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...Union: December 3, "My Balloon Trip from St. Louis to New Jersey and the Future of Aerial Navigation," by Mr. Henry Helm Clayton of the Blue Hill Observatory: December 10, Dr. Wilired T. Grenfell, on some phase of his hospital work in Labrador; December 16, "The Battle against Graft in the Cities," by Honorable William H. Langdon, District Attorney of San Francisco. These lectures will be at 8 o'clock and will be open only to members of the Union...
...Raymond Robins will deliver an address under the auspices of the Social Service Committee in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, at 4.30 o'clock today, on the subject, "Side Lights on Graft and Grafters...
...Francisco. Since 1904 he has been a lecturer in sociology in the University of Chicago. He is connected with a number of charitable and social service organizations and has given the following addresses, which have been published: "What Constitutes a Model Municipal Lodging House," "Side Lights on Graft and Grafters," and "Homeless Men an Industrial Product...
...McAdoo suggested that the best way to make an ideal police force in New York City would be to make it independent of politics, to separate the detective and the patroling branches of the service, to reduce the graft, blackmail, and mismanagement of officials, to make promotion in the ranks depend upon personal merit only, and to use some method whereby each policeman would keep to his beat. Finally, he said, that unless the good predominates and the morartone of the majority is good, laws are in vain...
...money, never of men. And as we sowed, so have we reaped. Creat markets, great money centres, our cities have become little else. Even the amusements that are there are just a way of making money, or of spending it. Naturally, their politics have fallen under the same head. Graft is not a product but a corrupter of politics. And as to the source and fountain head of civic virtue, or the lack of it--the people! Homes, which should make the real city--let the last Tenement House Commission speak...