Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
'ORPHAN HOME CHI. DREN TEL
LIFE UNDER RODOF MRS. CAM
No Way to Keep biggest
Rascal in Georgia" From
Putting Up 0rphanage
Anywhere in State

There is no way to keep the big
gest rascal in Georgia from putting
I'D his own orphanage anywhere in
this state, or to prevent him from
supporting it by flim-flammIng the
people out of money that ne pretends
he is going to put to charitable
uses"
This statement was made Monday
morning by Robert E. McCord, su-
perintendent of the Georgia Chill
drens Home Society, which has the
Georgia, and is one of the most
useful institutions in the state. He
made this statement in connection
with the recent disclosures at the
Undenominationa1 Home, on the Ma
rietta street car line, where the nine
teen little children who were inmates
of the home lived under conditions
of indescriba cruelty, according
to charges they made against Mrs.
Naomi Campbell, founde' of the
We should have a state board OF
charity" continued Mr.. McCord,
which would license every agency
soliciting funds for charitable pur-
poses. and would make annual IN"
spections of all charitable tnstitu-
erly. Why we haven't got such a
board, l can't understand. Other
states have.
Veazey Law Not Applicable
Fright now there are several IN
situations in Georgia which pretend
to be charities but are swindles.
There are men without character who
are soliciting funds ostensibly for
charity, but really for their own
benefit. A few years ago man set
up an orphanage in Dublin, and later
on it was found that he had been
run out of another state for crime.
He made his departure from Dublin
in a hurry. leaving behind seventeen
or eighteen children to be cared Tor
by the public.
"This sort of thing hurts all the
reputable institutions. 1t is bad IN
every way. and it ought to be avoid.
ed by establishing a state board OF
charity which would license none but
reputable institutions, and wou Id1
make annual inspections to see, that
every institution was conducted prop
The Veazey law, passed several
years ago. is the only. law III Georgia
for the regulation of charitable IN
situations shall be periodically in
spected by the grand jurios IN the
county in which they arc located.
The law makes no provision, how.
ever. in regard to the licensing OIL
charities, and the provision in re-
SdTu 10 lHSpSCllOliS SCOli1'o W AAS"N
been observed in some counties and
rive children Remain
The Undenominational, Home,
which Mrs. Naomi Campbell estao-
lished a year and a half ago, and
which she maintained by sending
the children out to beg in Georgia
and adjoining states, has never been
inspected, according to information
secured at the home Monday morn
ing.
make the bond of $3.50 assessed by
Justice B. V. Greer, and, according
to Sheriff Swanson, she probably will
remain in! Jail until. the misdem ear
charges against her are considered
by the grand jury early in March.
Only five of the nineteen children
who were at the home when Mrs
Campbell was arrested still remain
there. The others have beer return
ed to relatives, and unless the re-
naming five are claimed by friends,
they will be placed at once in repu-
table institutions, and the home itself
will be closed.
In addition to the five children to
whom no door has been opened
Henry Gaddy, the thirteen-year-old
son of Mrs. Campbell, who has been EEL
tor Monday morning. No one seems
to have thought about him. Where
is he going? Where will he find a
home?
woman's Son Talks
He is a bright-faced, intelligent
boy, although he has had little
eorugh chance in life. Despite his
thirteen years, he has gone to school
so little that he has completed only
the second grade. He has been too
busy collecting money for the home,
he says, to attend school.
"Id like to go to Washington, Ga, "
he added. 81 hear there are some
people there that want a boy
"Wouldn't you like to stay near
your mother?" he was asked.
YES" he said.
WAS she ever unkind to you?"
"She whipped me a good DEAL" he
answered.
He then told what he could remem-
Der of his life and of how he had
begged money for the Undenomina-
tionaI Home.
81 was born in Griffin" he began.
81 don't remember much about my
father, except that he gave me a
penny once in the courtyard there.
We lived there with Aunt MoIlie.
She's dead now. She stopped over to
do something and her dress caught
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