The Washington times., 1920-10-04
THE WASHINGTON TIMES oGIogE!
What Happens to the $4,000
NameleSS Children?
In the Pictorial Review Dorothy Oanfield Fisher
Pleasant Story, but the Public Needs to Hear 1t.


In the Pictorial Review Dorothy Caneld Fisher writes
"A Square Deal for the Nameless Child"
Miss Fisher, worker for the Red Gross IN France
during the war; tells story that should sartle and put
to shame the country that ignores and therefore permits
the killing worse, of 1000 children every year.
In France when child Is born fatherless the govern
ment to 1t that the child has chance to live As
Miss Fisher says the French government reases that
while there may be Megtimate parents, about whom
many harsh things Justly be said there such thing
ilegtmate baby In France they care for the un
fortunate child placing with woman usually the mother
of children who is well paid and whose interest In the
permanent welfare Of the child
In this country the attitude-public, private and Of
fcal-toward unfortunate, badly born child would
make of that child criminal offender against
the law creature that cannot be too quickly killed by
baby farming" And this in spite of the fact that 81"
there single human soul this globe who absolutely
free from the slightest responsibility about the conduct Of
those parents, it is the baby"
The average number of children iegtmately born in
the United States is 1t is safe to say that at least
10000 of these KILLED suddenly by slow starva
ton and neglect the miserable mothers rule not know
ing what has happened to them, not daring to ask
Here is picture well drawn, not exaggerated, of the
treatment that Civilization accords not occasionally
but every year. thousands of unfortunate girls victims
of brutal and vicious
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"never thought Of it before"
After the girl has given up her last penny and worked
for more and after her child has been murdered track
kept of her. and at any time she maes she is made the
victim of backmail and bounded to the last.
The worst is that baby killing wholesale scale is
not confined to human wild beasts that for profit prey
upon the unfortunate unprotected mothers so-caled
'chartable institutions are past masters in the of
numbering friendess children.
"Of babies taken from unmarried young mothers and
put in socaed hospitals from 80 to 95 out of every 100
die" This is extract from official report
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This gives you the record for one month of one small
institution supposed to ''take of babies
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How does that impress you for Christian civilization
in the year of our Lord 1920?
Christ said But whose shall offend of these little
ones which believe in me- it were better for him that
milestone be hanged about his neck and that he were
drowned in the depths of the sea-"
And again. "Take heed that ye despse not one of
these little for say unto you, That in heaven their
angels do always behold the face of my Father which
in heaven"
Thirty-four thousand of them from America appear
before that face