The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-06-03
WAR ORPHANS TO
HAVE GOOD CARE
FRANCE WILL NOT RELY
UPON FOREIGN CHARITY
SAYS OFFICIAL

PARIS, May S.-"France is not
going to export n of its wal
orphans" said Monster Alfred
Croiset, head of the faculty Of
letters of the Sorbonne, explain
ing the participation Of Americans
in the work of the orphanage OF
the armies of which he is president.
Il know a statement was published
recently to the effect that 1oO,-
600 American families had Of
fered to adopt orphans of the war.
The number was a little eXagger-
ated. and the word adoption used
in it's general sense was misleading.
Orphans of the war, so far as
il is possible, are to remain in
their families, especially when the
mother is living. Where there are
no immediate relatives to take care
OF them they are to be placed in
other French families and ultimately
will be cared for by the state n
iii their majority; none of them are
available for adoption under the
common acceptation of the term.
Most of the Americans who have
expressed the desire to participate
in this work understand this point
quite we'll: in fact in our core
s~pondence the majority of the let
tiers from the United States express
the desire that the children whom
they agree to support should re
main in their families. The sup
position that there are $50 900
families wanting to take care Of
orphans arose no doubt from the
fact that we were asked by Amer
leans as to about how many wal
orphans there were needing as
sistance and we put the number at
100000. This, of course, does no
comprise all of the war orphans.
They were estimated recently in a
debate in the senate by Mr.. JenouN-
rier at 500, 900 which of course in
Guided half orphans but a great
proportion of these will never be
come the objects of charity, and
the exact number may never be
precisely determined.
Committees have been organ
lied in a great many American
cities to receive propositions of fam
lilies, not to adopt orphans, but
to support them in their own sur
roundings for a period of two years,
which is supposed will be he
yond the end of the war and carry
them to the time when the meas
ures taken by the government for
the care of orphans become eff
f~ective. All the people in France
connected with this movement have
been deeply touchd by the generous
ardor of Americans in this work.
We have received many thousand
letters, the numbers are increasing
every day, from families who wan
TO enter into direct communication
with orphans and start corro-
Spcllence with them 20 as % fol
low them until such time as they
need no further help.
"The plan of the orphanage Of
the army is to bring these chill
dren up without making them feel
hat they are objects of charity,
without withdrawing them from
their usual environment except
when that environment is bad.
We support them in their -"
homes with contributions of mon
ely. clothing. books. pending the
organization of official means OF
providing for them. We are aided
largely in this work by pupils Of
the public schools in France, AMI
the children of each school on
tribute their sous for the sup
port of an orphan. Eventually
each one of these schools will have
n ward at itc charge