Smyrna times., 1906-08-01
SMYRNA CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY
Local Organization Working In Coniunc,io,
With the Delaware and New Jersey SOcie.
Ties ln Looking For Christian Homes.

win the Delaware aud New Jersey Socie-
ties ln Looking For Christian Homes.
The Delaware Children's Home
Society incorporated at Dover and
operating in conjunction with the
New Jersey Children's Home Society
is needing homes in Christian families
for very small children, especially
little boys under five years of age and
babies, both boys and girls. The
Natlonal Children Home Society of
which this is a part is comprised of
twenty-seven State organizations op-
Grating In thirty States in the Union
ana has now provided homes in fam
lies for p, 600 children. Prof. Charles
H. Henderson of the chair of sociology
IN the University of Chicago is the
president of the national organization.
Many of the leading men of the couu-
try such as President Mckinley who
was president of the Ohio branch of
the Society, have been identified with
the movement. AS the Delaware and
the New Jersey Society operate as one
organization for the sake of economy
the children are cared for in the Rec
ewing Home in Trenton, n. J. only
while awaiting the selection of and
transportation to some family home.
Inc agents of the Society through
their constant travels discovering
cases OF neglect and abuse are able to
rescue these little unfortunate ones
from lives CT misery and seek for them
the best homes that can be found in
Christian families. MANY Of them
have been abandoned, and where it is
impossible to make the dllInquent
parents responsible for their main
tenace, the Society must assume their
guardianship. Many are very respect
able, the homes have been broken up
through death, accident or poverty.
Some are taken by due process of law
from vicious parents, and some have
been taken from the almshouses of
each of these States and from other
institutions where they have been de-
tanned since infancy. 1t is the custom
OF the Society to organize in almost
every part of the State a Local Com.
mlttee made up of representatives of
the various denominations, inasmuch
as the work is wholly undenomination-
al; these Local Committees to be a
medium of communication by which
the central Office keeps In touch with
the conditions in that community.
1t is the purpose of this organization
as operated in the thirty States that
great care shall be taken in the select
ION of the home for the child, it having
been clearly established that the great
mistakes which have been made and
are being made to-day in the placing
of helpless and dependent children are
made through the carelessness of the
institution or agency having that work
In charge, in many instances the in
stltutions having that work in facili-
ties for investigating the homes and
supervising the placed-out children.
Some of the Smyrna people are
regular contributors to the work of
the Society. Contributions may be
made through any member of the
Local Committee which is as follows:
President, Rev. j. l.. Estlin; Secre-
tary, MIR. l.. NJ. Price; Treasurer, Mr..
j. G. Robinson; Mrs, J. p. Hudson;
and Mrs. j. W. Anthony. The above
persons would also be glad to hear any
suitable home for any of these very
small children, or of any neglected |
child that might be aided. The mem
bers of the Delaware Board of Mana
gers are as follows: President, Rev.
Joseph Brown Turner, Dover; 1st
Vice-Pres., Rev. r. X. Stephenson,
Wilmington; 2nd Vice. Pres, Rev. H. |
L. Bunstein, Milford Secretary Treas
urer, John b. Hutton, Dover; William
Benson, Dover; Prof. E. L. Cross.
Dover; Rev. A. s. Mowbray, Whining
ton; Benz. F. b. Woodal, Milford;
Rev. Geo. T. Price, Dover; Superin-
tendent, Rev. M. T. Lamb, Trenton,
N. j.; Asst. Supt., G. V. Williams,
Trenton, N. j.
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