Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-02

the follow-up, and years and experience have
curbcd his tendency for over -sanguineness
without stallng his interest and enthu-
siasm
T SHOULD think he would make a very
good and exceedingly wideawake Direc-
tor Of Public Welfare.
The office is still. so to speak. in the
making, and the foundation made by the
work OF the late Director should be easy to
build upon, for Mr.. Tustin's conserva tism
and liking for amicable adjustments must
have left whatever was started easy to pick
up and TO continue.
As It happens, | have been a Director on
boards with both Tustin and Warburton.
and though their methods were quite dis
similar, they had in common certain
suavity and surface adjustiblcness that made
their contacts with radicals and with con-
servatives easy and informal. Mr.. Tustin
was abrupt where Mr.. Warburton would
doubtless be vehement, and Mr. Tustin
would define what Mr. Warburton would
explain. And while Mr.. Tustin would cross
examine witness with an mir Of giving
away nothing that he himself knew. Mr.,
Warburton would dsarm a witness by an
parentIy telling him all that lie knew Both
men got the facts and actually gave away
nothing that counted. ] fancy that the pres-
ent personnel of the Welfare Department will
soon adjust itself TO n change which is more
superficial than would seem at first contact
SO far as actual line of approach goes. Pos
sloiy MAJOR arburton S new ventures may
be more radical and progressive than his
successor would have undertaken.
RI is no small asset that the new Direc-
L tor will have behind him a very up-nnd-
doing body of citizens of the newer and
younger type of political thinkers, less re :
formers OF the old than organizers of the
new, enthusiasts for development rather than
for reorganization.
This is the note Of tho new worrap roIi
tician as well as the new man Dolitician.
and 1t has grown out of the cxperIence Of
war work and is what made it next to i'm
possible to amalgamate the regular suffrage
rkers with the political party women
leaders.
DO not think the political party leaders
l. among women like the machine toctics
prevailing in the regular parties any better
than the former suffrage workers did hut
they are working with the machine as one
! works with n somewhat antiQuatcd tool for
Iack OF better ready to hand. The former
suffrage leaders, with ono or two cyccntions
cannot work with the tools al hand and orr
eagerly faShiOning new ones which, IL clumsy
| and experimental. have tho grace ~ heino
new and clean. As yet they have NOT got
them TO really work, partly because they
spend much time trying to destroy the Ole
| ones. II Is different Fundamental noint
OF view, that Of the reformer. the iconorIas ~
| and the adapter and developer, and II run,
| all through life from religion 70 nrchitec,
turc, ] have sympathy with both. but lii,,
10 live with adapters rather than ref0rmers
T HEARD a bishop say today apropos o
l. the dscOuragemcnt Of some Of his cIerg,
with their focks
They (tho clergy pound away an,
pound away and pound away until thoi
arms are weak without making a drnt In m
hearts or changing single mind in th
pews."
Well, pounding has hardening result q,
more things than Maryland biscuits am
! maybe heavy and mOn0tonous rcitcratio
Of a duty is dcadPnng. Possibly n good hor
can do more harm than bad bore. tba
is to "pound' on good subject has n wors
moral effect than to 'pouud' on n ho
subject
The in season and out Of season Of m
real retorm"r may BE- bravery, bur il
sometimes mere impatinnCe and cgotism
NIHEN you are out to DO something +
w this world it is an awful chore 70 hov
10 take the time 70 undo something 90
am really much more interested as well n
more comfortable in the oompanv Of IN
constructors and even adaDtcrs of the vonn
Theodore Roosevelt type. And II Mai
Warburton can keep politics out Of the Do
partRrnt Of Public Welfare and vet eIv
the politicians nm equal chance TO he hear
witN the radicals, If hc can get all the fact
Of the case from the ,cformers and Tn
standpHttprs and decide on the merits of Nh
facts rather than on the Intentions of tb
people concerned and if having decided h
can stick to his policy and back his subordi
rates while they carry it out-and / thin
he csn do these things and has 1t in hiI
to mike good-nearly 1000, 900 men an
women and children will profit by his ap
poiutment.
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