Life — July 1, 1915 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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LTE E ¢ “A Sectarian Issue” As the city was then on the eve of a municipal elec- tion, to have removed her, Mr. Folks pointed out, would have almost certainly injected a sectarian issue into the which might easily have endangered the entire administration —The Evening Post, June 5. R. FOLKS, Secretary of the State Charitics Aid Asso- ciation, was speaking at a hearing of the State Board of Charities, in the matter of Mrs, Mary Dunphy, lately removed from the place of superintendent of the Chil- dren’s Hospitals and Schools on Randall's Island, He had been telling how one city administration after another had realized that Mrs, Dunphy was not fit for her job and had tried to get rid of her, but had not been able to accom- plish it. The pinch scems to have been that when it came to firing Mrs. Dunphy there was always, as Mr, Folks says, a prospect of “a issue” which scared off im- provers and persons solicitous for the welfare of the children in the city’s charge, and left Mrs. Dunphy just where it found her—a dauntless and commanding fixture on the deck of Randall's Island. What does Mr. Folks mean by “sectarian issue”? Pos- sibly Mrs. Dunphy is a Baptist and the Baptists of New York had leagued together to sce that she held her job! The Rockefeller Foundation has Baptist affiliations. Maybe that powerful concern which Mr, Gompers accuses of oppressing Mr. Francis Patrick Walsh has been using its strong, invisible hand to hold Mrs, Dunphy in her place! Or maybe she is a Methodist! Or a Presbyterian, backed for purposes of its own by the Presbyterian Hos- Or perhaps an Episcopalian, with Bishop Greer ! pital! and Trinity Church as her fierce supporte! Nobody tells in print what sect it was that was so ready to make trouble in Mrs, Dunphy’s behalf. According to the testimony we have been getting about her, Mrs. Dunphy has been a terror in Randall's Island for a long, long time, but some sectarian influence has been exerted to keep her in her place, Why the people, or even the politicians, of any church should have backed such a woman with such persistence, Heaven knows; but there is reiteration of suggestion that she had such backing. But everybody is too polite to specify what the backing was. As Mr. Folks says, it was “sectarian”, cratch any concern of public charity or public education in New York and you come immediately on the tracks of a sectarian influence, and find officials of all kinds side- stepping to avoid a sectarian issue. It almost seems as if WHEN UNCLE SAM REALLY WAKES UP there must be some sect in New York that is over-greedy of political power. But even for such a sect, if there is one, keeping Mrs, Dunphys in office is an incomprehensible policy. The Etiquette of It OBSERVE a photograph in the pictorial supplement of the Sunday Gazoo, showing a German religious service just before a battle. and every man in the place has got his hat on,” said Whibley. “Yes,” said Jingleberry. “The Germans uncover only in the presence of the senior member of the firm of Me und Gott.” comicbooks.com