
a. Full value for each taxpayers
dollar spent. Less talk about the
people and more work that really
heips the people will bring this about.
Inc city's finances need a thorough
housekeeping. For instance. cant
see any sense in digging a hole for the
courthouse, then filling it up with
ashes, then digging the ashes out again.
all ut the taxpayers expense. There
are limits to what the TAXPAYER can
bear
Enforcement of All Laws
~. Law Enforcement Enforcement Of
all laws. without fear or favor. but
with decent respect for the privacy
or the American home and for the Con-
stltution of the United States.
So Intelligent development of the
port and harbor of New York as an aid
in reducing the high cost of living bv
bringing about cheaper TRANSFORMATION
of food and increasing the volume of
the city's commerce. We have not had
practical port plan for fifty years.
80. Fair play, fair hours of work and
fair treatment for all city employees.
10. Disposal of the citys refuse
without polluting the city we live in.
either by air or by water, or by making
one borough dispose of the refuse of
any other borough
III. Police administration free from
favoritism either inside or outside
politics.
up. Revision of the citys charter
to reorganize the city's financial sys-
tenn and to simplify and make more
efficient the doing of the city's work.
The new charter should increase the
powers of borough government. The
city Is too large to centralze all its
governmental power under the Mayor.
There is safety and sense in keeping
power close to the people, wherever
it is practically possible That rule
mas been the very basis of American
government since 1889, and we are do
ing very well under it,
City Hall Not a Menagcrie
"13. city plan that will help people
TO live near their work and work near
their homes. This involves subway
routes, port development, zonins and
many other city activities that can be
steadily directed toward this end.
IA. Courtesy and decency at the
Board of Estimate meetings. to the
public as we'll as from one member to
another. The City Hall was not built
to be a menagerie
"15. A Board of Estimate that IS
devoted to the City of New York
rather than to its own political future
and its personal likes and ,lislkes.
"The people Of our city are an.lt,ed
to all these things and more. If you
place me in your service as Mayor for
the next four years I shall give all that
is in me toward bringing you these
things that you deserve. 10 not say
You will get them all. No man may
foresee the events of four years. But
l am pledging you all the devotion and
energy that | possess in the straight
road of service to the people of the
City of New York, toward the ends
that l have Indicated"