The Denver Jewish news., 1922-04-19


Nor dare the Sabbath day profane
| Give both thy parents honor due.
| Take heed thar thou no murder do. O.
Abstain from words and deeds nm
clean.
Nor steal. though thou are poor and
mean.
Nor make n wilful lie and love it.
What is thy ncighbor's do not covct.
-Uaion Home Study Magazine.
| special vocational guidance director
for the boys. He arranges the con-
| tracts for the apprentices as well as
their later employment. More than
five hundred of the older girls and
boys from twelve years and upwards
are now learning various trades the
boys being apprenticed with cnrpen-
ters. weavcrs. shoemakers, tailors.
gardeners, blacksmiths. tinsmithS.
stone-cutters, painters. mechanics.
| brushmakers, watch-makers, printers,
! book binders. slddlcrs. scriberS photo
Graphers. upholsterers, etc. the girls
learning to become dressmakers.
seamstresses. steneographers. carpet
weavers, miliners, trained domestic
servants. stocking makers, etc.
In Jerusalem, shoerepair shop
has been opened with skilled masters
which now not only repairs the shoes
of the wards. hut makes their sandals
and boots. The twenty four boys re-
ceive wages for piece work. instead
OF the monthly allowance they former
ly received.
Recently. II dressmaking shop was
opened in the administration building
in order that the girls might have
shorter. more intensive course than
was elsewhere available.
Through the Kindness OF the Board
of Education of the Zionist Commis-
sion. schooling is granted free to or
rEans ON the other hand. the Je
rusalem STAFF includcs special school
visitor. and subsidy is granted the
evening schools. the majority of pu-
pills being orphans
Trade school for girls have been
opened in Safed and Tiberias. In the
former. in addition to sewing and
stocking making. cooking and laundry
work are taught 1t is hoped that thi
school may obtain II grant in aid from
the Palestine Department of Educa
tion for tn. coming year.
Furthermore. as Safed is particu-
larly barren of trade opportunities. n
small pension. the ".tsha1iah.' has
been opened to teach girls general
housework.
Great caro- is exercised that the ap
prcnticeS are not exploited. hut that
they receive careful instruction and
continue their studies in evening
schools~ Moreover, in all Of our work
shops. two l.: Jerusalem. two in Safed
one in Hebron and one in Tiberias.
the girls and boys receive wages in
stead of relief. beginning to "nrn gen
orally at the end of six months and
leaving when sclf-supporting and i'm
ployment is found elsewhere.
In TfberiaS. and in Safad, the half
orphans in need of assistance receive
Il meal instead of money subsidy. the
food being prepared by the girls of
tie Trade Schools. An "ndeavor is
being made to spread this work to
Jerusalem not through special soup
Kitchens for orphans. but through
school lunches II is most desirable,
for the majority of the children of
the country are und"rnournished,
chiefly through the Ignorance of their
mothers. In Tiberias and in Hnifa,
| the Soup Kitchens for the orphans
serve also as Day Home for those
children whose mothers work the chill
dren returning after kindergarten or
school hours to await their mothers.
| The services of volunteer WORKERS are
called upon in this connection for re-
creational work and for various
classes.
Funds of the Joint Distribution COM
mittee are not used for purposes OF
higher education. but it is hoped that
through the medium of financial adop
| tion funds will he available for such
purposes in exceptional cases. Ten
Kicked boys have recently entered the
| agricultural School Mt Mikvah Israel
and it is hoped that their support may
! he obtained through financial adop-
| ton
This informtion is quoted from n
lrief outline of til" work of the Pal-
cStiae Orphan committee CA sub-com-
mittee of the Joint Distribution Com
mittee) which was submitted by DIR.