The New York herald., 1921-10-19
GILROY PINS SCHOOL
FAILURES ON HYLAN
Present System Worse Than
Garyized, He Says, as
Parents Cheer.

-Four years ago Mayor Hylan went
about warning the people OF this city
what an evil thing 1t would be to subject
their children TO education under the
Gary system cried Vincent Gilroy.
coalition candidate for President of the
Board OF Aldermen, in two speeches last
night.
He declared that the Gary system
was the tool of the capitalist class to
breed generations of mill and factory
workers; that it was undemocratic and
that it deprived the youth of America
Of his chance to rise above his environ
ment. I helped Hylan fight the Gary
system.
yet to-day this same Hylan has
brought the affairs of this city to q
pass where our school system is infi-
nitely worse off than though it were
Garyized. One-third of our children are
getting either no education at all or a
makeshift education that is about
equivalent to none. These unfortunate
children are not educated to go into the
mill, the factory or anywhere else. They
are being left in the utter dark.
And this because of the inehiciency
of a man who promised a seat In school
for every child.
HE will not admit these conditions.
have been told that In the schools
where the conditions are worst-where
the children are crowded unto suffoca-
ton and where they are forced to sit IN
unsanitary rooms-the teachers have
been called together and instructed that
they must help Mayor Hylan cover up
this ghastly state of affairs. How?
"They have been told that every visi-
tors day they are to take so many chill
dren out into the streets and lead them
on long walks. leaving behind In the
class rooms only the normal number OF
children. And then, although the visi-
tors know that the schools are over
crowded. they do not actually see the
overcrowding. Mayor Hylan hopes they
will go away from these schools thinking
that after all conditions must have been
exaggerated by the newspapers and the
investigators, inasmuch as they saw no
such sardine box situation"
Mr.. Gilroy spoke at a huge open air
meeting at 18th street and Broadway
and in the Flatbush congregational
Church. Eighteenth street and Dorches-
ter road, Brooklyn. In both places he
received enthusiastic applause. In the
afternoon he addressed meeting at
the Young Republican Club. $50 Broad
way and at the Colony Club. At the
latter place hs warned the women who
will be watchers at the polls to beware
of the sundry efforts Of certain elements
to perpetrate frauds.
At all his meetings he continued his
attacks on Charles It. Murphy. The
present Democratic organization in this
CITY, he said, Is not part of the ma
tional Democratic party. Rather. he
continued, it is ''solely an incident in
the career of Murphy"
Murphy rules it just as the Car
ruled the millions in Russia before the
revolution" he went on. 1T is up to
the voters to destroy the desperate and
sinister influence that has wrecked the
Democratic party here. Hylan has but
one office himself and Murphy placed
him in it. Murphy dictates all of the
administration appointments. and if he
chose he could tomorrow break Hylan
as he broke Sulzer.
-Four years ago believed Hylan was
really intent. on destroying boss rule, as
he said in his campaign speeches. and