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Of course certain tensions developed between those three top people - Prendergast, McAneny and Mitchel. You couldn't help it. They were equally on titled to the respect and the suffrages of the people. There were bound to be jealousies and tensions, never on the surfaces. They never became open, but you were aware that they were there. There would be a little sparring for position.

In this McAneny frequently had the best of it as an argument, but he rarely got the best of it when he came to action. His theory was correct and his deductions were correct, but they didn't do it. They did something else. That, I think, used to annoy him very much.

He used Henry Moskowitz a great deal as a messenger to tell the others what was wrong with what they had done, or what they were planning. He had the most consistent policy. McAneny; of course, was already quite sold to the new social philosophy, which was just coming into being. His father-in-law, Dr. Abraham Jacobi, had been a great child specialist and had established one of the first free children's clinics. It was free for everybody to come and bring their babies. McAneny had been on the committees for the milk stations. Nathan Straus, Sr. established those, but he had McAneny on the committee. McAneny had been involved in some of the early social work projects and he was well-known in