South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-28
CHICAGO IDEA WHICH SOUTH
BEND MIGHT APPROPRIATE


BEND MIGHT APPROPRIATE.
Thankful. indeed. we are TO Louise
Osborne Rowe, commissioner Of public
welfare, Chicago. for the opportunity
she affords US to assist her in spread
ing the gospel Of Chicago fer Chi
cagoans." OF course. it applies only
TO the hobo population. She asks us
20 announce 20 our readers-assuming
apparently that they are all paupers,
lis that Chicago will not furnish free
beds nor free food to any save her
own poor, this winter.
Good for Chicago, we say, provided,
Of course, that she will see that her
own poor is properly cared for. All
We ask is that the coming winter,
Chicago will see 10 il that no more
carloads like so many sheep are ship
ped 10 Michigan city, Laporte. South
Bend, et cetera, as was done year
ago. but that she Keeps her unem-
ployed at home and actually cares for
them. We do not care to have Chi
cago's unemployed shipped to South
Bend at Chicago's expense. and posi-
tons at low wages procured for them
here. turning local people into the
streets to feed upon our people. our
altitude toward Chicago is very much
the same as that of Chicago toward
the rest of the world.
Yet. there is method in the madness
OF Louise Osborne Rowe, Chicago's
commissioner of public welfare. Her
program is quoted in full:
% The administration will
utilize every agency TO give Chi
cago citizens preference wherever
employment is offered in public
or private service Extra work
in city departments will be given
exclusively to citizens
CD The administration will
strongly urge all organizations to
give aid TO the residents OF the
city We will reduce and not in
crease provisions formerly made
for nonresident homeless men.
a work test i'm the municipal
woodward will be required Of all
applicants Of the municipal lodg-
Ing house.
CD The administration will
instruct the police TO make special
efforts 10 prevent the return of the
criminal. the beggar and the va
grant who has been accustomed
Il exploit the city under the guise
of unemployment. Fair warning
is given to these classes to keep
out Of Chicago.
90 The administration adj
vises young men and women in
other cities without employment
not 10 come 10 Chicago seeking
l.
view OF the conditions under
which young people are compelled
10 live if employment is not i'm
mediately forthcoming. the city
cannot retain the name of being
an honorable host without advis-
ing against this.
We like the Chicago idea outlined
i'm the first paragraph. of utilizing
every agency to give Chicago citizens
preference wherever employment is
offered in public or in private service"
We would like TO see it employed in
South Bend Had it beon so last win
ter we are of the opinion that there
would have been less OF hard times
for our local people than there was,
and this is ne slam at the employ
ment offered i'm public service
either. South Bend. too. might emu
late Chicago, not only in this partic-
ular but in the others as we'll and it
may be that 10 would have the effect
that commissioners" Rowe proph-
ecies for il.
While we need be hospitable hosts
20 our poor even 10 the strangers
within our gates. il is not always we'll
that we should be slaves to their
follies. nor the dupes of poliuco-finan-
cial intrigue. and these out of the
way the need of public welfare COM
niissioners and social service move
ments would be cnnsidera hlv rednced.