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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
Press Comments on Butzel-Freund Discussion
HOME AND THE CHILD.
(Editorial in Cleveland Jewish
Independent.)
Fred M. Butzel of Detroit, is op-
posing a movement begun in that city
looking toward the establishment of
an infant asylum. Answering a let-
ter written by Adolph Freund of De-
troit, pointing to Cleveland's Orphan
Asylum and paying a splendid tribute
to the management of that and other
institutions operated for the care of
Jewish orphans, Mr. Blaze!, in a re-
cent issue of the Jewish Chronicle,
uses the stock anti-institutional argu-
ment of many social workers.
J. M. CLINTON
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE
Born in Detroit.
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JOHN C.
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COUNCILMAN
in each case is fully in sympathy with
the home environment principle.
Those in charge have encouraged par-
ents to retain their children wherever
possible, but it is also recognized that
there are conditions under which the
institution is the only answer to the
problem.
Home environment is best suited to
the child. It is the environment that
the Cleveland Home and other worthy
institutions have always sought to
maintain.
It is the argument of the educator
who preaches the doctrine of indi-
vidualism in school work. The meth-
ods the educator describes apply licau-
Wilily to classes of ten or fifteen or
twenty pupils, but completely over-
look the classes of forty or fifty and
even sixty pupils that frequently must
exist in the cities.
If there were a few orphans to be
cared for, the tiny unfortunates might
all be placed in good, normal homes.
1 But the actual fact is that hundreds
'each day are left helpless charges. It
is well to emphasize the home ideal
and it is also well to face existing
facts. The gradual substitution of the
cottage group for the single building
idea is an indication of the fact that
the management of these institutions
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HOME OR "HOME."
By DAVID A. BROWN
(Editorial in Jewish Spectator, New
Orleans.)
The Jewish Chronicle of Detroit,
one of our contemporaries, is to be
congratulated upon giving publicity
to a most interesting discussion upon
the merits of the institution ai op-
posed to the normal school conditions
in caring for the orphaned or depend-
ent children.
Mr. Adolph Freund, who takes up
the cudgels for the institutional care
of the child, is a man of great prac-
tical experience in child-caring work,
having been interested for many years
in the field work of the Cleveland
Orphan Home, and having kept,
therefore, in close touch with its in-
ner problems and its achievements.
Mr. Fred 'hazel, who takes issue
with Mr. Freund, is an inspired work-
er in the social field, recently honored
by his fellows at Kansas City by be-
ng elected to the office of president
of the Conference of Jewish Social
Workers—a man therefore who is at
bonne both in the theory and the prac-
tice of social endeavors.
The Jewish Spectator is interested
in the discussion because it is that of
men well informed, and of undoubted I
sincerity of view and purpose, but it
is interested also because the problem
is one which the Jewish communities
of the south may have to face in the
future. We, of the southern states,
composing what is known as the sev- 1
enth district of the Independent Or-I,
der of Irnai Writh, have given our
support for many years to the or
plum home of New Orleans; we are
proud of the institution, which has'
Cs er ranked high in the field of child-
caring work. Our pride is that this
institution will not blind us, however.
which, in a long term of years, may,
to the urgency of certain principles.
move men to close the doors of cer-
tain child-caring institutions, or to
change altogether their character.
In his discussion Mr. Butzel speaks
of the danger of institutions becom-
ing monuments to the vanity of the
rich. We do not believe that you
will find in our southern communities
that such a motive for the preserva-
tion of institutions will be seriously
considered.
We confess to the belief that in the
discussion referred to in the Chron-
icle, Mr. Freund came out second
best. We believe that M r. Butzel
hews to the line of careful interpreted
experience when he urges that insti-
tutions be specialized for the adoles-
cent child, but that the younger child
be kept in surroundings that repro-
duce, or approximate, the normal con-
ditions of the family home.
One of the functions of the Social 1
Service Department of the I ndepend- 1
eat Order of ll'nai ll'rith should be to
organize a campaign of education in
Jewish communities which shall have
the effect of urging on them the duty
of keeping within the community,
and in the normal home, dependent
children. The habit has been too eas-
ily acquired of following the line of
least resistance by applying at once,
in a given case of child-dependency,
for admission into the institution.
'there will be, for many years, the
need of institutions.
Perhaps men of great experience in
child-caring work will develop a ncw
kind of institution out of the old in
which the educational aim will be to
meet the social needs of the adoles-
::: cent child alone. Yet, the principle
Mould be enunciated with an ever-
emphasis that the child of
ft
;'
pre-adolescent
years must attain the
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foundations of character in the nor-
mal conditions of the family home.
Announcement has been made by,
the American Jewish Relief Commit-
tee of Rhode Island that the $50.000
campaign instituted last May has been
oversubscribed by nearly $!,3 1 10.
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WEIS5
JOSEPH
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Made up of all the elements that go to make up
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And it's this Cosmopolitan people that the
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Just being a big business man, is NOT enough--
Nor is being a good lawyer sufficient--
Or a fine public speaker--
These are excellent qualities, but the man big
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Must use common sense and good judgment--
Must understand human nature--
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qualifications.
His fifteen years of public service is the
answer.
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will find more than sufficient reason why
you should cast YOUR VOTE for WILLIAM
F. CONNOLLY for MAYOR.
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