New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-11

Phianhropss Believe Study of the Child Important
Study of Fish Worms-Others Views

life harder for societies and organizations already
Trouble U.s." It was suggested. these societies
are uneyenly distributed. Some regions haven't
any. What becomes of the children who need
tions aren't always an unmixed good Take or
phanafDes for example It's distinct injury to a
oay units it to cope with the outside Worlds
I'm not sure that the deserted or orphaned child
isn't better off in regions where il is simply left
on the street than ii is in an institution"
MIR. JENKINS SCOUTS IDEA.
Superintendent Jenkins. of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children. has use for
the proposed bureau. either. He found at the
Chldren's Court, and he turned from a case he
was seeing through 10 say that if the Crane bill
reached hearing before the Senate committee
10 which IL had been referred he would go to Wash
ington to speak against 1t. THE bureau would be
one more thing TO cost the government money"
he said Il reckoned IT up the other day, and the
various salaries would amount to about $4,000
There are number of societies to look out for
children; am not speaking OF my own alone; there
dams in some of the States / think a children's
bureau In the process Of collecting statistics
who have enough work to do it is; for instance,
leading things But MIR jenkins added smiling.
there are many folks nowadays studying phi
salaries must be found for them somehow" Mr.
his own views. and he not speaking as a rep
resentative of the S. P c. c.
The list of salaries mentioned in the bill seems
10 set some people against It. "A good many
thousands of dollars woman remarked as
she glanced II over. But the majority of
who are interested in child problems are for the
IN the consumers League have Endorsed it.
one woman. when something was said in
shifted contemptuously. Boards of guardians in
deed; she said. There is just State Gndiana)
1859 the State takes care of its orphaned and de-
5000 population The tinted States 0L Is m gav 'h bg
hnd some monarchical countries in the matter OF
oversight of children"
DIR. BLAUsTEIN ENDORSES 1T.
Dr. David Blausten, OF the Educational Alliance.
scanned the copy OF the Crane bill with interest
I've not seen this before" he said. but it's a
good bill; hope it Will pass. Men who are dealing
with organizations that are immediate in their re-
suits may think little of it, The results OF this
bureau would make themselves felt more slowly:
PIs they would be far reaching Statistics. DR.
B s stem added may NOT always tell the truth;
invaluable help"
MRS. BURNS BELIEVES IN IT.
Mrs. Clarence Burns. president of the Little
Mothers Aid Association. favors the thought of
a children's bureau; albeit this society is one
which is immediate in its results The Little
Mothers Aid looks about 5000 little mothers
has schools for them in various parts of the city
and takes many of them away the country in the
summer
THE objection that politics might creep in and
destroy the usefulness of this childrens bureau"
Mrs. Burns said, lis an objection that has been
made TO various projects at various times, but !
don't think it's very valid one. II was urged
against the public school system at the beginning,
but for all that the public schools have endured:
IT pity that political trickery is sometimes mixed
up with their management; but so far we have not
hit any other practicable way of running the
school system, and until do it's surely better
TO have schools with politics in them than
have schools at all. | think the same about
Brace or DIR. Lindsay would be put in charge of IT,
Public opinion would compel the appointing OF good
men TO SUCH places. Public opinion do great
zeal you know; see how IL forced the designations
OF Mr.. Hyde and Mr.. McCurdy Yes indeed I'm
heartily in favor of the Crane bill. I'm for any
thing that Will help the children give them a
ing out the abuses children suffer under would
be long step in the right way. / don't think
.tte SalaTles are excessive; Mrs Burns added
J Curve got 10 pay good salaries to get able men,"
Apropos OF state oversight OF children, there is
interesting system in vogue in some twenty German
towns. 1t is called the Eberfeld
having originated in the town of that name but il
was speedily adopted I'm Dresden and other towns
BY this system the municipality, in the person OF
the Town Councillor. is guardian TO every illegiti-
mate child norm N that town. and TO orphaned and
deserted children The babies boarded out in
good homes; in cases OF ieeitimacy course the
baby Is left with the mother If she keen and
is fit 10 for it, but many of these mothers are
servant girls or shop girls, and cannot keep their
babies. In such cases the mother pays what she
can toward the babys board; also. every effort is
made to md the father and to make him contribute
10 the childs support But the child remains the
clty's ward. is watched and visited by
/ SppnSibe persons: if possible. boarded i'm
try with good wholesome living peasants. and sent
10 school at the proper time. This contrasts with
! the French method of founding asylumS though
! followed The custom of boarding out with peasant
families good many the ilegitimate and parent
/ less and deserted children who become the wards
| Of the French government