When the New York Bureau of Municipal Research was started people said, You can never get efficiency standards accepted by New York. After several borough presidents had been recalled via removal on evidence of inefficiency, albeit, as Governor Hughes said, is no evidence of personal corruption; after accounting revision was started for all departments; after the period of public interest in budget making lengthened from two days to six months; after health work for children was reorganized, people began to say, Oh, you can do such things in New York, but you can never such methods work in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Hoboken, etc. Yet, in January, 1912, Mayor Blankenburg, of Philadelphia, and Mayor Hunt, of Cincinnati, stated publicly that they believed the recent reform waves in their cities would make good because they started, as previous reform waves had never started, with a vast amount of definite information with respect to the city's business methods and with the promise of continuing co-operation of an informed citizen agency working through health, school, accounting, engineering and other research experts. Just because municipal research concerns itself with methods rather than with men, just because it operates impersonally through discovering and publishing facts, it promises to be just as successful in one place as in another. Because there are more cities with fewer than 100,000 population, I shall cite concrete results that are reported from the expenditure of $4,000 a year during 1910 and 1911 for the City of Hoboken, N. J., with a population of 70,000. Mrs. Robert L. Stevens was considering various alternatives-a wing to a hospital, a day nursery, etc., for a memorial to her husband. An officer of the Bureau of Municipal Research was asked on which he would spend $2,500 a year. He replied, Neither. When a substitute was demanded he replied, Brains. Mrs. Stevens finally set aside $4,000 a year for a three-year test to be administered by the Bureau of Municipal Research in co-operation with the people of Hoboken to (235)