The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-01-08

those institutions now prepared to re!
ceive them ~ q si &. 3 4 y, <,
For Defcient Children sL5 ~ ],
I'VE aref asking for a home for
mentally deficient girls and boys.
These now find home, IL they find
any home, In the industrial schools,
where they do not belong. where they
cannot be kept a time suficient for
their own safety; where they cannot,
together with normal boys and girls,
be treated as they should. This may
take the form of farm in the coun.
try, it may take the form Of q separate
ward to our asylum, 1t may take the
form of an entirely separate institu.
ton, but il is need most keenly. felt
by those who have the handling Of the
children. 49, .3-tsj1sl1. 81. 3
New Adoption Law e w: p IN. ~
owe are asking for a, new adoption
law, enabling the, probate judge to
grant adoptions Of deserted and aband'
1--WE are asking for. legisiation 10
gulating the hours Of labor for growing
boys and girls. + This may not appear
to be an Immediately pressing need
Ny experience has been that the child
in Honolulu y suffering much more
from too little work than from too
much, but Conditions are changing and
the time win doubflses coon be at hand
when such kisidtion Is needed. 50 much
for child welfare legislation. There are
lots of other things we should like, but
If the Legislature gives US these we shall
be well content for this session. y,
Better Condition Of Child =.
=" However, this paper is not on legis-
ton, IL Is on what we each can do W
better the condition of the child. And
SO far as legislation is concerned, there
is lot we can do, and, have found,
the simplest way Of doing 1t is the best.
IL you believe that any or all of these
bills should pass, just say SO, say 80 ,as
often as you can and wherever, you can.
Most of you win know some of the
Legislators. Many of you will meet
them during the coming session. Just
say to them that you hope they cen
give us home for the mentally def,
cient, that il is needed, that II is up ID
the Territory to provide for them. And
still more Of you have the ear of some
man who is not a Legislator. \ Az :
Talk To John w" - -. 5.3
Some morning just say to the good
man of the house, John (I trust his
name is not William), John, we really
ought to have q home for deficient
girls. What chance has mentally weak
girl in this townf She doesn 4 belong
in the girls industrial school where sue
now is.' And John will cit next to the
chairman of the Judiciary Committee NJ
Nolte s that noon and get of these
same ideas as though they were his own,
and the aforesaid chairman will listen.
The day of petitions seems TO have pas
sed, but a polite request to be heard
on any bill will seldom, if ever, be de.
MED even men and never women.
Press and Legislature All Right
1--WE have splendid legislature and
a press equalled in public spirit anu
sympathy for any good work by no
press ON the mainland, and IL we do
not get the legislation we want it Is
because II Is Impossible or we do not
really desire II. - @.,'t,
"But, as / have said, legislation IL d
small, small part Of child welfare. The
best laws that man can devise, the I'm.
est institutions that man can erect, en-
dowment Of Carnegie institute, these
are as husks and as trash compared to
the heart and hand of such as are here
today. The real work of betterment is
not being done by the Juvenile court
or by the industrial school, or by the
best of our institutions, but by people,
by men and women, by human hearts,
This Is no Rlittering generality. Reward
and punishment never brought up q
child, never changed q life, never bet.
tered h condition without human
heart and and a human love behind it..
The Heart, Of IT \. ,t,,. .,s.
"The telling Of pitiable stories, the
arousing of righteous indignation, the
stirring up Of ono q emotions, these are
USELESS, and worse, unless they make
the hearer more kindly to the Portu
guese girl who comes to, your house to
sell sweet potatoes. Let me assure you,
ladies, that no better work can be
found by any of our 10 called leaders
than attention to that same little girl,
Five minutes of your time spent
with her, half "a dozen kindly
sentences addressed TO her, a lit,
tie real human heart given
her win count a lot more for the child
welfare of this community that sent.