1922 the Witness, Vol. 7, No. 19. December 30, 1922
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The Witness | Vol. VII. No. 19 ___________CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, DECEMBER 30, 1922____________ $1.50 A YEAR Social Service Department j Palaces and Monasteries Áre Plans Active Work j Sheltering Orphans Council of Advise, Meeting in Chicago, Outlines The Homes of Kings Now Being Used To Shelter Social Service Work for the Year the Children of the Near East From the four corners of the country The ancient royal palace at Athens now and from each of the eight provinces of the shelters four hundred Greek orphans, Church, the members of the Council of Ad gathered by the Near East Relief. This vice to the Secretary of the Department of former abode of royalty has been ten Social Service of the National Council came dered by the Greek Government, which together in Chicago to discuss social service has also requisitioned a dozen fashionable plans for the coming year. In addition to summer hotels to be converted into a. har Dean Lathrop, the National Secretary, the bor of refuge for thousands of destitute following were present: Miss Ann Vernon, little ones to be added to the 115,000 Providence, R. I.; the Rev. Charles K. Gil orphans which the Near East Relief now bert of New York; the Rev. R. P. Kreitler fathers. of Scranton, Pa.; the Rev. David R. Coveil It was a strange coincidence which of Washington, D. C.; the Rev. Charles L. changed the Kaiser’s summer palace on the Street of Chicago; the Rev. Herman Page Island of Corfu into the hands of Near of Okanogan, Wash.; the Rev. G. S. Keller East Relief upon his wedding day. Now of Winona, Minn.; the Rev. L. N- Taylor of it is the center of our asylum for 2,132 Roanoke Rapids, N. C., and the Rev. L. V. Armenian orphans. Chartered steamers Lee of Houston, Texas, representing the are bringing six thousand abandoned Rev. R. De Ovies. Armenian and Greek children from unsafe It was agreed that the parish is the logi Turkish teritory to the islands of the cal unit for the development of social serv Aegean Sea. ice work in the Church, and that each par A Sultan’s son’s estate on the Bosphor ish should have a social service committee. us, with its parks and gardens, now pro A resolution was passed urging that the vides an industrial home for girls rescued Diocesan Commissions and the parish com from a fate worse than death. They are mittees select some one problem for study , R ev. Dr. M ilton being given a training that will-fit them and action during the coming year. The The Field Department reports the resig for a happy life and for self-support. three following problems were selected as An ancient Monastery on Mt. Athos has particularly important: nation of the Rev. Dr. Milton as Execu tive Secretary to take effect December 31, been induced to open its doors to three 1. County Jail. 1922. The Council at its meeting last thousand hoys, and the cowled monks who 2. County Poor Farms. week expressed its sincere appreciation of were its exclusive occupants and believed 3. Child Placing and Child Welfare. the loyal and efficient services performed that any female, be it woman or hen, by Dr. Milton during his term of office. would desecrate its sacred precincts, are The committee was unanimous in its ap now finding joy in teaching these home proval of the plan of having children less, fatherless and motherless children. placed in private homes rather than in in stitutions. It was shown that there are himself with regard to co-operation be* It is the same at Jerusalem, where the more children of Church parents available tween the Church and social agencies out ancient cloisters of St. James’ Armenian for adoption than there are Church fami side of the Church. Mr. Hunter was of Monastery are now the homes and school lies willing to take care of them. In some the opinion that the Church should not rooms of a thousand children, most of cases these children are Being adopted and turn all its relief cases over to the Chari whom had filtered down the Tigris and brought up by members of other churches, ties. He said that on general principles Euphrates valleys to Bagdad and later notably the Roman Catholic Church. he was opposed to bringing new workers were transferred around the Arabian Pe “Church Homes for Church Children” in to re-investigate families in troubles. ninsula to Jerusalem en route back toward should be our slogan. When the family and its problems are well their homelahd. known to the clergyman, it is better for The Social Service Department plans to him to handle the case himself, with out Abandoned factories and school buildings give more courses in the summer schools side advice, if necessary, than to turn it on the slopes of Mt. Lebanon harbor five than it has during the past years. over to some other social organization. thousands from Harpoot, who had walked A special effort is going to be made to However, in cases where there is only a five hundred miles to safety, while two provide an interesting social service pro superficial connection with the Church it miles of discarded Russian army barracks gram for the young people who are com might well be given to the United Char (a hundred and forty-eight buildings) at ing each year in greater numbers to the ities. Mr. Hunter said also that on ac Alexandropol, under the shadow of Mount summer conferences. The Rev. Herman count of the enormous amount of work Ararat, where the Ark rested, provides Page was appointed on a committee to de that charity organization societies have refuge for sixteen thousand youngsters velop a suitable course for use with young to do, it was frequently impossible to keep rescued from woe and want who are now people in the summer schools. in touch with families after the actual being given industrial training. Dr. Joel D. Hunter, Superintendent of need of relief ceases. He suggested that In the orphanages the boys spend half the United Charities of Chicago, expressed (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 6) Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. 2 THE WITNESS GENERAL NEWS OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOCIAL SERVICE PLANS had become an important factor in the Congregational orders, joined with our (Continued from page 1) religious life of the country. He intro clergy and with the bishop in the laying there was a real opportunity for the duced three alumni, the Rev. George E. on of hands. Church to step in and assume the care of Norton, rector of the Church of St. Probably this is the first time in history the family at this point by building up the Michael and All Angels, St. Louis, Mo., that our .ministers have joined with Con morale of the family. The Church by its the Very Rev. Charles E. Jackson, Dean gregational clergymen in an ordination care should be able to do away with the og St. Mark’s Pro-Cathedral, Grand Rap service. need of the case being reopened and re ids, Mich., and the Rev. Walter Russell South Called to lief administered at some later date. Breed, rector of St. Paul’s Church, Cleve The Council felt that the Church has a land, Ohio. Anti-Lynching War real pastoral obligation to professional so Each of these men told of the definite A movement to enlist the 250,000 or cial workers who are Church people, an influence the school had through its alum ganized women of the Southern Metho obligation which has not always been met. ni, on the life of the Middle West. dist Church in a determined and system To bring out the need of added emphasis The reasons for raising the Million Dol atic campaign for the suppression of on the spiritual side of the life of social lar Fund, and the plans for the campaign lynching was launched at Atlanta, Ga., workers, the Council recommended to the were discussed at the dinner to the dele this week. A large group of representa National Council that the second Sunday gates in Burnham Refectory in the even tive women from thirteen states, all of after Epiphany be set aside each year as ing. Mr. B. Preston Clark, the executive them officials of the Woman’s Missionary the Sunday for a corporate communion of chairman of the campaign, presided; Mr. Council of Conference Social Service Su all social workers who are members of William Henry Lincoln, president of the perintendents, met at the call of the Race the Episcopal Church and a special collect board of trustees, welcomed the dele Relations Commission of the Council be provided for this Sunday. gates, the Rev. Henry B. Washburn, Dean spent three days in conference, and at the The matter of rural work was discussed. of the School, spoke on “The Inner Life conclusion issued a vigorous address to the It was decided that the whole matter of of the School,” and the Rt. Rev. William public relative to the lynching evil, call rural work Was so important that a special Lawrence, national chairman of the cam ing upon the authorities of the several study should be made of the problems that paign, spoke on “Why the School Needs states and counties for its complete sup- it involved. The Council of Advice recom One Million Dollars.” pression and upon the citizens, the pulpit mended to the National Secretary that a and the press for their united support to special division of rural work be formed Bishop Maclnnes this end.