The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-12-12
CHILD WELFARE
BOARD Is NAMED
SAUK CENTRE LADIES HEAD I'M
PORTANT MOVEMENT IN
STEARNS COUNTY.
THE DUTIES ARE IMPORTANT
PROVISIONS OF LAW ADMINIST.
Erred UNDER DIRECTION OF
JUDGE ROESER.

The State Board of Control has ap-
pointed Mrs. H. S. H. Halverson, Sank
Centre; Mrs. A. F. Moynihan, Sank
Centre; Mrs. ]. B. Dunn, st. Cloud !;
VIM. A. Boerger, County Superintend-
emit of School, ex-officio; Peter N.
Lahr, st. Cloud, member Board of
County Commissioners, ex-offcio; as
members of the Stearns County Child
Welfare Board.
The board is created under the pro-
visions of the new laws relating to
children which were passed by the last
legislature. ID
The board will act as local admin
Istrative unit for the county in the en-
forcement of all laws relating to the
protection of defective, delinquent, de-
pendent, and neglected children. 1t is
an official body acting throughout the
county and in behalf of the state, for
the protection of children who are in
need of the states care and guardian
ship.
The board will work in close contact
with Hon. John w. Roeser, who is the
Judge of the children's court. 1t will
investigate for the judge applications
for county allowances (so-called mo-
Tiers pensions) and will visit fire.
quently the homes where such allow
ances have been given in order tn
the fullest possible measure of help
and assistance may be rendered to the
mother and her children. The Judge
will also be assisted in the administra-
ton of the new juvenile court law.
Cases of delinquency and neglect of
children will be Investigated by the
welfare board, and the shaping of an
enlightened policy in dealing with
delinquency should result from the
mutual labor of the board and the
judge. <......
The new law requires special con-
sideration for the Predetermined.
whose numbers are constantly increas-
ing, and the menace of whose exist
ence without supervision and over
sight becomes more alarming as time
passes. The states present facilities
are totally inadequate and yet some
temporary policy must be worked out
until the legislature at the coming ses-
sion can take action, which is impera-
lively needed. The county welfare
board will advise and assist the State
Board of Control in the establishment
of temporary remedial measures.
The new laws require that homes
which seek to adopt children must be
visited and approved. In the same
way home that receives child for
permanent care without adoption must
on investigation prove to be proper
one to receive the child. The welfare
board will assist in making these in
vestigations and will recommend the
: proper action to be taken.
The unmarried mother and the IL
legitimite child who are so often in
need of friendly assistance and care,
will find the welfare board ready to
help in every possible way.
In general it may be said that the
child welfare board becomes respon-
sible within the county of its jurisdic-
ton, for the protection of children
and the promotion of their interests
in all the varied ways in which those
interests may appear. The welfare
board serves without compensation
but it may have paid executive agent
if the approval of the board of county
commissioners is secured. Oftentimes
in other counties county nurse or
other social worker in the county has
been chosen to do this work, which
results in economy and prevents dup
LEGATION of effort and expense.
State Board of Control,
By William w. Hodson,
Director, Children's Bureau.