The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-03-18
wupEE HUNDRED CHILDREN ARE
HAPPY THROUGH GENEROSITY
OF NEW YORK BUSINESS MAN
SENT TO WEST AND SOUTH
Money Could Not Now Buy BACK
These Waits From Foster far-
ents. Happy Homes FOR
TINY Human Dcrelicts.


Three hundred and twenty-one
;deaI homes have been found IN the
south and the west for child wars OF
this civ Inv a hard-headed business
man who believes that the law OF
child-supply and child-demand can
be and should be, adjusted like that
of commercial commodities says
New York dispatch. 1t has cost TINS
man lust $4,000 to establish ms
somewhat unusual theory. He re-
CARDS it as money well spent, how
ever. as it has taken 1922 children
from habitations where they were I'M
welcome and placed them in homes
where people appreciate the privilege
OF caring for little folks.
Perhaps the most unusual feature
of this mans self-imposed ADJUST
ment TO the law of supply and de-
mand. as it relates to children, is
that neither sentiment nor romance
DromDted him to take up the WORK.
AS he explained to the officials of
the Children's Aid Society, which
acted as his agent in placing the chill
dren. it was merely cold, practical,
business proposition.
81 have $4,000" he said, which
1 am willing to spend in finding real
homes for children who need them.
/ am not offering this money as
memorial to any dead child. All my
children are alive and well. Neither
is there any romance or sentiment
in my proposition. | know, however,
that there are hundreds of children
in this city who are either roaming
the streets or starving in homes
where they are not welcome |
know also that there are thousands
of homes where a child is wanted,
especially in the southern and west
ern states. | believe it is possible
to bring these unloved children and
child-lovers together, and | am will
ing to wager $4,000 that it can be
done"
The donors only stipulations were
that his name be withheld, and that
for every $50 paid out, at least one
unfortunate child should secure a
real home.
$50 Invested in Each.
Inc sou was W D0 spent III lOCdl-
ing foster parents and for the child's
transportation. There was no need
of spending money to find children
who needed homes. or to pay people
to welcome them. The roster of the
Children's Aid Society, which is the
saddest juvenile roll in this country,
always contains the names of hun
dreds Of unhappy little ones who
would be benefited by change of
environment. =,
The society, however, volunteered
to have it's agents visit the cnaldren
benefited by this special fund, and
report on their cases in the same
manner as the cases of the other
3 900 children placed during the last
decade. Today 1922 children who
were merely existing in squalid sur
at the time the $4,000
donation was offered are now really
living.
Data for many a novel are con-
tanned in these reports. The stories
of the tiny human derelicts who, like
Sarah Crewe, have been whisked
from the tenements into luxurious
homes, where every advantage is
given them, read like fairy tales,
but have the added charm at be-
ing true.
Here is the true fairy story" of
little Johnnie Smith. (Smith is not
his real name. 1t wouldn't be fair
to give that
Johnnie never had any parents