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The Southern Israelite
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••Wanted: Homes For
•lewisli Children”
Annual Meeting of the
Jrphans Home was held at
nape on January 26th, 1930.
inificant as the ending of
years of service to Jewish
i the Southeastern states
the 5th District of the In-
; Order of B’nai B’rith, which
•ati'd the home and still con-
tir.ut-s support it on a per capita
mugh no longer under its
aU'!‘
: a new epoch in its activities
to be inaugurated is indi
cated by the reports that were pre-
. the president, Mr. Victor
H. Kriepshaber; the chairman of the
aid, Mr. Joseph Loewus, and
mse of the various communities
which have functioned throughout the
pholding the standards which
! among the front rank of
lodern institutions for the care of
dependant and neglected children. The
uperintendent, Mr. Armand Wyle, al-
) presented a report outlining in
detail the functioning of the institu-
i during the year that he has been
:n charge. Throughout all the re-
f the officers ran a common
purpose which was definitely express-
i a report of the New Policy
Committee, which was read by Mr.
Herbert J. Haas.
twenty years the Hebrew Or-
Home has been subsidizing
'hildren in their own homes with their
lothers, thus conserving what has
been known to be the unit in civiliza-
—the family. These children
ave been supervised in recent years
by trained workers and efforts made
1 give them the same advantages
that the efficiency of an institution
n g' v c. Their physical and mental
th, their education and religious
aave been safeguarded, and they
o had preserved for them the boon
fat can come only from contact with
own mother, and which no paid
d can possibly duplicate. Only
su °h children whose parents were un-
f r various reasons to supervise
rearing were placed in the or-
ge, and the reports showed that
vere fewer children now in the
ution than in subsidized and
:n g homes. Therefore the new
has been ratified of finding
yarding homes for as many of the
•dren now in the institution as can
,JUn d and an effort is about to
H( le to appeal to such mothers
1 room and care for un-
iate children. While this policy
'tern new to those who have al-
looked upon the orphanage as
gical place for dependent child-
of . ^ ere is no doubt in the minds
ose w ho have given thought and
-ipation to the question that
as expressed in the words
^ hite House Conference called
1 ■ esident Roosevelt twenty years
is the highest product fo civili-
1 and no child should be deprived
for reasons of poverty alone.”
* re in adopting this plan which
en found successful in every
" ere it has been tried by trained
s, the orphans home is only
pace with modern tendencies
tn ging conditions. Following
f| f t
bv
its efforts to preserve family life in
its normal situations, it now takes
another step forward in making fur
ther efforts to give the children under
its care the next best opportunity to
enjoy home life by placing its child
ren in thoroughly investigated and
carefully supervised boarding homes.
The pride which comes from pointing
to brick and mortar as a criterion of
success will now be transferred to
that of achievement in serving the
Jewish children in this locality in a
way that is best for the child. Much
has been said against this plan by
those who have not investigated its
workings elsewhere. When conducted
by experienced workers, there is no
chance for exploitation by foster-
parents, because no home is accepted
until every detail regarding its in
tegrity has been investigated, and if
a mistake were made in this selection
the trained supervisor soon discovers
it. It is admitted that this has oc
curred in casese where laymen with
the best of intentions have attempted
to place children. However, the Jew
ish communities in New York, Bos
ton, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit,
Cleveland, and the two cities in Cali
fornia, as well as many other Jewish
communities, have found from long
experience that this is the happiest
solution for the care and training of
unfortunate children. The Jewish
community of Baltimore, a decade
ago, had two orphanages which were
combined and a new orphanage built.
Several years ago this new institu
tion was also abandoned and the en
tire child care problem is now con
ducted in private boarding homes
without any suspicion of commercial
ism on the part of those to whom the
children are entrusted.
Mr. Wyle in his work in Los An
geles, found more acceptable homes
than there were children in which to
place them. Out of every four homes
applying for children, only one was
regarded as fully measuring up to the
standards required for this type of
care. The foster-mothers were paid
so little above the actual cost of rear
ing these children, that there was no
chance of the foster-parent doing it
for gain, because of the slight mar
gin. He attributes the success in this
work to the fundamental principle
that is inseparable from the Jewish
religion and its traditions of ethics
and justice. It is not only the rich,
he said, who have an urge for social
service to those less fortunate than
themselves. There are many Jewish
mothers who have these same philan
thropic impulses, but cannot afford to
express them financially; it is among
these that those mothers are found
who are willing to give service in lieu
of money.
The officers of the home feel that
Atlanta Jewry is neither exceptional
nor backward in its desire to be a
part of this movement and that when
the purpose and efficiency of the plan
is understood by this community,
there will be little difficulty in find
ing many doors opened to these less
privileged children. Already inquiries
have been made from potential foster-
parents, and as oon as plans can be
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