Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1943 — Page 6
np oximately 500,000 in Great Lakes Area tq Be Affected.
Approximately 500,000 persons in Great Lakes region will be ted by the discontinuance of
food stamp plan March 1. Latest tistics show that 11,974 Hoosiers been participating under the The plan, inaugurated in Roches- , N. Y.,, in May, 1939, was slated increase the consumption of urplus foods and to improve the fliet of families needing public astance. Secretary of Agriculture ide R. Wickard recently ordered system terminated. BE. O. Pollock, regional adminis-
istration, reported a steady lownward trend in participation in
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the desk from Elizabeth Coyle, the Care Service headquarters in the Claypool hotel building. That’s the way a lot of them begin. There are variations, of course, but in essence they sum up to the need for someone to provide proper day care for children while the
or what have you. It’s an Old Story It isn’t a new story. It’s been heard here and there for months. Ib is estimated that right away 86,000 children in Indiana will need day care. A large portion of them will be right here in Indianapolis. Their problem not only is a big, and up to now generally unsolved, one for mothers but a community problem as well. Those women are needed in industry. The local employment office says 22,000 women will have to go to work here before the end of 1943.
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Day Care Service By ROSEMARY REDDING 7 have a chance for a job in a local war plant, I would like to take
it. They need help and I need the money. But I can’t work unless I know that my litile gir] will be well cared for during the day. I was
That's the way a young mother began her story as she sat across
counselor, in the Indianapolis Day already are employed, that means
women who never. before worked, many of them women with children.
The result is the Indianapolis day care service. The headquarters was set up several weeks ago and now
to put mothers in contact with “day care mothers.” Oppose ‘Baby Farm’ Many mothers wouldn't think of taking jobs and putting children in the so-called “baby farms” where they had no guarantee of the type of care a child would receive. Some have taken chances and finally quit their jobs when things didn’t go well. - They come to the day care headquarters. They find Elizabeth Coyle whose job it is to carefully talk over their problems with them." ‘The whole program is built upon seeing that the child will have his emotional and physical needs satisfield, As Miss Coyle points out, the child faces a real deprivation in the loss of a close and continued relationship with its mother. and the first effort made is always an attempt to meet the mother’s need through some means other than her employment.
Seek Best of Care
Although the staff strives always to place the child's welfare first, it recognizes that employment of the mother may be a necessity not only to meet war needs but; also because of widowhood, pov or lack of normal income through removal of the wage earner. Since those things are factors, the day care service tries to provide the best care it can find.
No distinction is made between the mother in war or non-war employment since the woman on a non-war job may release a worker for war employment. The applicants usually fall into four general categories. The soldiers’ wife who feels her allotment
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it by working; the mother in a family where both parents need to work to make “ends meet”; the dow or deserted woman with dren, and the woman who has worked fora long time but no longer can find domestic help,
Some Told to Stay Home
Miss Coyle goes over the mother’s case and sometimes feels that it is advisable to “talk her into” remaining at home rather than taking a job. If the case is one where the day care home is needed, the applicant is given the name of a “day care mother” in her locality. (An attempt is made to place & child in a home near its own so that. the surroundings will not be unfamiliar and so that the transportation factor won't have to be considered.) From then on, the negotiations are between the mother and the “day care mother.” They sign an agreement setting forth the hours in which the ‘child will be cared for, some provisions about meals, ete. This is for the protection of both, If ,the mother leaves the child beyond the hours designated, there is a penalty clause to take care of
that. The day care service has
set the minimums which should be charged for care. For a pre-school child who will be at the day care home all day and need one warm meal, the service suggests 80 cents a day, or $4.80 a week, If two children from the same family are kept, the fee for the second child is set at $3.75.
Provide Noon Meals For the school age child who is
and who comes to the home for the noon day meal, thie service suggests] 50 cents a day. How does the mother know what kind of a home she places her child in? Well. the Council of Social Agencies and the Office of Civilian Defense, who sponsor the service, are just as interested in that as the mother. They are as much, if not more, against so-called “baby farms” as
kind” of day boarding homes for | mi; children. To date they have enlisted! have 3
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Mrs. Hazel Green had a job but she quit recently because she had no one with which to les
2-year-old Sharon. She brought Sharon with her to the day care service headquarters to talk over) } problem with Miss Elizahoth Coyle (right), the cou nselor.
the work: of volunteers to help find such homes. ‘The P.-T. A. groups are doing some canvassing. The American Association of University Women, the Junior League and the auxiliaries to the Orphan home and the day nursery are offering the assistance of their members who have had some background training in social service work. Under the direction of Mrs. Marietta Hahn, they visit and study homes where patriotic women are helping to do their bit by offering to keep children. They make notations about facilities, ete. ‘These are filed and eventually the qualified
welfare department. A state law already provides that 10 more than four babies may be cared for in a “day care home” and that not more than six older children be kept. These homes are filed according to localities, as well as the mothers’ applications, so that they can be matched.
only a part of the day care service program. Group care in nurseries, play schools, etc., is the other. Here in Indianapolis we have two established nurseries.
Nursery Cares for 167
The Indianapolis Day Nursery has a capacity of 109 and is caring for 167. Flanner House nursery was designed to care for 50 and is doing the job for 75. There are some WPA nurseries over the city hut there is a question as to whether they will go along with the liquidation of the WPA by the government. More nursery facilities are needed. Part of the program of the day care service eventually is to offer assistance in meeting that problem. All that it would seem is enough work to keep the day service busy. But besides that Miss Coyle is conferring with personfiél heads "in
the problem of the mother who is quitting her job because she has no one to care for her child. Besides Mrs. Hahn's supervision of the home study, she is supervising the training of volunteer workers to do the job.: All in all, it's a big job this new group is undertaking. Mothers already are saying “thanks.” The community owes the day care service a similar vote.
DANCE IS SCHEDULED
A young people’s dance will be held Saturday night in the Scottish Rite cathedral. Mr, and Mrs. Wilbur Smith are in charge of arrangements and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Beam are co-chairmen of the young people’s dance committee.
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