The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-19
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BILE for such institutions, buthe most
careful statistics covering a2ut 200,-
coo children. prove conciu Tely that
over 80 per cent OF chlldft handled
in this way have grown 10 useful,
l~aw-abiding men and women although
they come from surrounding which,
as shown by equally careful Satisfies,
result in the lapse into UT crimi-
nality of about 80 per ct of the
children left in the slums aidens OF
infamy with no hand stretcsd out to
lift them up. In oSler s-as, deal
ing With a class OF chiid1e so per
cent of whom would ine1flbly be-
come paupers and ~crirninels over 80
per cent by this method Q ceatment
have bcome GOd-fearing. a -abiding
citizens.
As the Masons Of KentucY estab-
Hshed the first Fraternal tphanage
in the United States, and al thirty
second degree Mason of LisvilIe, a
special friend of mine, deep Interest
ed in rescue work for depel ent chill
dren, has given me strikins and ac-
curate data as to the statS of the
rescue work now being don in that
State, it is not amiss to TAX he work
done in Kentucky along til 9line as
our unit of measure, so to s. Tx. Or
ganized work for dependent children
by the family instead of by TIL institu-
tional method began in Ke-acky III
1897, after nearly 90 years tinstitu-
tional work, the longest in IL limited
States, and during the tWeh years
since 1897 about 1000 childen, who
could not have been reach aat all
through the institutional methd, have
been rescued through the hntucky
Children's Home Society. Try come
from po~or-houses, iaiIs and many
cases, from dens Of utter infar,. They
We're, to all intents and rrposes.
without God and without hop in the
world. And Yet less tina er cent
have turned out badly. and yer 81
per cent are either good cit'ens or
give every promise of beconlig such.
Every criminal costs the Stat { Ken
lucky o $1&5 u Year, It rs cost.
on the average, about $50 save
each one of these children. AS a
mere matter of money then, ,utting
the whole subject on the loves basis,
the State for $50 can make / pro
ducing, l~aW-abiding citizen gu of a
potential criminal Who would e,st the
State $1,000 for his support if we
estimate the average duration of life
at only thirty years. or a saing OF
$4,000 IN taxation on every lid so
treated. \ very simple oxidation
VIII show that the State of Kntucky
mas saved So, 10000 in actal ex-
penditure on the 1000 aildren
handled by the Children's Hone So
clety, and has four thousand prducfng
| clJlZeQS OF tOaT rhp,---- ...o+
criminals, and, in this calculator. no
allowance is made for the infectious
lnTluence OF crimina}ity and mr. the
eI1ect upon other people 4 O0a crimi-
mas would have, nor is any allowance
made for the influence and yar1a to a
State of 1000 law abiding rra554aing
citizens. This work in Kant,,qsy was
supported at first solely ~ n~rfyate
contributions. but later on by show-
ing the legislature Of the state what
had been accomplished, the legisIa-
ture appropriated $4,000 pavable in
Two annual installments o. $4,000
eacn' At the end of the two Years
sicn eStfaordlnary results had been,
ootalheo ina the legislature IN
unanimously appro4liahad <tr.1.a a
aaal!x Tor vsr>A
enc OF W. years una1irgyna 5proS
pfna'eo $4,000 annual II 1eeislaA
tare oelng convinced hatatvas theY
b bes' LOS p9ssiole lhvestme sticn could
1e made oil the fund { she State.
Another feature of thi Separation
by the State is that i vs\given to
an independent organjatn. ana is
Iree from the contro! or Interference t
OF politics in any form Another
very interesting feature i~neOnnection |
with the work done in FutucHg is |
the TACT that about the sasa nuit8er !
OF children were handled 1T year /
kentucky at q cost of $39. go a. were
handled in the great State Aiaesa-
chuSetts at a cost of $40 10. This
result was attained in K1-ucEE by
placing the children in hons where
they become members of tt tainiIy by
adoptlon, while in MASSAGE r., al
Dug placed in homes tAf Stat
pad their board. There "a G- no /
question that thu Kentucky u thod is
superior method, and ls $50
recognized all over the United It2tes.
-or n reason hat the Massa1 0setts
fnethod puts the child in a loiI ON q
commercial basis, whereas n Ken
method puts the child r. the
as an integral and yer ianent
nember of the family, alth2ds4l con
supervision is maintt'9'o over
he child. and the right t. remove is
'etalned and exercised sho".d " tEer.
or any reason. become A--'S>ary- +
ne work is fully and caEe'."1F or
,anlzed. A superintendt.t .'f as
nuch territory as he can ~,.1ila 10
'foperly, with as many a.'iLs as
nay be needed. makes it his t Dusi-
eSS TO put into close conn. NIL
rem OF any age needin& mo
hlldiess homes needing chA...I. and
mere are two million sucl I'm
United States at this tim zach
mia placed in a home is N.-.I reg
larry at intervals of four .L'Llhs.
he pastor of the nearest .4.-N or
"a Of some church, a. '1Her
lltable persons, both men "o-
are asked to protect ~!Iid
SalnSt unkindness or ne&it'" is
the duty of the superiL' 10
ollect money from any who 4.rs ae
lterested in the work II ''"Ch, %
efray the expense of tindlh-.
1g, delivering and super 'ne