The evening world. Newspaper, May 12, 1920, Page 4

/ . 5 : pete wen See contest 5 ee Seer ea ene Site Lagged Far Behind Until “The Evening World Roused Legislators. 1 PLAN MET HARD. TEST. Widows’ Pension, Successful _ Here, Extended to Every County in State. By Sophie Irene Loeb. JWhen Governor Smith aMxed his signature to the Child Welfare bills \ yesterday New York State made the most progressive move taken in many years in the interest of dependent ‘obildren. ‘The ortginal Cihid Welfare law, commonly called the Widows’ Pension lew, which was so strongly cham- ploned by The Evening World, was Paaved in 1915. ‘The legislation being new, the meas- ure was made a permissive one and pertained strictty to allowances for _ @hildren whose fathers were dead. The new amendments contained in the Cotillo bill and signed by the Governor makes the measure manda- tory and therefore brings in twenty- two counties which have made no ap- propriations for the care of fatheriess and destitute children in the homes of their own mothers. » Not only are the appropriations now @ompulsory, but in the event that odunty and city authorities find them- |} selves without funds, they must raise the money by temporary loans. A notable feature of these bills was their passage unanimously by both |f) Houses, which a¢centuates the confi- dence of the Legislature in thé work iy accomplished by the Child |) ‘elfare Boards in the five years of |) their existence, when the measure |f! was only.a permissive one. | Some of the best noted authori- .ties have already designated the * Child Welfare Board in this State fas the most noteworthy and pro- | : Gressive relief department in the + United States. § In the recent report of the State {Board of Charities, having juris- liction ‘over all charitable work, bin commenting on Child Welfare ~ { Boards, it stated that they had “discovered the interesting fact that, more than in any other agen- ‘ey, the moneys appropriated were ‘ used directly for the benefit of ‘\ those concerned. An Unusually amall amount has been found ‘necessary for administrative ex- ‘pensed.” SLIGHT COST OF WELFARE||, © WORK IN NEW YORK CITY, |New York City has carried on the |f Work of the Child Welfare Board at at cost of 3 per cent., the lowest of any similar department in the United States, It is believed that the work thus accomplished playeg a big part |}f) in securiug such a record vote In the |f Legislature. Since it was so difficult . Appia the enactment of the orig- measure, this growing Interest is Ngnificant. “The bills just signed also represent | @ programme of the Governor, as ted in his message this year. Their ghactment was most gratifying to him in view of the'fact that he was ge of the most prominent sponsors |} pf child welfare and made a memora- Ble fight us Assemblyman when the first laws were passed. | The new amendments will now In- elude any, destitute mother whose /[f, husband js an inmate ‘of a State in- stitution for the insane or confined under a sentence of five years or more to a State Prison. will bompel the Toth, Treat Gola ana’ Po ani Bregecors, tu! Fu Goearee a and Secte ‘Teeth thor- ls el Plater repair. while you wait, 0%: 3 Pantd On 2 E. 125th St.|169 E. 34th St. 8. ® Cor, ib Ave'N. W. Cor ddan. 1 740 Lexington Ave. S. W. Cor. 59th fre ‘seers oH WELFARE; zs mere Made Laws Possible. In compa’ the city has 6x PR rey ante . snaritabl HE pen with which Gov. of mothe: alone in pri charitable “institu * SMITH SIGNS BILL | Gent tate yeaterday atghed dea tions, the sum of $3,125,766.79, exclu the Child Welfare Bills was w clogjelation will Cet | As previously atated in these co! presented by him to Sophie Irene reasive methods th umns, the work has proved in real Loeb of The Evening World Staff, States, but som the i not a widows’ pension, as is cor who has for years led the move- sions wn doubtless prove a | monly believed, but rather a tem- are cared for in thelr own homes instead of institutions. The Governor, in presenting the pen, made the following statement: “I am anxious that you have this pen, as the only token of my risard Lam abte t —because bestow for the earnest, energetic e . work that you did to make pos- / f sible these enactments.” | it its attendance of members at board meetings and if absent far three con- secutive meetings without a written excuse from the Mayor of the city or from the County Judge in counties mt sible for a mother who is a citisen to secure an allowance where hereto- fore, if the father was not a citizen, been born in the Una states have $31.46 and ine average amount “CHILD: BILLS PEN the law amuse of Phe inter |ior owas by per child been excluded from banat 1 tot out citizen papers, tution was $18.35, Rirepdy forty-one Baten as well | 4 TO MISS LOEB oH Thus, 17,804 children and 5,459 wi baba have been kept "ees in thelr own homes op allowances [Does it in 1 Recognition of Her! granted, fy, tee ott amounting to 1,076,874.20 pended for dependent children sive of educatl porary aid, and ope that the widow ment that brought about the Aine "New York City Board 1s now|and her children ‘may count on dur- Present statutes, under which |caring for 17,804 children and 5,459| Ing the short period needed by these thousands of dependent children | widows at @ cost of approximately | families to tide them over after the a hild is born in the United Sta his father has declared. hie. the tention to become a citizen within a period of five years preceding his de- cease, the destitute child will be eligible for the allowance, —the satisfaction lasts | A_number of children who have ) ments for men, women and children are so Munsingwear fits and covers the form like 4 Y an untroubled conscience. 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During the entire operation of the| (A few more of the children of the law the total number of allowances Child Welfare Board were appre: | granted was 8,171. ve | hen: y the ren's Court and| been receiving $ | fhe Society for Prevention of Cruelty beginning of the law in 1916. aI were © 1018 and 1919 to | veey slight and not sufficient to wur- 0 children of| fant e probation or commitment. w one under the care of the Child) In the. Police Department. out of | boric tothe lis excl ce: Non fare Board, only eleven have children cared for under the “A good foot-rule for -weat NTZEN SHOE” © under probation in the Child- (law. thirty-three, all boys, were ap. | et sec sh Court. "As. against. this, 908 prehended for minor offenses, As| vont. children Of other widows not tnder| againdt this, for the year “7018 only, in| G3 e.8 Our Bi abcess Chae of the Big Toe: Sb} jurisdiction have come under|that department, 343 children of wi : probation in the Children’s Court, | ows not the. 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