Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-11-18
Offering This Year Will Be for the
Benefit of the ChiIdren's Home
at Sioux Falls, S. D.

The annual Thanksgiving service
will be held this year in the Meth
odist church and the sermon will be
preached by Rev. G. E. Bonner of the
Evangelical church. The offering will
ministers Of the city have invited
Superintendent Stuckeman of the
Home to be present and speak on the
needs Of the home.
Aberdeen has just held a success
full tag day" netting over 1900.
and Sioux Falls has followed suit
with a tag day which brought in
$1,S46, nearly $500 more than they
gave last year.
Concerning the needs Of the Home,
Superintendent Stuckeman says in
part in a letter received yesterday by
Rev. c. e. Kearns:
Needs OF Home.
ITO the thinking man the mere ap-
peal for funds in behalf Of needy
children will cause at least reflection
and probably a demand for informa-
|tion concerning the reasonableness Of
the appeal and whether the accom-
plishments warrant the expenditure.
ITO this latter class the Home is
appealing for funds, believing it can
show cause. Over 2,100 children have
been the recipients Of it's ministra-
tons as wards. The number alone
should reflection. Every one of
the more than 2,100 has literally been
saved to better and more useful lives
by being placed in selected family
homes where good influences counter
act the evil tendencies of the parent
al home. Over one thousand more
have been aided in some way to i'm
proved conditions without breaking
up family relations. Therefore, in
round numbers, 5000 children have
received helpful. definite services
from the Children's Home. IN one
year 1O2 children ara gathered as
actual wards. prepared for placement,
transported into and out Of the
Home, placed in recommend ed family
homes where a new life begins.
Beyond Calculation.
Who can calculate by money stand
ards what q saving or profit this may
be? The Daily Argus-Leader of Sioux
Falls, said editorially that only the
great Eternity will reveal the won
derful good accomplished by the
Children's Home Society,"
Does the work accomplished war
rant the cost? Well, let's look at the
matter fairly. The work of last year
cost $~11,497,79. During this period
102 new children were added, cared
for, prepared for placement in the
family home, transported into and out
Of the Home, nursed while sick, put in
the hospital if necessary, clothed and
fed while in the Home. In short, the
case of each of 102 children from its
impossible parental home anywhere
within the borders of South Dakota,
brought into the receiving Home at
Sioux Falls, prepared physically and
to some extent morally and mentally
for reception in the family home into
which each was placed, settled per
manently and definitely, and all this
at d cost Of less than 812.000.o0. Add
ing the 81 children on hand at the
beginning of the year to the 102 we
have 129 children to deal with at a
cost of less than $4,000 apiece, max
ing a definite permanent settlement
in the case of each and every child.
Not Taken Into Account.
saThis does not take into account
the volume OF correspondence. the
investigations. the definite aid work
in behalf of SIS children or the 26
wards who were returned to the
Home. 1t does not include the daily
conferences with parents and friends
III behalf of needy children, or the
many trips taken and hours given to
advice with people concerning chill
|dren in partial need of aid, no does
it account for the supervision Of over
500 wards in family homes but not
adopted.
els the Children's Home worthy OF
consideration or support? Il has
been estimated by experts that the
lowest cost at which a child can be
kept in an orphanage for n year is
$4,000. 1t cost the Ghildren's Home
less than $1,000 to permanently settle
child in a family home, besides do
ling innumerable other kinds OF min
listrations in behalf Of children, r
view Of these facts ought not evess
man and woman help support the IN
stitut.cn which has been called tbs
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