(Excerpt from Everyman's Child
To my mother, tenderly car...)
Excerpt from Everyman's Child
To my mother, tenderly cared for in her early life, an only child; reared as a delicate, beautiful flower; whose prospects were so bright as to exclude any possibility of poverty, yet who suddenly faced the firing-line of not only fostering but financing her family of six chil dren, when she became a widow. It was only through Herculean effort that each child se cured the proper foundation for self-reliance to face the future.
That Everyman's Child shall have his chance, through proper public aid, should his parents or guardians fail to procure it, is the one funda mental purpose of this book.
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Where young girls learn the...)
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Where young girls learn the wily ways Of womanhood before they have begun to use hairpins.
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Once upon a time t...)
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Once upon a time there was a man with a grievance. He loved his grievance. For he hugged his grievance very close to him.
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Sophie Irene Simon Loeb was an American social worker, journalist and author.
Background
Sophie Irene Simon Loeb was born on July 4, 1876 in Rovno, Russia (now part of Ukraine), in a Jewish home. The eldest child of Samuel and Mary (Carey) Simon, she was descended from generations of rabbis and scholars. Brought to the United States by her parents at the age of six, she grew up in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. When she was sixteen her father, a watchmaker and jeweler, died, leaving his widow practically penniless. Her mother's bitter struggle to keep the home together and educate six children fixed Sophie's determination from girlhood to do something to help the widowed mothers and fatherless children of America.
Education
She graduated from high school.
Career
For some years Sophie Irene supported herself in Pittsburgh by teaching china painting and by newspaper writing. In 1910, unknown, and without means, she removed to New York to launch a crusade for legislation providing aid for mothers with dependent children. As a reporter on the Evening World, she sought assignments in the slums in order to get facts at first-hand, and wrote a series of compelling "human-interest stories. " From the platform, too, she plead the case for subsidized mother-care as against orphanage care. Within a year she had the backing of influential people and was making headway with her first bill at Albany. Three years of work, "educating legislators, " secured the appointment in 1913 of a commission for the relief of widowed mothers. As a member of this commission she went abroad to study conditions in the six European countries most advanced in child-conservation, and later rendered an exhaustive report. She headed the hard-fought campaign which secured in 1915 the passage of the initial mothers' pension act in accordance with which the New York Child Welfare Board was appointed with Miss Loeb as president. Her crusades for housing relief, model tenements, cheaper milk, cheaper gas, public baths, play streets, maternity care, school centers, and safer movie-theatres, she carried through by newspaper publicity plus direct legislative campaigning. Single-handed she waged a fight for low taxi fares and bonded drivers.
In 1917 she settled a strike of taxi drivers in seven hours. During wartime coal shortage she stimulated Congressional inquiry, spending six months among the miners to ascertain facts. In 1920 she served on the commission appointed by Gov. Alfred E. Smith to codify the child-welfare laws of the state. In 1924, as first president of the Child Welfare Committee of America, founded largely through her determination, she carried her campaign to the nation, addressing many of the state legislatures. She toured Palestine in 1925, interviewing dignitaries--Arab, Jewish, and Christian, and embodied the results in a series of articles, afterward put into book form. In 1926 the International Child Welfare Congress at Geneva indorsed her anti-orphanage resolution. The League of Nations, 1927, solicited her aid as adviser on Child Welfare, requesting a report on blind children in America, which she completed.
Beside her regular work for the World, carried on for eighteen years, she wrote syndicate articles, plays, and moving-picture features of humanitarian interest. Among her several books are Epigrams of Eve (1913), Everyman's Child (1920), and Palestine Awake (1926). When she died in New York, a thousand people attended her funeral.
Achievements
Sophie Irene Loeb was credited with having secured more constructive welfare legislation than any other woman in America. She was distinguished for her service as the president of the Board of Child Welfare of New York for seven years. During her tenure appropriations for mothers' aid rose from $100, 000 to over $5, 000, 000. She also established the first child welfare building.
She was a little woman, endowed with tremendous driving power, courage, and tenacity of purpose. For herself she wanted nothing, least of all concessions to the fact that she was a woman. She organized her work like a man of affairs, fought in the open, and took hard knocks with impersonal unconcern. In quickness of mind and a certain intolerance of slower thinking, she was wholly feminine.
Connections
At twenty Sophie married Anselm Loeb, of Pittsburgh. The union proved an unhappy one, and on recovering her legal freedom she called herself "Miss Loeb".
