Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-12-29
NOW
BEING REFORMED
BY PHILANT
Street Cleaners Are Replacing
Street BeggarS; Small
Loans Made to Encourage
the Work.

tsY MORNING 20 SPECIAL LEASED wtRel
New York, Dec. 2S.--street clean
ers have suppianted street beggars in
Jerusalem under the guiding hand of
American Jewish relief workers.
Paying for labor instead Of idle
ness, providing employment for job
less and penniless men. women and
children, teaching useful trades ana
providing small loans TO rehabilitate
ruined industries, is the way in which
relief is now being administrated IN
Palestine, according to a report made
public today by the joint distribution
committee, which disburses funds. of
the American Jewish relief committee
and its allied bodies.
1--WE are trying now by determined
effort to encourage SER .nelp and TO
bring about eventually independence
among those to whom American
funds are giving relief" the report
reads. s aH
Loans Are Made.
I'VE are substituting for the mere
giving of bread ana clothing-loans
to artisans, workmen, tradesmen,
teachers, employees. laborers, prop
erty owners, to practically all classes
of society. These loans are made
without interest and we consider
them as relief work without any faint
of charity. They enable the borrow
err to help himself TO rehabilitate his
business or to establish himself as
| breadwinner.
| Even the sum Of twenty Ira has
meant a great deal to the families,
| who, by ii. were enabled to hold out
and become sef-supporting. The
loans are repaid only after the Dor
rover has solved his present needs
! and has found a way to provide for
| the future"
| Vocational education. not only to
supply present labor needs, but with
view toward the future Industrial
fife of Palestine. especially in the
! training Of women and girls in spe-
| cialized employment fields, has been
! introduced to allay present misery in
/ the Holy land
Help TO Employment.
| Considering the purpose OF con-
| structive relief there can be no more
satisfactory kind of help than that of
creating for the workers Opportuni-
ties for employment, giving them
wages instead of charity" it con-
tinues.
We pay for labor instead of for idle
ness and thereby help to teach the
| poverty stricken Pedestrians the ne
cessity and dignity of labor on con-
struction work especially we have en-
| poyment for hundreds of people We
take the ordinary unemployable man
and find something for him 10 do pay
ing him few piasters day for street
| cleaning instead of street begging.
1--WE are teaching him to become
self-supporting through stone-hewing
| and building, so that when materials
become available, there may be a
large number OF Jewish workmen pre-
pared to earn their living through our
help.
Workshops Established.
! Girls and women are given em-
| ployment in the workshops which we
have established. only recently wom-
ems work was little recognized and
encouraged, but now widows and or
phans have been taught to make their
way by the work of their hands.
"Our orphan department was very
large and presented "a serious problem
in the prospect of hundreds Of home
less street beggars. We have partially
solved this prolem by teaching them
in our workshops and affording them
u possibility for economic independ-
| ence.
While Poland and adjacent eastern
| European countries have been the
largest recipients of funds raised by
1 the American Jewish relief committee
and its kindred organizations. the Pal
| estinian work, although il has in
i volved no great expenditure in COM
parison, has been of the utmost i'm
portance and extremely successful
/ from the standpoint of results