The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-17
Many Orphan Children
Are Given Needed HELD
State Children's Home Society
Has Cared for 7,190 i'm
Last Ten Years.
/, RECEIVING HOME HERE
Superintendent Fagg Gives Out
line of Work to Show
What Society Does.

Hhe Children's Home Society of
Florida, of which the former Pearl
Eagan Home is now the West Florida
Branch, has done a remarkable SER
vice for the poor. unfortunate orphan
children of the state in the last 10
years. The Society will conduct an
appeal for funds during the week Of
October 24-31 throughout the nine
counties west of the Apalachfcola rive-
the funds so obtained to be used to
further the work of the society in
West Florida.
In order TO show what the society
has accomplished in the past. Marcus
G. Fagg, state superintendent OF the
society, was asked to give the follow
ing statistics to The Journal:
Homeless Riddles Cared For.
Exactly T19o orphan. homeless, ar
Elected, abused, neglected, deserted
and needy little children from one
hour old up TO sixteen years of age
have come under the care and atten-
ton of the Children's Home Society
of Florida, during the past ten years,
from every nook and corner of the
state. Sixty-three of these have been
cared for through the West Florida
Branch since June Is, 1920. These 1880
children were committed to the Home
Society by Juvenile courts--released by
parents, reported by relatives,
churches, school teachers, state, city
and county officers, and by other
charity and social agencies all over
the state.
What Was Done for the Children.
The placing of homeless and orphan
and abandoned children is the chief
work OF the Children's Home Society
the society believing very definitely
that it is much more humane. much
more economical and much more like
Gods own plan for every little child.
to place every little homeless child
in a carefully selected home for legal
adoption--while 1t is young--and good
families are willing to take them in toI
love them and accept them as. real
members Of the family.
All orphanages eventually place
their children out in homes-+but gem
orally do 1t when the child has reached
the age OF fifteen, or sixteen. when no
one wants child to love it. but sim
ply for the service it may be able to-
render.
The Chissr ems Home Society be-
lieves that a good home and parents,
is better than the finest institution
in the world-and only keeps its little
ones in its receiving home until good
one can be found for each child.
Every home in which child is
placed by the Home Society is person
ally visited by a representative of
the society---in order that the society
may know that the home is a proper
one in which TO place chiid-that the
child will be loval cared for as a.
member of the family-and given al
good education and training-and these
homes. are continuously visited and
supervised by the society until the
child is legally adopted or becomes of
age.
During the past ten years 1908 little
homeless children have been placed in
such homes-for permanent care. love
ana an opportunity to live a normal
life in every sense of the world. No
child is accepted as legal ward ex-
cept as a last resort-for the Home
Society feels that every parent should
bear the responsibility and support Of
their own chiidren-where 1t is at ali
possible-and every effort is made to
rehabilitate the family home-before
the children are legally removed from
their parents
403 To Special Schools.
In addition to the 1903 children
placed in good homes-the Children's
Home Society of Florida has sent or
referred to special industrial and train
ing schools-all over the United
States-a total of 40s3 older boys and
girls during the past ten years. Two
older children from the West Florida
Branch have just been sent to such
a school--to the end that they might
become self-supporting and indepen-
dent. Dozens of these older children
who have been given this opportunity
by the Home Society are now holding
positions Of prominence in business
concerns. and as school teachers :
over Florida, indicating plainly that
all most child en- need is a chance to
make good.
365 Received Hospital Gaze.
Another wonderful service perform |
ed by the Home Society during the
past decade has been the special hos |
pital care and operations secured by |
the society for 365 little children
crippled. blind, deaf. dumb. and need |
ing all sorts of operations for removal
Of tonsiIs. adenoids. trachoma. hook |
worm, etc. Many little ones that came |