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It is really,too bad that the flood in the river could not pass without some sort of a bitter controversy on the part of the city administration. Nowhere is:the Salvation Army and the department of charities and cor rections of the city tied up in an ar gument. The genial and good looking director of charities and corrections floated into newspaper headquarters in city hall and made a statement which was of such a nature that it was printed in The Commercial Tribune. Everybody around these diggings believes that the Salvation Army in Cincinnati is doing a splendid work of charity and that it represents fully the spirit of that organization the world over .Now when Drs Geier publicly voices the opinion that the Salvation Army is not doing good work the public ought to know it, because the public assists to support the Salvation Army. When The Commercial Tribune came out with the news Dr. Geler rushed to the telephone, called up the Salvation Army headquarters and denied the story. Now if the doctor wants a few affi davits on that score he can have them from people who heard him say pre cisely what The Commercial Tribune published that he said. What he said was that the Salvation Army “breeds paupers and thieves.” Now everybody knows that it does not do anything of the sort. Later in the day Dr. Geter issued a long typewritten statement. The humor of the statement is that the doctor refers to the Business Men's club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Feder ated Improvement association, the “or ganized philanthrophies,” the board of ed ucation, the city administration and “great religious denominations” as wit ness to his side of the controversy. The fact of the matter is that all these very worthy associations did their splen did part toward contributing and organ izing the flood relief, but they let Dr. Geier, Rev. Mr. White and their asso ciates do the work. If the work was not done well it is nobody's fault but Geier, White, et al. The business and other organizations are not concerned in this mess. The Geier published statement says that “on the other side are a few poli ticians and the Salvation Army.” Who are the politicians involved? The*Honorable Michael Mullen, coun cilman, opened a souphouse for the re lief of the poor in his ward and else where as he has done for many years past, long before. Dr. Geier ever made his living by organized charity and long before Dr. White was ever heard of in Cincinnati Dr. White is not to blame. He makes his living this way. He would be foolish if he did not hustle to help when floods come. If there are no floods nor poor people in Cincinnati Dr. White would have to make his living some other way. This is not written in a spirit of com plaint against Dr. Geier or Dr. White. It is only to get a true fine on these gentlemen, who rush to the front with a complaint about alleged politicians é@very time they are criticised for fall ing down on their jobs. The honorable Michael Mullen com plained to council that, in his opinion, the work of relief was not done prop erly. If Mr. Mullen so believed he had the right to say so. Men who pote as philanthropists for their daily braid, and butter should be very careful before rushing’ into print about men who, in their official capac ity, honestly and openly criticise a pub lic work which, in his opinion, was not ‘done properly. Besides, Mr. Mullen was fair and square enough to stand before council and make his complaint open and above board. Dr. .Geier’s criticism of the Salvation Army was in a statement to a number of newspaper men sitting together, and was undoubtedly done with the expecta tion there would be no publication. As said at the beginning, it is extreme ly, unfortunate that the city administra tions cannot undertake a public relief work of this sort without becoming in volved in a scandal. Nothing of this sort happened during the administrations of Mayor Markbreit, Mayor Galvin nor Mayor Schwab. These great executives of the Queen city got along with the Salvation Army very well indeed. Assistant Clerk W. H. Weiman of the civil service commission, the only Re publican remaining in that office, felt compelled to tender his resignation yesterday. He did this in preference to being fired. He will be succeeded by Miss Mary Lynch of 447 Hast. Fifth street.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Fri, Jan 24, 1913
Page 4
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