The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12
FIVE YEARS WORK
 FOR THE BOYS CLUB Annual Meeting of Board of
 Control Yesterday WILLOWS MAKES REPORT D etaiIed Figures Show the Immense Amount of Work Done In Be- half of Children During the Year 
WILLOWS MAKES REPORT

control of the Boys club and Chil- dren's Aid society was held in the club rooms yesterday. The session was a most enthusiastic one and probabl the most suspicious In the organiza- tions history.
 The reports of the president Mrs. James Weatherly; the secretary, Mrs. W. L. Murdoch. and the treasurer, Mrs. W. D. Nesbitt, showed that the year just closed was most successful. NV cry department of the work among the children-the newsboys department, the juvenile court and chi1dren's aid and home finding department-has pro- duced real results. The annual election of officers re- suited as follows: President, Mrs. James Weatherly; vice president, Mrs A. l. Gilmore; secretary, Mrs. w. L. Murdoch: treasurer, Mrs. W. D. Nes- bitt
 The executive force remains the same; Superintendent. Maurice Will lows assistant superintendent, Ralph S. Barrow; visitor. Miss F. R. Straeffer; night assistant, w J. O'Brien. MT, Barrow and Miss Straeffer sub mitted In detail the work of their de- partments. The report of the superln- tendent for 1910 follows; Children's Aid Department-Reports filed, neglected, 179; destitute, 7s; cruelty treated, IA left orphans, lG beyond control of parents, 61; being in immoral places. 49; as truants, II miscellaneous reports, 6s; total, ATT.
 Applications to place small children in institutions 132; applications to place boys in Alabama Industrial school, 14S; applications to help find special schools for special boys, 34; total. 7s6.
 Infants abandoned, informa tion from police officers. 6; runaways from out side city and county, 3S; total definite cases for consideration and action, $50.
 Assisted with clothing, 39.
 Runaways sent home to other parts 36.
 Meals furnished not including sum- mer camp or anniversary dinner, 1osi.
 Employment secured for boys, AZ.
 Placed in orphanage for permanent care and custody, IS.
 Placed with Mercy Home to be cared for by them temporarily or perma nently, 43.
 Private homes found and children placed therein. ST.
 Transportation furnished in part by city of Birmingham and part from our society funds. 51.
 Sent to institutions outside state, in- cluding private schools 12.
 Physical examinations, by kindness of physicians, 56.
 Family reconciliations effected for good of children, II.
 Children returned to care and cus- tody of parents guardians, 514.
 Dormitory privileges given to de- tention cases. S4.
 Consultations held with parents and persons interested in cases 1263.
 Transferred to other organizations, charitable institutions. IS.
 Helps-Letters written in relation to these affairs, 435; telegrams sent and received. 31; long distance messages. 16 trips to surrounding cities and towns s. visits made by officers and ladies interested in work. 26O. A hearty cooperation with other charity and philanthropic agencies.
 Juvenile Work in Courts of City and County, 1910-White boys, IA years of age or under, brought into court for misdemeanors, SC: more serious of lenses, 5; white girls under IA years of age brought into courts, 6 total, in cluding Ensley, Woodlawn and cen tral recorders courts, CT. Transferred to other courts for commitment, 1S: placed on good behavior, 43; mol pressed or not guilty. s; total. ST.
 In these courts your officers served as probation officers for 31 white boys from IA to IT years of age on regular docket.
 Hearings and Commitments to East Lake Industrial School-Probate court, Judge Greene, 42; city court. Judge Bell, 9; circuit court, Judge Grove, 1; total, IS.
 Habeas Corpus Proceedings. Neglect ed Children-Heard in circuit courts. 6: cases of children in criminal court, Judge Weaver. 4.
 Rev. L. D. James, volunteer proba- ton officer for the negro children serving in Judge Feagin's court. sub mits the following as his report for 1910:
 Number of negro children under 15 years of age arrested, tried and con victed, 213. Disposition of them-Sent to Mt Meigs reformatory, 20; sent to DaIy's farm at Tuscaloosa, Ala, 29 sent to other parts of the country by parents, IU, pldCSu Oll pi ooaIiOi iiA sHSAi own homes, 54; total, 213.
 first analysis of the total number of cases of children coming within our provinces during the year under the head of neglected destitute and de- linquent children, reveal the follow Ing surface causes as having been re- sponsible for their condition, in order given:
 1. Lack of parental control. due, for h, a,.f n tho noQliQanCp of tl Q parents themselves In not making the home the center of interest and at tractiveness to the growing boys and girls.
 ?. Voluntary separation or divorce of parents.
 3. Desertion.
 4. Death of one or both parents.
 ~5. Drink.
 *6. Immortality.
 '. Poverty.
 A--Equally divided.
 These causes on further analysis would of course, bring in many oth CT social problems, and we are reminded again that the problem of the child Is a community problem, which must be solved by an intelligent co-opera- tion of all the social forces of the community. The weaknesses of hu- manity bring in their train these blameless children for care and protec- tion.
 May the increase in knowledge and experience on the part of the board and chapter members and the executive off, ficers alike result in higher standard of efficiency in dealing with these lit tie, folks in 1911.
 In submitting this report your super intendent wishes to state that what ever success and progress has been made during the year just passed has heen made nOSSihle hY the haartY CO.,