Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1919-02-07
CHILD WELFARE BOARD
WILL DO GREAT WORK
Must Have Assistance and Co-opera-
ton of Every Citizen in Stevens
County

The county child welfare board,
working in cooperation with the
State Board of Control, is undertake
ing to find out about and to help
every handicapped, neglected or de-
1inuuent child in the county Ac-
cording to the members of the Board
a task of such large purposes will re-
uuire the assistance and cooperation
of everyone who knows of children
in need or distress. The members OF
the Board say that if any citizen Of
the county knows of a child who is
not properly fed or clothed, or is liv-
ing in unsanitary or unhealthful
conditions, or whose material or
spiritual welfare is neglected, such
cases should be reported to the child
welfare board, that an effort may be
made to remedy the condition.
All children of school age, accord
ing to County superintendent Of
Schools Ray Roberts, should be in
school regularly and for the full
term. The county superintendent is
a member of the child welfare board.
He and the board should be Informed
of children who are not in school and
proper action will be taken. Some
times INSCRIPTIONS persons abuse
children, make them work when they
should be in school, employ them for
long hours or in dangerous Occupa-
ton or otherwise make them labor in
violation of the law. The child well
fare board can help such children,
and it will cooperate with the State
Department of Labor to that end.
In this community, as in other COM
munities, there are feebleminded per-
sons who are a menace to themselves,
their families and the community. 1t
is desired by the members of the child
welfare board that they should know
of such cases and the matter will be
taken up with Probate Judge Stenger,
for commitment to the State Board
of Control.
The superintendent of the State
Schools for the Blind and Deaf report
that there are children in the public
schools who are partially either
blind or deaf and who cannot be
properly trained unless they are sent
to the state institution for such chill
dren for the school term. The child
welfare board will take proper steps
in behalf of such children.
Ill health is costly, according to the
reports of the State Board of Health.
and there are many children in need
of medical attention, which parents
of tonsils or adenoids, care for the
teeth, crippled and deformed children
in need of care at the State Hospital,
tubercular children, children with
weak eyes. If the child welfare board
and the county or school nurse know
the facts of such cases, they can work
out a plan for providing medical at
tention and can secure the assistance
of DR.. E. J. Huenekens of the Depart
ment of Child Conservation of the
State Board of Health. It is further
stated that where proper home super
vision is lacking, children develop
bad habits and vicious tendencies,
LhOy CLOOOC4dLC I'LL OdO pd111O1lSy
are guilty of immoral conduct, petty
theft, rough behavior in public places
they frequent undesirable places, are
guilty of truancy, incorrigibility and
violation of laws and principles of
right conduct. The child welfare
board and Judge Stenger of the Ju-
Venile Court can help such children.
Conditions frequently exist in viii
lagos and towns which tend to cor
rupt morals, such as homes of people
of low moral standards, pool halls,
dances and dance halls without SUI
pervision, places where liquor and
tobacco are covertly supplied to chill
dren. The child welfare board should
take steps to root out such influences.
According to reports from the
Children's Bureau of the State Board
of Control, in many cases children
under the age of eighteen years,
guilty of some violation of law, are
being tried before the ordinary Grim
inal courts. Probate Judge Stenger
is the juvenile court judge, and is the
proper official to hear all cases where
offenses have been committed by chill
dren under the age of eighteen. The
child welfare board, if it knows this
law is being violated, will see thai
the proper procedure is followed.
Members of the child welfare board
in Stevens county are: Daniel Law
Ter, Pres; Mrs. VIM. H. Mahaf1e
Sec; Ray S. Roberts, Miss Nellie
Moran, G. C. Eysted.
All communications should be ad-
dressed to the secretary, Mrs. w. H
Mahaffe Morris MINI