The evening world. Newspaper, January 3, 1916, Page 7

‘WIDOWS ENSIONS HELD BAGBY CY 0,000 NED HELP 0 Ponds’ Yet “patie for Their Relief or thCare of 15,000 Chilin. LAW’S SPIRIT IGORED. Welfare Board Mz Mere Figureheads as Chats De- partment Grabs bs, By Sophie Irene eb, After a three years’ coaign to establish the Widows’ Peon Law end the final enactmenof that statute by overwhelming pio opin- ton and an almost unanim vote of Wyhe Legislature, it is nocharged that the spirit and intent chis new tatute is being violated she very | start of its administratidn New York City. According to strong pists ree ceived from legislators of political | ‘parties and leaders of the Wement, by The Evening World, wh carried | ‘on the campaign on beheif fhe pen- niless widows and their chen, it is plainly evident that in fj of the facts some action will be pn, Senators Foley, TowneLawson, Walters, Thompson, Hort@Norton, Newton and Argetsinger hialready strongly expressed themselagainst the policy that is being adéd here; Miso Assemblyman Burr, > served ba the State Commission thudy the westion; Assentblyman Kin Mo- \tue, who fathered the biljthe As- mbly, und Judge Aard. Levy, Phairman of the New ‘k State fommission for the Relief Widowed others. The main objection aimed against the work of } Child Welfare Board being $n over byt Ocparnt, and continuing the taint ofprity on such relief, the very efent that was sought to be avo by the new legislation, in oting the Child Welfare Board @h is the ‘one mandatory provM in the law, | The Board of ChilWelfare by Ananimous vote (agai the oppo- fition of Commissioneingsbury of he Department of Chiles) several onths ago laid beforhe Board of (Estimate their needg¥ investiga- jors and an itemized dget, as pro- . ag full control of ‘tying out ite provisions as to invdsators, &c. WORK TAKEN IMHARGE BY CHARITIES DERTMENT, This was seemif” ignored and now 1 taken over by he Charities Depgnent, Commis- press Kingsbury havpointed every Vesligntor to womnder his super- igion and ¢t wo 18 being carried bn by that deparent, the members ot the Child Ware Board being mero “figurehead since poly act on cases8 set before them dy the Charities*partinent, The expianaticsiven by Commis- loner Kingsbf and © Chairman Matthews as tébi he Child Welty B: est was that @ work wed to be dongy the Charities De- dartment by « Board of Estimate ind that afty Investigations were Made money ‘wld be oppropriated. Therefore ighteen investigat- ors, in agfdance with this “authorizati;” were appointed two monthgs° by Mr, Kingsbury it $1, ‘ear. BOT Oe PEt esting of the of Welfare, last vere were but ‘Tre are now approxi before the 1, but # mo Algo inembers Strongi urged ‘al months ago ITCHING OF SCALP HAIR CAME OUT Simul! Scales and Dandruff On Head, | Sgne Nights Had oily gi w/Hair Became Thin and Dry. (eee HEALED BY CUTICURA SOAP AND OINTMENT ——_-——_ “My trouble began with an itching of be scalp and I paid no attention to ft but wthe time passed I noticed small scales and an abundance of dandruff ‘on my head. My ecalp itched so that I had to scratch it \) which was very annoying when I was in company, Some nights I had hardly any sleep. ‘The dandruff scaled off and my coat collar was always full of tt, My hair also became thin and dry ind a lot came out when I combed it. “I noticed Cuticura Sdap and Ointment aad sent for a sample. I bought ‘and after using @ short timo I was “* (Signed) Frank Wessely, 350 40th Brooklyn, N. ¥., Aug. 7, 1916, Sample Each Free by Mall ‘With 32-p, Skin Book on request, Ad- tress post-card “Cuticura, Dept. T, Booe jem"? Sold throughous the world. ided for iu the lawnd that they | they may that there were 2,000 in. inetitutions, paid aptlatsn now we by the city, who turned ti ight properly be: re- eat there id the Involve no extra @xpense to the city whatever, since Commissioner Kin, could ‘arn aver Child Welfare Boa In direct contrast to this attitude toward the Widows’ Pension Law ts | the action taken by other cities and | counties In appropriating nig A for thie purpose. Among these are Rooh- es! $65,000; St. Lawrence Count; ‘$5,000; Nassau County, $1,000; One County, $1,200; Olean, 2,500; Catta- raugus County, $2,500; = Palmyra, $2,000; Eesex County, $3,000; Rens- | selaer County, $45,000; Broome Coun- ty, $8,000, and Steuben County, $6,000, | SAYS PROVISIONS OF THE LAW ARE IGNORED HERE. Tho measure is therefore being car- | ried out in these and other counties. | Martin McCue, father of the bill, sald | + "Money spent for the Cnild | Welfare Board by Commissioner pawns Department is against the law. | “The exact provision of the law |ptates that ‘Such moneys be kept in |@ separate fund and may only be dis- persed on order of the local Board of | Child Welfare.’ This particular point | was forcibly stated in Gov. Whit- | man's letter when he signed the bill, ‘That no Board of Child Welfare shall 'expend or contract to expend under the provisions of this act or other. wise, any public moneys not specifi- cally appropriated as herein pro- vided,’ ” | Mr. MoCue further state | t had known th mi of this law woul July, think great, wealthy city should and no relief yet given. 1 it is a disgrace that this be so slow in caring for its defen: 8 children, in view of this law as against’ other sections of the State, the resources of which are certainly le: “Commissioner Kingabury seem- ingly uses as a cldak the clause tn |the law that states: ‘Investigations, |when consistently possible, to be made by the board or by the authori- ties Intrusted with similar work, and without incurring ny unnecessary expense.’ This means merely that, in the event some investigators of other | departments shall be unnecessary idle utilized ‘without are their services inourring but investi. gators are necessary expense and cannot be construed any other way in order to be placed under the juris- | diction of the Charity Department.” Senator Hill, who fathered the bill Jin the Senate, clearly defined the in- {tent and purpose of the Board of Child Welfare by saying: MEANT TO SAVE THEM FROM IDEA OF PAUPERISM. “The Hill bill distinctly authorizes ‘the counties of the State and the City w York to make provision for | the support of children of widowed mothers through ‘Boards of Child Welfare,’ instead of through the ordi- nary machinery of the overseers of the poor. This bill is a measure for ‘the children of widowed mothers and not a pension scheme. "The policy of local boards of 1 { ild welfare should be stimu- jat | expense,’ inspiring and constructive, rather than obstructive, depress- ing and destructive. | Mothers and their children | will e subjected to the ints of pauperism, tender and loving care.” example of the kind of protest ved by this newspaper is that of enator Pollock, whose letter ts Wor! of the Commission to Inquire into Widows’ Pensions, ap- pointed by the Legislature of 1913, I have naturally been interested in ob serving to what extent the New York ‘ity Board of Child Welfare is ex- ercising its fungtions, and to what degree the findings of the commission As a membe of 1913 observed by the | City Boare nild Welfare, Since the commission's investiga- tions sulted in a report to the Leg- islature, advocating allowances being made to widowed mothers out of pub- lic funds, because private charities | had showed themselves unable to give adequate relief on account of both in- sufficient funds and an absence of a sympathetic attitude in dealing with individual cages, all those interested in the movement, like myself, expect- ed therefore, that the New York City beard would not administer the law s0 as to create the same objections that had existed against the adminis- tration on the part of private cha itable organizations. For this reason { am writing to inquire whether I have been correctly informed that the New York City board has started out to exercise its duties by building up a staff consisting of a secretary, for- merly in the employ of the Associa tion for Improving the Condition of the Poor, and the employment of in- veotigators who have been taken over in some instances from the New York City Department of Charities, and had fore that time been employed by ate charities. that this staf, to which must neoes- sarily be delegated by the board the ministerial functions, performs them in the same way that relief was for- mer! en by the private charitat associations, and which members the 1912 commission found very un- satisfactory. I shall be glad to hear from you whether my tmpressions are correct, as. 1am solely interested in seeing the removal of those evils which our com- rission found to exist. HENRY W. POLLOCK > GIRL ACCUSES POLICEMAN. ed Her From Abandoned ¥ Walter Hand, a policeman attached to the t Eighty-elghth Street Sta- tion, was held tn $1,000 bail by Magis- trate Marsh in Harlem Court to-day on charges made by Emma Chapman, fifteen years old, of No. 611 Bast Seventy-cighth Street. She said that the policeman persuaded her to leave home in November and put her In an apartment in East Ninety-third Street, abandoning her Dec, 7. She saw him on the street with another girl last night and made a complaint to Capt Cray, who put him under arrest when he appeared for duty last night, Says He Drowned Body Identified. ‘The body of @ white-hatred old man, found floating in the water at Sheridan's Walk, Coney Island, early Satuniay morning, was lay Mentified as that }of Frederick Ventoke, sixty-six years old, who lived in a furnished room at No, 219 Bast Twenty-third Street. Th identification was made by Dr, B. C. Brenaur of No, #877 Pacific Street, Tt is also claimed {> lyn, remeron 29 |H. E. PAGE WILLS $25,000 | TO OLD FRIEND'S winow a ee ! Cotton Broker Leaves Woman,; Who Had Made Home With Family, Big Sum. LEGISLATURE 10 OPEN THE SESSION WITH RECORD