Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-03-16
BOYS AND GIRLS AID
SOCIETY Do GOOD WORK
Grants Pass Schools Donation
Amounted to $40 OF Last
Thanksgiving.

The Superintendent of the Boys
and Girls Aid Society Of Oregon feels
it public duty to publicly aoknow
edge the kind donations made to the
Society by the children of the public
schools of Grants Pass and also to ac-
knowledge the kindly cooperation
of the principals and teachers at
Thanksgiving. The officials of the
Southern Pacific Railroad were good
enough to carry Thanksgiving dona-
tions free, but the public schools of
this city decided to make their do
nations in money, and in all SEQ. o.
was collected and forwarded to the
superintendent by Mr.. r. r. Turner,
Principal, which was gratefully re-
ceived and acknowledged.
The society received a large dona.
tion from the school children of the
state last Thanksgiving, much larger
in proportion than they received from
the public schools Of Portland, prin-
cipally due to the fact that the schools
in the city of Portland divide their
donations up among the several organ
izations, but throughout the state,
the Boys and Gilrs' Aid Society
should appeal to the pupils of the
public schools more than any other Or
ganization for th3 reason that they
are the only child saving society that
receives children from all parts of
the state without any question, the
only requirement being that the child
Is in need and has no friends who
are in position to care for it, and
the visiting agent OF the society is
always pleased to investigate all cases
of reported abuse or neglect of child
ren, and if necessary will appear in
court and prosecute the same if
brought to his notice.
Then again, it would seem just aud
proper that the children help the
children. There is Ger iainly no better
lesson to be learned in the public
schools than that of charity and as
charity hegins at home. let the child
rem help heir less fortunate fellows
whom it has become necessary to
pla'e in an institution away from
their home and surroundings.
There is now at the Receiving Home
about 40 children, taken from all parts
of the state, and among them is one
boy from Josephine oornty aged about
10 years, who will probably stay there
for a long period, as he is not bright or
desirable child for family home,
but the officers are doing the hest they
possibly can for him and 1t is quite
possible that he will grow out Of his
defects to great extent, so that in a
few years he may be placed in a
family home. Other children com.
mitted from Josephine county are
placed out in good family homes.
One, a girl, is out working for wages
and is doing SO well that the superin-
tendent is much pleased with her i'm.
provement.
County Judge Booth is now mem
ber of the society and therefore in
harmony with the work they are do
ing, The superintendent intends to
visit Grants Pass shortly, and with
the co operation of the county judge
and assistance Of the charitably in
clined ladies of the town to oranize a
sort of Juvenile Court where cases ap.
pertaining children, either delinquent
or dependent, can be taken up and the
children removed or the surroundings
improved, and in conjunction with
this Mr., Gardner wishes to organize
board who will assist him in look
ing after the wards of the society
placed out in family homes in the
vicinity. All those assisting will be
admitted as members of the Boys and
Girls Aid Society and will take up
the cause of homeless, neglected or
abused children.
W. T. GARDNER,
Portland. March /.