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VOL. VIII

The New

The editors of CHARITIES Outlook. are occasionally warned not to be too metropolitan in their point of view. Having duly observed these warnings, and given less attention to the municipal affairs of our largest American community than might have been justified, it is a little disconcerting, when the editors go upon their occasional little journeys abroad to find that the very occurrences which they have compressed into limited space to secure a due scheme of proportion, have been followed with the most eager interest in other parts of the country. May this be our excuse for recording a certain sense of responsibility on our part for the new administration in New York City, whose opening coincides with the new volume of CHARITIES and the new year. To this new administration the Charity Organization Society contributes a vice-president as mayor-one whose services to organized charity have been by no means merely perfunctory and ornamental; its president as Tenementhouse Commissioner-possibly the most critical and influential post in the municipal service so far as the welfare of the tenement-house population is concerned; an assistant secretary as Deputy Tenement-house Commissioner; an active worker on three of the Society's most important

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committees (Dependent Children, Summer School of Philanthrophy, and Board of Publication of Charities) as Commissioner of Public Charities; and five members of its Tenement-house Committee, besides its chairman and secretary, to various other official positions, including that of city chamberlain and secretary to the mayor.

In a few instances the city's gain involves corresponding loss to the Society as the new duties preclude the performance of the old. In so far as this is true, we bid our colleagues Godspeed in their new career of usefulness and address ourselves resolutely to the discovery and training of new workers to take their places.

"Organized charity," sneered a cart-tail speaker in a political campaign "think of organized love." We also ask our readers to reflect on that inspiring topic. Organized love, with the support of organized labor, organized business experience, and organized professional service has framed and put through the Legislature a tenement-house law that for the first time will make new tenements fit to live in, and will make over the worst of the old and unfit. Organized love has this week produced from the ranks of its volunteer workers the head of the Department of Tenement-houses