The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-14

Everywhere in this country one sees
statues of Lafayette. May you build
no more statues to him while the chill
dren of his nation need every cent
you can give to show your love for
that great man.
Miss Fell told many interesting and
touching stories connected with the
war and the adoption of the orphan
children The plan is for each person
who wishes to adopt a child to pay
$3.50 a year, or ten cents a day, and
the child remains in France with its
mother or near relative. The guar
dian in this country receives a picture
| of the child and a letter either from
writes for him. All of the money goes
to the support of the children, direct
~ as none of the fund has to be de-
Quoted for the maintenance of the
New York Office. which is supported
/ by contributions for that purpose
from mfllionaires of that city. The
local committees. of course. work
without pay.
Bishop Wise. who was present at
the meeting, was asked to speak.
| America is in less danger he said,
by the loss of her sons than for the
loss of her soul. The fact that this
tragedy of suffering children is so far
from us, does not alter our duty. If
1t was taking place at our door yard
we would feel the immense call on our
Isympathies. What we need is less a
spirit of nationalism and more the
spirit of world brotherhood"
Dean ]. p. Deb. Kaye spoke in ia
Vor of the organization of a perma-
nent committee to take care of the
work In connection with the adoptions.
Miss Juliet Smith had already made
an adoption thru an eastern magazine.
Ihose who have thus far agreed TO
ADOPT children thru the local commit
lee are: Bishop and Mrs. James Wise
TN memory of son who died in in
fancy), 2; Dean and Mrs. Kaye, 2:
MI and Mrs H. o. Carney Gin mem
ory of Mrs. Garveys father, w. D.
Hathaway, /; Mrs. Frank Britton and
Mrs. Kit Wilson, / DR.. and Mrs. W.
r Bowen, 2; DR.. and Mrs. o. F. Mar
cote, 1; Mrs. A. B. Patten, /; Miss
Helen McClintock, 1; Mrs. Jonathan
THOMAS, /; Judge and Mrs. Silas Por-
ter, l; Mr.. and Mrs. Bennett r. Wheel
er, L; Miss Bertha Hampstead. 1 Mr..
and Mrs. H. A. Perry, 1; group of
school girls, 1; Mrs. Alice Love, q;
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Page, 1; Mrs.
Charles Bolmar, l; Alta Vista club, 1 :;
Mrs. George Stone, Mrs. ]. w. Thurs
ton, Mrs. w. L. Crosby and Mrs. AL
J brecht Marburg, l: Mr.. and Mrs. Rob
ert Stone, l; Mrs. Charles Burger and
Mrs. Ralph Moore, 1; Justice and Mrs.
w. A. Johnston, L! Mr.. and Mrs. Paul
Walker L; Mrs E. A. Herbst, Mrs. j.
} F. Scott, Mrs. Henry F Mason (gen-
eral fund.-, 1; Mrs. George Parkhurst,
l; Mrs. C. w. Smith, Mrs. Lucy Mill
: ken, 1; Mrs. r. Parks Bennett and her
daughters, Muriel March and Frances
5 March, l; John Oliver Walker, Frank
Pelletier Norris and Addison Pelletier,
| L; the Pelletier Stores company, L;
Mrs Clement Smith (head OF
} group), 1.
The school girls who have formed
a group for the adoption of an orphan
, are: Miss Cynthia Monroe. Miss Char
, lotte West, Miss Dorothy Nichols, Miss
, Ethel Chase, Miss Dorothy Sproat
l Miss Edith Cornell, Miss Alice Lyman
Miss Ruth wood, Miss Mary Burnett
. and Miss Joanna Gleed.
Bishop Wise suggested that tho
{ project be presented to the different
churches in town and to various organ
= izationS.
T, The interest in Baby Week con.
:, tinues to grow, according to a repor
S brought to the general committee il
= charge by it's chairman, Mrs. D. L
= McEachron. yesterday afternoon
D ! However, the people who have work
e ed so hard to make a success of the
e | undertaking, Will not be satified unit
v they have reached all of the mother,
: they wish to help in this splendid way
:. There has been a misunderstanding
:, about the matter of registration
: many mothers thinking that they haC
a to bring their babies with them wheI
d they were registered, and not Away!
r finding it convenient to do so. Th1
r mistake was corrected yesterday b,
o the people in charge of the registra
/ ton books in the Infant Wear depart
e ment of Pelletier's. They not only
r take registrations that are brough
by the mothers, without the babies
but they received them by mail as we'll
+ In fact, when some of the member
of the committee called at the depart
i ment, they found the young woman il
. | charge making registration that hat
: come by mail from Mrs. A. c. Schroet
- - er of Meriden, asking that they reg
3 lister her little daughter of twent.
y pounds, Wilma Louise Schroeder.
l. When questioned about taking
: names over the telephone, the answel
was that it was unsatisfactory. as the.
did not always get it accurately, ant
that for that reason, they had decided
+ not to receive any registration owe
g the telephone.
e Up to date, there are only f1v
d babies of the youngest age received
n six months. They are Donald Greg
Mercer, Mary Frances Ronneau, Chas
= Leonard Griffith, Genevieve Herricl
O and Dwight Malcolm, all of Topeka
J. A magnificent specimen of baby
IS hood was carried in by the mothe
:, yesterday to be registered only to fin
If that he would have to wait until mex
- year, as he was under the age re
y ceived, being not yet five months ole
Z He is Lawrence Desch, of 208 Mort
- Chandler street. and he weighs TWEEN
:. ty-one pounds. He will undoubtedl
> score very high when the next Bah
< Week rolls around. judging by hi
Is present development.
Another child who was taken dow
n to register, but was just two week
t. over six years of age, had to be re
d fused. He was the little son of Mr.:
d Caps, president of the Childs Con
IS servation League, an organization tina
h is taking an active part in the affair.
" Another miscomprehension whic
J. the committee in charge wants cor
lie rected. is that this is a baby contes
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