Effort to Assure Maintenance of 17 Child-care Institutions

“Children’s Day”, the second day in the “Minute Week” campaign of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, was emphasized yesterday by members of Federation and several thousand workers who are selling time at $11 a minute for the support of seventeen child-care institutions and 74 other institutions affiliated with the Federation.

Under the honorary chairmanship of Adolph Lewisohn, who has long been associated with philanthropy for children, “Children’s Day” was set aside to center the attention of Federation’s contributors and workers in the 4,492 children dependent upon this Jewish community chest for their homes and education in the Blythedale Home for Crippled Children, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society, Home for the Hebrew Infants, Crippled Children’s East Side Free School, Hawthorne and Cedar Knolls, which are institutions for wayward boys and girls; the Convalescent Home for Hebrew Children, Brightside Day Nursery, the Children’s Haven, Lakeview Home for unmarried mothers and their children, and the Institution for the Improved Instruction of Deaf Mutes. The Child Adoption Committee, the Boarding-out Department of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, and the Home Bureau, the boarding-out department of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society are also numbered among the most important of the child-care group.

More than one fifth, or 21.8 percent of Federation’s total budget of $3,923,000 is devoted to child-care institutions. With a deficit of $471,000 still to be obtained before the 1932 budget for Federation’s 91 institutions is secure, it was pointed out by Paul Felix Warburg and Ira M. Younker campaign chairmen, that a substantial part of Federation’s appropriation to these child-care institutions is still lacking.