Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-06-25
$2OO,O0O Hospital for Crippled
Children TO Be Established Here
Four-Story Building is Pur-
chased and Joshua S. Ray
noIds Gives $751; to Start
Off Institution Now Needed
To Take Care of 5000
Children.


ters of hospital for the treatment of
children suffering from deformities of
the bones, such as club or twiste j
feet, deformed spnes and the like.
This was determined upon at a meet
ing of the directors of the Childrehs'
Home society yesterday afternoon
when the four-story building at the
corner of Broadway and East Central
vas purchased for that purpose end
the work of remodelling ordered.
Joshua Reynolds, president 0f the
board OF directors of the Children's
Home society, made the first cohui-
button Of $4,000 for the hospital.
which will take care of fifty patients
al time.
In order that the hospital may be
provided with funds for the care of
indigent children, total Of 100000
will be .vided--thus making it on"
Of the best hospitals of any Kind in
all the southwest and the only one of
iJs kind within a large area # cOun-
try. The nearest one of the Kind be-
ing at Denver, the next nearest at
Kansas City, while there is a third
one at Los Angeles.
That the hospital will never lack
all the patients for which it can care
child welfare board of the federal gov
ernment and by Investigations by DR..
c Z. Lukens, secretary of the board
and manager of the Children's home
of this city. Between Trinidad, Colo,
and FL Paso and Amarillo, Tex, and
Williams, Ariz.. there are more than
5000 such children waiting treat,
nent.
viii Work With State.
DR. Lukens authorizes the journal
to announce that the hospital will!
work in absolute harmony with the
children's welfare board Of the stal1
that has just been organized, aud Mrs.
Max Nordhaus, president of the 'tate
board, is delighted with the fact that
the state workers will be able to send
all such children, when found, to the
Albuquerque hospital
The hospital will be opened just rs
qur, My do ti,e Ddir.i 4, can nv a.
;anged, a first class laboratory install
ed and a staff employed.
The directors and others immedi-
ately interested in the work assure the
success of the enterprise, because it
will have the best of business man
agement and will be amply financed
"a condition much at variance with
the state board which has funds so
meager that they will have to be sup
plemented by private subscription
even with all of the assistance which
can come from cooperation with the
hospital.
The building is already equipped
with an elevator, but new one con-
structed especially for hospital use
has been ordered to replace the one
now in use.
Iukens Explains Need.
At the meeting of the board OF di-
rectors of the Chidren's Home So
ciety DR. Lukens read paper deal
ing with the great need for a hospital
such as it contemplated to erect.
Excerpts from DR.. Lukens' paper fol-
low:
During the past year we have had
come under our care 800 little help
less, orphaned and crippled children;
We have been able to keep many boys
from the reform school and to give
relief and succor to many unfortunate
girls to care for them with Christian
charity during the time of deep need
and place their feet in the path of
responsibility. We have helped nu-
merous boys and girls to find a way
to continue their school work and
put them in the way of high educa-
ton
I'VE have gone steadily about our
work without care for plaudit or fear
of opposition. 1t has been our pur-
pose not to let the left hand of idle |
public curiosity know what the right !
hand of our social work was doing. |
making our detail repOrts to the board |
of managers for their careful check |
on the wisdom of our operations.
Good Work Done.
II desire at this time to thank the |
officers and members of tie board of |
managers and the large and influen- |
tial circle of our friends and sup |
porters for the splendid support and |
cooperation which they have given |
me, and to the men and women who |
have helped in the field and in the
homes and hospital at Albuquerque
and Roswell for their self-sacrificing |
service for the comfort and happiness
of the children who have come under
our care.
Many of the children whom we
have cared for have never been oblig-
ed to come to the receiving home.
And though we have placed hundreds
in we'll selected families, yet we have
over 200 family homes waiting, their
applications filed, asking that they
may be allowed to adopt a child. 1t J
Is an aDSOlute 1dCl lDdl no real OIpHdu
or wholly dependent child need be
placed for permanent care in an in
stitution or asylum. The fact is that
to fill the hungry hearts of childless
homes we have been obliged to bring
children from other states to supply
the demand.
To Cure CrippIes.
1.-THE real philanthropist of today
Is desirous of giving permanent relief
to the needy object of his kindness.
So it ought to be with the cripple. We
should not only give temporary relief,
but we should remove the cause OF
the helpllessness or mendicancy of the
handicapped one. When we merely
give our pity and our food we give
constructive philanthropy slap in
the face. No man. woman or child
should be compelled to crawl and
hotlble about the world today a re-
cipient of our aims of pity or of food.
"a great percentage of our crippled
beggars of today are but mere chill
dren. The thoughtless passerby drops
dime in their outstretched hand
with never thought that the lad '.
could be given permanent help; that