The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-01
Miss LOEB FINISHES
HER INQUIRY ABROAD
New York State Investigator
Finds Scotland Ideal Place
for Orphans.
DENMARK AIDS MOTHERS
Widows There Get Permanent
State Allowance for
:. Each Child.
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AoNpoN, Feb. as-Mlss Sophie Irene
Loeo. . member Of the New York State
eomnieDion 10 examine into the ouest,o
q Wieows' pensions and the housing OF
the pesr. sailed for New York to-day on
ne Cunard steamship Lusitania.
During her Investigations Miss Loeb
hao VISITED England. Scotland Denmark
Germany and Switzerland and will report
70 tAs Legislature when she returns to
Nee York Miss Loeb says that every
one y awakening to the Importance Of
TIE relation of the dependent child and
the STATE. She says she found the bes,
boarding out system In Scotland. where
lee than . per cent. OF the children re-
tuFned TOR poor relief and less than per
cent. Became criminals
Dsusoark. Miss Loeb says. has come to
ths eeaciusion that the child has a claim
on the State which cannot be regarded As
charity. The new law In that country
takoo eat . widowed mother from the
poor relief and gives her a permanent
allowance for each child. that Ia II the
mOthsss income Is below the lowest that
= subject to a tax.
France. Miss Loeb says has appro-
priated 100000 900 In allowances for the
puSpo0e Of keeping homes intact In Ger
many and other countries where no new
laWU have been passed the allowances for
TIE relief Of widows are being increased.
Private Charity lnaaessate.
~ Loeb says she found generally
49, psivass charity for widows and chill
droA - In the United States. Is inadequate
beoanos It 10 mostly OF a temporary ma
tur& Or. Levy. the chief of the central
bureau Of private charity organizations
IN Dssiin. says the Government should CO.
epwAts In handling the problem of poor
relied.
The ideal system OF social insurance
sccosdins to Miss Loeb. has not yet been
discovered Adair Hore. an English Ma
tionAl Insurance Commissioner. compiled
for her an exhaustive report on the
rslisf system. He agreed with her that
the proper beginning for effective charity
- with the children. He complained that
England did too little In this direction.
Speaking OF American and English
Vomm, Miss Loeb said that the latter
enjoy more healthy country life. Ameri-
can women awys want to look pretty.
shs declared and when they 90 In for
athletics II IL largely as fad and not
bsesuss they thoroughly enjoy sports
On the other hand American women. Miss
Losb said, take deeper interest In the
psaDtlaB problems Of the day.
UsWHaa Evb o. Lssitanla.
Another passenger on the LusitAnia IL
Newman Erb. president Of the Minneap-
oils and St. Louis Railroad. He said
h. Was glad to hear OF the appointment
Of Henry w. Thornton as general man.
AGer Of the Great Easte IN Railway. Amer
lean railroads. Mr.. Erb declared. were
Is Der cent. ahead Of the English systems
In every detail. He instanced the fact
that band coupling still prevails in Eng
laaA
Or. Howard A. Kelly OF Baltimore. who
has been experimenting with radium a.
the Lusitania. He nd few hard words
to cay against the 'radium ring" He
declared that the price was cruelty and
aStineiaily high and would be kept there
because the producers knew that cancer
patients must have II and would pay
any price.
Mr.. d. A. Thomas. wife Of the Welsh
ceai king. who was one Of the suffragists
arrested on Tuesday night last when an
attempt was made to hold a meeting In
Old Palace Yard. within the precincts OF
Parliament. is also supposed to be on
the Lusitania.