Bisbee daily review., 1915-07-21
WAR ORPHANS OFFER SERIOUS PROBLEM
 TO FRENCH SOCIETY
CompliratiorS ef Politics al q Re- ligion PreCipitate Strange SO- Cial Conundrum; Pope Lends ECCleSiaStiC Assistance.


 PARIS, July Notwithstanding efforts to avoid any friction that would mar the sacred union" of the French people in wartime, sentiment, politics and religion have developed something of clash over the proper treatment of orphans
 The fixing of a "tag day" for the collection Of funds for the "Orphanage of the Armies and the discussion of the proposed legislation affecting the future wars of the nations has brought about ill feeling in some quarters. The Orphanage of the Armies" is one of the most recent of three large organizations seeking to cope with the orphan problem. Patronized by President poincare, and accorded the tag day privilege by the minister of the interior, t6 the exclusion of the other societies. it has been given a semi-ofhcial character, which drew the antagonism of the religious ele- ments.
 Sentiment rebelled against the clas- sing of the orphans as dependents of the government and devote people be- cause alarmed less the control of the education of children should develop arbitrary pressure against religious training. Politicians too became sus- picious that some of the charitable organizations might try to exercise a religious influence on future citizens. The two other organizations that claim the right to share in the admin istration of contributions for the or phans, are "The Orphans of the War and "The Fraternal Union of the Children of the War" Both of these profess to be non-sectariau The for mer was the first in the field and has furnished homes for more than a thousand orphans at Etretat and Juin- les-Pins The relatives of the children decide whether they shall be brought up religiOusly or not and, if religious, ly, whether in the Catholic or Protest ant faith The other organization is endeavoring to find boys and girls of well-to-do families who sill adopt the child of some fallen hero as a brother or sister and help it to make it's way in life without taking 1t away from its own home.
 In view of the fact that the differ ent Catholic orphanages were not to share in the proceeds from the "tag day" collection, the Pope issued in. structions to the ecclesiastics in France that the Catholics should with. hold their cooperation. Finally, de. puties from different and extremely divided parties introduced in the Chamber a bin providing for the par ticipation of the society of the cor. phans of the War and other organi- zations of the same character This has forced the new society of the "Or. phanage of the Armies" to Abandon its exclusive attitude, which was to centralize in its own hand all the charitable efforts for orphans of the war.
 At the same time the minister of public instruction has introduced in the Senate a bin to provide for or. phans' pensions sufficient to meet the material wants of the children, leav ing them in the care of the surviving parent, if there is one, or the nearest relative where that disposition is pos sible, and in other cases providing for their bringing up with the least possi ble official intervention. The law pro vides for special advantages for or phans of the war in all educational establishments.
 The organization Orphans of tho War" is now receiving an average oi a dozen orphans every day at its headquarters on the Quay de 'Orsay