The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-10-14
CITY ASKED TO HELP
BUILD RESCUE HOME
Lynden Urged To Contribute Funds
For Construction of New Protect
i've Society Building

BE Brick, Buy a Brick" is the
now to aid in the erection of a new
$4,000 home for the Pacific Coast
Rescue and Protective Society in Ey
erett. The mission of the society has
been to take care of girls who have
made a misstep, and to aid in the
bringing up of their babies.
The organization has the endorse
men of judges and welfare workers
all over the state. who have invest
igated the work it is doing. For a
number of years, many Lynden cit
izens have contributed annually to
its support.
Tags are being sold in Lynden to
aid in building the new home. and
the workers are meeting with a fine
response.
THE work of the Pacific Coast
Rescue and Protective Society has
dealt with many knotty problems in
the State of Washington, many of
which were in Whatcom County, and
some in the Lynden district" said
Mrs. Rowena Glover Benadom. who
is in charge of the campaign here, to-
day. THE society is non-sectarian,
terdenominational in character,
and stands for the highest ideals. Its
effort is to block. check and prevent,
and there can be no surer method
pursued than to strike at the tap root
of the evil with which we have to
deal. We believe through legislation
and education, much of the problem
can be solved.
when a girl is brought or sent to
one of the society homes, she general
ly has been committed until she is
.21. thereby enabling the society to
protect and train her for useful wom-
an hood, nor is she let go of until
she is absolutely settled down and
making good. The girls with which
we deal range in age from s to Is.
except in special cases. The pros
pective mother is taught above all
that mother love is the most sacred
and wonderful thing in life, and that
she must develop it fully, by nourish-
ing her babe and caring for it her.
self. When the time comes fer her
to be paroled out, SIZE leaves ner babe
at the home if her position will not
permit her to take it with her and
she can spend as much time as pos
sible in being with it between hours.
Nor is she asked to pay for the care
of it. even though boarded out 10
private homes through lack of room
in the Home.
This we feel gives her the chance
TO keep straight If she takes care
of herself and saves her earnings,
the time will come when she can
make a little home for herself and
care for her own child. In other
words, we give the girl a chance to
start right and keep right.
Every girl loves pretty clothes,
and will crafty as tar as possible that
love. and thousands go down to i'm
moral lives to get them. That is why
she is encouraged and started to face
THE world with a sacred responsible
ity-her own in part-and that Is
why she makes good. She has not
crushed the best within her by com
mitting a crime against her innocen
child, against her womanhood and
society generally-she faces th5
world honestly and takes up her own
burden as her special duty.
The man in the case whenever pos
sible is brought to justice relentless
Ily. He, too, must help, often through
marriage when advisable, but in any
case he must help and he does.
won't you help us in work OF
this character"