Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-30
HELPS
MANY CHILDREN
HUMANE WORK INCREASES
EVERY MONTH
CONDUCTED SEPARATE FROM
S. p. C. A.
Organization investigates Eighty Cases
in May, involving 1850 Youths and
Requiring 400 Calls by
Officers

geles Humane Society for Children for
number of years was carried on III
| connection with that of the S. Z. I. A.
and notwithstanding the fact that the
former society was for time depen-
| dent on the S. p. G. A., great STRIDES
toward an improved condition nave
been made within the past two years,
as shown by data compiled last week.
| The work during this period shows
more cases investigated and more chill
| dren looked after than during all the
/ previous years of the organization
| combined The amount of good accom-
plished by the Los Angeles Humane
! Society for Children is illustrated In
the following resume:
| The Los Angeles Humane Society for
| Children was incorporated in 1885.
During the union of the two societies
| the following acted as presidents: H.
| r. Lee, 1856 1895; DR.. Walter Ltndley,
| 1895 1896; Mai w. ]. Wedemeyer, 1886
1897: Asa A. Clark, 1897 1899; DR.. f. A.
! Seymour, 1S99-1904.
| For a number of years the work was
| carried on in connection with the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
| Animals, comparatively small
amount of work being done for chill
dren. About 1904 the work for animals
SO overshadowed the work for children
that it was thought best to separate
the work of the two societies, and Mrs.
| !. b. Willard was elected president or
the Humane Society for Children. AT
/ that time the society had neither Of
/ flee nor officers, furniture nor funds.
| For a few months they had the loan
of q desk and desk room from the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
! Animals. Some money was raised by
| the president and her friends, and
small appropriation made by the city
| council. An office was rented in the
! @. T. Johnson building, corner of
Fourth street and Broadway, which
has been the continuous home of the
Humane Society for Children.
Work Grows
In the past five years of the society's
separate existence there have been four
different humane officers: j. c. webb,
H. C. Aiken and E. F. G. Dearborn,
for one year each, and r. w. Reynolds,
for more than two years past. Mrs.
Virginia Heap, the very efficient dis
trict visitor and deputy humane officer,
was elected in 1906, as an indication
of the growth of the work of looking
after and caring for neglected and
abused children.
With the increase in growth there
is also shown an increase in efficiency
in the work of caring for children,
greater SITGSS DGlllS letlI Oli PhONCAiSAfO
work: fewer children are removed from
the homes and placed in institutions
and more parents are being compelled
to properly care for and support their
children.
During the past year Cos separate
cases were investigated. requiring 1910
calls, and with the work of looking
after old cases, required 1890 calls by
the two officers. In these cases 1912
ol.idno,, x,,ara ipuolUad More than
one-half, or 525 children, were relieved;
245 warnings were given, and in most
cases, no further action was necessary;
50 incorrigibles were placed on proba-
ton at their homes, and most of them
have made good; 65 boys and girls were
placed in private families; % returned
to their parents; % little children were
placed in good homes for adoption; II
were sent to hospitals; 70 taken
through the juvenile court and DO
placed in public institutions.
During the year 142 cases were pros
ecuted in the courts, including the 70
in the juvenile court. MANY of these
cases were for wrongs of the gravest
nature against young children; many
were against fathers and husbands for
failure to provide; some for cruelty
and abuse; others for the violation of
the theater or child labor laws. In
almost every case brought the prose-
cution was successful.
May Busy Month
The present officers of the society
are: John c. Austin, president; James
A. Haskell, vice president; M. G. Ad-
Ter, treasurer These, with G. G. Des-
mond and Mrs. Fred Hooker Jones,
form the executive committee. Miss
Elizabeth A. King is secretary, r. w.
Reynolds and Mrs Virginia Heap Of
ficers.
The work for the present month, the
first in the new years work, is the
largest in the history of the society.
Eighty cases have been investigated,
involving more than $50 children and
recurring more than 400 calls by the
officers; Is cases were prosecuted in the
courts. In the juvenile court 9 cases
we're brought, for the protection of
children and to restrain from wrong
doing. In the police and justice courts
a men were prosecuted for abusing lit
tie school girls and men prosecuted
for failure to provide for their young
children.
With the increase of cases comes in
crease of opportunities to help some
poor neglected or abused child.
The society seeks the cooperation of
the public in reporting cases of real
abuse or neglect of children, and in
helping to care for 'some of the least
of these"
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