Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-20
CHILD WORKERS GATHER
IN ANNUAL CONVENTION
Delegates From Many States Attend
Meeting at Seventh Street
Christian.
STUART EXTENDS WELCOME

STUART EXTENDS WELCOME
Governor, Mayor Ainslie and Attor.
ney-General Pollard Join In Elk.
tending Greetings to National
ChiIdren's Home Society.
The bird wants nest the trout a
brook and the lamb n fold Let us give
the orphaned babies what they want
| Il nome, said Rev. j. 2. Dysart OF
| milwaukee,, president OF the National
Children's Home Society, last night at
| seventh Street Christian Church. re-
| spending to the addresses Of welcome
at the opening session of the annual
| conference of the society The analogy
! that he drew was the central thought
OF inc evening as relating to the mode
! OF operation of the society which seeks
to place orphaned children in homes
/ rather than In institutions
The conference opened with rcpresen-
| tatives present from about fifteen
states. including New Jersey. Florida
Virginia. Pennsylvania. Kentucky. Mis-
souri, North and South Dakota. Kansas
| Ohio Illinois. North Carolina and wis.
| consin.
Tho evenings exercises began with
| prayer by Rev. DR.. Dysart, who pravcd
| that the session Of the conference
! might prove to be the introduction OF
convention that would prove helpful
and uplifting
ORGANIZATION MADE WELCOME
| TO THE CITY AND STATE,
In delivering the address of welcome
| Tor the city, Mayor Ainslie wished for
| tie deliberations Of the child-workers
an inc good that potentially Law in
'hem Tor the thousands OF children all
| over tho country In whose behalf the
meeting was 10 be held
| Attorney-General John Garland Pol
iard, speaking on behalf Of the Chill
oren home Society OF Virginia, OF
! which he is president, said that II w,
t ,n OF Virginia to cling to
the ola and that this explained why
IL was slow to take on to the work OF
| the Children's Home Society lie
enumerated the various reasons why
| the plan OF the Children's Home So
ciety had appealed more and moro n
virginia people. and In this connection
! paid tribute to the work of Suncrfn
| tehnent w. j. Maybee. OF the Virginia
society, who, he said. had won his way
20 inc hearts OF Virginia people, and
aiued by charming and INTELLIGENT
wife. had found homes for 800 hone
less children
In his address OF welcome Govc,nor
stuart made an eloquent appeal for
support to the Children's Home Soci.
ely. lie thought that II there was a
single purpose that challenged the sun-
port OF the people OF Virginia II was
the purpose which animated this in.
stitutton. '
j have looked into the work OF tbya
association. said the Governor, 81 have
seen the children that 1t sends out and
can speak OF the work only in terms
of approval"
PRESIDENT DYSART GIVES
PRAISE TO PRESIDENT WILSON
DR.. Dysart made the response to the
addresses or welcome. The national So
ciety, he said. had a membership of
| thirty-two States and in each Of these
States there was a State society, all of
them modelled on the same plan.
DR.. Dysart remarked that Virginia
was the mother OF Presidents. "And
you have not forgotten how to give US
great Presidents" he added Giving
then high praise to Woodrow wilson
DR.. Dysart said: we are not partisans
but patriots. and we are bound to give
| honor to our able. just and courag eous
President" The reference to President
Wilson plainly pleased the audience.
the members Of which showed their an
prevail by hearty applause.
The speaker eulogized the career and
| activities in behalf OF the Children's
Home Society. of DR.. Charles Richmond
Henderson. of the University of Chi
| cago. for twelve years president OF the
National Society. DR.. Henderson, he
said. literally died for his fellow man,
for having accepted the Craftsmanship
OF the committee Of the unemployed in
chicago, he was taxed 30 heavily by
the great responsibility placed upon
him that he burst blood vessel in his
brain and died as a result.
I'm crossing the Great Divide" said
the speaker "the traveller secs with
relief the occasional mountain peak.
Charles Richmond Henderson was n
mountain peak Of man. one Of the
really great men OF this country"
DIR. sMOOT SPEAKS on
"rIiE VALUE OF A CHILD"
Rev. T. A. Smoot. D. D., pastor of
Centenary Methodist Church, spoke of
| The Value Of a Child" Il shall nj
tempt In no sense to compass the range
of this theme" said DIR. Smoot Re-
ferring to the experience Of Pip I'm
Dlckenss Great Expectations" in be-
| ing brought UP by hand" he gave II
! as his view that the personal touch a.
the thing that the young child needs
| most, and this, he said was his con-
| ception Of the aims Of the ChIIdrcn's
| Home Society.
AS indicating the growing interest
In the child, DIR. Smoot stated that he
would guess that In the last twenty
| years there had been published moro
books on the child than had been print :
Ell in all the rest of the worlds hia-
| tory.
work for the child was, he explained.
not so much to save him from him
self, though that was important. os
to bring out his latent posslbililioa.
me Importance of right training for
| tho child was stressed. 81 do not bo
heVe mat one time In ten thousand
chiid that Is brought up right VIII
go wrong" said DIR. Smoot.
There will DO sessions Of INA con
vention this morning. this afternoon
| ana tonight, also tomorrow morning
ana afternoon with sightseeing trim