The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-12-09
PARENT.TEACHERY
ASSOCIATIONS ASKED
TO HELP kIDDIRS
State President Makes Appeal for
Cottage village for the Orphan
Children Of the State.

lounge NllMge fOr tne Orphan
Children Of the State.
Louisville, Ky. - Parent Teachers
organizations in every school district
In Kentucky are called on by the
state president, Mrs. George c. We'll
don, to help tho Kentucky Children's
Home Society In its effort to build a
cottage village at Lyndon, KY. for the
care Of the homeless children Of Ken
lucky.
Mrs. Weldon In her letter points out
that the purpose Of tfhe two organiza-
lions are so parallel that even the
names should be synonymous.
The Kentucky Children's Home So
ciety, at present, Is caring for more
than $50 children in buildings on Bax-
ter avenue designed to shelter only
$50 children, and yet throughout the
state there are thousands of little ones
homeless, friendles sand knocking al
the door of the institution for admis-
sion that crowded conditions forbid.
The society was founded twenty
five years ago by Judge Reginald
Thompson who died soon afterward
Judge Robert W. Bingham, the first
vice president and one of its charter
members, then was elected president
which post he still holds.
During its existence the society has
taken In nearly 1000 children, and
almost all Of them have been placed
in good homes. In hardly commun.
| ity in the state is there not some pros.
perous business man or happy wife
who was a ward Of the society, and il
the majority of cases these useful citi.
zens of today were found in sQualol
and amid surroundings that breed
crime and poverty.
| Only by order of the various County
Judges are children admitted, anC
now that the doors of the institution
are temporarily closed, these children
must be placed in the squalid poor
houses to await the construction OF
the cottage village.
| George L. Sehon, Superintendent Of
the society, in asking that the mothers
land schoo lchildren help raise this
building fund, hopes by this means t,
have the cottage village, erected as :
memorial fro mthe school children
dedicated to the homeless swaifs O.
the state.
| Hrs. Weldons letter follows:
my Dear President: The Ken
tucky Children's Home Society is al
Organization whose sole aim is the
care Of the dependent and unfortunate
children aal over the state-not onl!
of your community but of mine and o
ever other where such care is needed
The aim of the Parent-Teacher As
sociations of Kentucky is so simila
that the names should be synonymous
The Kentucky Children's Home So
ciety is moving its children to a beau
tiful estate in the country where the.
will all be given an opportunity TO
health - in other words, where God
sunshine may be theirs and wher
they will be housed and cared for a
all little ones have a right to be.
There will be a childrens villag
when completed-but the work is nov
halted, when really only we'll begun
because of lack of funds. It will TAX
100000 to complete the work, 80 tina
the children may be given the car,
they deserve and should and will hav
there
The children are kept there unit
a good Christian home is found TO
them where they will be cared for
lover and in most cases finally adopt
ed. While In these new homes, the,
will be watched over by the home so
ciety that none may be left in unfit
surroundings.
An appeal goes to every presiden
of local Parent Teacher Association
in Kentucky to do its share in thi
wonderful movement for the children
1t is primarily our work-the wei
fare of the children-God bless EN-!
Plan with your teachers the hes
way in which the quota for you
school and community may be raised
through your ent-Teacher Associ
alton and the 100000 for the child
rem will be raised, but in the words o
Kipling 1t will take "the everlastir
teamwork Of every blomin' soul!"
Yours for the children and the tear
work that wins.
MRS. GEORGE c. WELDON,
praeidant p IT