Articles on Civic Problems

The CRIMSON will publish tomorrow an article by Jacob Riis called "Men or Money--Which?" This article will be the first of a series written especially for the Intercollegiate Civic League by men of both political parties who are prominent in political affairs and wish to draw the attention of college men to the necessity of more educated men in politics. The Intercollegiate Civic League, which has solicited these articles and forwarded them to a number of college papers for publication, is composed of 15 non-partisan college clubs, devoted to an interest in public affairs. It was through the Harvard Political Club that the CRIMSON obtained these articles.

Mr. Riis who has written the article to be published tomorrow is known as journalist and author. He was born in Denmark in 1849, and came to this country while still a boy. He was well known for years as police reporter of the New York Sun, and he has always been most active in the small parks and play grounds movement, and in securing reforms in tenement house and school administrations. Among his books are, "How the Other Half Lives," "The Children of the Poor," "Nibsy's Christmas," "Out of Mulberry Street," "The Battle with the Slum," "Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen." In "The Making of an American," Mr. Riis gives an autobiographical sketch.