The evening world., 1915-01-02
MOTHERS PENSION
BILL NOW READY
FOR LEGISLATURE
Miss Loeb's Report VIII Show
Why State Should Keep
the Family Intact.
By Sophie Irene LoeS.

~ OOP0Se. iVeUe kOeJ.
tMsah< of state Coanl.aca foe Rsna f
Widowed Nothsnb
The report OF tho Commission on
Relief for Widowed Mothers 70 now
In proof sheet form and In being gone
over for hnai publication, so that II
can be In the hands OF Legislators
when tho Mothers Pension Bili, or
more properiy termed Child Welfare
BIN. 10 presented In Albany at the be-
ginning OF tho session.
This measure, In the main, will
mako u possible Ssr children es
mothsrs found worthy after In.
vsstiestien 70 bs kept st home IN.
stead es being boarded cut at the
sxpsnss ss the State. - 10 new
che case.
New York State. and In fact
the United States, In this regard.
10 Sar bshind In THE matter sf
keeping the family intact In eur
peer relief systsms.
A. q member Of this Commission.
the following facts appear In the pre-
liminary remarks OF the report OF my
Investigations Of six European coun-
tries:
The general feeling expressed IL
against tho institution for the child
In all these countries. With the sx-
csption Of England. the institution
In only for delinquent. backward or
sick children. The normal child u
only put into an institution ~ Q tenn.
porary place until something better
10 arranged for him. This u the pro-
osdurs for children generally. Bu,
that those sslf-sams countries an
realising that the widow and hsl
children. aside from the general poor
relief system. has . claim ON thu
State that difIerentiatss her on b.
half Of her children from all Other
kinds Of poor relief and to keep hsl
home intact. seems 20 b the process
Of the most progressive legislation.
Also. another deduction on TN
whole b that family life for the child
" regarded from past APPEARANCE and
statistics to bs the best medium fol
rearing the future citissn-whsthsi
the family life 10 given In its parental
home with relatives or foster guard.
Ians. For example. In Scotland
whore possibly the best boarding out
system has for many years bean De.
veloped. less than y per cont. OF the
children thus cared for return foS
poor relief to the 0overnrnsnt. And
less than per cent. have Gsen found
to become criminal.
In fact. the institution In Europs
is regarded rs only temporary
abode for tho child until some place
" provided for It either In the boms
OF relatives or foster guardians. Iu
other words. II u merely Q transient
place. James II. Notion Of Scotland
who has spent forty years In the 40
tive work Of poor relief and beou
sixteen years director of Olssrov
poor relief. stated: Lot mo catch Z
child In an institution for more thar
couple Of weeks and the ofYicisls n
Of that institution have TO answoI
direct to me-
This In tho general feeling asains,
child-caring institutions and no 4
happens that there are at present In
tSSoesoh1 ChhuIGu I0At Are b.
der parents or guardians, the direc,
wards Of the State. and but abou,
.s23 In institutions: and In Bsriin m
last December thero were S.7SS In pri.
vste homes. against 2ss in inStitu.
tions."
Judge Aaron J. Levy. Chairman O,
the Commission on Relief for via.
owed Mothers. to- day wrote this ex
planation Of tho Mothers' Pensior
Bill for The Evening World:
Members Of the State Commissiou
of Relief for Widowed Mothers. at I
conference helf at the homo OF Mn
William Einstein, No. l2i East Fifty.
seventh Street. New York CITY. a..
termined to recommend the rstutro.
duction Of Its bali before the II~xis.
lature of 1915. In ths Assembly by
Assembiynsan Mccus Of New YORK.
The conference was xrstinsd "a
learn Of the manifestation Of interesl
In this most humane problem h,
some of the metropolitan daiIlss ol
the city Of New York
"Ths commission 10 entirsiy un.
selfish In the matter Of tho pride ol
authorship Of ths measure TO be en-.
| acted into Law. II seeks the sud
which will insure adsq l,Ats relief ID
needy widowed mothers with depend
snt children. IL eares less Tor fr! "a
than II does for suDstaBcs. lust ~
long AS the bill emboties is recon