RUSH Speaker Sweet to Break Prece- dent by Allowing Introduc- tion of Bills on First Day. A story of an old-time friendship is | embodied in the wilt of Hastings F. Page, cotton broker, who died Dec. 28 | last at his home, No, 845 President Street, Brooklyn, The will was filed | for probate to-day in the Surrogate's Court in Brooklyn, The will, which is dated Nov. 15} last, disposes of $120,000, and among the bequenta is one of $25,000 to Car- rie B. Johnson, who, with her daugh- | ter, lived in the President Street house with Mr, Page and his sister. Not only did the cotton broker leave this sum to Mrs. Johnson, but ho! stipulated that at her death her body should be interred near his in Green- wood Cemetery. In explaining these provisions Ru- | fus Griggs of No, 31 Nassau ‘Street, | one of the attorneys for Huntington Page, a brother of the deceased, who Wax appointed executor of tho estate, said this afternoon: | “Mrs, Johnson was the widow of an | old friend of Hastings Page. ALBANY, Jan, 8—In order to ex- pedite the work of the Legislature, which convenes for the 1916 session Wednesday noon, Speakor Sweet of the Assembly announced to-day that he would permit the introduction of bills on the opening day. He also hopes to have the cominittee assiga- ments in shape Bo that he can an- nounce them on Thursday. Both plans contemplate a depart- wre trom Albany legisiative custom, Heretofore on convening Jay no business has been transacted Aft her husband's death she went to live} ty no iabers merely gathering to] With the Page family. She had been | the members Tiers. fisten to. the| with them for many yenrs and the| Govegnor’s message and choose their] place she occupied in the ration | scatafor the year, Adjournment then | of Mr. Pag “4 has been taken for a week or ten days] of his si 4 to permit the Speaker to make up his|he was anxious that suld be | committees. provided for after his } In anticipation of a busy session.) While Mr. Page left $ Mrs. | recipes will be short, on ac- | Johneon, he bequeathed only $20,000 to | Mint of the spring primaries and the | one of his sisters, Mary A. Chamber- ain of No, 107 Elder Street, Schenec- tady. To another sister, Francina, with whom he lived, he lott $45,000. at WOULD DROPARMY TEST RIDE Roonevel National Conventions in the summer, the Speaker plana this year to retain the members until Thursday, an-| nounce the committee chairmanships | and personnel, if that is possible, and then adjourn until the following Mon- day night. No change was api gramme for the tne ee tocmorrow night. If the plans are carried out Sweet will be re-elect- ed Speaker and Simon L. Adler of Monroe and Joseph M. Callahan of New York chosen Republican and Demooratic floor leaders, respectively. avas apparent to-day in party caucuses } re. WASHINGTON, &.—Abandon- Jan. ment of the test ride for fleld officers | of the army, inaugurated by Former President Roosevelt, is urged by Brig . B.A. Garlington, Inspector Gen- pacacmameodd . in his annual report. The ride has “failed to accomplish any good purpos: P AN and should be abandoned,” he sald - Officers more. th: IN EFFECT HERE TO-DAY sit? fee ‘lent oan to keep In shape, Crooks Flee City as Miss Davis's! Indeterminate Scheme Is Tried at Special Sessions. ‘The indeterminate sentence law for | thos convicted of misdemeanors in the Court of Special Sesstons, went ine to effect to-tay. Instead of sending! a prisoner to the Penitentiary for a} definite term, the justices may simply | indorse the papers “Penitentlary| Term.” Under the new law, which was! suggested by Miss Katherine Davis, late Commissioner of Correction, and now Chief of the Parole Board, Special | Sessions justices are empowered to commit offenders either to the Work house or the Penitentiary. If sent- enced to the Workhouse a definite term not to exceed six months may be imposed on all first offenders, A s0c-| ond offend may be sent to the) | Workhouse for a maximum term of} two years. In the cases of those sent to th Penitentiary it is up to the prisoners themselves as to how long they shall remain. The maxta term is not more than but by good behavior they can be od after serving a few months. olice officials say the fact that this law was to Ko Into effect t frightened all the old-time cony thi es out of New ‘ond offender will have to the time gained on his first term in addition to the senten his second conviction. posads. aS< Ley Fire Stops Oleomargarine Industry in Denmark, LONDON, Jan. 3.—The destruction by fire on Sunday night at Aarhuus, Den- mark, of the oleomargarine and oil fac- tory, one of the country's largest indus-| trial establishments, is reported by the enhagen correspondent of the change Telegraph © that this will tempor: Scandinavia’s entire manufacture of ole- omargaring, since this factory was the only one of ith Kind in Scandinavia. 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